Ground Combat

[alien2]

I've noticed that after launching a successful planetary invasion with a large number of troops, I'm very often left with the troops on the planet exceeding the cargo space, reported thus: 1200kt/800kt for example. Is this effectively a bug ???

By the way, is there a set percentage of the population who defend as militia ??? I'm just wondering how the figure is arrived at, on the ground combat screen.

Cheers

[mottlee]

I don't think it's a bug (if it is hope they dont fix it) I use troops a lot it helps to expand.

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"Kill em all let God sort em out"

[Suicide Junkie]

You got those 1200 troops into 800 space when you dropped 'em to attack.
Rather than vaporizing the excess troops, SE allows them to stay, though there may be penalties.
In SE3, for example leaving those excess troops on the planet reduced happiness.
Just load the troops back into the transports and move on to the next planet.

Look in SETTINGS.TXT to find how many millions of people are needed for each free militia.

[alien2]

Thanks for the response.
On a completely different note, is there a text file setting which governs the maximum number of engines per ship size and if so can it be altered without causing problems in the game ?? Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that the smaller ship sizes (destroyer, frigate, escort) have no advantages over the larger ship sizes, other than cost (?) I would really like the smaller ships to have the advantage of speed by way of more engines.

Cheers.

[Lemmy]

yes there is, look in VehicleSize.txt.
You can change the max. number of engines, and the game will run ok, but i don't know how the AI will handle it.

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by alien2:
Thanks for the response.
On a completely different note, is there a text file setting which governs the maximum number of engines per ship size and if so can it be altered without causing problems in the game ?? Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that the smaller ship sizes (destroyer, frigate, escort) have no advantages over the larger ship sizes, other than cost (?) I would really like the smaller ships to have the advantage of speed by way of more engines.

Cheers.

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Each ship class has a settable engines per move and maximum engines rating in VehicleSizes.txt -- and fighters, too. Since the 'engines per move' setting is really 'movement points per move' you can give engines more than one standard movement point each and then make a smoother 'curve' for the increasing movement cost of larger ships. Like most clever uses of the game settings, though, this will confuse the AI.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 23 September 2001).]