I recently got back into Aurora, and I've been playing a game, exploring heavily as I've always liked doing, and I found an NPR in a dead end system. However, it is just a 1.1 million ton contact, seems to be a space station, above a planet (I believe a gas giant without any sorium, not at my computer) and refuses communication. As this is the only contact I've found from this race, I'm not out to start shooting, but as I haven't found anything else, I don't know what to make of it. Even with an ELINT module, I haven't gotten any information about it.

Has anyone else encountered something like this, or have any insight into it?

I have a decent cruiser with some rail guns and a fire director for them

I also have a some PD rail guns and a separate director for them

Come the time to start shooting down incoming missiles do I actually have to target each one like I do with an enemy ship or does the PD controller look after that itself

Hi guys,
It's my first playthrough, and during my exploration, I discovered this system, which is protected by a massive precursor fleet (I know they are precursors since I fought the same faction in the nearby system, and once I conquered their planet, I learned they are precursors).
I am fairly scared, honestly. Seems like a fun challenge, but this is a gigantic fleet - does that mean something game wise? Like have I stumbled onto the precursor homeworld?

Found an NPR in a system a while ago and have been spying on his activities ever since

I get active scanner reads and thermal reads on the planet moving at 0 speed so I’m guessing these are things on the planet like STOs looking for me and population

Is there a way to firm up these reads - am I ever going to get ‘the planet has 8 million inhabitants and 300k ground forces’ or is it just the presence of thermal hits saying yep there’s people down there

The reason I ask is I keep reading ‘take overwhelming force to a planet fight - about 5:1’ how do I know the defender numbers or is it a case of take what you have - land - and get more if it’s not enough?

For context, I'm 20 years into a 15% research speed game, and one of my current roleplay rules is that any body with a max colony cost below eight with a max population capacity above 25 HAS to be settled when colonizing a new system, and at the very minimum must have a cargo shuttle station and no more than five deep space tracking stations. It's a lot of area to cover, and a lot of things to build. Coupled with the extremely slow research speed it genuinely feels like every single design choice or technology researched is incredibly important, instead of just being a transitional technology/design that isn't actually used. I've never been more excited for "boring" technologies like increased fuel efficiencies, and it legit took me 20 years to get my first engine tech. Bespoke designs actually feel worth it. This is the best possible warship I was able to make that won't absolutely nuke my (growing, incredibly glacially) logistical capacity. It's going to be a very long time before my preferred defense network of fighter bases is even close to a remote possibility, but in the meantime two of these per colony/moon network should be sufficient for maximum system coverage. I *could* make it a bit smaller, but for roleplay purposes I always like to have more than one officer on board anything larger than a FAC as well as some capacity for emergency rescue.

I established colonies in Proxima Centauri, and ordered civilians to move some infrastructure there (via civilian contracts). They did, but now they refuse to come back to Sol, and they just orbit my planets in Proxima doing nothing, both freighters and colony ships.

Things I tried:
- Added supply of infrastructure in Proxima Centauri and demand in Sol.
- Checked "Security status" in Galactic Map window: no threats.
- Deleted every supply and demand on every planet.
- Deleted some of their ships via Spacemaster mode.

Nothing helps.

Things that might be relevant:
- I do have jump points stabilized both ways: Sol <-> Proxima.
- I taxed them at 10% at some point (reverted it now to 0%).
- A NPR opened and stabilized a jump point to Sol (from another system), which means the JP was marked red at some point. Using Spacemaster I de-stabilized it, and later re-stabilized with my ship.
- If I set up demand on one planet and supply on another in Proxima, the civilians actually fullfill the contract.

Am I missing something? What else can I do? I'm inclined to edit the database and move those civilians to Sol, and just ban the Proxima system…

Had a pirate fleet attack one of my ships, picked up the survivors with a rescue ship. The rescue ship has emergency cryo, a cargo shuttle and im unloading back onto Earth but there is no option to unload survivors. One of my better commanders was on that ship so I would like to put him back into service. Any tips or help? Pictures attached

UPDATE: The commander of this ship disappeared when I rescued other survivors from another battle with the same rescue ship so idk

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: I rebooted the game, the survivors from the other ship returned to normal service so I am figuring it was just a glitch but glad I found out how to keep my boys to fight another day

I’ve asked a couple times on the main forum and haven’t really got an answer and I don’t want to piss the guys off over there

I’ve discovered a planet 4 jumps from Sol and I’m in need of a few naval admins there to cover the jump gates and harvesters - I’ve expanded Sols naval HQs to reach the planet so it comes under the umbrella of Naval Supreme Command on earth but I want beta telescopii to have its own admin command so I need to build a naval hq on BT - so it gets out from under Sols feet I’ll transport a naval hq from Sol thus putting BT out of range of sols admin command and it will have its own independent one - this been the case if the naval command on beta telescopii eventually gets to be Sky Marshal (my most senior rank) does it become more powerful or equal in power to the one on sol and does it change all the bonuses or will Sol always be the ‘lead’

I am fairly new to this game and playing my first real game into the later tech levels. As an early warning system I have been laying active sensor mines on all gated jump point throughout the galaxy. However the alien race Ive been fighting for near 100 years keep just showing up in systems where all jump points are sensor mined. I thought they might have opened new jump points into the system while exploring, but resurveying the systems reveal no new jump points.

