[Cheeze]

In order to capture a ship, you must have a ship equipped with boarding parties. The ship must be set to the Capture Enemy Ships strategy. You should make certain your capturing ship has sufficient protection (shields,armor,point defense) to whether any possible shots at it.

One important note, ships designed to capture will move away from ships with shields. Someone else could advise you (and me) on the best strategy that actually works in ship capture against a combatant target, I never found the best options that work.

After you capture the ship, take it back to a space yard (on planet, base or ship), and instead of scrapping, you choose Analyze. Another note: You will only go up one level in technologies you don't have. for example, capture a rock colonizer with Contra-terrene 3 engines (when you have Contra-terrene 1), and when you Analyze, you will gain Rock Colonization and one level of Propulsion (not two). And you cannot "steal" theoretical sciences this way.

How's that for an explanation?

[This message has been edited by Lynx (edited 02 November 2001).]