C# Suggestions

[nuclearslurpee]

I occasionally entertain the idea of reworking armor so that beam weapons ablate armor while kinetic weapons penetrate armor, but this would be a significant rework so I doubt such a thing could ever happen in Aurora.

[nakorkren]

I looked around the forum but couldn't find anything on this already, so:

Allow hangar decks to be pre-built via industry. Currently can't be, but other comparable ship modules (i.e. not designed like Cryo transport, Diplomacy module, Cargo Shuttle Bay, etc) can be built. Also noticed that the various sizes of cargo bay can't be pre-built either. Wondering if that's intentional, or an oversight?

[Jorgen_CAB]

I occasionally entertain the idea of reworking armor so that beam weapons ablate armor while kinetic weapons penetrate armor, but this would be a significant rework so I doubt such a thing could ever happen in Aurora.

Don't be so sure... Steve did toy with the idea if changing how weapons worked when he was working on Aurora 2 version of the game a few years back. It could happen...

Both shields and armour worked in a more realistic way and most weapons impacted these things in different ways. Shields did not always completely stop incoming rounds or energy beams either.

[Jorgen_CAB]

I looked around the forum but couldn't find anything on this already, so:

Allow hangar decks to be pre-built via industry. Currently can't be, but other comparable ship modules (i.e. not designed like Cryo transport, Diplomacy module, Cargo Shuttle Bay, etc) can be built. Also noticed that the various sizes of cargo bay can't be pre-built either. Wondering if that's intentional, or an oversight?

I think the point is that the part of a ship you mention are more part of the hull structure rather than some isolated component, that is why you can't pre build them.

[Warer]

Hmm maybe a Pre Built Hanger Deck Module? Something like a Hangar deck but its 1100-1250 tons and maybe more expensive but you can build it with industry to speed up carrier construction.

[nakorkren]

Would it be possible to give fighters (sub 500 tons) the ability to "land" in the form of significantly reduced signature when at a body? This would open up the ability to "hide" fighters on an asteroid or other body and ambush enemy naval forces, which would be AWESOME flavor-wise.

No idea how that'd work code-wise, and presumably there would need to be some way to toggle it where they can't shoot until they "take off" thereby giving up the signature reduction.

[Demetrious]

Would it be possible to give fighters (sub 500 tons) the ability to "land" in the form of significantly reduced signature when at a body? This would open up the ability to "hide" fighters on an asteroid or other body and ambush enemy naval forces, which would be AWESOME flavor-wise.

No idea how that'd work code-wise, and presumably there would need to be some way to toggle it where they can't shoot until they "take off" thereby giving up the signature reduction.

Seems to me this could be implemented by using the already existing ground-support mechanics, as fighters on ground-support missions can't be targeted normally by space assets (including STOs.)

[Aloriel]

Speaking of wealth changes (as per the 2.0 changes list)...

Would it be possible to get a simple line graph that could show a history of our wealth over the last few years or so?

Similarly, would it be possible to get graphs of our mineral stockpile status on a selected planet? This one would be best served by being able to select the different minerals (or all of them), and the graph scaling to fit the data.

I ask for these because it is often somewhat challenging to see the change of minerals/wealth over time with just numbers.

[skoormit]

Speaking of wealth changes (as per the 2.0 changes list)...

Would it be possible to get a simple line graph that could show a history of our wealth over the last few years or so?

Similarly, would it be possible to get graphs of our mineral stockpile status on a selected planet? This one would be best served by being able to select the different minerals (or all of them), and the graph scaling to fit the data.

I ask for these because it is often somewhat challenging to see the change of minerals/wealth over time with just numbers.

Allow me to introduce Marvin.

[hostergaard]

A checkbox to prevent commander re-assignment for specific commanders

Mostly cause administrators assigned to my academies keeps getting reasigned.

Automatic assignment for Admin commands and ability to choose how its assigned and prioritized like colony administrators

Cause I a tired of micro managing it every time someone gets promoted or something.

[Steve Walmsley]

A checkbox to prevent commander re-assignment for specific commanders

Mostly cause administrators assigned to my academies keeps getting reasigned.

Automatic assignment for Admin commands and ability to choose how its assigned and prioritized like colony administrators

Cause I a tired of micro managing it every time someone gets promoted or something.

Admin Commands is already in the changes list
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=12523.msg156310;topicseen#msg156310

Academy commanders being re-assigned was a bug that is already fixed.

[RaidersOfTheVerge]

A way to designate equal refuel from a designated tanker fleet.

I.e battle fleet refueling from one tanker so that the first ships get 100% fuel and the last one only gets the remainder and is still only at 22%

Or tanker goes to refuel from harvesters and the first few have 0% while the last ones still have 90%+

[unkfester]

A way to designate equal refuel from a designated tanker fleet.

I.e battle fleet refueling from one tanker so that the first ships get 100% fuel and the last one only gets the remainder and is still only at 22%

Or tanker goes to refuel from harvesters and the first few have 0% while the last ones still have 90%+

  I second this.  When you got a big fleet, I would rather have then all fueled to 10% than have one at 100% and the rest still empty

[Aloriel]

Speaking of wealth changes (as per the 2.0 changes list)...

Would it be possible to get a simple line graph that could show a history of our wealth over the last few years or so?

Similarly, would it be possible to get graphs of our mineral stockpile status on a selected planet? This one would be best served by being able to select the different minerals (or all of them), and the graph scaling to fit the data.

I ask for these because it is often somewhat challenging to see the change of minerals/wealth over time with just numbers.

Allow me to introduce Marvin.

Marvin would be great if I didn't have to save each time for it to update... This is why I suggest these things in Aurora itself. (also, your link doesn't work I found it anyway, but thought you should know)

[nakorkren]

Would it be possible for the event screen so be resizeable? It's the one window that I most often wish I could resize, and since it's just text display with minimal buttons/fields, it seems like it should be amenable to resizing. I often wish it was just a little wider so an event would only fill one line, instead of spilling onto the 2nd line, particularly when there are a LOT of the same event over and over, as in combat, and those events take up twice as many rows to display. Likewise it would be nice to resize it vertically to fill whatever space is available, and again displaying more or less rows of text seems like it should be a minimal coding change (but I am not a SW developer, so I could easily be wrong about that).