Is there a way out of this?

[Growltigger]

Tesco, when you said build troops on those planets where you have fleet and ship training bases, I got a bit confused.

Am I correct in saying that troops do not gain experience like ships do? in which case, are you saying build the troops on those planets so that the troop transports will gain experience when they go to collect troops?

Also, I am playing SEIVG with latest patch and TDM modpack. Do any of the AI races actually build troops?

The only ones I have seen do this are the Space Vikings (bless you Dogscoff). Other than those rowdy rebels, I do not beleive I have ever seen anyone else build the little darlings

[Fyron]

Units do not get training. Those training planets are usually the staging grounds for gathering newly built ships, so having troops there too makes it easier to just pick them up and be on your merry way, rather than having to go elsewhere to get them.

[oleg]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
... build troops on every single planet. 240 planets means 24 troops on them.

surely other way around

[gregebowman]

Tesco, how do you order your ships to pick up, repeat, then pick again? I can't remember if there is some sort of way to program the ships or not. It would come in handy in one game I'm playing right now, where I'm sending population from a fully developed world to a new colonized world and I want to build up the population. Is there a way to tell the transports to pick up a population, ferry them to this new planet, then return to the original planet to restock?

[tesco samoa]

Ment planets with 240 kt space should have 24 troops on them... You know what I mean...

[tesco samoa]

with fleet selected.

click on planet to attack.

then click load cargo ---- troops

then click on planet to attack

then click load cargo --- troops

repeat.

[Fyron]

Just be careful. If a ship is filled and encounters an order to load cargo, all orders will be cleared. Assuming simultaneous movement game, this leads to it doing nothing else on that turn.