Couple of newbie questions
 

1. I have racial traits to 5000. What characteristics and advanced traits do you recommend?

2. Is there any easy way to figure out whether I need to give order to a ship without clicking on each ship to see if it has orders? This is very cumbersome to say the least.

3. I have enabled the cheat codes. When I press Control and money or control and type fast, nothing happens and no cheats occured. What am I doing wrong? How exactly do I use these? I did type

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Depends upon if your just playing against the AI or in a PBW game. PBW games the best is Cyrstilline I think because of the armor. AI games I use the Organic for the weapons, or the religious for the Talisment.


<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes, turn on path lines, and look at the order icon to see if the ship has orders or not. Also you can use a minister if you want, but that kinda doesn't work to well unless you have all ministers on.


<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You must be in the resource window to use the cheat, and you must be in the cunstruction window to use that cheat.

You really don't need cheats.

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

A quick follow up.

Read the FAQ at the top of the forum. It has tons of information.

Secondly, reseach mines early on as most AI will use them.

Research Physics to level 2 then research phased weapons. Phased Poloron Beams (PPB) are most effective against the AI early on.

Point defense is also a must because the AI will use a lot of missiles.

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

1) My recommendations. Of course, you should play with what you like best. Whatever suits your style.

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Try Fyron's Min-Maxing guide
http://www.spaceempires.net/home/mod...showpage&pid=1

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Good recommendations, except the happiness which should be lowered to 51%. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Here I've been playing this game for almost 2 years, and I've never considered some of those points. Thanks, Fyron, I'll keep this in mind next time I create a new game.

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">On the (F6) Ships list, click on the Orders button, then click on the Orders column header. This sorts the orders alphabetically, with ships without orders sorted as if the column said "None".

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

You can also use space to cycle through all ships not having orders. Very useful feature.

Re: Couple of newbie questions
 

that and on the min max.... putting the points in advanced ship yard is debatable.