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[Girlinhat]

The issue with a self-sufficient ship is that it can only produce fuel via sorium harvester, and certain minerals and equipment via salvaging.  Everything else needs a planet to mine, produce new ships, produce missiles and maintenance, and repair armor.  Unless you want to try your hand at modding, that is.

[Metalax]

You can aquire all the minerals you need via asteroid mining. However you are correct that you will need to set up a (temporary) base to produce new ships/ordanance/supplys and to conduct overhauls(though you can use maintainance modules instead of carrying facilities).

Assuming that the floatilla is the only part of your race and there is no homeworld left behind, you will also need to carry research labs. You could always try and improve your tech via salvage from more advanced NPR's however you will likely lack the production base to get into a slugging match with a more advanced enemy.

Armour repair would be a problem on any large ships as a shipyard towed along is significantly bigger than the size of ship it can repair. This would likely lead to having to build jump gates to move it to the next system. It may be a good idea to rely primarily on shields for defence as the generators can be repaired by damage control if damaged unlike armour. Alternatively you could rely on just using Fighters/FAC's/small ships for combat and no large combat ships.

Does anyone know what effects picket and extended orbit have?

They both have obvious effects, orbit at set distance and move at 1km/s etc. But what would you actually use either of them for?
Does it conserve fuel to extended orbit?

Aurora was partly built as a tool for Steves fiction so some of the commands reflect that.

Extended orbit puts the ships to the specified distance and also puts them in orbit, their relative position changing every 5 days.
Picket moves to the target and sets the taskgroups max speed to 1.

Note that using orbit with a distance of 0 is not the same as moving to a target. Ships that are using the orbit command do not show up for maintainance/repairs/refits/loading from a colony even if they are orbiting at 0 distance.

Neither order expends fuel after reaching their target.

[Draxis]

Does anyone know what effects picket and extended orbit have?

They both have obvious effects, orbit at set distance and move at 1km/s etc. But what would you actually use either of them for?
Does it conserve fuel to extended orbit?

Moving at 1 km/s reduces your Thermal signature to 0, so you can tell it to picket somewhere instead of telling it to move there and then setting the speed to 1.

[Repulsion]

Does anyone know what effects picket and extended orbit have?

They both have obvious effects, orbit at set distance and move at 1km/s etc. But what would you actually use either of them for?
Does it conserve fuel to extended orbit?

Moving at 1 km/s reduces your Thermal signature to 0, so you can tell it to picket somewhere instead of telling it to move there and then setting the speed to 1.

Picketing also, I believe, greatly reduces your fuel usage.

[Mini]

If you don't move I'm pretty sure you don't use any fuel anyway.

[Girlinhat]

If you don't move then you don't use fuel.  The picket command is to reduce your thermal for sneaking.  Like, if you're approaching a jump point where you know the enemy has a base, then you move to the edge of thermal range, then you picket forward, slowly approaching until you're in range, and fire on them in surprise.  Or picket a JP to defend it.  It's of rather limited use, but useful when you can utilize it.

[Areyar]

Er, so is there a way to make sure officers don't get declared surplus and let go? I want to keep my geology team, but I want them to stop bothering me with constant 'no minerals' reports.

Can't remember if it is 'autoassign to posts' or 'realistic promotions' that causes the retire surplus officers to take place, but you could play with them off. Alternatively make a bunch of tiny PDC's on your homeworld and assign officers that you want to keep but don't have a current task for to thePDC's then check the 'do not end tour' checkbox. Another possibility would be to make a new task group and assign them to the officers positions of the HQ and check the 'do not end tour' checkbox.

It's autoassign.

There's a division by zero error somewhere in my lasers. Is there a way I can find which design it is and get rid of it without SM mode?

You can put your teams aboard a ship, that will shut them up.

[Acperience]

What's up with designs randomly getting locked?

A ship I was designing literally 5 minutes ago got locked without me pressing the lock button. And the option for unlocking is greyed out.
No ships of that class exists yet.
No shipyard is tooled for that class.
I didn't finish adding parts.

Using the new armor bug to try and bypass the lock isn't working.

[Areyar]

So I've decided I want to make a deep space explorer spaceship that is autonomous from my main civilization.  What are some realistic designs for such a ship?  It would have to have:

1) Sensors both for stellar bodies and for new jump gates
2) The ability to build jump gates
3) The ability to refuel itself (sorium harvesters? Can you convert that to fuel on board a ship?)
4) The ability to carry various crew and science teams as well as cryo-beds for citizens in case we find a compatable planet
5) Weapons enough to defend itself from at least casual attack
6) Probably other stuff that hasn't come to mind

Any ideas on reasonable designs for such a thing?

