Semi-Official 6.x Suggestion Thread

[Bgreman]

Or you can use Alt-F3 (I think) to display it again.

CTRL+F3.

[Erik L (OP)]

I'm at work, and don't have Aurora installed on the work machine, and there is no pic on the wiki.

But... On the system screen (F9), when renaming a system can we have it either be text box as current, or randomly select from a theme?

[jRides]

Increase the Political Bonus effect with certain government types, like for Tyranny its doubled for example.

[Theodidactus]

when you start a new campaign, every officer is 21. I feel like the head of the children's crusade. Any way to stagger their ages.

[alex_brunius]

when you start a new campaign, every officer is 21. I feel like the head of the children's crusade. Any way to stagger their ages.

Manually being able to edit all the leader properties and bonuses using SM mode would be a god-sent for my RP campaigns!

[Gidoran]

when you start a new campaign, every officer is 21. I feel like the head of the children's crusade. Any way to stagger their ages.

Could have it set up at the start of a new campaign where if an officer is generated at a rank greater than one, it has a range applied to its age in terms of bonus years. So an O2 would be 21+(1 to 4) years of age, so on so forth. I know in Java it's relatively simple to do random number generation for stuff like this, but I have no clue what the specifics would be for Aurora. Just a thought on possible implementation.

[MarcAFK]

I like it, that's a great idea and it reminds me of Darkland's system where character creation ages your character as you add more skill.

[swarm_sadist]

A total for the resource would be a nice feature in the geological survey report.

[Shuul]

Hi, i found spinal mounts for lasers a nice additon in 6. 30.  But can you please make also spinal mounts for Particel beams as well, this does makes sense and it would increase veriety of weapones used (lets face it, laser are the most popular).
Itll be cool that with advanced spinal mount PB will reach maximum firing distance for beam weapons.

[Zincat]

A somewhat serious suggestion. Can we have some planet destroying weapons? You know, like the Death Star's superlaser :p

I'm not asking them to be combat worthy, perhaps even just plain useless or impractical. Like, I don't know, something needing 80000 tons of space, short ranged, and using 5000 energy. Something that would truly require a stupid amount of resources to build, and that would be worthless in combat and so brought in only after you completely smash the oppositions.

The reason for this suggestion is that I want some ways to RP the complete annihilation of an enemy NPR. I find that being forced to conquer them all is NO fun at all. Surely I should be able to kill the evil, nasty, enraged aliens who never wanted to talk with me right? Why MUST I be forced to conquer them?

[MarcAFK]

Blanketing their homeworld with radioactive dust isn't enough for you?
Build a 20 million ton terraformer and suck all the air out of their world and replace it with flourine if you want.

[Zincat]

Blanketing their homeworld with radioactive dust isn't enough for you?

I have never conquered an enemy colony myself, but I did read that ground troops was the only reliable way to handle an enemy worlds. if a few thousands missile also works, that's fine

Build a 20 million ton terraformer and suck all the air out of their world and replace it with flourine if you want.

The aliens can build infrastructure.....

[Hydrofoil]

Might i suggest some work be put into compensating for Game slowdown. Such as trying to implement some functions that use OO language modules that allow for multi threading? VB as i learnt it was only a semi OO language but ive read that it can be used in conjunction with OO Languages or vice verse it helps with dealing with legacy systems built before the likes of Java and C++ became popular.

[Charlie Beeler]

Might i suggest some work be put into compensating for Game slowdown. Such as trying to implement some functions that use OO language modules that allow for multi threading? VB as i learnt it was only a semi OO language but ive read that it can be used in conjunction with OO Languages or vice verse it helps with dealing with legacy systems built before the likes of Java and C++ became popular.

A bit of searching would have revealed that this is in the works, just don't expect it anytime soon.

[swarm_sadist]

A somewhat serious suggestion. Can we have some planet destroying weapons? You know, like the Death Star's superlaser :p

Perhaps more doable is having an asteroid destroying weapon, or have a certain spoiler race "eat" asteroids.

...For the purpose of speeding up the game of course.