C# Aurora Changes Discussion

[TMaekler]

A suggestion for C#: For storytelling reasons it might be interesting to be able to transfer minerals from one nation to another via a regular cargo transport (for example if you want to create a pirate "Subnation"). At the moment it is not possible to transfer minerals to other nations; maybe allowing transfer to nations who are allied to you would do the trick.

[iceball3]

A suggestion for C#: For storytelling reasons it might be interesting to be able to transfer minerals from one nation to another via a regular cargo transport (for example if you want to create a pirate "Subnation"). At the moment it is not possible to transfer minerals to other nations; maybe allowing transfer to nations who are allied to you would do the trick.

At the very least, you could currently theoretically be able to do so by making a "mineral exchange shuttle" which you exchange ownership of, having it be a ship with cargo space and nothing else (no engines or anything), and fill up on the minerals prior to the agreement.

[TMaekler]

Yes, I am doing something like that 

[GeaXle]

Hi Steve, I am really looking forward this C# version of Aurora.

I was wondering if maybe suggestion should be made here now?

Anyway, would it be possible to get an option to assign our freighter to the civies? Or that freighter order consume civilian contracts? For example, I set up loads of supply and demand contract to shuffle instalations around. But sometimes as the civilians aren't moving things fast enough, I order my freighters to move the goods and it messes up the supply and demand contract I have done. Maybe if the contract were consumed by my freighters, or if I could have a toggle that civilians will give orders to my freighter as they see fit, it would be very helpful.

[Bremen]

I realize this might be a pretty big one, but any chance if you try to drop a sub fleet into a fleet at a different location it gives you a "Order this fleet to move to target location and join the destination fleet?" popup?

Strictly a quality of life thing, so if it would be a large coding job it might work better as a feature for a future version.

[schroeam]

I realize this might be a pretty big one, but any chance if you try to drop a sub fleet into a fleet at a different location it gives you a "Order this fleet to move to target location and join the destination fleet?" popup?

Strictly a quality of life thing, so if it would be a large coding job it might work better as a feature for a future version.

This made me think of the 4 jump limit on civvies and auto-calculated fight paths.  Any chance that limit could be extended?

[Steve Walmsley]

This made me think of the 4 jump limit on civvies and auto-calculated fight paths.  Any chance that limit could be extended?

That limit was already removed in VB6 Aurora. It is now unlimited.

[Steve Walmsley]

I realize this might be a pretty big one, but any chance if you try to drop a sub fleet into a fleet at a different location it gives you a "Order this fleet to move to target location and join the destination fleet?" popup?

Strictly a quality of life thing, so if it would be a large coding job it might work better as a feature for a future version.

Should be possible - just need to remember to do it now

[Garfunkel]

Oh, that would be swell!

[Borealis4x]

So you can break off  sub fleets to join other fleets?

Also speaking of freighters have you touched the civilian economy at all to make it more sophisticated/helpful?

For instance, you could have it so there are civilian shipyards where the freighters get their ships from and you can contract to build some of your stuff.  Or you have mining companies which gather resources for you so you don't have to or research institutes that have a chance or researching technology for you.

Having mechanisms to control or encourage private industries would be cool to, like only giving out so many licences to build shipyards or giving one company a monopoly on a systems resources so they can develop it almost independently.

[TMaekler]

That limit was already removed in VB6 Aurora. It is now unlimited.

I think I saw a message some time ago (in 7.1) where it told me that there is no ship within 4 jump points where the Auto-Refill (with maintenance) could be done.

[Borealis4x]

It would be interesting if you made Marines more useful by giving every unit but them very high penalties for assaulting a planet where you have no ground presence, making them vital for establishing a "beachhead".

Speaking of, does the new organization system allow you to integrate ground units?

Also, what of corps and army HQ battalions and organizations?

[QuakeIV]

By the way, Steve, since you say you haven't done detections yet, I have taken multithreading in university and can throw some example code your way to show you how that is supposed to look if you like.  For turn-based stuff like aurora it should be extremely straightforward since there aren't really synchronization issues (you can just wait for all of the threads to complete without that breaking anything).

[Bremen]

Nice change. I've always thought ordinance transfer at least shouldn't be instant (it lets you do some pretty gamey stuff with colliers) but slower fuel transfer is good too. And it's not brutally slow; taking a few days to refuel a ship isn't going to be a huge problem outside of combat scenarios.

[alex_brunius]

Best would ofcourse be if unloading and loading were separate actions in terms of time needed, so a ship that both unloads fully and loads fully needs 2x the time of a ship that just dumps it's full cargo load and goes away.