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Announcements / Re: Starsector 0.7a (In Development) Patch Notes

« on: November 04, 2015, 07:40:53 PM »

I expect factions to dog-pile an upstart.  If the player can survive the dog-piling, he should be able to crush what is left.  Basically, bruised-yet-still-standing survivor says "Is that your best? My turn now!" <Cue slasher smile.>

This is actually pretty similar to how Mount&Blade operates if the player tries to establish an independent kingdom. Because an upstart kingdom threatens the status quo and should be easy pickings, you'll rapidly face declarations of war from multiple other kingdoms and they'll bring enormous armies to try to crush you. Going rogue ends up being a difficult process that requires a great deal of preparation and isn't a very realistic proposition unless the player really knows how to play the system.

That's kind of how I'd imagine going rogue in SS would be like.

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General Discussion / Re: What are you going to do first when the new update arrives?

« on: November 03, 2015, 01:43:13 PM »

Fail my degree most likely.

Same, if this update comes out in the next couple of weeks I'm boned.

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General Discussion / Re: Vengeful Relations: What should it be, and what should cause it?

« on: October 29, 2015, 11:17:41 AM »

I think part of the problem is that at the moment there are no means to seize a ship and/or its cargo without killing every single occupant of the ship. Chasing down and destroying civilian ships with hundreds of crew and passengers is clearly warcrime level *** while at the same time letting trade fleets and support ships go unmolested is unrealistic.

Clearly there should be some means of taking ships without massacring the entire crew. Perhaps forcing fleeing ships to surrender by, say getting close to them and doing a chunk of damage or disabling engines would be an option. An overhaul of boarding could be yet another. One idea I have in mind is to have a distinction between military and civilian crew, which could influence the AI of the respective ships. A freighter with a predominantly civilian crew, for example, would be more inclined to surrender to pursuing ships and may not fight against a boarding force without accompanying marines. On the other hand, an Enforcer with a military crew might surrender to pursuers only in the most dire circumstances (i.e. it's surrounded, overloaded, undercrewed, and it's armor is blasted away) and may fight to the last against a boarding party and would be more likely to detonate its own ship to kill boarders.

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General Discussion / Re: Recommend similar games?

« on: October 01, 2015, 02:37:58 PM »

Doesn't have anything to do with space, but Mount&Blade has a campaign that is very similar to what Starsector is trying to achieve. In addition, the old Mechwarrior series has a lot of the equipment customization that you find in Starsector.

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Mods / Re: [0.65.2a] The Knights Templar v0.9.4g

« on: September 20, 2015, 01:48:34 PM »

Am I the only one who finds this mod a little strange.
Templars in space on a divine mission? lol
Doesn't space mean there is no heaven.

Good job nontheless but this mod is just pure fantasy rather than scifi which kills the immersion.
For me at least.

An impressively bad post.

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Mods / Re: [0.65.2a] The Knights Templar v0.9.4f

« on: May 29, 2015, 12:10:03 PM »

Why did you have to make them so religious themed? I mean, with such high-tech ships, I think they would pretty much be all atheists... anyway, I am going to kill them all for their moronic beliefs      

I also have a tendency of importing massive amounts of illegal goods to luddic church just to *** with them lol

anyway, would be cool if you could make a less religious version since to me, its kind-of nonsensical since normaly, only rational and logical driven beings could be so advanced technologicaly since they would try to understand the science behind the weapons and not just paint ships with glowing religious logos if you know what I mean... Other than that, I really like the challenge these ships give except the stupid dash attack which would litteraly turn its crew into jelly... unless they are kerbals, that might actualy explain that part

I can smell the neckbeard through my monitor.

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General Discussion / Re: Heavy Missile Mount

« on: May 12, 2015, 10:41:59 PM »

Soon to be no FMR, but still very effective.

Might I ask what ability it will be replaced with? I also really like the Archer but it definitely gets pretty crazy with 3 medium missiles and FMR.

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Mods / Re: [0.65.2a] The Knights Templar v0.9.4d

« on: May 10, 2015, 01:13:49 PM »

Your Templars are wrecking the face of everyone in SS+, pretty much doubling or more their weight in enemy casualties

Yes, they are too much overpowered for my taste. I can't do much against them, so I'm removing this mod and starting a new game.

Considering that they're meant to basically be an endgame challenge after you've become tired of kicking in the faces of everyone else, the Templar aren't really overpowered for their role.

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General Discussion / Re: Game Balance, Missing Features, and other stuff wrong with StarSector

« on: April 12, 2015, 09:38:06 PM »

Cool *** thread OP, keep up the good work.

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General Discussion / Re: The Hammerhead and other "meh" ships

« on: April 07, 2015, 11:38:11 AM »

Honestly, I'm fine with some ships being "meh." Not every ship can or should be awesome or even particularly good.

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General Discussion / Re: Sabot SRMs

« on: April 05, 2015, 10:02:40 PM »

No. Just flat out no. If you were to do this, you would create a "damned if you do, (Do drop shields? Half of your weapons and or engines die) damned if you don't" (Don't drop shields? Massive hard flux damage that very well could result in an overload) situation.

I don't see the problem.

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General Discussion / Re: Sabot SRMs

« on: April 02, 2015, 10:59:52 AM »

I feel like giving the sabots an EMP charge in addition to kinetic damage would go quite a ways towards making them useful. EMP would give the target a dilemma as to either keep shields up and sustain kinetic damage or lower shields and risk having weapons disabled.

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Mods / Re: [0.65.2a] Blackrock Drive Yards v0.7.3 - New star system!

« on: April 01, 2015, 03:59:49 PM »

Honestly I never really noticed the high maintenance on the Desdinova and Nevermore as it's mainly a penalty for having the ship in your fleet and not deploying it constantly. If you're not fighting strong fleets fighting constantly then there's not much reason to bring ships like the Desdinova and Nevermore along.

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Mods / Re: [0.65.2a] Blackrock Drive Yards v0.7.3 - New star system!

« on: March 02, 2015, 04:34:26 PM »

Please limit the length of the ship descriptions to one page, and limit the amount of chaff/become a better writer. The lobster ship is a particularly egregious example of eye rollingly bad writing.

Please limit your shitposting tia

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Announcements / Re: Starsector 0.65.2a (In Development) Patch Notes

« on: February 09, 2015, 06:05:49 PM »

So, with the changes to the Phase Beam there is now no medium sized energy standard beam weapon, right? I like the sound of the new weapon in general, but I'll have to change some of my fittings. I think this is a gap, now. We have the tactical laser in the small slot, the HIL in the large slot, and formerly the med slot was the phase beam.

Graviton Beam.