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[Journier]

wooo well i havent played this game since before the genetic modification abilities, but my god sexy, i can colonize so many planets and have a very nice concise empire in the systems i explore. Before id have huge spread out few worlds here and there kind of shit.

Beautiful.

[Repulsion]

I do not think that there are goals in this game so much as challenges or restrictions. The closest you can get to a single Megaproject is technically just a special ship, or maybe a world with x amount of x, or such. Since Aurora is generally very 'spread-out', there isn't much mega to concentrate it into, y'know?

[Flying Dice]

I do not think that there are goals in this game so much as challenges or restrictions. The closest you can get to a single Megaproject is technically just a special ship, or maybe a world with x amount of x, or such. Since Aurora is generally very 'spread-out', there isn't much mega to concentrate it into, y'know?

I disagree. Eliminating all sentient and semi-intelligent life within the entire available galaxy is an excellent project.

[Girlinhat]

The issue is, any "megaproject" in Aurora is purposeful.  You build a giant solid gold phallus in DF, you've done something useless and awesome.  You've got 500 construction factories on an outlying moon in Aurora, you're just progressing your empire.  There's very little that is truly pointless and a sinkhole of resources, y'know?  Setting up a big colony on a non-LP Binary system is a pretty big feat though.  Destroying precursor ships or a swarm queen with gauss cannons might be suitably impressive.  But everything you can achieve, really, is either productive or unimpressive.

[Sirus]

I do not think that there are goals in this game so much as challenges or restrictions. The closest you can get to a single Megaproject is technically just a special ship, or maybe a world with x amount of x, or such. Since Aurora is generally very 'spread-out', there isn't much mega to concentrate it into, y'know?

I disagree. Eliminating all sentient and semi-intelligent life within the entire available galaxy is an excellent project.

Is that even possible? I don't think you can wipe out invaders, for example. And the game will just run slower and slower the more you find.

I thought of a few ideas, however:
Design the biggest, most batshit missile you can come up with. See how many it takes to render Earth uninhabitable.
Convert your entire population to an exclusively low-grav/temp species. Never genetically alter them again.

[Repulsion]

Yes, that would make sense.

The most mega-projecty thing you can do is design a crazy missile or ship, and possibly a crazy beam weapon (although beam weapons don't give as much space for craziness as missiles do).

Everything else is like what Girlinhat said, more purposeful than crazy.

[Flying Dice]

The issue is, any "megaproject" in Aurora is purposeful.  You build a giant solid gold phallus in DF, you've done something useless and awesome.  You've got 500 construction factories on an outlying moon in Aurora, you're just progressing your empire.  There's very little that is truly pointless and a sinkhole of resources, y'know?  Setting up a big colony on a non-LP Binary system is a pretty big feat though.  Destroying precursor ships or a swarm queen with gauss cannons might be suitably impressive.  But everything you can achieve, really, is either productive or unimpressive.

Correction: I build giant solid gold phalluses in Terraria. On Kael's server. 


Building a massive ship filled with tens of millions of colonistcicles, coating it with the maximum possible armor, filling it with hundreds of millions of units of fuel and sending it on a journey to see how far it can get before it dies is both impressive and useless.

[Sir Finkus]

Anyone have any success with the latest version and wine?

I tried installing, but all I get is a "the system could not locate the file st6unst.exe" error.  I tried browsing manually, found it, then it said it couldn't open it.  Running Ubuntu 11.10 with wine-1.3.28.  I'd love to get into this, I love spreadsheets for some reason.

[Crustypeanut]

I said it could be done, I didn't say it could be done well. 


I don't actually start getting into ships that large till the latter third of the respective tech trees, but I could theoretically build it. To be fully functional, though,  I'd probably be getting into the range of 250,000-300,000 tons, which wouldn't make it a battleship anymore.

Actually, according to EVE Online sized ships, 300k tons is still battleship territory.. Dreadnoughts in that game are over 1 million.

[SirAaronIII]

Correction: I build giant solid gold phalluses in Terraria. On Kael's server. 

That technically wasn't solid, it had plumbing. Remember?

[Girlinhat]

In Terraria, it's counted solid if it has a back wall of the same material.  That means no gold walls and stone backwalls on your phallus!

[Crustypeanut]

Has anyone here ever found a Trinary Star System?  I got a sun orbiting a sun thats orbiting a sun.   

And there are no less than FIVE planets with a colony cost of 1.9 - 2.5.  Three are orbiting one star, two are orbiting another.  Unsurprisingly, there are aliens.  I didn't even get to see them before my ship got blasted to bits in one missile salvo.

[SirAaronIII]

I think I got one of those. Then the survey ships ran out of fuel or broke or something and couldn't get back home and I didn't (and still don't) know how, so I deleted that game.

[Tarran]

Has anyone here ever found a Trinary Star System?  I got a sun orbiting a sun thats orbiting a sun.   

Considering EZ Aquarii, one of the nearest stars to Sol, is a trinary, I'd imagine that quite a few of the people who play this game have seen a trinary system. Also a trinary and close to sol is GJ 1245.

I think I got one of those. Then the survey ships ran out of fuel or broke or something and couldn't get back home and I didn't (and still don't) know how, so I deleted that game.

You deleted a game just for that?

[Crustypeanut]

Has anyone here ever found a Trinary Star System?  I got a sun orbiting a sun thats orbiting a sun.   

Considering EZ Aquarii, one of the nearest stars to Sol, is a trinary, I'd imagine that quite a few of the people who play this game have seen a trinary system. Also a trinary and close to sol is GJ 1245.

I think I got one of those. Then the survey ships ran out of fuel or broke or something and couldn't get back home and I didn't (and still don't) know how, so I deleted that game.

You deleted a game just for that?

I did not know about Trinary systems XD Its neat, though.

And I've deleted my games for some stupid reasons too.. ships running out of fuel then whining about it IS annoying, though, so I understand his point of view.  However, I would've just abandoned ship to shut the bastards up.  Let 'em rot in space.