acts of war, war declaration and other topics (my first message!)

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Designs that you have marked obsolete will be deleted from your list of ships when all of the following are true:

1) There are no surviving ships of that class. This includes ships that have been captured or gifted to an alien race.
2) You are not building more of those ships.
3) The year is xxxx.9
4) You have just pressed the end turn button to take you to year xxxx.0

Your points #3 and #4 clears up a question in my mind as to when obsolete ships were deleted. Before your explanation, it just seemed random.

[trooper]

Kamikaze is a Last resort when enemy ships are too strong, leave for now. The game may put in by self, but don't build

You mean that computer controled races are used to ram ships with warheads ? brr, scary...

Try it with a colonizer. Once, 4 million people had to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the homeworld.

Why put 4 millions pepole in it ? to weight more and cause more damages ? sounds a bit extreme...

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by trooper:
You mean that computer controled races are used to ram ships with warheads ? brr, scary...

Not by usual game, people change this.

Why put 4 millions pepole in it ? to weight more and cause more damages ? sounds a bit extreme...

Just kidding, no people on it. Colony module is big and causes much damage. Knocked out all weapons, control and 5 engines of an escort. The planet was now safe. The enemy was a peacefull race, but we just met so they had to attack.

Your first turn, you should build sattelites or a wepaons platform. Just to keep the AI honest.

[mac5732]

In regards to using the same ship name for retrofit, You could use the same name just insert a nunber after it. ie; Hawk, Hawk-1, Hawk-2, etc, or just rename it. up to you., retrofit button is the green triangle button on the top of screen, as well as having other uses.
Ramming does not always take out both ships, depends on what you have on it, like SJ said, armor, shields etc. the ;more you have the less likely chance the ship will be destroyed. However, you might receive little or heavy damage to the ship even if it does survive so have a repair faciclity ship handy if you want toa re-use it.

just some ideas mac

[Elowan]

Keep in mind that there is a restriction on refits. Namely - the refit cannot cost more than 50% of the vessels original cost. In that event - do incremental (step-wise) or gradual refits until you get the value to a point where the restriction no longer applies. Also - sometimes it's cheaper in the long run just to build a ship rather than refit it.

Use the upgrade button, make your changes and save the design as previously suggested.

Refits cost 50% more than a build-out.

[Slick]

Upgrading a facility costs 50%. This does not apply to retrofitting a ship. From settings.txt:

Retrofit Cost Percent For Comps := 120
Retrofit Cost Percent For Comp Removal := 30

Slick.

[Q]

Originally posted by trooper:

2- I've cause some battles by moving a ship on an ennemy ship. Sometimes the computer warn me that, doing that, there would be a battle, sometimes not (erspecially on warp points, I think). Why ?

4- What is the best way to declare a non aggression pact ? I made very ressources gift to an alien race, but they keep on refusing my treatie requests...

Bonjour mon ami et bienvenue au forum SE IV!

Neither English nor French is my native language, but I think I will continue in English as French is more difficult to write (at least for me).

2.) Usually you get a warning in turn based game before entering into a sector where a combat will start. The exception is as you already realized when you warp to the other side of a warp point. Then you just drop in the middle of the sector and the combat begins.

4.) Gifts are a good way to improve the mood of AI races in order to get a treaty. But there are some AI races that are very xenophobic and will almost never accept a treaty.