Stuck on Tutorial 3 after building MLRS

[supamanu]

Hey folks

Well I took advantage of the Steam sale + after reading some great reviews to get AI War + Expansions!

I'm going through all the tutorials but on Tut 3 after doing all the steps up to and including building the 20 MLRS turrets, I no longer get the option to progress to the next step, i.e; the 'Click here or press enter' prompt stays grayed (well, oranged)-out... despite building way more than the 20 turrets required. I tried the Tut three times on two different computers and the behaviour never changes.

Obviously I must be doing something wrong.... but what?

Thanks for your help.

Meanwhile been playing the intermediate tutorial and got my ass kicked after doing the raid on the warp gate  lots of fun.

[x4000]

Do you have a savegame you can post?  I don't recall the exact step you are referring to, as the tutorials have been redone pretty recently.  Are you playing 4.0, or the latest beta?  There are a few quirks in the latest beta at the moment.

Thanks for your support!

[supamanu]

Sadly not, but this w/e I will try again and send you a save game.

I'm playing 4.021

Thanks a lot for your help. It's pretty cool to get support directly from the brain, creator... in short THE man  That's why indie games are awesome!

[x4000]

Cool stuff -- thanks!  And, my pleasure on the response.

[supamanu]

ok here's the link to a zip folder with two save games:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2794707/ai_war_Tut_3.zip

The first one is a save before I build the MLRS tur. The second one is after I build them.

Still stuck

Thanks for your help.

[x4000]

Aha, I see the confusion!  Note that MLRS Turrets and MLRS are not the same thing.  I see you have 25 MLRS turrets, but those are not what you unlocked (they are available from the start).  The new ship type is at your space dock, and I see there are 0 out of 85 MLRS ships in service there.  Build 20 of those, and you're all set!

[supamanu]

I feel.... sheepish  

Thanks!

a side note/question: the manual and some of the earlier videos show a minimap on the top right corner of the screen. Has this feature disappeared with v4.x? I know you can press T to get an overlay minimap... just askin'

[Awod]

I feel.... sheepish  

Thanks!

a side note/question: the manual and some of the earlier videos show a minimap on the top right corner of the screen. Has this feature disappeared with v4.x? I know you can press T to get an overlay minimap... just askin'

Yes, I believe it was determined there wasn't a whole lot of gain to having it so they removed it and added the overlay.

edit: found it. --- http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,7407.0.html

The interface has been streamlined all over the place, in ways that have really been exciting our hardcore fanbase (who helped design some of the changes). The biggest amongst these changes are perhaps the more-readable galaxy map, the new context menu (alt+right-click) with things like Auto-Gather-Knowledge and special Transport-Unloading logic, the complete removal of "control nodes" in favor of a much cleaner set of menus, and a larger display-on-demand minimap replacement (hold T).

[orzelek]

Actually that nice minimap is one of most missed features... after the Unity port