Aurora V1.1 public release (bugfix release)

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I also saw two at once. I dropped a q-mine on one and shot the engines on the other and scooped the passengers to be sold as slaves. Still I didn't get a speck on my legal status. Clean as a whistle.
Did it survive the intial Q-bomb blast?
As test I nuked it and Q-bombed it. I turned down the max energy otherwise it was to though.

Ha ha you criminal: Selling the passengers :twisted:
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Did it survive the intial Q-bomb blast?
I may have emptied the military laser on it a couple of times first, don't quite remember. It took quite a while for it to ignite. It may have been a secondary blast from a smaller ship that made it explode.

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Ha ha you criminal: Selling the passengers :twisted:
Spreads hands and says with a hoarse godfather voice: Well, what could I do? Their insurance companies didn't pay.


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Weren't these supposed to be rare? Here they are again, four at once.
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Lucidor wrote:
pagroove wrote:
Ha ha you criminal: Selling the passengers :twisted:
Spreads hands and says with a hoarse godfather voice: Well, what could I do? Their insurance companies didn't pay.
Thought you had to be rich to travel on the Aurora? Then they should be able to afford insurance?

Maybe the next version of Aurora needs some tweaking....?
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Lucidor wrote:
Weren't these supposed to be rare? Here they are again, four at once.
My guess is that the "over-population" is due to the bigShips OXP. In some systems with large populations and suitable other parameters it can lead to up to 4 or 5 big trader ships being added to the system. One such ship to use that role is the Aurora, so if it's the only bigTrader ship you have installed you'll end up with a bunch of them.

If you want to tone it down then add a lower weight to the bigTrader role in the shipdata.plist of the aurora (say bigTrader(0.25) or something), or install some other big ships like those in transports or aquatics.
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Thought you had to be rich to travel on the Aurora? Then they should be able to afford insurance?
Perhaps the insurance won't pay out if the ship isn't destroyed. I only damaged that Aurora and its captain panicked, sending all the passengers out in excape pods.

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If you want to tone it down then add a lower weight to the bigTrader role in the shipdata.plist of the aurora (say bigTrader(0.25) or something), or install some other big ships like those in transports or aquatics.
I don't really mind, just a little surprised as I'd read that they were supposed to be very rare and every other time I enter a wealthy system there are several of these.
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Thargoid wrote:
If you want to tone it down then add a lower weight to the bigTrader role in the shipdata.plist of the aurora (say bigTrader(0.25) or something),
That won’t make any difference at all if it’s the only bigTrader available, though.
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Ahruman is right. Sorry it is rare when you install about every other bigtrader there is. I've got them all and then they are a lot rarer.

If its the only bigtrader you've got then you could end up with many ships in one system. Originally I wanted to do 100 unique ships each with unique names. But don't know how I can do that and tbh I don't find much fun in scripting. others do. I like making textures. I've not mastered shading by myself. I'm already glad that this ship is flying. But if others want to improve it go ahead.
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As requested by P.A.Groove, this OXP is now available on the Wiki:

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Aurora
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As requested by P.A.Groove, this OXP is now available on the Wiki:

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Aurora
Keep getting the box.net login page when I try to access the file through the link on the Wiki. Is the link broken?
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I saw two in the same system
I thought these were supposed to be rare? :?
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Keep getting the box.net login page when I try to access the file through the link on the Wiki. Is the link broken?
Found the problem and fixed the link on the Wiki.
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Keep getting the box.net login page when I try to access the file through the link on the Wiki. Is the link broken?
Found the problem and fixed the link on the Wiki.
Thanks, didn't have the time last night to actually test the download links.
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Thanx to Thargoid I found the cause of Auroa's not spawning at all.
So I made a bugfix release.

Visit my OXP site at:

http://www.snabbtorkande.com/pagrooveOXP/index.html

and click on Aurora or download from the following link:

http://www.box.net/shared/1c27tnyq90

I also updated the Wiki.
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