A ground base sometimes referred to as simply a “base”. Sits in the surface of a planet. More than one base can exist on a planet at the same time belonging to different empires. A base holds colonists and natives. It can store metals and can mine for new metals. If it has a pod pad it can launch cargo pods into space. If it has a military space port it can build new ships. If a ground base has a base shield it is protected from orbital attacks by ships that do not have a super weapon. Even ground bases with base shields can be attacked by enemy ground attacks from enemy bases.
Ground bases are formed when a ship transfers colonists or troops to the planet`s surface using the ship`s transporters. You can also form a new base by landing a life pod or assault pod. You are allowed only one base per planet. Enemy and friendly races can also have a base on the same planet as your base. When there are two or more enemy bases on a planet they can become involved in a base to base ground war.
The above is the base overview command screen. It shows you almost everything that you need to know about the base.
The up and down arrows will switch you to the next or previous base. This base is named Ground Base 2854 and it is sitting on planet Portsmouth. The Soil rating of 164 means the planet can support a total of 164 farms, which is how many farms the base currently has. The terraformers are set to change the climate of the planet to 45, however the terraformers are currently turned off.
The F Code (Friendly code) is set to KZZ and the C Code ( Command Code ) is set to IZZ which do not do anything special.
The base has an active log message.
The base mission status is “Kill Kill Kill”, if any enemy builds a base on this planet your this base will attack it with every colonist, troop, assault craft and fighter craft in the base.
HD Stress is 10 which is very safe. HD Delta is -6 which makes it even better. This planet is not in any danger of exploding due to stress any time soon.
There are 29,157 units of contraband on this base. It can be sold for megacredits from the contraband screen.
We can see that the minerals on this planet have all been mined and converted to metals. All ore has been smelted into metals as well.
We can see that the base has many ship parts in storage, including 90 sub space engines.
This planet has over 4 million very happy natives and 50 million happy colonists.
On the right side of the screen you will see a list of all the buildings on this base. The text is color coded. Red text means the building is turned off. Green means it is turned on. White means the base has the maximum possible number of these types of buildings. The grey are building that do not exist yet. A left click on buildings that have switches will turn the building on and off. A right click will bring up a pop up slider that let you adjust the building`s setting. Like the target climate level for your terraformer. The number on the right side of the text is a count of the number of these type`s of objects currently on the planet. A left click on the blue box to the left of the building name text will place and order to build another building of that type. A right click on the blue box will subtract one from the build order. Holding down the shift key will add or subtract 10 units from the build queue.
From this screen you can jump to one of the many detailed base command sub screens.
The planet command screen consists of 13 screens that are opened using the above command bar.
Struct (Build New Ground Structures)
You can view all the buildings available from the power switch screen.
Dec 29, 2003