Tips on Trading

Renegade 13 · #1 January 20th, 2006, 10:29 PM

I can answer one of those.

The "Unavailable technology" was probably the result of having the AI attempt to trade you a racial tech that you did not have. For example, if it had Crystalline Technology knowledge, and you didn't choose it in the beginning of the game, it would probably show up as Unavailable since there is no way for an empire to aquire technology from a race with a racial tech unless they already have that tech.

I apologize for my confusing and somewhat awkward reply, I'm quite tired right now

Slick · #2 January 20th, 2006, 10:46 PM

Re: launching sats... you were probably playing simulatneous movement before and using the "repeat orders" not a minister. With turn based games, manual launching of sats is the only way with planets. There is a very inefficient way to do it if you are willing to sacrifice a sat launching ship and take extra turns to launch them. Move the ship away from the planet farther than it can return in one turn, give the ship orders to pick up sats from the planet, move away far enough so that it can't return in one turn, move back to the planet, launch sats, repeat. This method keeps the orders unfinished in the order queue so that they can be repeated. I wouldn't bother. Sadly, even with this, occasionally ships doing such gathering will just get stuck and/or forget their orders.

Genotype · #3 January 21st, 2006, 04:48 AM

Renegade 13, no need to apologise I completely understand. The race that I was trading with was the crystal one.

Slick, I am sure that in the old game I was using a minister and it was turn based...so I'm not too sure what is going on. Thanks anyway!