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Offline Doug Olchefske (OP)

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3.1 Suggestions
« on: April 29, 2008, 02:51:34 PM »
Could you predefine humans as a race for setup? Since I use humans all the time it would be nice to just click yes rather than set up the race each time.
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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2008, 03:05:36 PM »
Steve, as usual you have done an over the top job with Aurora.  The functionality is leagues ahead of SA.  That also means that you?re the victim of your own success.  Each new or improved piece gets me wondering what I want next.  

So here are various suggestions in no particular order:

In the fighter screen (f7)  Allow block assignments to squadrons as well as individual. (ie shift+drag to highlight a block, or cntl+click to highlight non-contiguous)

In research tab of (f2)  Add a sort that uses field for the high order.

In Class Design (f5) allow for selection of class name similar what you had in SA. Maybe a check box to toggle auto-assign.

During race setup have the ability to restrict what tech trees are available.

The ability to create star systems for a new player race that is not initially connected an exist race.  This system should be able to generate at least 1 planet that meets parameters assigned to the new race so that the SM doesn?t have to cycle through random system generations or need to manually edit.  The ability for the SM to manually edit a newly generated system should be available though.
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« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2008, 10:17:02 PM »
Can we have a "show obsolete" checkbox on the Class Design (F5) screen?  If unchecked, classes with the "obsolete" box checked would be filtered out of the pulldown list.

I just switched all my designs to a new armor type - there are now twice as many classes to chose from in my pulldown (only 1/2 of which I care about) :-)

Thanks,
John
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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2008, 11:27:25 PM »
Quote from: "sloanjh"
Can we have a "show obsolete" checkbox on the Class Design (F5) screen?  If unchecked, classes with the "obsolete" box checked would be filtered out of the pulldown list.

I just switched all my designs to a new armor type - there are now twice as many classes to chose from in my pulldown (only 1/2 of which I care about) :-)

Thanks,
John


Seconded.
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2008, 08:18:13 AM »
Could we get a task group command for fighter squadrons to return to and land/recover on thier assigned carrier/mothership?
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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2008, 12:20:03 PM »
reverse sort the drop-down boxes for designing components.

This would allow you to select shield and get the best parts for shield.

Pete
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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2008, 12:30:30 PM »
Logging -- dump the logs as part of the "new year" routine.  

for example it just turns year 202, dump the logs for year 200, this would allow people to look back on year 201 logs.

Dump it to a directory (new directory) called logs. create a subdirectory with the name of the game (e.g. Game_108).  then dump the logs as YYYY.log. where yyyy is the game year being dumped.

Whether or not  the person chooses not to log the data, the routine deletes the old data to keep the logs from overflowing.

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« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2008, 11:56:15 AM »
Another request for fighters.

The ability to un-assign squadrons from carrier/mothership.

The ability to un-assign fighters from a squadron.
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« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2008, 08:10:59 PM »
Quote from: "Pete_Keller"
reverse sort the drop-down boxes for designing components.

This would allow you to select shield and get the best parts for shield.

Pete


Oh, definitely yes.

Also, could we have a mini jump gate, like a DSB-ncd? I'd like to extend my communication network without a big honking gate.
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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2008, 02:08:26 PM »
random events.
+- pop
+- BP for ships, CF, Army units, etc
+- finance( as applied to pop tech or a lump sum)
One time bonus to research (Dr whoisy publishes paper, +1200 rp to laser)

Crew gets a xp bonus do to a Lt doing training or something.

trade bonus item discovered.

unrest level goes down/ or up  :twisted:

additional reservoir of minerals found. or overestimated!

and so on.
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2008, 07:20:16 PM »
Quote from: "Haegan2005"
random events.
+- pop
+- BP for ships, CF, Army units, etc
+- finance( as applied to pop tech or a lump sum)
One time bonus to research (Dr whoisy publishes paper, +1200 rp to laser)

Crew gets a xp bonus do to a Lt doing training or something.

trade bonus item discovered.

unrest level goes down/ or up  ;)
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« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2008, 01:31:43 PM »
When not creating a race on Sol, automatically set the SM Race as the default on New Game creation.
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« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2008, 07:09:05 PM »
A way to reset or clear the hull type listing.
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« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2008, 07:21:42 AM »
An option to select class name instead of auto-assigned when created.
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« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2008, 08:09:12 AM »
Quote from: "Erik Luken"
A way to reset or clear the hull type listing.

Can't you just change it using the dropdown on the class window? or do you mean clear the whole list?

Steve
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