Posted by: SteveAlt
« on: February 19, 2009, 01:28:06 PM »Quote from: "Kurt"
Quote from: "Erik Luken"Could they be listed differently because some were moving, and others not?
No, they were grouped together in one large fleet, not moving. I have found out, though, that if you give Aurora several time advances while the sensors are on, it will begin automatically identifying the contacts as the same class and will group them together. So maybe that is the answer to my question - Aurora will do what I ask, but over time.
That is interesting, although I am not sure why multiple advances works while a single advance doesn't. The alien ship and class records are created at the moment that a ship is detected so other ships detected in the same phase should still match up.
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Steve, I have another question/request, which you may have already resolved for more recent versions of Aurora. My system map, when opened to Sol, is always very cluttered around Earth because of the fact that five major civilizations are centered on Earth and they have, between them, several hundred ships and PDC's. This renders the system map useless when focused on Earth, or just less than useful, because there are so many contacts. It would be nice if contacts were listed on the system map by task group, rather than individual ships, to remove the clutter.Have you used the Hide IDs option? This will group ships of the same class in the same location into one contact line. You can also remove the non-active contacts using an option (assuming that option existed in v3.1).
I know this is more complex than I think it is, but it is really difficult to deal with the system map when there are so many ships.
Grouping contacts by task group would be tricky, not least because you would have no way to know which alien ships within the same location were in which fleet at that location. There must be other ways to make it more intelligent though. Perhaps some type of filter that allowed you to show only contacts of a particular alien race or class, or contacts within a certain size range.
Steve