Ships display movement / target range?

Target · #1 October 29th, 2002, 06:23 AM

Thanks!

So, does anyone know how to get the ships to display their path and turns to position?

Ragnarok · #2 October 29th, 2002, 06:27 AM

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Originally posted by Target:
Thanks!

So, does anyone know how to get the ships to display their path and turns to position?

I don't know, it seems to be a on and off thing. Sometimes it does it for me sometimes it don't. Anymore it works alot. All I have to do is select a object - planet, moon, ship, unit - and then put mouse over another spot. And in lower left hand side it should show distance. Hope that helps.

Phoenix-D · #3 October 29th, 2002, 06:59 AM

"So, does anyone know how to get the ships to display their path and turns to position?"

That's what you thanked Geo for

Game Menu|Options|Display ship movement lines is what you want for the first one.

If it works correctly (it almost always does for me) you give an order, and the ship displays a line to the destination. Each square is marked by a number, which represents the number of turns required to get to that spot.

Phoenix-D

Ragnarok · #4 October 29th, 2002, 03:09 PM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"So, does anyone know how to get the ships to display their path and turns to position?"

That's what you thanked Geo for
Game Menu|Options|Display ship movement lines is what you want for the first one.

If it works correctly (it almost always does for me) you give an order, and the ship displays a line to the destination. Each square is marked by a number, which represents the number of turns required to get to that spot.

Phoenix-D

That's true. When I answered I thought he was asking how to get the range from one object to another. My bad.

Baron Munchausen · #5 October 29th, 2002, 06:13 PM

But you can't get a distance measurement without actually plotting the movement. In SE III there was a 'right-click' option to see the distance from the currently selected ship to the location you had clicked. We need something like this in SE IV so we can estimate distances and time required to cover them without having to actually give the order & then cancel it.

capnq · #6 October 29th, 2002, 11:13 PM

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But you can't get a distance measurement without actually plotting the movement.

You can, but it's really tedious.

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select a object - planet, moon, ship, unit - and then put mouse over another spot. And in lower left hand side it should show distance.

Select the ship, put the mouse on the first warp point it will go through; add one to that range, select the other end of the warp point, put the mouse on the second warp point, add that range plus one, repeat until you reach the destination.

If there's more than one possible route, you have to trace them all to find the shortest one.

Target · #7 November 1st, 2002, 08:25 PM

Thank you all for your input on this thread.

Actually, I have gotten the display in the lower left of my screen to show the distance to target as range: x. What I truly am looking for is what Phoneix D referred to when he stated:

"If it works correctly (it almost always does for me) you give an order, and the ship displays a line to the destination. Each square is marked by a number, which represents the number of turns required to get to that spot."

And, I can not find out how to get this information to display. Additional Posts after this post by Phoenix D suggest others have but it is intermittent, yet I have never been able to get mine to display. My system is set to 1024 x 768 but it doesn't show anything additional at this resolution over 480 x 680...

Regards,

Target