Next Upgrade/patch

Fyron · #1 January 15th, 2003, 10:54 AM

If you select "Can only colonize own atm or HW type", then you can only colonize your own type. You can not ever colonize other types. You can capture or trade for them though.

couslee · #2 January 15th, 2003, 11:11 AM

I assumed that with the "only colonize homeworld type" and that it would also exclude IE ice and gas if your rock. but the other selection only states "can only colonize breatheable." and they are breathable to a captured race. might have to start a game and check it out and see what is allowed with that choice. I just dislike that not too far into the game every heavenly body can be colonized. a "no-domes allowed" option would be nice. was hoping that is what that was.

Fyron · #3 January 15th, 2003, 11:13 AM

Colonize only breatheable means that you can only ever colonize planets of your race's own atmosphere type. If you are Hydrogen-breathing, you can only colonize Hydrogen planets, period. A colony ship with Oxygen-breathers can still only colonize a Hydrogen planet.

Baron Munchausen · #4 January 15th, 2003, 05:36 PM

But you can still capture other types of worlds even when the colonization restrictions are used. This actually makes planet capture a vital ability. This also leads to an interesting 'calculated strategy' problem. How many worlds do you let some rival settle before trying to conquer him?

The more you let him settle, the more powerful he will be, but the more there is to conquer. Hmmm....

couslee · #5 January 17th, 2003, 02:03 AM

Another oddity I would consider a bug....

When changing the repair priorities, not all the item move to the left side. some just vanish, never to be seen again? Like Misc. you can take it off the priority side, but it's not available to replace there. I had a situation where I wanted my repair bays to be repaired first, then the other stuff. thats when i noticed the vanishing items. Also, is Misc where the repair bays would be listed? the game don't have repair components listed seperatly. I removed all but misc, and I did get one repair bay fix, but it ignored the other repair bays on other ships and fixed some engines on the one it did repair the bay. Once that situation was over, then Misc would be stuck at the top and I wanted to basicly restore the previous priority list. I click on Misc to remove it, and it vanished as well. Hope they fix that.all choices should be either on the right or left, and not, some vanishing, some not

Rollo · #6 January 16th, 2003, 03:17 PM

The reason for component Groups vanishing, is that your don't have a component in that group available. IIRC the only component in the misc group is the medical bay. Repair belongs to the construction group.

Rollo

capnq · #7 January 16th, 2003, 09:54 PM

In Components.txt , the group a component is in is listed in the entry "General Group". As soon as you research a component from a particular group, that group's entry will reappear on the Repair Priorities screen.

Once a ship is picked to be repaired, the game will try to repair all of the damage on that ship before shifting to another ship. If it can't repair all the damage on one ship in one turn, then on the next turn it looks at the repair priorities again and may pick another ship.