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General Discussion / Is fleet size in regards to battle set by DP per ship?

« on: February 28, 2020, 04:32:25 PM »

I was under the assumption the distribution of DP was decided by number of ships in your fleet.  Yet I just got engaged by a random fleet from a cooperative faction (persian)

both fleets have 30 ships (at least mine) yet I have the bare minimum at 210 dp.

Did I miss something?

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General Discussion / Is it possible to ship resources from one base to another?

« on: February 24, 2020, 04:27:14 PM »

For context I found a good planet with a sleeper ship literally on the edge of the core world, literally next door to a TriTech system.  +1 food, 0 organic, -1 ore, 100% hazard.   Pretty much as good as you can reasonably hope for.

Now there is this low hazard planet in the middle of the core worlds in a system that isn't anything special but I would love to use it as a trade point.  I make a lot of money doing trade missions and draw a lot of my resources from the waystation building. Now I'm not always trading so when I'm nearby, I'll buy everything it's accrued and stick it in storage, in this way it continues to restock.  This way I've always got enough on hand since waystation has a limit to how much it stocks and the missions often require more then it stocks.  Talking 10,000 food, organics, fuel, ores, while goods tend to be 5k but still more then the waystation stocks by default.

This would be way way easier if I can ship all of this tend a center facility....otherwise I'm going to need some additional Atlas with expanded cargo holds.

Edit: is there any point to the useless commerce building then as a dumpster?  Thought it'd act as an extra independent ship market as high lvls but when I didn't see anything but junk even up to size 7 colonies I shut it down.

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General Discussion / Can I make the Apogee AI more aggressive?

« on: February 21, 2020, 07:18:35 AM »

The ai does fine with high intensity laser and T lance but with the plasma it always seems afraid to fire it even though it has more then enough flux to handle it. 

Maybe need a reckless officer?

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General Discussion / Do the Faction Colonies grow?

« on: February 14, 2020, 03:05:53 PM »

I'm currently at cycle 225 and as far as I can tell...none of the factions seems to grow.  From what I've heard Nex factions will expand and grow so I'm looking forward to that.

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General Discussion / Should I be concerned about fleets just hanging around jump points?

« on: January 27, 2020, 12:44:34 AM »

In my sector, there a warp point a little close to the red star.  I currently have no less then 16 fleets of independents, faction fleets, hedgemony and Tachyon fleets.  They're all just wiggling around it pretending it's unreachable.

Should I be concerned?  May be a real issue, all they have to do is turn off the boosters since that is what keeps them from getting to the point.  Even the player fleet will automatically pull away but  only with the booster going.

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General Discussion / Any mod that allows you send fleets after pirates?

« on: January 26, 2020, 05:51:08 PM »

I'm getting where I think I'm pretty comfortable with the game in my first play through but....I don't like colonies or more specifically spread out colonies.  Reason being is every single one not in the same system is another incompetent base of fleets that can't fight pirates.

I solved it partially by finding a solid system with 8 planets, each with resources.  Together it's all a completely self sustaining fortress of battle stations and fleets.


I like the idea of having multiple colonies just not if it's going to be only myself running around holding their hands.  Places that I could turn into actual way stations.  Being a threat is great!  Just not this "hey boss can you come take care of these annoying pirates.....no we aren't able to send any of our heavy fleets to take care of it"

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General Discussion / Do the personal relationships have any impact currently?

« on: January 26, 2020, 12:09:49 PM »

Aside Faction relations, the individual administrators and such and be positive too.

As far as I can I haven't noticed any effect from this.  Is it simply incomplete as of yet?

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General Discussion / Does it make sense to put a comm sniffer on your own systems relay?

« on: January 22, 2020, 06:52:41 PM »

I'm currently building a system with 3 colonies (4 when I lvl up again) and just claimed the relays the independents so kindly built for me.  When doing so I noticed I can put a sniffer on them as well.


Is their any point really?  I'm 8-10 light years from the nearest core world.

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General Discussion / Share you stories of terror and conquest!

« on: January 21, 2020, 01:47:28 PM »

I'm curious to see some stories from other players as well!  I have to share this one with someone.

Fleet Info: 1 Onslaught, 1 Dominator, 2 Heron's, 3 Drovers, 4-5 Hammerheads, 2 Enforcers, 3 Shepherds, 4 Wolf frigates.  + 3 Colossus and 2 Phaetons.

Last night my game which I thought was going to be simple turned out to be nearly the death of me.  The plan was to travel to 2 yellow stars about 15 light years southeast of the main system and explore then call it a night.  My session began with me heading to a Hegemony station to refuel and sell any junk I happen to have.

   I was passing by a system in hyperspace when a smuggler goes flying pass me saying "running from pirate".  Nothing too unusual, I wasn't scared of your typical pirate fleet anymore thanks to my recently acquired capital ship. I pick up an unknown signal riding a storm, then another...and another...and another...  before I can hit the emergency thrust to take cover in nearby star I'm engaged by 4-5 pirate fleets full of Atlas Mk2s and assorted cruisers, destroyers and frigates.

Wide eyed I was wondering how I was going to fight off 80 ships. (wish I had enough sense to take a screenshot or record).  Taking up a defensive position my fleet somehow destroys enough to retreat.  Every single ship was at 0-5% CR and had been ordered to retreat.  All that was left was my Onslaught without it's missiles but enough flux and laser fire to burst down anything that got close.  My frigates finally got to join in the fight and went down to 0 CR as well but I could finally retreat.

This continued now with my 30% CR Onslaught having to fight alone against a bunch of incredibly annoying phase ships to get just enough points to retreat again and make it to a star.

I look up to see I've been fighting for 2 hours straight.  All and all I managed to to get away with my only lost bring 2 destroyed but salvaged hammerheads and 2 lost wolf frigates plus a 2000+ supply repair bill ^_^

Maybe the onslaught isn't the best ship but god I love this thing.  After purchasing and refitting another Dominator to give my fleet more punch I had to sign off due to fatigue.

Edit: Heres to hoping I actually make it to those two yellow stars today!