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[FritzPL]

For once I don't have to be the one to advocate nuclear strikes and enslavement.

Heh, a good one. At least for me, TO THE SIG YOU GO


This is actually an interesting politics regarding NPRs - put a stealthered nuclear bomber in their orbit, as stated earlier, and make them a puppet nation, a bank account with interest - and as far as I know a 'bank' and 'interest' in one sentence are something goddamn good.

[Scoops Novel]

I hope, and suspect, that he's fairly good at online poker?

[Jacob/Lee]

There's no such thing as over-subsidizing. I dumped ~30,000 wealth each into 2 lines before.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Conquering and enslavement will come once I have suffecient ground and space forces to fight a war. I prefer to have my planets without radioactivity, please. Also, my current navy consists of a tech 3 carrier and four fighters.

[Lightningfalcon]

One technical question, and a few game related ones.
I'm trying to access the system view on 5.5.4, and I'm getting this-
Error 713 was generated by Aurora
Class not registered.
You need the folowing file to be installed on your machine. MSSTDFMT.DLL
Please report to -website link-
Where is the best place to download this file, what do I do with it, and are there any other solutions to this? 

First off, is it possible to weaponize terraforming?  Like equipping a ship with a terraforming module, putting it in orbit around an enemy planet, and then making it uninhabitable for the other empire?
Secondly, if it is possible, is it practical, and what is the most efficient way of doing this?
Lastly, can you use nuclear winter as a terraforming option? 

[Paul]

Did you follow the install instructions?

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,1830.0.html

The setup.exe is an old Microsoft install program, it should install and register all the required dlls. Just make sure you click YES to KEEP all the dll files it finds you have that are newer.

It's one of those old crappy MS install programs that makes it easy to screw up your system by having a "no to all" button when what you really want to click is a "yes to all" because "no to all" is like saying "yes please screw up my Windows install."

[Tarran]

The install does not install MSSTDFMT.DLL if I recall correctly.

Lightningfalcon, the bottom of the first post has the file, but the image on how to activate it is broken and I don't recall the steps. You could try placing the file in the Aurora directory itself instead of the syswow directory, but I'm not sure whether that's me remembering people saying to do it that way or just my mind making things up.

[Shooer]

First off, is it possible to weaponize terraforming?  Like equipping a ship with a terraforming module, putting it in orbit around an enemy planet, and then making it uninhabitable for the other empire?
Secondly, if it is possible, is it practical, and what is the most efficient way of doing this?
Lastly, can you use nuclear winter as a terraforming option?

1) Yes
2) Get to friendly status so they don't attack your terraformer, build a terraformer, orbit over the planet after making a colony there (an empty one, just made for technical purposes), set to add methane if they breath oxygen or oxygen if they breath methane.  The smallest amount will start killing them off, unless they have infrastructural.  You can also add one of the acids and other toxic gases.  But it really isn't all that practical, you may kill off a few million over a month or something like that (it's a % based of pop amount).
3) If you want the planet cold and to have slower (and possibly negative) pop growth with a cut in industrial capacity.  What you want is atmospheric dust, which any attack makes but nukes add it and radiation.  Dust just cuts the temp.

[Flying Dice]

Do note that with a multi-billion alien population, that takes a looong time. It also kills off potential taxable population and never triggers a surrender.

[nogoodnames]

It tells you how to install the library.

Just open up the command prompt (in administer mode) and enter "regsvr32 msstdfmt.dll" after extracting the file to the SysWOW64 folder. If you did everything right, it should work.

[Another]

You can drive their temperature to negative Kelvins with enough Safe Anti-greenhouse Gas.

[PTTG??]

I've always wanted to try a planet-buster barrage with a pure size 100 warhead

[Metalax]

I've always wanted to try a planet-buster barrage with a pure size 100 warhead

So something like this

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Special Delivery class Planetary Bombardment Craft    1,000 tons     9 Crew     402 BP      TCS 20  TH 600  EM 0
30000 km/s     Armour 1-8     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 15
Maint Life 4.82 Years     MSP 126    AFR 16%    IFR 0.2%    1YR 9    5YR 134    Max Repair 300 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 1.371 months    Spare Berths 0   
Magazine 100   

600 EP Photonic Drive (1)    Power 600    Fuel Use 152.77%    Signature 600    Exp 30%
Fuel Capacity 95,000 Litres    Range 11.2 billion km   (4 days at full power)

Size 100 Box Launcher (1)    Missile Size 100    Hangar Reload 750 minutes    MF Reload 125 hours
Bomber FC (1)     Range 150k km    Resolution 1
Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator (1)  Speed: 0 km/s   End: 0m    Range: 0m km   WH: 3000    Size: 100    TH: 0 / 0 / 0

Bomber ASS (1)     GPS 1     Range 50k km    Resolution 1

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

From the high tech level game I've been playing around in while waiting for the next bugfix patch.

[PTTG??]

Yep. I kind of want to sacrifice a little bit of power just so I can have a tiny engine, enough so that if there's a crippled enemy ship I can drop off this thing a few km away and have it drift over. On the other hand, that defeats the purpose of making the largest possible bomb.

[Bremen]

Yep. I kind of want to sacrifice a little bit of power just so I can have a tiny engine, enough so that if there's a crippled enemy ship I can drop off this thing a few km away and have it drift over. On the other hand, that defeats the purpose of making the largest possible bomb.

Well, 3000 isn't an even square. Clearly it should have a tiny engine and a bit of fuel, and only have a 2916 warhead. This would let it penetrate a nice 53 layers of armor.