Updated the FAQ

[deccan]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, they have. I think it was a long, long time ago though, so it might be a bit tricky finding it. It might be in the old scenarios archive.

Oh well, since PBW is down, I went ahead and made one anyway. I did it manually though, so there's bound to be lots of errors. Here it is:

1059821217.zip

[Grandpa Kim]

Originally posted by Slick:

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Originally posted by Grandpa Kim:

8.4.4 Mine damage is applied pseudo-randomly to a fleet, but appears to hit minesweepers first.

I have no problem changing this, but is there some testing that backs this up? I have not done testing but I have not noticed that minesweepers are any more likely to be hit than anything else.

Slick.

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No testing just my own game experience. If 5 ships are hit by the remaining mines, 3 of them will be sweepers. In my current KOTH game, I was able to sweep 98 of 100 mines. The other 2 killed one of my sweepers. Perhaps its just coincidental but I can't remember an exception.

[Parasite]

Awesome list! Here are some changes and additions from a lurker (Parasite)

1.1.1.2.1 (edit) plagues, increase happiness system-wide,

2.9.7.1 (move "Neat trick" stuff move to here)
2.9.7.2 (add) Design colonizers with one more movement point than needed to reach a planet to have it move and colonize in one turn. Two moves away, make it the cheapest speed three ship. i.e. three engines III or one engine IX depending on TL.

2.14 (add the below)
A (Parasite)
d. Medium Transports are good for carrying a repair bay and can still carry enough cargo to design correctly. (see also the "Junk Carrier" strategy later)

4.4.8.1 (edit) (add here or somewhere)
Planet population markers tell how many people are generally on a planet. The marks appear in the top right corner of the planet.
Pop.(M) Dashes
0 0
1-200 I
201-1000 II
1001 + III

4.4.13
f. (edit) Add Tech Level too.

i.
(replace second answer) Static for all things. Note: If you save a queue with a low TL then after adding it, go to "Construction Queues" and click "Upgrade Facilities". It will upgrade all the faculties in your queues to the current TL faculty. It also adds all needed updates to your construction queues. This may or may not be what you want.

(edit to Last answer) have to click once for each facility in the saved queue over the current queue limit. Making a queue with 7 items can then be added twice to fill a 15 queue, or three times in a 20 or 25 queue.

5.5.3 (???) The wording here is not correct. I have construction as my highest priority and (during refits for sure) the ship/base with repair stations is not always repaired first. I think it is done on a Last refitted first repaired FILO queue. Battle damage repairs could be different. Once a ship starts repairing, it will complete unless moved out of the sector.

5.5.9 (add to end) Retrofit engines three (or half) at a time and only lose supplies to what the leftover/repaired engines can hold.

6.4.11 (replace) A captured ship will have its weapons disrupted for ten combat turns before they can fire. Any previous load time on the weapon (from firing before capture) is added to this.

6.7.4 (add) Click on a weapon to unhighlight it before firing. It will then not fire. It can then be clicked on again and fired at the same ship the same turn. Very useful for removing shields, killing WPs only, ect. This does not work for fighter stacks (unit stacks???) All fighters in a stack will fire at once. (Multi track may change this???)

7.2.8.1 (add) Capture a planet on turn 29 and the Sats will only get one fire at the planet. They will hit the troops you dropped first, and you can still get the planet intact.

7.2.17 (obsolete) As of 1.84 Gold you will not be able to attack your own captured planet. Also friendly missiles in flight targeted on the planet are stopped before they hit.

7.2.23 (edit sp) strength does affect

7.2.24 (edit) PD is OK. It will fire.

8.1.5 (edit A) Units (aka fighters) must also have supplies for shields to work.

8.5.4 (my question) Does this work in Strategic mode?

10.2.4 (add) Offering an AI empire a good trade can cause him to accept the trade. This will happen BEFORE he would declare war on you. This can be done for several turns even if you are a Mega Evil Empire. You will still get the normal treaty trade (because he didn't declare war). It can more than make up for the trade losses of 1-2K resources.

10.2.5 (add) How an AI refuses a trade can give hints on his tech. "We do not have that tech" means OK, no fighters, Attack! Whereas "We don't was to trade for that" means Get on that PD tech research!

13.1.2 (add) Trades may prevent full war for a time. (see 10.2.4)

17.3.6.2 (edit) values as your

17.3.10.1
c. (add) Preparing for upgrades.

17.11.5
d. (add) Build lots of cheap stupid ships for his "Any Ship" insurrections to capture.

17.11.7
(remove) Comm Mimic (in twice)

[ August 08, 2003, 17:06: Message edited by: Parasite ]

[geoschmo]

Hey, as far as keeping the sticky Newbie Faq thread clean and posting questions here, we could lock the official faq thread so noone could post to it at all. Whoever is officially maintaining the FAQ could let one of the Moderators know when changes need made and we could unlock it for you at that point, or one of us can edit it. Let us know if you want to do that.

Geoschmo

[Mephisto]

Good idea! Slick, Ruatha, what do you think?

[Slick]

I could work with that.

Looks like there was some problem with a reply (?) that the Moderators took care of??? Was there a problem with content or credit to an original author or something like that?

edit: As soon as the latest "Strategy Article" is complete, I was going to incorporate it and the other additions in this thread.

Slick.

[ August 15, 2003, 16:34: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Ruatha]

Right now I'll let Slick decide as he has already done, it's he that does all the work, I'm just a backup, and happy with that!

[ August 15, 2003, 17:10: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Fyron prompted me to post this...

Ok, a big fix section:
5.5.2 The order in which repairs are performed is set with (F11) Empire Status/Repair Priorities. Clearing the priorities list will leave only the component types that you have the technology to build; more entries become available when you research the corresponding techs. (capnq)
5.5.3 Ships are repaired in the order they are listed in the fleet transfer screen. (Douglas) "Repair Priorities" only applies to the ship currently being repaired, and does not affect which ship gets repaired first. See also section 5.13 for an explanation of ship ID and how it affects retrofits.
The above is wrong.

Instead:
- Repair priorities can be set in the repair priorities window F11) Empire Status/Repair Priorities. This is not an ordered list, but rather a true/false state. Items on the right side will be prioritized, while items on the left will not be prioritized.

- Any damaged component which falls into a category on the right side of the repair priorities list will get a "priority flag". Any SHIP which contains a damaged component with priority will also have a priority flag.

- Repairs will then be conducted in the following order:
1) Only ships with priority flags are considered. The priority ship with the lowest ID is selected first.
2) If no ships with priority flags are present, then all damaged ships are considered, and the lowest ID is selected first.
3) Components with priority flags are repaired first, in order of placement on the hull.
4) If there are still repair points remaining, then a second pass is made, and the non-priority damaged components are repaired in order of placement on the hull.
5) If there are still repair points remaining, and the ship has been fully repaired, the game selects a new ship as in (1) and starts over.

- If all the priority components on a priority ship are repaired, but there are not enough repair points to completely fix the ship, then that ship will not be a priority ship on the next turn. If there is a second ship with priority components damaged, that second ship will be repaired instead.