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I looked around a little and didn't see another TL thread about this, and I think you guys might enjoy it.
Aurora 4x is an extremely complex and in-depth Grand Strategy game set in space. In it, you build a galactic empire from humble beginnings on a single world, or lose to aliens and have the only evidence of your existence be the charred and irradiated remains of your homeworld.
You personally design almost every bit of tech your empire uses, and it isn't just a few tweakables either. You design the engines to power your ships, the sensors to guide them, the lasers to defend them, the missiles to give them that offensive punch, and then finally the ships themselves.
With this awesome depth comes a fairly brutal learning curve though. I've never played Dwarf Fortress, so I can't compare personally, but other people have said that Aurora is basically Dwarf Fortress in space.
In my most recent game I have two populated worlds, Earth and Titan, and a handful of automated colonies as well. I am currently terraforming Titan, as domed cities are expensive to maintain so I'd like to do without them, and I am planning on beginning exploration of the nearest other star systems, as there's some resources I need that aren't plentiful in Sol. I just hope I don't find any aliens, or if I do, that they'll be peaceful. I doubt I could deal with a war.
Anyways, the game can be found here: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php
The first part of the main tutorial can be found here: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,1952.0.html
This one is written by the guy who makes the game, and is kept up-to-date. It's the one I learned from.
This one has a bunch of video tutorials, and he claims to walk you through the first in-game year, but he hasn't finished the series yet: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,4516.0.html
This one is much shorter, and all-around lacking, but I'm including it because none of the other tutorials deal with officers that I've seen: http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Quickstart_for_Beginners
Remember though, losing isn't always bad. Sometimes it can be pretty fun. I just introduced an IRL friend to this, and he got his first ship stuck in the space between Mars and Earth with no engines or fuel.
Also, if you enjoy Europa Universalis, or any other Paradox games, I bet you'll like this as well.
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You should find and add a cool, informative Youtube video which might entice future viewers of this post to join this game, and to save us the trouble of searching for one perhaps less comprehensive of the game's true value.
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On April 06 2012 11:49 Flamingo777 wrote:
You should find and add a cool, informative Youtube video which might entice future viewers of this post to join this game, and to save us the trouble of searching for one perhaps less comprehensive of the game's true value.
Most of the game is looking at menus and spreadsheets, so the videos won't be all that thrilling or informative. You really kinda have to play it for yourself to get a sense of it. I've included a link to a series though, on the off-chance you find videos of menus cool and informative. The tutorials are mostly just a good reference. Like you learn most of it as you go, and check up on specific things in the tutorials or the wiki.
Like I said though, if you're into large scale, in-depth management games, like Europa Universalis, I would say you should check it out. It'll actually feel familiar to EU players, as the way the time-intervals, or "turns" work is extremely similar.
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I love dwarf fortress. Thank you for posting this. I would recommend you post a few screenshots however though.
I was just looking for a game to play tonight, This will tide me over.
Edit: I keep getting errors, I am too tired to mess with this so I will mess with it tomorrow. Seems interesting though.
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I downloaded it and... holy hell. They say Paradox games are very stat-heavy but holy crap this game man. There are so many tabs and spreadsheets and NUMBERS I don't even know where to begin.
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On April 06 2012 13:37 Ulfsark wrote:
I love dwarf fortress. Thank you for posting this. I would recommend you post a few screenshots however though.
![[image loading]](http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/774/ohgodwat.png)
This looks almost as cool as Stars! (on which I've spent countless hours)
More screenshots and general info:
http://wnd.extravagaria.net/2012/01/the-dwarf-fortress-of-4x-games/
btw. does anyone remember Stars! and a way to get it this days?
![[image loading]](http://wiki.starsautohost.org/wikinew/images/7/74/Stars_screenshot.png)
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Well it's not like I have exams to study for or anything.
I hate you, OP.
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On April 06 2012 13:37 Ulfsark wrote:
I love dwarf fortress. Thank you for posting this. I would recommend you post a few screenshots however though.
