Can units stack? Is there a carrier to board? Win reqs?

[Renoux]

Hi there.

This is such a newbie post I know. I couldn't find the answers on the forum (to be honest I only scanned through the first 10 pages or so before having to get back to work).

I have a few questions and would appreciate any answers on them.

1. Can my units stack? It feels as if each ship needs to go in its own block but it would be easier to stack them, like Civilization, so you can move all units at once.
2. Can I move all units at once? See above.
3. Is there a carrier ship? My ships run out of fuel too quickly on bigger maps. I have noticed the refueling ship but its too slow/limited/not needed if I have a carrier that my     other ships can board and once the carrier has reached its destination they can de-board and still have full fuel while the carrier has lost the fuel.

4. Very stupid question - How do I win? Must I complete my research tree? Have the most population? Have the most colonies on the map? Destroy the aliens? Colonize the aliens' planets? - I'm not sure as the tutorial just ends after a while even though it does not show how to win.


Overall awesome game but maybe tweak the tutorial level to show you how to win or at least what the requirements are for winning almost like Civilization which has:  Domination, Science, Cultural, Diplomatic, Time victories.

Is there a sandbox mode hidden somewhere? I would love to just play and expand without having to worry about aliens.

Well that's it.
Thanks for any help.

[resistor]

Welcome to the forum!

To answer your questions...

1) no

2) no

3) There is no carrier ship the way you described it. Carriers can only refuel other ships and repair fighters.

4) There are no specific victory conditions that end the game. I'd consider killing all the aliens a win, but you can keep playing past that.

5) There is no sandbox mode.

[Renoux]

Nov 1, 2016 4:46:52 GMT -5 resistor said:

Welcome to the forum!

To answer your questions...

1) no

2) no

3) There is no carrier ship the way you described it. Carriers can only refuel other ships and repair fighters.

4) There are no specific victory conditions that end the game. I'd consider killing all the aliens a win, but you can keep playing past that.

5) There is no sandbox mode.

Thanks resistor.

So technically the whole game is sandbox if there is no winning conditions.

Great stuff.

I appreciate it.

[Cory Trese]

5) The closest to sandbox mode is to set the number of Xeno to 1 on a large map.

The other questions ... are all truly, missed opportunities.

Fleet stacking ... oh how I wish we would have had the budget for that. Same with user-defined victory conditions.

We just didn't have the time or money to add those during the development of 4X and we ended up making some of them impossible in the process of finishing the game.

Let us know if you have any questions.

[starlord61]

I finished the tutorial game by killing all the xeno planets, and the game even said I had saved humanity or whatever. But I didn't get the achievement for winning the tutorial game on Normal. I couldn't colonize the xeno planets as I had about a -43,000 income per turn even though (because?) I had a huge fighting fleet. So I "won"....or did I??

About the carrier, I had one in my fleet but at one point when I tried refueling a cruiser the game said the carrier can only refuel fighters. So it can't refuel cruisers etc. apparently.

[Cory Trese]

Mar 26, 2017 3:01:54 GMT -5 starlord61 said:

I finished the tutorial game by killing all the xeno planets, and the game even said I had saved humanity or whatever. But I didn't get the achievement for winning the tutorial game on Normal. I couldn't colonize the xeno planets as I had about a -43,000 income per turn even though (because?) I had a huge fighting fleet. So I "won"....or did I??

About the carrier, I had one in my fleet but at one point when I tried refueling a cruiser the game said the carrier can only refuel fighters. So it can't refuel cruisers etc. apparently.

What platform are you on? I want to try to figure out what went wrong and if possible, add a fix to the game.