Thanks a lot everyone. Tons of tremendously useful info. I see I have a lot to learn still! I'll try to practice using these abilities more.
As i'm becoming more and more familiar with the capital ship abilities some seem very useful while others seems almost pointless. Maybe i'm just missing how to effectively use these abilites and maybe someone could help me out with that! If you use these abilities a lot tell me how you use them effectively. Some I just don't understand. Advent: Rapture Class ability Vertigo: - Is this an area of affect or does it only affect one target? If it it's an area of
The research button you are referring to is Long Range Jumps. It is in the Civilian Research Under the Engineering part. You need 3 civic research stations to research it.
Yeah, as everyone else said the defense structures are more there to hamper or aid your defense. You really need a main attacking fleet and another, maybe smaller, defensive fleet. Otherwise, like you said, it takes way to long to get back and they'll walk over your defenses. You also mentioned the light frigates took out your defenses. That is because the missle ships have a larger range than the turrents so they can safely take them out from a distance without suffering damage.
Wow are you serious? hehe. First, you must have a least one research structure build. A military or economy research structure it doesn't matter which. Then, when you are in your game you press the button at the very top middle of your screen called Research (f2 hotkey) to bring up the upgrades. On the left click on Fleet Logistics. Here there are two screens upgrades sequences shown. The top upgrades increase your maximum capital ship size limit and the bottom upgrades increases your
Thanks all, good advice, except for you WileyCoyote, bad bad bad.
I played a game the other day and my opponent massed destra cruisers towards the end of the game. I outnumbered his fleet and my fleet was nicely balanced fleet but it seemed to take forever to take this guy out and it took the combined fleet of my ally's to beat him back. I was wondering what the best counter is to take out a mass of about 25 destra cruisers? I'm assuming they have to have some weakness. I had a lot of bombers but if I just build lots of b
That's a good strategy Terlanis. But my question is whether the cost and supply of 20-30 siege ships is worth it? That's not cheap! Why not just put that money and supply into building a small minor fleet and then not only do you destroy the planet you can take out defenses too? Another advantage with a small fleet is you can always have them join up with your main one if you need a big push. Siege ships aren't useful for too much else except sieging...
How is someone who doesn't have a 4 hour open time slot able to play this game online? I would like to try a multiplayer game but I can't guarantee I'd be able to stick around forever.
I guess i'm more newbish than all of you... What's x-fire?
Ah, thanks I thought so. Thanks for telling me there was a way around it. I was able to go in and figure it out and change the options again before I load the game so now I won't have 7 computer attacking me at once. hehe Thanks for the help.
I was wondering if this is a bug in the game or if i'm missing something. In the single player i've played two games where the teams are locked from the start. Since games take a while I save them and load them up later and everytime after I've loaded those games the teams are no longer locked. The game started with locked teams but once I load the game I can make alliances and people start giving me missions. Is there a fix to this or am I missing something or is this ju
Nevermind i figured it out. I didn't have .Net 2.0 installed.
I just got the game a few days ago. I was starting to wish I could have some better maps to my liking and then I discovered Galaxy Forge. I just downloaded it and I extract the files but when I try to run it, I get an error that says: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application. I have deleted it, reinstalled it many times and there really isn't much to this file so I don't understand why it won't work. I down
