Frequently Asked Questions for Newbies

[Quikngruvn]

Picking up where SJ left off...

1.1.3.2 While researching the talisman, the religious race will discover five different shrines with all sorts of nifty systemwide abilities, including to-hit bonuses, damage bonuses, production bonuses, planetary improvements, decreased chance of bad events, and increased population happiness.

[edit] Skulky beat me to it! [/edit]

1.1.4.2 Psychic Ship and Fleet Training Facilities provide training to all ships/fleets in the system, at the same rate and maximum experience as normal training facilities. Thus, you do not have to park your fleet over a particular planet to get training (but could, for example, be trained while defending a warp point).

1.1.5.2 Temporal Space Yards produce much more quickly than normal spaceyards. But, you cannot upgrade a normal Space Yard to a Temporal Space Yard-- you have to scrap your Space Yard first.
1.1.5.3 The Temporal Vacation Service makes the population in its system happier, and is twice as effective as the Urban Pacification Center.

5.9.8 Cloaked ships cannot perform stellar manipulation.

I would suggest that 6.7 Capturing Planets be moved under 7.0 Ground Combat, since they are practically the same thing.

15.2 PBW -- seiv.pbw.cc [This is a link, so be sure to include the UBB code for the link.]

I must say to all who are maintaining this FAQ: Excellent job! A daunting task that I for one would not be up to....

Quikngruvn

[ October 14, 2002, 04:02: Message edited by: Quikngruvn ]

[dbillett1]

I am having problem with starting colonies outside of my home system. They always start with a population of 0. Why is that? I am using the colony ship from the tutorial.

[Sandstig]

dbillett1, you need colonists onboard your colony ship to populate a planet. If your colony ship is over a populated colony and you decide you want to colonize another planet, either hit "C" or the "Colonize" button, then the planet you want to colonize, and it will load colonists onto your ship automatically.

The manual method is to take your colony ship back to a populated planet and transfer colonists from the planet onto your colony ship.

[Ruatha]

dbilett1 see 4.2 Colonizing

[Sandstig]

8.4.5 Do cloaked minesweepers automatically decloak to sweep mines?

They don't decloak.

[capnq]

4.8.1 Defence Bases and Satellites always show up on the wrong side of the planet during combat.

It only seems that way.

4.8.1 Bases and Satellite Groups are placed around the planet randomly. This means that there's only about a 3 in 8 chance that they will be closer to the attackers than the planet itself.

15.2.1 The Play By Vire Service is free of charge.

"Play By Web", not Wire.

[Shyrka]

The ship experience gives a % bonus in both attack and defense, isn't it?

But, what does the fleet experience do?