Name themes for all 21 Provinces (and the capital) of Mongolia, all of the uniquely-named Soums (subdivisions of Provinces), and the nine districts of the capital city

EDIT: I am considering creating name lists for each Province containing the Soums of said province, but that's 21 name lists and there are a decent number of duplicates between the provinces and I'm a bit too lazy for that for today

Big fan of the sensor changes, especially the vizualization of 100 IP ones! Could've sworn that already happened sometimes, but very far from always. Does the removed horizontal bar mean the Observed Weapons display is fixed as well? Because currently ROF is often not displayed in full, even if there is no scrollbar, on top of sometimes not making sense (screenshot attached, I'm guessing I saw the same ship fire in two separate engagements because according to the DB its RoF is 44578880, maybe a workaround against that as well?).

Also, since you're updating the alien class window, I can't help but once again ask that boarded ships would get a class summary there same way ship classes discovered from intel do. Or maybe let us edit the summary window so we could add notes too

There is an option to display sensor ranges now, but its based on race sensors not class, requires the sensor to be active and I don't think it is completely reliable. The new one displays sensor ranges regardless of activation (because you need to know the detection range even if it isn't active) and displays the actual active sensors next to the contact (as per 2.5.1).

Yes, weapon display is slightly narrower now to allow scrollbar. I've seen the weird ROF occasionally too, but haven't nailed it yet.

I've added class summary to the other information you gain when capturing an enemy ship.

A few decades ago, my scouts discovered a very strange system, one ideal inhabited planet inhabited by two races at once. These two races live in peace. I was very interested in it, I didn't know that such a thing is possible in Aurora. I called them Alpha & Omega aliens, so with Alpha I have some progress with establish communication, but Omega refusing any my attempts for communication.
The ships of these two races use very strong shields, at that time their shields were 2-3 times stronger than those I used to use at military stations and orbital fortresses. This was very alarmed by the entire scientific world of our state, given the fact that a lot of resources were spent on the development of our own shields, each of their ships is equipped with such shields that we could not afford even for a large and well-protected orbital fortress. It seems that I encountered a race that placed a strong emphasis on shield technology, because the speed of their warships was not high, about half the speed of my fastest destroyers.

After some time, communication with Alpha aliens successfully established and they demand me to leave them or they will open fire. Omega aliens still refusing any attempts. I understand them and fulfilled that demand immediately, my scout also have gathered valuable data about them, so they must be very nervous. And I leave them for decades, because I spotted swarm nearly to one of my important colonies..and the war has begun, I stopped every civilian research program for military research, because after first military fleet to fleet encounter with swarm I understood that my fleet is smeg
I lost two strike fleet groups: 2 kinetic cruisers and 4 heavy destroyers, but they at least have kill one swarm 20t vessel. It’s just a big lucky that two other of NPRs was busy by each other, and don’t try to attack me when I was busy with swarm. Aurora really can make fantastic stories.

So, the war with swarm ended (I conquered their system where they came from, and tracked down the escaped queen and kill it) my empire returns to peaceful life, and I finally build my first diplomatic vessel with commercial drive, no active sensors and with mass less than 10t. I send that vessel to the Alpha & Omega aliens with transponder turned on for all, and park it to their world with distance at 5m km, why they are still want me to leave their system? But at least for now, they use a standard demand (without opening fire )

I’m discover that Alpha&Omega aliens have no one stabilised jump gates at their system, and all neighbouring systems are free, so they looks like a simple minor race isn’t it? Does this mean that I cannot establish diplomatic contact with them?
My admirals, inspired by the recent victory over swarm suggest me to invade in their system or at least send diplomatic vessel with solid military escort in case if they try to attack that vessel, but I’m do not want to do this, i want try to establish contact with them and be allies, they looks very similar as humans, because their home world ideal for humans too, and in case of success I will have good buffer zone which will allow me to forget about protecting this direction, please help

I apologise if this has been brought up before, but would it be feasible to implement a system where commanders also have a chance of losing efficiency bonuses once they reach a certain time in service?

I tend to treat my civilian administrators as abstractions of an entire government apparatus, and hence I assume the efficiency bonuses are tied not to a particular leader but rather to the entire colonial administration of thousands of civil servants. I find this better from a RP perspective because this leads to certain colonies being better than others at certain functions (which I RP as resulting from local expertise, incentives, and infrastructure), hence my colonies feel more real and unique. And it sometimes forces me to make sub-optimal decisions - like building up a new naval base not at the local warp point nexus, but one system over at a colony which is actually good at shipbuilding.

