How do you know when you are a newbie?

Aloofi · #1 May 21st, 2003, 03:11 PM

How do you know when you are a newbie?

1- When you start colonizing the system next door, and in turn 80 you find out that your colonies have no population.

2- When you ask yourself who the hell is that guy with a 1930s hat that is telling you that your best ship have been blown out by some race you didn't even know existed.

3- When you expend half an hour trying to find the spy buttom.

4- When you conquer a tiny enemy planet with a mighty fleet, and then order your fleet to conquer the next closest planet, and when you are there you find out that your zillion troops were left behind back at the first planet.

5- When after being crushed by the AI, you restart a new game, this time with all technologies researched, and you say to the AI between your teeth "now I'm gonna kick your ***", and then design a Dreadnaught with the best technology avaliable and order its construction right away in your homeworld, but by turn 10 when your Dreadnaught is half built, a lowly enemy Escort comes and glass your homeworld.

6- When you discover that transports have only half maintenance cost and then send a troop transport loaded with fighters to raid an enemy system.

7- When you try to find out why your escort that is exploring 10 systems away from your closest resuply facility is moving only one little square per turn.

8- When you lose your patience trying to change the atmosphere of a Hydrogen Gas giant to None.

9- When you try to unmothball those expensive Battleships that you mothballed in orbit of a planet that only have 3 mineral mining facilities in it.

10- When you try to recover those mines that you just deployed at the wrong warp point.

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mottlee · #2 May 21st, 2003, 06:55 PM

I'm no "newbie" however I have done some of these

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[ May 21, 2003, 17:56: Message edited by: mottlee ]

Gryphin · #3 May 21st, 2003, 10:04 PM

How do you know when you are a newbie?

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1- When you start colonizing the system next door, and in turn 80 you find out that your colonies have no population.

-Well, I just did it in the Phun Challenge. I found it on turn 32 because I was desperate for minerals.

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2- When you expend half an hour trying to find the spy buttom.

-Um, Is there one?

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3- When you conquer a tiny enemy planet with a mighty fleet, and then order your fleet to conquer the next closest planet, and when you are there you find out that your zillion troops were left behind back at the first planet.

-I hope I never do that again. Especially in the Phun Challenge where planet capture is the only way. No Glassing allowed.

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6- When you discover that transports have only half maintenance cost and then send a troop transport loaded with fighters to raid an enemy system.

Is this true? Is it true for Colony ships? If is does not apply to Colony ships then you could exploit a �feature� and build your colony ships in Transports.

I wonder if you are no longer a newbie if you write replies reminiscing about the days you were a newbie.

Aloofi · #4 May 21st, 2003, 10:19 PM

Come on guys, this was suppose to be funny!!
These are some of the things I have done, and I'm pretty sure some of you have stories to add to this thread.
Or are you going to tell me that you never tried to recover a mine?

Ruatha · #5 May 21st, 2003, 10:21 PM

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Originally posted by Aloofi:

Or are you going to tell me that you never tried to recover a mine?

Ofcourse I've tried it, it was mine after all!

[ May 21, 2003, 21:21: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Gryphin · #6 May 21st, 2003, 10:37 PM

Yes I did but it was not one I placed there. An AI surrendered to me and I wanted to remove them for humanitarian reasons.

Took several turns and searching the forum to figure it out

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Power Man · #7 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 · #8 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 · #9 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 · #10 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.