This may seem like an embarassingly dumb question but I'm completely
new to this game and need help understanding how the mp's and tp's work.
I see shields, hammer and flask icons appear in planets stats,
and I realise how these are produced. However I'm a bit lost
as to how to use them.
In the manual it says:
'A ship’s cost is the number of shields of Military Production that will
have to accumulate at a colony in order for that colony’s Star Port
to construct the ship'.
But when I go to build a ship I see no cost in shields only
cost in bc's. I don't see where or how the hammer and flask
icons are used either. And why are the shields 'dulled out' on
some of my colonies?
One more question, I build a simple new design in ship builder give it
a beam weapon and a couple of engines. I can then build this ship
in game and see that it has beam weapon attack etc. When I go to
upgrade this ship and add a new weapon type my original beam weapon
is missing?
Sorry for the dumb questions but any help in clearing
things up appreciated.
