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General Discussion / Re: Grendel - poor bastard
« on: February 24, 2024, 11:54:05 AM »
I haven't put the Grendel under AI control but I found it fun as a close-ranged SO build. You need all the speed you can get so helmsmanship is a must and building in aux thrusters increases the 0-flux speed boost that's always on with SO.
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General Discussion / Re: Ruins question
« on: June 30, 2023, 12:30:21 PM »
I like to set up temporary tech mining colonies early on when I'm still deciding on where to set up long term colonies. It's basically a way to spend cash for a chance at domain items, alpha cores, and blueprints.

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General Discussion / Re: Not making enemies with everyone
« on: February 01, 2022, 04:31:17 PM »
Make friends with pirates! They don't launch expeditions and inspections that cause your rep to steadily tank with major factions. They'll still hit you with the "Pirate Activity" status on your worlds sometimes but if you're friendly enough you can reduce the penalty pretty steeply.

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Suggestions / Re: Officer portraits and the matching bithday problem
« on: February 01, 2022, 07:53:22 AM »
I think it'd be a good change. As is if I find an officer with an identical portrait to one I've already got I won't even consider them. One game I even had two of the rare super officers that were identical which was really annoying.

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General Discussion / Re: Tech mining drops
« on: January 30, 2022, 12:25:42 AM »
I just set up temporary tech mining colonies, let it run for a while and then close up shop. Since the cost is minimal and you don't need to bother defending you can start up very early on. Build a waystation and you've got a convenient resupply point out in the frontier. By the time you're ready to put down roots you'll probably have netted a nice bundle of AIs, blueprints, and colony items.

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General Discussion / Re: Vanguard is terrible
« on: January 25, 2022, 06:10:28 PM »
I actually prefer Lasher over Vanguard. With the builtin rangefinder+ammo feeder it's pretty nice, just have serious popping problems.
The main thing Vanguard has over it for me is that it seems to be in position for firing torpedos at hull really often.

Same honestly, I'm a big fan of the Lasher. I'd take a Lasher over a Vanguard just about any day and then when purchase costs and deployment points are considered the Vanguard looks pretty disappointing.

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General Discussion / Re: Vanguard is terrible
« on: January 23, 2022, 08:29:50 PM »
One nice thing about the Vanguard is that rugged construction also applies to enemy Vanguards you've taken out, so if you tangle with some Hegemony patrols you can grab Vanguards with no d-mods pretty cheaply. Of course fighting with the Hegemony early on isn't likely to be typical player behavior in unmodded games.

I think the Vanguard was supposed to be the low-tech doctrine's answer to fancy high-tech frigates like the Tempest or Scarab but the final product is in the Lasher/Wolf tier.

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General Discussion / Re: Pirate friendly playthrough
« on: December 29, 2021, 08:42:48 AM »
Also, just because you're hostile with a faction doesn't mean you can't still trade with them. Just go dark and sneak into their starbases/planets.

Pirate playthrough is a great time to master the stealth mechanics.

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Suggestions / Re: Omni shield needs a rework
« on: June 11, 2021, 01:30:38 PM »
I've noticed that omni+wider angle shields sometimes confuses the AI. AI-piloted Paragons getting their armor melted because they tried to unnecessarily micromanage shields is something I see a lot.

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I guess, i want to try EMP weapons  ;D

Never used em before...

They can be very handy and you don't need a big investment for them to be effective. Even just a single ion cannon can do a lot to punish targets that try to be fancy with flickering shields to absorb kinetic damage with armor or avoid overload at high flux.

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General Discussion / Re: Is tech-mining still worth it somehow?
« on: May 05, 2021, 01:49:27 PM »
On some colonies I've gotten alpha cores and some of those neat new industry artifacts while other times I'll get squat.

It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to do slash-and-burn tech mining early on before you're ready to properly colonize. Take a faction commission so you're not worried about regular expenses. Add a waystation and you've got a convenient little outpost for far-flung exploration. After some time pack up and set up shop elsewhere.

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Mods / Re: [0.7.1a] Starsector+ 3.0.0
« on: December 12, 2015, 11:46:39 AM »
With a crew of 1500, you probably have a fleet strong enough to take on 300k bounties, so it doesn't seems that bad even for someone that hates trading.

In theory this appears sound but in reality bounties as a source of income are vastly reduced now that if you have a commission you can only reliably do bounties for one faction. In addition, now that bounty fleets can move around it's not terribly uncommon for them to just wander off into the aether. It also feels like having several faction mods activated exacerbates the problem because there will be significant periods of time where some factions just aren't offering any bounties whatsoever.

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Mods / Re: [0.7.1a] Starsector+ 3.0.0
« on: December 11, 2015, 06:29:10 PM »
Crew salaries are being changed and are also optional in 3.0.1. 
Oh good. This is one of those things that looks great when you first see it, but the more you play the more it just bugs the hell out of you.

Also looking forward to it. As it is, the cost of having a mid-sized fleet of a couple cruisers, some frigates, a destroyer, and a decent marine contingent is pretty much financially crippling if you don't do some silly micromanagement of cycling out elite crew, especially now that your ability to pursue bounties and trade is severely limited if you take a commission.

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Mods / Re: [0.7.1a] Blackrock Drive Yards v0.8.0
« on: December 07, 2015, 02:40:07 PM »
Looks awesome, can't wait to try it out when I get home.

Rip asura

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Announcements / Re: Starsector 0.7.1a (Released) Patch Notes
« on: December 07, 2015, 02:27:16 PM »
The bribe amount sounds way wrong. It's supposed to max out at 100k credits when the investigation has a maxed out chance of starting/finding you guilty. If it's just a minor BM purchase here and there, the bribe shouldn't rise much about 10k.

Checked into it a bit - looks like there's a bug where it wasn't being properly capped, but still, to get to 192k credits, the probability of an investigation (i.e. suspicion level) had to go to almost 200%. Which would require selling a *lot* of stuff on the black market, or for the market to be really small. So I suppose it's possible that this is a legitimate outcome - if you sold 40 drugs at a premium to a very small market, then this might have happened, but it still sounds unlikely. I just tried selling 40 drugs to a size 5 market, and the investigation chance from that was 20%. so to get to 190% or so? I suppose it is possible, with a market with a lower trade volume and high stability. Are you sure that black market ship purchases and such weren't involved?

Anyway, the major difference in effect from selling the same amount on a small vs large market is rather hidden from the player... hm. Something I'll need to look at, for sure. Right now smuggling investigations are there so that there's a real risk to smuggling (plus, sneaking into a market to pay a bribe can be fun, though the issue there is it just interrupts whatever you were doing, and that can be annoying, hence the long duration); but might be able to find another way of accomplishing the same thing.

For context, the drug sale was to Coatl, the Hegemony military base in the Aztlan system. I don't remember the size of the market offhand but I imagine it's fairly small. Coatl did have a significant demand for drugs when I sold, as I was holding onto them for a big payday. I don't remember exactly, but the profit was probably around 30-35k for the load of 40. Didn't do any other smuggling during that trip.

I dig the system of smuggling being a risk, but I think the game just needs to better communicate the gravity of how serious an investigation might be. Something as simple as an added note to the log notification that "hey, all the evidence is arrayed against you and if you don't bribe the investigator you're gonna get canned" would go a long, long way towards making the system appear more logical and would alleviate a lot of the associated frustration. When bounties on pirate and deserter fleets that aren't too intimidating net rewards in the realm of hundreds of thousands of credits, a smuggling run worth 30k is not immediately apparent as something of significant consequence.

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