<t> Empire Navigation Tool: Potential Colonies - name turns to a particular color when you've selected it for colonization. Allows a quick scan to see how many upcoming colonies you'll have.<br/>
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Empire Navigation Tool: Include Colony Ships (perhaps under Explorers button) so you can see ...

Love this mod, but I think there's an error in the help folder (for resources). You have entries for Korabbian Spice and Korrabian Spice. I believe the 1r/2b version is the correct spelling.

<t> Thanks Aeson, that was handy info -- didn't know I could use the editor to make a ship switch teams. So I tried out your suggestion and took a look inside the ai ship as the battle was going on. The Trace Scanner is accurate -- good to know that. And the damage is done to ship armor. After about ...

<t> Thanks Aeson. I took your suggestion and reversed the roles. The AI railgun destroyed components on my ship one by one -- and in some cases, two at a time. Armor was destroyed first and, only then, other components appeared to be destroyed at random. The ship was destroyed when the last ...

<t> While testing some ship weapons using the game editor, I began to notice that ships equipped with rail guns were destroying other ships rather quickly. I remembered an advantage of rail guns is that they partially bypass shields and wondered about the frequency. <br/>
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This quick study ...

<t> All valid points. I thought about including size instead of DPS, but frankly I'm a little dense and have trouble interpreting damage per second per size in real terms. But I have thought about how gun size and energy requirements fit in and really both of these come down to the effect on size ...

<t> Just finished my first game last night so consider the source in these comments...<br/>
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Put together my own spreadsheet (attached) to help me understand weapons better and it seems to support many of the comments already made in this topic. I looked at damage by type of engagement (point ...

<t> So if my understanding of the definitions is correct, would you select based mainly on your weapon:<br/>
Missiles, phasers and fighters - standoff (because no dmg loss over range)<br/>
Railguns - point blank because of short range<br/>
Standard beams?<br/>
Torps?<br/>
Ion cannons?<br ...

<t> New and still blundering through the game...<br/>
I'd like to better understand the attack strategy settings on the design screen for stronger vs weaker opponents: <br/>
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I assume that evade isn't a setting I should consider for a military ship and that, when set to evade, a ship will ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>It doesn't really matter. The main reason to choose one type of bomber over the other is which type of long-range weapon you're developing - if missiles, then use missile bombers. If torpedoes, then use torpedo bombers. Otherwise, you'll have to research techs that you weren ...

<t> Beams and torps are also good stand-off weapons (range similar to fighters/bombers), but hadn't considered the alternate target concept. Good point. So now I've got another research area diverting me from those maxed out Titan Beams!<br/>
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Unless I read it wrong, missile bombers have ...

<t> New to the game and trying to understand:<br/>
1) Why would you choose Fighters/Bombers instead of only using beams or torps? For ex., beams have similar range and dmg but faster fire rate and faster speed vs a bomber. There must be an advantage to adding F/B to the mix that I'm missing.<br ...

Thanks to all for your help. The level of detail makes this game really interesting! I love the micromanagement aspects. What's frustrating is the lack of information about how the game works -- but I've found this forum extremely helpful.

<t> You've probably figured out by now that I'm new to this game. Aeson, I think I understand your explanation. So, in your example, I would need 250 excess reactor capacity in order to continuously fire 5 weapons simultaneously? Though this wouldn't cover shield regen (though I think I read that ...

Thanks for the help, Nanaki.

<t> Most (all?) bases (like starports, research stations, etc) require that fuel cells are added. On a ship, fuel cells extend range, but what does a fuel cell do on a base? And how do I decide how many to add? On the right side of the design screen I see energy storage increasing as I add fuel ...

Wow, really useful! Thanks Aeson for the quick and thorough reply.

<t> I don't understand the research area "Colonization" vs "Continental Colonization" (CC). I just tested in my current game and I can build a basic colony module for my colony ships with "Colonization". I can then colonize a continental planet in my system -- without the need for CC. So then I ...