[Silent Sorrow]

Originally posted by Puke:
[QB]edit: beaten to the punch. hopefully my answers are not entirely useless.

lordy, i think you just ask these to make people feel goog about answering them. you can always start a high tech game and try a few out.

I don't have the time to try out everything in test games. I just make notes of questions I have taken from actual games as I play them. Then I apply the answers to my next game.

3 - yep. if you do something sneaky to get multiple spaceyards, such as the upgrade method.

You're the second person I've seen mention this. But what are you talking about? There's some kind of trick? When I upgrade space yards, it simply upgrades the existing ones--it doesn't add another.

4 - eh? training you mean? default training is 20%, and it has never taken me to 21. perhaps your ships have experience from somewhere else?

Nope. I've seen it a few times now--a 10 percent facility takes me to 11 percent. Not that I'm complaining.

5 - not sure here, isnt there a drone strategy setting you can define? or did you mean tactical. in tactical, the answer is 'no.'

My beef is that in tactical I may want the drone to attack a specific enemy ship and not the one the AI has decided is the biggest threat (or whatever). Sucks that you can't do that.

6 - you cant analyze racial techs. also, you will only get one level per technology per component. also, if the component is not of a higher level than what you have, you will not get anything even if the previously owning race has better tech than what was on the component.

I was trying to analyze the enemy ships to get the wave motion gun. I didn't have the tech, yet analyzing the ships still didn't give it to me. Of course, I had so many research points that I just gave up and researched it normally in a few turns.

7 - drones burn x number of supplies per turn, per settings.txt (i think). if they are burning more than solar panels are generating, you are out of luck. i have not tried puttin pannels on drones though, so they might not work at all.

Don't they burn supplies based on how far they travel per turn? Someone else in this thread has said the default is 200. But I thought supplies used was always a function of distance travelled. And by the time I start using drones, they're doing 12 MP per turn. ...