How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

How do we find the ruins? Do we have to move to each and every planet in a sector or will we find them by merely coming into the sector?

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

The ruins planets will have a little Stonehenge type icon and a message saying they have ruins when you click on them. You can also see all the ruins worlds in all the systems you've explored by going to the Planet list screen and selecting "Special".

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

Sorry for being dense, but do we need to go to the planet with a ship to benefit from the technology or do we need to colonize it?

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

you need to colonize.

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

ONLY colonize a planet if you want to use the planet.

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

nope. ruins often have big enough incentives to make it worthwhile to use a colony ship if it's tiny and not your atmosphere. like random tech levels.

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

i know, that's what I mean.

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

ok, then. another debat over nothing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

Only colonize a planet if it is colonizable. Every planet is extremely useful. Even just 1 facility space is far, far better than no facility space.

Re: How do we find the hidden ancient ruins?
 

You can also exchange planets early on and if you have a planet that say youre new planet - and also another racial type say the eee Version with none atmostphere - you being terrans with oxygen if you have a none planet get a hold of some eee population take all the humans off the none planet and plant some eee on it. You get instead of say 5 compoent spots 25 spots and its undomed because the base population is none atmosphere breathers. Make sure that exchanged planets thought are small and tactically and strategically unimportant. Ie a planet deep inside eee territory that would be hard to defend. Give the eee a small planet inside youre territory rope it off with ships if war does break out you can easily recapture.

Id also like to see hidden relics in asteroid fields and they would only be uncovered when you set miners in to mine minerals - it could
a) yield a new tech - perhaps a enhanced mining ability
b) even turn it into a planet - ie by activiting mining activity on asteroid x a planet is formed when the mining crews discover and alien device activate it and a planet is formed (make it a rare thing though - and also user defined from the main menU)