Posted by: chrislocke2000
« on: February 11, 2011, 11:56:58 AM »Thanks for all of your responses, I feel a lost weekend coming up!
Hey allAnswered above
So the lack of sleep from sitting in front of my PC playing this game is getting worse but hey gotta say I've not had this much enjoyment out of a 4x game for ages. A few more questions if possible:
- I've been playing one game for a little while now and am itching to have a go at some combat. Is it possible to SM spawn a comparable tech NPR in one of the systems I've explored now?
- When starting a new game and selecting a trans Newtonian start are players expected to make use of all of the free picks on ships straight away and do people normally insta research modules on top of taking the computer selected research allocation?About half the time I use the computer allocated research. The other half I select my own. I prefer the computer allocation as it is more of a challenge to work with tech you might not have picked yourself. One thing I almost always do is to Instant RST the designed tech.
- I've been trying to train my combat ships by placing them on training runs however, despite having officers assigned and having done about 8 months of training the training stat in the TG window is still showing at 0%. Am I missing something on what I need them to do to train?All of my survey ships always have jump dries. Much easier in case of alien attack that one might get away and be able to transit.
- I've been running surveys with one jump capable ship that has a grav surveys and two tag along ships that have geo surveys. Between splitting the TG up and then reforming it at the end of each system survey I've ended up with a huge pile of empty TGs in my listing. Is there a way to do this without creating all these empty TGs?
- Finally when doing system survey do people tend to run their ships dark with just passive sensors or have them active and actually looking for stuff? I assume I could be flying past wrecks and stuff and never noticing them with my sensors off.My survey ships also do not tend to have active sensors.
Thanks in advance for your help
I don't know enough to answer your questions, but this is one I've been wondering about. I was able to create another player race in SM mode, but I don't think there's any way to hand it off to the AI, or to directly create an NPC under AI control in a specific system.
If there is some way to accomplish this, I'd be interesting in knowing!
I've been trying to train my combat ships by placing them on training runs however, despite having officers assigned and having done about 8 months of training the training stat in the TG window is still showing at 0%. Am I missing something on what I need them to do to train?
- I've been playing one game for a little while now and am itching to have a go at some combat. Is it possible to SM spawn a comparable tech NPR in one of the systems I've explored now?