Send Message

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Ships and ground bases are able to transmit a message to another race. The race that receives the message will be able to see where the message came from. If the message is being sent to a friend this should not be anything to worry about. If the message is going to a race that is an enemy or possible future enemy it might be a good idea to have the message sent from a ship or planet that is far from your important worlds.

The quick way of selecting your transmitter is by clicking on the object that you wish to be the transmitter on the main star map. It will pop up in the space command panel. On that panel make it your current hammer or anvil object. On the send message screen you can now make the current hammer or anvil object your new transmitter by clicking the hammer or anvil buttons on the right panel. The current hammer or anvil object will become the new transmitter. Every message can be sent from a different transmitter if you wish. When you first open the send message window the very first available transmitter will be used as the transmitter. If you make a new message it will use the same transmitter as the last selected message.

You can select previous and next messages, delete messages, and view a list of message subject titles from the upper right part of the control panel. Select all transmitters will load all the ships and bases you have into the space command panel. You also have the option of loading just the ships or just the bases into the space command panel so that you can quickly pick a different transmitter.

The left set of buttons allow you to select which races you want the message sent to. The races button will bring up the very detailed race select screen that will give you information on all other races in the game.