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VB6 Aurora => Aurora Chat => Topic started by: Maharava on March 12, 2013, 06:44:47 AM

Title: Firing my Astronomy department
Post by: Maharava on March 12, 2013, 06:44:47 AM

Bunch of drunks the lot of them

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Title: Re: Firing my Astronomy department
Post by: Vynadan on March 12, 2013, 03:50:43 PM

Maybe the chief astronomer's last name is Luyten ... and he was born 13.5.2010  ;D

Title: Re: Firing my Astronomy department
Post by: Maharava on March 12, 2013, 07:13:33 PM

I'll drop him off on Pluto then. They finally had a new name, London, but most of the Lutens JP's connect to the other Luytens. Makes exploring an absolute pain

Title: Re: Firing my Astronomy department
Post by: Jikor on March 14, 2013, 08:07:55 AM

Have you tried renaming some of those systems manually?

Title: Re: Firing my Astronomy department
Post by: Maharava on March 14, 2013, 05:47:26 PM

Can't, having a class error that requires a certain file to be installed on my machine, which isn't there because it's Win 7 STARTER and can't install because Starter doesn't like things being installed to the registry. On the up side, though, I found three systems with English names but on the down side my allies are in one of those Luyten systems so trying to make escorts for trade vessels is...trying

Title: Re: Firing my Astronomy department
Post by: Jikor on March 15, 2013, 08:14:38 PM

Have you tried the portable version?
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,5663.0.html

Basically it just adds the DLL files when game is started. It works pretty good for me haven't seen any issues with it.

Title: Re: Firing my Astronomy department
Post by: Maharava on March 16, 2013, 01:12:52 AM

Oooh that's a brilliant idea. I'll try that, cheers :D