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[Tarran]

We don't know why the Centauri attacked us, and we may never know.

Sounds like

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Precursors. They're ancient automatic alien spaceships. They're always aggressive to everyone.

Fuk i just did everything and said yes to all the system files tried to run game and comes up with a fukkkkk load of errors like about 50 of them  ¬¬

Did you actually do everything, or did you just run the installer? You also have to install the patch and then an update.

Here, I simplified what you have to do to get it running:
1: Download the Aurora v4.91 Full Installation.
2: Run the installer.
3: Unzip the patch zip inside the main zip (Aurora491.zip I think) to the Aurora folder ([[Drive letter]]:\Program Files\Aurora or [[Drive letter]]:\Program Files (x86)\Aurora). Overwrite all files.
4: Download the Aurora 5.20 patch.
5: Unzip all the files in the zip file to the Aurora folder. Overwrite all files.
6: Play the game.

Anyway I've been watching this, buy I would like to see it in action first, so anyone know a decent "Let's Play"

The two that had been going on this forum are dead. But the fiction section of the Aurora forum is excellent. Sure, many parts may be completely made up and not in the actual game, but it still shows what you can do with the game.

[Rift]

mm.. a let's play of aurora likely wouldnt be that good.. unless it was sped up timescale.. its not that "fast" of  game... And you spend a lot of time in places you wouldn't in other games.. or atleast i do...
Sometimes it feels like nothing "amazing" happens for many real-life hours.. instead its a lot of designing ships, managing economy/resources, building new colonies, maybe setting up some frieghter routes to transfer your minerals between solar systems.. and hten out of the blue you run into a alien race, or it runs into you.. and things get dangerous for awhile.

[forsaken1111]

mm.. a let's play of aurora likely wouldnt be that good.. unless it was sped up timescale.. its not that "fast" of  game... And you spend a lot of time in places you wouldn't in other games.. or atleast i do...
Sometimes it feels like nothing "amazing" happens for many real-life hours.. instead its a lot of designing ships, managing economy/resources, building new colonies, maybe setting up some frieghter routes to transfer your minerals between solar systems.. and hten out of the blue you run into a alien race, or it runs into you.. and things get dangerous for awhile.

The quality of a LP depends entirely on the person running it, not the game itself. A good host can make even a dull game fun in a LP setting. An Aurora LP could be run as a council of rulers, with division of duties and submission of ship designs, etc.

[AussieGuy]

Steve is planning on a sequel: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,3011.0.html

Main points:

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1) A resolution-independent game so it can be played on laptops and desktops with lower resolutions. The WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) makes this MUCH easier.

2) Centering the game around the System Map and using popups to replace many of the separate windows in Aurora I.

3) Real-time rather than stepped time. Time will be more like Harpoon or Europa Universalis where you can pause it, or accelerate it. This is isn't as different as it sounds because it will be similar to permament automated turns with the sub-pulses equal to the acceleraton rate and no defined increments. I intend to load everything into memory so the program will avoid any database access as time passes. This will improve performance considerably. You should also be able to watch ships move across the map if I can get the graphics working as I intend.

4) Keeping the basic idea of Trans-Newtonian physics to allow naval-style manoeuvers

5) No jump points <shock!>. There would be actual interstellar travel rather than jump points, based on some form of warp drive equivalent. Stars would have a 'hyper limit' beyond which you can enter hyperspace and head for another star system. Systems would all be generated at game start and you would be able to add extra systems during the game as the SM. This adds a lot of flexibility in terms of detecting things at interstellar distances. At the moment I am considering a model where ships enter a 'warp bubble' and are cut-off from the universe until they arrive in your destination system. The arrival location for each ship will be variable but will be somewhere within a certain distance outside the hyper limit, perhaps hyperlimit radius x 20%. The bearing from the destination star would be based on a bell-curve with the most likely bearing being on a direct line to the star system from which you departed. So there would effectively be a 2D toroid around the destination star where you could arrive with the most likely location somewhere close to the hyper limit on a direct line between the departure and destination system, although you might end up on the far side of the system if you were unlucky. Time of arrival would also be subject to some variance due to the 'vagaries of hyperspace'. This means a war fleet is going to arrive in a scattered way over time and will have to assemble before a centralised defending fleet can defeat them in detail. Although it also means the defending fleet may not be certain about further attacking ships arriving. Due to this method of arrival, interstellar commercial shipping would be scattered around a system rather than concentrated on a single route.

Part of the rationale behind the above thoughts is to create the interest of a jump point assault on a much wider scale without having the movement restrictions and AI issues of jump points. Ships would need existing maneuver engines and hyperspace engines would replace jump drives, although these would likely be smaller in relative terms than jump drives as they would be more widespread. Ships without hyperspace engines would be restricted to their current system, or would have to be transported in carriers. Of course, this means no gravitational surveys.

6) Tracking the mass of ships and changing it as a result of fuel consumption, use of ordnance, dropping off cargo. Max speed would change as a result. This will allow more tactical options. Possibly, also have fuel storage tanks that could be discarded, or even strap-on boosters.

