urgent questions

1] i have gas colony component and as i put it on colony ship, it still says it cant colonize gas giants. Why???
- no idea, sorry ..

2] if my race trait is one that lives on rock with no atmosphere, can i change the climate of a gas giant to no atmosphere?
- though there exist no gas giants with no atmosphere the atmosphere converter facilitie from the planet
engineering tree ( or similiar ) will certainly do it.

3] can i build a resupply depot on a ship that has more than 1000kt of space?
-no, you can not build facilities on ships .. but the stellar manipulation tree gives you a component that creates supplies, so does the resupply tree. The organic tech tree gives you a component that creates ammo.

4] what factors affect building rate? population? atmosphere? space yard?
- population amount and happyness
- space yard rate
- racial traits

- atmosphere and planet size affect the number of people your planet can carry
- planet conditions affect how fast your people reproduce and maybe happyness

5] how come i never get ancient stuff at all in my games? factors?
- bad luck

Remember : Pillage! then burn.
- Cpt. Kaff Tagon

as far as i know you cannot change a gas giant to no atmosphere ...i mean think about it, if the gas giant had no atmosphere, it would cease to be a gas giant. ice planets and rock planets you can change of course.

edit- forgive my lack of capitalization and such, i need another keyboard, heh

I have never tried to change the atmosphere of a gas giant to none ( i haven't played with no atmosphere breather yet ) .. but you can start out as gas-giant dweller with no atmosphere .. the game will create one then ( tried this one by accident ) .. so .. yes in reality it should not work, and there exist no gas giants without atmosphere .. but my guess is you can terraform them with the atmosphere converter.

Remember : Pillage! then burn.
- Cpt. Kaff Tagon

Depends on the game start rules in your game. Was the option used to limit colonization to your own homeworld planet type?

Uh .. yeah, I forgot about that one

This could be the cause

Remember : Pillage! then burn.
- Cpt. Kaff Tagon

Eeek! You found one moving?!

Research high enough in Stellar Manipulation and you'll be able to make them go away (or create them ).

No, you need to upgrade the base the same as you would upgrade a regular ship, by upgrading on the design screen and then retrofitting it.

Oh, btw, to get a planet and kill all the alien population you just glass the planet, i.e.- bombing them and continue to bomb them till they are all dead. Its usually what I do, but its not very efficient. If you don't glass the planet but use troops to capture it instead you get all the facilities they built and plus the chance at some different atmosphere breathers to undome some of your other planets via migration or manually moving them.

also if you want to stop warp points from opening/closing on you, you need to research planetry defense..well Im not sure if your using a mod or not so Im not sure I can direct you in the right way to the planatary defense research.

One thing you should do is make a game, save it do the cheat ~alltech~ and then go to the ? window and look at the stuff and see what the requirment is for everything, and because not everything is in there look at the ship design area and look at the components there and what the requirments are, also look at the research tree.

Get a feel for the game and when things come next is the research tree. Then go to your saved game and play on

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Note that the primary purpose of "supplies" is for engine and power-system fuel, not necessarily just food and air. Master-computer ships still use supplies, as do other forms of units than fighters.

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Sats = defense, in my opinion. I personally use them for blockading warp points. Fighters are what I'd perfer though out of the three for defense, and offense (mostly offense though).