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| Chilestuff | Greetings denizens | 00:09 |
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| Chilestuff | Is anyone alive for advice? | 00:10 |
| Chilestuff | Awake? | 00:10 |
| Chilestuff | Aware? | 00:10 |
| Chilestuff | Sentient? | 00:10 |
| Chilestuff | Of course not ... everyone who would play this game would all be out with supermodels on a saturday night ... | 00:12 |
| Chilestuff | Silly me | 00:12 |
| Chilestuff | ;p | 00:12 |
| Sector | Ah, who needs a supermodel? | 00:12 |
| Chilestuff | lol | 00:12 |
| Chilestuff | Howdy Sector | 00:13 |
| Sector | Hello | 00:13 |
| Chilestuff | Can you help a total newb? | 00:13 |
| Sector | I dunno, what did you need help with? | 00:13 |
| Chilestuff | Meaning I just Dld the game and have never played even the old game | 00:13 |
| Chilestuff | Well asteroids for one ... of what use are they? | 00:14 |
| Chilestuff | And tech research advice would be helpful | 00:14 |
| Chilestuff | And ship design ... | 00:14 |
| Chilestuff | I have a list :) | 00:14 |
| Sector | This could be a good starting point: http://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=9954&sid=ac3167b6a0f968ff4ac5c9fe39431e86 | 00:14 |
| tpb | Title: FreeOrion View topic - My personal strategy guide (at www.freeorion.org) | 00:14 |
| Chilestuff | Yeah I saw the wiki, but it is less than specific | 00:15 |
| Chilestuff | Oh thanks | 00:15 |
| Sector | As for research, depends on what route you want to take. Subterranean Habitation can help at the start as it will allow you to colonize more types of planets. | 00:16 |
| Chilestuff | eah I kinda stumbled into that one :) | 00:16 |
| Chilestuff | What about weapons and such | 00:17 |
| Chilestuff | Monsters SUK | 00:17 |
| Sector | Domesticated Mega-Fauna is only useful if you have some monster nests around you, but doesn't take a lot to research. Just have to put an outpost where the nest is and have that technology to start gaining some monsters that eventually grow into more powerful ones if left where they like (such as Krakens around a gas giant). | 00:17 |
| Chilestuff | Only monters I find seem to belong to other races | 00:18 |
| Sector | Weapons are of course useful. But needs will vary, may not need any right away if you don't have any AI's nearby, but could be useful in dealing with some monsters as well. | 00:18 |
| Chilestuff | Maybe I need to find the right seed ... I ALWAYS have AIs nearby | 00:18 |
| Sector | Depending on galaxy setup, may be up to three types of monster nests (Kraken (gas giant), Juggernaught (asteroid field) or Snowflake (small planets). | 00:19 |
| Chilestuff | Can I "mine" or otherwise exploit the asteroids, and if so how? | 00:19 |
| Sector | Usually don't find all three present in one game. But if the AI's have some monsters there are some nests somewhere. | 00:19 |
| Chilestuff | So I have to outpost those locations and tech mega fauna to get them? | 00:20 |
| Sector | Exobots can colonize asteroid fields, there's also Artificial Planet which can turn asteroid fields into a tiny planet. | 00:20 |
| Sector | Yup. | 00:20 |
| Chilestuff | Ahj | 00:20 |
| Chilestuff | %$%$ | 00:20 |
| Chilestuff | Sorry, I suffer from terminal FFS | 00:20 |
| Sector | Where there is a nest, most wont have a nest, though sometimes you can even find two nests in the same system. | 00:21 |
| Chilestuff | I haven't seen any nests, but you say they don't need to be there to capture monsters? | 00:22 |
| Sector | You need to have an outpost or a colony at a system with a nest. | 00:23 |
| Chilestuff | So asteroids are only good for exobots and catching monsters? | 00:23 |
| Chilestuff | How can I spot a nest? Haven't seen one yet | 00:23 |
| Sector | Also needed for some types of armor or ship hulls. | 00:23 |
