Quick Questions Thread

[DoctorDanny]

I asked the same question yesterday.  The tickbox in the display tab isn't working yet.
We're going to have to use the events window for the time being.

[Zincat]

Is it possible to play with another theme color than blue and yellow? Just asking, it seems to wear on my eyes.

Do we still need to switch to the dot for decimal separator? I have the comma on my system

Steve answered me in another thread and said that for now, that's the case. He also said that after release he may take a look at trying to make it so the game does not care about your decimal separator and uses the one of your OS

[Doren]

Is it possible to play with another theme color than blue and yellow? Just asking, it seems to wear on my eyes.

Do we still need to switch to the dot for decimal separator? I have the comma on my system

Steve answered me in another thread and said that for now, that's the case. He also said that after release he may take a look at trying to make it so the game does not care about your decimal separator and uses the one of your OS

Game is actually using OS separator

[muzzlehead]

Are there (or are they planned) any keyboard shortcuts to manually advance turns?

[smoelf]

Are there (or are they planned) any keyboard shortcuts to manually advance turns?

It's on the list of planned features: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10637.0

[GodEmperor]

Are there plans for enchancing population limit by building underground infrastructure on top of orbital habitats?
Or some sort of building that emulates Hive Cities from 40k?

[Nori]

Too simple of a question to ask in a full thread... I put a science bay in my survey ships, but I can't put a science officer on it. I'm assuming there is another module or something that needs adding. Anyone know?

[Ri0Rdian]

Is there a way to display the events, apart from opening the events screen? Tickling the events in the display doesn't seem to work?

I asked the same question yesterday.   The tickbox in the display tab isn't working yet. 
We're going to have to use the events window for the time being.

Steve mentioned that due to faster release he left that out.  So if you want events on the main window you will have to wait.

[Kamilo]

I'm missing the "Transfer Fuel to Colony" option.  The ship is marked as tanker and the colony has several spaceports, 10 to be precise.  Am I missing something?

[Bughunter]

I'm missing the "Transfer Fuel to Colony" option.  The ship is marked as tanker and the colony has several spaceports, 10 to be precise.  Am I missing something?

A refuelling station maybe? May be needed for transfer in any direction.

[Father Tim]

Too simple of a question to ask in a full thread... I put a science bay in my survey ships, but I can't put a science officer on it. I'm assuming there is another module or something that needs adding. Anyone know?

Bridge.

[firsal]

Small question on STO mechanics - would it be better to used turreted weapons for point defense (say, a triple Gauss Cannon turret) rather than the Gauss Cannon itself as the STO's weapon?

[Resand]

Too simple of a question to ask in a full thread... I put a science bay in my survey ships, but I can't put a science officer on it. I'm assuming there is another module or something that needs adding. Anyone know?

I got auto on, so haven't tried, but auto works and I can find the option for it Commander window.
Select correct level (probably lowest level) naval officer, Science officer as job and list of positions are shown

[smoelf]

Too simple of a question to ask in a full thread... I put a science bay in my survey ships, but I can't put a science officer on it. I'm assuming there is another module or something that needs adding. Anyone know?

Have you selected the correct officer type? So far, clicking on a random officer of the correct type seems necessary in order to even see available assignments. The problem with science departments is that only the lowest ranking naval officer seems capable of that task, so if you select a higher-ranking officer, the assignment won't even show up.

[Kamilo]

I'm missing the "Transfer Fuel to Colony" option.   The ship is marked as tanker and the colony has several spaceports, 10 to be precise.   Am I missing something?

A refuelling station maybe? May be needed for transfer in any direction.

But then I would need a massive fuel station around each colony, since I cant transfer it.