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[Sheb]

Trade bring in money. More planets means more population (small population grow faster).

[RebelZhouYuWu]

Can a mass driver shot through jump gates into another system?

[Jacob/Lee]

Nope. In-system only.

[Dutchling]

I just noticed why I didn't have as much space left on my computer as I thought I have: Aurora.
It's 18.2GB! That's twice the amount of Starcraft II 

also: I just noticed that one of the systems I explored has the (presumably precursor) flag at the star map. I haven't seen anything yet in that system and the system where one of my survey ships got fried by them is not listed as theirs. When is a system considered owned by another race?

[Areyar]

A settlement?

AFAIK you can manually designate a system as being owned by any empire/faction on the starmap?
But it's been almost a year since I played a few games.

[gimlet]

I just noticed why I didn't have as much space left on my computer as I thought I have: Aurora.
It's 18.2GB! That's twice the amount of Starcraft II

Wow, even with 22 copies of the database my Aurora directories only take up 1.2G, what is taking up your space?  I do kill the process when I see it starting to bloat up the database, I've let it go overnight in the past and never seen it actually recover from that state , so I don't feel like I'm losing anything killing it quickly. 

Also, databases do compress quite nicely,  I have another 20 dbs from early in the game of about 58M each and they 7zip down to 111M

[Dutchling]

My Aurora folder is 264 MB. But windows claims the program Aurora is 18.2GB when I was removing some games to make room for another one. Guess windows is counting the whole system32 folder or something >.>

[Jacob/Lee]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A stable wormhole has opened 4 jumps from Sol.

I'm scared 

[Tarran]

Unless you're very bad at defense, you should be able to cream them if they come towards Sol by camping the Jump Points.

When one opens IN Sol, then you really should be scared. Otherwise, not really.

[Yodamaster]

My Aurora folder is 264 MB. But windows claims the program Aurora is 18.2GB when I was removing some games to make room for another one. Guess windows is counting the whole system32 folder or something >.>

Go ahead and uninstall windows.

[Jacob/Lee]

Unless you're very bad at defense, you should be able to cream them if they come towards Sol by camping the Jump Points.

When one opens IN Sol, then you really should be scared. Otherwise, not really.

Getting creamed by them would be bad. Getting creamed like the Precursors would be even worse and just downright humiliating.

[Ametsala]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A stable wormhole has opened 4 jumps from Sol.

I'm scared 

I had fun once:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The lasers of the Hippers couldn't make it trough the shields so I cheated and made a new class with mesons.
There're are 80 wrecks in the system and 3 of them came from the wormhole which is 1 jump from my home system 

Good times

IIRC there was a bug with deconstructing artifacts. Something like screwing up the research in the colony. Has it been fixed?

An other thing I'd like would be some decent algorithms. The loading time for the "population and production" screen (F2) dropped from ~30 seconds to ~5 seconds after I deleted all my ground units. (yeah, I cheated and deleted them from the database file. One google search will find you a program that gets you the password for a mdb file)

[forsaken1111]

You can also just ASK for the password. The only reason he passworded it was to keep people from messing with it and then crying about what they broke. He will give it out when asked.

[Kanil]

Hey guys, it seems that fighters aren't very good... or at least, not very fast.  At my current engine tech  (Magneto-plasma, with 15% power increase) a 250 ton fighter only goes 11,000km/s. But my gunboat engine sends a 1,000 ton ship to 9,200km/s.

Seems like giving up 750 tons of ship for just 1,800km/s of speed doesn't seem like a good trade. Am I just doing something wrong?

[Bremen]

Hey guys, it seems that fighters aren't very good... or at least, not very fast.  At my current engine tech  (Magneto-plasma, with 15% power increase) a 250 ton fighter only goes 11,000km/s. But my gunboat engine sends a 1,000 ton ship to 9,200km/s.

Seems like giving up 750 tons of ship for just 1,800km/s of speed doesn't seem like a good trade. Am I just doing something wrong?

250 tons is pretty big for a fighter. Since they're limited to one engine, the smaller the better.

Also, one fighter isn't likely to beat one gunboat, but there's not reason it has to be 1 on 1. Also, fighters are built by fighter factories, which is a nice advantage (no retooling)