Recently my life has changed. For long periods of time, I find myself sitting, waiting for Aurora to calculate what happens to my world. I have played for some 150 game years, so a 5 second turn can easily last 5 minutes. I guess 10% of the time I spend with Aurora is spent actually playing the game, the rest of the time is waiting.
A lot of this waiting time I use to contemplate what to do next, or I am reading the forum to try to figure out what I do not currently understand. I also check my email, read the news and make another cup of coffee.
But as I am addicted to this game, I am bound to end up having a lot of unused time on my hands. For a time I did some aimless surfing around on the net, but then I found this site:
http://www.naval-review.co.uk/pastiss.aspI can heartily recommend The Naval Review to any Aurora player, who finds naval stuff interesting. Written by officers of the Royal Navy, it deals with all kinds of issues relating to naval warfare. Some of it is rather boring, but some of it is highly exciting. To me this is the perfect blend for something to read, when I wait for Aurora, the boring stuff kills time (and probably makes me a little bit wiser), while the exciting stuff is, well, very exciting. So much that I sometimes forget that I am playing Aurora and just keeps reading.
So this is what I read when playing Aurora. What do you read?