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That's not regular frigates the Phong fleet has, though, it's 6 crystal frigates and 2 crystal destroyers, with even better weapons than yours and crystalline armor. They got way too little armor, however, which is why your ships win most of the time.

I've to admit, though: it does look as if your ships win more easily in strategic combat than in tactical. Not sure if they do in fact work exactly the same, or if some changes has been done to strategic combat to speed it up a bit, which could possibly slightly affect the ships' performance.

*edit* Scratch that. The first few times I ran the combat barely two of your ships survived, but the last 10 times a minimum of 5 of your ships have survived. Just the wonders of computer randomization I guess.

You got dual core as well, Phoenix?

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That I do.

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I just got my copy of SE5 today . uploaded game and upgraded DirectX - tried uploading patch got message " file corrupted optain new copy of program " deleted everything reinstalled game went to different site for patch and again got same message - tried a third time , same thing - what am I doing wrong ?

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Did you buy a boxed copy or Steam download? Steam has its own patch that is applied automatically..

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I have boxed copy

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I was having a similer problem when I patched to 1.17. The game was getting errors and wouldn't load after patching so I uninstalled and reinstalled and then was getting an error that the source was corrupted when trying to load it again fomr the CD. I ended up trying it a couple times and it finally worked when I installed and changed the directory name. I thought that was very strange since I had deleted the original directory anyway. I chalked it up to a dirty cd drive because since then it's worked fine, but it sounds similer to your problem.

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When I had patching issues, I had to go in and delete the registry entries for the game manually..

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Finally worked ! Went to Kwok's site and downloaded from there and it took , why there and no where else , who knows ?

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I stuck 3 WP with only Capital ship missiles and 1 WP with only PD on a planet and when the emeny attacked it all the weapons were PDs and there were no Capital ship missiles to be seen. Needless to say their fighters/seekers got owned.

I can open sector view and look at an enemy's ship design even though I have not ever seen that design in combat.

PD miss really bad at high speed (still) but not at lower speeds.

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The Fire On ship and Self Destruct commands will not work on ships that have no movement points left. You can order a ship to self destruct even though it doesn’t have a component with the self destruct ability. Instead the ship will just sit idle trying to fulfill the command. You can order a ship to sentry then right click it and the option for cancel order will not be there. If a ship you own is teleported to a sector that empire has never seen before you lose sight and control of the ship. It will drop out of the loop for the next ship command and off the ship list option. However you still pay maintenance for it and at the end of the turn you receive the message that a ship has no orders.