What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?

[Rendap]

Also just started the first game in too long and I have to admit that I can't remember a mineral crunch as bad as the one I'm looking at here.

25 years in and low points:

Roughly 250k tons of Duranium left in Sol - No stockpile available
No stockpile of Neutronium available - less than 100k left
120k of Mercassion left, including stockpiles
300k of Gallicite, including stockpiles
A stockpile of 30k Corundium. And 2k on a rock somewhere in the belt

No navy, only freighters and scouts built so far - The Federation will have to focus on Colony Ships and Gate Constructors for now before building up a navy.

At least, the neighbouring systems are free of enemies, but unknown as of now with regards to resources.

Gonna be an interesting run!

[Garfunkel]

It's very much possible to have the RNG screw you over with homeworld minerals especially if you're doing a conventional start.

[Rendap]

Certainly. Specifically if you tone down the number of people from the beginning.

This was a normal start and the minerals on Earth was fairly decent.

But my problem is partly solved now, thanks to Geo Teams (who took crazy long to start operating, thanks to garbage stats on my naval officers) and Proxima Centauri.

2,8m tons of Duranium in 0,8 found on Mars, 2,7m tons more in 0,6 on Mercury and small change in PC 800k'ish spread on 4 deposits.
1,5m tons of Gallicite in 0,9 found in PC.
500k tons of Corundium in 0,4 on the same spot as the Gallicite. And 20,1m in 0,1 elsewhere in PC.

Hoping for Luhman 16 and Lalande 21185 to bring the rest of the yield when I get a survey ship in there. Alpha Centauri and Bernards Star have no real estate at all, which annoys me slightly.

[TCD]

Huh, I guess what the rng took away from you in starting minerals they gave back in lucky geo team rolls! I never seem to get much of a boost form them, mostly adding lots of something to a planet that already has more than I can ever use, that kind of thing.

[joeclark77]

I made a map. Aurora date when I made it was 16/03/2038.

Cool map.

[joeclark77]

So uhh, the aliens didn't take the loss too well. I'm scared.

Good luck.  Sounds like you're having FUN!
Just don't run out of missiles.  Ordinance factories may be a good investment.

[Drgong]

Getting ready to play my first game in six months to a year.  Still deciding on theme and RP ideas. 

[Viridia]

For the first time in any Aurora game I've played in about four years, I've finally met an alien race. They promptly disappeared after following my survey ship back to Alpha Centauri, which combined with their inability to communicate to us (the game decided in two weeks time to close any further communication efforts as futile), has led to DesRon 1 being despatched to sit astride the Van Maanens Star-Alpha Centauri JP. Rudimentary bombardment of a strength-5 asteroid contact has been conducted by laser fire of SLNS Rodgers, and survey ships have flocked into the system in the hopes of provoking the hostiles. Shipyard expansion to construct a vessel capable of bearing a Marine battalion to the asteroid to conduct ground ops is underway.

[joeclark77]

For the first time in any Aurora game I've played in about four years, I've finally met an alien race.

I recommend increasing the NPR generation chance to 90% or more when you configure the game.  Aliens are far too few and far between with the default settings.

Also, send out more survey ships, farther, earlier, to increase the odds.

[Viridia]

Good point. Must be having a good run though, just met what seems to be a grav surveyor from another race entirely in the system as well!

[waresky]

Starting Setup :

Yr 2123

Pop .: 71 Millions , End III Atomic War End
Nationality : United States

Leadership : Moderate Fascist (Like as Space Mobile Infantry Junta)

Tech : none
MINERALS :
Dur     69.100
Neu    14.200
Corbo 1480
Tritan  152.000
Boron  3900
Merca  8950
Vendar 4490
Sorium 846
Uridiu  5200
Gallici  724

FUEL at 2177 : 1.002.000 Lt.
ResearchLab : 4
Military Training Camp : 1
Naval yard: 0
Commercial Yard : 0

_____________________


>>>>>>>>>> Yrs 2177 : TransNewtonian and 281.0 Millions Pop.

Nice and hard-

[Drgong]

Two of my fave games are Crusader Kings II and Aurora 4x.

So now I am thinking about merging some CKII concepts into my RP.  Play as a family of a interstellar empire and try to keep the bloodline and the empire going for my first 2018 game.

[GodEmperor]

Lost my game due to Invaders attack.... but not in a straight, obvious way.

Invaders started to bombard Earth. My largely obsolete defence net was big enough that by the sheer volume of defensive fire they managed to kill all of their missiles without letting even one through BUT when Invaders closed the range and started firing AMM's at me i get the Planetary Bombardment Overflow bug everytime they hit and its impossible to continue playing :/

[Drgong]

Learned that civilians will be built prior to cargo handlers being researched. 

[Starmantle]

Two of my fave games are Crusader Kings II and Aurora 4x.

So now I am thinking about merging some CKII concepts into my RP.  Play as a family of a interstellar empire and try to keep the bloodline and the empire going for my first 2018 game.

I love this idea, Drgong!  If you write as you go, I'd definitely read that.