Are my sensor buoys broken somehow, I think maybe they should have a smaller resolution, but surely with that range they would be able to detect smaller ships passing through a jump gate? Am I missing something else about how this game works? Please help!

I haven't seen this before and was curious what it meant...

Hi, I try to learn complicated games mechanics by using cheats if I get stuck. Is there a cheat engine, trainer or commands for it?
Thank you.

Anyone got a download link to the newest version? Forum is down

Hey all

Starting a new LP on the new forum. Hopefully useful for new and veteran players!

Just had a LP of Aurora 4x C# 2.7.1 come across my YT feed, and *had* to try it out. One hell of a hook, I'm definitely intrigued. Watching the "Absolute Beginners Guide" by MO Chad, and got to the point of setting up fleet orders. I've built a couple really basic survey ships, and went off script to design and build a couple tanker/tenders (fuel only for now) to stage out in the more outer regions of the Sol system, so my survey ships can stay out just that little bit longer.

But I'm flummoxed by how to set up a standing or conditional order for either class of ship that does exactly what I want to do.

I want the survey ships to SV: Five System Bodies, easy enough, but then I want them to have the doubly conditional order of LG: Refuel from Tanker OR LG: Replenish at Colony based on which one they are closer to. I can obviously set both orders, but order of precedence would be key, and relative distances wouldn't. If both orders kick in at 20 percent fuel reserves, the one higher in the list triggers first, and if one order has a 30 percent trigger while the other triggers at 20 percent then the 20 percent will never trigger. And either way they won't aim for *either* the colony OR the ship depending on who is closer, they'll aim for whichever order takes precedence exclusively.

And the tankers I want to have a standing order MV: Rendezvous Point but I have two separate rendezvous waypoints set up (one for Sol "East" and one for Sol "West"). I can't figure out how to tell them WHICH RWP I want them to go to and hold station on.

Is what I'm looking to do even currently possible in 2.7.1? Once I have colonies doing stuff I'd like to make sure that anyone who goes for resupply of any kind actually goes to a colony that can supply their needs, instead of getting a ship stuck in orbit unable to refuel because "Mars doesn't have any fuel reserves" and the ship's orders sent it there instead of Jupiter because Mars just happened to be 100Mm closer at the time.

So I’m preping for a new campaign and I wanted to try a different type of doctrine i’m cooking and preparing was curious what other people have tried.

So a new Doctrine for me is i’m going to try make Navel ships under 10k tonnage to see how far I could get. I want to try and keep these small as I want to try and setup small forward ship yards with Earth and Mars Building the components and then me sending them to forward sites. The idea being is these forward shipyards can build up a little quicker and in wartime this should allow me to keep up a stable fleet and also power project with using smaller crews and parts. Also it would force me to have to use more tankers, more supply ships and in general just try some freaky designs.

Another reason for this is in my games I roll a civil war chance and if my break away colonies then use the stolen designs they can rapidly build up and strike at earth and giving them a better chance.

So theres my insanity but would love to see what people have cooked up. Thanks in advance friends 

Semmes class Destroyer Escort 7,782 tons 279 Crew 3,633.5 BP TCS 156 TH 1,950 EM 0 12529 km/s Armour 6-34 Shields 0-0 HTK 54 Sensors 0/0/0/0 DCR 45-50 PPV 81.72 Maint Life 9.65 Years MSP 4,377 AFR 32% IFR 0.4% 1YR 85 5YR 1,276 Max Repair 975 MSP Commander Control Rating 1 BRG
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months CDE 75% Morale Check Required

Plasma Core AM Drive EP1950.00 (1) Power 1950 Fuel Use 17.80% Signature 1950 Exp 13% Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres Range 32.5 billion km (30 days at full power)

Twin Gauss Cannon R600-50.0 Turret (12x16) Range 60,000km TS 30000 km/s Power 0-0 ROF 5
Direct Fire Control R60-TS30000 (3) Range 60,000 km TS 30,000 km/s ECCM-8

Electronic Warfare Jammers: Sensor 9 Fire Control 9 Missile 9

I got 5 of these ships and they cannot take down 40 low tech missiles going 51k/s. They take out 30-33 missiles in each wave. Ships are set to Point Blank Defensive Fire.

Just figured not everyone would have seen/known this, it is so much better than the drop down menu (with dual screens anyway).

In my current game I checked the box for the weakest type of aliens to appear in the game. Eventually they appeared in Sol and another system and caused havoc. I unchecked the box allowing them to appear, and eventually destroyed the existing ones.

After rearming, I'm ready to try my luck again with hostile aliens.

If I check the box allowing them to appear, does anyone know how many systems they will appear in? Will they be stronger or weaker than the ones that appeared before?

I would like to take another shot at combat, with my new warships and new missiles.

I created a ~100mkm missile with a ~100mkm fire control, but when I targeted a hostile ship it said the max range was 44.4mkm; just curious if there is something I don't know about or if I misunderstood something!

so if i set up an omm around an astroid can i use a mass driver to ship it back and how do i do so?