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==Galaxy Screen==
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[[File:Galaxy Screen.png|thumb|right|Galaxy screen]]
 
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{| cellpadding="6" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 0 20px;"
 
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| colspan="2" style="background:white; color:black" | Colored rows in the galaxy screen:
 
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| Your Planets
 
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| Neutral Player
 
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| [[Buddies]], [[Alliance]], [[NAP]] Alliance
 
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| Alliance at [[War]]
 
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The Galaxy screen provides various information on one solar system at a time, it is part of the game [[Interface]].
 
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At the top of the screen, you can enter the coordinates for the solar system you want to scan, or navigate one after the other by using the arrows. Be aware that each time you scan a system that you do not have a colony in, you are charged 10 hydrogen. What ever actions you take while on the galaxy screen, will take place from the planet you have highlighted at the top of the page. If you probe, attack, or perform any other action from this page, then the ships used will come from the planet that is highlighted.
 
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===Screen Information===
 
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The Galaxy Screen shows details for each planet in the solar system, in the following columns:
 
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*'''Planet Position''': The planet's position in the solar system.
 
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*'''Planet''': This will tell you the names of each planet. If the planet is not [[colonize|colonized]] then it appears in light blue. Planets that are white are planets in which you can [[probe]], [[attack]], or [[transport]] to. Planets that are dark gray are planets that you can only interact through messaging or adding as a buddy.
 
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**If you have a colony within the system being viewed, you can rename that planet by selecting  '''[rename]'''.
 
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*'''Planet Activity:''' Activity notifications tell you when activity last occurred on a planet, and are indicated in orange parentheses beside the planet name. The following things constitute activity:
 
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**The player who owns the planet loads any page view while having that planet selected.
 
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**An attack, transport, deploy, or espionage mission occurs at that planet, from the owner or another player.
 
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**An asterisk '''(*)''' indicates activity at the planet within the last 15 minutes. Otherwise a number will be shown between 15 and 59 minutes. After an hour of no activity, the notification will disappear.
 
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**'''Note''': "Activity" includes an attack by an ''outside entity''. Hence it is possible for a planet to be both designated ''inactive'' and show recent activity.
 
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*'''Debris''': The [[Debris]] field tells you if there is any harvestable debris in orbit about the planet. If there is and you have a [[Dionysus Class Recycler]] on your selected colony, as well as a free [[fleet]] slot, then a blue icon will appear beside the debris field. Clicking the blue icon will open a menu to select how many Recyclers and how fast they will go to get to the debris field. If the icon is dark gray then either you don't have a Recycler available, or you don't have a free fleet slot to use.
 
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**''HINT:'' When attacking a planet that has ships in orbit, you should consider dispatching your Recycler in advance of your attack as they are very slow. Timing their arrival will better 'guarantee' that you will be able to harvest the debris from the ships you destroy.
 
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*'''Player''': The Player column tells you the name of the player and their rank. There are also some other indicators that can appear to tell you if they are a ''(n)'' new player, in ''(d)'' [[Diplomacy Mode]], on ''(v)'' [[Vacation Mode]], or other statuses that can be explained through the [[Starfleet_Universe#Legend|legend]] link at the bottom of the galaxy page.
 
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**The players [[rank]] is color coded to reflect their threat to you. The more green they are the more likely you will dominate them in combat. If their color is approaching white, the more likely they are equal to you in combat, and the more red they are the more likely they will dominate you in combat.
 
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**''HINT:'' Attacking players who are [[inactive]] 'i' can help gain resources with limited concern regarding repercussions for your attack. Enables you to gain resources as well as experience of how to perform an attack and what the impact of ground defenses are versus your attacking ships. (Lower case ''(i)'' means the player has been inactive for 7 days – upper case ''(I)'' for 21 days.)
 
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*'''Alliance''': The [[Alliance]] column displays player's alliance, if blank then they are not part of any alliance. Clicking on the alliance name will reveal how many members are in that alliance and who the alliance leader is. You can click on the alliance leader's name to message them in game if you wish to discuss treaties, beg for mercy, or make open threats.
 
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**''HINT:'' Alliances enable you to gain some benefits with group attacks, group defense, sharing strategies, and making the game more enjoyable with interaction with other members.
 
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*'''Actions''': The Actions column displays several icons that you can select. Hovering your mouse over an icon will give you the name of it.
 
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**[[Image:Attack_icon_white.png]] '''Shield Icon''' - This will open up a Fleet Creation window in which you can create a fleet to [[attack]] the player.
 
