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by Darvin3
Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:08 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: What Triggers Theosians?
Replies: 4
Views: 418

Re: What Triggers Theosians?

I have never been able to discern the exact trigger, but I think it has to do with having very high empire development index. And I mean very high, you are far more likely to trigger domination victory before triggering the Theosians. In fact, I've only ever seen the Theosians by intentionally waiti...
by Darvin3
Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:17 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Fleet Disappears
Replies: 1
Views: 214

Re: Fleet Disappears

Yeah, this is an annoying bug. It has to do with the carriers being unarmed. I can only speculate, but what I think is happening is that the game correctly determines that the enemy freighters are unarmed so it skips combat. It then goes to check which fleet to destroy, sees that your carriers are u...
by Darvin3
Sat Mar 04, 2023 3:32 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Retreat tops off fuel
Replies: 1
Views: 403

Re: Retreat tops off fuel

It's definitely a bug. If you put fuel tanks on starbases, they will automatically refill if you disassemble and reassemble the starbase, which makes for cheeky refueling stations (this is more an interesting oddity than something actually useful, since starbases are quite expensive and a fuel tanke...
by Darvin3
Sat Mar 04, 2023 3:29 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Ship roles
Replies: 1
Views: 217

Re: Ship roles

Ship roles are tied to the fleet designer. When you create a fleet, you decide how many of each ship role you want to comprise the fleet. When you go to build or reinforce a fleet with that design, it will use the most recent design of that given ship role. If you're just manually controlling your f...
by Darvin3
Sat Mar 04, 2023 3:23 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Fight formations
Replies: 1
Views: 232

Re: Fight formations

Having tried all the formations, I don't think there is any benefit. All the formations are just way too spread out (especially late-game when fighter swarms are 1000+ strong) to be useful, and fighters tend to be much less responsive than they are when allowed to scatter. I don't think there is any...
by Darvin3
Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:47 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Polaris Sector
Replies: 1
Views: 2125

Re: Polaris Sector

Trying to get into the game but there is almost no information available... Trying to determine what I should do with research... what should I shoot for etc... How do the different techs compare etc. Economically you want to get to the four techs necessary to colonize all planets (floating platfor...
by Darvin3
Fri May 01, 2020 7:37 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Fleets manager
Replies: 6
Views: 3160

Re: Fleets manager

First go to the ship designer and the create the designs you want. Once you're happy with your design, go and click on the little chain link icon next to their name, and link them with a role that best suits them. Now go to the fleet manager. Click on "create new fleet". The ship designs t...
by Darvin3
Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:16 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Fleets manager
Replies: 6
Views: 3160

Re: Fleets manager

It doesn't actually save you any micromanagement. Just build the ships you want to maintain your desired ship balance, and when they die replace them either with another of the same ship or a completely new model that fulfills the same role.
by Darvin3
Thu Dec 19, 2019 3:05 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Question
Replies: 8
Views: 3398

Re: Question

Never imagined the races to be so different from each other, maybe i'll take you up for that suggestion… on the other hand it couldn't be as bad as meeting the drenghi on turn 5 right? Not that i ever managed to survive that specific encounter before! Each race has completely unique ship designs, a...
by Darvin3
Thu Dec 19, 2019 3:04 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Question
Replies: 8
Views: 3398

Re: Question

Never imagined the races to be so different from each other, maybe i'll take you up for that suggestion… on the other hand it couldn't be as bad as meeting the drenghi on turn 5 right? Not that i ever managed to survive that specific encounter before! Each race has completely unique ship designs, a...
by Darvin3
Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:36 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Question
Replies: 8
Views: 3398

Re: Question

it should be all about calculation right? 1 Ocean planet supports x amount of production research mining worlds That's the idea, you want to use ocean planets to feed the population on other planet types. Occasionally you will get an ocean planet that's good for science, but most of the time their ...
by Darvin3
Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:13 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Question
Replies: 8
Views: 3398

Re: Question

how did those neighbors manage to develop cruisers that fast with the little territory they have in possesion? The Erians and Vagalar begin with the Cruiser tech unlocked as one of their racial advantages. However, this is counterbalanced by the fact that they have below-average ship designs. i'm n...
by Darvin3
Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:51 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Check this out!
Replies: 1
Views: 1688

Re: Check this out!

I'd recommend using specialized carriers rather than including hangars on your combat frigates. Dedicated carriers can just retreat at the start of battle, which avoids the risk of losing them and means you don't even need to bother equipping weapons (one laser just to win vs freighters is a good id...
by Darvin3
Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:16 am
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: My fleet is interdicted by me. How do I escape the battle?
Replies: 2
Views: 4316

Re: My fleet is interdicted by me. How do I escape the battle?

Keep in mind that you cannot retreat into a system occupied by an enemy power. If you're behind enemy lines then you can't retreat and are forced to win the battle or perish.
by Darvin3
Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:21 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: research icon on planet...
Replies: 3
Views: 2532

Re: research icon on planet...

Cool! Thanks, for the heads up! I did set those planets to innovation and will watch both planets more carefully and micromanage when necessary. Both planets also have a rare metal (starts with "R" I believe) so I have to see if I can take advantage of that also. Yeah, that's pretty commo...
by Darvin3
Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:43 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: research icon on planet...
Replies: 3
Views: 2532

Re: research icon on planet...

The icon indicates you can build a research institute on the planet in question (even if the planet could not normally support research centers). You should always build a research institute on any planet can support it because opportunities to build them are quite rare. The innovation automation be...
by Darvin3
Sun Oct 21, 2018 9:02 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: New Polaris Sector Patch
Replies: 14
Views: 6018

Re: New Polaris Sector Patch

Battles against huge fleets are always long, but I can be almost sure to destroy 100+ capital ships without losses, while 500+ fighters will most likely kill few of my Battleships. The AI almost never gets far enough up the tech tree to get battleships; ultra-late-game fleets like that are practica...
by Darvin3
Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:32 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: New Polaris Sector Patch
Replies: 14
Views: 6018

Re: New Polaris Sector Patch

It is quite computation-intensive task and AI creates a lot of trial designs. It's a particularly complex knapsack problem; I can appreciate that it's not something you want the AI doing. Sometimes this gives too powerful designs, but there are downsides as well. For example, it cannot use weapon s...
by Darvin3
Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:19 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: New Polaris Sector Patch
Replies: 14
Views: 6018

Re: New Polaris Sector Patch

I took a look at that and found it very interesting. I can definitely see how a lot of common ship designs came to be with those priorities. I also began to think about how the AI ship designs could be improved. Some of these look easy; tweaking each race to prioritize its stronger unit designs (Gav...
by Darvin3
Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:08 pm
Forum: Polaris Sector
Topic: Polaris Sector - v1.06g Update
Replies: 13
Views: 12371

Re: Polaris Sector - v1.06g Update

Stockpiles have always been capped in every version I've played. Getting a trade agreement with another empire in order to liquidate your surplus resource income is extremely important in the early-game.

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