3 : Yep. a.f.a.i.k. soriumharvesters instantly refine thorium into fuel.
edit: I meant the harvested sorium, not sure it will convert mined Sorium to fuel at all if it is stored in its cargobays.

[Girlinhat]

Not instantly, they do take time to convert, but they take sorium from jovians and convert it into onboard fuel, which is actually the only way to gather resources from a jovian as you cannot build colonies.

[LostCosmonaut]

What's up with designs randomly getting locked?

A ship I was designing literally 5 minutes ago got locked without me pressing the lock button. And the option for unlocking is greyed out.
No ships of that class exists yet.
No shipyard is tooled for that class.
I didn't finish adding parts.

Using the new armor bug to try and bypass the lock isn't working.

Enter SM mode, there should then be a button to unlock it.

[Acperience]

What's up with designs randomly getting locked?

A ship I was designing literally 5 minutes ago got locked without me pressing the lock button. And the option for unlocking is greyed out.
No ships of that class exists yet.
No shipyard is tooled for that class.
I didn't finish adding parts.

Using the new armor bug to try and bypass the lock isn't working.

Enter SM mode, there should then be a button to unlock it.

Abandoned that 50 years old game for various reason, but I'll try this next time it happens

Now is there any way to add asteroids and new bodies in SM mode? And edit bodies (gravity, orbital distance etc)

[Girlinhat]

There is in designer mode, which basically spills open most of the database for you, but it's passworded by Steve on account of designer mode changes can cause rampant bugs and thus bug reports.  However, most body attributes can be altered in SM mode, like atmosphere and such.  Just can't add a new "black body" beyond the orbit of pluto.

[MaximumZero]

What's up with designs randomly getting locked?

A ship I was designing literally 5 minutes ago got locked without me pressing the lock button. And the option for unlocking is greyed out.
No ships of that class exists yet.
No shipyard is tooled for that class.
I didn't finish adding parts.

Using the new armor bug to try and bypass the lock isn't working.

Enter SM mode, there should then be a button to unlock it.

Abandoned that 50 years old game for various reason, but I'll try this next time it happens

Now is there any way to add asteroids and new bodies in SM mode? And edit bodies (gravity, orbital distance etc)

When that happens to me, I just go to the top of the screen and change the hull type. Boom. Unlock unlocked.

[Flying Dice]

I had a rather exciting half-week away from internet. And my galactic map is even more convoluted.

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So after seeing neither hide nor hair of NPRs beyond a single survey ship cruising through Sol, I suddenly ran into three all at once. One of my survey vessels jumped into Basil in the middle of a massive confrontation between two NPRs, one side of which was pounding the other. The victor decided it would be a good idea to pop my survey ship, so I stomped their fleet into the ground with a horde of FACs and frigates, and then nuked them into submission. That was good enough, as it added 1.4b population to my empire, along with a trio of JGCs, as well as a few bits of tech. In addition, I opened hostilities with the other NPR, and found that they are still using nuclear pulse engines, so they won't be an issue. As for the race I'm fighting, the Barrackpur, they are either a large empire (as they had another, smaller world that I wiped entirely in the same system as the one I capped), or are now stuck fighting me from a minor colony, as I'm still seeing occasional ships. Oh, and they like radically different conditions, which will make them good colonists.

Specifically:
+ 0.444 to 0.148 Oxygen atm
+ -11.7 to -61.7  degrees Celsius
+ 0.53 to 2.11 g
+ 3.38 atm max
 

Better yet, less than two days after starting my invasion, another of my ships found the system of Manticore (FUCK YES), with three habitable worlds (one 0.00 cost) with another NPR sitting on the best one. They were tougher, but I still pounded them flat. Even with my fleet sitting on their shipyards and killing their colony ships and FACs as they completed, with their ground forces gone, and with me periodically nuking them, they didn't surrender. So I dropped 400 dirty nukes on them, and they wisely gave up. They didn't have any ships left, and had lost quite a bit of industry, but they bumped me two tech levels in AS, EW FC range, and Gauss cannons (as well as one in mining rate, Jump Drive SQ size and distance from point, and one in cloak efficiency), so it was well worth it.

The Danais (the fellows I conquered) help round out environ tolerances as well:
+ 0.087 to 0.299 atm Oxygen
+ 31.8 degrees to 77.8 degrees
+ 0.64 to 1.68 g
+ 4.47 atm max


So for not much effort, I tripled my population and industrial base, got close to 50 new shipyards, got a trio of JGCs, got a great tech boost, and greatly expanded my range of 0.00 col cost worlds.

