One point that hasn't been mentioned in this thread. You can detect a stable jump point on active sensors (without the need for gravitational sensors), so when deciding to stabilise, you are also making it easier to detect.
For active sensor detection purposes, what is the size of a stable jump point?
Or are they detected whenever in range of any active sensor, regardless of resolution?
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For active sensor detection purposes, what is the size of a stable jump point?
Or are they detected whenever in range of any active sensor, regardless of resolution?
One point that hasn't been mentioned in this thread. You can detect a stable jump point on active sensors (without the need for gravitational sensors), so when deciding to stabilise, you are also making it easier to detect.
Wrecks being visible is covered in the Lore post. Ships travel in the Aether, but wrecks return to normal space and can be detected as normal matter, like system bodies.Im aware of the lore but that doesn't mean think it's consistent or logical.
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10239.0
You used to have to detect them, but it led to tedious micromanagement to search for them without really adding any gameplay decisions.
Jump point are substantially more important than wrecks, so they are harder to detect.It's true but there are two gameplay considerations of making them easier to detect. First it makes it less of a no-brainer choice to stabilize all JPs. Second it makes it easier and faster to track down where those aliens are (and for them to track down you) leading to more potential fun and interactions.
One point that hasn't been mentioned in this thread. You can detect a stable jump point on active sensors (without the need for gravitational sensors), so when deciding to stabilise, you are also making it easier to detect.
I wouldn't complain if Stable JPs were automatically visible system wide. It would make alot more sense than it currently is having wrecks show up systemwide IMHO.
Edit: Isn't that how it worked in VB6 version?
One point that hasn't been mentioned in this thread. You can detect a stable jump point on active sensors (without the need for gravitational sensors), so when deciding to stabilise, you are also making it easier to detect.
Same really, one of the few quirks of Aurora's Sci-fi that I don't really like is the squadron jump drives that take up such a large fraction of a ships tonnage until you get way up the tech tree. I'd much rather have every ship equipped with its own self jump only drives that were much smaller. I'd be happy if the Squadron size affected overall size and allow us to drop it down from 3 to self-jump
Same really, one of the few quirks of Aurora's Sci-fi that I don't really like is the squadron jump drives that take up such a large fraction of a ships tonnage until you get way up the tech tree. I'd much rather have every ship equipped with its own self jump only drives that were much smaller. I'd be happy if the Squadron size affected overall size and allow us to drop it down from 3 to self-jumpIf it exists, I stabilize it. I stabilize them all. I make several stabilization ships and put them on the standing order to stabilize nearest jump point. They run on automatic.Why not just play with the "All jump points are stable" option? Save you some resources since you already just want them done automatically anyways.
The others will tell you of tactical advantages or problems that could arise. I'd rather focus my time and energy on designing and building new ships, carefully planning where to put new colonies, and making sure that my fleets can protect those colonies.
See, I want an option in setup to "NOT ALLOW" stabilization. Not player stabilization, not NPR stabilization, NONE! I would even like a "no assisted jumps allowed" button! You want to go through a jump point? Put a jump drive on every ship!
But I accept that there is not such a button as programming the AI to use it in ship design would be an excessive development cost.
