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Offline 83athom

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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #315 on: January 23, 2017, 02:05:32 PM »
Thought I would check. Will Auto-fire and/or Auto-assignment rank limits/priorities be fixed?
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #316 on: January 23, 2017, 02:32:52 PM »
Thought I would check. Will Auto-fire and/or Auto-assignment rank limits/priorities be fixed?
I believe Steve said that auto-fire will be replaced by something at some point.
 

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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #317 on: January 23, 2017, 03:38:15 PM »
Thought I would check. Will Auto-fire and/or Auto-assignment rank limits/priorities be fixed?

I'll be rewriting the auto-assignment and auto-fire from scratch.
 

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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #318 on: May 22, 2017, 08:56:44 PM »
While it's nice to get ships to use a lot more commanders in general, task force structure, as it has been in VB6 aurora, was at least sorta useful for staffing commanders there and emulating some sort of regional military structure.
Is it within consideration to implement some kind of regional position for commanders that at least superficially emulates task force commanders? Less for usefulness, more for the feeling that having 8 levels of military promotions somewhat means something, in one way or another.
 
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #319 on: May 27, 2017, 04:10:54 AM »
While it's nice to get ships to use a lot more commanders in general, task force structure, as it has been in VB6 aurora, was at least sorta useful for staffing commanders there and emulating some sort of regional military structure.
Is it within consideration to implement some kind of regional position for commanders that at least superficially emulates task force commanders? Less for usefulness, more for the feeling that having 8 levels of military promotions somewhat means something, in one way or another.

C# Aurora has a hierarchy of 'admin commands' to which you can assign higher-ranked commanders.
 
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #320 on: May 31, 2017, 07:05:43 PM »
Hey, @Steve Walmsley , a thought just came across my head: You know how you mentioned tidal locking being a factor in colony costs, right?
How does this apply to moons and the like, who are listed as tidally locked to their respective planet, but are not tidally locked to the sun in a manner that the restriction elaborates on?
 
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #321 on: June 01, 2017, 03:42:57 PM »
Hey, @Steve Walmsley , a thought just came across my head: You know how you mentioned tidal locking being a factor in colony costs, right?
How does this apply to moons and the like, who are listed as tidally locked to their respective planet, but are not tidally locked to the sun in a manner that the restriction elaborates on?

Moons aren't affected by tidal lock when calculating colony costs - only planets
 
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #322 on: June 27, 2017, 10:27:01 PM »
Another question, sorry if I asked this before:
Will hydrosphere extent limit the maximum population possible if it is frozen solid?
 

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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #323 on: July 02, 2017, 04:02:52 AM »
Another question, sorry if I asked this before:
Will hydrosphere extent limit the maximum population possible if it is frozen solid?

As things currently stand, yes.

It probably makes sense for a frozen hydrosphere to have less of an impact on total population, although the population would still be limited by the other factors such as temperature (limited in terms of requiring infrastructure) so it may not make much practical difference.
 

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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #324 on: July 07, 2017, 03:30:53 PM »
Another question, sorry if I asked this before:
Will hydrosphere extent limit the maximum population possible if it is frozen solid?
Not having it do so seems like an invitation for hilarious mishaps when you pack Hoth full of people, melt it, and then realize that it has 99.9% hydrosphere.  Pack ice doesn't seem like a particularly good place to live, either, so keeping hydrosphere as a constant seems not entirely unrealistic.
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #325 on: July 07, 2017, 05:04:44 PM »
Can we have a tech (possibly with corresponding installations) to reduce the negative affect that having too large a hydrosphere has on population limits; to simulate underwater, floating, or stilt-supported cities?
 
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #326 on: July 08, 2017, 04:48:19 AM »
Quote from: Barkhorn link=topic=8152. msg103462#msg103462 date=1499465084
Can we have a tech (possibly with corresponding installations) to reduce the negative affect that having too large a hydrosphere has on population limits; to simulate underwater, floating, or stilt-supported cities?
Possibly you could say you need to use infrastructure 'X per million if over Y million pop' for terraformed planets with 0 cost otherwise but a large hydrosphere.
 
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #327 on: November 14, 2017, 02:25:36 PM »
Possibly you could say you need to use infrastructure 'X per million if over Y million pop' for terraformed planets with 0 cost otherwise but a large hydrosphere.
Sounds good in my opinion. Infrastructure is up to and including domes and farms suited to keep people alive in the vacuum of a barren planet, after all. Ice with atmosphere would be suitably less problematic. Water a little difficult, but...
 

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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #328 on: March 26, 2018, 08:53:32 PM »
I need this in my life.  It sounds so nice!
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Re: Change Log for v7.2 Discussion
« Reply #329 on: March 29, 2018, 05:51:40 AM »
Do check the C# Aurora sub-forum. All the 7.2 changes are rolled in that version of Aurora. Version 7.2 of VB6 Aurora will not be released at all.
 
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