Uranium - 235

This seems to be a good place to ask for help on a particular ship design. I'm trying to, more or less, 'copy' the Haulmaster long-range freighter pictured in the second post of this thread, in the sense that I'm trying to design a ship with a very large, flat hull. I just can't wrap my mind around the right parts I need to get all those flat beams connected as they are in the picture. Does anyone have any theories? I PMed Bingjack about it, but I'm curious as to what others have in mind. <b

There is happily a very easy answer to this. They're hostile environments. Unless you have the colonization tech appropriate for the planet, you'll get zero benefit from them.

Odd, didn't see those before... Okay, next question. The starbases in question are all prefixed with S0 - are you telling me that all this time all races have used the same starbase models and I've never noticed? If I prefix them with EN_ for my custom appearance they won't work, will they.

I've hammered through 'Search' and haven't found much (actually, I haven't found ANYTHING). I know it's possible, but I just don't know HOW one creates custom starbases. From what I've gathered it's a matter of renaming an existing shipcfg file, but I'm at a loss as to what said naming schema is.

The whole AI cheating amongst itself really pisses me off, because unless you're playing Isolationist or Adapter, it's not terribly uncommon to suddenly see waves of colony ships from all over pour into your little corner of the galaxy trying to grab any sort of obscure 'bad' world. Given how relatively difficult those techs are to research (they're fairly expensive and to get more then one or two requires a significant moratorium on your research while you invest considerable time grabbing thos

Also seeing rare improvement tiles. Occasionally on my home planet I'll get a HEAP of tiles and very rarely I'll colonize a planet which also has a heap. But for the most part, even grabbing class 15+ planets they'll all very boring without bonuses, whereas in DL having a high-class planet would almost guarantee at least a couple bonus tiles...

How the hell do you neutralize spies then? Maybe that what I don't get about this..

Also you can spy on him before he spies on you. If he's spending all his money nullifying your spies, he won't be plopping down any on your planets. Can you explain that part for me? I'm not clear on how Espionage works now, or what that means. I just know that no matter WHO I'm playing against - Terrans, Drengin, etc. they ALWAYS neutralize my spies in three turns or less.

Hm. Would be nice to be able to set my own custom appearance just to save time obsoleting the 'default' crap it gives you every few upgrades you get. My custom race has their own ships already designed for the most part. *Nudge nudge* EDIT: Wait, I see how it works now. Kinda counter-intuitive if you ask me, but I guess it does what I want.

Why is this always grayed out? How does it work?

They shouldn't surrender to their Allies AT ALL. Really now. In World War 2, when Hitler took Paris, did the French say "Fuck it - England, you take our tanks and guns and fight our war, we're going to to Galapagos for a few months. Let us know how it turns out."? Doesn't the term 'surrender' mean 'giving up to your enemy' anyway? What the crap.