How do you find NME's to fight???

[Hobbie]

Ive been plaing this game for a short time, adn I havent had a battle yet. How do I find NME's to fight, and how do I take over their planets??

[Lord Philemon]

You find your enemies in your comlist and by sending out investigation probes and wide range scan probes.
But you can't take over their planets - the point is just to fight against their fleets and make points against them.

[Hobbie]

How do I send out the probes, and when i do find a fleet how do I attack them? Alos what do I do when I go to other ppls planets but they dont fight?

[Dougster]

@Hobbie.
You have to build the probes in your production window.
Example-: When the investigation probes are built. You should have 2 + your seti scan. If the co-ords of your planet are say 123/456/78 you send one to 123/456/98
and the other to 123/476/78 and you can destroy your seti scan, and build another investigation probe and send it to 143/456/78, and so on and on.
later when you can build wide scan probes you will be able to find even more enemies, but they move much more slowly than the investigation probes.

The data from the probes goes directly into your com list, so you can destroy them and build more as soon as they have reached there destinations.

For attacking, it is best to have use of deep scan probes, which show the number of ships on a target planet, and their respective classes.

[Lord Philemon]

See also:
http://manual.spacetrace.org/

[Dougster]

I think a more comprehensive set of faq's would help too.

[admin]

we started to write these small help texts at the bottom of each screen (see guest account) but we don`t have enough time, maybe some of the oldscool players would like to help us?

[peace of love]

@ hobbie:

at the beginning you should send your probes about 10 sectors away from your home planet as otherwise your potential enemies are too far away so it takes a long time to reach them.

you also have the possibily to ask other players for known coord they allready spotted. some give them away to help newbees or to lead other players to planets they want to be destroyed.
most surely you ll get help if you decide to join in alliance. then your alliance members have in interest in supporting you with data and tips&tricks.

of course you can ask in the forum as well but as some kind of mute agreement it seems to be no good style to post coords here in the forum...

[ This Message was edited by: peace of love on 2002-08-15 14:15 ]

[Dougster]

Oops thanks for the correction Peace, I was thinking of wide scans I hope.

[Hobbie]

thx everybody for your help! All your posts were very useful!