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[Azated]

.50% power or below and 25 HS or above is a commercial engine.

[Lightningfalcon]

Why do I keep getting a "Message recieved" in the event's box?  Each time it is either years, or one or two letters like ye, r, ea, or something along those lines.

[Endymion]

Wow, my first 6.2 game is trolling me right off the bat.

Create a Geosurvey team on Earth>SURVEY COMPLETE ONE TURN LATER NOTHING ELSE CAN BE FOUND LOLOLOLOL.

Should've waited until I could survey other bodies. Sigh.

6.x mechanics. You should have waited until you were almost out of T/Ns on Earth. 

Homeworlds start flagged as having already had the survey complete.

[Flying Dice]

Wow, my first 6.2 game is trolling me right off the bat.

Create a Geosurvey team on Earth>SURVEY COMPLETE ONE TURN LATER NOTHING ELSE CAN BE FOUND LOLOLOLOL.

Should've waited until I could survey other bodies. Sigh.

6.x mechanics. You should have waited until you were almost out of T/Ns on Earth. 

Homeworlds start flagged as having already had the survey complete.

That's right, I forgot about that tidbit. Mostly because my 6.00 campaign ground to a halt around 40 years in, thanks in no small part to too much EUIII. :|

[bluephoenix]

I am using 5.45 at the moment.
Is it worth upgrading to 6.2 or another version?

[MarcAFK]

Continual capacity expansion seems broken, i should one day register on the aurora forums so i can post bugs.

[Metalax]

Continual capacity expansion seems broken, i should one day register on the aurora forums so i can post bugs.

How is it broken in your game? I just checked and it seems to be working fine in my 6.21 test game.

I am using 5.45 at the moment.
Is it worth upgrading to 6.2 or another version?

I would say yes as there have been a large number of new mechanics added and most of the bigger bugs have been dealt with. Only real reason to keep running an old version is if you have a game running that you don't want to abandon yet.

[Azated]

So I updated to the latest version (6.21) and decided to use my previous knowledge of the game to my advantage.

Since asteroid miners, terraformers and sorium harvesters rarely need to move, I thought "Why not design them without the need to move at all and just tug them into place?". My question to you is; will this design work?

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Spiculum class Asteroid Miner    102,750 tons     1007 Crew     2898.7 BP      TCS 2055  TH 0  EM 0
1 km/s     Armour 1-195     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
MSP 4    Max Repair 120 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 1   
Asteroid Miner: 20 module(s) producing 200 tons per mineral per annum


This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

(Also has a tiny engineering space. Do commercial ships even need engineering spaces?)

It's essentially just a giant mining station.

EDIT: Is there a formula for the speed a ship-to-ship tractor beam pulls another ship?

[AutomataKittay]

So I updated to the latest version (6.21) and decided to use my previous knowledge of the game to my advantage.

Since asteroid miners, terraformers and sorium harvesters rarely need to move, I thought "Why not design them without the need to move at all and just tug them into place?". My question to you is; will this design work?

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Spiculum class Asteroid Miner    102,750 tons     1007 Crew     2898.7 BP      TCS 2055  TH 0  EM 0
1 km/s     Armour 1-195     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
MSP 4    Max Repair 120 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 1   
Asteroid Miner: 20 module(s) producing 200 tons per mineral per annum


This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

(Also has a tiny engineering space. Do commercial ships even need engineering spaces?)

It's essentially just a giant mining station.

EDIT: Is there a formula for the speed a ship-to-ship tractor beam pulls another ship?

It should work, as long as it's fully crewed. And yes, commercial ship need one engineering space at minimum, but not really more, just to be buildable.

IIRC it's pretty much mass of tug plus mass of first tractored object divided by thrust, pretty much just mass from tractored object added to the ship. ( No idea if they fixed tractor chain or the extra stuff beyond first not counting mass-wise )

[RedKing]

So I updated to the latest version (6.21) and decided to use my previous knowledge of the game to my advantage.

