General question on aliens

[vorpal+5 (OP)]

Are the aliens races generated stronger and stronger as you go deeper exploring (with some good variability? If not, I fear the challenge will soon peter out as soon as you manage to defeat the nearest alien races and you start having a good power base.

The end game has never been a question in Aurora VB6 but now that's a prospect we can contemplate. Perhaps not the end game per se, as the goal has no final goal, but at least, can it offers somehow greater and greater threats as you dig deeper, as the proverbial dwarves at the Moria? 

[Steve Walmsley]

Are the aliens races generated stronger and stronger as you go deeper exploring (with some good variability? If not, I fear the challenge will soon peter out as soon as you manage to defeat the nearest alien races and you start having a good power base.

The end game has never been a question in Aurora VB6 but now that's a prospect we can contemplate. Perhaps not the end game per se, as the goal has no final goal, but at least, can it offers somehow greater and greater threats as you dig deeper, as the proverbial dwarves at the Moria? 

Yes, alien races become stronger the later they are generated.

[vorpal+5 (OP)]

Thanks Steve. So that's a question of time and not distance from start.

[Father Tim]

It might be time.  It used to be proportional to the strength of the player race.  It was never clear to me if "strength" was derived from total research points, or population, or industrial capacity, or some combination thereof.

VB Aurora had a two-jump minimum radius (from home system) on NPR spawn.  C# Aurora has a 'total explored jump points' minimum.

[Steve Walmsley]

Research is based on time and population is based on bell curve centred on the average player race population.

[vorpal+5 (OP)]

Thanks, well thought out then.

[Sleepymoon]

VB Aurora had a two-jump minimum radius (from home system) on NPR spawn.

I guess the NPR that spawned in an adjacent system to Sol in my current game is a bug then.

[Tikigod]

VB Aurora had a two-jump minimum radius (from home system) on NPR spawn.

I guess the NPR that spawned in an adjacent system to Sol in my current game is a bug then.

Do the NPR spawn rules apply to NPRs that are seeded as part of the galaxy generation rather than the random generation % chance on system visit? Assuming it's a actual NPR and not something like a swarm which I'd assume have different spawn rules.

[Cavgunner]

Yes, alien races become stronger the later they are generated.

Oh no. No no no.

*panic sweat beings to bead on forehead*

[xenoscepter]

Not being cheeky here, so I was just reading the wiki when I stumbled across this. Linking it here for the benefit of both future readers and yourself.

Here: http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Races

[vorpal+5 (OP)]

And so reading it, what will have changed for C#:

They don't use fuel
They don't suffer maintenance failures
They don't have to retool shipyards.
Minerals from their mining colonies get magically transported home
NPRs also do not use troop transports. (This point requires verification)

[Jorgen_CAB]

And so reading it, what will have changed for C#:

They don't use fuel
They don't suffer maintenance failures
They don't have to retool shipyards.
Minerals from their mining colonies get magically transported home
NPRs also do not use troop transports. (This point requires verification)

We know NPR will be using fuel and troop transports and perform ground invasions. The rest I don't think we had any confirmation if they will be using in C# if I remember correctly.

[Kristover]

And so reading it, what will have changed for C#:

They don't use fuel
They don't suffer maintenance failures
They don't have to retool shipyards.
Minerals from their mining colonies get magically transported home
NPRs also do not use troop transports. (This point requires verification)

NPR initiated invasions was a major feature I've been posting about and Steve has confirmed they're in as well as troop transports and internal ground force deployment/redeployments for C#.  I want a reason to garrison my planets.

[Steve Walmsley]

And so reading it, what will have changed for C#:

They don't use fuel
They don't suffer maintenance failures
They don't have to retool shipyards.
Minerals from their mining colonies get magically transported home
NPRs also do not use troop transports. (This point requires verification)

For C#, they use fuel, they use troop transports and they have to retool shipyards. The AI makes decisions about which classes it needs the most and retools accordingly.

They still don't have maintenance failures (for now anyway) but they design ships as if they did require maintenance. Minerals are still transported for now, but that will probably change too at some point.

[Steve Walmsley]

NPR initiated invasions was a major feature I've been posting about and Steve has confirmed they're in as well as troop transports and internal ground force deployment/redeployments for C#.  I want a reason to garrison my planets.

The AI has mounted two ground invasions in my current campaign.