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General Discussion / Transverse jump and neutrino detector
« on: May 24, 2023, 09:31:20 AM »
Is there any clear indicator for when these are granted by skills vs quests? Doesn't seem to be the case. But they behave differently: quest-granted stay on respec, skill-granted don't. So it would be nice to have this mentioned somewhere on the tooltip.

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Suggestions / "Ignore" command?
« on: May 20, 2023, 01:07:56 PM »
A typical Monitor isn't really a threat to anyone, but killing it can keep ships busy for a long time.

Would be nice if we had soft "Ignore" order - basically never pursue marked ship as primary target as long as something else is available. Maybe also be willing to take a few incoming shots from it to get to more important target, if outmaneuvering it would be too hard.

This would also serve as soft nerf to player's near-invulnerable Monitors - enemy tactical AI should obviously mark them with "Ignore" too.

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General Discussion / Sticky cursed item?
« on: May 16, 2023, 03:05:37 PM »
So, can you just keep it inventory until you find optimal use for it, or does it cause any issues? Because my first instinct was to reload after looting it (plus I messed up by not recovering more s-modded ships due to low fuel, because I didn't know I could store them in same system).

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General Discussion / Afflictor rarity?
« on: May 16, 2023, 08:44:23 AM »
I understand it's meant to be rare, but isn't it a bit too rare?

In current campaign (level 14, mostly from bounty hunting, so a fairly long one) I've found exactly one black market Afflictor (I mean proper, not P version). Black market Hyperions are so much more common, even if I were to count only pristine ones (seen 5+)...

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Discussions / Final Theory (tactical 4x-lite)
« on: January 09, 2022, 11:46:23 PM »
Recently found this little gem: https://store.steampowered.com/app/894630/Final_Theory/

A 4X-lite with focus on tactical combat and minimalist campaign gameplay. Combat is really good and has impressive mechanical depth. My standards for 'good' tactics are pretty high and the previous game that caught my attention to same extent was probably Battle Brothers.

The only issue for me is that replayability is limited, since campaigns tend to play out quite similarly once you figure out how everything works. Though it should release a new fleet DLC soon to add some variety.


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Suggestions / +1 Burn version of Augmented Drive Field
« on: April 06, 2021, 03:40:28 AM »
Often certain ships can't be effectively used in fleet because at base Burn they would slow the fleet down, while paying full price of Augmented Drive Field makes them unviable.
And if I build ADF in, such ship will have a dead hullmod if/when I drop fleet base burn later.

I always build my fleet for 20 sustained burn. This can be achieved by:
1) 10+ base burn ships only. Early frigates start + occasional Shrike/Falcon(p).
2) 9 base burn fleet + navigation skill. DEs and Falcons, but also large ADF capitals like Onslaught or Paragon. Cruisers or fast capitals would overpay for ADF, as such not competitive.
3) 8 base burn fleet + navigation skill + 2 tugs. Cruisers and fast capitals (Odyssey and Conquest), but I can't use most normal capitals - they would either slow me down or underperform due to overpriced ADF.
4) 7 base burn fleet + navigation skill + 4 tugs. Slow capitals focused. Not sure if it's even viable way to build a fleet with low DP skill caps of 0.95. But 8 burn cruisers and fast capitals are wasted in such fleet.

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General Discussion / Drover overnerfed?
« on: April 03, 2021, 08:45:09 AM »
Higher DP cost and nerfed system. Plus overall fighter nerf via much reduced skill effects.

Drover now has problems maintaining replenishment even with officer + expanded decks while using Sparks (which barely die, compared to Talons).
Add any bombers and it's replenishment dives straight to zero.

I don't have L3R to see how much it would have helped, but opportunity cost of taking that skill is too high anyway.

Which leaves Heron and Astral as the only pure carriers worth having (Condor is too vulnerable and easy to pop for any random frigate).

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Based on in-game description mercenaries should not count, and in officer list they do not: I have 8/10 displayed with 8 normal officers and 2 mercs right after taking the Officer Management skill.
But I can't hire new normal officers until I fire one of mercenaries anyway.

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Suggestions / Skill reassignment improvements
« on: March 28, 2021, 06:44:21 AM »
Elite skills: keep the disabled skill elite, so that I could return to it later. Otherwise I'm pretty much locked out of elite promotions for skills I'm not 100% certain I'll never re-roll.

Permanent skills: allow to reassign, with following drawbacks:
- Officer Management: pop extra officers above cap from ships and prevent reassignment (same as when you pick up extra officers from pods)
- Officer Training: officer max and current level reduced to 5, officers with 6 skills get popped from ships and can't be reassigned until you pick 1 skill to remove.
- Special Modifications: any ship with above current cap vents/caps or 3 built-in hullmods suffer massive max CR reduction and/or high malfunction rate at any CR. This one I'm less certain about, since there doesn't seem to be as clean way to undo it. One option is to allow to remove built-in hullmods (optionally refunding spent SP cost: for example if it granted 70% bonus exp when built-in, the committed cost to be refunded is 30%).

