things I've never tested...

[dogscoff]

1) what happens if a space station build units, and doesn't have cargo ?

They will be lost if there is no available cargo space somewhere in the same sector. They will not be automatically launched. If you give orders to build 20 and there is only room for 15, only 5 will be lost. Failed builds like this are not cleared from the build queue.

Given the choice, units will always go to the ship/ station/ planet that built them.

2) If i want a planet to build and launch mines for 5 turns, can I
- put five building orders in the queue
- set five launch orders for the planet ?

In the case above I'm pretty sure it will execute all 5 launch orders in the same turn. What you need to do is set the launch order and hit "repeat orders". That will work. Unfortunately it only works in simultaneous, because in turn-based the launch order is executed immediately and cleared from the queue, so there is nothing to repeat.

3) Tone of a message : does it have any effect on AI/humans ?

The AI is coded to respond differently to the different tones. Well- it's in the AI.txt files somwhere, but whether or not it actually works I don't know. I suspect it does.

There is no way for a human to distinguish which tone option was set when (s)he receives a message.

[ May 20, 2003, 12:22: Message edited by: dogscoff ]