Help with Intermediate tutorial

[Byeohazard]

I am not able to advance in the intermediate tutorial for an unknown reason.  I looked at my harvesters and they seem to be ok at 100% health. I have sent scouts through all 3 of the worm holes that are in my home base space.  Spent quite a while trying to advance the tutorial but no dice.  I wish there was a checkmark indicating what goals I have completed for the tutorial....I know it's me not understanding something.  Once I get this figured out I am hoping the game hooks me but so far it's been a chore.  Looking foreward to hearing back.

[x4000]

What step are you on at the moment?  I'm not really clear on what's point you're at.  Can you post your savegame so that we can better advise?

[Byeohazard]

Thankyou for the quick reply. I am at the tutorial where it suggest building turrets and mines by the "worm holes"  I have done that.  It also asks that I explore 3 adjacent areas to my home planet with my scouts. I have sent a bunch of scouts through each wormhole to explore further areas (although I'm not clear exactly where they are going..(adjacent or somewhere else). Id love to send my save game..how would I go about doing that? All my harvesters look to be at full health which is a condition of advancement for the tutorial. I have a feeling it has something to do with my scouting.

[zoutzakje]

you can find your saves by going to your AI war files. from there RuntimeData - Save. That's where all your save files should be. I'm afraid I do not know how I can help you until I can take a look at your savefile... it's been ages since I played the tutorial.

EDIT: I just started the tutorial to see what it's like again. All you have to do for the first step make sure your harvesters are alive and remain alive... and send at least 1 scout through every wormhole on your planet (which are indeed 3). The scouts don't even have to survive, you just have to send them through. If you are sure you have done this, and you're still not allowed acces to the next steps, then there might be some sort of bug.
but I would still like to take a look at your savefile so tee what's going on
Also, you can see where your scouts are going by switching to the galaxy view (the TAB button) or by control left clicking on the wormhole you'd like to go to.

[Byeohazard]

Thanks again. Can I upload the save file to the forum somehow or do I need to have the file hosted elsewhere with a link to it?  I have not done this before.  Yea, ...us old guys.

[x4000]

You can actually directly attach it to your post here -- just expand the Additional Options section below the text area when you're writing a post, and it will allow you to update your save file from there.

[Byeohazard]

Ok here it she goes.  I'm sure you will take a look and say oh my gosh..poor chap is lost! Eventualy I will start to understand lol!  Heres the file and thanks for the help! I'm pretty sure this is the latest save.

[x4000]

Okay, thanks for the save! 

The reason the tutorial wouldn't progress is because in fact you'd only sent scouts to two out of the three adjacent planets, not all three.  If you hover over Hasnuvu in the galaxy map, you'll notice that it says the enemy ships are unknown, and to send a scout to catalogue.  If you do that, you're all set to proceed with the rest of the tutorial.

As an aside, I'd also recommend a lot more turrets at each wormhole than what you currently have.  Right now there are mostly tractor beams at each one, which hold enemies still -- but holding an enemy still is useless if you don't have something else nearby to shoot at him, heh.  I'd put at least 5-15 turrets (basic, missle, laser, all mixed around) at each of those wormholes.  And later those numbers will grow even further.  That's not required to get to the next step or anything, but it will save you some substantial pain later in the intermediate tutorial.

Hope that helps!

[Byeohazard]

Thanks!! I will fire it up and take your advise with the turrets. I wonder if that was the last save actualy because I "made sure" I got to all 3 wormholes...most likely I didn't click control L click  properly to make them go through it...or something of that nature.
Thanks again!

[zoutzakje]

glad you figured it out =)
feel free to ask for help again if you get stuck later on.

[x4000]

Byeohazard -- my pleasure.  And you did have ships on all three of the planets.  You had 66 fighters on the planet in question.  That's not at all the same thing as sending literal scouts to the planet, though.