Hints, Tips,Tricks and suggestions for Turn Blitz #2

Unknown_Enemy · #1 October 18th, 2002, 09:05 PM

Is PBW running on NT or linux ?

Skulky · #2 October 18th, 2002, 10:39 PM

Do you think you all the people who participated in TB1 could write up something for all the people who are interested in #2? I'm gogn through the TDM pack looking for ideas on what race i want. One thing that will piss me off no doubt, is the ship names and how im sure they'll progress to numbers eventually and i'll have no concept of what is happening.

EDIT: Another thought: Woudl there be a way togenerate a graph (excel or otherwise) of all teh stats from this game? And would there be a way to know what people choose for tehir racials if i didn't play in the Last game?

[ October 18, 2002, 21:44: Message edited by: Skulky ]

Suicide Junkie · #3 October 18th, 2002, 10:46 PM

1) Micromanagment is only possible for small empires. If you are of any reasonable size, plan ahead, and decide which ministers you will clean up after.

2) Infrastructure is more important than military details.
Order defense fleets to attack a nearby target of opportunity if you like, but concentrate on your planets and production.

note: You can change planet designations (mining colony, research planet, etc) in the colonies window.

Alpha Kodiak · #4 October 19th, 2002, 03:15 PM

Looks like TB1 is stuck again.

capnq · #5 October 19th, 2002, 07:32 PM

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One thing that will piss me off no doubt, is the ship names and how im sure they'll progress to numbers eventually and i'll have no concept of what is happening.

I dealt with that by naming things that I designed starting from the bottom of the list. I only recently met the AI somewhere in the "U"s.

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And would there be a way to know what people choose for tehir racials if i didn't play in the Last game?

Well, you could just look at TB1's Game Info page. About half of us used the default name of the race we're using, and almost all of us listed the shipset as well.

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Looks like TB1 is stuck again.

Not just stuck this time; the turn failed on the server.

[ October 19, 2002, 18:33: Message edited by: capnq ]

Suicide Junkie · #6 October 19th, 2002, 08:38 PM

I've given TB1 another kick in the pants, and its processing fine now.

Geo:
Any idea on why it would outright fail and then start working again?