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[CLEernest]

As unfortunate and pathtic as it may seem, sience I am still running a fairly small empire, I am constantly running out of things to spend my orders on. I paniced when I herd that the order limit had gone from 30 to 40! I have very ittle intention of expanding much anytime soon either, none of the planets like me. But I still don't like to waste my money. Any suggestions?

[ShadowKitsune]

Items that tend to chew up a lot of orders for me are --

1. Moving my fleets around doing EXPL, GEO, CSV, PMAP and SURV Orders.
2. Tweaking my Production queue.
3. Setting up convoy routes.

You could always do an ANZ on anything you *can* research, which will tell you what it does.

YMMV
-SK

[Eldred]

Also you could...

You could make a few army units then perform TAC orders on your armies to establish their effectiveness

Perform FOB orders on each of your ship designs

NAME and AC your legendary characters (if you haven't already done that!)

Set up some empty Pop Groups on worlds you know of to aid furture exploring

Build and deploy some of the new system beacons

[Bovine Hegemony]

You could slowly tool assembly lines for every individual component you will be building. This would eventually give you a very flexible production scheme without needing to worry about accidentally screwing something else up.

[Clan Elder 'Keen]

Fully map your home system, and any system within 2 jumps.

Colonize any planet with good resources and moderate or less losses.

Build JJS3 or 4 and map everything within 8-10 jumps.

Set up system beacons and/or defense fleet perimeter.

Build XEXPL fleets and XOC to colony on planet below.





(The above tasks could take years to complete with single order turns.)

[Sha'thar of the Gosht Kohr]

Sha'thar hmmms.

You might also consider how to best colonize through one-way warp points. I think everyone will come into contact with a few of those. There are certainly lots of opportunities for long-term projects.

More fleets not connected to convoy routes will eat up orders. Or you could build more installations of one kind or another? You can always use more fuel, for instance.

[Sssarass]

Other thoughtsss sssetup fleetsss that you will need, rename fleetsss to let you know what is them to expidite you turns. Asss below sssetup exploration fleetsss and/or diplomacy fleetsss, convoy routesss to the new frontier asss well. Sssend out sssome ssships and pmap, geo, orb (including your home world to check on findsss), do INSsst and ANZ orders. Experiment with Ssships can 4 pathfindersss bussst a C, how about 5, 6, 7 or 8... Map the cosssmosss, even a pathfinder with a lowly Mk I JSssSss can map A's and B's and with charters higher WP'sss, get your Mk II JSssSss out there.

CTO, Sssarasss

[Kurassier]

You could always let me use those extra orders.....

[ShadowKitsune]

Kurassier, on Feb 5 2004, 02:09 AM, said:

You could always let me use those extra orders.....

Dream on Beer Boy, Dream On ... :lol:

[Kurassier]

Let's see, CON 200 StarBars xxxxx

CON 4000 McBovine's xxxxxx ....

[hobknob]

Build more fleets. These will then take up the extra orders. Besides, it is foolish to let your neighbors find you too close to your home system. Setting up warp point survey colonies take up lots of orders too.

[EternusIV]

Don't forget to tool your production orders for StarBar and McBovine products!

10000 Processed Chicken
10000 Frozen Beef
10000 Savory Hops
10000 Little Chopped Onions
10000 Pickles On Sesame Seed Buns
5000 Barbeque Sauce
5000 StarBar Bar Napkins...

etc

[CLEernest]

Thanks for your suggestions!