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[Tarran]

Sure, it'll also be possible to travel FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS in time!

[Flying Dice]

Aurora 2

WHAT!? HOW!? WHEN!?

After Half Life Episode 3, I'm guessing.

The first mentions of Aurora 2 on the main board go back to 2010, but there's been very little said on the matter over the last year or so.  Steve's got a day job, so not a lot of time for recreational code noodling.

He's apparently mostly switched over from updating Aurora to working on Aurora 2. Notable features include a new (Honor Harrington-style, presumably, given the travel mode and exit parameters) FTL system, Ronin.

[Lightningfalcon]

I think I remember him mentioning proper newtonian physis too.  And it's being programmed in some different language. 

[Hanzoku]

Yah, but don't hold your breath. He's still working on the next patch for regular Aurora, and an Aurora 2 is probably years down the line. You might have more luck with the fan-created Pulsar 4x, though that also is going to be in development for some time.

[Crabnumber]

Whats this Pulsar 4x?

[Hanzoku]

Check the Aurora forums, there's a sub-forum for Pulsar 4x. The short form is it's a recreation of Aurora/Aurora 2 that Steve gave his blessing to after enough people bugged him long enough about wanting to work on Aurora as well. It's currently well before Alpha, so while you can read some ideas and see some early screenshots, there's absolutely nothing playable yet.

[Crimson]

Hey guys. For the first time, I got a note that a stable wormhole opened up in one of the systems I previously explored. It also gave me a missing component error. Is that normal?

As for that system, I've only got a Jump gate construction ship there so I can't see anything myself. The system is two jumps away from Sol so it should be safe but I'm still a little worried since there's a large swarm fleet which I accidentally fed with a 150k ton jump gate construction ship and 2 6000 ton exploration ships. They're in different system just a jump away from a small colony and another jump away from sol. I've got a small but decently armed sized fleet (1 heavy cruiser, 2 fighter transports, 5 light cruisers, 7 missile destroyers, 4 destroyers, 16 frigates and a multitude of missile equipped gauss fighters and a few railgun equipped ones) though they're still undergoing task force training and 1/3 are like below 50% in training. Once most of my ships are trained, I'm planning to lure the swarm through the jump point and prepare a trap of some sort. There's no jump gate built yet in the system the swarm is in so is that plan possible?

[Flying Dice]

IIRC not all Queens can jump. It would also depend heavily on your TL and what your ship designs look like. Fast, unarmored, E/KW-heavy ships are the best solution for dealing with Swarm; if you can outrun the Soldiers (or at least come very close to matching their speed) while thinning them out with lasers or railguns that will leave you free to do the same to the Queen(s). Missiles tend to be wasteful against Queens because of their thick, fast-charging shields, and of course armor and shields of your own are useless. Of course with a wormhole open near Sol the Swarm are the least of your problems, but I'll leave you to stumble across that on your own. 


e: I think I've been watching too many Super Robot shows. My next campaign is going to be another "last colony" scenario with ~1m population, minimal industry, near-conventional tech, and a mineral-rich system with many terraformable worlds... with a single small, very high-tech warship. 

[Crimson]

Wew. Got a good scare just now. Upon opening Aurora, I was greeted with some sort of database error followed by tons of Error 91 before promptly crashing after managing to get through all of that errors. It ran fine after opening it up again.

Most of my research is focused on PP so I'm actually up to Magnetic Confinement Fusion Drives with Inertial Confinement Fusion Drives coming around 3 to 4 years in game. My military ships though were built when I still had Magneto-plasma Drives so they're not as fast as they could be. The rest of my technology other than Construction and Logistics is behind by around a decade or so.

As for the ship designs, I've been basing the design on UNSC ships from Halo so my ships only use armor while equipped with several missile launchers and around one or two railguns at least.

