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Quote from: Ai Shizuka on May 06, 2020, 11:28:15 am

I'm glad I've backed this masterpiece back in 2012 (I think) with several ships.

Then a few laters I realized how this vaporware turd was evolving and sold my ships with life-time insurance, including a Constellation, for a profit of around 250€.

Best money I've ever spent on a kickstarter.

Wait, what? For somebody that hasn't really been following this debacle, how did that work? Was there actually a third party market for KS keys or something already?

If you got in early enough the rewards were... better.  When they stopped offering it the people who had it get grandfathered in and keep their old (broken by some peoples point of view (of a unfinished game so who knows(I have no opinion on the 'balance' of a game that isn't done))) bonuses, which are permanent for the thing they bought.  So, thing in short supply, wanted by people, not sold by original creator; all adds up to a grey market for accounts with old bonuses.

Lately?  You mean the past 5 some years.  After they stopped making good games and just threw their IPs on gambling machines.  Shut down developers making decent games and just churned out shovelware with shitty microtransactions.

We are talking about Konami, the company that fired Kojima.  People kind of liked him and his games.

I turn on shields before entering a known occupied system, they just take to long to charge if you turn them on after getting shot at.  I'd rather enter a system and let the enemy come to me.  If you stand on the JP and your enemy comes to you, you gain a great advantage in that you can use the JP to escape or set up an ambush if you can get them to follow you through.

I also will use my active ships as bait.  To either force the enemy to engage away from bases over their planets or to distract for my stealth ships if I have any.  It's worked well to use them to divert enemy ships far enough away that I can sneak stealth siege ships in to deliver a massive flood of extreme range mirvs after sneaking around the system. 

Again, I use passives when I'm not fighting.  But if we are talking combat I'd rather know more sooner.  Actives just give more information.  Rather just spend the tonnage on an active than dividing it up in passives in my ships that are going to get shot at.

I build large range actives because even at low tech level a large active sensor can see further than passives, and more accurately.

Also provide more information.  Much more useful information.

How does it work with the survey ground units now? Do you have to build them on site, or is there a way to transport them?

I used to enjoy the old way of having teams and being able to have the option where you were required to move teams and officers around in space ships, as opposed to the other option where you could have instantaneous officer movement.

You design your Geo survey a Xenoarcheology teams as ground forces now.  By unit and formation.  Geo survey and Xenoarcheology are gear you need to research and then design a unit equipped with it.  Then design a formation with those units and anything else you feel appropriate.  Build them like any other ground force and then move them with troop transports.

My geo survey and xeno unit usually has 2 surveyors and then some infantry and supply vehicles as guards.  I keep these formations under 1000 weight so they are easier to move around.

EDIT: Also just noticed that my geo survey ships are red in the fleet window. Looking at the reports, their MSP's are 0% and 11%, which is odd because I have a conditional order set to resupply at colony is their supply points get below 20%, and they don't seem to be listening to it. Anyone know what's up?

The resupply standing orders don't work.  The overhaul and refuel do though.  I've begun just setting my survey ships to have a 7-10 year maint life over their 3 year run time.

Known Bugs:http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10637.0

What amount did you set to reserve the fuel.  I thought it was a percentage at first but it isn't.  It's a specific amount of fuel.  So 10 gives you 10 liters of fuel not 10%.

Cost 6 is pretty killer to try and use in C# Aurora.  Not without a plan for terraforming it pretty hard to get it closer to 3 or so.

Population living in orbital habs treat the body as a colony cost 0.  If you bring in orbital habs those would work best to get the place up and running more efficiently.

I just assign classes as I feel appropriate for the game of Aurora I'm in.  For example my average game I have a Destroyer Escort that's 8k, a Cruiser that brings the fleet of the days offensive weapons at 10k and a command ship that brings the main sensors and JD that's usually 15k.

Have also done games where my smallest military ship was a frigate at 20k tons.

Aurora really let's YOU decide what a lot of things mean.  Like my current game my ground forces are light vehicle focused with almost no infantry.  Playing as if we use a army of car sized combat drones and HQs are the controllers.  Another my ground forces were named after and designed from tanks and mechs from Battletech.  Nearly the exact same in function and use, but thematically very different and the same game.