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[Tarran]

Yeah, it does have a lot of stuff involved. Also: The pace of the game at peacetime is quite slow (although, due to combat, it's sometimes even slower at wartime). I'm not surprised you didn't like it, you either get past the huge amount of management, and enjoy the game. Or don't and dislike the game.

[OmnipotentGrue]

It seems like an intuitive idea, though. I mean, the amount of depth it looked like it had was amazing - unfortunately, this is also one of my major turn-offs about the game. This is coming from an avid DF player, who plays without a tileset or third party programs (I can honestly say I love DF's interface, and ASCII is much easier to understand than tilesets). Crazy stuff.

[Tarran]

Yeah, I know, it's extremely complex. But then again, wasn't Dwarf Fortress the first time you played it?

I suggest you check out the fictions though, even if you don't play the game, they can be really interesting.

[OmnipotentGrue]

wasn't Dwarf Fortress the first time you played it?

Funny, that - not at all. I had an extremely easy time understanding DF. A couple of things, like metalworking, I didn't get worked out until later, but all the rudimentary stuff was a cakewalk.

[Shades]

Yeah, I know, it's extremely complex. But then again, wasn't Dwarf Fortress the first time you played it?

It's not that Aurora is complex, to be honest it's not really that complex at all but that is another point. The difficulty, I find anyway, is that the interface is painfully hard to use and unstable and there is too much data in your face when you first start.

DF does suffer from the data issues a little but not to the same extent, a lot of the screens you might not even see until you need them.

[Paul]

Aurora is like a spreadsheet that you play as a game. Data data everywhere. It can be quite confusing until you figure out what it all means.

I still enjoy it though. The thing that has stopped me playing lately is the wormhole addition. Those things keep popping up in Sol. The first time it was kinda cool and I managed to fight them off for a while, but after a while it just became tedious since not only did they keep attacking Sol but they appeared in my two adjacent systems too. Instead of building up to explore the stars and meet the NPRs it just turned into Wormhole Defense Force.

[Mini]

This (the wormholes) is why I haven't been playing for a while. At the moment you can turn them off, but you also turn precursors and another thing off. In the next version you will be able to choose which ones you want turned on, which will probably make me play again.

[nichaey]

Wormholes will no longer be game breakers in the 5.2, so you might not want to turn them off.

Also, Steve plans to make 5.2 the next "stable" version.

[Cheese]

This game gives me various types of gasms but I hate having to bump my resolution up, it makes everything hard to read.

[forsaken1111]

This game gives me various types of gasms but I hate having to bump my resolution up, it makes everything hard to read.

You have summed up the entire thread.

[Paul]

Yea, this game would be a pain on a small monitor or laptop.

Luckily I have a decent sized LCD desktop, so playing it is easy enough.

I haven't been playing lately, though - Shores of Hazeron has me sucked in lol.

[jocan2003]

to be honest when i get them i simply turn SM on and *cheat* my way till they die thats IF they spawn in sol, it happent once only. All the other time i had massive fleet picketing the wormhole and waiting them, with some Slow moving massive weapon platform with massive amount of Anti-missile defense system, so their torp get wasted. BUT!!! i found a non-cheat way to stop their torpedoes!

First you need massive amount of size 1 missile and simply spam them with 20-30 missile per wave shooting each 5 second, they will turn their torp into anti-missile system, while your fighter get closer and real missile strike them too. You can safely get into weapon range with FAC so as long you do have missile launching.....

[Tarran]

5.20 Is out!

[Aklyon]

This sounds cool, but how do you play it at a smaller resolution?

[Tarran]

You can't unfortunately, unless you get ResizeEnable, extend your desktop past it's limit (XP only) or you can check this thread and see if you can find something.

Good luck!