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**[[Image:missile_strike_icon.png]] '''Missile Strike Icon''' - If you have [[Interplanetary Missiles|interplanetary ballistic missiles]] and the player is within range then this is where you initiate that strike from.
 
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**[[Image:scan_icon.png]] '''Scan Icon''' - If you have an [[Oracle]] and the planet is within range, this will initiate a scan of the planet.
 
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**[[Image:Espionage_icon.png]] '''Probe Icon''' - From here you can launch a [[probe]] at a planet. If you have selected automatic probing from the options menu then clicking this icon will send the previously set number of probes.
 
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**[[Image:Deploy_icon.png]] '''Deploy Icon''' - will open a fleet assemble window where you can select cargo ships and resources to [[deploy]] ships and resources to one of your other planets.
 
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**[[Image:Transport_icon.png]] '''Transport Icon''' - will open a fleet assemble window where you can select cargo ships and resources to [[transport]] to a player. Be sure to understand the [[rules]] on pushing before sending to other players!
 
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**[[Image:Trade_icon.png]] '''Trade Icon''' - will open a [[trade]] window where you can select cargo ships and resources to trade with another player at fixed trade ratios. See the trading page for more information.
 
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**[[Image:Message_icon.png]] '''Message Icon''' - Opens a window to allow you to send a message to the player
 
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**[[Image:buddy_icon.png]] '''Buddies Icon''' - Will send a request to become a [[Community#Buddies|buddy]] of that player.
 
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**[[Image:group_defend_icon.png]] '''Group Defend Icon''' - Opens a window to assemble a fleet to [[Group Defend]] another player in your alliance or on your buddy list. You can select the ships you want to send, how fast the fleet will move, and how long to keep them in orbit (from 1 hour to 24 hours) before they automatically return home.
 
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*(v)  Vacation - Players on vacation. 
 
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*(i)  Inactive - Players inactive for the past 7 days.
 
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*(I)  Inactive - Players inactive for the past 21 days.
 
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*(n)  Newbie - Players too low for you to attack. [Someone I cant attack]
 
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*(N)  Newbie - Players too high for you to attack. [You being the newbie. Someone I should Not attack]
 
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*(d)  Diplomacy - Players in Diplomacy Mode, who cannot be attacked.
 
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*(!)  Diplomacy - Diplomacy is being toggled '''ON''' by this player.
 
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*(!d) Diplomacy - Diplomacy is being toggled '''OFF''' by this player.
 
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*(* X min) Activity - Planets with activity in the last 15 to 60 minutes.
 
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==Traveling==
 
==Traveling==

Revision as of 21:19, 6 June 2010

The Starfleet Commander universes are just like our own, only in a very simplified way; A vast and never ending agglomeration of galaxies, solar systems and planets, separated by great distances of empty space. The biggest difference is that this universe only has two dimensions.

There is, at this point, no telling how big the Starfleet universe is, as it keeps expanding as more players join the game. That means that there is no fixed value as to how many galaxies there are in the game. However, each galaxy has a fixed number of 499 Solar Systems each, and each solar system has a fixed number of 15 planets each.

In Extreme mode, there are only a few differences. One is the lack of a diplomacy mode. Second, the speed of mining, ships, research, and building are doubled.

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Traveling

The only way to travel from one planet to another is by using Ships. There are however, a few things to consider when traveling the stars.

Distance

As to make things easier, all distances in the Starfleet universe are standardised and follow the same rules. The distance between two planets is used when calculating travel times.

Planet to Planet Within The Same Solar System

The distance from any planet to another planet in the same Solar System is equal to 5 for each planet, plus 1,000. The distance to the same planet you start from is only 5. For example: the distance from planet 1 to planet 1 is 5, but from planet 1 to planet 10 would be:

5 * 9 + 1,000 = 1,045

Time is in the format hours:minutes

Dionysus (Jet)*
Distance(planets) Engine 6 Time
3200 		Engine 8 Time
3600 		Engine 10 Time
4000
1 1:44 1:38 1:33
10 1:46 1:40 1:35

Times are rounded to the nearest minute


Poseidon (pulse)*
Distance(planets) Engine 4 Time
27000 		Engine 8 Time
39000 		Engine 10 Time
45000
1 0:36 0:30 0:28
10 0:37 0:30 0:28

