Well, at least it is coming, the player controlled freighter...

<r> In the beginning you have prioritize draconian. Your home planet is as a rule <U><s>[u]</s><I><s>[i]</s><B><s>[b]</s>only one<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/i]</e></I><e>[/u]</e></U>, actually able to build colony ships.<br/>
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It can do either that, build/retrofit its space port, build constructors ...

<t> The Problem, I think is, that the repair-place is far away from any civilian service, like, for example, a restriction zone.<br/>
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Without a very good reason no freighter will go there.<br/>
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And the constructor-ai is flawed in that regard that it can't do anything but wait for ...

<t> Your repair ships are, for all purposes only semi mobile yards.<br/>
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I don't know if you tweaked the design, and threw out the "useless" fabrication modules, but my guess would be that the constructor run dry on a critical resource.<br/>
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To find that out, find your constructor in ...

<t> The cap is absolute.<br/>
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But that the Ketarov steal your research... well... they are the species with the 50%-spy bonus.<br/>
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Their agents start at 150.<br/>
They still stop at 400, but still, they have what all other races would consider experienced spies fresh from the ...

<r> There is one (and only one) native planet for each race.<br/>
You can colonize any planet that you have either natives for, or the colonization-tech.<br/>
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I prefer the natives, is a bit faster.<br/>
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This native planet is defined (like so many other things) in the races.txt.<br ...

Well, now I am sure.

Only throw away works...

Too bad.

I guess the empire controlled freighter will be up far up in the wish list...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Nedrear<br/>
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I prefer the unload construction. Make a miner or grasser as an escort with and without the cargo bay and retrofit the full one back and forth to unload.
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I tried that, but it looked as if it didn't work. The ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Nedrear<br/>
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You can find alien colony ships, but you should find alien races as well. All can be independent.
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Only races that are used for the starting empires may be found as independent colonies.<br/>
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Nothing ...

AFAIK... yup.

It can happen that you stumble over an drifting colony ship.
That can maybe bring a race not already empire building here, but I am not a 100% sure.

<t> You could build the "Sith Empire"...<br/>
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Design an extremely powerfull race.<br/>
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Intelligence 150, reproduction rate 1.5, agression 75, cation 150, friendliness 30, loyality 150.<br/>
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Give them a research, a fleet maintenance, a war weariness and a satisfaction bonus ...

<t> Actually a nice Idea would be that you don't simply take over every station of an empire you vanish.<br/>
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And not every ship.<br/>
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When all is lost, they form a BSG fleet, move as many civilians and most important colony ships if one survived or constructors if not, go to a newly ...

<r> Well, I have bad news.<br/>
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1. A SSPf build by a FFR has the tendency to stay where you build it. Considering that the planet is moving that is rather bad.<br/>
That also concerns resource extractor bases and resorts.<br/>
No stations you want to hang onto a specific place.<br/>
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<t> Well, nobody forces you to use it.<br/>
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But this will allow us to better tweak custom races, so that we can either have a real flower power aliens that invite everybody in, and are friend with everybody.<br/>
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Or you want the ancient sith empire? Hated to the core. Evil ...

<t> I made a few updates after a few experiments with the editor.<br/>
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I finished the Dayur, the Ackdarian, the Haakonish and the Boskara...<br/>
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Also the reputation, the money and the government type seem to not do anything.<br/>
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I think a big part is the species family, and ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/>
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The better way is to have fun. Maybe in a world with higher difficulty settings.<br/>
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I have never seen a fight that 10 capitals of high tech would not probably win. If I don't pay attention some may die though, but at that point it ...

<t> Now, I just tested it in the quick and dirty way (editor, I designed the escort-construct, set a nearby planet colony, and placed an escort-construct beside it).<br/>
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I was not able to build a space port with it.<br/>
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But the second option (copy the SSP, declare the copy space ...

<r> If you would have read my last post... well I did built the space ports by constructor in an earlier version, where it was obviously considered a bug.<br/>
Most probably a combination of my hardware, OS, drivers and other programs installed and running creating it.<br/>
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It doesn't work ...

<r> Why guess?<br/>
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Let's make it right once and for all:<br/>
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I made a <LINK link="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=de&hl=de&key=0Au2R2EVjf8ZddFNQNXJTN2RDSGg4VWdpRDNZWE1vQ0E&single=true&gid=0&output=html"><s>[link=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=de&hl=de&key ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: feelotraveller<br/>
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@ GelatinousCube. You don't find pirates at independent worlds? Or space creatures in the system (oh ardilus I love you...)?<br/>
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It is pretty infrequent but a colony ship is a major investment, and its cargo is very important ...