Jemanari Public Relations Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 You know it's going to be fun when you start off a new position and totally screw up the first turn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Miles Avatar Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 It's been known to happen. All it takes is one error to cause a failure cascade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Let me guess - no power generation? Been there, done that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardjohns Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 I am in Draco and I have been trying to reduce the number of errors. I had 8 different failed ship builds and tried to move the wrong ships without convoys this turn. I decided to go the convoy route 13 pages and standing orders 2 and 1/2 pages. This still leads to headaches if I am not making sure everyone has everything is ready for the 35 colonies to pick up stuff at the homeworld. Each colony has about a four turn buffer for mistakes. Biggest mistakes for me: Building ships without materials Designating the wrong ships to move Running out of materials for my colony worlds and having to move them with regular orders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jemanari Public Relations Posted November 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Made fleets to spread out my beginning ships to explore the home system. Forgot to put ships in the fleets. Sent fleet with ships to next system. So in essence I got nothing done on the first turn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Miles Avatar Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 Yup. That's a very common error. It's amazing that after more then a decade of playing and using the entry program I too still make errors from time to time. The one you made I have done countless times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 I sent out a war fleet to deal with the Death Machines....and forgot to load any fuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glamdring Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 I find I get 9 out of 10 errors fixed by CAREFULLY reading my orders and scanning for errors. if only it was not such an arduous effort to print my orders and erase all those damn quotation marks before I print! Pete.... can you please invent a PRINT button on the order entry program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lugal Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 in the spreedsheet i made for tracking everything and planning, i made a simple order entry program. i copy and paste into the text file. doing convoy routes this way has removed the mistakes i made in the past. most recent error i made was to put a fleet on convoy without any cargo space. makes it hard to build stuff if you cant move stuff. embarrassingly this took a few turns for me to notice. wasnt until i couldnt build the structures i wanted did i realize i messed up somewhere. i was lucky to notice the specific error right before the previous turns due date. had to compare each convoy list of orders to each fleet and determine if each call out was being completed. tedious. transfer orders, ship design and building, production queues, can all be done in my spreedsheet with ease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Miles Avatar Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 Your making your head hurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobknob Posted November 28, 2016 Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 Latest error that crops up is completely the fault of my mouse. The roller wheel is so good and spins so well that I find it is easy for it to roll. So, my last few ship designs have wound up with a misc. item, usually a 10cm autocannon listed as ship component even though there is not a number associated with it. The design is validated but it won't build because it can't find "blank" numbers of whatever item it is. sigh.... However, my favorite is the failure to close the CNVR order and adding the rest of my turn and all my standing orders into whatever CR I had been starting or editing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Miles Avatar Posted November 28, 2016 Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 That's a good one!!! I've been there done that too there is without a doubt many opportunities for error to rear it's ugly tenticle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 28, 2016 Report Share Posted November 28, 2016 Will i been there done that and i know i still will miss up so don't feel bad about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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