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[Flying Dice]

Ah, that was what the AFAIK was for. For some reason I was thinking that it didn't do that.

[Karlito]

We should make Dwarf Fortress/Bay12games themes for this game.  Especially since googling "Aurora game" gets this thread instead of the actual website...

How does one even go about adding a new theme? I don't see them stored in the installation directory anywhere.

[Metalax]

Create them and send them to Steve. He's added in a few themes people have sent him.

[creodor]

The answer to this thread is Peter Watts.

Vampires as ideal starship crew? Blindsight
Questions of breathing water? The Rifters Trilogy (Starfish, Maelstrom, Behemoth)

I just want you to know, those books managed to murder an entire work day's productivity. I'm glad I can manage a couple day's of work in one day.

[LoSboccacc]

I am still not going back to play until 5.7 (6.0?) come out. Cant wait for newtonian aurora, but when next patch comes steve will have most of NA mechanics coded and "only" need to rewrite AI. Then there is nothing more to wait than aurora2, which finally load database into memory rather than reading from hd every time (like thousands time faster access to data).

I'm waiting newtonian

I love this game; I simply can stand the five second madness when you have a populate (=interesting) universe.

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I don't know, it seems that I'm exceptionally unlucky or that I'm exceptionally stupid and can't manage to make the autoturns work reliably to get me out of sticky situations or I simply have a lower tolerance.

[EuchreJack]

My original idea with creating a theme is that it would have our forum member's names included as potential commander names...

...but then I looked at how many members we have.  Even if we exclude anyone with less than 50 posts, there is still 5000 people.

How many names should a new theme have?

I'm unsure as how to create a new theme myself.  But I do know that we need a list of new officer names, along with new rank names for the various officer types.

Actually, I think these are seperate.  Theme is the list of new names for officer ranks and types.  The list from which commander names are chosen is different.

[PTTG??]

I'd say use the top 200 posters as character names. Use the top 200 read threads as ship names.

Throw in any major characters who are still missing.

Holy crap, I've got more than 7000 posts. Anyway, yeah, get the first 10 pages from here.

[Dutchling]

Top 211 posters please

[Sirus]

I'm in the top 200?!
Nowai. I don't think that's ever happened on a forum, even ones where I was an early member.

[The Scout]

Cool, I'm number 90. So I guess you have a guy called The Scout.

[RedKing]

Oh. For names, I was thinking "Urist", "Rakust", "Thob", etc.

Unrelated: Holy crap, I'm #71?

[The Scout]

Oh. For names, I was thinking "Urist", "Rakust", "Thob", etc.

Unrelated: Holy crap, I'm #71?

You post too much.

[Girlinhat]

+1 vote for actual dwarf names, not forum names.  Just crack open the language file and there you have a valid list of names!

[Dutchling]

Would probably be a lot more fitting too.

You could always give ship classes thread names and the individual ships names of forum members active in the AAR thread (assuming you're gonna do that).

[Sirus]

+1 vote for actual dwarf names, not forum names.  Just crack open the language file and there you have a valid list of names!

+2. Use people's usernames, and you're just begging for someone to say "I didn't give you permission to use my name!" and getting the list pulled (or at least raising a fuss). Use the various language files.

For titles, I'm thinking
Civilian Administrators = Mayors
Scientists = Moody/Legendary Dwarves
Ground Combat Ranks = Peasant, Wrestler, Hammerdwarf, Sheriff, Royal Guard
Navel Ranks = Recruit, Marksdwarf, Siege Operator, Captain of the Guard, Champion

(names subject to change without notice)