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Treasure hunt?

May 11, 2017 9:03:38 PM from Stardock Games ForumsStardock Games Forums

After the Crusade update I noticed a build item in my Shipyard called "Treasure Hunt" the description being" "Subsidizes a private venture to an unknown places to find and collect valuable artifacts."  I've built this a couple times and there has been no messages, no new ships launched and nothing reported found.   There are a couple other missions listed as well that cost some resource or another.  How does this work? Will I get some sort of message of the status of these hunts?  Is there some where I can look at the progress of these hunts?  

Thank you.

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Reply #1 May 11, 2017 9:20:07 PM
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You should see a little mini-ship on the map go around and "do stuff". After so many turns, you should see a popup window announcing that they returned with some number of credits. And everyone is happy.

The mini-ships can be shot down and you can't control where they go, as far as i know.

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Reply #2 May 11, 2017 9:25:17 PM
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Yes, those mini ships travel from your shipyard to a dead world, and when they arrive you get a pop-up window telling you what the results were.  I have no idea how the game selects which dead world to send them to, in some cases I've seen they can be quite far away.

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Reply #3 May 11, 2017 9:56:43 PM
from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

Quoting Publius of NV,
reply 2

I have no idea how the game selects which dead world to send them to, in some cases I've seen they can be quite far away.

In the ShipMissionDefs.xml, a minimum and maximum range are assigned.


I've built this a couple times and there has been no messages, no new ships launched and nothing reported found.

What size galaxy was this on? I had this happen on the smaller galaxies during beta--I think sometimes the minimum was too large to find a dead planet. But I believe this was corrected, so this may not be related.

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Reply #4 May 12, 2017 12:55:08 AM
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OK, just saw the results.  You can find the Treasure Hunting ship in your ship list and see where it is going, when it gets there it pops-up a display of a number of credits earned.

 

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Reply #5 May 12, 2017 12:58:55 AM
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It's in the center of the screen.  It's hard to miss, so unless you got a lot of pop-ups at once, and quickly clicked through them without reading each one, you probably haven't seen it yet.

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Reply #6 May 12, 2017 1:06:23 AM
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Quoting Publius of NV,
reply 5

It's in the center of the screen.  It's hard to miss, so unless you got a lot of pop-ups at once, and quickly clicked through them without reading each one, you probably haven't seen it yet.

Sorry - I edited my post before I saw your reply.  I played a couple turns and I saw the results.  Thanks for the response!

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