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[Flying Dice]

That pretty much sums up why I gave up playing with Real Stars: Nothing to fight, no habitable worlds, long stretches of boredom.

[Sirus]

I turned off Real Stars 

[Felius]

Not sure whether to continue this game or not. I'm barely finding any colonizable worlds outside of Sol, and the few I do find would require hyperdrive to get to. Well, let me just start that resear - oh wait! I'm 40 years in and I still don't have the right specialist. Hell, I've been firing most of my new scientists because they're all Logistics or Biology specialists with a 0% boost and maximum of five labs. There hasn't even been an NPR or Precursor robots to break up the boredom. I'm actually hoping that the one easily-reachable extra-solar colony I've found has killer robots or something on it, just to shake things up.

About specialists: That's why one of the first things I build are military academies up to level 10, with further upgrades to higher levels. At my current game I'm at military academy level 25. I have more officers and scientists than I can put to use in the whole game.

[EuchreJack]

Personally, I'd suggest just deleting the system entirely, as it sounds like its very existence will spew out endless errors.

[darkrider2]

Not sure whether to continue this game or not. I'm barely finding any colonizable worlds outside of Sol, and the few I do find would require hyperdrive to get to. Well, let me just start that resear - oh wait! I'm 40 years in and I still don't have the right specialist. Hell, I've been firing most of my new scientists because they're all Logistics or Biology specialists with a 0% boost and maximum of five labs. There hasn't even been an NPR or Precursor robots to break up the boredom. I'm actually hoping that the one easily-reachable extra-solar colony I've found has killer robots or something on it, just to shake things up.

About specialists: That's why one of the first things I build are military academies up to level 10, with further upgrades to higher levels. At my current game I'm at military academy level 25. I have more officers and scientists than I can put to use in the whole game.

The scientists alone are reason enough.

[RedKing]

That pretty much sums up why I gave up playing with Real Stars: Nothing to fight, no habitable worlds, long stretches of boredom.

Oddly enough, I'm having the opposite problem. My Real Stars campaign (on hiatus) had a fair number of habitable worlds (2 completely habitable ones right off the bat, a few more under x2 colony cost, and a TON of x2 colony cost worlds), and 3 NPRs (not counting a robust Precursor presence and the Swarm).

My current nebula-start game has found a ton of nitrogen-oxygen worlds, but every single one of them is uninhabited. I finally got a hyper-scout built to go check out two binary systems where the companion is thousands of AUs out with no L-points. Even those were uninhabited. And minerals seem to be much scarcer than in a Real Stars game (could be the prominent lack of old M-class stars?). I've run into a couple of Precursor packs and there's at least two Swarm queens out there. But no NPRs.

[Shadowlord]

I just used the 'Add Extra' button on the Commanders/Leaders screen to add 5000 dudes at the beginning of my conventional start game. That gave me around 600-700 scientists, although I had to set the leaders to auto-assign due to the slowness involved in doing anything on that screen until it trimmed down the numbers in 6 or 7 years.

This doesn't require SM mode, so I assume it's perfectly legitimate, and it resulted in enough people to have scientists in every branch with 25% bonuses, 30% bonuses, 35% bonuses, even a few with 40% and 45%, and enough people to make at least 3 full teams of every type of team made entirely out of people with 30% skill (probably enough to make more, and in retrospect, should have made more geology teams).

[darkrider2]

That is, what, I... don't even...

I just assumed that button was for RP purposes, but damn... that sounds like an awesome deal.

[forsaken1111]

You cannot cheat in a singleplayer game. If you feel you need more stuff, give yourself more stuff.

[Tarran]

You cannot cheat in a singleplayer game.

Unless you're in a competition.

But other than that, yeah, you can't cheat because the only person playing is you. I don't think it's possible to cheat on yourself.

[forsaken1111]

You cannot cheat in a singleplayer game.

Unless you're in a competition.

But other than that, yeah, you can't cheat because the only person playing is you. I don't think it's possible to cheat on yourself.

A competition is a multiplayer event. Unless, I suppose, you're competing with yourself?

[Sirus]

Mutliplayer Aurora is possible, if difficult to pull off. Steve has a number of AARs (NATO vs Soviets was one, I believe) and there have even been multiplayer Aurora games in the Play with your Buddies forum.

[Paul]

You can cheat yourself out of fun by making a game too easy, though.

Aurora has the ability to give yourself as much tech as you want, generate as many ships as you want, give yourself as many officers as you want, etc. All of those are there to allow you to set up scenarios and enjoy the game. But if you just generate anything you need I don't see how it could be much fun anymore. Most of the fun in my book is playing through with what the game gives you, even if that means getting wiped out (although that doesn't really happen except for invaders, since none of the other alien threats are all that threatening).

In short, cheating in a single player game can only cheat yourself - but if you enjoy it anyway, then you aren't cheating yourself so go ahead

[Tarran]

A competition is a multiplayer event.

Yes it is. There's a difference between event and game. An event is not the game they use for the event. So it's possible to cheat the event, but not the game if it's singleplayer.

Edit: ...What I just said proved your point 75%... Ignore me, I'm not thinking straight today.

[Lord Shonus]

Do missiles with passive tracking need fire control systems to launch?