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[Mini]

And don't submit bug reports after you've edited the database, etc.

[Tarran]

Yeah. We don't want Steve getting upset again and changing the passwords again.

[PremierMeridian]

Where's Flying Dice's signature when you need it?

Nanananaaaaa!~

I'll try it

Edit: drat! It didn't work, maybe my Screen is actually retarded, maybe when I get a new one, I'll try this game out again

Out of curiosity, what resolution are you trying to play it on?

My resolution is 1024 x 768   

This is what Windows 7 tells me, so I can only go by this.

[MrWiggles]

So, has Aurora II been released?

[MarcAFK]

Steve has said he's working more on newtonian aurora, aurora II is basically shelved atm.

[Hanzoku]

Don't expect a release of Newtonian Aurora or Aurora II for... well, years. It'll be released when it gets released, but there will never be a schedule or expected time for it.

[Metalax]

Steve has said that he expects the first release of newtonian to be in months rather than years, but yes Aurora II is a long way off.

[MarcAFK]

Seriously, months? Thats great,i was expecting a long wait for even an alpha.

[PTTG??]

He went back to sleep again several weeks back. He works in fits.

I'm really looking forward to newtonian... If I'm going to play a hard science fiction setting, it had better have newtonian movement in space.

[Sowelu]

I wonder if Newtonian will let me paint targets with a relatively-stationary capital ship, then strafe my enemies with relatively relativistic fighters.  They'd be almost impossible to lock onto, but would have a super simple firing solution given to them.

Otoh, you don't need to lock onto a relativistic enemy.  Just throw out a cloud of flak.

Otooh, if they are just trying to ram, a front-armored sabot loaded with maneuvering thrusters doesn't give a fuck about your flak.

[Mini]

I wonder if Newtonian will let me paint targets with a relatively-stationary capital ship, then strafe my enemies with relatively relativistic fighters.  They'd be almost impossible to lock onto, but would have a super simple firing solution given to them.

You can already do this, unless you mean linking the weapons on the fighters to a fire control on the capital ship instead of just an active sensor on the capital ship, and it's pretty unlikely this is going to change.

[Flying Dice]

Where's Flying Dice's signature when you need it?

Nanananaaaaa!~

I'll try it

Edit: drat! It didn't work, maybe my Screen is actually retarded, maybe when I get a new one, I'll try this game out again

Out of curiosity, what resolution are you trying to play it on?

My resolution is 1024 x 768   

This is what Windows 7 tells me, so I can only go by this.

I don't really know what problem you're having, then. I'm also playing on a 1024x768 resolution screen with no issues after following those steps.

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Wasn't it clarified a while ago that Newtonian Aurora/Aurora II are different names for the same thing? But either way, looking forward for an alpha of Newtonian, even if it is hardly playable.

[Karlito]

Nah, I'm pretty sure they're different. Newtonian Aurora is going to run off the same VB6 database thing we've got now. Aurora II was a planned rewrite of current Aurora in a more modern programming language (C# I believe). There's some similarity in the design goals of both (no jump points, etc), but I think they're still distinct projects in Steve's mind. I'll try to find a post where he clarifies that.

EDIT:  From Aurora forums

Just a question in regards to the features you have posted about Newtonian aurora: Will any of the new aspects of Newtonian aurora be ported over to Aurora 2? Like the equations mechanics or balancing. Because I think it would be good if Aurora 2 would be a mixture of both Aurora and Newtonian Aurora, from what I have read about both games. 

At this point I don't even know if Newtonian Aurora will actually work . I hope so but it is an experiment as to what is possible. If it turns out to be playable then I'll make a decision then on what to include in an eventual Aurora II. That is a long time in the future at the moment though.

Steve

So Aurora II may be newtonian, but it isn't Newtonian Aurora 

[Flying Dice]

Even better, then! 


Because while Newtonian sounds fun, I also like the current system, so that would be the best of both worlds, assuming both of them ever get to a playable alpha state.

[Drago55577]

Steve has said he's working more on newtonian aurora, aurora II is basically shelved atm.

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Just so you know, Star Ruler is basically that and with heavy modability and fully 3D with 3 dimensional movement, combat is see able (as in every shot) ships the size of stars, ships blowing up stars, ring worlds , planets with thrusters blowing up stars, That's no Moon sized ships and I'm going way off topic:/

And here's the linkhttp://starruler.blind-mind.com/
Anyway, how exactly do I colonize other planets?