Recently got my hands on Aurora 4x C# after hearing about from MandaloreGaming's review of it.  Decided to download the C# seeing as it seems to be the least eye-burning (no offense), and as my username suggests I'm been fumbling and bumbling around the game.  I've done enough to at least get two basic geological survey vessels out of my shipyards and off to surveying the Solar System, but even then I'm still unsure how to really consolidate my industry and economy.

Really, I'm quite amazed as by Aurora 4x and how deep it goes into its mechanics - even if does try to drive my teenage brain into a brick wall.  Just wanted to pop this topic down to say hi to y'all and to Mr.  Walmsley and kinda not subtly ask for early game tips. . .   

For lazy people, here's the link in functional format as the spam filter is still affecting Tunsku:
https://puolustusvoimat.fi/documents/1948673/2258496/PEVIESTOS-kunnia-ja-ansiomerkkien-kantaminen-liitteineen.pdf/7c836895-b805-4ad7-bb16-c7b55da4035b/PEVIESTOS-kunnia-ja-ansiomerkkien-kantaminen-liitteineen.pdf

I dont know why, but everytime i try to make a custom game using the SM creation, the system names all comes up named *Human*. 
Wich is a huge bomer since im making a custom empire and all the stars and planets are called Human.  Also confuses me a lot. 
I assume this is a bug.  Dont know if someone else had it, tough.  And i dont have enough time to see every thread or response, so sorry in advance if someone already reported this, but i havent seen a solution anywhere *and* i dont know how to change a system's name, if possible.  And i dont know if there is some button out there because somehow my game window is bigger than my notebook's monitor.  So i cant even see all the buttons on the events window. 
Dont know if this is another bug.  (Im using windows 10)

I think my most enjoyable moment to date has been the complete disaster I had when first exploring alien ruins. I'd built a sizable colony on a planet in a system rich in minerals and had also established multiple automated mining sites that were sending the minerals to the colony through the use of mass drivers.

After finally decoding the details of the alien ruins on the colony I had my engineers get to work on recovering ruins. It wasn't long before I discovered that there was a chance of them finding not just installations but also defenders. I quickly dispatched a force of troops to support the engineers but with a long transit time from Earth it looked to be a close call so when the troops finally landed I had a real sigh of relief. It wasn't until the next turn I realized that in my haste I had actually sent the troops to the wrong planet in the system and no they were another 20 odd days away.

Sadly it was too late for my engineers who caved a few days later and in turn also resulted in the colony falling under the control of the precursors. That did not seem too much of a disaster until i realized the massive train of mineral packets making their way across the system no longer had a mass driver to stop them. I then found out just how effective mass drivers are at bombarding a colony!

By the time I moved the troops, fought the precursors and recaptured the colony I think I had lost 2/3rds of the installations and a large chunk of the population.

It was a terrible result but a fantastic couple of days of game play that kicked off writing an AAR for that campaign and really got me thinking about the politics of the disaster and the wider impact it should have on the approach and attitudes of the Federation. It also highlighted to me that mistakes can be even more fun than getting everything right!

In VB6, can I re-name waypoints?