Noobie Question(s)

[Slick]

From Settings.txt:

Defending Units Per Population := 20

This means you get 1 militia for every 20M population. Since defending ground troops are considered as planet cargo, they get destroyed in planet attacks before you land troops. Thus there is rarely a troops vs. troops ground combat. It is usually your attacking troops vs. defending militia. Settings.txt also gives attack/defense stats for a militia unit.

P.S. read this, it answers most of your questions:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=23;t=005518

Slick.

[ January 07, 2003, 15:18: Message edited by: Slick ]

[dbt1949]

Another question. Where can I find a good decription of the standard races that come with the game. The manual gives a good thumbnail decription but I was looking for one that shows the complete decription like when you open up your own description while playing the game and it says things like +10% production or somesuch.

Thanks!

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by dbt1949:
Another question. Where can I find a good decription of the standard races that come with the game. The manual gives a good thumbnail decription but I was looking for one that shows the complete decription like when you open up your own description while playing the game and it says things like +10% production or somesuch.

Thanks!

In the game setup screen, choose the empire of the stock race you want to look at, choose edit and look at all the information there. Besides that, there is no other place outside of the game other than the races' AI files to find that information.

[ January 08, 2003, 14:45: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by dbt1949:
Another question. Where can I find a good decription of the standard races that come with the game. The manual gives a good thumbnail decription but I was looking for one that shows the complete decription like when you open up your own description while playing the game and it says things like +10% production or somesuch.

Thanks!

Like the Captain says, I've never seen a list like that. Sounds like a project for you. I know I don't often play a race without moving around the race characteristics.

[ January 08, 2003, 15:25: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[dbt1949]

Thanks for your replys. I guess that's what I'll have to do.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by dbt1949:
Thanks for your replys. I guess that's what I'll have to do.

When you start doing it for the TDM Modpack races, you'll find out what it takes to make a race tough -- but you'll spoil all the adventure of finding out.

I remember the Arquilians, I saw them and said oh, organic -- *yawn* organic armor and weapons. Heh, they have so much aggressiveness and defensiveness they really cut me down. Who would have thought their favorite weapon was .......transmission ends

[ January 08, 2003, 22:20: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[capnq]

Where can I find a good decription of the standard races that come with the game. The manual gives a good thumbnail decription

IMO, that entire section of the manual shouldn't have been included. For me, part of the fun of the game is discovering how the different alien races behave; the manual gives too much away. Most of those "thumbnail" descriptions are lifted verbatim from the AI_General files, anyway.