Orbital Command Station Home Core

[Ersatz Nihilist]

Hello there!

I've just started getting into AI War so first of all I'd like to say thanks to the Devs for making such a fantastic game. I really don't remember the last time I enjoyed sitting staring at the screen rubbing my chin and wondering what I'm going to do next so much.

Anyway.

Two friends and I have jumped into multiplayer at Difficulty 7 (holding on by our finger nails), but before we stopped last night one of our team lost his Home Command Station, and recieved a "Orbital Command Station Home Core" as the rest of us still survived. We were wondering whether it's possible to plug it back into a station or whether he's just got it free floating and needs to look after it for the rest of the game as it is - it looks like there'll be a hefty (and unwanted!) Progress bump if it gets killed.

Also, another one of my friends is wondering if there's a database of all ships in the game? I'm not sure how he's planning on digesting what I assume is a titanic amount of information, but he's asking anyway.

Thanks!

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Thanks much for the kind words, and welcome!

When it comes to home command station cores, those can't get plugged back into anything -- but they are nicely mobile, so that's helpful.  IIRC, you got an AIP bump from losing the actual home command station in the first place, and it just keeps happening if you lose more of these.  Best thing is to get up a defensive perimeter so that hopefully you don't lose any more home planets.  Granted, though, it seems like in my 3/4 player games we only have 1-2 home stations left by the time we finish.  The GOOD thing about the home cores is that they actually give you more resources, so your friend is economically better off now.

In terms of the database of all the ships, you can see that sort of thing in-game by pressing the F1 key to cycle through the list of ships by mark.  There's also a Reference in-game if you look in the STATS button window.  And lastly, if you want to export the "excel secondaries" for perusal outside the game, then hit F3 on the main menu, then Ctrl+Shift+F8.  That will close the game and write some files into a Data folder inside your RuntimeData folder.

Hope that helps!