Quick Questions Thread

[Garfunkel]

Use the correct tab and make sure you have the fleet selected, not sub-fleet or admin command.

[ExChairman]

Mmm, were to I find and add prebuilt ships

[Pursche]

Is there still a ruler function which lets me draw a line and get the distance?

[Ozyton]

Thanks, dunno how I missed it.

I think in VB6 there was a button on the tactical view that listed all of the stuff in your empire with a scheduled completion date including research, construction, etc.  Was that button removed?

Mmm, were to I find and add prebuilt ships

There are no prebuilt ships AFAIK, but when you start a new game you get free 'instant build points' so when you design your ships you can go to the miscellaneous tab of the class design window and spawn the ships in without having to put your shipyards to use.

[MichaelArch]

Any basic tutorial for C# anytime soon? I've read through the changes and i am lost haha.  Thanks in advance to all.  Happy Easter.

[Doren]

Does anyone know how you can attach Ground Force HQs to each other to create chain of command? Game complains that you need better rating HQ to stack them but there's only one HQ component and didn't see a research for better one

Also has anyone been able to remove "Supporting formation X" from formations or perhaps this is a bug?

[Father Tim]

Does anyone know how you can attach Ground Force HQs to each other to create chain of command? Game complains that you need better rating HQ to stack them but there's only one HQ component and didn't see a research for better one

Also has anyone been able to remove "Supporting formation X" from formations or perhaps this is a bug?

The "1000" in the HQ component description is editable.  Change it to "2000" and your HQ also double its size.  Change it "12,000" or whatever.

[AlStar]

I'm certain that I'm missing something obvious - I cannot figure out how to colonize the Moon. I've created a colony, dumped infrastructure and some auto mines on it, but although my colony ships have the option to pick up colonists from Earth, there's no matching command to drop off the colonists when I select the colony fleet with my Luna colony.

I've even tried setting standing orders for the colony ships to "Unload Colonists" and "Unload Passengers" with no effect.

Edit: They were missing Cargo Shuttle Bays, for anyone who comes to this topic later.

[ropedog]

I hate to even ask this, but for the life of me I can't find the button to advance time!  I select 1 day increments and auto sub-pulse, but then what???
Thanks.

[AlStar]

I hate to even ask this, but for the life of me I can't find the button to advance time!  I select 1 day increments and auto sub-pulse, but then what???
Thanks.

Top right button on the main screen (the red button) makes it so that time will auto-advance until it hits a stop condition (it'll turn green when it's on).
To advance time, it's the top row of time increments (5 seconds - 30 days).

[Elvin]

Hopefully a simple question: How do I add/attach a parasite craft to a carrier?

I have a carrier with 4k hangar space, into which I'm trying to add 4 1k ships. This used to be done in the "Individual Ship Information" window on F6 (e.g. in this guide https://imgur.com/a/tDWDC), but that page doesn't seem to exist anymore. I can't see any movement orders to do this. I've added the parasite ships as ordanance in the Ship Design window for the class (although I only did that after I built the first ones - is that a problem?)

Thanks for any help!

[Deutschbag]

What exactly does HQ capacity represent? Is it the number of units that an HQ can effectively command?

[YABG]

What exactly does HQ capacity represent? Is it the number of units that an HQ can effectively command?

Tonnage/size that a commander can command - I think you need to have sufficient "HQ tonnage" to allow an officer to provide bonuses to a ground unit, plus you need to have a bigger HQ size for units higher up the hierarchy if you want to structure your ground forces that way.  There's a wiki post which I found helpful on this: hxxp: aurorawiki. pentarch. org/index. php?title=C-Ground_Units#Formation_Element_Transfer

Now I've a question: does anyone what button I press to stop a ground unit supporting another? I dragged two of my 'Stryker Infantry Companies' together and now they've got this arrow indicating they're supporting each other and I can't figure out how to set them back to normal.

[DEEPenergy]

I'm certain that I'm missing something obvious - I cannot figure out how to colonize the Moon. I've created a colony, dumped infrastructure and some auto mines on it, but although my colony ships have the option to pick up colonists from Earth, there's no matching command to drop off the colonists when I select the colony fleet with my Luna colony.

I've even tried setting standing orders for the colony ships to "Unload Colonists" and "Unload Passengers" with no effect.

I think you need cargo shuttle bays on the ship.

Also has anyone found out how to sort by the various minerals on the mineral report window?

[AlStar]

I think you need cargo shuttle bays on the ship.

Yep - that was it.