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[Sheb]

RedKing, you should consider the Precursors defectors as "We found some code that allowed us to take controle of those bots". And use the robotics soldiers as a special, elite force that can never be reinforced.

[Flying Dice]

I just have to say that the fact that you can gain mining tech from recovering ruined mines is incredibly overpowered. I've maxed out my mining tech a while back, and am now getting messages that "such-and-such Engineer Brigade has recovered a Mine and Technical Details of on Planet Whatever". 

[RedKing]

RedKing, you should consider the Precursors defectors as "We found some code that allowed us to take controle of those bots". And use the robotics soldiers as a special, elite force that can never be reinforced.

Ah, but in my game the Precursors aren't robots. They're a shadowy energy life-form that Earth thinks is an NPR bent on their destruction, and are only just now figuring out that these guys are kinda just scattered junkyard dogs. The alliance calls them Wraiths (and no, I didn't rip off Stargate: Atlantis...the default pic that Aurora chose for Precursors was a sort of dark energy-creature thing). Plus it seemed like a good fit with the relatively high ECM strength on their vessels. I picture their ships as flickering/shifting and hard to target. Plus, being energy creatures makes it easier to rationalize why I have no biodata or lifepods available for them despite capturing four different installations and blowing up a ton of ships.

[Flying Dice]

So I just encountered an event I don't think I've seen before.



Nice to see that less than a year after conquest there are already human officer candidates attending academy on Shengrali Prime. 

[RedKing]

So I just encountered an event I don't think I've seen before.



Nice to see that less than a year after conquest there are already human officer candidates attending academy on Shengrali Prime. 

Maybe they're Shengralese taking a human name? I do wish Aurora kept track of names based on racial files, so that if you had a multi-racial empire, you'd wind up with multi-racial officer pools. Even better if it tracked racial likes/dislikes, so that eventually you could have a native-born governor to help decrease unrest (but at an increased risk of revolt? I dunno....it's not something Steve seems terribly interested in, so...)

[Flying Dice]

So I just encountered an event I don't think I've seen before.



Nice to see that less than a year after conquest there are already human officer candidates attending academy on Shengrali Prime. 

Maybe they're Shengralese taking a human name? I do wish Aurora kept track of names based on racial files, so that if you had a multi-racial empire, you'd wind up with multi-racial officer pools. Even better if it tracked racial likes/dislikes, so that eventually you could have a native-born governor to help decrease unrest (but at an increased risk of revolt? I dunno....it's not something Steve seems terribly interested in, so...)

Yeah, that'd be a nice bit of added depth. Even better if we also had racial advantages; a species that evolved from fliers having a higher chance of a better Fighter Ops bonus, etc. That would give players an incentive to make a real multispecies empire for non-RP reasons.

[RedKing]

So I just encountered an event I don't think I've seen before.



Nice to see that less than a year after conquest there are already human officer candidates attending academy on Shengrali Prime. 

Maybe they're Shengralese taking a human name? I do wish Aurora kept track of names based on racial files, so that if you had a multi-racial empire, you'd wind up with multi-racial officer pools. Even better if it tracked racial likes/dislikes, so that eventually you could have a native-born governor to help decrease unrest (but at an increased risk of revolt? I dunno....it's not something Steve seems terribly interested in, so...)

Yeah, that'd be a nice bit of added depth. Even better if we also had racial advantages; a species that evolved from fliers having a higher chance of a better Fighter Ops bonus, etc. That would give players an incentive to make a real multispecies empire for non-RP reasons.

Well, beyond the incentive that some species are more suited to certain planets than humans. I typically use conquered aliens to colonize worlds outside the human range (especially where gravity is concerned).

[darkrider2]

I think there was an update, just some bug fixes though.

[EuchreJack]

No, that's pretty much one of the two issues. Essentially, we need a way to designate a ship as a colony, and a way to either set up a ship in such a way that it can repair itself, or that it doesn't need to be maintained.

Actually, I don't mind the requirement that an asteroid be required for a colony.  My concern is that it is currently difficult to run factories and research from the ship.  What if we had "Science Labs" like on Star Trek that can discover the secrets of the universe?  They'd only produce a small portion of the research of population-based research labs, but they could be run by ship crew.

[Flying Dice]

No, that's pretty much one of the two issues. Essentially, we need a way to designate a ship as a colony, and a way to either set up a ship in such a way that it can repair itself, or that it doesn't need to be maintained.

Actually, I don't mind the requirement that an asteroid be required for a colony.  My concern is that it is currently difficult to run factories and research from the ship.  What if we had "Science Labs" like on Star Trek that can discover the secrets of the universe?  They'd only produce a small portion of the research of population-based research labs, but they could be run by ship crew.

See, I was going more for the idea of genuine worldships, where you have substantial civilian populations living onboard, with onboard factories, labs, etc. that produce, say, 1/4 of the output of a groundside facility, but only take up 20k tons per facility. The ships themselves would be absurdly large by current standards (in the 10m+ ton range), and would function more as mobile colonies or bases, rather than 'proper' ships.

[Kanil]

I just started a new game of Aurora, today. I was bored and figured I'd try something new -- Aurora sometimes creates two planets of roughly equal size, one orbiting the other as it's moon. A sort of binary planet, if you will. I wanted to start my race with one of those as it's homeworld, so... generating systems we go!

Took a while to generate a system with quite what I wanted, usually the planetary pairs were around 0.4-0.6g, which is a bit too small. I did find one pair at 1.8g, unfortunately too large. After three days, and around a thousand systems (I'm exaggerating less than you might think) I finally found a planetary pair around 1g. 1.18 and 1.11, to be exact. What was really remarkable though, was that the system had a second set of paired planets, these being in the 0.6g range -- I've never seen a system with two pairs. Sadly the second set is just slightly too cold to be fully terraformed, but perhaps I'll genetically improve my race a bit.

Still, a very interesting system to start in, and I'm looking forward to playing this game. I do wish generating systems wasn't so incredibly painful, though...

[Sirus]

I admire your persistence 

Be sure to let us know how it works out!

[Flying Dice]

I've encountered something very strange, which may or may not be a bug. The single gauss turrets on my CAs and PD cruisers appear to no longer exist, according to the system display, and refuse to operate in PD mode even with proper assignment in the combat window, yet still appear on the class design. Relevant:


Their range marker doesn't show up on system view, they don't fire in their assigned PD mode.

Yet everything else is set up properly.




I've got absolutely no idea what is going on, or how to fix it. The game isn't throwing up any event messages or errors, either.

[Bremen]

Have you checked the individual ship info (f6)? I've occasionally seen ships/equipment develop aberrant info as compared to the original design, particularly after patching.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, everything still shows up properly in the individual ship screens as well.