Re: Aurora 4X, Back to More Accessible Stars
What the hell is the actual purpose of Aurora?
I'd like to start by saying that aurora started as a tool to assist people with a board game called starfire under a different game and then it started becoming its own game.
Even then, It is still used as a tool to roleplay. You create your empire the way you want, You research on the things you care, You design the ships the exact way you want and begin developing a story and you can then write that story down for yourself or others to enjoy.
Regardless to say, Aurora requires a little bit of math when designing ships and also when deciding on what to build.
On the question of what you are supposed to do in this game.
You build up your starting planet, You make survey ships. (that includes designing engines and your actual ship). you send your survey ships out to survey more planets. You begin colonizing other planets or mine their resources with remote mines, stations or mining ships. you expand, terraform, begin building combat fleets. and start finding other species. you form allies or begin skirmishing. you micromanage fuel for your fleet, begin creating outposts and forward bases. you bombard other planets or begin deploying ground forces, (that you actually have to design from scratch).
All of these things that i mentioned however are not simple things to do. You don't colonize a planet by just pressing a few buttons. You have to see what the colonization cost is, e.g. if your species can handle living on that planet, then you need to send your cargo ships to unload infrastructure on the planet, then you need to design colony ships and begin transporting people there.
There are more fun things in the game as well, for example civilian ships who will trade within your empire, take contracts for you to do your work.
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