[Fyron]

1) Sometimes the computer starts me on an “other-than-oxygen” world; I do not want that to happen.

Are there moons orbiting those starting planets? Sometimes SE4 will select an available moon as the HW. But if it does this, the HW gets transfered to the "planet" in that sector instead, but the planet does not get changed to the appropriate atmosphere and planet type. So, if you have medium moons and select an average planet start, it is possible that SE4 will select that medium moon as the HW and instead use the planet it is orbiting. The way to fix this is to make it so that systems with medium, small and large moons can not be used as starting systems. Or, if you have, for example, small moons everywhere, just make it clear that you should not take bad planet starts, as you will hit this bug. Such as in FQM.

2) No matter how I toy with the “combat movement” setting I can not seem to break speed 7.

This one is really hard to help without seeing the data files.

Colony techs are selected in a special process that ignores start and raise levels. SE4 finds either the first or Last component that has the colony ability in the components file that matches your HW type and that also can be available based on racial areas of the tech reqs, and then assigns its tech reqs to you. You do not get any other levels of those tech reqs to start with.

[ February 09, 2004, 18:43: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]