| Chilestuff | Yeah seen the asteroid hull | 00:24 |
| * Chilestuff woulda thought there'd be a way to exploit resources at belts | 00:24 | |
| Sector | Will show up as an icon above the planet type (small tundra or whatever). | 00:24 |
| Chilestuff | hmm | 00:25 |
| Chilestuff | Do all the icons mean nests? | 00:25 |
| Chilestuff | I see the "bonus" icons | 00:25 |
| Sector | Hover the mouse over the icon to see what it is. | 00:26 |
| Chilestuff | Does it specifically say "nest"? | 00:26 |
| Sector | There's one that's not really a nest "Kraken in the ice, but with the right technology (Xenoarcheology) you can get a monster out of it, but doesn't keep producing monsters. | 00:27 |
| Chilestuff | I've seen a lot of icons, but no "nests" | 00:27 |
| Sector | Yup | 00:27 |
| Chilestuff | ok | 00:27 |
| Sector | If you click on Pedia (the question mark upper right corner) then go to Special it'll show you all the types, including the nests. | 00:28 |
| Sector | That will also show you what they look like. | 00:29 |
| Chilestuff | Thanls for the advice ... I will ask for more :P | 00:29 |
| Chilestuff | Kewl | 00:29 |
| Sector | Feel free to ask. | 00:29 |
| Chilestuff | AFK to play | 00:29 |
| Sector | Enjoy | 00:29 |
| Sector | Hmmm, hard to play if one be away from the keyboard... | 00:30 |
| Chilestuff | Good point | 00:30 |
| Chilestuff | AFW then (window) | 00:30 |
| Chilestuff | ;p | 00:30 |
| Chilestuff | hmm | 04:21 |
| Chilestuff | Is there a tech tree other than ingame? As in hulls and weapons and what's needed to get them? | 04:24 |
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| Chilestuff | Greetings denizens | 13:54 |
| Chilestuff | Prolly too early for anyone to be alive, but questions abound from a newb | 13:55 |
| Chilestuff | (Like that'll make someone wake up and say "Just what I wanted to deal with on a Sunday morning!") | 13:56 |
| Chilestuff | Aaaaanyway .. from the description it appears that robotic interface: shields "only applies to ships crewed by Robotic Metabolism species" | 13:58 |
| Chilestuff | Does that mean humans cant use them? And if so, why does the game let humans place em in ships? | 13:59 |
| Chilestuff | Of course the possibility, (probability) exists that I am mistaken | 14:00 |
| Sector | You can create ship designs for whatever species then if you build them with a robotic one they can be used. Ships are crewed by whatever species occupies the planet you build them on. | 14:08 |
| Sector | There actually used to be a tech tree at one point in time, but it changed enough it was quickly out of date. | 14:09 |
| Chilestuff | Yeah, but can humans use robotic shields? | 14:38 |
| Sector | Nope. | 14:38 |
| Chilestuff | A bit misleading to let them be placed on human built ships :/ | 14:38 |
| Chilestuff | BTW, your guide was just what I was looking for | 14:39 |
| Chilestuff | Thanks | 14:39 |
| Sector | When you design a ship there is no telling what race is going to build it. | 14:39 |
| Sector | Well, wasn't mine but glad it helped. | 14:39 |
| Chilestuff | Ahh | 14:40 |
| Chilestuff | Next Q .. is there any way to show all visible lanes at once? | 14:41 |
| Chilestuff | Other than pointing a ship at a waypoint one at a time? | 14:41 |
| Sector | Links between the circles are normally visible as far as you have explored, or can see within your sensor limit. If they are hard to see you can adjust in Options - Galaxy Map. | 14:43 |
| Chilestuff | Just what option do I adjust? Nothing seems to work | 14:46 |
| Chilestuff | All I've managed to do is change the color of the circles | 14:47 |
| Sector | Default starlane color. | 14:48 |
| Chilestuff | Yeah all that does is change circle color | 14:49 |
| Sector | Hmmm, just tried it changes it here. | 14:54 |
| Chilestuff | Are you familiar with Murphy's Law? | 14:54 |
