Sounds like you're better off scrapping your 10+ years maintenance clock ships with your shipyards and build new ones. And if you're building the exact same kind, you can even re-use the components you got back from scrapping them.Wow, I didn't know that scrapping returns components. Only thing that holds me from scrapping now is a necessity to manually rename 20 new ships.
As for aliens, they can pop up about anywhere, the type of star doesn't matter. All they need is a livable planet. Not necessarily one that fits human, mind. But unless they breath something other than oxygen, you're likely to find their homeworld to be an easy planet to terraform down to a colony cost of 0 for you.
If you don't meet enough, you could use spacemaster mode (ctrl+S) to generate a new system from the system generation window (F9). Then if there's no livable world, you can just create a new colony, terraform it a bit, abandon the colony and create a new empire that is an NPR. You'll probably meet up at some point.
Or you could go back to the Game Info screen (ctrl+I) and turn up the NPR generation rate for the player. I wouldn't recommend doing it for NPRs, they'd just end up fighting and bog down your game off screen, which makes it kinda annoying when you can't even watch the action and you're randomly down to 5 seconds turn.
Speak of the devil, how did this guy get past?Might have been a normal email (gmail, yahoo, charter, etc), making it look like a legitimate account.
Speak of the devil, how did this guy get past?
That was actually me (although it looks like Erik banned the porn one before I got there, so I assume he's really busy with something). I've banned the poster and cleaned up all but the one in this thread - I wanted to leave it in just in case Erik needs it for forensics. I've not gotten involved in this previously since I don't know Erik's processes, but that one and this one seemed like they needed a quick cleanup.
On the topic of hibernation: Oh no, they're not hibernating. My email is continually spammed with "New user" requests - typically 20-30 a day. And a lot of them are from user names of the form *foops, so I assume a ton of them are from spammers. I think what's been going on is that Erik's just been REALLY good at keeping them out and/or quickly cleaning up after them. It is a bit odd that this one seems to have registered in March and then done nothing - maybe it's a case of the account getting hacked (although the "yyz" in the user name is a red flag).
John
That was actually me (although it looks like Erik banned the porn one before I got there, so I assume he's really busy with something). I've banned the poster and cleaned up all but the one in this thread - I wanted to leave it in just in case Erik needs it for forensics. I've not gotten involved in this previously since I don't know Erik's processes, but that one and this one seemed like they needed a quick cleanup.The other one had registered a long time ago too.
On the topic of hibernation: Oh no, they're not hibernating. My email is continually spammed with "New user" requests - typically 20-30 a day. And a lot of them are from user names of the form *foops, so I assume a ton of them are from spammers. I think what's been going on is that Erik's just been REALLY good at keeping them out and/or quickly cleaning up after them. It is a bit odd that this one seems to have registered in March and then done nothing - maybe it's a case of the account getting hacked (although the "yyz" in the user name is a red flag).
John
He was pretty quick to get rid of the porn advertising one, I'm sure this one will go soon enough. Of more concern is the fact these spammers seem to have hibernated for almost a year before striking, how many others are out there in the thousands of inactive accounts?
