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Offline 83athom

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #780 on: February 12, 2015, 08:03:09 AM »
I also made a recent discovery of a quaint nebula. It has a planet and a couple moons (orbiting a Gas Giant) with a colony cost less than 2.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #781 on: February 14, 2015, 04:18:07 PM »
It took me almost 2 years of playing Aurora to grasp the concept that maybe 3x power engines are not the best engines for every military ship ...

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #782 on: February 14, 2015, 08:22:21 PM »
It took me almost 2 years of playing Aurora to grasp the concept that maybe 3x power engines are not the best engines for every military ship ...
Yah, my military ships usually use 1.5x to 2.0x power. Only for some special cases do I use any more/less than that.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #783 on: February 15, 2015, 01:34:36 AM »
Yah, my military ships usually use 1.5x to 2.0x power. Only for some special cases do I use any more/less than that.
Most of my military sortie is civilian .5 efficiency ships, excludinf fast attack craft. I am considering mounting some faster engines on cruisers and et cetera that i have uet to build, though, as my current fleet only consists of missile escorts, great big carriers, point defense ships, carrier mounted FAC, and fighters.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #784 on: February 15, 2015, 12:04:25 PM »
Still setting up a Starship Troopers-themed game. I've renamed all the ground units, set up outposts on Mars and Pluto through Spacemaster mode, and designing ships now. Just wish the SICON naval staff could actually design a ship that isn't horribly slow with poor fuel amounts or that isn't sort of okay in speed with poor fuel amounts. :-\
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #785 on: February 19, 2015, 03:27:17 PM »
Just found a tiny binary system comprised a k2 and a k9 with a combined total of 17 planets, 191 moons and 281 asteroids.  All system bodies orbit inside of a comparable Saturn orbit, no less.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #786 on: February 19, 2015, 11:29:41 PM »
Not much going on in my current game, just slowly building up from the conventional start and am about 3 years away from having my first competent fleet, it will rely on recovered martian Ion drives, but that's fine by me. The mineral crash should begin a few years after that, but I've been blessed with good amounts of most minerals, Corundium will be a problem requiring scouring clean every rock in the system until I discover a decent supply outside of Sol.
However outside of this game I've been running skirmishes with spawned NPR's or player controlled empires, I've learned a few things about combat and finally discovered how to use defencive fire properly, also increased turret tracking speed is amazingly useful for point defence. I've been poking around at atmospheric use of energy weapons and testing laser warheads, so far it seems they cut right through atmospheres in every possible scenario, lasers I find are fine for shooting at enemy PDC's from ships in space, but my own laser equipped PDC's are useless being unable to fire either into space or at ground installations or PDC's.  There might be a bug in there. Also I haven't had a single shield equipped ship actually take shield damage, it might be because I'm spawning them through spacemaster, has anyone else has shield problems?
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« Reply #787 on: February 20, 2015, 09:56:41 AM »
Shields have to be activated. And IIRC they use fuel while active, so the standard is to have them off.
 

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« Reply #788 on: February 20, 2015, 05:23:06 PM »
Shields were on, and charging, they took damage when generators were destroyed by missiles, which souks regenerate after I SM repaired, but otherwise everything hit armour.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #789 on: February 20, 2015, 06:11:01 PM »
My shields take damage so it must be something your doing. How many shields do your ships field? The thing about shields is that it is a really slow build up. The strength is mitigates direct damage like armor (one point of shield per 1 damage). Regeneration is the time it takes to fully fill shields. When you are are taking continuous fire, shields absorb Regeneration/Strength (its displayed as Strength-Regeneration in designer) without draining (300/125 [50 2.5 strength shields, 300 sec regeneration] is able to take 1 damage every increment without shield drainage). So what were your shields on your ship and when did you activate them in combat.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #790 on: February 21, 2015, 09:23:29 AM »
IIRC laser fire ignores shields and penetrates directly to armor in StarFire.  I don't remember whether or not Steve pulled this behavior/feature into Aurora.

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #791 on: February 21, 2015, 09:30:40 AM »
IIRC laser fire ignores shields and penetrates directly to armor in StarFire.  I don't remember whether or not Steve pulled this behavior/feature into Aurora.

John
Shields absorb lasers in aurora. Their Events Tab reports are extremely unreliable though, to properly see how much damage is migitaged you have to directly keep track of shield strength and the armor damage profile.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #792 on: February 21, 2015, 06:55:28 PM »
In my game, Sol has 7 JPs to covered.  Two have jump gates.  I dont have much of a navy.

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #793 on: March 10, 2015, 02:15:11 PM »
Found the weirdest system I have seen in Aurora yet. A 4 star system that is two Binary systems close together. D is orbiting A closely, B is orbiting about 0.23 Lys away, and C is orbiting B closely. Both mains (A and B) have plenty of bodies orbiting them, and the secondaries (C and D) also have a few. Best part is that there are several bodies with a cost less than 5 (2 less than 2). Plenty of Gas Giants and asteroids as well. Anyone say possible fortress system? The stars are (in order A, B, C, D) G3-V, M3-V, L1-VII, T1-VII. Its called the Indigo system.

Edit; Found another quad system made of two binaries a couple of months later. Its called the Kohl system. B orbiting A a ways away (not as far, only 15 billion km away), C orbiting B closely, and D orbiting A closely. No joke. G9-V, G9-V, M2-V, and L7-VII (A, B, C, and D respectively). It also has quite a few colonizable planets.

Edit 2; Found yet another quad system made from two binaries a another few months in. Why do I keep finding these. This is the Redwing system (pastime sport will be hockey when I colonize it); B orbiting A far away (about 0.05 Lys), C orbiting A closely this time, and D orbiting B closely. G0-V, G7-V, G8-V, and K1-V (A, B, C, D)(All main sequence stars this time, all close in size too, 1.25m to 1.53m).

Edit3; Why must I have so many quads. Well I found yet another one, the Parsifal system. B orbits A, C orbits B, and D orbits A. They are G2-V, G6-V, K7-V, and K7-V respectively. Once again they are all similar in size and mass.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #794 on: March 12, 2015, 09:28:26 AM »
Just found the need to build a batch of grav survey ships. Apparently they are the Adams Family. Charles Hitchcock Adams, John Couch Adams, and Walter Sydney Adams were all added to shipbuilding queue. Those were random names from the name type I selected.
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