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Hello all

I had this problem once before I believe during the 1.33 upgrade. I am currently running at 1.58.
The problem arose both times when I'm weeks into the game. when checking the News log after a turn and scrolling through all the events I tried to click on one I needed to deal with, I get the noise of the click through, however nothing happens. And that is now with any of the events. I also tried using the "goto" button, but it is frozen as well.

Any ideas?

What other objects can be added at map creation? Specifically I'd like to add ring worlds and sphere worlds.

I'd like to make a quadrant that has strings of systems radiating out from one central hub. In this hub system is a sphereworld.

I've been playing with the Borg ship set(as in using it, not fiddling with it) and I've made a small sphere ship used to board and capture enemy ships. My design for these ships has evolved. Initially, I realized in the simulator that enemy ships could outrun(actually keep pace) my ships but outrun the boarding party shuttle. So I got better engines, but they were still outrunning the boarding party. To compensate for that, I added tractor beams. That solved the problem nicely, the ships might start to pull ahead, but then the sphere would draw them back into range giving the shuttled boarding party a chance to board the enemy ship.

Is it now possible to restrict Facilities to a certain planet size? IE...I want a structure to only be available on Tiny planets for example.

I did not notice before that the different ship pictures do not have the same number of armor slots. I was comparing my Battleship to my opponents and low and behold his ship had 24 armor slots to my 18. I thought the different ship pictures were just for show. DOH!

Caius

Most likely the answer for this is no but I'm going to find out anyway. As I'm often saying one of the things I liked from IV that isn't in V is the ship levels.. ie: light, medium and heavy varients of the ship types. So I got to wondering, is it possible to have multiple ships in the same group. In other words, when I go to the creater to make a new ship I could have a choice of 2 or 3 designs for say frigates. I miss the variety.... espcially with figheters!

I've been working with the system type data file and have noticed that the total objects listed in the Number of System Objects are not all present. If in one system type you have 13 objects, say only 12 are present.
Any reason for this or is there a specific order in which the game fills the rings and if all is occupied skips the rest?