How to program Mine and Sat layers

[Atrocities]

Good advise.

[Slick]

Great summary. This can also be modified to:

- "leapfrog" sats to front line warp points and planets

- pick up other units for carriers/troop transports/minelayers/drone ships, etc.

- move population around. be careful to have a transport with low capacity so as not to drain your supplying planet of all population. full, huge worlds are the best suppliers. if you time it right, when the transport returns, the planet will be full again.

you get the idea.

[bearclaw]

And another point, to give the order to launch sats (or mines) the ship doesn't have to have sats (or mines) in cargo. Any units onboard (sats, mines, fighters, troops, weapon plats) will activate the Remote Launch button.

So you could build the layer at one planet, have all sats somewhere else, load a single troop and you can set all your orders needed. Lot more useful to know in Simultaneous movement games.