POLL: While waiting for 5.70, I am currently....

[Texashawk (OP)]

Just curious to see what people are doing while we all await what looks like an incredible update!

[fflaguna]

Not playing. I'm waiting for the exciting features in 5.7!

[Gyrfalcon]

My planned campaign benefits heavily from features in 5.7 - otherwise, I'm back on 5.4 since I need the ability to build conventional troop types for RP purposes.

[Thiosk]

gods and kings!

whoops!

[welchbloke]

Skyrim, teaching myself Visual Basic using Express 2010 and my v5.42 campaign is still running!

[xeryon]

Those screen shots of the expanded 5.7 Sol system ruined 5.6 for me.

God and Kings for now until 5.7 gets here.

[Moonshadow101]

Chalk me down for not playing. Having an update like this hanging overhead makes games feel hollow. Building a ship with forty tiny engines instead of a much smaller number of big ones feels so wrong now! Not to mention all of the new objects in Sol.

[Texashawk (OP)]

Interesting responses... but very surprising there is so little love for NA. I wonder... Is it because there just isn't that much interest in that version or because people expect it to be completed so far down the road, they're not waiting for it for a new campaign?

[jseah]

Well, that's basically it.  I wouldn't wait for NA. 

[Person012345]

NA has no release date even vaguely on the horizon. Waiting for it would be odd unless you never intended to play standard aurora again, as it's a whole different game (it'll be worked on alongside standard aurora and isn't intended to replace it from what I understand).

[fflaguna]

Interesting responses... but very surprising there is so little love for NA. I wonder... Is it because there just isn't that much interest in that version or because people expect it to be completed so far down the road, they're not waiting for it for a new campaign?

Everybody's super interested in NA, but the poll option is basically written "I'm never playing Aurora again until NA is released. Then I'll play again." Obviously not many of us agree with that statement.

[Erik L]

There should be one in there, "I'm playing 5.6 but will probably lose interest and quit before it finishes and then I'll start another one in a couple weeks and play that one, whether it is 5.6 or 5.7"

[Texashawk (OP)]

Ah. That makes sense. For some reason I thought NA was going to be like 'Aurora 6.0' or something, not aware that it was a completely stand-alone version. That's why I asked.

NA has no release date even vaguely on the horizon. Waiting for it would be odd unless you never intended to play standard aurora again, as it's a whole different game (it'll be worked on alongside standard aurora and isn't intended to replace it from what I understand).

[UnLimiTeD]

Quite honestly, I was waiting for NA to the exclusion of all else.
It was tense enough just seeing the features to keep myself busy; I never stuck with a campaign too long, even when I did an AAR for it. Lack of patience and not enough time, I guess.
But when it became clear that NA wouldn't be here anytime soon, or might share the same fate as A2 in that it's probably never being done, this wouldn't be a fair assessment; I will quite possibly start a new game with 5.7.
Still, NA is what I'm really waiting on.

[Gyrfalcon]

I wasn't waiting for NA, as I have no intention of playing it if it ever does get released. Without a far greater degree of hand-holding then Aurora is known for, I just don't want to have to deal with Newtonian physics and trying to get fleets into firing range of an enemy and actually manage to hit something. (And then not immediately run out of fuel or shoot out the other side of the star system because I didn't understand the mechanics correctly.)