Help needed

[mira]

Hi,
To the point. I have too many of on kind (Mines or others) like to delete on and replace it with some thing else ( Training center) How ?

[Ed Kolis]

Select your planet, then find the button that looks like a building with a recycling symbol next to it. Select the facilities you want to get rid of then click OK, and then you can build new ones in their place. It's usually best to scrap one at a time, wait till its replacement is done building, scrap another, etc. so you still get the benefit of the facilities you're going to replace until you actually get around to replacing them.

[Slick]

You also mentioned mines. These reside in your planet's cargo area with any other units on the planet. To get rid of units in the cargo area, use a transport ship (any ship with cargo carrying capability) to move the units elsewhere. You can also launch mines, satellites, drones and fighters into space to make room on the planet. Or you can jettison them into space - this destroys the units.

[edit: maybe he meant Mineral "Mines" in which case see Ed's answer below]

Slick.

[ April 29, 2003, 16:02: Message edited by: Slick ]

[Fyron]

You can also hit Ctrl + k to get to the Scrap Facilities window. Why do so few people mention the hotkeys? They make life so much simpler. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[dogscoff]

EDIT: Never mind.

*dogscoff wanders off in search of beer.

[ April 30, 2003, 09:21: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[mottlee]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
EDIT: Never mind.

*dogscoff wanders off in search of beer.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Can I come too? I need one also!

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
You can also hit Ctrl + k to get to the Scrap Facilities window. Why do so few people mention the hotkeys? They make life so much simpler. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not speaking for others...but my brain is like Christina Applegate's was in "Married With Children"...the episode where Al learned her head could only hold a finite number of facts and if one exceed that, an "old" piece of knowledge was lost.

Consequently, I try not to tax myself with too much to remember when, being a dummy, I can click on the pretty pictures. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Taera]

lol i dont ever use the pictures myself, key shortcuts are the way to go

Slick: i believe he meant mineral extraction facilities, mines they are in fact.

[Slick]

Call me picky, but they are Mineral Miner Facilites. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Slick.

[tesco samoa]

picky http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Slick]

I knew it. And my mother dresses me funny...

Slick.

[Cyrien]

Didn't want to bring that up, but since you mentioned it... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ May 01, 2003, 01:36: Message edited by: Cyrien ]

[mira]

Thanks This answered my question but brought up an other one. - laying mines. I picked up explosive mines with my transport wanting to drop it of near the wormhole. I jettison them - I believe I destroyed them - right? So Can I lay mines with a Transport or do I need a Mine layer to do it?
Thanks again for helping me out

[Cyrien]

You have to have a mine layer component on the ship to lay mines. The number and level of the mine layer component/s will determine how many mines you can lay per turn.

[Baron Grazic]

Actually all Mine Layer components "Can lay mines in space at the rate of 2 per game turn".
Only the storage capicity increases per Mine Layer component upgrade.
If you want 10 mines launched per turn, you need 5 Mine Layer components.

[ May 01, 2003, 04:32: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]

[oleg]

Originally posted by mira:
... I picked up explosive mines with my transport wanting to drop it of near the wormhole. I jettison them - I believe I destroyed them - right? ...<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You may want to repost this here : http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=008657

Don't think it was mentioned before http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[mira]

Thanks for the info - I am laying Mines now.- But I got an other problem I dont noe how to lay satelites!! More imortand I am not able to colonize neither gas nor Ice Planet even tough I can build the colonizing ships designed by the game AI. A bug?
I am playing a race with organic capability! May thats the problem?

[Taz-in-Space]

You have to research satellites and then include a satellite laying component on a ship to lay satellites.

You also have to research Gas and Ice colonization before you can colonize these type planets. You only get 1 colony Tech at game start - the one that matches your races type.

[Phoenix-D]

"You have to research satellites and then include a satellite laying component on a ship to lay satellites."

Not true. You always start with the tech to design, lanch, and lay small satilites. Look for the "Satelite Bay" component.