I was just looking for a game to play tonight, This will tide me over.
Edit: I keep getting errors, I am too tired to mess with this so I will mess with it tomorrow. Seems interesting though.
I've found quite a few errors too, but most of them go away if I click OK enough. Also, a lot of the error messages are way more frightening than they seem. For instance, I was getting "Error 3402" quite a bit, until I realized I was trying to put ship-sized engines on a missile. Would've been nice for the game to tell me that.
That is assuming you followed the install instructions carefully. I botched the install my first time too, and the game was unplayable, got tons of errors that would not go away.
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I was following the tutorial and I got to part 4, but I can't figure out how to get Gravitational Survey Sensors. He doesn't explain how in the tutorial, so I'm stuck now ):
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You have to research them on the research tab. Just use the Instant thing like he did for the engines. Once they're researched you should be able to install gravitational sensors.
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I played this game a few months back, its good if your really in the mood for a 4X space fix, but to be completely honest, Dwarf Fortress is the better "super complicated in depth" indy game right now.
Be sure to get off Earth quick, you'll run out of minerals fast
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On April 08 2012 03:31 Millitron wrote:
You have to research them on the research tab. Just use the Instant thing like he did for the engines. Once they're researched you should be able to install gravitational sensors.
I can't find them in the research tab though!
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On April 06 2012 16:08 Manit0u wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2012 13:37 Ulfsark wrote:
I love dwarf fortress. Thank you for posting this. I would recommend you post a few screenshots however though. This looks almost as cool as Stars! (on which I've spent countless hours) More screenshots and general info: http://wnd.extravagaria.net/2012/01/the-dwarf-fortress-of-4x-games/btw. does anyone remember Stars! and a way to get it this days?
YES! I spent so many hours on Stars! as a kid. I still have my disk, but it won't work on Vista...
I tried Space Empire IV instead, but that got too complicated for me...
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I figured it out! The research tech was right where you said it'd be Millitron! Thank you (:
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Is using instant for research cheating? I want to play legit.
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Its true that there was no dedicated thread to this game but I made a big post about this game in recommended games like 2 years ago. Didnt really get any attention though. ^^
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does anyone have a download link for this?
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On April 08 2012 15:43 liam33 wrote:
does anyone have a download link for this?
It's on their forum (I believe the subforum is called Installation). It's not hard to find.
Anyway, I tried this out some, got through about an hour and a half of that video tutorial. That guy really is bad at what he does. The thing is, though, that the game started bugging out for no reason when I went to research my second tech. I had nothing else going on! The tech was researched, too, so it wasn't that I had made an error, the game just kept bugging out. Very annoying. I'm sure this COULD be enjoyable but shit like that really takes away from it.
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On April 08 2012 14:27 justinpal wrote:
Is using instant for research cheating? I want to play legit.
You are given a set amount of starting RP to simulate the fact that your empire had discovered Trans Newtonian Tech before you took over. So you use instant until you spend all that RP. After that though, yes, its cheating if you keep using it even after you've spent your RP. Same holds true for Fast OOB for shipbuilding.
On April 08 2012 21:27 HellRoxYa wrote:Show nested quote +On April 08 2012 15:43 liam33 wrote:
does anyone have a download link for this? It's on their forum (I believe the subforum is called Installation). It's not hard to find. Anyway, I tried this out some, got through about an hour and a half of that video tutorial. That guy really is bad at what he does. The thing is, though, that the game started bugging out for no reason when I went to research my second tech. I had nothing else going on! The tech was researched, too, so it wasn't that I had made an error, the game just kept bugging out. Very annoying. I'm sure this COULD be enjoyable but shit like that really takes away from it.
Yeah, the errors are annoying. If you were doing something specific, it may have been that you could not do that thing. Like trying to load size 6 missiles into a size 5 launcher.
Otherwise, I don't know what to say except just try clicking "ok" until it stops. So far, once I got it installed correctly, I haven't had any errors that prevented me from playing.
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