What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?

[Theodidactus]

I think from a purely minmaxing perspective missiles top out over beams, but beams are in my opinion more fun. I love shouting "Full broadside" before I blow an alien warship to kingdom come with my laser turrets.

[Stardust]

I hadn't considered shouting anything, but the idea is intriguing.  Thanks.  Do you use something similar for missiles?

[Theodidactus]

I hadn't considered shouting anything, but the idea is intriguing.  Thanks.  Do you use something similar for missiles?

Some pointers:

-I invested some money in a really nice chair in my aurora-playin room. It looks and feels like a space captain-y chair.

-Remember that in the gold old days torpedoes on naval ships needed to be spun up before firing. It is very important to give your commanders the order to spin up your torpedoes before they fire them. Otherwise they won't work right.

- when a large unknown alien vessel is closing in to attack you, be sure to fire one kind of long ranged weapon first and then another, more powerful weapon as the range closes....you know, for dramatic effect. Even better if one or both weapons are totally ineffective.

- "rear admiral" is a dumb rank. Your ranks should go "Lieutenant Commander" "commander" "Captain" "commodore" "admiral" "high admiral" "star commander". It takes less time to shout "commodore" than to shout "rear admiral"...this may save lives.

- the enemy base is down

[Stardust]

I rule from my couch and my weaponry is rather ineffective; shiny but ineffective.

The pointers you have offered have been forwarded to my military leaders for review.  Thank you.

[Alfapiomega]

Some pointers:

-I invested some money in a really nice chair in my aurora-playin room. It looks and feels like a space captain-y chair.

-Remember that in the gold old days torpedoes on naval ships needed to be spun up before firing. It is very important to give your commanders the order to spin up your torpedoes before they fire them. Otherwise they won't work right.

- when a large unknown alien vessel is closing in to attack you, be sure to fire one kind of long ranged weapon first and then another, more powerful weapon as the range closes....you know, for dramatic effect. Even better if one or both weapons are totally ineffective.

- "rear admiral" is a dumb rank. Your ranks should go "Lieutenant Commander" "commander" "Captain" "commodore" "admiral" "high admiral" "star commander". It takes less time to shout "commodore" than to shout "rear admiral"...this may save lives.

- the enemy base is down

AFAIK - Lieutenant Commander and commander are both refered to as commander. The same goes for admirals - all of them are usually refered to as admirals, only on specific ocasions their whole rank is used

[GodEmperor]

Gaian Supremacy prevails against all odds !

Filthy Xenos ( House of Taino ) from Proxima Centauri had been blockaded for more than 30 years and inteligence gathered from their ships indicates that Proxima Centauri has no other JP than the one leading to Sol ... which means Gaians can starve them out and deliver the coup de grace whenever they wish

Meanwhile Gaians are spreading across the galaxy - they have founded 4 extra-solar colonies ( see attachment for full pic of the situation ) - in Silesia, Sigma Draconis, Arcadia and Epislon Indi systems ( and one in Sol on Mars ), all of them on resources rich planets and all of them had ruins of ancient civilizations ( its all RNG - i did not do anything in SM ) ... They have encountered two more races - Sandhurst aliens calling themselfs House of Bari which are friendly ( for a long time i hope ) and Aliens of Codalus which are impossible to communicate ( i think they are Swarm ) and are already hostile.

Meanwhile "Great Overhaul" is begining because Gaian scientists have finally discovered secrets of Solid Core Anti Matter drive and reactors technologies and on top of that fleet is really outdated ....

After building some proper fleet ( CL , CA , BC and BBs ) i plan to finally destroy House of Taino and mount a little expedition to Codalus system to clear the alien infestation .

On another heartwarming note - Narato Rie, man who drew first blood in Gaians Crusade ( aboard the GSS Freedom, Cornwallis class destroyer ) to reclaim Sol have been promoted to Admiral following Amber Perkins retirement at the age of 78.

Ps. Steve plz make a "salvage any wreck in system " a conditional order in 6.4 ... ffs i have almost 3000 wrecks ( god bless the AI ) in Sol and its pissing me as fuarkk ....

[Steve Walmsley]

Ps. Steve plz make a "salvage any wreck in system " a conditional order in 6.4 ... ffs i have almost 3000 wrecks ( god bless the AI ) in Sol and its pissing me as fuarkk ....

Already been added as NPRs get salvage ships in v6.40

Steve

[Theodidactus]

I rule from my couch and my weaponry is rather ineffective; shiny but ineffective.

The pointers you have offered have been forwarded to my military leaders for review.  Thank you.

Steve is a liar, aurora is ostensibly a free game but to play it nice you need to invest in a good captain's chair.
Someday I'm going to have three screens, and two disconnected keyboards to just randomly push while I'm in a deep space battle.

