Hello all,

im new to this game, and im trying to figure out how to reassign a scientist or recruit one to a category

Your best bet is to get a large monitor with a low native resolution.

Unfortunately, the display scaling option in Windows will only cause the text to be unreadable in many places, as Aurora doesn't otherwise scale the UI to that option.

Precursor planet question:

After a lot of back and forth fighting to pick off ships orbiting their planet while minimizing damage from a substantial long range STO contingent (6K tons, 6 squadrons of 11 >300K range lasers) the precursor fleet has finally been wrecked.  There is also a 58K ton regular ground forces signature.  But this world shows a population with a Thermal 90 and EM 50 signature. I've seen thermal signatures on other precursor worlds but never one so large, and I don't remember seeing EM signatures on prior worlds.

Would this be due to the combined 64K ton ground forces signature or are there actually installations (perhaps ruins?) on the planet?  I can't use ELINT to check since the STO will destroy any orbiting ship and the planet will move out of range of my sensor when the 5 day production tick hits so I can't get intelligence points.

I assume by the time I can eliminate 66 long range STO (potentially plus more PD STO) troops via orbital bombardment I'll have destroyed any installations that are currently on the planet.  I'll be happy to post a copy of my database if anyone is interested in having a look.

Quote from: Ultimoos on November 22, 2024, 12:50:16 PM

You might just be doing the order in wrong sequence. You have to click the target planet, then click "move to" order. Now you set the speed and now you press "Add move" button. This ensures the order has all set parameters.
Now the real issue. What you want to achieve probably won't work at all. NPR will prioritize your drop ships and since you need many hours to complete deployment, your warships won't achieve what you want.
just move your warships close enough to provoke STO fire and destroy them all with a salvo of missiles or beam weapons. I was surprised how easy it is to clear STO's from a planet.

It might be the order I'm giving the commands in, I'll try that. 

My plan did work, by the way, as my assault transports lagged far enough behind my fleet that the STO's had already fired on the warships and ignored the transports.  The STO's were in two varieties, a powerful anti-ship weapon that had good range and good damage, probably a particle beam of some sort, and point defense weapons.  The particle beam weapon takes time to charge, and by the time they recharged after engaging my fleet when they entered firing range, it was too late, so my transports escaped unscathed.   

As for destroying them from orbit, my ships were only getting hit percentages below 4% with their lasers, and I didn't want to drain my maintenance supplies bombarding the planet for hours.  My marines cleaned up the STO's without too much problem after landing.

You might just be doing the order in wrong sequence. You have to click the target planet, then click "move to" order. Now you set the speed and now you press "Add move" button. This ensures the order has all set parameters.
Now the real issue. What you want to achieve probably won't work at all. NPR will prioritize your drop ships and since you need many hours to complete deployment, your warships won't achieve what you want.
just move your warships close enough to provoke STO fire and destroy them all with a salvo of missiles or beam weapons. I was surprised how easy it is to clear STO's from a planet.