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Things that make you go hmmmm, and things that go "DuH" in the night. Even the player that has played the game the longest might find new things they like. this might help others enjoy the game (or interface) more.
1> Clicking on the non-obvious bar between the slider arrows on the planet list reverses the order (longest time to completion VS shortest time to completion, at the top of the list).
2> Wanna use that worm hole to check out an area without sending your Hero half way across a gigantic map? Easily done. Fleet your survey ship another, and make sure the survey ship is not the one selected as a "fleet leader" and explore it. you will stay put, and get to peek at a different area. This is how my test worked.
I was curious if a fleet would pass through a worm hole, so I saved the game, and fleeted the Hero with a free drone ship, then moved it to the wormhole.
With the Hero selected (both still fleeted), both units went though the worm hole. I would suspect you could worm a massive fleet.
With the drone ship selected (both still fleeted), neither unit went through the worm hole, but an appropriatly sized fog of war area was revealed on the other side of the galaxy. (allowing contact with a distant empire that would have taken many many turns to get to, even if I did a B-line to get there).
If your not sure what I mean by fleet leader, it is the ship who's stats are displayed when the fleet is active. If you have several ships in a fleet, you can click on a paticular ship in the fleet, it will remove that one ship from the fleet. If you then re-click the "fleet" button, it will re-join the fleet, and it's stats will be the one showing (making it the fleet leader).
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1> Clicking on the non-obvious bar between the slider arrows on the planet list reverses the order (longest time to completion VS shortest time to completion, at the top of the list).
2> Wanna use that worm hole to check out an area without sending your Hero half way across a gigantic map? Easily done. Fleet your survey ship another, and make sure the survey ship is not the one selected as a "fleet leader" and explore it. you will stay put, and get to peek at a different area. This is how my test worked.
I was curious if a fleet would pass through a worm hole, so I saved the game, and fleeted the Hero with a free drone ship, then moved it to the wormhole.
With the Hero selected (both still fleeted), both units went though the worm hole. I would suspect you could worm a massive fleet.
With the drone ship selected (both still fleeted), neither unit went through the worm hole, but an appropriatly sized fog of war area was revealed on the other side of the galaxy. (allowing contact with a distant empire that would have taken many many turns to get to, even if I did a B-line to get there).
If your not sure what I mean by fleet leader, it is the ship who's stats are displayed when the fleet is active. If you have several ships in a fleet, you can click on a paticular ship in the fleet, it will remove that one ship from the fleet. If you then re-click the "fleet" button, it will re-join the fleet, and it's stats will be the one showing (making it the fleet leader).
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