Quick Questions: Boarding Transport Ships

[cubanresourceful]

I was playing, and I built a transport ship to transport a colony ship. How do you do this? I checked the key bindings and I have seemed to miss how to do it.

[x4000]

Simply select the other ships and right-click the transport to have them get in.  Then to get them out later, there is an "Unload" button on the transport.  What version are you playing, though?  If it is 2.0, then only the mobile military ships (space dock stuff and advanced factory stuff) can use transports.  In 2.001 prereleases, it starts allowing colony ships, etc.

[cubanresourceful]

Ugh, I'm using 2.0 and I assumed Colony Ships can board Transports.... Oh well, I'll just DEL key it.

[geggis]

Can I have a quick question? Pleeeease?

I've just had two attack waves come through wormholes that I had control over (or at least controlled the planets on both ends of). Is this supposed to happen? Is that what Warp Gates do?

[x4000]

Ugh, I'm using 2.0 and I assumed Colony Ships can board Transports.... Oh well, I'll just DEL key it.

The 2.001 prereleases are free, you don't have to buy the expansion to get that sort of thing. Or you can wait until that officially comes out on Steam later in the month as a game autoupdate, either way you prefer.

[Revenantus]

Can I have a quick question? Pleeeease?

You can have as many as you want.

I've just had two attack waves come through wormholes that I had control over (or at least controlled the planets on both ends of). Is this supposed to happen? Is that what Warp Gates do?

The AI can use warp gates to warp waves of ships on to any adjacent planets. A wave can only come through a wormhole if there is a warp gate on the planet it is connected to. Did you leave a warp gate on one of the planets you had conquered?

[x4000]

Can I have a quick question? Pleeeease?

I've just had two attack waves come through wormholes that I had control over (or at least controlled the planets on both ends of). Is this supposed to happen? Is that what Warp Gates do?

Yep, it is a slingshot effect.  There is a post in the strategy discussion forum with more info, but I'm writing from my phone and can't easily post the link.  Suffice it to say, you need to kill that warp gate to prevent the warps, or set up defenses on your side of the wormhole.

[cubanresourceful]

Ugh, I'm using 2.0 and I assumed Colony Ships can board Transports.... Oh well, I'll just DEL key it.

The 2.001 prereleases are free, you don't have to buy the expansion to get that sort of thing. Or you can wait until that officially comes out on Steam later in the month as a game autoupdate, either way you prefer.

I'd rather wait until Steam officially rolls it out, I'd rather not mess anything in my Steam installation! :O I just needed the Transport because I need the cruiser to transverse five enemy planets to a planet with a wealth of Metal/Crystal that I just captured near the enemies home planet...Bwa ha ha hah.

[geggis]

Sorry for the late response. It was in the intermediate tutorial when two waves come to attack Uzphi and Jelyjo. Cruisers attacked Jelyjo from the Rasiju wormhole, which I had control over with no warp gates left and fighters attack Uzphi from the Rasiju wormhole as well). I do remember the sling shot effect being mentioned on the wiki somewhere and that does account for the Jelyjo attack but Uzphi was sandwiched between my own territory so I'm not sure what went off there.