Need for Re-Newable Resources (and Random Events like GCII)

Also, Do You Have To Conquer??

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1) I had a decent sized fleet. I had all of the the resource asteroids mined on my 5 systems. I don't know if scuttling a ship frees up its crystals or not, but maybe it should. At one point I lost my whole fleet in a battle. I wanted to build a new one, but I had too few crystals and I would have been an easy target for the least of the races. I took over a few planets prior to that, but their asteroids were spent. I gained very little. But I know of races that had twice as many ships as I with as many planets. Don't know how that happened. Seems like either resources can be re-newable or new ones discovered? Maybe that ability (to detect new ones) can be researched??

2) It would be cool if random events that affect you or every race could occur.

3) Do you have to play to conquer, or can you choose a peaceful but profitable existence . . . .well liked . . etc??
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
1) I think that thats the purpose of the black market, also if you develop sova carriers then they can steal up to 40%(I think) of the enemies income (resorces and money) with a manufacturing giant engaged in war you would think they would have invented replcators by now!

i agree with your other points, but with no minor races/sects not in yet there is no way to peacefully coexsist unless you really like your ally.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You can build orbital refineries.

It's a building that sends ships back and forth between asteroids.
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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
yea but they only visit planet that have a 0.1 or higher! so then u just have some dead junk floating around ur planet
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Resource amounts for Low Med and High need to be adjusted, and or add an option for Unlimited. With the games taking so long , I usually end up with a LOT of depleted resource asteroids...
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
With the games taking so long , I usually end up with a LOT of depleted resource asteroids...


Which is what refineries are for -- since their ships only visit depleted asteroids, they make depleted asteroids usable again.
I don't know if scuttling a ship frees up its crystals or not, but maybe it should.


Scuttling gives you back a fraction of all resources spent on a finished object (and 100% on unstarted projects, with the relative % of return proportional to the completion of the object).
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

The game has unlimited resources, but as Ron said, you need refineries to make use of them once the surface materials been mined out. One of the other races also has the ability to harness debris for additional resources.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
ok im unclear,

refineries mine dpepleated asteroids

Then why don't they visit some planets and others? is there a range for the ships? there are many things about the stuff too...
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
but the problem of long games in other galaxies is when your alliegence is so low that you lose a lot to that
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Then why don't they visit some planets and others? is there a range for the ships? there are many things about the stuff too...


What exactly is your problem? Your being unclear and vague, which makes it difficult to answer you accurately.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

You shouldn't just have one refinery.  You need to take into account distance, travel time and the like, then build refineries where they'll do the most good. You could even build 1 per planet if you wanted.

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
You could even build 1 per planet if you wanted.


Actually, thats pretty much what I do...
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
Hey Ron, the guy likely doesn't speak English as a first language...or he is just messing with you.
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

Hey Ron, the guy likely doesn't speak English as a first language...or he is just messing with you.


Which is why I told him he was being unclear and vague -- if he knows that, he's more likely to improve himself, or at least understand why he isn't getting any useful help.
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
Hey Ron, the guy likely doesn't speak English as a first language...or he is just messing with you.


yes english was my first language spanish being my second (sorta)

i do build refiners per planet, but the problem becomes i get no resources from the planet and they all jump to the same one to get the stuff from, and depending on the system usually very far away and i get nothing.

anothing thing will we be able to control the order the levs build in?
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
anothing thing will we be able to control the order the levs build in?


If you mean the order the structures are built, then it's whatever order you place those structures in. Unless some of them can't be built atm.