| Chilestuff | Chile's Law has it beat | 14:55 |
| Sector | You do need to exit and go back in for it to take effect. | 14:55 |
| Chilestuff | Ahh | 14:55 |
| Sector | Can just do a resign then continue. | 14:56 |
| Chilestuff | *sigh* | 14:56 |
| Chilestuff | nada | 14:57 |
| Sector | Murphy at work? | 14:58 |
| Chilestuff | Nope, Murphy has nothing on Chile's Law | 14:58 |
| Chilestuff | "Even if it defies the laws of physics, where I'm involved, it's STILL gonna find a way to go wrong" | 14:59 |
| Sector | Might be Finagle's law. | 14:59 |
| Chilestuff | ? | 14:59 |
| Sector | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle's_law | 15:00 |
| tpb | Title: Finagle's law - Wikipedia (at en.wikipedia.org) | 15:00 |
| Chilestuff | heh | 15:00 |
| Chilestuff | And it ain't gonna happen just once, but repeatedly | 15:01 |
| Chilestuff | Like an iron ball dropping on yer foot and bouncing :) | 15:01 |
| Sector | Twice the fun. | 15:02 |
| Chilestuff | twice hell .. like a superball | 15:02 |
| Sector | Could also try (if possible) adjusting the contrast and/or brightness on your monitor. | 15:02 |
| Chilestuff | Oh I really wish I could ... just installed Ubuntu last week and still figuring it out | 15:03 |
| Chilestuff | "We ain't in Windows any more Toto" | 15:06 |
| Sector | Laptop or something then? | 15:06 |
| Sector | https://askubuntu.com/questions/91195/how-do-i-adjust-the-screen-contrast | 15:06 |
| tpb | Title: graphics - How do I adjust the screen contrast? - Ask Ubuntu (at askubuntu.com) | 15:06 |
| Sector | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_aF8OZBd0 | 15:06 |
| Chilestuff | Yeah old Toshiba laptop | 15:11 |
| Sector | Easier to do with desktop monitors. | 15:11 |
| Chilestuff | Oh they really need a &$&%$$ search bar in the software center | 15:18 |
| Sector | Can just apt-get from the command line to install stuff (sudo apt-get install whatever). | 15:19 |
| Chilestuff | Or at least list it alphabetically | 15:21 |
| Chilestuff | Not here | 15:21 |
| Chilestuff | brb ... gotta reboot | 15:24 |
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| Chilestuff | Greetings denizens | 17:38 |
| Sector | Long reboot. | 17:38 |
| Chilestuff | Had to go get grocerie :/ | 17:43 |
| Chilestuff | s | 17:43 |
| Sector | Help any? | 17:44 |
| Chilestuff | Being a very talented cook has it's drawbacks .. | 17:44 |
| Chilestuff | None | 17:44 |
| Chilestuff | Couldn't find the app, but did find out how to adjust via function keys | 17:44 |
| Chilestuff | no help | 17:44 |
| Chilestuff | Starlanes just won't show | 17:45 |
| Chilestuff | Which sux cuz this game has very winding paths | 17:46 |
| Chilestuff | Only way I see lanes is to point a ship, but that won't show supply or crossing lanes | 17:47 |
| Chilestuff | Only dotted line for single path | 17:47 |
| Chilestuff | Hell I didn't even know it was supposed to show lanes until I say a how to vid | 17:49 |
| Chilestuff | saw | 17:49 |
| Chilestuff | Well fine, next question | 17:56 |
| Chilestuff | Is there any benifit to outposting asteroids in a system you already have a colony? Other than hulls and armor | 17:57 |
| Chilestuff | And how do I know what supply range is without lanes showing? | 18:00 |
| Sector | Can help contribute to defense. Could build an Exobot colony there or use artificial planet on it. | 18:00 |
| Sector | Should show a line in your empire color connecting your systems that are in supply. | 18:01 |
| Chilestuff | should | 18:04 |
| Chilestuff | Hasn't yet | 18:05 |
| Chilestuff | *sigh* life calls | 18:05 |
| Chilestuff | bbl | 18:05 |
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| Afdal | oh my | 19:24 |
| Afdal | a fellow freeorion enthusiast | 19:24 |
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