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[Jacob/Lee]

The NPRs make bad decisions. I don't remember who, but someone here said an NPR had rather shitty technology in almost everything, but they had dumped millions of research points into jump technology. The enemy empire eventually crumbles under its own weight from a mineral fallout (I checked on my neighbor in dev mode after about 40 years, every increment they got about 60 mineral shortage warnings ) and aren't especially smart when it comes to military tactics (unload my whole magazine on this unarmed, 500 ton thing? GO FOR IT!). You also tend to outpace them in research, so after a couple decades you will have equal if not better technology than they do.

[Sheb]

Yeah. So basically, I'd suggest turning off the starting NPR (It'll only slow you down, and probably crumble before you ever find it.) but set a high chance of NPR generation (Maybe as high as 80%) and a huge difficulty modifier (200%? I'm still fiddling with this one).

That way, you'll have plenty of fresh, advanced, well-armed NPRs to battle with.


P.S. Is there a way to absorb a NPR through alliance? I'm really good friend with a race of humanlike aliens with a nazi fetish called the Powatamani (I think I'll roleplay them as exiled from a secret Nazi space program time travellers). I already got a trade agreement and get Grav- and Geo-survey data, and I hope I'll learn some techs from them, but I'm still tempted to invade them. Maybe I'll wait for them to suffer a mineral crunch and then send "humanitarian help" to save that people from its stupid government.

[Areyar]

Personally I don't like finding NPR at 80% of habitable planets, most specifically the first one I find. :/
But I've never progressed very far into the game so far.



What is a reasonble number of systems for the galaxy? (gameplay-wise, not realistically)

n.b. I'd like to RP being inside a big nebula and this comes down to generating alot of systems as nebulae beforehand (without mod-powers).
Having the default 1000 systems makes it quite a chore to generate a significant number of them.

[Metalax]

I'd put it at 100-200 to start with as you can always increase it later.

[Mini]

Last I heard the game completely ignores the limit when it makes a "local system". It's quite likely that this particular bug has been fixed since I heard about it, however.

[Sheb]

You can always rise it later. Systems are only generated when you discover them anyway.

[PTTG??]

How effective is arming fighters with just CIWS?

[Micro102]

How effective is arming fighters with just CIWS?

Very effective, if what your going for is missile flak.

CIWS don't attack other ships.

[Bremen]

Since systems are only generated when discovered, the main effect of the number of systems choice is how cluttered your star map will be. with 100 stars, once you've discovered 10 systems each warp point has a 10% chance of connecting to a system you already know; with 1000 its only a 1% chance (before the local system gen chance, at least). I tend to like playing with more so my star map doesn't get cluttered. It's very rare that more than a tiny portion will actually get activated, at least unless you have an NPR that goes crazy with survey ships(like they often do) over several decades.

[Acperience]

Redacted

[LoSboccacc]

Some  holds, some more. Research lab and terraformers are big, mines and factories standard 5 spaces big, installations and pdc are.

The wiki knows it all:
http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Installations

Civilian orders take exact quantities if you're lazy

[Jacob/Lee]

My civilians tend to trip over each other when I assign orders to move installions. Like when I move 500 mines to a colony, every. Single. Freighter. Goes and picks up mines, then all of them will be moved but there will still be something like 200 orders left and the civilians will go "what the hell am I supposed to do with these?!" despite the job being completed as far as I'm concerned.

[Mini]

How effective is arming fighters with just CIWS?

Your fighters will take an extra missile or two to be destroyed each. And won't have any offensive weapons.

[Repulsion]

Hmm, lets see, how is this:

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Missile Size: 1 MSP  (0.05 HS)     Warhead: 1    Armour: 0     Manoeuvre Rating: 62
Speed: 60300 km/s    Endurance: 1 minutes   Range: 4.2m km
Cost Per Missile: 2.5544
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 3738.6%   3k km/s 1240%   5k km/s 747.7%   10k km/s 373.9%
Materials Required:    0.25x Tritanium   2.0469x Gallicite   Fuel x35

Development Cost for Project: 255RP


I have warhead strength 10, missile engine power 6.25, missile agility 128, and fuel efficiency 0.6.

I have 0.1 in warhead, 0.014 in fuel, 0.4821 in engine, and 0.4039 in agility.

I get a 51.6992 in agility, which I know is unnecessary, but when I tweak the agility I seem to get a slightly lowered 10km/s hit chance.

wait, just tweaked agility to 0.403 and put the rest into engines, bringing it up to 0.483, getting me a hit chance of 374.5%. I still have a decimal'ized agility rating, however.

edit: also, anyone has that naming system steve used in some of his campaigns? The AAA-X one?

[Jacob/Lee]

I have a question that is related by a sliver, which game in the X-series was your favorite? I just bought all 5 on Steam and was wondering which I should try first.