Oder by Promotion Points would be a nice addition for RP reasons in the Commanders screen.

This is the 2.4 change discussion thread, not the suggestions thread.

If you're playing a 2.5.0 game, then yes, 2.5.1 will be save game compatible.

But seeing as you posted in the 2.4.0 changes thread, then your game will not be compatible with the latest version.

Thanks! I would be starting a new 2.5.0 game. I looked for a 2.50 Changes Discussion thread, but only saw the 2.4.0 one so assumed we were just using this.

With the 2.5.1 changes so far, is the current best guess that this will be a save-game compatible update (hence the .1 version?). Jonesing to start a new campaign but excited for some of the fixes going into 2.5.1!

One option I would love on the mineral search window, would be to exclude colonised bodies - its main purpose is to find potential colonies, and existing ones are kind of clutter when doing that.

So the change to Known Stars (from 4,400 to over 63,000 known systems) had me wondering what the distribution of systems looks like now.  Mainly I was wondering how it might affect the rate of coming across starting NPRs in a given min-max range.  So I made a graph because of course I did.

This is rather interesting.  I did not realize how many systems are within a given distance of Sol.  It definitely makes me question what settings to use for NPR min/max distances!

So the change to Known Stars (from 4,400 to over 63,000 known systems) had me wondering what the distribution of systems looks like now. Mainly I was wondering how it might affect the rate of coming across starting NPRs in a given min-max range. So I made a graph because of course I did.



Basically, nearly all of the new systems are beyond 100 LY, so as long as your maximum starting NPR distance is under 100 LY there will be basically no change in the rate of discovering the starting NPRs (it might be slightly lower but not very noticeably so). In case anyone was worried...

Quote from: Remon_Kewl on December 11, 2023, 06:45:04 AM

It would be nice if there was an export feature for the player races, NPRs, and minor races.  Keep the naming themes, flags, ships, stations, ranks, etc.

Ya would be cool. Could allow people to pre-build full universes for the different sci fi franchises. The ability to import your work for a new game or allow other player to include it in their games. A similar export would also be nice for the ground forces to. So much work goes into designing large organization it would be nice be able to import orgs you've done from older games on the same aurora version or adopt ones other players have done.

This would be really cool. I built an entire replica of the (incredibly tiny) KSP Kerbol system and built a game around it. Would be cool to be able to expoet stuff like that. I don't mind doing it again but also making it easier to share would be nice. Although granted you can probably make a copy of your save before starting your campaign to share a certain custom starting system or something.

This makes me think of the issue of save compatability (or lack thereof), most of the sting of new releases breaking saves isn't restarting a campaign (I never get far enough usually to even meet an NPR), it tends to be rebuilding your starting empire and starting system if you made one.