Times are rounded to the nearest minute


Solar System to Solar System within The Same Galaxy The distance from any planet in one Solar System, to any other planet in another Solar System in the same galaxy, is equal to 95 for each solar system traveled, plus 2,700. So to travel from solar system 1 to solar system 10 in the same galaxy, we would use:

(10-1)*95 + 2,700 = 3,555

Dionysus (Jet)*
Systems(Distance) Engine 6 Time
3200 		Engine 8 Time
3600 		Engine 10 Time
4000
1 (2795) 2:53 2:43 2:34
5 (3175) 3:04 2:53 2:45
10 (3650) 3:17 3:06 2:56

Times are rounded to the nearest minute


Poseidon (pulse)*
Distance(systems) Engine 4 Time
27000 		Engine 8 Time
39000 		Engine 10 Time
45000
1 (2795) 1 0:50 0:46
5 (3175) 1:03 0:53 0:49
10 (3650) 1:08 0:57 0:53

Times are rounded to the nearest minute


Galaxy to Galaxy The distance from any planet in one galaxy to any planet in another galaxy is 20,000 for each galaxy traveled. So to go from galaxy 1 to galaxy 3 would be a distance of:

20,000 * (3 - 1) = 40,000

Structure

From this list of distances, it can be determined that the structure of the universe is very linear. As the galaxy number increases, so does the distance from galaxy 1.

This will allow expansion of the universe if the galaxy become overcrowded. It also limits movement by the distance people are prepared to travel.

There is effectively a fuzzy "event horizon" to your sector of space past which attacks or trades just take too long. This can be offset by making colonies in vastly different parts of the universe, but you will have difficulty reinforcing your own planets if attacked.

For this reason, avoid colonising solar systems at either edge of a galaxy. A solar system in the middle of a galaxy can skip to solar systems nearby in either direction. At the edge, you can only skip towards the centre, and only have half the number of accessible solar systems to explore.

The universe is constantly expanding as more players join the game.

Currently, from planet 1:1:1 to planet 100:499:15, there are 748,500 planets.

Speed

Each ship in Starfleet Commander has a Base Speed, which is the speed it will travel at if its engines have not been upgraded through researched technologies.

Jet Drive, Pulse Drive, and Warp Drive research all increase the speed of ships powered by those drives by 10%, 20%, and 30%, respectively. The increased speed as a result of the engine upgrades is called the Effective Speed.

Example:

A Poseidon Class Cruiser has a base speed of 15,000. It also has a Pulse Drive and requires Level 4 of that to be built. Pulse Engine Tech gives a speed boost of 20% for each level, so in this case 80%. Thus a Poseidon's Effective Speed is 1.8 * 15,000 = 27,000

Any fleet travels at the speed of the slowest ship in that fleet. Therefore if you send out an attacking fleet containing some Poseidon ships and some Hercules Class Cargo ships, the fleet will travel at the much slower speed of the Hercules Class.

Travel Time

Traveling through the vastness of space takes time. The traveling time depends on the speed of the Ships in the fleet and the distance there is to travel. The result of the following calculation is expressed in seconds:

Calculate flight duration.png

Where distance is the distance between the two planets.

Where speed is the effective speed of the slowest class of ships in the fleet.

Where speed percentage is a value from 1 to 10, representing 10% to 100%, selected in the speed drop-down.

  • Therefore speed percentage is NOT an actual percentage, i.e. 100% is really 1, but here 100% is counted as 10
  • Then divide the time by 60 to get the time in minutes and divide the time again to get the time in hours.

Cost

Fuel

Hydrogen is the fuel powering the engines of your Ships, allowing them to travel through space. Each ship has a consumption rating that tells you how much fuel a ship will use while traveling. The higher the consumption rating, the more fuel is required.

Range

The entire amount of hydrogen needed for the trip must be stored on the planet where the ships are located, and your fleet must be able to carry all the fuel it needs for the entire trip in its cargo space. You can increase the range by adding cargo ships to your fleet as to carry more fuel.

Consumption

The hydrogen consumption is computed for each group of ships of the same type, therefore, you must compute it for each type of ship in the fleet separately. The fuel consumption of your fleet can be reduced by sending it off at a slower speed. The equation is as follows:

fuel consumption = number of ships * consumption * (distance/35,000) * [(speed/100) * ((effective speed/base speed)^0.5) + 1]^2

Explanation:

speed = Percentage, e.g. 90 for 90%, 80 for 80%, 70 for 70% etc.

effective speed = the speed of the slowest type of ship you are sending (sort of brake for the whole fleet)

base speed = the speed, your ships are regularly traveling with

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