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Offline NightFalcon (OP)

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Re: How do normal games go? and other questions1)
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2010, 03:52:58 PM »
Thanks for the clarification on upgrades!

*What does "A1 Required" mean? Or A0 Required?*

I've tried searching for that one, but the board search ignores the "A1" since it is too short. =[

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« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2010, 03:53:30 PM »
Quote from: "NightFalcon"
Thanks for the clarification on upgrades!

*What does "A1 Required" mean? Or A0 Required?*

I've tried searching for that one, but the board search ignores the "A1" since it is too short. =[

Edit: never mind. Level 1 Administration required.

That is the Grade/Level of rank required for assignment of an officer.
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« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2010, 04:27:11 PM »
Thanks!

Do I need any particular type of construction for a ship to refuel. I have millions of liters of fuel, and yet my two gravity survey ships are sitting right at Earth spawning automatic conditional return for fuel updates every time I take a turn. I have the fuel, they are right there. Why won't they refuel!?
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Re: How do normal games go? and other questions1)
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2010, 05:51:14 PM »
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Thanks!

Do I need any particular type of construction for a ship to refuel. I have millions of liters of fuel, and yet my two gravity survey ships are sitting right at Earth spawning automatic conditional return for fuel updates every time I take a turn. I have the fuel, they are right there. Why won't they refuel!?
No, they should just be able to pull fuel off of any planet that has it.  Are your ships actually low on fuel?  If you just built them they should have a full tank, maybe check and make sure that under the conditional part of the conditional orders that they have one of the "fuel less than x%" choices there, so they only go to get fuel when they're running low.
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« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2010, 07:53:16 PM »
Checked all that.

The ships are definitely low on fuel. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1920393/Fuel%20Problem%202.PNG
The conditional order seems to be correct. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1920393/Fuel%20Problem%204.PNG

Yet they are just sitting at earth. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1920393/Fuel%20Problem%203.PNG

Interestingly, they spawn an event no matter how long I make the turn. Five seconds or five days. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1920393/Refuel%20Problems.PNG

Strange. Thanks for your help!
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Re: How do normal games go? and other questions1)
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2010, 08:29:15 PM »
You have the conditional order set to resupply not refuel.  I've made that mistake a few times.
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« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2010, 08:37:25 PM »
DOH. Ah I'm such a noob. Thanks!
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« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2010, 05:47:37 PM »
Alright, so I was reading this: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2482 Excellent AAR geared towards beginners. I'd definitely suggest it if you are starting out!

Anyway, the suggestion was to make a geo team and start having them train. I made a geo survey team and transported them to Mercury which has absolutely no minerals. Then my best officer in the entire game, who happened to be on the team, was killed in an accident. Lesson learned: don't put important people in dangerous situations.

Anyway, I took that team back to Earth, disbanded it, and made a new team. This one only has a current rating of 75. They need to improve before being useful. So I figure that I will put them on Mercury. They are there now. My question is simply, where is the option to have them start the survey?! Or do they do it automatically?
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« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2010, 05:52:24 PM »
Heya,
They will survey automatically once they're where you want them.  Leave them
alone for a while and you'll eventually hear from them.
Best,
Zack.
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« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2010, 05:58:10 PM »
Oh good! All right then, thanks!
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« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2010, 06:12:52 PM »
Man I'm having bad luck with this survey team. They found 200k Duranium on Mercury. So that's good at least. But now, I moved them to Luna, and one of them had a serious health issue that forced him into retirement. Is geo-surveying really high risk, or is this just bad luck?

And, what do I do now? Can I add another member to the team somehow? Or should I just bring them to earth, disband, then make a new team with another member?

Thanks!
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Re: How do normal games go? and other questions1)
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2010, 06:54:53 PM »
Just bad luck. As time goes by, certain of your people may develop health issues as time goes by. You COULD replace him, but the time lost wouldn't be worth it. I think his loss, depending on what his bonus was, may make the survey take a BIT longer, but not by too much, unless he was one of your major survey guys. Also, since you can't form a team unless you select 5 officers, it may be that the team won't work with only 4. Can anyone clarify this?

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« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2010, 07:05:18 PM »
Well all five of my dudes were 16 ratings, so originally the rating were 80. So now I'm at 64. I think I might just disband and reform. I can probably get them back to Luna in three days or so. Is progress made by previous survey teams who were interrupted saved?

64, not 62. And I'm a math major. =[
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« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2010, 07:10:50 PM »
No, that I can't tell you for sure, but I think so. I had a scientist die during a research project, and let me tell you, I was PISSED as it was almost done (25 centimetre laser focus). It turns out that the progress was saved, and I was able to continue where I left off. (Whew!) It is likely, that the geo team's progress is saved in a similiar manner. :)

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« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2010, 08:36:21 PM »
Well I have remade the team. If it did save the progress, then they hadn't made much. They've apparently been going for over a year, no word from them yet.

Another potential problem: I'm now in April of my third year, and still not a single civilian ship. I even tried to encourage them to build some freighters by setting up a contract at Earth for supplying 15 auto mines, and a contract on Titan for demanding 15 auto-mines. No freighters, no luxury liners, no colony ships, nothing from the civilians. How can I get them to hurry up?? ;-)

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