uhm, when you gave the ships to them, have they been near the akillians planet. It sounds like the ships are out of the akillians range.

When gifting ships you have to 'bring' it to them before they can take control, as was stated, it was probably out of their range. If you park it right next to their planet though, they will use it pretty much immediately.

I've noticed that when my survey ship goes thru a wormhole and ends up out of range, I have to remember to move the ship each turn until it's back within range. Even if it's set to auto-explore, auto-survey, or just set to move to a waypoint, the ship will just stay in place.

or you can avoid the wormhole altogether.



i think it's more like the akillians didn't know what to do with them, they build no military and if you check their states the only bonus they have is economic. the terrans left a battleship right next to their planet, orginaly it was heading for the yor but they signed a peace treaty and it stopped and didn't move it until war was declared on the thalan.

So the game is really random. brillient huh.

It would be nice if they did, drengin are pissing me off latly. bloody ape looking creature things dont give me a moments peace and they were ment to be my allies till the turned on me.

Probably part of their conquest strategy called "PLAN: PITA" wherein they do various things to simply annoy the shit out of you. Highlights of PLAN: PITA include sending colony ships to scoop up obscure class-1 worlds you missed in the heart of your civilization for no damn good reason, move an entire wing of 1 parsec/turn fighters slowly and arduously through your territory so they get in the way and block everything, and harassing you with crappy trade offers, but treat any obscure tech you want from THEM like weapons-grade Plutonium.

hell the terrans must either be incredably brave or stupid, they saw what i did to the drengin when they decared war on me.

i was out gunned, out numbered, they lost all battles that came between us.

  Commander: you cant just go round fighting aliens

  LostHero: well they put up a good fight for a superior race

  Commander: THEY WERE WHAT!

  LostHero: Weren't superior for long, i killed them off.

he he he, they sure regreted it. they did ask for a peace treaty but i rejected them and killed them off. i'm a bad, bad man.  

Thanks for all the help...

I got one thing wrong, they were the 'Andians'.

I was trading with them since they were in my territory and they had tonns of money as a result of my trade. I did not want to loose them to a majour race since my influence would soon destroy my trade! and i already had tonns of trading starbases set up.

They were at war with the Alterians and still could not move any of the ships i gave them, however they could move their own ships. Also the Alterians had heaps of fleets in the area but did not hunt down the ships i gave very agressively at all?? there would be like 3 Alterian fleets sitting right next to a ship i gave over, and it would take them like 10 turns to decide to attack it?

I ended up deciding to surround the Andians with my own ships to prevent them being taken over. Once the Andians got surrounded, the Alterian fleets became innactive, which is normal behaviour. I continued selling ships to the Andians untill they were powerful enough to gain a peace treaty with the Alterians.

Next the Andians declared war on a weak majour race,, and with their planet now unblocked, they sent out invasion fleets... however they still did not move any of the ships i gave them???

After returning to play the next day, i loaded the game and that triggered another strange event... All the ships i gave to the Andians magically teleported themselves into two squares and formed fleets! Then they continued to be stuck in that location, even after going to war with the powerful Drengin empire!!?

?... do you mean that they are the same picture but different colour? coz that can be changed.

i have... most have the same basic picture, just different colours. some are unique like the Dark Yor, Snilth and carnoinians.