Really basic question I should already know

[mrhanman]

How do you build scout ships? 

It's been quite a while since I played (damn you AVWW!!).  I'm playing a vanilla campaign, and I can't find them anywhere! 

[Coppermantis]

Scouts are build from a Space Dock, Scout Starships are built from a Starship constructor thingy.

[PokerChen]

Space docks, left-most option are fleet scouts. Right-most on the starship ones, IIRC.

[mrhanman]

OK, that's what I thought.  Um, what if they're not there?  I'm also not seeing a lot of things that I was expecting to see.  Turrets, for example.  I'm on the latest beta, btw.

[Wanderer]

OK, that's what I thought.  Um, what if they're not there?  I'm also not seeing a lot of things that I was expecting to see.  Turrets, for example.  I'm on the latest beta, btw.

  You build turrets from the space station.

[mrhanman]

They don't seem to be on the menu:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22141371/Screenshot_2012_04_26_23_15_47.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22141371/Screenshot_2012_04_26_23_15_55.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22141371/Screenshot_2012_04_26_23_16_02.png

Did I set something wrong when I started?

[Diazo]

Did you disable cloaking ships?

It used to be that would disable scouts aswell, that was raised as a concern a while back and I'm not sure if anything was changed.

D.

edit: I just checked, you have all the ship types disabled under the Ship Types tab at game creation. Gray is disabled, Yellow enabled for those buttons.

[mrhanman]

That sounds like what I did.  Should that also disable all turrets and shields?

[Mánagarmr]

It's very likely that it does. I know for a fact that there's a setting that disables forcefields (shields) and fortresses. Think it's called something with "Heavy Defenses" or similar.

[chemical_art]

Disable:
Heavy defenses

Play against:
Shield ninny

Prepare for the game of your life* (hint: be aggressive)

*Game of your life implying that you don't die to quickly, which would happen against most other ai types.