Stupid Newbie Question(s): Yes, I'm the one doing the asking. =)

[Cheeze]

Yin, I finally read your reply and I am guessing at what you are doing.

Use the Colony ship hull design for your colonizing ships, at least to start. I notice that some AI's will use warship hulls to make colonization ships. I guess this could work as you could build faster colonization ships/defenses/weapons/etc.

It sounds like you are building population transports with the small transport hulls and including colonization component. Make your population transports using only cargo holds. You should have enough room to put your command components(bridge, life support, crew quarters), 5 engines and sufficient cargo holds(10 or 11 cargo units). You might wish to add a supply unit as well, to extend the range of your transport.

There are three buttons in the top menu: Load(box with up arrow above it), Unload(box with down arrow above it) and Load/Unload(box with up and down arrows above it). You find them near the Launch and Recover buttons. I am talking about using the Load/Unload button. You can only use it when you are above one of your planets or some cargo source. The button you are using is the Load button, which will direct your ship to a particular spot and then load to the maximum it can. The Load/Unload button can't be used in a set of ship commands.

Good luck!!

[Nscaler]

Okie, I've decided to stock up on mods now, 56k dialup so it gonna be awhile for me to get all the ones I want.

Question though: Devnullmod, which is the latest Version? 1.4's the Lastest I've found in the archives so far.

Thanx

Nscaler

[Yin]

Lynx: Thanks. Actually, I think I was unclear earlier. I'm doing fine with the pop transports. It's the remote mining ships that run out of space ... unless I'm doing something wrong. But I'll check with your answer to see if I might not be stupidly putting colony stuff on my robo mining ships.

Then again, it seems like robo mining is a non-issue for a while.

[Yin]

This question is for Atrocities or anybody who knows the answer: I have just d/led those great sets into my races folder ... yet the game won't recognize them. What I mean is, when I click 'add existing,' none of the new sets show up ... yet all the folders are in the right place.

Any clues?

[Mark Walton]

You have the race pics in /pictures/races, do you have the .emp files in /empires

[Yin]

I see. It looks like I just can't select them to play as mine? The comp just tried to load up the cards ... but said that 'Bloodthirsty' was not recognized.

Does this mean:
1) Those sets can be loaded for the AI and not the human player?
2) The error message means that set is not ready for 1.49?
3) Can I still play with that set despite the error?

[Yin]

Hmmm. I don't see emp files for these sets, though I know what you are talking about.