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[Lord Shonus]

You really, really want to look at the Event Log after every time you advance the clock. Your frigate probably ran out of maintenance supplies (if they're not orbiting Earth or another production planet, they won't get stocked, and sometimes you'll think they're safely there but they aren't) and suffered a critical system failure that destroyed it. Monitoring the event log gives you warning about things like that.

[Akura]

I did check the log, except so much time must have happened that it no longer appeared in the log. And unless the ship died during a training session, it could not have been a maintenance failure in port. I did pay attention to the event log popups for ship maintenance failures, but it's entirely possible I missed something, for example during the bi-annual officer shuffle.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

I did check the log, except so much time must have happened that it no longer appeared in the log. And unless the ship died during a training session, it could not have been a maintenance failure in port. I did pay attention to the event log popups for ship maintenance failures, but it's entirely possible I missed something, for example during the bi-annual officer shuffle.

And does the port in question have the maintenance capacity for a ship that size? Also a ship can sometimes not be were the task group is and thus not be in port when the others are, and I have had situations where the immobile PDCs managed to move around (slowly) and thus not be where they should be.

[Akura]

Game started with about 16,000 ton capacity, each frigate is 4,950t. At this point it barely matters, they're cheap enough I can replace them easily. I'm just waiting for the fuel economy to pick up and some research to finish up before expanding to a full-sized battle fleet.

[Lord Shonus]

Are you mass-producing missiles or something? The ship design you posted earlier had decently efficient engines, so it seems odd for you to be having a fuel crunch at this stage.

[Akura]

Not exactly a fuel crunch, but a sorium crunch. I still have about 150 million liters stockpiled, but I had been running training sessions until the ships were at 50% fuel - each has a fuel capacity of 500k, so 250k*12 ships is ~4 million every half-year or so. Right now, after some research, I can produce 12 million a year, costing over 6000 tons of sorium. I'm pretty certain I'm not mining that much, and the only body I've colonized with actual people that has sorium is Mars with ~2 million at 0.1 accessibility. That's mainly why I'm putting so much effort into Europa: aside from being a good fuel drop-off from Jupiter, it has 900k sorium at 0.8.

The only other place in Sol that has decent sorium deposits is Uranus' moon Ariel, which is already taken by the civilian sector.

EDIT: Europa is finished terraforming. Colony cost is zero, and the first wave of colonists from Earth and an overpopulated Mars are coming in. No infrastructure was placed. I can only assume the slogan for our colonist corps is "It's free real estate." I mean, it's a shit atmosphere, 0.99atm of CO₂, 0.11atm of oxygen sounds like a pile of lung cancer, but apparently it works.

Lalande 21185-A II one jump over should be trivial to terraform. It already has an acceptable temperature and a thin N/O atmosphere I can work with.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Hey do you guys play with AI empires or just RP to yourself???

[Madman198237]

Lung cancer, no. Immediate carbon dioxide poisoning and rapid death, yes.

[Salmeuk]

Hey do you guys play with AI empires or just RP to yourself???

To elaborate, what are people's typical playstyles? How do you 'have fun 'in Aurora?

[Unknown72]

Hey do you guys play with AI empires or just RP to yourself???

To elaborate, what are people's typical playstyles? How do you 'have fun 'in Aurora?

I typically RP to myself. I write up a doc detailing my own personal rules on empire generation, the entire game has a set theme (Magic, Shipgirls, Ships are Monsters, etc) and the empires would reflect that. Then I have seperate sections on that doc detailing how each empire operates, their goals, their ship/weapon types, their focuses, etc.

Other then that, I try to GM for multiplayer aurora sessions over discord so that people can play together.

[AlStar]

Hey do you guys play with AI empires or just RP to yourself???

To elaborate, what are people's typical playstyles? How do you 'have fun 'in Aurora?

Recently, I've been getting my fun vicariously, by reading Steve's test campaign and (in)patiently waiting for C# Aurora to come out.

Previously, I tend to play The Generic Human Empire^©, explorers of the infinite night, colonizers of new worlds, and eradicators of the xenos scum.

[Lord Shonus]

Last few times I sat down and played, I put multiple NPRs in Sol to make the early game more.interesting. I wound up exterminating them because the interrupts combined with slow turn resolution got too annoying, but it would be tolerable if time advancement was as fast as Steve says C# is doing.

[Akura]

Been working on a fighter design as part as an eventual plan for a carrier.

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River class Interceptor    232 tons     2 Crew     66.7 BP      TCS 4.64  TH 12.6  EM 0
7758 km/s     Armour 1-3     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0.6
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 46%    IFR 0.6%    1YR 4    5YR 54    Max Repair 16 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.1 months    Spare Berths 2   

18 EP Ion Micro Drive (2)    Power 18    Fuel Use 163.69%    Signature 6.3    Exp 15%
Fuel Capacity 5,000 Litres    Range 2.4 billion km   (3 days at full power)

Gauss Cannon R2-10 (Fighter) (1x3)    Range 20,000km     TS: 7758 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 10%     RM 2    ROF 5        1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S00.5 24-3000 H50 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 48,000 km   TS: 12000 km/s     79 58 38 17 0 0 0 0 0 0

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes

The intent for this one is for a cheap-ish, fast interceptor meant to engage enemy fighters/bombers, possibly attack enemy FACs if it's weak enough and if they have the numbers for it. I don't know if it's suited for that role, though.

[Rince Wind]

To save a bit of weight you could scale down your fire control a bit, there is no need for 48k km range, depending on the base speed you could also lower the tracking speed, as that is determined by the speed of the fighter as well.
Gauss fighters can add a layer of missile defence as well. They might not hit often, but it only costs you some fuel to keep them outside while you are weathering the missile salvos.

If you have enough of them they should work fine against FACs (as long as those aren't faster) and crippled ships you don't want to waste any more missiles on.
For general purpose attack fighters I prefer lasers, but as finishers and for anti-missile work I have used gauss ones as well.

The meanest thing you can do with them is to use box launchers to bring missiles with a heavier payload closer to the enemy. They can usually fire before the enemy can detect/shoot them so you can attack with impunity.

[Akura]

I don't know the actual numbers, but a higher FC range should increase accuracy even if the FC's range is higher than the weapon's. Quoth the wiki: "The accuracy of the FC drops linearly over its range, thus a FC with more range than the weapon it controls is still useful. For tracking speed however the lower of value of the FC and the weapon is used."

As for reducing the tracking speed, it wouldn't reduce the size without reducing tracking speed below the fighter's speed. It could reduce the costs, but only slightly.

I haven't researched boxes yet. I probably should get on that at some point.