Don't laugh... plain silly just me too had a hard time figuring this out at first. For the life of me, the only 'logical' reaction was to make **A** simple ship as a TerrorStar.

But, it isn't there - of course.

Now, the usual RTFM suggestion might have worked back then - if we could have had such manual handy.

With newest update versions, players have it easy (or easier).

Yeah the terror stars are a wierd mix of over powered and under useable. Their cost and limited use over balance the fact they serve only one purpose. Sure you can vaporize a whole star system but that seems to be counter productive since you can't take over any planets (because they are gone). No population, no influence, no territory. All that effort to get one and all you get is a bunch of new asteroids and a cheesed off neighbor.

I think a terror star would be far more valuable if it was a mobile military starbase with all the trimmings.

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You can already fleet a TS.

After the last constructor has done it's job, then you must wait for 10 weeks as the Terror Star "boots up".  After that point, send it towards the star in a system and then watch the fireworks.  Note, a STAR, not a planet.  Some people have had some issues with them.

Also note, this thing oonly moves at 1 square a week...so if you can, build it right next to a star so it can be useful fairly quickly once it's operational.

Out of curiosity, will the Terror Star obliterate everything in the star system, including enemy ships and starbases?

Kool.  Reminds me of background story from a different game, Star Control 2.  In that game, a race called the Shofixti used some sort of device to trigger a nova on their homestar that destroyed a signifaicant portion of the enemy fleet, as well as the Shofixti homeworld.  I guess you could replicate that in GalCiv 2 by blowing up your homestar when there is no way out and you are surrounded by enemy ships.  Talk about going out with style.

Anyways, thanks for the info.

You can speed up the terror star by fleeting it with a ship carrying subspace bubbles or some such, the module that increases fleet speed.

Use only one though, I've had strange results.

I remember doing it with the full release, it might have been patched out of the game since then. Haven't gotten a terror star put together since but as I recall it was sort of buggy. If you had more than one of these bubble ships in the fleet, or any other ship for that matter (1 bubble + 1 TS = Go!) it wouldn't work.

And an aside, honestly I don't see why it should be hard coded. If people want to mod the ship to greater speed, why not let them? Even with the bubble fleet, its only going to move at 4 points. Its four time faster, but by the time I have a terror star my ships are flying arouund at close to twenty five. Like wise I Think it would be very interesting to add additional modules to the terror star to give it military starbase like attributes.

Build one under cover of home territory and then move it  under escort as a mobile battlestation not unlike the death star. As it is, the terror star is more of an instrument of "Hey I just shot myself in the foot" or the most expensive Mining accessory ever.

Anyway, I'm hoping to affect at least some of said changes in a mod.

I thought so, but I also remember the warp bubbles not working at one point, so I had some doubt that it was the TS fix that broke them and it got undone.

I really need to play galciv2 some more.  I'm becoming more and more out of touch with things.

It would make sense if the terror stars required more logistics than your maximum capacity, and hence were unfleetable.  Given that they can't have weapons or defenses anyway, if you place even a 1 attack tiny ship on top of it, the enemy should have to go through that ship first, if memory serves, so fleeting isn't technically necessary.

This would make the warp bubble issue irrelevant, and would help to explain why they're limited to 1pc/wk speed-because they're so huge.

I agree that as it stands it doesn't really make sense but then again the last thing I want to see is a terror star that's too powerful, and if we wind up with terror stars that aren't powerful enough instead, I can personally live with that-apologies to those who can't.

There is worse.  There is a UP law banning the construction of Terror Stars themselves.

Well, Terror Star speed should be increased if playing on larger maps, at least. Having a TS on a tiny map would be incredibly powerful, but on an immense map is just a sightseenig type of thing. ("Welcome ladies and gentleman to your trip on the TS, please be patient, as your trip is going to last 235 more weeks until we reach Andoria Prime.") On immense, at speed of 1, to travel from one side to the other will take more turns than the game is likely to last. Immense should have speed 4, Gigantic 3, Large 2 Medium and down 1. Something like that, so they are not completely worthless.

But, it can't be modded! Weeeee!