Polaris Sector - another new space 4x

[solops]

Not sure about that. I can tell you that the 3.5 gig download unpacks into 5.39 gigs in 176,421 files in 599 folders...

Which makes the mod bigger than the game.

[solops]

A patch for the Star Wars:Alliance mod is out.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-polaris-sector-alliance/downloads/polaris-sector-alliance-101b-patch

This mod changes the whole game.

[goldsboro]

New patch is released as beta. It allows fleet naming  :)

[Steelgrave]

New patch is released as beta. It allows fleet naming  :)

I love little touches like that 

[solops]

I saw word of the new DLC. Fleet planner, rally points, new race, automatic fighter replenishment. Some of this might be part of a patch. Oh, and the 1.05 patch is out.

[Tuna]

This game take awhile to get going? I played for a few hours today.. didn't seem to get to where I could build much yet.

[Barthheart]

This game take awhile to get going? I played for a few hours today.. didn't seem to get to where I could build much yet.

Yes. It's a bit of a slow start. Keep at it and it gets interesting real fast. Just gotta learn to enjoy the epicness of the time scale to build and travel.

[sandman2575]

Maybe I'm losing my mind but -- aren't you supposed to begin with a scout ship?  Did this change with 1.05 patch?

I've tried starting a few new games -- playing as humans -- and I begin with a homeworld but no ships at all -- ??

[Barthheart]

Maybe I'm losing my mind but -- aren't you supposed to begin with a scout ship?  Did this change with 1.05 patch?

I've tried starting a few new games -- playing as humans -- and I begin with a homeworld but no ships at all -- ??

???  I just started a 1.05 game this week and had the normal scout to start....

[sandman2575]

Ugh this was driving me crazy.

Tried complete reinstall, verify game cache, etc. etc.

Turns out, that if you start a game on "challenging" not "normal" difficulty, you don't get a starting scout !  I tried starting new games on "normal" and voila, there's the scout.

::)

[sandman2575]

Even odder -- if you start on "Hard" difficulty, you start with a Corvette and fighter squadron  (...?)

So:  Easy difficulty:  1 scout to start
       Normal: 1 scout
       Challenging:  *0* ships to start
       Hard:  1 Corvette + 1 fighter squadron


That seems really weird to me...  anyone else seeing this?

[Tuna]

Here's a question.. I built a fueler because my corvette didnt' have enough range.. So I got close enough to the base I was heading for to get the corvette only to the destination. Then I built another fueler and merged it with the empty one which was empty one sector away. But it doesn't seem to be refueling the empty ship.. Nothing I can do there to get it to refuel?

EDIT:
lol.. so I un merge them and I see a refuel button! Only thing is, it empties the other ship!

[Barthheart]

Yeah you need to put a stellar sucker, or whatever it's called, on your tankers so they can refill themselves.
There is a setting that will let you leave a minimum amount on the tanker.

[goldsboro]

lol.. so I un merge them and I see a refuel button! Only thing is, it empties the other ship!

You can set the fuel reserve that a tanker leaves for himself - it's a small button next to the "reserve" field.

[Tuna]

lol.. so I un merge them and I see a refuel button! Only thing is, it empties the other ship!

You can set the fuel reserve that a tanker leaves for himself - it's a small button next to the "reserve" field.

Thanks guys!