thematic Questions

[Theodidactus (OP)]

hello,

So I have a huge, long-running campaign that I've been playing for a while now...but when I graduate, I'm gonna start something new (while probably keeping the old one to play on occasion).

I want to base my new campaign on my science fiction stories. This new campaign will be fairly...unique, and require some modifications to the way aurora is usually played. So I have a few questions

1) I have seen at several points that it is possible to create your own theme for commander names. This would be pretty essential for this setting. How can I do that?

2) This campaign would take place in the year 100,099...are there any problems with setting the clock this far ahead?

3) Am I correct in assuming that if I raise the tech level of my own civilization, at game start, then enemy NPR's generated will be at the same tech level?

[Conscript Gary]

I've never fussed with importing themes, but I am pretty sure that NPRs start at the same tech levels no matter what level you're at. Even if you happen to have a conventional start.

[Erik L]

If you start with 250k RP, NPRs start with 250k RP. If you start with 1 million RP. They start with 1 million RP.

[Vynadan]

1) Steve implemented a button to enter themes into your Aurora database. To do so start a campaign and in the small command window go to Game -> Add Theme. Details as to what files you need to enter can be found here.

2) Just created a test game starting at 500,000 and progressed a year. Seems to work just fine - The year is probably an long integer or floating point value and should go up to the millions range.

3) Iirc when you encounter NPRs they're generated roughly at your own tech level, +/- a little variance.

[Theodidactus (OP)]

2) Just created a test game starting at 500,000 and progressed a year. Seems to work just fine - The year is probably an long integer or floating point value and should go up to the millions range.

That's what I figured, but I couldn't find the location inside the database itself, and I didn't want to take any risks with a Y100000K bug of some kind.

[Bgreman]

That's what I figured, but I couldn't find the location inside the database itself, and I didn't want to take any risks with a Y100000K bug of some kind.

From what I can tell, Aurora only stores the start date and time elapsed (in seconds).  To figure out the current date, it adds the time elapsed to the start date.

It appears that the time is stored as a 8-byte (64-bit) signed Currency value, so the max game length is something on the order of 296 billion A-years (longer than the universe has existed!)

[Cocyte]

It appears that the time is stored as a 8-byte (64-bit) signed Currency value...

Can't... resist... obvious... joke...

The definite proof that time is money.

Sorry.