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Doesn't matter to me HOW I get to play just as long as I get to play on THE DAY!! great news!!

There was a good question asked earlier in this thread and I did not see it answered....Will the pre-orders ARRIVE on the launch date or will they be shipped that day? waiting is one thing, but while others are playing the real thing is TORTURE!!

ahh, skybox was the term I was looking for. Thanks!

I want to apologize in advance if this has already been discussed, but I couldn't search for this topic because I don't know the name of the effect, but here goes.... I have noticed that in certain star systems I am unable to see my ships when I zoom into a planet. It was most noticable when the sky was green. I could see the structures and defenses, but my ships were not backlit, or highlited, or whatever, as I zoomed in. This made it extremely difficult to micromanage a battle ;)<b

I did see that, but I haven't done it....arg

Fleet points is another thing I have to get used to. Right now I just look at the ships running around, but I need to be able to look at the types of ships and be able to know the costs in FPs and resources etc....

[quote]It is, however, very easy to hurt him militarily by taking over a few planets (or at least bombarding them, even if you can't recolonize because of influence), since at those stages most planets are fully upgraded for fleet supply, and losing several planets (unless they're all dead rocks, or mostly asteroids) will be a pretty huge blow to the max number of ships that player can deploy[/quote] This is exactly what I was going for, but I sure didn't see that I had accomplished it.

Ok, so I have been playing for almost a week and patting myself about how awesome I am at defeating the horribly weak AI even on HARD! That is right I am the man!! (kidding of course) Anyway, so I am playing the huge random map with 10 players. I dominate my local star and am well on my way to being master of all survey.... OOOPS How do you assault into the other star systems? Ok, so I held my my star killing most comers and am ready to go to the next system while defending

Thanks guys! This helps a lot!!

I totally get what you are saying. I guess that was kind of my point as well. If there could be just one more step after choosing auto-placement like civilian structures only, or by designating formations, or something else like that would be great..

Hey, new guy posting again. I was wondering if there is a thread somewhere that I could read that described the different ships. I have very limited time to play and when I do I am to busy running around trying win (yes, I know the AI is a joke, but I have low self esteem!) Anyway, I would like to have something to glance at during the day when I am "working". Thanks in advance!

The exact reason I started the post! It is agony watching the fleet fly past or around your cobbled together, AI placed, defensive emplacements! My fault for being lazy! However, I am currently playing a 10 faction game in the random huge map, and am really enjoying the manual placement!

[quote]I mean something along those lines will have to exist when the enemy ai decides how to place structures[/quote] This is a great point! However, as the AI currently sits it doesn't handle building placement for the other empires any better..

dont forget the emp weapons. Don't kill anyone or anything but knock out electronics....

Ya, I would prefer something defferent then the above. Like an opening scene and ending one, but everything in the middle would be free for all. I am not a big fan of mission driven games, but something other then me just doing a random map everytime I want to play...

Good point. However, I was a bit disappointed to find out there may not be much of a campaign. I am not much into multiplayer(not enough time in one sitting) so the campaign is usually what I need from the game! So, my stomach churned a bit at that knowledge. Still, overall, the game is awesome!

GREAT! more things to obsess over between now and February! Like I didn't have enough to think about with this game! I think this pre-order/beta thing is great but there is something that worries me... Will the actual game leave me dissappointed after dreaming(not obsessing about it:)) for so long? Otherwise, I am about to start posting on other unreleased game sites that they need to use this model for their games!!!

I still like the spread out way of thinking. However, it has its downsides. In the game last night I had one jump lane into my home world that led to a star. So, this was the avenue of attack for my enemies. I set up missle defenses, overlapping fields of fire, at the furthest distant out planet. This worked great and I thought I was a genius. However, a pirate raid sped right past those outer defenses and took out my trade center before I could get missle defenses on the closet edge to pl

Are these mobile planet attackers or definsive weapons? If someone could just send me some prvious post I would like to check it out....

Well, I began a game last night where I placed every structure (I had to fight my lazy tendancy!) and I really enjoyed it better. Nothing like spacing your missle defenses out for the unsuspecting invaders to taste when they jump in system! So, the moral of the story is don't be lazy!

Hey, This is my first post so here goes: I really enjoy the autoplacement feature of orbital structures, as it cuts down on the micro managing of the game. However, the AI is horrible when it comes to placeing defensive weapon structures in my opnion. I was wondering if this could be made better. I am not asking for some major overhaul. I was thinking more along the lines of an option when the AutoPlacement button is pressed. You would be promted for Full Auto or Limited A