Quote from: Shinanygnz on Yesterday at 02:49:35 PM

Quote from: Garfunkel on January 15, 2020, 01:16:58 PM

Quote from: LoSboccacc on January 15, 2020, 04:31:17 AM

I think people is overthinking the RV thing, it's still UK, there are 130 rainy day a year and they most happen to be weekends

Especially bank holiday weekends! 

And particularly in Scotland

No. Really?  /sarcasm.

My dad used to say of Scotland "sometimes there are WHOLE DAYS where it doesn't rain!"

Mind you I think we could have done with a little of that in Canberra over the holiday period.  OTOH, yesterday was a different matter.

Slainthe

Mike

I spent the Summer in Glasgow one year (1994?) and it hardly rained the whole time - I thought the weather was lovely!  I'm convinced that these stories of rainy Scotland are a disinformation campaign on the part of the locals with the goal of keeping European hordes from over-populating their fair country

John

Quote from: Garfunkel on January 15, 2020, 01:16:58 PM

Quote from: LoSboccacc on January 15, 2020, 04:31:17 AM

I think people is overthinking the RV thing, it's still UK, there are 130 rainy day a year and they most happen to be weekends

Especially bank holiday weekends! 

And particularly in Scotland

No. Really?  /sarcasm.

My dad used to say of Scotland "sometimes there are WHOLE DAYS where it doesn't rain!"

Mind you I think we could have done with a little of that in Canberra over the holiday period.  OTOH, yesterday was a different matter.

Slainthe

Mike

Hi,


4-No idea, IRL time or in-game time ?

IRL

Quote from: froggiest1982 on January 19, 2020, 09:28:10 PM

1-How long have you been on the forum from?
2-Where are you from?
3-How did you know about Aurora?
4-How long did your epic save last for?
5-What do you play if you don't play Aurora?
6-What do you NOT play if you don't play Aurora?
7-What is that you are looking for in this 2020?

7 -  (should it not be called 8.0 instead?)

NEAT!

Contact!

Swedish forces have found the 3rd race in known space with space capabilities.

In the star system 41 Area we have found an insect-like breed. We receive lots of signals from their "radio waves", it has about 80% higher EM radiation than the earth with its 6 billion souls. A possible hostile race lives on the other planet's moon, beautiful they are not.

In a giant station orbiting the planet, there seems to be an endless amount of shipyards that we estimate can build 10% less tonnage than the total Swedish Empire's yards. But we do not yet know what their distribution is on merchant ships vs warships.

The 7 Swedish cruisers with HMS Tor at the head are slowly moving towards the planet.

Vice-Admiral Maria Hernander quickly makes the decision to retreat and not challenge fate, we have seen maybe 30 ships in frigate / chase size and 25's ships up to battle cruisers move quickly out of the planet's vicinity. They seem to be led by a ship of 47 000 tonnes, we suspect it is some type of aircraft carrier, if we go after our own Gotland's ship it can have anything from 40-100 warships depending on the size of these. We seem to have about 25% higher speed than their fastest ships.

Admiral Hernander knows that the 2nd Fleet's 4 aircraft carrier has been upgraded to the latest Gotland class and should be in refitted within 4 months, to which are added 15 light cruisers and 40 destroyers that can be assigned to a possible attack.

Then the 1st fleet is left as a home defense with the two battleships HMS Sweden and HMS Finland together with 2 older Gotland ships which are being rebuilt, together with around a hundred missile boats for protection.

What the Swedish kingdom lacks most is ground troops, only 7 armored divisions exist, totally insufficient for a possible invasion.

But at least we try to talk to them, the Foreign Ministry sends a group under Foreign Minister Amanda Danielsson.

If Steve thinks it should have a population requirement, then 50k is not enough at all. It should be 1 million per each level so that it's an actual investment.

This is the key point. The number of sector command installations will be very small compared to other installation types, so unless the population requirement is substantial there is no game play decision involved. There are already significant additional demands on population in C# Aurora (Shipyard changes, plus the need for more financial centres and maintenance facilities), so I don't want to add any more until there has been a lot more play testing.