Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread: C# Edition

[Garfunkel]

The EM sensor part of an AS sensor is only there to receive the signal from the active transmitter but as xenocepter said, it does nothing on its own. You need to have a separate EM sensor to act as a passive sensor.

[skoormit]

Did missile design research costs get doubled at some point?

I just designed a new missile.
The designer window said development cost = 58 (as did AurCalc), but the Economics -> Research tab shows the cost as 117.
Interestingly, the displayed costs of the missiles I have previously researched are also doubled.
I'm not sure if they were doubled at the time I researched them...I may just not have noticed.

Costs for other research items are not doubled. Just missiles.

Research Speed setting in this game is 100 (not that I think this would change the cost).

Could something else be causing the cost of missile research to double?

[Vandermeer]

The recent "interesting names" thread and some current developments have inspired me to try to create my own naming theme. I would try to create some bombastic German name theme, you know, like they sound in Anime - "Reinhard von Lohengramm", "Roderick Kronstedter" etc., thunderous names that immediately summon into your head an image of a straight and bearded physique of a WW1 U-Boat commander. Names like you would want them to sound, not the boring and disappointing reality where they are more like "Klaus Bierfreund".

I have tested this shortly, but accidentally saved an empty list which now appears under the race name themes even though there is nothing in it. Do I have to go into the database to delete it, or can name themes be overwritten by just using the same name the next time and selecting other files?

[Steve Walmsley]

The recent "interesting names" thread and some current developments have inspired me to try to create my own naming theme. I would try to create some bombastic German name theme, you know, like they sound in Anime - "Reinhard von Lohengramm", "Roderick Kronstedter" etc., thunderous names that immediately summon into your head an image of a straight and bearded physique of a WW1 U-Boat commander. Names like you would want them to sound, not the boring and disappointing reality where they are more like "Klaus Bierfreund".

I have tested this shortly, but accidentally saved an empty list which now appears under the race name themes even though there is nothing in it. Do I have to go into the database to delete it, or can name themes be overwritten by just using the same name the next time and selecting other files?

Each theme is assigned a unique ID - the name isn't used for reference within the database. In other words - yes, you need to either delete it or ignore it.

[TallTroll]

Did missile design research costs get doubled at some point?

I just designed a new missile.
The designer window said development cost = 58 (as did AurCalc), but the Economics -> Research tab shows the cost as 117.
Interestingly, the displayed costs of the missiles I have previously researched are also doubled.
I'm not sure if they were doubled at the time I researched them...I may just not have noticed.

Costs for other research items are not doubled. Just missiles.

Research Speed setting in this game is 100 (not that I think this would change the cost).

Could something else be causing the cost of missile research to double?

Probably a silly question, but you didn't check a checkbox in the design screen, or accidentally change a parameter, something like that?

[skoormit]

Did missile design research costs get doubled at some point?

I just designed a new missile.
The designer window said development cost = 58 (as did AurCalc), but the Economics -> Research tab shows the cost as 117.
Interestingly, the displayed costs of the missiles I have previously researched are also doubled.
I'm not sure if they were doubled at the time I researched them...I may just not have noticed.

Costs for other research items are not doubled. Just missiles.

Research Speed setting in this game is 100 (not that I think this would change the cost).

Could something else be causing the cost of missile research to double?

Probably a silly question, but you didn't check a checkbox in the design screen, or accidentally change a parameter, something like that?

No. I even used the topmost dropdown to load the design parameters for other missile designs.
The designer shows the correct cost, but the Research screen shows a higher cost.
Not always double, as it turns out.
I'm looking at one now where the designer says 77, but Research says 138.

[nuclearslurpee]

From Steve's post here:

For Missiles and non-STO Ground Units, the Development Cost has been changed to: SQRT(Cost * 25000)

From this, a missile which should cost 117 RP to develop has a build cost of 0.55 BP, which prior to 1.13 would imply a development cost of 55 RP (not quite 58 but close). Similarly, a missile costing 138 RP to develop has a build cost of 0.77 BP, or a development cost of 77 RP prior to 1.13.

This sounds like it is a display bug which should be reported in the bugs thread.

[trainhighway]

Hey everyone, I was just wondering if there had been any update on when Steve might release the next version.  I'm getting pretty excited for all the new features and QoL stuff.

[skoormit]

From Steve's post here:

For Missiles and non-STO Ground Units, the Development Cost has been changed to: SQRT(Cost * 25000)

From this, a missile which should cost 117 RP to develop has a build cost of 0.55 BP, which prior to 1.13 would imply a development cost of 55 RP (not quite 58 but close). Similarly, a missile costing 138 RP to develop has a build cost of 0.77 BP, or a development cost of 77 RP prior to 1.13.

This sounds like it is a display bug which should be reported in the bugs thread.

Don't know how I missed that, but it must be the answer.

A million thanks.

Can you say if it is affecting your game as well?
I have a very slightly modified database, so I avoid posting bugs unless other players confirm them.
In this case it seems like my database is correct and the display is incorrect, but I'd still rather be sure.

[ExChairman]

Is there a way to force a surrender of commercial ships, not that I want 150 outdated, slow and small freighters, but killing their crews feels, a bit un important...

[nuclearslurpee]

You can try shooting them with low-damage weapons to not blow them up. Depending on the racial traits some fraction of their crews may surrender out of fear of imminent death.

Otherwise your option is basically to get some boarding parties out there and do some grunt work.

[ArcWolf]

Is there a way to force a surrender of commercial ships, not that I want 150 outdated, slow and small freighters, but killing their crews feels, a bit un important...

gauss weapons you have for PD work great for this. Though it is a bit micro-intensive firing only 1 gauss volley at a time.

[lumporr]

If I were to start a game with 6 player races and make 5 of them neutral races (no installations, etc. ), would that cause any significant issues (such as slowdown) later in the game? Furthermore, if I could build up a sufficient military force and occupy those neutral nations, could I later add their population to my own without incident?

Essentially, I want to model a mostly intact population of earth while operating with only a portion of that population, to maintain game balance, RPing the other races as fellow megastates without the capability or motivation for interstellar expansion.  Would this be possible, or would I be better off creating my primary player race and a single other neutral player race titled something like "Unaffiliated Nations"?

[nuclearslurpee]

I would just do a single neutral race making up the unaffiliated population, and if you want to model population transfer over time just use SM mode to edit the population values whenever an "event" happens. It's not possible to transfer population between colonies except with colony ships so you may as well just use SM mode, in which case the actual number of neutral races is academic unless you specifically want to have ground combat between nations as part of the story.

[Kiero]

Is there a way to display survey locations after they were surveyed?