I'll say one two things about this game - it is absolutely the best strategy game I've ever played, and I absolutely hate the lack of good, nitty-gritty documentation. I hate having to waste my time experimenting to figure things out. So, here are a few questions I hope you all can help me with.
1) What precisely, defines a seeker? Is it a drone, or a missile, or both, or some combo of this and something else?
2) What exactly to each of the types of scanners do? What are the differences between them? Can they all see cloaked ships (with a sufficiently high level, of course)? If there are no functional differences between them, what is the point of having so many different types (Active EM, Passive EM, gravitic, etc.)?
3) For that matter, what exactly do long-range scanners do?
4) Where is this "select mounts" window I keep reading about here, and have seen references to in the data files?
5) How exactly can I read the data files to determine what the precise values of techs will be? I was trying to figure out how to calculate the costs of each of the techs ahead of time, but the data in the datafiles seems to be incomplete to do these calculations. What effect(s) are the "game setup factors" (is it only the tech cost low/medium/high setting, and what exactly does low/medium/high do)? I just can't make heads or tails out of how much each tech is costing, even though I see some similarities between similar techs. I'm missing some piece of the puzzle, and it's frustrating me (and i'll be darned if I'm going to sit down and have to write down each and every tech cost for all three tech cost settings!).
6) Is it just me, or are the minerals/organics/radioactives harvesting techs about the most useless in the game? I'm all about stellar manipulation and monolith facilities.... do the systemwide mineral scanner and the systemwide robotoid factory stack?
7) What is the price of rice in China when it's raining on Tuesday?
Ok, one too many questions....
Maybe one more - anyone here that used to play MOO2 Online back when it was big on TEN?
Regards,
-Ganraeln
One who wishes to know
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