Orion03

fighters say they are escorts? do I have any control over this? First time I've seen this too. I'll see if I can vid it tonight.

How come the AI can tell me they don't like starbase xyz, but we can't do the same? I also would like the "stop attacking my minor race friend or I'll glass you"

new game, first fight. I have a carrier with 3 fighters, and a medium corvette with beams set to assault. The corvette fights... the fighters and carrier watch flying around been "out of range" until the corvette dies then they decide they should fight and blow up the enemy. Gah humbug ! Maybe I should have set the carrier to assault too?

Really cool ships!

many turns later, and a few restarts, the bug went away and everyone started to fire properly.

To the OP, I am seeing what you said now in my current game. My carrier launches Fighters and Drones, the drones attack, but the Fighters do not attack until the drones all die. When looking at the fighters they say target not in range even though they are right next to them. Most annoying, I've now given up having the smaller drones as they change the way the fleet works.

I wish we had the ability to say: " no your trade sucks but how about this new trade of xyz"

well the developers have said that galciv is a empire game not a fleet game, and all battles are "to the death" so hence all ships charge at the enemy regardless of weapons load out and all the settings of interceptor to support do is to determine where they start. i.e. interceptors in the front, support ships at the back.

Do when you have a carrier, how are the figthers chosen? What guns, missles, defences etc do they have? Are they the very latest that you have tech for? Are they the tech when the carrier was launched? How does this work?

well when I watch the fight, my interceptors start in front, then the fighters and escorts, then capitals, with support ships at the back. By the time the support ships get to the firing line, normally the enemy is dead.

My capital ships fight just fine together with the fighters and drones Are you capital ships classed as support ships? Have you looked at ship classes? I see Interceptors as the ships in front, then capital and assault next, escorts somewhere and support ships hanging at the back. At least that's what I think happens.

I'll do that tonight, i'm at work.... can't play galciv [e digicons]X([/e]

For me it appears most of the time, then vanishes for no reason. A restart brings it back again but its quite annoying.

I didn't get it either

I managed to somehow design a ship that had 120+ mass in a 110 hull? it also had elerium weapons, but I managed to build lots of them until I was like -8 elerium.