Newbie questions at turn ~50 of a PBW game

[Lisif Deoral]

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So is there a way to change the sort order while reading a thread to show the most recent stuff at the END of the list?

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No.

[Taqwus]

Er, right. No trading racial traits themselves. Even populations you assimilate from other empires will assume your racial traits; e.g. you cannot use population from a Crystalline race to build Crystalline ships or research Crystalline tech unless you're Crystalline yourself. Note, tho', that facilities don't vanish; for instance, if you receive a colony containing buildings that you can't and won't ever be able to build, you still get full benefits from them. Likewise, if you receive a colony that was packed over-full by somebody with Advanced Storage Techniques, the "extra" facilities don't vanish.

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[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Rhinestone Cowboy:
1- If by Racial Traits you mean Racial Technology like Psycjic Weapons, then as far as I know, no one else can use that technology. (You have to be Psychic in order to use a Psychic weapon, you have to be religious in order to use a religious artifact). Can't Give'em, Can't trade'em, can't steal'em.

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While it is true you can't give, trade or steal the racial technology itself, you can give trade and steal ships with racial tech components on them.

If a psychic race builds a ship with allegiance converters, he can give it to me, or trade it to me, or I can maybe capture it with boarding parties or intel, or get it if he surrenders to me. I can then use it just as he would. But I can't build new ones, and I can't repair the racial components if they get damaged. And I can deconstruct and anylyze it, but it won't do me any good, because I can't understand the technology behind it.

Geoschmo

[Puke]

you CAN trade ships built with your racial technology. this way, when a fleet becomes obsoleet, instead of refitting it or mothballing it, you could concievably trade it to another empire in exchange for something.

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(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[capnq]

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I just blew it, right? No way to recover a mine once it's launched into space?

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On the bright side, these will make for a nasty surprise the first time an enemy tries to attack that world. This planet defense trick generally only works once against a human opponent.

The reverse order Messages can be frustrating when you first encounter it, but you get used to it surprisingly quickly. It has the advantage that you don't have to scroll all the way down the thread to find the first post you haven't read, especially once the thread goes over one page.

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Cap'n Q
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human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Puke]

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Originally posted by capnq:

I just blew it, right? No way to recover a mine once it's launched into space?

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On the bright side, these will make for a nasty surprise the first time an enemy tries to attack that world. This planet defense trick generally only works once against a human opponent.

on the other hand, it forces them to bring minesweepers every time they attack a planet.

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(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[dogscoff]

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3. Building expensive stuff:
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This is generally considered an exploit, and in a vs human game it might well be considered cheating, but there's always the retrofit chain.

Basically you build a cheap ship, and then retrofit it bit by bit until you get to your desired design. Each design has to cost less than 150% of the previous design (cost=org+min+rad) .Since retrofitted compnnts are always added to the ship in just one turn, no matter how long they should take to build, you can knock years off your construction time.

Like I say, human opponents might not appreciate you doing this, so use it at your own risk.

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