Like this. Component names are not very informative.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Agincourt class Light Cruiser    17,650 tons     472 Crew     4931.92 BP      TCS 353  TH 1134  EM 0
6424 km/s     Armour 5-60     Shields 0-0     Sensors 45/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 30     PPV 30.96
Maint Life 7.34 Years     MSP 5239    AFR 83%    IFR 1.2%    1YR 170    5YR 2557    Max Repair 567 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 72 months    Flight Crew Berths 0   
Hangar Deck Capacity 250 tons     Troop Capacity: 1 Company    Magazine 447    Cryogenic Berths 400   

LC35/M-PD Engine (3)    Power 756    Fuel Use 41.29%    Signature 378    Exp 13%
Fuel Capacity 1,250,000 Litres    Range 30.9 billion km   (55 days at full power)

Mk. VI CIWS Magnetic Accelerator Cannon (4x10)    Range 1000 km     TS: 20000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Mk. 30 Magnetic Accelerator Rail Cannon (2x4)    Range 350,000km     TS: 6424 km/s     Power 21-6     RM 5    ROF 20        7 7 7 7 7 5 5 4 3 3
MARC Large Targeting System (1)    Max Range: 384,000 km   TS: 7500 km/s     97 95 92 90 87 84 82 79 77 74
S21/SFR Power Plant (2)     Total Power Output 24    Armour 0    Exp 5%

M24 Dagger Missile Pod (12)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 150
M36 Longbow Missile Pod (6)    Missile Size 3    Rate of Fire 115
Longbow Missile Fire Control System (6)     Range 82.0m km    Resolution 40
Dagger Missile Fire Control System (12)     Range 13.0m km    Resolution 1
Dagger Interceptor Missile (222)  Speed: 28,800 km/s   End: 5.8m    Range: 10m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 528/316/158
Longbow Anti-frigate Missile (75)  Speed: 32,000 km/s   End: 47.2m    Range: 90.7m km   WH: 5    Size: 3    TH: 245/147/73

Missile Detection RADAR System (1)     GPS 120     Range 21.6m km    Resolution 1
'Ray' LIDAR System (1)     GPS 12000     Range 305.5m km    Resolution 50
Infrared Sensor (1)     Sensitivity 45     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  45m km

Strike Group
1x Comet Dropship   Speed: 17391 km/s    Size: 4.6

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

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


Now that I look at it, I think my supposed anti-frigate missile is too weak and that the deployment time of my ship may be a little too long. Also, I just realized that my Light Cruiser doesn't have a spare berth for the dropship...

No EW Sensors researched yet for RP purposes (although I didn't know that they're actually used for detecting Active Sensors till I checked the wiki). Probably gonna use it after managing to deal with the Swarm (if my fleet survives) for my 2nd gen ships.

[lastverb]

What I hate about aurora?
Steve implements a lot of new things, but don't eliminate simple, gamebreaking and very old bugs (like non-aggression of invaders with swarm and precursors, but they still cause interrupts on sensor checks). That makes game unplayable if you don't know password for database.
AI could use rule-based ship design system (allowing them to build larger ships), not just building swarms of small, predesigned ships.
Database orientation can't be easily fixed without rewriting whole game, but it's not that big problem when using ram disks.
Energy weapons are usuless with exception of very few situations (and still needs higher tech levels).

[Azated]

Steve has never made the game with community use in mind. It's entirely a hobby for him, and I doubt he's had many of the problems the rest of us get regularly so he's had no need to fix them.

[Flying Dice]

Not to say it isn't a problem, but... complaining about it will almost certainly get you nowhere, and complaining about it here is absolutely useless. It's rather tiresome seeing the exact same beefs being brought up every few pages for hundreds of pages, if you take my meaning.

@Crimson:

Your missiles are fast enough that, depending on the Soldier count, you could probably thin them out enough. If you do, those CLs can hover in their ideal range (outside the maximum for the Queen's mesons but inside your own damage envelope for the railguns) while you drop them. I don't see any major problems, assuming you handle everything competently and you don't get a nasty surprise on the order of a Queen and her swarm sitting on your JP when you arrive in the system.

