Was it anywhere adressed if the C# version will be playable without the launcher app? Or are the language and number settings still relevant?
In regards to "Auto-Assignment of Naval Commanders": both, the primary and secondary assignment priority are of decending order; how about the commander priority? Will that also be a decending order?
"Forced Labor Camps": Do they effect the pacification of an occupied population? Meaning, do they slow that process down, even to a point of driving them into revolts?
1. Considering that the launcher app is not written, provided, endorsed, or bug-checked by Steve, I am 100% confident that C# Aurora will not require it.
-- Though not being one to use French/German settings (i.e. comma for decimal separator, etc.) I have no idea how C# handles the "wrong" system settings.
2. Auto-assignemnt has changed a lot. "For auto-assignment purposes, each ship class now has a specific rank requirement for its commander, based on its command and control modules."
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg101818#msg1018183. It appears they will speed it up, as each FLB will "consume" a chunk of population, thus reducing the amount of Police Strength needed for occupation.