Aurora C#

[GarfunkeL]

The new, C# version of Aurora is out. Get your copy here:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10635.0

 

[GarfunkeL]

 

[Incantatar]

Fucking excellent. How buggy is it? Will wait a bit and hope it'll work fine on Linux.

 

[GarfunkeL]

It's quite buggy but playable. Best to fiddle around with stuff and get used to the new interface and all the new stuff, then start a serious campaign once the patch hits.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Steve has pushed out 1.20 patch and is working on 1.30 patch now.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Took my first dive in Aurora with this and it's been excellent so far. Figuring out the basics like how to design and build ships (where are the engines!? Oh I need to design them too first... ), how to send out automated survey ships and how that time increment system works and is supposed to be used (the last one's a bit mystery still)

With some space ambient on, the audiovisuals are good enough to satisfy my inner graphics whore. The Win2000-era office program looks of the old Aurora were bit too much.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Oh forgot to mention, Steve has pushed out 1.40 patch now. Loads of bug fixes, game seems stable now.

 

[GarfunkeL]

We're on version 1.7.2 now.

 

[IDtenT]

I will never understand how to play this.

Makes me sad.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Version 1.8.0 is out and while major bugs are squashed, there are still few things around that require DB to be updated. So version 1.9.0 is coming, probably this weekend.

Fingers crossed that it won't have any big issues so I can finally start my mega-campaign.

 

[Endemic]

Good thing I waited before diving in then

 

[GarfunkeL]

Version 1.9 is out.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

In the race window I can see how many junior officers and regular crew members my academies train each year, and adjust that. In ship design window I can designate some models to use conscript crews, so they don't take those (possibly) limited trained crew members. (Mining stations seem to require massive crews for example.) But I can't find anywhere the number of currently available trained crew members. Is that feature even in yet?

 

[GarfunkeL]

The number in the race window is what you have available because adjusting the training level changes it directly there.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Hmm, ok. Sounds weird though if I can instantly adjust the numbers available.

Is there a convenient way to see how much I'm currently using?

 

[GarfunkeL]

Anything that is shown on the Race window is AFTER all your current ships and stations have been populated. If you're really worried about it, use Conscript for commercial ships as crew grade doesn't matter to them at all.

If you really need to know how many souls you've sent into space, you'll have to do it manually by counting together the crews of all your ships/stations.

Also, version 1.9.5 is out.

 

[urmom]

Wow, this game is so hardcore it doesn't even have a website. (I wasn't able to locate any graphics either. I should be able to run this on my laptop.)

 

[GarfunkeL]

There are no graphics, not really. It's a bunch of line graphs. that's why it's called Excel in Space.

Version 1.11.0 is out.