[Cockyy]

Wew. Got a good scare just now. Upon opening Aurora, I was greeted with some sort of database error followed by tons of Error 91 before promptly crashing after managing to get through all of that errors. It ran fine after opening it up again.

Most of my research is focused on PP so I'm actually up to Magnetic Confinement Fusion Drives with Inertial Confinement Fusion Drives coming around 3 to 4 years in game. My military ships though were built when I still had Magneto-plasma Drives so they're not as fast as they could be. The rest of my technology other than Construction and Logistics is behind by around a decade or so.

As for the ship designs, I've been basing the design on UNSC ships from Halo so my ships only use armor while equipped with several missile launchers and around one or two railguns at least.

Like this. Component names are not very informative.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Agincourt class Light Cruiser    17,650 tons     472 Crew     4931.92 BP      TCS 353  TH 1134  EM 0
6424 km/s     Armour 5-60     Shields 0-0     Sensors 45/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 30     PPV 30.96
Maint Life 7.34 Years     MSP 5239    AFR 83%    IFR 1.2%    1YR 170    5YR 2557    Max Repair 567 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 72 months    Flight Crew Berths 0   
Hangar Deck Capacity 250 tons     Troop Capacity: 1 Company    Magazine 447    Cryogenic Berths 400   

LC35/M-PD Engine (3)    Power 756    Fuel Use 41.29%    Signature 378    Exp 13%
Fuel Capacity 1,250,000 Litres    Range 30.9 billion km   (55 days at full power)

Mk. VI CIWS Magnetic Accelerator Cannon (4x10)    Range 1000 km     TS: 20000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Mk. 30 Magnetic Accelerator Rail Cannon (2x4)    Range 350,000km     TS: 6424 km/s     Power 21-6     RM 5    ROF 20        7 7 7 7 7 5 5 4 3 3
MARC Large Targeting System (1)    Max Range: 384,000 km   TS: 7500 km/s     97 95 92 90 87 84 82 79 77 74
S21/SFR Power Plant (2)     Total Power Output 24    Armour 0    Exp 5%

M24 Dagger Missile Pod (12)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 150
M36 Longbow Missile Pod (6)    Missile Size 3    Rate of Fire 115
Longbow Missile Fire Control System (6)     Range 82.0m km    Resolution 40
Dagger Missile Fire Control System (12)     Range 13.0m km    Resolution 1
Dagger Interceptor Missile (222)  Speed: 28,800 km/s   End: 5.8m    Range: 10m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 528/316/158
Longbow Anti-frigate Missile (75)  Speed: 32,000 km/s   End: 47.2m    Range: 90.7m km   WH: 5    Size: 3    TH: 245/147/73

Missile Detection RADAR System (1)     GPS 120     Range 21.6m km    Resolution 1
'Ray' LIDAR System (1)     GPS 12000     Range 305.5m km    Resolution 50
Infrared Sensor (1)     Sensitivity 45     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  45m km

Strike Group
1x Comet Dropship   Speed: 17391 km/s    Size: 4.6

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

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


Now that I look at it, I think my supposed anti-frigate missile is too weak and that the deployment time of my ship may be a little too long. Also, I just realized that my Light Cruiser doesn't have a spare berth for the dropship...

No EW Sensors researched yet for RP purposes (although I didn't know that they're actually used for detecting Active Sensors till I checked the wiki). Probably gonna use it after managing to deal with the Swarm (if my fleet survives) for my 2nd gen ships.

Troop transport and boat bay on a cruiser? And only 55 days of fuel for a 72 month deployment time? 400 cryogenic berths?

What in the world?

EDIT: Oh you were trying to recreate a Halcyon light cruiser from Halo, that explains the boat bay and troop capacity (also sort of the cryogenics). Gameplay wise though this is sort of silly.

[Neonivek]

is m km mean millions of kilometers?

[Metalax]

is m km mean millions of kilometers?

Yes. /Kosh