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Hello all! I am still fumbling towards my first victory, and I have had some questions spring to mind: 1. Do you automatically lose the game if your home planet gets captured? 2. As a new player, should I try to colonize the planets close to me (think Mars for Earth), or hold out for those 10+ planets that my rivals always seem to scoop up? 3. Is there any way to choose the "sequence" of ships in a fleet? For example, I had a fleet of two powerful ships and one we

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I was able to get an "official" colony module by double clicking on the proper module. I guess the build values changed between the time the FAQ was written and the newest patch, as I was not able to place two hyperdrive modules on the new ship. Thanks again. Now it is time to get back to losing my first game. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/s

Hello all, I am very new to the game and I am still trying to wrap my hands around the basics of the game, and shipbuilding has been an exercise in frustration to this point. I am playing the GC2 gold edition, and I am running the current patch. I was using these instructions from a FAQ by Jason Bodine: Build a better Colony Ship. (Optional) Before leaving the colony management screen, you might want to build a faster, longer range Colony Ship.