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Suggestions / Re: Expeditionary forces are broken

« on: Today at 12:43:07 AM »

It's to keep your colonies from getting way too strong. They are basically opposition against you once you are a true "faction" to target.

That being said my issue with the punishment in relationships to fighting them. If the enemy is challenging you to fair and formal combat with them as the aggressor, it should both protection you from consequence to defending yourself, but also stop punishment for raids and the like done in retaliation, with a sort of credit system done to keep you from attacking too much, like you have a free retaliation for a months after, but not carte blanche whenever. Anything to make just defending yourself from raids not cost influence with other factions. The factions dont have it with eachother, why should you have to devolve into forever war because of THEIR attacks?

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Suggestions / Re: Hurricane is too strong

« on: Today at 12:39:47 AM »

Love for the Oddessey here. I've heard nothing but people say it's trash compared for the other capitals.

But I do agree, the ability to overwhelm point defenses the way it does with the raw damage, tracking, and speed, is a bit much. Still, I'm not sure it's nearly as strong as say, the IR pulse laser is pathetic. In turns of balancing I think there are bigger things to go after.

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Suggestions / Re: More realistic and uncapped combat speeds

« on: Today at 12:34:34 AM »

I disagree, I find the speed by default just fine. The only "issue" is capitals taking a while to get to the front when I'm the pilot, but that's perfectly balanced and it's the price I pay for being the main battle tank that waltz in and solos an entire front line. I'm also not sure how it be more or less "realistic" here, or why that's something to care about when we're in sci-fi with radically different naval technology and design, or why it should change the balance design.

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General Discussion / Re: How do we balance fighter spam?

« on: Today at 12:29:16 AM »

I haven't had a lot of success(or fun) from carrier spam so I can only add so much to this conversation without spending quite a while playing just to test, but I can add this much. I find -fighters- to be perfectly balanced and fair when they are harassing enemies with minor but constant attacks. When I cant protect my back because fighters keep digging into it then I'm quite happy with them. A bother yes but hardly horrifying. I also have no issues with some bombers or support requiring me to pop shields or taking advantage of high flux to cut through said shields. As far as that's concerned I'm perfectly fine.

The issue I have is with some bombers like daggers having high damage homing torpedos with no limit or punishment for spam while I can barely hold a handful of them. A good mid-teir ship might have 4-6 atraphose class torpedoes, but a hero effectively has 6 of them for repeated use. In terms of damage it's fine but it nearly invalidates missiles since a single sufficient bomber wing might as well be a repeat firing reloadable but less controllable missile of the same time. Either the torpedos they get need to be toned down but harder to hit(matching with small arms fighters would use) or some other change needs to occur so I don't watch my own hero units fly down on the ship I'M fighting and ram 6 yellow murder missiles right up it's face for the 3rd time.

Perhaps it's emotional but I even when it's from my side I take issue with it.

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General Discussion / Re: It totally isn't.

« on: February 28, 2021, 12:30:29 PM »

The update is close. I can feel it in my bones, like aching joints before stormy weather.

I think that's just wishful thinking. If the update was close we would have gotten some news already. We just have to be patient...

We do have patch notes and a confirmation that Alex has reached the playtesting phase.

What confirmation? This is news to me

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General Discussion / Re: How do we balance fighter spam?

« on: February 28, 2021, 12:29:35 PM »

I wonder how would giving all fighters ammo, thus requiring that they periodically return to carriers and give their targets a breather, affect this issue. Has anyone tried it?

Does this not alreayd exist for bombers?

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Suggestions / Re: Buff the Hyperion

« on: February 26, 2021, 12:57:19 PM »

Personally I think the Hyperion is a ship well past its prime and niche. Its former role as the most powerful conventional frigate has been eclipsed by the Tempest, and its flavour as an experimental frigate has been edged out by the Scarab and Phase frigates. I wouldn't mind at this point if the Hyperion was simply axed. The Phase Teleporter is not a system that needs to exist.

Perhaps the issue then is the tempest is overpowered and needs to be dropped down to wolf levels.

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General Discussion / Re: How do you deal with pirates?

« on: February 26, 2021, 09:39:59 AM »

Common answer: semi-constant wack-a-mole until you get heavy industry and a full military base in each star system.
My answer: go to settings.jsom and change the minimum pirate bases to 0 and the time to upgrade to 24 months.

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Suggestions / Re: Intersystem Military Patrols - Both Player and NPC

« on: February 25, 2021, 08:57:14 PM »

100% support on this. I see no reason at all that a hotfix after the main update is released to add in small military fleets to randomly dig between any route the AI considers sending a trade route. Why not even make it a response to trade going missing, or pre-emptive if a world is particularly lacking in resources.

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Suggestions / Re: Independent surveyors

« on: February 25, 2021, 08:48:11 PM »

What's the difference between a random fleet being called "salavagers" and also doing survey work, and having two different fleets with different names doing exactly the same thing with different choices in location? I fail to see the use here. this isn't some cheap nothing it's making an entirely new fleet spawn with unique AI behaviors just for the name. Pass

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General Discussion / My thoughts on supplies and fuel

« on: February 25, 2021, 05:11:18 PM »

I felt like writing this out of fun after doing some "modding" work in Xcom 2. I realized why I'm okay with supplies and fuel as a secondary "cost" for ship operation next to crew/money. In Xcom allows and Elerium didn't do anything but be another infinite stack of resources no difference than money. This new money couldn't be earned like money, was seemingly random and totally out of your control, and you get the idea. Supplies and fuel here offer their own unique uses, price tags, and reasons for not stacking, which effect how you can handle your ships. It's impressive how supplies and fuel come off so seemless and unobtrusive even as I think extremely deeply about it mechanically. Im struggling to make Allow and Elerium controllable consistently earnable, and it makes me see just how much work is put in to make supplies, fuel, and crew, a viable "cost" separate from yet extending from money without any seeming either redundant or too difficult to get.

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General Discussion / Re: What do you think of the black market?

« on: February 25, 2021, 02:03:44 PM »

That's not a bad idea. I was talking to a navy man earlier about radar spoofing. It be an interesting thing to add, a system in your fleet settings to mark what your transponder "sends." Not sure how it work but future idea

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General Discussion / Re: The endgame enemy.....

« on: February 24, 2021, 10:48:04 PM »

for certain reason the endgame threat is YOU

Im baffled how starting the AI uprising by installing AI cores in eveyr planet and glassing everyone else issupposed to be an end-game crisis....it's just AI

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General Discussion / Re: Is this game dead?

« on: February 24, 2021, 07:21:30 PM »

Arguing whether people are happy or not is really not is not a good metric for us the fans to discuss. There's no way to prove it without access to a lot of other metrics like exact sales numbers, access to every platform, including e-mails and private reports, and more. Not to mention the current state of development. I don't think it's a helpful question

Luckily, by registering for the forums, Alex has complete access to everyone's emails, hardrives, social media accounts, and a camera in their kitchen for meal choice data, for the upcoming Starsector Galley expansion!

I have my fingers crossed that butter baked Volturnian lobster will give the ship +25% CR.

does that mean that I can gain meal specialization?! My waffles and burger states would be off the charts

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General Discussion / Re: Is this game dead?

« on: February 24, 2021, 03:17:26 PM »

Arguing whether people are happy or not is really not is not a good metric for us the fans to discuss. There's no way to prove it without access to a lot of other metrics like exact sales numbers, access to every platform, including e-mails and private reports, and more. Not to mention the current state of development. I don't think it's a helpful question