SEIV: Problems and Questions: Not Found in Search

[Wade]

Thankyou. Responses are appreciated.

...more comments to come at a later date...
More problems and questions from others are welcome .

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Using SEIV unmodded version 1.95.

1. I made a defense ship with one movement point and called it a Guardian. So far, these are the only ships that I don't get the "Sentry" option for; or "Repeat Orders" option. Why? This is distressing...

2. I know the advice is not to use "Distribute Points Evenly" for research. Well in other games and in SE5 there are percentage sliders/swithces. Will we want one always at 100%? Anyway, in one situation with SE4 I tried "distribute points evenly" and observed how the times for the projects would play out. Each time I end turn the option is switched off again. "Distribute Points Evenly" is not working. Why?

3. Why can I put Troops and Population in a Satellite Layer? It only has Satellite Bays and not Cargo Bays. There are some other similiar annomilies with Cargo that I'll have to try to recall.

4. I've been letting the ship design minister do it's thing so that I could get ideas with new technologies. This doesn't seem to be helpful. I design a single Transport and keep the Troop Transport(extra supply) and obsolete the Population and Cargo Transports. The AI insists on reversing this each turn.(I guess I'll disable him.) Is there a reason to have both a Population Transport and a Cargo Transport?

-Wade, 6-11-06