VB6 Aurora:FAQ

General

Q. What is Aurora?
A. Aurora is a 4x (eXpand, eXplore, eXternimate, eXploit) game. Written by Steve Walmsley.

Q: Are there any System Requirements?
A: The only one is a screen resolution of 1280x1024.

Q: Wait, so there's no way for me to play on my netbook?
A: Well there are a few, but it won't be pretty.

Gameplay

Q: I just surveyed this planet/moon/asteroid, but nothing shows up. And while we're on the subject, why are there pages/systems/colonies missing from the Mineral Report screen?
A: Very few system bodies will have Trans-Newtonian Elements on them - less than one in twenty. If there are no minerals, the survey/report/window will be blank for that body (well, unless there are alien ruins, which are one-in-a-thousand rare).

Troubleshooting

Q: My increments were cut short! what gives?
A: Oh, it's NPRs' fault! they are engaged in combat or similarly important activity, luckily you can use automated turns

Q: I have a window that doesn't appear on the screen, or appears to be off-screen. How do I fix that?
A: Close all windows (or restart) and then use the Reset Window Positions option on the Miscellaneous menu on the main menu bar

Q: Help! I'm using windows 7/Vista and the game crashes
A: Windows 7 and Vista, need to have the game run as administrator.

Q: I'm using Windows 7/Vista and I keep getting permission errors when trying to extract patch files to the Aurora folder
A: This has to do with security features. The easy fix is to right click /aurora , go to "Properties", go to "Security", browse to the one called "Users" and modify it to have all permissions.