Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread: C# Edition

[Erik L]

RST = Racial S Tech. Not sure what the S stands for.

I think it might be Race-Specific Tech - although I'm not certain

Should we be worried Steve doesn't remember the acronym?

[nakorkren]

But why is there a different button? I've always used the Instant button, regardless of whether it's a generic tech or a prototype design to be researched, and it has worked fine. Was the Instant RST needed at some point, or does it still somehow do something different? Would I be giving all player races the tech or design if I use Instant in a multiplayer game?

[nuclearslurpee]

I've never actually seen the Instant RST button actually do anything. Does it even work?

[Erik L]

But why is there a different button? I've always used the Instant button, regardless of whether it's a generic tech or a prototype design to be researched, and it has worked fine. Was the Instant RST needed at some point, or does it still somehow do something different? Would I be giving all player races the tech or design if I use Instant in a multiplayer game?

If I recall, Instant only does the tech highlighted. Instant RST grants all of the research projects from designed to the race.

[Vandermeer]

RST = Racial S Tech. Not sure what the S stands for.

I think it might be Race-Specific Tech - although I'm not certain

Should we be worried Steve doesn't remember the acronym?

I heard the comparison that programming projects are like a game of Factorio. At some point you just have no idea anymore how the machine really works. Knowledge about the individual parts slips your memory, but somehow it all fits together to produces a whole.

[Vandermeer]

I have 2 questions arising from recent play:

- Does anyone know what the explanation for the separation of Tokamak Fusion and Magnetic Confinement Fusion in C# is? They used to be the same thing in VB and that made sense, since the Tokamak is a magnetic confinement reactor after all. I guess you could argue the concept advanced, so this is "Improved MC Fusion" like with other tech grades, but since I find that rather weak, is there perhaps a better reason I am not seeing?

- Do anti-orbital cannons set to PD still shot down ships? I had to design my newest line of ground defenses as such because the enemy is so fast, but since these weapons can't be controlled directly, I fear there might be a hidden restriction that these guns will now not target large ships anymore.

[nuclearslurpee]

- Does anyone know what the explanation for the separation of Tokamak Fusion and Magnetic Confinement Fusion in C# is? They used to be the same thing in VB and that made sense, since the Tokamak is a magnetic confinement reactor after all. I guess you could argue the concept advanced, so this is "Improved MC Fusion" like with other tech grades, but since I find that rather weak, is there perhaps a better reason I am not seeing?

It was indeed confusing and nonsense, and was fixed in 2.0+ as we now have the more flavorful names of Magnetic Mirror (Ion Drive) --> Stellarator (MP Drive) --> Tokamak (MCF Drive) --> Inertial Confinement (ICF Drive) for the plasma/fusion reactors/engines.

[lumporr]

How does one actually get the "Player Known Systems Until ______" to work? I encountered what I believe to be Aether Raiders in the first year of a new game - in Sol, no less! Granted it wasn't a disastrous meeting, as they ran off when they saw that my diplomacy ships come with a frigate escort, but still. How does one turn that function on?

[Garfunkel]

You don't need to colonize that many systems, just discover them. So if you turtle in Sol, they shouldn't show up.

[lumporr]

You don't need to colonize that many systems, just discover them. So if you turtle in Sol, they shouldn't show up.

I had not yet traveled out of Sol. It was quite a surprise. If giving my start parameters would help, I can do that in a bit, though I'm on mobile and traveling at the moment.

[db48x]

You don't need to colonize that many systems, just discover them. So if you turtle in Sol, they shouldn't show up.

I had not yet traveled out of Sol. It was quite a surprise. If giving my start parameters would help, I can do that in a bit, though I'm on mobile and traveling at the moment.

Sharing your database would help more, as it would allow someone to confirm exactly what sort of ships they are.

[lumporr]

You don't need to colonize that many systems, just discover them. So if you turtle in Sol, they shouldn't show up.

I had not yet traveled out of Sol. It was quite a surprise. If giving my start parameters would help, I can do that in a bit, though I'm on mobile and traveling at the moment.

Sharing your database would help more, as it would allow someone to confirm exactly what sort of ships they are.

Here you go!

[Black]

I believe that people on Discord mentioned that for Raiders "Player Known Systems Until ______" option is bugged and it also counts systems discovered by NPRs. But there is no report in bug forum yet and my game has currently 0 NPRs so I cannot check if that is true.

[boolybooly]

The same thing happened to me and it was quite exciting! An advanced raider took down all my shipyards and any ships it could see in the second year when I had not left Sol.

I reported it with screenies in spoilers.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13030.msg161010;topicseen#msg161010

[boolybooly]

Playing v2.0.2 is there supposed to be a way to select multiple items in a list e.g. the ship list ?

I am trying to shift click the ship lists to multiselect defence satellites and can only seem to pick one at a time.

I have tried various key combinations. Am I missing something ?

Just wondering if this should be bug reported.