Hello,

Star Marine Barracks are considered Crew Systems by the upgrade Routine when Crew Systems v2 is not already researched.

Abandoned Ship explodes after Investigation, but Info system says its captured and needs repair. Hard to repair scrap parts

Ok, will report it. Thanks.

So, I found a abandoned Destroyer, and after investiagation it explodes. The Info system says, I captured it and it needs repairs. WTF. Is it chance based or what is happening here?

<r> Here is a look of the proud of my fleet, the Agamemnon class<br/>
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I´m with you. It bugs me to make it manual, but the results of auto taxation make me mad.[:D]

I think regarding troop recruitment it would bug you constantly. I got no clue why it isn´t available for Research and taxes.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jpwrunyan<br/>
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Wait, why wouldnt I just stick more fuel tanks on my explorer ships? Just reduce the number of times they need to refuel. Are they going to go that remotely into space?
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I use a special explorer for long ...

That would be very nice, or how it is in Sword of the Stars. I mean randomized tech tree with some core techs everyone becomes.

My mining bases had with starting tech 800 shields, 3 maxon blaster and 2 extractors each. It annoys me to rebuild them every 3 weeks.

The racial techs are, where I am after. What I cant get trough spying, I will get trough trading.

The Dhayyut Velocity drive is always top of my prority list.

Ah, ok. I control retrofit the ships myself, because I have bad memories about the ai letting do this on the smallest spaceport it can find

As far as I know there are 3 superweapon techs to find. The super laser, the devastator pulse and the death ray.

I don´t see what is hindering you to use custom designs in automated fleets...?

It only increase the hyperspeed if one reactor hasn´t enough power for maximum hyperspeed, the max speed of the hyper tech is untouched.

wohoo, that a very good thing, i love to design ships

A quick note for all'ya: You get the devastator pulse from ruins, so it may inevitably to get it, if you search those ruins...

<r> The silvermister is an extreme design, i post a destroyer to compare.<br/>
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Also, the curve scales to energy usage, so at sprint it tooks 352 energy, at hyperspeed 64, so it turns down.<br/>
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And with shields, yeah, thats also the reason why it has one phaser cannon. I had some ...

<r> Here is my silvermist destroyer design from the year 2785<br/>
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As you can see, i looked energy wise for a coverage of sprint energy use + weapon energy use, but it was too much.[:D]<br/>
But 8 of them + a 683 size carrier did the trick. <E>;)</E><br/>
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For private ships it is not a wise idea to put 2 reactors on them, because of the fuel consumption. I would strongly suggest to research the first fission upgrade, it doesn´t cost much and it will be immedeatly applied to all existing ships.