Aggressive imperialism is great. 

Also, currently laying down the first hulls for my new generation of missile destroyers. I'm planning for 5-ship squadrons, with three basic destroyers, a sensor-heavy leader with a number of sensor buoys for JP and planet picketing, and a Jump Destroyer with an engine large enough to ferry an entire squadron.

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Pegasus class Missile Destroyer    16,000 tons     1121 Crew     3306.41 BP      TCS 320  TH 2600  EM 900
8125 km/s     Armour 5-56     Shields 30-300     Sensors 66/66/0/0     Damage Control Rating 30     PPV 15.84
Maint Life 4.87 Years     MSP 1292    AFR 204%    IFR 2.8%    1YR 90    5YR 1349    Max Repair 288 MSP
Magazine 571   

Internal Confinement Fusion Drive E5 (26)    Power 100    Fuel Use 50%    Signature 100    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 610,000 Litres    Range 137.3 billion km   (195 days at full power)
Delta R300/12.5 Shields (12)   Total Fuel Cost  150 Litres per day

CIWS-250 (8x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 25000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Size 4 Missile Launcher (33% Reduction) (12)    Missile Size 4    Rate of Fire 400
Missile Fire Control FC141-R20 (2)     Range 141.7m km    Resolution 20
Mjolnir-4a (143)  Speed: 30,100 km/s   End: 44.3m    Range: 80.1m km   WH: 9    Size: 4    TH: 301 / 180 / 90

Active Search Sensor MR141-R20 (1)     GPS 5760     Range 141.7m km    Resolution 20
Thermal Sensor TH6-66 (1)     Sensitivity 66     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  66m km
EM Detection Sensor EM6-66 (1)     Sensitivity 66     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  66m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

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Pegasus-J class Jump Destroyer Escort    16,000 tons     1195 Crew     3353.93 BP      TCS 320  TH 2600  EM 900
8125 km/s    JR 5-250     Armour 5-56     Shields 30-300     Sensors 66/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 25     PPV 7.92
Maint Life 1.31 Years     MSP 655    AFR 409%    IFR 5.7%    1YR 402    5YR 6030    Max Repair 441 MSP
Magazine 195   

J16000(5-250) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 16000 tons    Distance 250k km     Squadron Size 5
Internal Confinement Fusion Drive E5 (26)    Power 100    Fuel Use 50%    Signature 100    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 565,000 Litres    Range 127.1 billion km   (181 days at full power)
Delta R300/12.5 Shields (12)   Total Fuel Cost  150 Litres per day

CIWS-250 (8x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 25000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Size 4 Missile Launcher (33% Reduction) (6)    Missile Size 4    Rate of Fire 400
Missile Fire Control FC141-R20 (1)     Range 141.7m km    Resolution 20
Mjolnir-4a (49)  Speed: 30,100 km/s   End: 44.3m    Range: 80.1m km   WH: 9    Size: 4    TH: 301 / 180 / 90

Active Search Sensor MR141-R20 (1)     GPS 5760     Range 141.7m km    Resolution 20
Thermal Sensor TH6-66 (1)     Sensitivity 66     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  66m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


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Pegasus-S class Destroyer Leader    16,000 tons     1277 Crew     5524.1 BP      TCS 320  TH 2640  EM 900
8250 km/s     Armour 5-56     Shields 30-300     Sensors 550/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 21     PPV 2.7
Maint Life 0.02 Years     MSP 216    AFR 2048%    IFR 28.4%    1YR 10414    5YR 156208    Max Repair 2400 MSP
Magazine 18   

Internal Confinement Fusion Drive E7 (22)    Power 120    Fuel Use 70%    Signature 120    Armour 0    Exp 16%
Fuel Capacity 720,000 Litres    Range 115.7 billion km   (162 days at full power)
Delta R300/12.5 Shields (12)   Total Fuel Cost  150 Litres per day

CIWS-250 (6x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 25000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Size 3 Box Launcher (6)    Missile Size 3    Hangar Reload 22.5 minutes    MF Reload 3.7 hours
Missile Fire Control FC70-R20 (1)     Range 70.8m km    Resolution 20
Size 3 Active Sensor Buoy (6)  Speed: 0 km/s   End: 240d    Range: 0m km   WH: 0    Size: 3    TH: 0 / 0 / 0

Active Search Sensor MR1180-R20 (1)     GPS 48000     Range 1,180.6m km    Resolution 20
Active Search Sensor MR26-R1 (1)     GPS 240     Range 26.4m km    Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH50-550 (1)     Sensitivity 550     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  550m km

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

And yeah, I'm being lazy and playing with maint. off this time around.