History VideoGame / Aurora4X

* SettlingtheFrontier - Vital part of the game. You will need to settle on new worlds to search for their resources and to expand your influence.

* StealthinSpace - Sensor ranges in-game are surprising low, with normal sized sensors having only ranges of a few million for ships and even less for missiles.

* FasterThanLightTravel: Travel between star systems is done through warp points by vessels carrying jump engines or traveling through warp gates.

Aurora is a freeware 4X space game designed by Steve Walmsley and released in 2004. It is constantly being updated and the latest version is V6.10.

* Boarding Party - With a fast ship you can drop troops on an enemy ship and capture it. You'll probably need to cripple it first however, or all your soldiers are likely going to die.

* AsteroidMiners: Mining Moons, Asteroids and Comets is necessary for your empire to avoid a mineral crunch.

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The game takes great attention to detail, with vast star systems many billions of kilometres wide across along with orbiting planets, moons, asteroids and secondary stars. The game also has a complex combat system, with minor stats such as radar resolution, missile tracking speed, turret rotation speed and custom, programmable missiles all playing vital roles in battle. The game also comes with a fully functioning private economy with private freighters and colony ships carrying goods and colonists between your planets.

* FasterThanLightTravel - Jump Points and Lagrange Points allow for instantaneous travel between star systems and each other, respectively.
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* FasterThanLightTravel - Travel between star systems is done through warp points by vessels carrying jump engines or traveling through warp gates.
* GuideDangIt - The game has no tutorial except scant tool-tips with little information. The player is likely to be overwelmed by the amount of information they receive.

* StealthinSpace - Sensor ranges in-game are suprising low, with normal sized sensors having only ranges of a few million for ships and even less for missiles.

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This game is complex. [[ComplexityAddiction Very complex]]. You are warned.

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale - Averted hard. Every system is proportioned to scale, and the system map can be magnified from a few thousand kilometres across to whole light years.

* EasyLogistics - Mixed. Ships need to have fuel, and maintenance supplies for repair as well as regular overhauls for military ships.

Aurora is a freeware 4X space game designed by Steve Walmsley and released in 2004. It is constantly being updated and the latest version is V6.00.

* [[{{Two-DSpace}} 2-D Space]] - The entire game is 2D, and is played through a 2D display map.

* AsteroidMiners - Mining Moons, Asteroids and Comets is necessary for your empire to avoid a mineral crunch.

Aurora is a freeware 4X space game designed by Steve Walmsley and released in 2004. It is constantly being updated and the latest version is V5.60.

* LostTechnology - Some planets come with ruins that can be identified and recovered by your nation.

* DesignItYourselfEquipment - Taken to an extreme, with all traits for weapons, shields and sensors being researched individually, then said components are designed and researched again for use in ship design.

* 2-DSpace - The entire game is 2D, and is played through a 2D display map.

* ArbitaryMaximumRange - All weapons have maximum ranges, even missiles, which explode after running out of fuel. This even occurs for long range missile drones that don't carry warheads.

This game is complex. [[ComplexityAddition Very complex]]. You are warned.

The game takes great attention to detail, with vast star systems many billions of kilometres wide across along with orbiting planets, moons, asteroids and secondary stars. The game also has a complex combat system, with minor stats such as radar resolution, missile tracking speed, turret rotation speed and custom, programmable missiles all playing vital roles. The game also comes with a fully functioning private economy with private freighters and colony ships carrying goods and colonists between your planets.

The game takes great attention to detail, with vast star systems many billions of kilometres wide across along with orbiting planets, moons, asteroids and secondary stars. The game also has a complex combat system, with minor features such as radar resolution, missile tracking speed, turret rotation speed and custom, programmable missiles all playing vital roles. The game also comes with a fully functioning private economy with private freighters and colony ships carrying goods and colonists between your planets.

* MacrossMissileMassacre - Missiles can be designed to any size, from small decoy missiles to MIRV missiles. You can create mines consisting of multiple missiles that all activate when detecting an enemy. Box Launchers are also available, allowing ships to have tremendous amount of firepower at once.
* MoreDakka - There's no limit to fleet size, with the only constraining factor being ship size and computer processing speed. Having thousands of different weapons and missiles fire simultaneously is not impossible.

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale - Averted hard. Every system is proportioned to scale, and the system map can be magnified from a few thousand kilometres across from whole light years.

* Designityourselfequipment - Taken to an extreme, with all traits for weapons, shields and sensors being researched individually, then said components are designed and researched again for use in ship design.

* FasterthanLightTravel - Jump Points and Lagrange Points allow for instantaneous travel between star systems and each other, respectively.

* RunningBothSides - A main feature of the game is the ability to create multiple factions and also to change between them, giving all sides orders and directions as a form of role-playing. A notable example includes a game starting off with Nato, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, seen [[http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/board,112.0.html here]].

* Terraform - Terraforming ships can change the composition of gases on any planet or moon, making it habitable for your species, or uninhabitable for your enemies.

* EasyLogistics - Mixed.

Aurora allows the player to create a procedurally generated galaxy, consisting of detailed, accurately scaled star systems connected to each other via warp points. A player starts off as a space faring nation, discovering the secrets of Trans-Newtonian technology and uses it to expand and create an interstellar empire. Aurora is a sandbox game, with no goals, but nearly every setting can be edited in a designer mode for creating custom scenarios.

The game takes great attention to detail, with vast star systems many billions of kilometres wide across along with orbiting planets, moons, asteroids and secondary stars. The game also has a complex combat system, with minor features such as radar resolution, missile tracking speed, turret rotation speed and custom, programmable missiles all playing vital roles.

* MacrossMissileMassacre - Missiles can be designed to any size, from small decoy missiles to MIRV missiles. You can create mines consisting of multiple missiles that all activate when detecting an enemy.

* LesmanArmsRace - You can start off on a planet with another country or faction. AI aside, you probably would want to get off the planet as soon as you can.
* RunningBothSides - A main feature of the game is the ability to create multiple factions and also to change between them, giving all sides orders and directions as a form of role-playing. A notable example includes a game starting off with Nato, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China on Earth, seen [[http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/board,112.0.html here]].

Aurora allows the player to create a procedurally generated galaxy, consisting of detailed, accurately scaled star systems connected to each other via warp points. A player starts off as a space faring nation, discovering the secrets of Trans-Newtonian technology and uses it to expand and create an interstellar empire. Aurora is a sandbox game, with no goals, but near every setting can be edited in a designer mode for creating custom scenarios.

The game takes great attention to detail, with vast star systems many billions of kilometres wide across along with orbiting planets, moons, asteroids and secondary stars. The game also has a complex combat system, with minor features such as radar resolution, missile tracking speed, turret rotation speed and programmable missiles all playing vital roles.

Here is the link to the fan-made[[http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Wiki]] and [[http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/board,10.0.html Forums]].

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