Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread: C# Edition

[Jorgen_CAB]

yes true, but then it still feel a bit artificial to have say a geo-missile useless if it can't gather enough survey points to finish a planet.
Now I think geo missiles are a thing of the past in anycase 

I though that a geo-survey missile simply last until the survey is finished... after which it is removed from the game as spent. So if you fire it at a large body it might take a while but it will eventually be surveyed.

[Steve Walmsley]

yes true, but then it still feel a bit artificial to have say a geo-missile useless if it can't gather enough survey points to finish a planet.
Now I think geo missiles are a thing of the past in anycase 

You need to send a geosurvey buoy as the second stage of a missile. It will stay until the job is done.

[Jorgen_CAB]

yes true, but then it still feel a bit artificial to have say a geo-missile useless if it can't gather enough survey points to finish a planet.
Now I think geo missiles are a thing of the past in anycase 

You need to send a geosurvey buoy as the second stage of a missile. It will stay until the job is done.

Yes... that is what I meant to describe it as.. a buoy with the sensor in a missile. I forgot that part. 

[Silverkeeper]

Is it just me or are the prototypes not working in the current release?
In fact also when I do instant research for components, I need to close the window and then open it to get the component to show.

[Elvin]

Is it just me or are the prototypes not working in the current release?
In fact also when I do instant research for components, I need to close the window and then open it to get the component to show.

Assuming you have the "prototypes" button ticked so that they show up, you need to click "Refresh Tech" every time you create a new one in order to re-generate the list. You can also select any item from the drop-downs, as this also forces a page refresh.

[SpikeTheHobbitMage]

Prototypes are also hidden by default.  There is a checkbox to show them beside the checkbox to show obsolete tech.

[L0ckAndL0ad]

Hi!

I've got couple of questions for current C# Aurora version.

1. Civilian Mining Colonies - can they appear on bodies with existing player-controlled colonies? IIRC they could not do that in VB6, but maybe it changed in C#?

2. Is it okay if I put naval officers in the OOB that are of higher rank than required? I do this to prevent them being underranked in future if I decide to change the lower branches of the OOB. Can you do the same with Ground Units & their OOB?

3. Is there anything bad that can happen to Ground Unit stats during space transportation? Like there used to be a morale drop in VB6 if you used drop module for transporting.

4. What is "OM Eligible" in System Generation and Display?

5. If your survey ship does NOT have EM/THERMAL passive sensors on board, will it miss alien ruins/population/something else interesting when surveying the body? Because there's no more built-in 1/1 EM/TH, right?

[midikiman]

This is a newbie question, but it's keeping me from getting anywhere: What do I need to do to get a ship design into the shipyard retool dropdown in C# 1. 11?

I created a geosurvey design using a prototype engine, added geosurvey sensors, fuel, and maintenance, and the design looked fine (< 3000t).  Locked the design, went to the shipyard screen, picked a naval shipyard (11000t capacity), picked retool, and. . .  no ship designs in the dropdown.  Tried a commercial shipyard, no dice there either.

Where do I find indications of what needs to be fixed? Nothing reports an error, it just doesn't allow me to build ships.  I've done it before in VB6, a while ago, but never saw this problem before.

[Black]

Did you completed research of the prototype engine?

[midikiman]

It's not an available project, so no.  It is listed on the technology screen, but can't be researched.
Do I need to create a research project as well as a prototype?

[Migi]

1. Civilian Mining Colonies - can they appear on bodies with existing player-controlled colonies? IIRC they could not do that in VB6, but maybe it changed in C#?

In my experience they only appear on bodies with no player controlled colony. I don't remember seeing anything in the changelog about that aspect changing.

2. Is it okay if I put naval officers in the OOB that are of higher rank than required? I do this to prevent them being underranked in future if I decide to change the lower branches of the OOB. Can you do the same with Ground Units & their OOB?

I don't think it matters if you put higher rank officers in admin commands. However I think you still need to maintain rank order within that in order for it to provide bonuses. So if you put an Admiral in one position, the command above him/her should be assigned a higher ranker.

3. Is there anything bad that can happen to Ground Unit stats during space transportation? Like there used to be a morale drop in VB6 if you used drop module for transporting.

The moral drop has been removed so if you want you can keep troops permanently on board troop ships.

4. What is "OM Eligible" in System Generation and Display?

OM stands for Orbital Mining. There is a research line in CP to increase the size of the body which is allowed to use orbital mining modules.

5. If your survey ship does NOT have EM/THERMAL passive sensors on board, will it miss alien ruins/population/something else interesting when surveying the body? Because there's no more built-in 1/1 EM/TH, right?

I think it should fail to notice populations but I don't know about the ruins. I think ruins are generated as part of the geosurvey roll so I assume finding them would be part of that whole event trigger thing.

[Black]

It's not an available project, so no.  It is listed on the technology screen, but can't be researched.
Do I need to create a research project as well as a prototype?

Yes, you need to do that. In Class Design window, there is checkbox - Prototypes, it is under components list. If you select prototype component, new button will apear - Research Proto, click this and you will see research project in Research window.

[midikiman]

It's not an available project, so no.   It is listed on the technology screen, but can't be researched. 
Do I need to create a research project as well as a prototype?

Yes, you need to do that.  In Class Design window, there is checkbox - Prototypes, it is under components list.  If you select prototype component, new button will apear - Research Proto, click this and you will see research project in Research window.

Thanks, that did the trick.

[Kamilo]

I got two questions:

-Is there a way to load an entire army, more than one formation, in a transport ship without selecting every formation on its own?

-Is there a way to get rid of radiation on a body?

[Froggiest1982]

I got two questions:

-Is there a way to load an entire army, more than one formation, in a transport ship without selecting every formation on its own?

-Is there a way to get rid of radiation on a body?

No, there was in VB6 when u ordered the division to be picked it would pick the whole but I havent seen it in C# to work neither a function for it. But I havent played much with that as I design a ship for each unit. Maybe other people can help further. apparently there is a way check Black's answer below

With time radion will dissipate. Later in 1.12 you will have a function on SM to add and or reduce dust/radiation.