Hello all, please remove if not appropriate, I am new around here,

I have a Linux desktop, and was able to get Quasar to launch.  I am new to the game in general, could I use the VB6 tutorials on here?

Thanks for making a Linux compatible game kyle!

@Kyle

Is the project dead? Or have you been working on it in secret.
Loved what you were doing!

Kind regards.

Kyle can correct me if I'm wrong but I think "finished" may be more accurate than dead. The goal of quasar was to re-implement the latest planned version of VB6 aurora in C#/C++, which I think has been achieved at this point.

After selecting a game, from the floating main menu widget, in Quasar 4x --> Settings there is an option "Shrink to fit small displays" which can help with this. It is not perfect but it is playable this way.

Ever thought about integrating some of the functions of AuroraMarvin and/or AuroraElectrons? I like some of the statistical overviews for example. Or the note system. Really helps with larger games... .

Allow overhaul to be in the loop orders as now done to C# 2.0 will be really a welcoming addition.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=12523.msg151756#msg151756

a long term experimental branch just for me where I finally allow myself to significantly deviate from Aurora VB6's UI layout in order to add more ways to automate things and whatever else comes to mind.  If I come up with anything good I will post it.

If you are open to taking suggestions, one of the things I've always wanted to see in Aurora is a fully scriptable order system (similar to the game Screeps).  As it currently stands, you can view task force orders as sort of very basic, handicapped visual scripting system, whereby you can queue orders, loop them once, and have additional loops for preset conditional and standing orders.  It would be really neat to have a fully-scriptable system where you could write orders of arbitrary complexity, with as many conditions, loops, checks as the player wishes.  In this way, you could write not just orders or repeatable orders, but full-fledged autopilots that can access any variable in the database that the player has access to.  It'd allow you to remove a lot of the tedious tasks from the game, you could - for example - script scouting ships to fly search patterns and automatically shadow neutral/hostile ships, or script freighters to automatically move resources from systems with resources to systems who have resources below the reserve limit.  Or, you could script AI for your combat battlegroups so that they can sortie and fight without player intervention.

For Quasar you'll need to refer to the old VB6 pages on the wiki, etc. such as the Ground Forces page here. Ground forces in particular are one of the biggest changes from VB6 --> C# so you will basically need to forget everything you know from C# in this area.

The low-tech divisions you start with in a conventional start are size 50, while a TN battalion is size 5 (the sizes are abstract and don't correspond exactly to a tonnage as in C#), so you would need a transport with 10+ battalion capacity to move a single low-tech division - you can't split it between multiple transports.

Usually it is a better decision in terms of game mechanics to convert the low-tech divisions into cadres and use those to train your first TN-tech battalions at a reduced cost, but if you want to keep the flavor of low-tech units for roleplay reasons you'll need bigger transports.