New player confused about automation vs manually controlled

[rss334]

Hello, recently bought this after trying it elsewhere and it seems like a great game I'll lose many hours with. I can't seem to turn off automation though, even though through the main menu screens / option I have everything set to control manually and the main setting to expert I still have automation occurring.

Once in the game I check and everything is set to manually controlled, yet when I cancel all research, new research is starting automatically.

How can I turn automation of everything off? Thanks

[Osito]

Regarding research I do know that the AI will allocate research for you, if you don't allocate it yourself, even if you're playing with research under manual control. This seems to be working as intended. I don't think this is an issue, unless you're trying to handicap yourself by doing no research, because you can always reallocate the research yourself.

What other types of automation are still happening?

[rss334]

thanks I'm sure that is what is happening then, I turned off all research except for storage containers under high tech research. Before long armor plating and a weapon started being researched in the two categories I did not have anything active, based on your post I assume the AI turned that on because I was not researching anything in those categories.

I've not been able to play far enough in to know for sure what else, I noticed ships were being created (gas miners and freighters) but after going through the tutorial I see these are private sector ships and we don't have direct control over them.

[Osito]

That's right, you can't directly control the building and activity of the gas miners and freighters directly. However, you can control the design of the ships, and stop them being built if you delete the designs.

Good luck with the game!

[necaradan666]

ORIGINAL: Osito

Regarding research I do know that the AI will allocate research for you, if you don't allocate it yourself, even if you're playing with research under manual control. This seems to be working as intended. I don't think this is an issue, unless you're trying to handicap yourself by doing no research, because you can always reallocate the research yourself.

What other types of automation are still happening?

Does kinda suck when you're playing as Atuuk and don't want to do research.

[elliotg]

Thanks for the report.

This is fixed in the next update so that no new Research projects will be selected when Research automation is disabled.

Elliot

[ChiChester]

ok, it works

[Flinkebeinchen]

Deleting the Research Labs from your SpacePort Designs should also help avoiding unwanted Research.

[Osito]

ORIGINAL: Flinkebeinchen

Deleting the Research Labs from your SpacePort Designs should also help avoiding unwanted Research.

Are you sure about that, because, on prewarp empire at least, you seem to get a basic level of research even without a space station?

[MarQan]

Speaking of Atuuk: does anyone know whether buying tech counts towards the "conducting research" race victory condition?

[Flinkebeinchen]

ORIGINAL: Osito

ORIGINAL: Flinkebeinchen

Deleting the Research Labs from your SpacePort Designs should also help avoiding unwanted Research.

Are you sure about that, because, on prewarp empire at least, you seem to get a basic level of research even without a space station?

I dunno if you can avoid the "baseline" Research.. but that should be around 15k if I remember right and that amount shouldn't hurt much.

When you start a new game just make Research really expensive. That should help too.