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[Tarran]

Check the display options, there's a reduced height mode.

where at?

Game Parameters>Reduced Height Windows.

[ggamer]

thanks.

[Vorbicon]

What does making an engine Hyper capable do exactly? I imagine it probably makes it faster, but are there limitations, does it consume extra fuel when turned on, etc?

[andrea]

it makes it faster, but it only works far from a star's gravity well, has to be manually activated, and is bigger.

no clue about fuel.

beside binary systems in which a star orbits veeery far from the primary, and perhaps gravitational survey, I don't think it is useful.

[Trorbes]

Man, this game is NOT forgiving if you try to pick it up again after a year.  I just had to redesign a jump ship TWICE, because I thought a tiny ship with a large jump engine would be optimal, but turns out it's the reverse and that it's the SHIP's size which plays the larger role of what can go through...

At least this game doesn't punish you for suboptimal designing.

[EuchreJack]

Actually, it's both.  Jump ships are limited by the lower of the ship size or the jump engine max size.

[LoSboccacc]

small questions: I saw a brief on geosurvey drones, that they can fly only to targets, waypoints and f anything else fails they fly toward the sol.

I'm planning to use them sooner or later, but I wanted to ask: is there a way to use waypoints to make them traverse jumps/jumpgates?

is there a way to queue geo survey waypoint or to add a waypoint when the survey is finished so that the drone moves toward another planet or is it only possible to use one smaller drone per planet instead of a bigger one loaded with fuel?

[Areyar]

Actually, it's both.  Jump ships are limited by the lower of the ship size or the jump engine max size.

?
IIRC a ship that has a higher mass than it's engine's max size cannot jump at all.

[Trorbes]

Actually, it's both.  Jump ships are limited by the lower of the ship size or the jump engine max size.

Yes, obviously, but the problem was that I didn't realize the jump ship had to be of equal or greater size than the ship being ferried.  I had thought that the engine had to be larger than the combined tonnage, and ended up designing a 100K commercial ton jump engine and sticking it on a 35K ship to ferry a 45K salvager.

[LoSboccacc]

I've tried to register on the aurora forum but I've yet to be enabled so bear with me if I ask some newb question right here soooooooo

I see some campaign narrative done with multiple races starting on planet earth. I think one may do that with the sm mode or something, but the thing I'd like to ask is not on how to do that, but it's about them in game: are they autonomous or is the player in charge of them all?

[Rask]

are they autonomous or is the player in charge of them all?

They can be set up either way at creation.

[LoSboccacc]

are they autonomous or is the player in charge of them all?

They can be set up either way at creation.

nice! how does them make their design when autonomous? are they autonomous even in that or they fish from some sort of predetermined templates?

[Vorbicon]

I've tried to register on the aurora forum but I've yet to be enabled so bear with me if I ask some newb question right here soooooooo

I see some campaign narrative done with multiple races starting on planet earth. I think one may do that with the sm mode or something, but the thing I'd like to ask is not on how to do that, but it's about them in game: are they autonomous or is the player in charge of them all?

I registered 8 or 9 days ago and I'm STILL waiting to get enabled to post on their forums.

[Vicomt]

Yeah, I don't think the registration process is quite what it says. I've been able to post and still haven't had any registration emails.

[LoSboccacc]

Yeah, I don't think the registration process is quite what it says. I've been able to post and still haven't had any registration emails.

duh, you're right. I've tried and I'm in. That's what I get to being naive and believing in emails, I guess.