7) Area damage from nuclear explosions. Missiles would detonate based on proximity and damage would be based on warhead yield and distance from detonation. This would obviously create some disadvantages to ships travelling in close formation, as multiple ships would be damaged by the same explosion, and give the player some significant decisions with regard to escort deployment. No more 'Empire State' formations. With no jump points to consider, formations would no longer have some of their current disadvantages and I would add extra functionality to make them easier to manage. It will also reduce the need to build missiles on a 4/9/16 warhead basis as only a proportion of warhead strength will be applied against a particular target. Arriving in a new star system could result in a scattered formation so ship design would have to consider whether specialised units that could be separated for some time are better than multi-purpose units than could fight more effectively in isolation. Ships on the offensive would be more likely to be isolated than ships on the defensive so grand strategy may also influence ship design.

[ScriptWolf]

Fuk i just did everything and said yes to all the system files tried to run game and comes up with a fukkkkk load of errors like about 50 of them  ¬¬

Did you actually do everything, or did you just run the installer? You also have to install the patch and then an update.

Here, I simplified what you have to do to get it running:
1: Download the Aurora v4.91 Full Installation.
2: Run the installer.
3: Unzip the patch zip inside the main zip (Aurora491.zip I think) to the Aurora folder ([[Drive letter]]:\Program Files\Aurora or [[Drive letter]]:\Program Files (x86)\Aurora). Overwrite all files.
4: Download the Aurora 5.20 patch.
5: Unzip all the files in the zip file to the Aurora folder. Overwrite all files.
6: Play the game.

done done done anddd done... but i still keep getting the errors T.T mheee i really want to play the game

Also for people trying to install if your getting errors install the game outside of program files

andddd now i have done it all i get is a grey screen when i start up :/

[Tarran]

andddd now i have done it all i get is a grey screen when i start up :/

I'm pretty sure that's normal. Look for the tabs on the top of the window. Under "Empires" there should be a "System maps" option. Click on it and you should see the system maps along with the near minimal interface at the top of the window.

You can also press F3 to open the system maps.

[exoleet]

One of my task groups isn't taking orders. It's taking them, but not executing them. It just sits there with the order. What do I do?

[Tarran]

How long have you been waiting? Task Groups inexperienced with acting in their taskforce(not taskgroup) will take a little bit to understand and execute orders.

Also, the way to tell how experienced a TG is at working with their TF is on the Task Groups window, right of the grade bonus, it says "TF Training".

Also also, there's a Task Force window, you can access it by pressing the button right of the Task Group button on the System Maps window, or by pressing Ctrl+F4.

[exoleet]

How long have you been waiting? Task Groups inexperienced with acting in their taskforce(not taskgroup) will take a little bit to understand and execute orders.

Also, the way to tell how experienced a TG is at working with their TF is on the Task Groups window, right of the grade bonus, it says "TF Training".

Also also, there's a Task Force window, you can access it by pressing the button right of the Task Group button on the System Maps window, or by pressing Ctrl+F4.

I fixed it, they had task group ships involved with shipyard orders.

Now time refuses to move more than 5-10 seconds ever since an officer died in an accident. How do I fix this?

[Tarran]

I don't know, that's not normal behavior. What was the officer doing? If you go into SM mode and open up the event window does it say that the increment is being interrupted by an NPR in combat?

[exoleet]

I don't know, that's not normal behavior. What was the officer doing? If you go into SM mode and open up the event window does it say that the increment is being interrupted by an NPR in combat?

It says it's possible. How do I fix it, then?

[Tarran]

No way to fix it. You'll have to either let the NPRs fight it out, or somehow find the system they're fighting in and delete it entirely.

[exoleet]

No way to fix it. You'll have to either let the NPRs fight it out, or somehow find the system they're fighting in and delete it entirely.

Gah. That's retarded. It shouldn't interrupt my gameplay because the NPC's are slugging it out somewhere down the galaxy's asscrack.

How long is a pulse, then? Like, how long between it automatically changes the turn?

[Tarran]

No way to fix it. You'll have to either let the NPRs fight it out, or somehow find the system they're fighting in and delete it entirely.

Gah. That's retarded. It shouldn't interrupt my gameplay because the NPC's are slugging it out somewhere down the galaxy's asscrack.

The other choice it letting NPRs fight it out un-realistically using calculations and random numbers and have the outcome be... Well... Unrealistic. Personally, I wouldn't mind it using calculations, but at the same time it'd be less... Advanced, if you get what I mean.

How long is a pulse, then? Like, how long between it automatically changes the turn?

Depends. If the ships are firing, likely around 5 seconds. If they're within firing range but not firing, 15 seconds, I think. If they're just near eachother but not in combat yet, 1 hour.

I recommend you just turn on Automated turns, press 5 seconds, and go do something else while you're waiting. Come back in a few minutes and see if it's done. Repeat until you're either sure they're just arsing around and not actually killing eachother, or until they're done killing.

[forsaken1111]

If he had the NPR ships just 'autocalc' the battle then how do you know how long the battle took? What happens if you happen to send a ship in during the combat? The combat isn't really happening, though it must take time. What would you see? "Battle here for 3 days, do not enter"?