Post by: Empty on February 03, 2010, 06:06:16 PM
Post by: sloanjh on February 03, 2010, 10:34:32 PM
Quote from: "Empty"
Can someone perhaps explain the prefabricated part to me? I tried moving a prefabricated one to mars together with a few construction factories to assemble them. But it seems I wasn't able to because it needed more minerals. So I canceled it and and lost the prefabricated parts for some reason.
The explanation's simple - they're buggy
They don't quite fit into the mechanisms for consuming minerals to build other stuff, so Steve's had a hard time getting all of the possible code paths right to cover the various things that might go wrong. Not a slam on Steve - it's just one of those things....John
Post by: Andrew on February 04, 2010, 06:31:13 AM
Post by: ShadoCat on February 04, 2010, 09:17:29 PM
Quote from: "Andrew"
The biggest problem is that your Jump Cruiser is too small, it is only 6000 tons and has a 10000 rated jump engine and the missile ships are 10000 tons. As it can only jump with ships of its own size or smaller you need a 10000 ton jump cruiser
Pad the jump ship with fuel tanks and/or magazines. That way the fleet can keep in fuel and ammo longer. More armor wouldn't hurt either (nothing like losing your ride home).
Post by: Empty on February 05, 2010, 05:36:01 AM
Quote from: "Andrew"
The biggest problem is that your Jump Cruiser is too small, it is only 6000 tons and has a 10000 rated jump engine and the missile ships are 10000 tons. As it can only jump with ships of its own size or smaller you need a 10000 ton jump cruiser
That I did not know.
Thank you kindly.