C# Aurora Changes Discussion

[Jeltz]

Simple question (and hard implementation I think    ) : in A.C# there will be IFF systems/technologies ?

Think this for: intellegence mission spoofing codes, JP or planet mine fields creation (and mine field sweeping), elusion probing...

[Steve Walmsley]

Simple question (and hard implementation I think    ) : in A.C# there will be IFF systems/technologies ?

Think this for: intellegence mission spoofing codes, JP or planet mine fields creation (and mine field sweeping), elusion probing...

There will be IFF in the same way as VB6, with transponders. Minefields already know friend from foe.

At the moment I have no plans for spoofing IFF. While it sounds interesting, the game play impact will likely be players checking their own list of ships every time a new task group enters the system to make sure it is definitely one of theirs.

[83athom]

At the moment I have no plans for spoofing IFF. While it sounds interesting, the game play impact will likely be players checking their own list of ships every time a new task group enters the system to make sure it is definitely one of theirs.

Could also be spoofing another empire's signature that correlates to a freighter that regularly trades with you. Would be interesting, but its not vital or necessary.

[Felixg]

There will be IFF in the same way as VB6, with transponders. Minefields already know friend from foe.

At the moment I have no plans for spoofing IFF. While it sounds interesting, the game play impact will likely be players checking their own list of ships every time a new task group enters the system to make sure it is definitely one of theirs.

Be really evil, have it populate the lists as if it is one of their task groups filled with their ships.

[Britich]

The Piracy angle would be nice, a civilian freighter goes off the reservation and starts stealing goods instead of trading them and taking them to a secret colony that you can land troops on and kill everyone/capture pows.

[Desdinova]

Pirates would be an amazing addition.  On real star games my navy doesn't have a whole lot to do because of the scarcity of NPR's.

[Detros]

Pirates would be an amazing addition.  On real star games my navy doesn't have a whole lot to do because of the scarcity of NPR's.

Have you tried raising few percentages (difficulty / NPR spawn rate) or checking some other stuff (NPRs can find interesting things too and other FUN stuff) at the initial screen?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

you can also manually add nprs, either automatically generated or by placing one on an appropriate world.

[Desdinova]

I meant to say for the early game.   With real stars on it can be 50+ star systems explored before I find a life-bearing world, and decades before my navy can take on spoilers. 

[tapk]

Is there any chance to see Aurora in different languages? I think there are a lot of Aurora fans that can translate the text to their language (I personally can translate into russian).   So will Aurora C# support localization?

[IanD]

There will be IFF in the same way as VB6, with transponders. Minefields already know friend from foe.

At the moment I have no plans for spoofing IFF. While it sounds interesting, the game play impact will likely be players checking their own list of ships every time a new task group enters the system to make sure it is definitely one of theirs.

Steve, will you be able to activate the Search sensors separately from the fire control? Because if I only have search sensors on that is not threatening, however if I activate my fire control it indicates to an NPR that I am pissed off and bad things are going to happen!

[Bughunter]

A way to tell another vessel to GTFO of my system would be useful, locking a firing control on it could work I guess..

[Steve Walmsley]

I'll setup sensors and fire controls so they can be activated independently. I agree that locking fire control should be a hostile(ish) act, although that means I would have to add events for ships being targeted by fire control as well. Perhaps NPRs could also use that as a "Please leave" message, without actually opening fire.

[Steve Walmsley]

Precursors currently fill the role of pirates. It would be tricky to set up the economics necessary for believable pirates, but I could add other races that function with a 'raiding' mentality.

[Bremen]

Precursors currently fill the role of pirates. It would be tricky to set up the economics necessary for believable pirates, but I could add other races that function with a 'raiding' mentality.

Maybe the chance for precursor shipyards that slowly produce precursor ships?

Ideally, though I know it would be a big change/not fit how the game currently handles things, it would be a chance that a system that generates with precursors automatically generates a jump point connection to a system that then spawns a shipyard, so you could go in and clear out the precursors but a year or two later have more show up if you didn't keep surveying. It would also encourage spreading your fleet around instead of keeping it in one big blob.