User talk:WinterBorn

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• Starting A New Campaign
• Fast Facts: A Crash Course On AI War
• Your Home System And What's In It

(in development)

• I'm Just Starting Out -- What Should I Do?
• How Do I Know What Difficulty Level To Play On?
• Is The Difficulty Really Constant Throughout A Game Of AI War?
• What Difference Does The Map Size Make? (Hint: Tiny Maps Are Harder)
• What are suggestions for a good first AI opponent?
• Video Tutorials (See An Expert Play)
• [edit] General Gameplay
• How Do I Get More Ships?
• What Do I Do With My Older Ships?
• What Technologies Should I Unlock If I'm New?
• How Do I Use The Priority Buttons In The Galaxy Map?
• Do Shots Miss Sometimes?
• Should I Micromanage Ships In Battle?
• Some Of My Ships Are Extra Slow, Or Won't Move At All. Why?
• Are There Cheats In The Game?
• When Should I Be Worried About The AI Progress Getting Too High?
• How Do I Minimize Micromanagement?
• Does The AI Progress Go Up When I Lose A Command Station?
• Like Chess, A Game Of AI War Has Three Abstract "Phases"
• [edit] Multiplayer Co-Op
• What are the differences between solo and multiplayer?
• How To Manage Player Drop-In and Drop-Out In Co-Op?
• [edit] Expansions
• Expansions Vs Free DLC -- What's The Difference?
• What exactly are the features in the base game of AI War?
• What exactly is added via The Zenith Remnant expansion?
• What will be in the Children of Neinzul micro expansion?
• When will the third expansion for AI War be coming out?
• [edit] Interface
• Keyboard: Where Are The Keyboard Controls For The Game Documented?
• Keyboard: What Exactly Does X + Right Click Do?
• What Does Flashing On The Galaxy Map Indicate?
• How Do the Quick Buttons At The Bottom Of The Screen Work?
• About The Planetary Summary
• Is It Possible To Zoom All The Way Out?
• Why Is Clicking The Minimap Imprecise When I Am Zoomed In?
• Can I Queue Multiple Attack Orders And Movement Orders?
• What Are The Rules For Gifting Ships Between Players?
• Formation: How To Use Formation Move
• Formation: How To Use Arc Move
• How Do I Minimize Micromanagement?
• How To Use Preferred Targets To Make Up For Deficiencies In Your Ship Mix
• [edit] Defense
• How Do I Barricade A Wormhole?
• Gate Raids: How Do I Prevent Enemies From Sending Waves Against A Planet?
• Gate Raids: What Does Gate Raiding Really Accomplish?
• How Do I Defend My Ever-Expanding Fronts?
• Why Would I Unlock Turrets Instead Of Mobile Ships?
• How Do I Secure The Area Around My Planets?
• How Do I Prepare For Cross-Planet Attacks?
• What Is The Risk Of Not Destroying A High-Level AI Planet Next To My Home Planet?
• Why Is There An Exo-Galaxy Wormhole On My Home Planet?
• How Do I Defend Against Astro Trains?
• How Do I Protect Myself While Expanding In The Early Game? (Whipping Boys)
• How Do I Keep The Number Of Ingress Points Into My Territory Low?
• Defending Against Border Aggression
• [edit] Offense
• How Does Supply Work?
• How Do I Establish A Beachhead?
• What's The Best Way To Handle Scouting?
• Why Does An Enemy Planet Get Reinforcements After Its Warp Gate Is Gone?
• Are The Capturable Enemy Ships Always Away From My Starting Position?
• What Is The Risk Of Taking A Planet Next To High-Level AI Planets?
• How Do I Take A High-Level AI Planet?
• How Fast Should I Be Taking Planets?
• How Do I Protect Myself While Expanding In The Early Game? (Whipping Boys)
• Neutering AI Planets
• Creating False Alarm Distractions On AI Planets
• Why Not To Use FRD Mode Offensively
• [edit] Economy
• How Do I Get More Knowledge?
• What Do I Do About Reduced Energy Reactor Efficiency?
• Are There Resource Caps? What Happens When I Hit Them?
• What To Do With Too Much Of One Resource, But Not Enough Of The Other?
• [edit] Ship-Specific Game Mechanics
• Cloaking: How Does Cloaking Work?
• Cloaking: How Do I Prevent My Cloaked Ships From Auto-Attacking Enemies?
• Cloaking: How Do Cloaking Boosters Work?
• Why Can't I Repair Some Ships (Such As Forts/Warheads)?
• Am I Ever Able To Build Core/Mark V Units?
• Why Do Some Ships (Such As The Fortress) Have Two Range Circles?
• [edit] Ship Strategies & Errata
• Advanced Research Stations: Does Losing One Of These Matter After I've Held It Once?
• Astro Trains: What Do These Do?
• Astro Trains: How Do I Defend Against Astro Trains?
• Captive Human Settlements: Do I Gain Anything From Holding These?
• Command Posts: What Do These Do?
• Counter-Dark-Matter Turrets: What Are These Good For?
• Electric Shuttles: How Do I Effectively Attack Them?
• Engineers: How Can I Best Use These?
• Engineers: What Restrictions Are There On When An Engineer Can Repair Another Ship?
• Force Fields: How Do I Kill Them?
• Force Fields: How Much Of A Ship Needs To Be Covered By A Forcefield To Get Its Protection?
• Force Fields: What Uses Are There For The Mobile Nature Of Force Field Generators?
• Golems: What Are Golems?
• Golems: What Are The Benefits And Risks Of Capturing Golems?
• Golems: How Do I Kill A Mining Golem?
• Golems: How Do I Work With A Zenith Trader?
• Golems: How Do I Survive A Zenith Devourer?
• Golems: How Do I Interact With A Dyson Sphere?
• Guard Posts: What Do These Do?
• Ion Cannons: What Do I Do About Them?
• Lightning Turrets: How Do I Effectively Attack Them?
• Mines: Are Ships Supposed To Be Able To Slip Past Mines?
• Mines: How Do I Clear Enemy Mines?
• Mines: What Is The Best Way To Clear The Remains Of Enemy Mines?
• Mines: How To Kill PermaMines?
• Missile Frigates: Are These Overpowered?
• Orbital Mass Drivers: What Are Orbital Mass Drivers?
• Parasites: What's The Best Way To Use Them?
• Special Forces Guard Posts: What Do These Do?
• Special Forces Guard Posts: How Do I Destroy Them?
• Spiders And Weak Ships: What Are These(And Other Weaker Ships) Good For?
• Starships: How Do I Best Use Them?
• Starships: What Are Scout Starships Good For?
• Starships: How Do I Use Riot Starships?
• SuperFortresses: What Do I Do About Them?
• Tachyon Beams: Why Do Yellow Beams Come Out Of Nowhere And Hit My Ships?
• Warheads: How Do I Get EMPs, Nukes, And Other Warheads?
• Warheads: How Do I Use Nukes?
• Warheads: How Do I Use EMPs?
• Warheads: How Do I Use Lightning Warheads?
• Warheads: How Do I Use Armored Warheads?
• Warp Gates: How Does A Warp Gate