Greetings!
I've been lurking for a week or so and been playing in the last few days and wow.. what depth!!!
I tried to read all i could and tried a new game and after some years of playing (2041) i have a few questions especially about automation to reduce micromanagement.
1) I have a geosurvey and a survey fleet that search their thing with their rispective orders (survey next 5 system bodies - Survey nearest survey location) and the condition to return home when fuel is < 30 %
This works well but it would be useful to have the option to send the fleet back to where it was when the fuel condition triggered.. can it be done ?
2) In my sol system i already have plenty of civilian colonies and some minimg going home on my own., i'd like a way to automatically pick up minerals and drop them to my homeworld, how can i do that?
There is a "move to mineral location" but it doesnt seem to get the work done.
Also manually selecting all the colonies and go in circle can be done but its highly inefficient and end up breaking up some time for the "there is no mineral " error which breaks the chain
3) Can i save orders so that i can easily reassign them
4) In year 2030 i encountered an alien race.. or at least so i discovered after a few years.
The race is called Ross 154 Aliens #986 so i believe i encountered it in Ross 154.. i sent multiple fleets there with sensors (active+thermal+em) and moved around all the system bodies and couldnt find them.. is there a way to survey the system as a whole?
5) Leaving this civilization siding aside is 2041.. never seen a combat or alien ship.. is usual to have a so flat game?
6) I cant really figure out the Task Force Organization panel or the "Sectors" panel which is always blank
7) I tried to go on SM mode and see if there are other empires around.. i couldnt the only race i ever see is mine , did i do something wrong?
Guess many questions here are very dumb
Fabio