Mothership combat

[Adavid]

Just started playing the game, and a few questions/problems came up.
1) When a ship carring fighters launches them, it just hangs around and does nothing, even if it's equipped with weapons. I can't access it, to fire it's weapons, and it's annoying, because the plan is to attack, while the enemy is distracted.

2) How do you get the Adv Tech artifact to work. It's always greyed out.

This is a great game, and will occupy way too much of my time.

[EricLarsen]

Adavid,
I'm just guessing but it seems like the "mothership" is busy supervising her fighters and doesn't bother with attacking with her own weapons. Plus fighters take up manpower so it might be that the fighters are kind of diminishing the navy personnel and now the ship's "first shot" capability is gone and the enemy is getting in the first shots. I'm not really sure as I didn't think fighters looked like much of a good deal. So far in my games I've seen the enemy use them against me and all I do is laugh while my ships blow them out of my sky.

If you want to launch something from your "mothership" try standoff weapons, they're awesome. My ships usually fire off 3 anti-matter standoffs and swoosh away goes trouble down the drain.

Just bring the advanced research artifacts to your world and it goes to work automatically. You don't have to activate them like some of the other artifacts. I'm not sure if you should bring one to each world as I'm not yet sure if they have some cumulative effect and I've yet to see my advisors mention it. Hopefully someone else more in the know will be able to help us out on that one.
Eric Larsen

[dragoniv]

Advance research artifacts allow you to research advanced versions of weapon technologies, too, I believe. Once you research an advanced radiation wave, for example, I think it "uses up" one of your artifacts and it goes bye-bye.