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[Jacob/Lee]

By my standards, no. I have 3680 on Earth right now for a grand total of 154896 BP/year.

[LoSboccacc]

how do you keep them fed? it will take a lot of minerals!

[Flying Dice]

Massive shipping operations/heavy use of the SM hand?

[Jacob/Lee]

I build all the stuff I need in massive bursts, cranking out hundreds of mines in 2 months. Between two construction projects, minerals from all over controlled space come in and pile up by the hundreds of thousands.

[Repulsion]

Does population affect researching any?

Also, what's that guide to terraforming Mars?

Edit: Annnnd...

How many troop transport bays to transport an engineer brigade? 5?

[LostCosmonaut]

I think as long as you have enough population to man the research facilities, it will go at full speed. Each research facility requires 1 million population in the manufacturing sector.

I think you need about .22 atm of CO2 and .1 atm of oxygen to terraform mars fully. Possibly a small amount of other stuff to reduce the oxygen percentage.

And yes, you do need five transport bay to transport an engineering brigade.

[Flying Dice]

To the first: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,3871.0.html

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Mars
CO2 - 0.227 atm (~61%)
O2 - 0.105 atm (~28%)
N2 - 0.043 atm (11%)
Total: 0.375 atm

Total changes in atmosphere: 0.365 atm
Effort: Minor
Notes: None

I think this is something like the fifth time I've posted this. Magnnus, if you're still hanging around this thread, would you mind editing the OP to include this link?

[MarcAFK]

To the first: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,3871.0.html

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Mars
CO2 - 0.227 atm (~61%)
O2 - 0.105 atm (~28%)
N2 - 0.043 atm (11%)
Total: 0.375 atm

Total changes in atmosphere: 0.365 atm
Effort: Minor
Notes: None

I think this is something like the fifth time I've posted this. Magnnus, if you're still hanging around this thread, would you mind editing the OP to include this link?

While i realise that this works, personally i like to get a higher air pressure with less than 1% CO2, because even though aurora doesn't care about it, 60% is far more than lethal :/
Then again that "safe greenhouse gas" is rather gamey anyway, but i like to just imagine that we've used other methods of providing heat, massive areas of heat absorbing terraforming on the surface, maybe space mirrors or something also"
Edit: also there is probably a possible combination of other greenhouse gasses that would work well enough, from wikipedia:
"N2O is a greenhouse gas with tremendous global warming potential . When compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), N2O has 310 times the ability per molecule of gas to trap heat in the atmosphere.." Which amounts to like .20 % compared to that 60% CO2, while i realise it isn't exactly like that since that 300% is based on the vastly higher longevity of NO2 vs CO2, methane also is a good greenhouse gas, a shame Aurora doesn't allow any, since :
" This means that a methane emission will have 25 times the effect on temperature of a carbon dioxide emission of the same mass over the following 100 years. Methane has a large effect for a brief period (a net lifetime of 8.4 years in the atmosphere), whereas carbon dioxide has a small effect for a long period (over 100 years)""Methane is not toxic; however, it is extremely flammable and may form explosive mixtures with air.The concentration of methane at which asphyxiation risk becomes significant is much higher than the 5–15% concentration in a flammable or explosive mixture"
So i imagine that my safe green house gas includes things like methane, nitrus oxide, ozone, water vapor, etc"

[Areyar]

One thing: I would suggest that you recommend staying on the System View screen, as that allows you to monitor ship activity, access every window via the top bar, and view events as they occur. The events in particular are important, as they will alert you to everything from research projects completing to ground combat results to new thermal contacts being registered to new leaders being recruited, allowing the player to easily manage every aspect of the empire each turn. A typical turn for me will consist of me running a five day tick, reading the events log (which needs to be switched on from the Display tab on the bottom left), and addressing each point as necessary, opening the proper windows, doing what I need to do, and closing them. The issue with staying on the economics window for most of the time is that you won't notice things happening until you happen to go to a relevant tab or window and realize that something is different, which can radically reduce both your efficiency and your response time to threats.

Me too.
Personally I monitor the game with the systemview in window-mode, set to cycleturn and moved to the right so that the 30-day button has still a bit showing.
At the same time the event log window is shoved to the left so that the column with event information is still visible with the systemview on top.
Most events will halt the auto-turn sequence. 

[Flying Dice]

I'll be honest, though, none of our methods are really "best" in any sense of the word. To play Aurora properly you need a triple widescreen monitor setup.  Or a monitor for each window. 

[LoSboccacc]

Or wine and a virtual desktop setup.

I kid, I kid.

[Metalax]

patch for vesion 5.55 is out. Bunch of bug fixes including no more fitting infinate number of ships into a hangar, fighter sizes getting rounded up so a group wouldn't fit into a hangar, excessive income from hybrid colony/luxury liners and time remaining on buyoys/missiles at a waypoint arriving at different times all getting set to the lowest time remaining.

[Areyar]

Cool.
Have you ever had that you had to manually type in names for recruits?
I guess one of the officer name 'flavours' I selected is not working.

[Flying Dice]

I never have had to. I normally run with 20% splits between English, Russian, Japanese, German, and Arabic.

[PTTG??]

That reminds me, I've got to try making a tiny tiny tiny fighter in a fighter with a boat bay, in a FAC with a larger bay, in a slightly larger FAC, up to a super death star. Maybe have it so each one has a single box rocket launcher too.

You think I've just got a weird one-shot death star? Wait until it matryoshkas out and launches all the rockets.