Cant jump to new planet newbie questions

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Just starting out in game and built 2 military and 2 civilian research stations.  I need 3 civ in order to gain the ability to jump to another planet?  I know my scout ships can jump and my capital ship can jump, but I cant get my construction frigates to jump to another planet, and I imagine that I need them to in order to build up stuff at the new system?

 

My problem is that I cannot build 1 more reseach station because it says "upgrade planet first".  However, my planet is fully upgraded, so what do I do in order to get one more station?

 

Also, where do I build construction frigates from?

 

Thanks

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

no, you got something completely wrong there ;)

 

first of all, the construction frigates belong only to the one planet they´re first built at (every planet has its own ones, which appear automatically once the planet is yours).

what you need to do is to colonize a planet (after clearing the environment of hostile ships), which can be done by a colonization frigate, or by one of your capital ships (the one in the middle when you build them). the colonization frigate can be built in a small shipyard without any prerequisites.

 

the research which requires 3 civ stations enables your ships to jump to another star system (or sun, if you so like)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Ah, thank you very much.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

construction frigates can NEVER jump, but are spawned at each planet after colonising it. jumping to another planet is a tech level 0 tech for all races ie all races constructed and trade/refinery(spawned from tradeport/refinery) ships can jump as needed(fighters & bombers can not jump because the ships they are attached to can).

to colonise another planet just take a colonising frigate(after killing the militia at the planet) OR cap(usually the middle cap) to the planet and colonise.

harpo

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

:)  Would be cool to have to take them with us, wouldn't it?  And the fighters/bombers if they could jump without their mother ship? Might save some fighters lives when the mother ship dies.  :)

Anyway, nice idea.

:)

Take care guys,

-Teal