How do you know when you are a newbie?

Power Man · #1 May 21st, 2003, 11:07 PM

How about sending in your Huge 20+ ship fleet to attack a planet. You end up with almost half your fleet gone and the planet still in enemy hands.
Why ?

Most of your fleet were sweepers or support ships with no wepons. They all took off for the corners leaving too few actual fighting ships to take over the planet or even knock out the defences. (which turned out to be WAY More than you expected.)

Fyron · #2 May 22nd, 2003, 02:09 AM

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6- When you discover that transports have only half maintenance cost

They certainly do not in stock SE4. Some mods have maintenance bonuses on such vehicles, but stock does not. Only bases get maintenance bonuses in stock SE4.

Narrew · #3 May 22nd, 2003, 02:24 AM

hey!!! how can I colonize a planet with no population?

and, I am still so new, that I am making these mistakes, just not brave enough to admit it yet.

and yea, where is the spy button?

Ed Kolis · #4 May 22nd, 2003, 03:11 AM

If you mean send population to a colony that has none, you need to load some population on a transport (any ship with cargo storage will do) and drop the population at the colony. You have to own the colony, though - you can't send population to an empty colony that someone else owns, for some reason. And you can't just dump population on a planet that NOBODY owns - that's what colony ships are for.

The spy button is located on the Empires window (click on the little white alien guy). It will be grayed out until you actually meet some other races.

Narrew · #5 May 22nd, 2003, 03:25 AM

how did the planet get zero pop in the first place? I mean can you colonize with no people on the colony ship?

Ragnarok · #6 May 22nd, 2003, 03:50 AM

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Originally posted by Narrew:
how did the planet get zero pop in the first place? I mean can you colonize with no people on the colony ship?

No you cannot. You have to load population onto the colony ship first. I bet what you did is ordered the ship to "move to" the planet and then colonize. If the ship is in orbit of the planet you built it at and you select the "Colonize" button instead of the move to order, then it will automatically load the population. But if you select "Move to" first and then do the colonize button, you have to manually load the population onto the ship. We've all made this mistake many times.

Krsqk · #7 May 22nd, 2003, 06:28 AM

Even "oldies" can make this mistake when they use their colony ships as scouts. Select the ship; click "Warp"; select the destination; ship moves on it merry way without a single soul on board except the captain, who's screaming at Central Command to get some bodies up here...

It's almost as much fun as designing mine sweepers with mine laying components.