Aurora 4x
C# Aurora => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nori on April 21, 2020, 12:00:13 PM
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For those of us who want to add medals but are horribly uncreative, anyone willing to share the title, description and images they use? I've tried adding a few and I feel like they are super lame.
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Have you used the Ribbon Maker Program in the Utility area?
Suggestion would be to have general types/categories and then use a color scheme/theme for each:
So Discovery might be White background with Yellow Symbol(s) and Blue Stripes/Chevrons. Destroy/Offensive Combat might be Red background with black symbols and yellow stripes/chevrons. Suffer/Survive/Defensive might be purple background with Red symbols and white stripes/chevrons, etc.
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If you are looking for some more unique names for medals and if you are absolutely uncreative, try this:
https://www. fantasynamegenerators. com/military-honor-names. php
You can make the ribbons yourself by playing around with the ribbon maker tool.
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Take a look at the Ribbon Maker tool. (http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?board=283.0) It makes it easy (I hope) to make attractive custom ribbons. Here are some from my most recent game:
(https://i.imgur.com/9M6QhgT.png)
I attached a zip of some the ribbons I've created since C# was released.
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Thanks for the idea. Yes I'm horribly uncreative.. :P
I was going to try out the ribbon maker but hadn't yet. It looks awesome.
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It's almost midnight and can't make a tidier presentation, like Desdinova's.
Here's the awards and decorations of the Solar League (WIP):
(https://i.ibb.co/wRTQY68/aurora-ribbons.png)
They include one device I made (the four-point star) and a post-Ribbon Maker Photoshop spiffing in one case, to make it stand out.
Crimson Star (2 versions I'm deciding between): wounded in combat (possibly associated to ship suffering internal damage or surviving ship destruction)
Distinguished Service Star: lesser combat-related award
Marine medals (names pending): combat drops and ship capture milestones
Meritorious/Outstanding/Superior Service: time serving the Solar League
Order of Columbus: discovery of a habitable world
Order of Magellan (1st and 2nd Class): discovery of star systems
Order of Sol: highest military honor of the Solar League
Planetary Combat Service (2 levels): ground unit tonnage destruction
Solar Navy Cross: greater combat-related award
Space Combat Service (2 levels): military shipping tonnage destruction
Probably need to brainstorm a couple of scientific award lines (one for research and the other for xenoarchaeology) and a handful of civilian merit decorations.
EDIT: For inspiration you generally don't need to look further than Wikipedia. for instance the awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of_the_United_States_Armed_Forces). From there, you can also browse the decorations of various countries and use multiple sources to create something original.