SE 4 Deluxe/Gold Various Questions

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Dethgod74 said: 4) Game Setup: is there an FAQ or Setup guide for PBW/PBEM games?

If you haven't already seen it, the PBW site has a FAQ graphic UI/text UI (PBW's graphic UI is flashier, but slower and doesn't play well with non-IE browsers; the text UI is faster and gets along better with other browsers.)

Phoenix-D said: when you've gone through a game you can save and re-use your empire, including the ship designs. Note: this doesn't work as well as it sounds, because you won't be able to build most of them due to too-low tech levels.

Designs you can't build will be greyed out in the lists, but there no way to filter them.

Dethgod74 said: Does there exist a spreadsheet with a list of facilities/buildings and technologies and their requirements or dependencies?

The raw data for this is in the Data folder (Components.txt, Facility.txt, TechArea.txt). I'm sure someone has made more accessible versions, but I don't have links handy. (My best guess would be somewhere among the modding guides.)

You can get a listing of the complete tech tree by starting a new game and enabling the option "Players can see complete tech tree". This option allows you to export the tech tree from the Research screen. I know someone cleaned that output up into a PDF, but don't have that link handy, either.

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