hi
@Mord-Sith

could you manage to play the game abit?
... if so how... i'm a lazy person i don't know even how to play omg!
by the way, have you seen their wiki?

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out ship design, and how to add components, to be honest. I researched an ion drive, and an active sensor, and I wnat to add them onto my very first ship, so I can then use it to go out and mine stuff, but, jaws isn't reading the components Anybody know a way around this?

From what I gather, the officer window has a button that says auto-assign. So, what I do, is I auto-assign navil, ground forces, and civil workers, as well as scientists, so that they are all automatically assigned to places. I hit the assign button, then exit, and I basically let them do their thing. As for the population window, it's a bit difficult. Tab all the way through it, near the end, you have research, and something talking about building, it's almost right after the espionoge section. That is where you build yoru mines, and such. You can change what you build, though, with the menu that is right next to the menu from which you select installation, or, whatnot, too. The research one is pretty explainatory, but, you'll need to select a scientist, as well, so that you can research things. You'll have to click on the create button, and it'll ask for confirmation that you wnat to research. I'm having trouble figuring out the ship-building, and such, though, I"m going to ask my sister for some help with it today enjoy

-- Ok, I tried out the ship-building, even with sighted assistance, I can't figure it out, and it's not working for some reason. Could you ask Xcline how he did it, if you see him, or, get in touch with him? It would be helpful to know how to

Hopefully he'll find this forum post, I really would like to play this game, but, having some troubles, as far as building ships goes, the rest of it is pretty compatable

Jaws seems to work better, and I'm using version 5.60, to be honest. It's not the most recent version, but, it's pretty stable

hae, thanks i'll try that and get back best regards

Hey, all. Does AudioGames have a policy on thread necromancy? If not, I hope people won't mind if I resurrect this topic.
I've been getting back into Aurora lately, after leaving it for quite some time, and so am definitely interested in talking about it with people who might want to learn how to play. It's still a devilishly complicated game, but the forums are friendly, and still as active as ever. I wrote a bunch of blog posts at one time explaining how the game worked from a screen reader perspective, but those seem to have been lost to the mists of time, I'm afraid.

At any rate, if anybody has any questions, I'm happy to try and see what I can help with.

Either that, or just make it less confusing in general.  I have no problem with deep and complex strategy games, where all of the various numbers and options connect together in a well-designed system, where everything effects everything else in a logical fashion.  Aurora, however, just felt like a bunch of random subsystems, all designed at different times, with different goals, that never actually seemed to fit together into a coherent game.  But what with the confusing interface, and widely scattered documentation, it is more than possible I missed something.

There are definitely quite a few subsystems, but if you understand how some of them work the game does make more sense. It's really a bit more like a tabletop strategy game than a computer-based one. There are rules for how the Aurora universe works, and they make internal sense once you learn them.

That being said, if you have specific questions feel free to ask. It's definitely a dense game, and not for everyone. But it's also hard to talk about generalities if something specific is confusing people. The best source of info is probably the official forums at the moment, where documentation and tutorials are ongoing.