C# Aurora v0.x Suggestions

[Garfunkel]

Yes, I believe you remember correctly.

[TMaekler]

The new option for "Human NPRs"; could it be possible to make the chance variable? Not fixed 1/3rd but rather an option and we can choose how likely the chance for a human NPR is?

[Steve Walmsley]

The new option for "Human NPRs"; could it be possible to make the chance variable? Not fixed 1/3rd but rather an option and we can choose how likely the chance for a human NPR is?

Yes, I will probably change to that at some point.

[Happerry]

Any chance that we could eventually have sort of 'Conserve NPR Variety' option based on the 'Human NPR' option? IE, instead of just the oldest population just an already existing population? For stuff like when two empires met and destroyed each other both can have remnants showing up, or when a big galactic federation went up in flames it left colonies of all its member species scattered around and so on?

[TMaekler]

Actually fuel consumption per engine hour is a general tech that is automatically applied to all engine types. I know it would not add much to gameplay except more "realism", but I would like to have fuel consumption per engine hour dependend upon each engine class. So at first when you research a new type of engine class, it might be faster but would eventually eat much more fuel, Later on you would get the benefit of lesser fuel consumption as you research it.

[Doren]

Actually fuel consumption per engine hour is a general tech that is automatically applied to all engine types.  I know it would not add much to gameplay except more "realism", but I would like to have fuel consumption per engine hour dependend upon each engine class.  So at first when you research a new type of engine class, it might be faster but would eventually eat much more fuel, Later on you would get the benefit of lesser fuel consumption as you research it.

I once thought of this but each engine tech step needs to matter a lot less and the fuel tech needs to be really cheap compared to next engine tech to be worth to research.
Right now engine tech is more or less the priority 1 tech in the game and you would be hard pressed to diver resources from trying to go forward with it.

[Garfunkel]

Except in multi-faction Sol starts, where the delay between starting engine research and putting faster ships into combat can be sufficiently long that researching other things becomes more important. But granted, that is a fairly rare case.

[Jorgen_CAB]

To be honest I like the fact that you would research fuel efficiency for each class rather than just one universal technology... this could make it worth sticking to an older engine even if you have a newer technology. They might even be better than the new engine given you can increase the power setting but still burn less fuel for the same speed.

Older engines might be slightly slower but certainly more economical.

It would then make more interesting choices, the question would then be how to balance the cost of research.


I also agree on the multiple faction type of games. Here ships develop more organic and much less in leaps and bounds. You are also quite likely to be stuck with ships having several technological standards of everything. You will never be able to convert all your ships from one technology to the next so everything will always be in some state of flux.

[Expy]

I don't know if this has been suggested before but I really liked the idea of a ship's computer/ AI tech that would reduce the crew requirement: research could determine the crew quality that the computer could simulate, how many crew it can replace per ton stuff like that.  Precursor ships could be translated to use these systems instead of what they do right now.

I'm really looking forward to getting to fool around in C#, whenever you decide to release it! =)

[tobijon]

I don't know if this has been suggested before but I really liked the idea of a ship's computer/ AI tech that would reduce the crew requirement: research could determine the crew quality that the computer could simulate, how many crew it can replace per ton stuff like that.  Precursor ships could be translated to use these systems instead of what they do right now.

I'm really looking forward to getting to fool around in C#, whenever you decide to release it! =)

I have thought about this before and I think that the best way to do it would be to reduce crew requirement (and therefore shipsize) at the cost of high resource requirement. having to choose between cheap crew compartments and very expensive automated systems. Perhaps with a tech research line for a maximum percentage or amount of reduced crew, or a research chain to replace the crew of certain components.

[TMaekler]

Level of Importance for Task Groups:
I usually rename my Task Groups with spaces in front of them so that the more important ones are at the top of my TG list. That on the other hand gets a bit "out of hand" when you do that with several levels of importance. Would be nice if we could add a "level of importance" to the TG and that the TG list will be sorted by that level of importance first; then name etc.

[Shuul]

Level of Importance for Task Groups:
I usually rename my Task Groups with spaces in front of them so that the more important ones are at the top of my TG list. That on the other hand gets a bit "out of hand" when you do that with several levels of importance. Would be nice if we could add a "level of importance" to the TG and that the TG list will be sorted by that level of importance first; then name etc.

Totally support this idea!!!!!

[Steve Walmsley]

Level of Importance for Task Groups:
I usually rename my Task Groups with spaces in front of them so that the more important ones are at the top of my TG list. That on the other hand gets a bit "out of hand" when you do that with several levels of importance. Would be nice if we could add a "level of importance" to the TG and that the TG list will be sorted by that level of importance first; then name etc.

With the Fleet Tree and Admin Commands, you can organize your task groups and see a lot of them at once, so you won't have the same issue as VB6

[ExChairman]

Not sure if its been asked for but I would like to have an "Default order" for rescue lifepods, gets a bit tedious to do it the "Hard way" for 300 pods, friendly and non friendly

[Shuul]

Defining which events break up the time progression cycle

Copy of posting from here:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=9835

Would be nice if we could choose which actions stop a time progression cycle early and which don't. At least for some of them I cannot understand why they stop it early.

Not sure if this was added or not, but choosing what stops time cycles is something I am hoping for