Frequently Asked Questions for Newbies

[Stone Mill]

Help me out here, fellas...

WEAPONS
2.4.4 Weapon Types / Classes
2.4.4.1 Seeking. Example: (Missiles, Crystalline Torpedo). Once launched, have a %100 hit probably unless intercepted by point defense, fighters, or some direct fire weapons.
2.4.4.2 Direct Fire. Example: (Anti Proton Beams, Normal Torpedoes). Must be fired within range determined by weapon type and mount. Offensive Bonus and Defensive Bonus variables affect the actual chance to hit.
2.4.4.3 Point Defense. Example: (Point defense I-V). Automatically fire at seekers or fighters when in weapon range.
2.4.4.4 Armor and Shield Skipping. Example: (Null Space, Engine Destroyers, Weapon Destroyers). Successful hits ignore enemy armor and shield components. Engine/Weapon Destroyers do damage to those components only.
2.4.4.5 Armor Skipping Example: (Boarding Parties, Security Stations, Crystalline Shard Cannons).
2.4.4.6 Shield Skipping. Example (Phased Polaron Beams). Successful hits ignore normal shield components. Phased Shields absorb Phased Polaron hits (Shields 6+ technology).

2.4.5 Targeting. In order for a weapon to fire at a particular target (satellites, ships, etc.), that target must be included in the Weapon Details "Targets" list.

[ August 15, 2002, 16:04: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

[kalthalior]

2.4.4.4 Armor and Shield Skipping -- I think the patch was supposed to change the Engine Destroyers so that they did not skip shields, not sure if Weapon Destroyers were included in this change or not.
Haven't had a chance to play with the new patch yet to verify this took effect, Last night was bowling night -- my only obsession other than SE.

[capnq]

Help me out here, fellas...

Corrections:

2.4.4.1 Seeking. Example: (Missiles, Crystalline Torpedo). Once launched, have a 100% hit probability unless intercepted by point defense, or the target moves beyond the seekers' range.

[In the unmodded game, Point-Defense Cannons are the only weapon that targets seekers.]

2.4.4.3 Point Defense. Example: (Point-Defense Cannons I-V). Automatically fire at seekers, fighters, satellites, and drones when in weapon range.

[minipol]

it might be interesting to add a section on the most know mods and what they are focusing on. a lot of questions of that kind have come up. i can't help you much with this since i'm a newbie myself when it comes to mods.

[Elowan]

This may have been suggested before but I don't see it here.

Add a cargo pod to the Colony Ship design used to colonize your race's breathable planets. Then when you hit the "Colonize" button to send a ship off to a planet (whether you do it from the planets screen or main screen) extra pop will be loaded to give that colony a kick-start.

I use 3 colony ship designs:

CS-LR - long range (has a supply pod on it)
CS-SR - short range with cargo pod for breathable (green + planets)
CS-SR-nbr - short range, no cargo pod for non-breathable atmosphere planets (red + -- cheaper to build). I use these for storage planets so pop doesn't matter as much.

[Mylon]

Newbie question: What does racial experience mean? Does this somehow give the race an edge, does it carry over across different games (importing a pre-made race), or is it just an indication of how much a particular race is played?

[Taz-in-Space]

From what I heard on previous discussions, the racial experience has no effect on the game. Theory is that it is a feature that was never implemented.