Vapourware Aurora: Rebirth

[Random Word]

Aurora 4x

(Targets may be more distant than they appear in image.)


Trans-Newtonian Start
500 Million Population
10 000 Starting RP
10 Laboratories
Starting World Options: Earth, Mars, Titan

For all additional information, see GarfunkeL's excellent documentation.

The save game is accessible on Github (Latest database file is always HERE). If you don't know how to use Git, relax, there are zip downloads. Each Empire will have a password, to be PMed to me. DO NOT PROGRESS TIME. This is not honourubru. This will save me from formulating detailed reports. I will give highlights and you can view the details at your leisure. Accommodation can be made for those who cannot run Aurora.

If you'd like your Empire to be aware of your backdoor dealings, add me to the conversation.

Space Summoning:
GarfunkeL
Kalin
Dayyālu
The Brazilian Slaughter
Cassidy
Hellraiser

Let's try to see some actual war in space this time, shall we?

 

[Dayyālu]

Awesome.

I, for once, cannot run Aurora "by hand" - spotty Net access, shitty Net access when it's available, shitty laptop, Dominions 4 and EoFs games in progress-

But if you could manage a system similar to the one done by Garfunkel in the past for me it would be great. I would hate to have read all that documentation for naught.

Are the empire-generation rules similar to the last Great Game? We choose culture/naming/et cetera?

If I can "play" as the power behind the proper game, I'm in. Gotta think a good civilization theme, though...

 

[Hellraiser]

Ooh, I like how you got around the issue of increasing the pacing.

I think the space summoning didn't work as I didn't get a notification, I'll try myself.

GarfunkeL

Cassidy

The Brazilian Slaughter

Kalin

As for me:

NAME: HERACS HELLAS
Government type: Military Junta
Theme: ancient greek
Names: ancient greek 50%, modern greek 30%, turkish 10%, romanian 10%*
Start on Gaia, I mean Earth.

Supreme Commander Heraclitus, defender of Hellenic values, inheritor of Spartan martial might, blood of Pericles and of Alexander, Zeus' Chosen and Ares' right hand, will lead the newly forged Heraclitean Greek state into the Trans-Newtonian era. Communists, muslims, communist-muslims, turks rejecting Hellenic supremacy, asian barbarians and other enemies of the mighty Hellenic Empire, will be crushed by the Great Greek Phalanx like the Persians of old. The Hoplites will secure the stars, guided by the wisdom of Athena.

*would also prefer SERBIAN names but it's not an option in Aurora 4X AFAIK.

 

[Random Word]

Themes can be found in Garfunkel's Clash of Cultures post, linked above as documentation. Empire creation rules remain unchanged. Everyone will start at slightly behind the tech level Clash of Cultures left off at, with one colony ship, one freighter, and one of each shipyard type.

I'll double check on Serbian, but I suspect that may be a regrettable oversight.

 

[Cassidy]

Name: Novaya Krim

Empire Theme: Russia

Main Commander Theme: Russian (75%)

Other Commander Themes: 25% Machine Race #1

Government Type: Fascist Kritarchy.

Starting Planet: Titan

Note: Hoping one of the planetary governors will have Natalia as first name.

A former Russian colony, New Crimea is a tough country in a still extremely hostile planet. Their independence wars were both driven by a desire of sovereignty and by revolt against the old Russian way, for the Bratva of the Mafiya once exploited ruthlessly Titan, until a great uprising has put a definite end to the criminal rot of the Old Russia many of the colonists who traveled to Titan had hopes to get rid of in the first place. The trauma of the dark times of criminal rule is such the drastic measures taken to eradicate crime from New Crimea still remain, and the country continues under the iron fist of the Judges, who also are Jury and Executioners.

And if the faceless Judges were not scary enough, a new kind of Judge began to show up, artificial intelligences in robotic frames, even more cold-blooded and dedicated to the Law above all else than the Judges of flesh and blood. No matter how rotten their homeland in Earth is, Novaya Krim can count on being the only Russian nation free of crime for a long time to come.

And maybe there are melonheads pulling strings behind all of this

 

[Hellraiser]

 

[Random Word]

Novaya Krim and Hellas included. Release is here. The repository now contains my full Aurora directory - it should be possible to extract and run without issue. For those who have their passwords, I'd appreciate knowing if this will be a workable solution for you.

