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Hi,

I have just started a new game on PBW. It's called "Game in German". As the name suggests, it is intended as a game for german players, who do not feal comfortable enough with English to do diplomatic massages and such. Therefore all diplomatic massages will be in German, although news will be provided in both languages. Please join only if you feal good with this.

Ok, nochmal in Deutsch: Ein Spiel it BM 1.16 in Deutsch. Diplomatie und all sowas auch. Ihr müsst trotzdem SEV (die europäische Version) in englisch installiert haben, weil die VErsionen inkompatibel sind.

Now the interesting stuff:

Hi everyone. I'm new to the game and I really like it, but I still don't get a few things and I can't find everything in the manual. Anyway I hope I can get what I'm looking for in this Forum.

1, How do you mine asteroids? How do you get to that tech?

2, Is there a way to know what a tech does before researching it? Like say "Robotics". I have no idea what it does and the help menu only lists stuff if you already have them. It's difficult to make decisions if you have to choose from a list of things and you don't understand what half of them will do.

3, Is there any way to travel between systems that aren't connected by warp points? I don't see the other systems I just know there are a lot more because I'm locked into a small portion of the galaxy with no warp connection to the rest of it.

Greetings.

I'm new to the game and have an odd problem which may a newb mistake or may be a bug in the game. I'm playing a single player game, version 1.74, and have just made a few carriers and loaded them with about 50 fighters apiece. The carriers have between 8000-15000 supplies onboard. After the carriers engage in combat for the first time, they consume minimal supplies, just a few hundred. After the second combat, they have 0 supplies remaining. The carriers took no damage in combat. I send supply ships to resupply them and while I can transfer the supplies off my ships, the carrier does not seem to receive them, so I end up with a carrier still at 0 and a supply ship with 0.

Hi forum,

I got the game a time ago, but it didn't seem to work with my old machine. Or so I thought, apparently the game still as issues with my new computer.

When I scroll the galaxy view it skips, and when ships move they also skip around. The scrolling galaxy looks like a scratch table. It is horrible and it takes up more time, and it makes it difficult to scroll and to wait for the ship animations to finish.

Is there any way to fix this? I'm running the latest updated version, and I'm using a win Xp machine.

I was playing the other day and had an interesting thought.
People have oft expressed a wish for missiles to be longer range etc.
Why not completely remove the current missiles and replace them with modded drones.
Give drones 0 sector movement, make them use up 1000 supply a turn or something so they can't sit around in space indefinitely after being launched, and drop their size somewhat.
Then you have your drone launchers becoming your missile launchers, you can mix & match drone warheads as you want, and pick how much armour, ecm, etc they have, they fly the whole screen, but PD can take them down as will fighters set to intercept etc.