Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread: C# Edition

[xenoscepter (OP)]

How does one make it so that constructed fighters automatically assign and dock themselves to their carrier?

What bearing does the strike group designations in the design screen have on this?

Not sure on the first one. For the latter I believe it's purely cosmetic as there's no feature to actually build a carrier and its fighters in one order, but it is useful to remind you what you intended to put in a carrier I guess.

 - This feature has been added into 1.13.0

[nuclearslurpee]

- This feature has been added into 1.13.0

The 1.13 changes thread only lists this as a change to Instant Build.

The presumption here was that it already exists in the game for normal build, although thinking about it that seems unlikely as there's no way to guarantee that the specified Carrier is actually in orbit when the fighter gets built so it may only ever be for instant building.

[xenoscepter (OP)]

- This feature has been added into 1.13.0

The 1.13 changes thread only lists this as a change to Instant Build.

The presumption here was that it already exists in the game for normal build, although thinking about it that seems unlikely as there's no way to guarantee that the specified Carrier is actually in orbit when the fighter gets built so it may only ever be for instant building.

 - Ah, that's true I forgot that by setting strike groups up the fighters will be auto assigned.

[Droll]

Ah balls, I completely forgot about the 1.13 thing. I even thanked the post in question lol.

[Borealis4x]

Is the term 'aero' applicable to engineering spacecraft that operate in deep space and not just in orbit?

For instance, would it be appropriate to name your engine manufacturer 'Acme Aerospace Industries'? Or is aerospace another field of study?

[nuclearslurpee]

Is the term 'aero' applicable to engineering spacecraft that operate in deep space and not just in orbit?

For instance, would it be appropriate to name your engine manufacturer 'Acme Aerospace Industries'? Or is aerospace another field of study?

While I'd be inclined to think "aero == air", according to a quick Google/Wiki walk the term "aerospace" applies to both air and space engineering.

So, yes.

E: Looks like that's specific to the term "aerospace". Aeronautics for instance is expressly concerned with airspace, although one could argue that language evolves in unpredictable ways over time.

[GodEmperor]

How do i make that the populations i grant independence are AI controlled NPR's??
Or eventually how do i trade populations/planets with AI ? Not even trade, just give them one planet population away.

[TheTalkingMeowth]

How do i make that the populations i grant independence are AI controlled NPR's??
Or eventually how do i trade populations/planets with AI ? Not even trade, just give them one planet population away.

You can't. The AI implementation can't handle them.

[Borealis4x]

Is the term 'aero' applicable to engineering spacecraft that operate in deep space and not just in orbit?

For instance, would it be appropriate to name your engine manufacturer 'Acme Aerospace Industries'? Or is aerospace another field of study?

E: Looks like that's specific to the term "aerospace". Aeronautics for instance is expressly concerned with airspace, although one could argue that language evolves in unpredictable ways over time.

Yeah, I guess if you use naval terms for space stuff you can use air stuff as well.

[ChubbyPitbull]

Is it normal that the 0.75 size / 4x recharge speed tech doesn't reduce the size of the 10cm Laser? I noticed that if I apply it to a 10cm laser, the recharge rate is 4x longer, but the size remains 150 tons (I would expect it to reduce to 112.5 tons). It works fine on the 12cm laser, dropping the size to 150 tons from 200 tons.

[Zap0]

It probably reduces the size in HS and then rounds up again.

[xenoscepter (OP)]

Is it normal that the 0.75 size / 4x recharge speed tech doesn't reduce the size of the 10cm Laser? I noticed that if I apply it to a 10cm laser, the recharge rate is 4x longer, but the size remains 150 tons (I would expect it to reduce to 112.5 tons). It works fine on the 12cm laser, dropping the size to 150 tons from 200 tons.

It probably reduces the size in HS and then rounds up again.

 --- This is very likely to be EXACTLY the case, although I do not know if / how / when this will addressed as it just as you said. The 0.75z reduction is more or less useless for the 10cm Laser at this point in time.

[Froggiest1982]

Is it normal that the 0.75 size / 4x recharge speed tech doesn't reduce the size of the 10cm Laser? I noticed that if I apply it to a 10cm laser, the recharge rate is 4x longer, but the size remains 150 tons (I would expect it to reduce to 112.5 tons). It works fine on the 12cm laser, dropping the size to 150 tons from 200 tons.

It probably reduces the size in HS and then rounds up again.

 --- This is very likely to be EXACTLY the case, although I do not know if / how / when this will addressed as it just as you said. The 0.75z reduction is more or less useless for the 10cm Laser at this point in time.

Cpuld be sorted by a roundown exception just for this tech rather then roundup.

However, I wonder if then the next step of 0.5 will end up being same as 0.75.

[nuclearslurpee]

It probably reduces the size in HS and then rounds up again.

This appears to be correct. I tested 10cm / 0.5 size and the resulting weapon has size 2 HS (100 tons). Additionally you can see this effect at larger focal sizes with the 75% size.

Interestingly, the rounding is not consistent: 15 cm lasers (base 5 HS / 250 ton size) with the 50% size are only 2 HS (100 tons) so it rounds down instead of up. Frankly this seems like an outdated bit of rounding in the game code and I wouldn't be surprised if Steve were to clean this up if someone posted this in the bugs or suggestions thread (which one? I don't know...).

[GodEmperor]

How do i make that the populations i grant independence are AI controlled NPR's??
Or eventually how do i trade populations/planets with AI ? Not even trade, just give them one planet population away.

You can't. The AI implementation can't handle them.

That is some bullsmeg
Is the "enough unrest makes the population split and make its own empire" feature still planned?