Various game questions

[Suicide Junkie]

In fact whenever you colonize a planet in a new system you must first build a spaceport on that planet to allow your empire to share the goods made in the nascent system with your other systems

The key here is that once you have colonized one planet and built the spaceport, the system is no longer "new".

[ July 01, 2002, 01:56: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
So I've got several questions.

1. Yes. Or park them on a planet that has no colony. You can remote mine those as well as asteroids.

2. No. There is no easier way. That's the only way in the unmodded game.

3. To have new races available for quickstart games you have to change the data/settings.txt file.

Number of Quick Start Styles := 16
Quick Start Style 1 := Amonkrie
Quick Start Style 2 := CueCappa
Quick Start Style 3 := Drushocka
Quick Start Style 4 := Eee
Quick Start Style 5 := Jraenar
Quick Start Style 6 := Phong
Quick Start Style 7 := Terran
Quick Start Style 8 := UkraTal
Quick Start Style 9 := Abbidon
Quick Start Style 10 := Cryslonite
Quick Start Style 11 := Fazrah
Quick Start Style 12 := Krill
Quick Start Style 13 := Norak
Quick Start Style 14 := Praetorian
Quick Start Style 15 := Xiati
Quick Start Style 16 := XiChung

Geoschmo

[Silent Sorrow]

Thanks for all the replies! I did figure it out. Another question:

What does "seeker dmg res" stand for in the descriptions of some weapons such as the plasma missile?

[Baron Munchausen]

That is the 'hit points' of the actual seeker, the damage that point defense cannons have to inflict to destroy it. Since a missile is not a 'vehicle' like a fighter there's no other way to assign damage except in the component definition.

[capnq]

There's a lot of good info in the Frequently Asked Questions thread (link).