Repair ships and other newbie questions

[gecko]

(I've looked in Malfador's Q&A for these questions and there is no manual or help file in the demo)

1) I have just started playing the gold demo (I'm on about turn 40).
I built a ship using a destroyer hull with a repair module which I hoped would be able to repair damage to my ships but I can't see how to do it. Have I used the wrong hull or am I just missing something?

2) Can I resupply at a space yard or do I need a resupply facility as well?

3) What is the equivalent of SE3's population minister? I've built a transport vessel which I think can transport population and I want a minister to handle the shuttling about of people.

Thanks!

gecko

[Sinapus]

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Originally posted by gecko:
(I've looked in Malfador's Q&A for these questions and there is no manual or help file in the demo)

1) I have just started playing the gold demo (I'm on about turn 40).
I built a ship using a destroyer hull with a repair module which I hoped would be able to repair damage to my ships but I can't see how to do it. Have I used the wrong hull or am I just missing something?

2) Can I resupply at a space yard or do I need a resupply facility as well?

3) What is the equivalent of SE3's population minister? I've built a transport vessel which I think can transport population and I want a minister to handle the shuttling about of people.

Thanks!

gecko

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1. Move the ship into the same sector as the damaged ship. It will start repairing the ship after that point.

2. This is tricky. You have to create a fleet and join the base and whatever ships you want resupplied with that fleet. Wait one turn and the infinite supplies for the base will fill up the ship's supplies when it evens up the supply levels.

3. Activate the minister for transports (I think) and then set the transports you want to use for population transports (make sure the design type is population transport) have their individual minister flag on. (Ctrl Y, or the face icon on the control panel.)

[Wardad]

Answers:

1a. Repairs happen automatically between turns. Just park the repair ship in the same sector. Better yet fleet it with the damaged ship. Bring fuel if your repairing engines.

2a. PLANET SPACEYARD: You need a resupply facility. When you start refitting ships at a space yard you will find a resupply facility helpful when upgrading engines.

2aSS. SPACE SPACEYARDS: Space stations have infinite supplies. Supplies are shared with the fleet between turns. So you would have to spend a turn fleeted there.

3a. I used it twice. Transport Minister???. Only give it little transports to handle. Bigger transports can almost depopulate a planet and really confuse the minister. These bigger transports tend to hang around that planet.

Hope I helped you.

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UPGRADES HAPPEN!!!

[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: Wardad ]

[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: Wardad ]

[gecko]

Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions!

gecko