New Player with a management query

TheBirthdayParty · #1 December 27th, 2004, 09:47 PM

I downloaded the demo and was quite pleased with the game, but there is one thing that is frustrating me. I only have about 5 planets with a ship yard on them. The problem is remembering which ones have a ship yard and picking them out of the colonies report menu. I realize I could write them down, but I was wondering if there's a way to view only colonies with a specific facility? When you have say 30 colonies and only 5 ship producers its quite difficult to pick them out you see.

mottlee · #2 December 27th, 2004, 09:57 PM

Under the ? on the "Task Bar" there should be a "Box" that will say "Show Shipyards' "Resupply" make sure this is checked

Grandpa Kim · #3 December 27th, 2004, 11:00 PM

Use the construction menu (F7) and select planet shipyards. This will bring up all planets with shipyards. (Be sure to deselect the other options.)

When you have 500 planets this filtering is essential to prevent madness.

Edit:
Oh yeah! Welcome to the forums and the best game around

spoon · #4 December 27th, 2004, 11:01 PM

Though you can't sort by facility type, you can sort colonies by whether or not they have a spaceyard in the Construction Queue window (F7 (or click the wrench icon)).

Go to the Construction Queue window, and it will show all your colonies. The ones with a spaceyard will have a crane icon by them. If you want, you can click the radio boxes to the right to (for example) sort out spaceyard-ships and planets without spaceyards.

I find it a lot easier to do most of my construction orders from this window...

Atrocities · #5 December 27th, 2004, 11:12 PM

Welcome

You name your planets with shipyards on them, or

1. click on the Minister icon (The Crown)
2. Click the EMPIRE OPTIONS Tab at the top right
3. Scroll down to SYSTEM DISPLAY.
4. Check the 6th line down "Show Resupply Depots (R), Spaceports (S), and planetary Space Iards (SY)
5. Click CLOSE
6. Click CLOSE

Also read the FAQ's at the top of this forum. They have a lot of very helpful information.

TheBirthdayParty · #6 December 28th, 2004, 01:08 AM

Thanks folks. And I did read the FAQs, but didn't see anything about this. :/

Atrocities · #7 December 28th, 2004, 01:24 AM

Well it was a good question and one certainly worthy of being added, I hope, to the FAQ.

Arkcon · #8 December 28th, 2004, 07:10 AM

P.S. You'll want more than 1/6 of your planets with spaceyards. And you'll want to have what each one is doing kept in the back of your mind. Trust me on this one.