Since asteroid miners, terraformers and sorium harvesters rarely need to move, I thought "Why not design them without the need to move at all and just tug them into place?". My question to you is; will this design work?

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Spiculum class Asteroid Miner    102,750 tons     1007 Crew     2898.7 BP      TCS 2055  TH 0  EM 0
1 km/s     Armour 1-195     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
MSP 4    Max Repair 120 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 1   
Asteroid Miner: 20 module(s) producing 200 tons per mineral per annum


This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

(Also has a tiny engineering space. Do commercial ships even need engineering spaces?)

It's essentially just a giant mining station.

EDIT: Is there a formula for the speed a ship-to-ship tractor beam pulls another ship?

It'll work, but with a 3 month deployment time, the crew will likely be ready to go home before the tug even gets them into position. For long-term ships like terraformers and miners, you want really long deployment times. I've been going with 60 months (5 years) for the stuff designed to operate in Sol. For extra-solar vessels, you may want to increase that considerably. I've seen a few people post designs with 1200 month deployments (100 years!).

[MarcAFK]

Continual capacity expansion seems broken, i should one day register on the aurora forums so i can post bugs.

How is it broken in your game? I just checked and it seems to be working fine in my 6.21 test game.

Actually it seems my shipyard was set to "pause" but when on continual capacity expansion there was no actual notification of it being paused. It was visible when i switched to something else, like 1000 ton expansion.

[AutomataKittay]

So I updated to the latest version (6.21) and decided to use my previous knowledge of the game to my advantage.

Since asteroid miners, terraformers and sorium harvesters rarely need to move, I thought "Why not design them without the need to move at all and just tug them into place?". My question to you is; will this design work?

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Spiculum class Asteroid Miner    102,750 tons     1007 Crew     2898.7 BP      TCS 2055  TH 0  EM 0
1 km/s     Armour 1-195     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0
MSP 4    Max Repair 120 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Spare Berths 1   
Asteroid Miner: 20 module(s) producing 200 tons per mineral per annum


This design is classed as a Commercial Vessel for maintenance purposes

(Also has a tiny engineering space. Do commercial ships even need engineering spaces?)

It's essentially just a giant mining station.

EDIT: Is there a formula for the speed a ship-to-ship tractor beam pulls another ship?

It'll work, but with a 3 month deployment time, the crew will likely be ready to go home before the tug even gets them into position. For long-term ships like terraformers and miners, you want really long deployment times. I've been going with 60 months (5 years) for the stuff designed to operate in Sol. For extra-solar vessels, you may want to increase that considerably. I've seen a few people post designs with 1200 month deployments (100 years!).

Does it really affect it's function, though? Seems like it only affect military-related matters, from what I've seen said on Aurora forum, not civilian things. At least I saw Steve mentioning that he'd turn off morale warning for non-military ships either in current or future version.

[MarcAFK]

Took a bit of digging to find this post:
"No Morale Message for Unaffected Ships

This is a v6.20 change.

Morale messages will now only be shown for ships that are likely to be affected by low morale. This includes armed ships and survey ships. As a reminder, morale modifies crew training and fleet training scores, so the factors affected by low morale are:

Weapon accuracy
Survey speed
Maintenance failures
Transit delays for weapons/sensors
Speed of response to orders during combat

So freighters, colony ships, fuel harvesters, terrafomers, jump gate construction ships and all the other 'commercial' type classes, are very unlikely to be affected by morale. Aurora has its own internal classification for designs based on what they contain, so if you decide to put a weapon on a terraformer for example, Aurora will class that as a warship for the purposes of determining whether to show morale messages.

Steve"

[Sheb]

So yeah, your mine will react less quickly during a combat. But since they can only look threatening and try to bulge (and failing), there is not much point.

[Endymion]

"Captain, hostile contacts on the sensors!"

"We don't have sensors, Jeff"

"Erm..."

"Nevermind, bring us about, plot an intercept course, raise shields, and prepare to fire main weapons."

"Sir.... we're a mining station. We don't have any of those things..."

"Well... target them with our mining modules. We'll turn that scum into neatly ordered piles of base elements."