Holy Atmospheres, Batman!!! aka stating the obvious

primitive · #1 January 19th, 2003, 12:44 PM

I played a lot of games almost withouth using Waypoints. The amount of mouse-work (I thought it) required made it seem like a waste of effort. Then I accidentaly pushed Ctrl-1 while I had a ship selected and the ship moved to Waypoint 1.

primitive

Krsqk · #2 January 21st, 2003, 09:23 PM

Edit--obviously, this post was meant to go elsewhere.

[ January 22, 2003, 03:27: Message edited by: Krsqk ]

Gryphin · #3 January 22nd, 2003, 02:16 AM

Along with Waypoints you can also give the
Move To command then
Sellect a destitnaiton from the planets list.

Slick · #4 January 22nd, 2003, 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Along with Waypoints you can also give the
Move To command then
Sellect a destitnaiton from the planets list.

I did not know that either.

Slick.

Stone Mill · #5 January 22nd, 2003, 04:14 AM

This is what we call a "No-Duh" in NJ... otherwise known as a "DOH!"

Colony ships load different population types, not necessarily from the planet that built them. You have to think of population as cargo. If you have several planets, each with different atmosphere breathing populations, you can use the "Load Cargo" order to pick up the right type for the intended destination on its way.

Sounds pretty obvious, huh?

I remember banging my head against the wall, trying to remember why my new Carbon Dioxide Giant only gave me 5 facilities. My race's breathing type was Carbon Dioxide... there was a green asterisk next to the planet... what gives? Then I remembered the colony ship was built at a planet I had received from an ally (breathing type: oxygen).

Then someone told me about right clicking the population icons in the planet display window.

I take all this for granted now, but it was a bit confusing as a newbie!

Alari · #6 January 23rd, 2003, 05:29 AM

The only "trick" I know is that you can take advantage of how the sentry order works to set up some automatic actions.. For example, a group of fighters on sentry, with orders: refuel, move here, sentry, and repeat. They'll stand guard until they run low on supplies, resupply, and fly back to their original location, and go back into guard mode until they run low again.

Nothing particularly impressive but I was proud nonetheless. ^.^

Fyron · #7 January 23rd, 2003, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Krsqk:
Edit--obviously, this post was meant to go elsewhere.

Are you sure that this was not the natural place for the post, and it was only trying to get here?