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Bug Reports & Support / [0.95a-RC9] Crash during combat
« on: March 27, 2021, 12:53:37 PM »
Not sure if related, but I just pressed X to swap piloted ship at that moment.

[Thread-3] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain  - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.ai.attack.AttackAIModule.new.super(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.ai.attack.AttackAIModule.o00000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.ai.attack.AttackAIModule.o00000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.ai.BasicShipAI.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advanceInner(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatState.traverse(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.state.AppDriver.begin(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain.main(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher.o00000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$1.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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Which they obviously shouldn't.

Examples:
1) Enemy Onslaught vs Drover + a frigate. A frigate is too small to follow, so Drover just keeps distance as I'd want it to. Both are fast enough to never be caught, so the only threat is death by PPT/CR.
2) Enemy Onslaught vs Drover + a fast DE. DE avoids Burn Driving Onslaught, Drover lags behind and tries to follow even through the death zone right in front of Onslaught, eventually dying in few passes.

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Suggestions / Fast missile racks use with recharging missiles
« on: July 05, 2020, 02:37:51 AM »
FMR can work with finite missiles to burst the target faster.
And works even better with cooldown-based missiles, the only one in vanilla being Salamanders.

However, FMR is atrociously bad with recharging missiles like Pilums. You don't get significant burst like rapid-firing Harpoons/Sabots, neither you get sustain of Salamanders.

Maybe FMR should also boost recharge proportional to it's natural rate? For example for Pilums, which recharge at about half firing rate, 1 FMR charge should restore close to half clip.

Or at least stock variants for FMR ships used by enemies shouldn't focus on Pilums.

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Suggestions / Alternating weapon group selection improvement
« on: July 04, 2020, 01:33:42 AM »
Don't change currently selected weapon within alternating group when switching between different weapon groups (but do switch if re-selecting same group).

For example, 4x2 Reaper group (with Missile Rack):
- Fire 2 top, selection moves to third (1 1 2* 2)
- Switch to other weapon group
...
- Switch back to Reaper group, selection is on 4th (1 1 2 2*)

This is inconvenient, because if I fire 2 in a row, I'd end up with (0 1* 2 1), rather than (1* 1 1 1). As result I need to pause and fix selection before firing for optimal result.

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Suggestions / Fix AI suicide by Fortress Shield
« on: May 25, 2020, 12:42:49 AM »
For example, 2 fully flux optimized soft flux (3 Grav, 7 Tacs) Auroras vs single flux/shield optimized Paragon (any weapons).
Auroras can't really get through shield, but AI will activate fortress shield anyway, eventually dying.

The fact that it's unnecessary suicide can be easily proven by disabling autopilot/weapons on Paragon and just going afk with shields up.

Can Paragon AI check whether soft flux buildup is actually dangerous before activating Fortress shield? Imo it's worth activating only if:
- incoming soft buildup > dissipation AND there is enough soft flux built up that it hampers weapon fire. Should be aware of more than just immediate rates (not count a TL/PL at it's burst rate unless overload is imminent). If only combined incoming soft buildup + own weapons/shield soft buildup > dissipation, it needs to intermittently hold fire instead.
- incoming hard buildup (including projectiles in flight) > fortress shield buildup for period sufficient to block the projectiles. This rule should also take into account how ready to fire is Paragon itself (not worth sitting on fully recharged weapons with low soft flux for minor hard flux gain).

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Suggestions / Autofit automation
« on: February 06, 2020, 02:50:05 AM »
At any moment when docked at station allowing cr-loss-free refit, player can initiate autofit pass for all managed ships according to following rules:

- Each ship can be linked to autofit template OR set unmanaged.
- Autofit template can be set as default for hull type.
- Ships not matching their current template display warning in fleet/refit lists. 3 states: not outfitted/ partial fit (autofit pass was applied to ship, but did not reach exact fit)/ exact fit.
- Updating autofit template allows to update all linked ships by initiating autofit pass. Their status drops to 'not outfitted' (since there was no autofit pass with updated template).
- Any story-point spending (to make a hullmod built-in) by autofit needs to be confirmed by player. With even larger warning for any attempts to remove built-in hullmods.
- Autofit pass can be configured whether stored/bought weapons are used, whether to accept partial fits (or just leave as is), whether to touch story-point hullmods.
- Ships are processed in fleet/refit list order.
- (optional improvement) Failing autofit pass can create exact list of lacking weapons to allow queuing their production of in 1 click (assuming you have blueprints).
- (optional improvement) A ship can queued to be produced with all weapons needed for it's default autofit template.

What good it does:
- Easy management of large lategame fleets
- Removes at least one obstacle towards massing smaller ships being a viable tactic.

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