[MarcAFK]

That sounds like that multiplayer starship bridge simulator I've heard about.
Personally I would like to have multiple monitors, suspended from the ceiling  and a motorized chair with buttons on it to "launch the pods!" Whatever that means.

[Theodidactus]

almost certainly against the terms of my lease

[Stardust]

Steve is a liar, aurora is ostensibly a free game but to play it nice you need to invest in a good captain's chair.
Someday I'm going to have three screens, and two disconnected keyboards to just randomly push while I'm in a deep space battle.

I understand the need for a good captain's chair.  My empire is simply more laid back than most.

[JacenHan]

The Terran Empire is taking it's first steps into the surrounding region. However, two systems with wrecks and one with a confirmed enemy presence has made them wary of further exploration. They are upgrading their technology to build a new series of bigger and better ships to properly conquer any aliens that dare oppose them.

EDIT: That save was destroyed by a series of errors, so I started a new game with 12 max systems, real stars off, and one starting NPR. I SMed all tech under 10,000 RPs, as well as ion drives and box launchers. Exploration of the first three systems outside Sol yielded some Precursors, an empty system, and a generic large system. The system with the Precursors had a jump gate on both sides, so I sent an 18,000 ton battlecruiser, armed with ASMs and AMMs, escorted by two 12,000 ton gauss escorts. After a general engagement, it was determined that neither side could penetrate the other's PD, so we retreated.

[strych90]

Year 2053 (2020 conventional game start w/ 750m population)

The Terran Republic (Original name, I know), after facing a mineral shortage (of duranium of all things) and economic depression for the last decade and a half, is finally recovering from its financial woes and beginning its final push towards the stars. With the recent breakthroughs on Ion engines and jumpdrives, the first Victoria Class Gravitational Survey Vessel (named after Magellan's flagship) is currently under production. Hopes are that the ship will be operational within the next 8 months.

The Senate, recognizing the possible threat of hostile extraterrestrials (after much arguing and protest from religious parties ), chartered the first non-terrestrial branch of the Terran Republic Armed Forces, The Terran Republic (Space) Navy, in 2050. The newly-appointed admiralty is currently evaluating several ship and component designs from dozens of different defense contractors from all across the planet in preparation of commissioning the first naval ships of the TRN. The plan is to have a frigate squadron at minimal operational readiness by 2056 to defend Terra in case the three initial ships of the Victoria Class open the proverbial 'Can of Worms' while exploring Sol's neighbors.

[Panopticon]

The Terran Empire finished clearing the Nova Terra system of the Swarm a few years ago, while doing so they discovered that their anti ship missiles were ineffective against the massive shields of the motherships, but AMM used in offensive mode worked, eventually. Some 5000 missiles later they were exploiting ruins on one of the cognizable planets and setting up a research base to take advantage of the Power and Propulsion anomaly there.

A new empire was discovered two systems over, and the exploration fleet was shadowed by larger, more numerous, and faster threats, some experimentation by way of ASM bombardment discovered that those ships were lightly armored though, and they broke off after a single casualty.

The Empire is now working on refits and new construction in preparation for another incursion, it has been decided that rather than redesign the fleet, colliers would be developed to attend the current models, and the size of the next battlegroup would be doubled. The aliens showed few signs of missile defense, this coupled with their light armor and the copious stocks of missiles available meant command made the decision to attack without a fleetwide refit.

The ships go in within the next year.

[Dulkan]

First I met the Demons, I named them such, as communication is impossible and they always blew up my scouts from 200mil km away with their missiles.
Then I had to deal with the Annoyances.  Those guys earned their name for only using massive quantities of 500 ton fighters equipped with a single meson cannon.  Not only really annoying to take down, but also as Meson apparently ignores both shield and armor they were able to damage my heavily shielded and armored battleships.

A short while ago a stable wormhole formed in Epsilon Indi, a system under my control for over 50 years.  A few months later a third alien race emerges.  They appear in massive ships of 60k-100k tons, which still are capable of flying at an absurd 15000 km/s (by comparison my 40k ton battleships fly at 4500km/s)
Diplomatic rating is 5 and those ships don't use active sensors; maybe, this is the first race I encounter which doesn't shoot immediately?
No, of course not, they decide it's best to ram into the civilian freighters running their trade route a short distance away from the wormhole.  As this ramming action also destroyed one of their ships, they are pretty angry, so diplomacy is once again not an option.

But alas, that will be the end of the game.  Apparently they are afflicted by a bug, which does not allow them to use active sensors.  Due to the combat situation the game runs 5sec increments and I have to click through ten "GetActiveSensorRange" errors every time.  I encountered this bug before with invader ships and was able to fix it by removing the offending ships, but as this is a generated NPR I can't take control of them.
Well, I wonder whether I should wait for 6. 4 for a new start.