The problem, of course, is that immortal (story character) leaders tend to universally end up with sky-high bonuses of everything. I've been solving this by periodically randomising leader bonuses, but this gets tedious as the game progresses and I would really like an alternative. Essentially, past a certain time in service (say 20 years), I'd like to have commanders start rolling for a small reduction in their bonuses in addition to the usual rolls for an increase. Does this seem reasonable?

Quote from: Jacen on June 28, 2025, 11:55:49 PM

2. I couldn't find a specific list, but I believe it is based on either the unit size or the unit's HQ value. However, this isn't super important because you can override the default rank for a template and put whatever you want (use the "Change Rank" button). I tend to end up doing this for almost every design myself.

I've never gotten to the point in game where I've had weapons on ships or armies that weren't just suppression garrison. So since you're saying ground formation rank is pretty arbitrary since I can assign what I want now I'm curious if you or someone else could help me figure out what I should expect, or how you assign each rank.
For Naval and Ground
T8
T7
T6
T5
T4
T3
T2
T1
Like what do you try and have each rank do or correspond to, and when should I expect to use them in game cause I start the game with a T5 naval guy but don't think I'm gonna be using him anytime soon. I know I can do the game however I want but having a reference point I can build from and learn from makes this game more enjoyable for me.
And followup with ranks, what the hell are admin ratings. Like I have a rating 6 person but no rating 5 person. I had rating 3 person replace a rating 2 person as governor. I have basically equal amounts of rating 1-4. So what the hell is the difference.

So, there is considerable flexibility here, and within a few game mechanical rules you can do nearly anything you want, although some things work better than others. I'll share what I typically do.

Naval
Ranks 1--3 are typically ship commanders or fill various sub-command roles such as executive officer (AUX component) or tactical officer (CIC component). Rank 4 are usually a mix of senior ship commanders and low-level naval admin commanders. Ranks 5+ are usually naval admin commanders. The naval administration hierarchy can be many layers deep, although usually 4 or 5 layers is plenty. You can see an early example in one of Steve's change log posts here.

A typical naval admin command structure could look like:

GEN Supreme Command (R8)
    NAV Naval High Command (R7)
        NAV Battle Fleet Command (R6)
            NAV Home Fleet (R5) - Home defense fleet and new construction
            PTL Expeditionary Fleet (R5) - Long-range deployments and patrols
        SRV Survey Fleet Command (R6)
            SRV Survey Fleet (R5) - Survey ships
            IND Stabilization Fleet (R5) - Stabilization ships
    LOG Auxiliary High Command (R7)
        LOG Shipping Fleet Command (R6)
            LOG Colonization Fleet (R5) - Colony ships and freighters for infrastructure
            LOG Heavy Lift Fleet (R5) - Freighters for installations and minerals, tankers, troop transports, etc.
        IND Industrial Fleet Command (R6)
            IND Fuel Harvester Fleet (R5) - Fuel harvesters
            IND Orbital Mining Fleet (R5) - Orbital miners
            IND Terraforming Fleet (R5) - Orbital terraformers

This is only an example. In some cases I'll have multiple admin commands at the same level that prioritize the same bonuses for fleet organization purposes. In other cases I may have lower-level admin commands with an R4 commander (especially for LOG and IND types) to create jobs for commanders with specializations that don't fit well in the role of being a senior ship commander.

A typical ground forces command structure could look like:

Army Group (R4)
    Army Corps (R3)
        Division (R2)
            Regiment or Brigade (R1)
            Regiment or Brigade (R1)
            Regiment or Brigade (R1)
            Regiment or Brigade (R1)
        Division (R2)
            ...
        Division (R2)
            ...
    Army Corps (R3)
        ...
    Army Corps (R3)
        ...

Basically, trying to mirror the high-level organization of real-world military forces usually works well, as long as you keep it to a fairly high level (trying to represent individual platoons, for example, is usually a bad idea and not worth the effort). Like real-world militaries, you can be pretty flexible, e.g., assigning extra brigades or divisions to an Army Group-level command depending on the mission profile.

I rarely find any use for ground forces commanders higher than R5 or R6, so I tend to make rank structures that look like this:
 R8   N/A NO_COMMANDER
 R7   --- --------------------------------
 R6   FM Field Marshal
 R5   GEN General
 ...
Then I use the R8 rank to mark formations that should not receive commanders (e.g., CMC garrisons, replacement units). The "blank" R7 rank prevents automated promotions from reaching R8, since I will never use the R7 rank for anything so there will be no opportunities for a commander to be promoted to R7.