 

[Hellraiser]

Novaya Krim and Hellas included. Release is here. The repository now contains my full Aurora directory - it should be possible to extract and run without issue. For those who have their passwords, I'd appreciate knowing if this will be a workable solution for you.

Seems to work on my side, designed engines, set up industrial and research queues, nominated a new Archon for Gaia, created a geology team, started training more Hoplites. Also installed that damn .dll that doesn't come with win7 but is needed for the system list screen. Aurora seems to be working how it should on my end.

Just explain how do we add this shit to your repo, never used GitHub outside of downloading the occasional piece of software.

 

[Random Word]

Don't worry about that. Sadly you can't merge an Access database in any meaningful way. You'll still have to tell me what you'd like done. The best we could do for you assisting me by actually playing would be creating branches for each of you and allowing you to push changes to them. It would then be my job to recreate the actions you took in the master branch, so I'd still need you to tell me what changes to look for so I could copy them.

If you PM me what you did, I'll incorporate your first actions.

 

[Hellraiser]

Well, the master branch at least saves you the trouble of having to do screenshots of every damn screen between orders. Also it allows us better insight into mineral deposits and other useful data.

 

[eklektyk]

dis gunna bi guud

 

[Kalin]

I have to bow out on this one, but good luck to everyone involved.

 

[JagreenLern]

I would like to get involved with this. I'll give details on my nation later today.

 

[Cassidy]

Two very serious problems after checking the latest files:

1) My antivirus flagged aurora_wrapper.exe as a Dropper.Gen7 Trojan

2) Titan has three-digit TN mineral reserves, only a pitiful amount of Duranium and with such ridiculously low mineral resources, Crimea cannot send even a bottle of vodka into space.

 

[Random Word]

Your Antivirus is paranoid, don't worry on that front. It isn't necessary to use the wrapper, delete it if you like. You only really need the mdb. As to the mineral reserves, I set Titan to home world mineral reserves, so there's clearly been an error. That will be resolved.

 

[Storyfag]

Thread-stalker mode initiated.

 

[Random Word]

Still waiting on JagreenLern and Dayyālu to get started.

 

[Dayyālu]

After careful evaluation, I cannot properly play. Sorry, and I wish good luck to everyone involved.

 

[Hellraiser]

I have been evaluating. I don't think I will be able to play it normally due to having a low resolution monitor (1366x768 is nothing to write home about these days).

Thinking about my nation, probrably a bizarre post-apocaliptic remant of the Luso-Brazilian Star Empire, hmmm...

Bro, we're not physically playing the game anyway but sending order to Random Word. The difference is he'll put up the current year file into his GitHub repo, so instead of having to shows us screenshots and ask him about every minor thing you can view it yourself. Also we won't have to pester him as much with questions if we can do X.

Sure, the screen cut-off issue will still be present, but it won't be as much of a problem since you won't need those buttons at the bottom for anything.

 

[Random Word]

Hellraiser is correct. Sorry for any confusion. If that was what was preventing you from playing, Dayyālu, you can rest assured that if you need them I'll still provide reports just as GarfunkeL did. The difference is you can choose not to have reports and instead examine the game yourself.

There is a setting to have the sun cooling or heating at a fixed % per year. If people are interested, I'll turn it on. This will eventually force evacuation of Sol, or at least massive investment in orbital infrastructure to sustain your populations.

 

[JagreenLern]

Gonna think up my nation, then. I need to get into the right mood...

I'm still trying to decide between a new Mongol Horde, or a tech-cult living in the Noctis Labyrintus on Mars (basically a less fucked-up Adeptus Mechanicus). What do you guys think?

 

[Hellraiser]

Martian tech-cult, no contest.

 

[GarfunkeL]

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT

I didn't get any notifications!

I SOOOOO want to join as a player for a change :D :D :D

Is there still room? Also, how am I supposed to download the database from github? I iz stoopid. EDIT: found a way to download the whole thing as a zip but for future, is it possible to download just the database without registering?



Also, are you using 6.43 or an earlier version?

 

[Random Word]

We won't be starting until everyone has finalized their choices and laid out at least a vague plan for me. I'll post links to zip releases for those without git experience. Once you give me Empire details and pm me your chosen password, I'll add your Empire so you can view it in game.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Empire Name: The Socialist-Feminist Matriarchy
Theme: Terran Federation
Commander Names: Swedish
Secondary names: Dutch 15% English 15% French 15% German 15%
Short Name: SOMA
Flag: flag0038.jpg
Picture: Race310.bmp

Starting on Mars please.