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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Just started playing the game, and i've run into a couple of questions that i haven't been able to find answers to (using the search function)

1. In the Galactopedia manual, there is a mention of "Energy to fuel converters" - how does one go about getting these, and how do they work?? [&:](The GP. manual says that one can build a refueling depot at any location without the need to mine caslon or hydrogen.)

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
2. in playing my first game, after getting a few dozen worlds, suddenly my colonization efforts started failing 100% of the time even on high percentage compatibilty worlds (80-90%). Is this by design or have i encountered a glitch?

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ORIGINAL: the1sean

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Just started playing the game, and i've run into a couple of questions that i haven't been able to find answers to (using the search function)

1. In the Galactopedia manual, there is a mention of "Energy to fuel converters" - how does one go about getting these, and how do they work?? [&:](The GP. manual says that one can build a refueling depot at any location without the need to mine caslon or hydrogen.)

Where does it say that, could we get a specific reference? I have never heard of this as you describe it, so maybe something was written unclearly in the Galactopedia and needs to be fixed.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
2. in playing my first game, after getting a few dozen worlds, suddenly my colonization efforts started failing 100% of the time even on high percentage compatibilty worlds (80-90%). Is this by design or have i encountered a glitch?

This is not by design. Can you elaborate more on what is happening?

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ORIGINAL: Canute

1.  you need to research this ! It's at the Energy research, the end of the Mining+Energy collector tree.
Its a Very huge device you only should use at Stations and Resupply ships.
It convert Energy into the Fuel gas Caslon/hydrogen until the Cargo of the objekt is full.

2. not sure what you mean. The Colony ship allways got a 100% chance on an empty world. The quality/compatibilty just set how the population grow and how much tax you can await.
When the colonisation fail, there is another race on that planet allready. It can be an independed race you can try to join your empire while you send Colony ships to them.
Or it can allready colonized by another race while your ship fly to that planet.

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i am pretty sure there was a corruption in the game file.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
i think i've run into a bug (not the only one)... no one else on the system (in most cases, although in rare instances someone else beat me to it)... rarely something identifiable has happened (i.e. - got attacked by a kaltor or something)... usually i just get a message that i am unable to colonize the system (i had a run of 20+ years of colonization failure). Other weird things would happen as well (i.e. - i'd get a message that my advisors said i need to but a bunch of new ships, but when i pulled up the recommendations, they were all blank). All these problems developed around the same time, so i am guessing the game file was corrupted.