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All capital ships are carriers. That is, they all produce fighters that live in their hanger bays. The fighter capacity varies from ship to ship and can be increased through upgrades and such. "The" carrier probably just has a larger capacity than most other cap ships and lacks much in the way of other weaponry. Last I heard, there were 3 classes of fighter: interceptors, bombers, and gunships though there was talk of removing the gunship. You detirmine how many of each by setting a rat

As Multianna said, each race will have a primary and a secondary resource. And your secondary resource is another race's primary (that would mean 3 total right?). This ensures competition for resources. There is also money which can be used to purchase resources on the market I believe. And then you have antimatter which is basically your ship's power but I wouldn't count that as a resource because your ships generate this on their own over time.

its plain out bs. its got no supporting evidence whatsoever. If there was proof then it wouldn't be called "religion." Faith is, by definition, accepting something without proof.

I've never beta tested a game but I did beta test Packet Tracer 4. It's a program by Cisco that basically allows you to simulate setting up and configuring all the hardware that goes into LANs and WANs such as switches and routers. Was a lot of fun playing with that thing trying to break it or find cases where a switch or router didn't behave as it should when configured a certain way.

thats why I have no doubts in saying that the Earth was MORE than tailored to our needs. I mean, is it really nescessary to have a molten core? sure, its nescessary now. but I dont think it was billions of years ago during the creation of life then Earth was mostly molten anyhow. see, this is one of the reasons I'm agnostic and not athiest. theres just too mu

the maps aren't joined by wide spaces, they are discrete sections. I don't think that is right. I have heard Blair say over and over that the game environment is totally continuous. Though the system warns you when

you implied that in saying that I forget that most planets are frozen inside which I implied I knew by pointing out an indirect fact taht would indicate that we are special in having a viscous mantle. Mars used to but doesn't anymore. It has cooled as Emp said. Evidence? Olympus Mons. The biggest volcano in the solar system.

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And it was a cinematic trailer that may not be representative of typical gameplay.

I'm going for the Advent. I've said this before on the old old boards but here goes again: they seem to be in the strongest position. The TEC are fighting for their lives and the Vasari are running for their lives and are endangered by the delay they are facing. But not the Advent. No, no. The Advent are just here to kick some TEC ass. They aren't worried about imminent destruction like the other two.

Here's something interesting Linkey link Of course it is possible that it is just a trick of the light or something that the wind blew in but still, the possibility is fascinating. If it is water that trickled out then that would suggest that some sort of aquifer exists beneath the surface. And if there is liquid water then there is the possibility that there is something living in it (probably just some microbe at bes

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what is "reasonable proof" gassing your own people so that you dont seem like a weakling nation that you are is something I see as proof enough. If this is the event that I think it is then it was done on accident. I believe the idea was to drive out the hostage takers with something like tear gas but because of poor ventilation or something i

Chicks. No seriously, "stuff" is an indication of status. i.e. we can afford it. The "evolutionary psychological basis" is that those who can gather more stuff must be better and are therefore more desirable as mates. Or it could be that we are just the only ones capable of doing it. Think about it, what other creature can make "stuff." Squirrels gather nuts and stuff and stash those away, does that count? Dogs bury bones, does that count? No other creature has access

and I'm not kidding about that, our biggest success in making organs has been two bean sized cancers that were supposed to be kidneys. Wrong. From the December 06 issue of Popular Science: "Atla and his colleagues have created bladders from scratch, clearing one of the biggest hurdles in tissue engineering: growing a real human organ in the lab a

I think the basebuilding aspect is more abstracted like you would find in a turn based game. Of course, in this game, your "base" is a whole planet.

Then again is a fleet ever really "done?" Do you hit a certain size where you say "ok that's enough" or do you want to keep increasing it's power as resources allow? I believe that there is a way to automatically send new ships somewhere ("dynamic rallypoints" is the term they used I think) so a simple build queue combined with that feature might accomplish what you have in mind. Great idea though if you DO have a discrete fleet size in mind.

I seriously doubt it for three reasons: 1. As they gain experience they get upgraded and such so they will grow more powerful. 2. You are going to have more of them than the big ships. They are less expensive so you can build hordes of them. 3. Special abilities. Some smaller ships may have useful special abilities that the bigger ships don't have. And fighters, of course, will never be obsolete because your capital ships produce them so the more cap ships you have then

I didn't necessarily mean testing the game engine itself. Perhaps I'm just curious. How many antimatter rubber chickens does it take to blow a hole through a Kol Battleship? How many extra if I use the shielding or armor special abilities? If I can spawn an enemy Kol then I can quickly and easily find out rather than have to wait for the enemy to send one against me for some 1 on 1 action (which might never happen). Sorry if my appalling noobishness and inferior intellect offends you, M

They are desperately trying to hand it over to private business. Ever hear of the X-prize? Spaceship One? The thing with space exploration is that it is EXPENSIVE. It costs about $450 million dollars for a space shuttle mission. They are trying to encourage private research and development so that private businesses can take over that cost and try to turn a profit doing it. I think the plan with spaceship one (or its successors) is to charge passengers for a quick ride to space.

Hit that one several times too. Seems to be intermittent. Click the link once and get the error. Hit 'back' and click it again and it'll work.

Every time I try to get the the forums from a link to the main page I get a screen that says "The Stardock Forums are currently down for maintenance. They will return shortly." Along with the Stardock logo. I have to link in from a link that points at a page other than the homepage (I've been using the one about the new screenshot on the sinsofasolarempire.com homepage. They seem to be working fine but the mainpage just gives me trouble. This has been going on for several days now. Is anyone

I'm sure they'll explain everything when the time comes.

Space, a fun place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Imagine a rainy day, a really really rainy day where it was really cold too. Whether so bad that you can't go outside (or really really don't want to). So you have to stay inside all the time. Don't you hate days like that? Well, that is what living on a space station or moon colony would be like - every day! I think that the novelty would wear off pretty quickly. I like being where I can go outside and go hiking, or for a run. Wher

*adds to the drool puddle forming around Multianna*