Commands/Shortcuts you dont know about but should . . .

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Like the title said, I'm looking for commands or shortcuts you may have found that weren't in the users guide.

My favorite is the Ctrl-N

This is used at the beginning of a game if you dont like the galazy layout and your placement. All it does is recreate the galaxy, and relocate you, but keeps all of the previous settings. Great if you get stuck in the corner with no way to expand!

Any others out there?

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Hey, I *LIKE* starting in the corner as long as I have an expansion path (which isn't exactly what you said). Makes it much easier to be a trade king.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Has anyone else noticed that if you hit Ctrl-N many times in succession that the frequency of high Planet Classes planets appearing becomes much higher. (This could all be a coincidence, but last weekend I tried hitting Ctrl-N a whole bunch of times because I wan't to try out a certain Military start under "perfect" conditions and I was amazed at how many class 20-32 planets I found in the galaxy ... e.g. two class 32 planets in a small galaxy, even though habitable planets was set to "common"). I only observed this phenomena twice, (and it was last weekend so I wasn't using 1.01a) so it's probably a fluke but I was wondering if it had occured for anyone else.

- Matt L. :->

~SDC~
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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
26 is supposed to be the best natural occuring PQ, so I suspect that one of the AI races triggered the Precursor artifact that raises all uncolonized planets by X levels within Y parsects of planet Z.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
starting in the corner has one drawback: it makes all your trade route go in only 3 gerenal directions. MUCH easier to get them attacked that way if you go to war.

No?

Astro

~SDC~
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
That is true, but it also makes it much harder for the AI to set up trade routes that route through your sectors containing starbases with trade bonuses and pass right through you to someone else. Since I'm usually much more aggressive about using starbases that way, that's an important factor to me.