Few noob questions

I am not sure how it works quite with Stock and the ballence Mod but this is definatly the case with the IRM

apart from it increasing or decreasing you population the main diference is caused by what atmosphere the migrants breath. It is posible by manipulating things so that planets are only inhabited by people who can breathe its atmosphere to change domed colenies into open ones. This increases the capacity of the colony a great deal. for example a tiny world in the IRM has 2,000 KT of facility space the same one with a breathable atmosphere has 8,000kt the figures are diferent in stock and the balence mod bu the principle remains

appart from under the ? game cyclopedia no and I have not yet found a comparision chart as there was in SEIV

yes but not always effectivly owing tho the lesser damage of fighter weapons

I leave that to others

if you have tl6 in an area you give the other participant in the treaty tl4 in that area which is two less than you have at the moment. Also every time you gain a tech level they gain one but remain two behind you.

Not sure never tried

look under the spanner menu and set the lay out for construction that will show whats at the top of the construction queues of all your colonys and how long that will take to finish

yes fighters fly on the system map as a fighter group but cant warp as well in the stock game

Hope that helps

1) That's about it. More population also gives you more militia if you get invaded and (I think) gives the planets more hit points in combat.

2) There's no real consequence to mixed population, unless one of the races can't breathe the atmosphere, then the colony will be considered domed, even if you have 1M population that can't breathe it, and 999M that can. But having two oxygen breathing races on the same planet, for example, has no real effect on anything else.

3) You can't, unfortunately. Unless you have ship designs that have armor levels 1 2 3 or 4 on them. Email se5(at)malfador.com to bug Aaron about this, it's something we've been asking him for a long time.

4) Yep.

5) Not really sure on this one. The AI always ends up mad at me no matter what I do. Best thing is to just stay out of the AIs space, agree to their demands, and hope for the best.

6) If you're sharing techs that are 2 levels old, it basically means that if you have tech level 3 in something, you give your partner tech level 1. Or if you have tech level 10, you give your partner tech level 8. Basically, you share all of your technologies at 2 levels lower tech than what you have at present.

7) I don't think so, but I've never tried.

That's exactly what it means.

9) No. Again, se5(at)malfador.com to bug Aaron about a feature we all want.

10) Fighters can do pretty much anything a ship can do on the main map except warp.

Suction feet are not to be trifled with!

I just tested this one in the combat simulator, and from what I can tell, no you cannot target missiles manually.

Suction feet are not to be trifled with!

The minister in the BM works well for this as you can set it up and forget about it, the IRM minister also works but gets confused at the moment as to what the latest version of a ship is but that should be fixed soon. Not sure about ministers in stock as I dont play it that much.

How does the minister decide what to retrofit to anyway? In my current IRM game I've got five different types of frigates (attack, defense, unit hunter, scout and gunship) and I'd like it to retrofit old attack ships to the newer attack ships (ditto for the other types). Is that how it works or is it likely to just retrofit them to any type at the moment?

at the moment the IRM minister will refit any ship as the newest of that hull type but its suposed to refit obselete designs to the curent version of that design and hull size. Ie scouts should be refited as scouts archers as archers etc. This I am sure will be fixed shortly. As FH's bug hunter is on the case

1) From the sounds of it, that's a bug alright. I thought it had been squished, but I guess not.

2) Yes, the AI does get a bit angry with you for colonizing in their systems, unless you have a treaty that allows it. If they colonize in your system, most of the time I just ignore it, unless I'm ready for a war anyway, then that planet becomes target number one.

3) As for the AI colonizing your systems, you just have to try to get it to accept a treaty that prevents it from doing so. Either that, or capture/destroy their colony ships, though the AI gets a bit annoyed at that.

Suction feet are not to be trifled with!

I always have a strange form of bloodlust pop up when a computer colonizes in my systems....
~Myrath

What triggers this action?

I have 1.33 (Upgraded from 1.25) playing BM (1.05 after copy/paste settings.txt from 1.04).

I have fighters that move to a planet that has no defense on the planet and I cant get the fighters to attack the population/facilities during the tactical battles.

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Dont stand neutral between the fire and the fire brigade.

In this game fighters are not made for athmospheric re-entry: You have to load them on transports and drop as troops. (Battlestar Galactica rules! )

BTW that would be a great addition to the game if fighters could "capture planets" in space combat!

dighton, you sure your fighters have the correct weapon to be able to attack the planet??
check on the stats of weapons if it can target planet....not sure if there are extra targets abilitys for population and facilitys.

the fighters which where armed with small missiles carryed on to attack the planet after they had dealt with the orbiting defence saterlites.

did you check with ordinance?? maybe they ran out of ammo?

1) Hit Ctrl+E

2) Select some ships

3) Select the design you want all selected ships to be retrofitted to

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add to above

4 wait for them all to be repaired which will take several turns with that number and more if the shipyard is low tech and the refit is extensive

you can refit multiple ships at the same time provided they are A in the same place B to be refited to the same design but you would have to cycle through your shipyard sites to do all of them.

The only automatic way is to use your refit minister which will do the job at about the same speed as ships get recalled to a world with a space port.

look on the empires menu at the top of the system screens (has a crown Icon) if you click on that you will see a screen with a number of features but down the left hand side are a set of empire options look down that till you find ministers. Its somewhere in the middle select that and you will get a list of minister functions. Select the top two in that list (which you have to, to give the minister the control of you ships when it’s needed) and then further down select the refit (all) minister. Then quit back to the main screens and you minister will now be working.

Note Sentried ships will not be refitted as the orders the refit minister gives to move ships to a planet with a space yard to refit don’t cancel the sentry order.

The IRM refit minister works but will convert all your frigates to the latest version regardless of type but 0.9d will fix that and may still have some other similar quirks in 0.8x would do the same with colony ships as well annoying when you had all three techs and where trying to back fill uncolenised but now available worlds

Hope that helps

There are bonuses and penaltys to reserch from society government and racial abillity choices. I think these would likly account for the +400 points if not if your people are happy you get a bonus to all sorts of production for keeping them that way.

Go read the "Abilities" section of a planet. It'll tell you how much boost you're getting from happiness and population amount, as well as society/government/racial boosts.

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