Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
Can you salvage /REDACTED/ ships guarding derelicts?Don't think so. None of the high-tech frigate-sized ones are worth it, anyway, though maybe the larger ones are better. Better off just buying a Wolf or something. The midline ones are basically crappier Hounds.
The REDACTED come in all sizes, including some seriously scary ones.So far I've just met the absurdly weak ones, the annoying Wolf-like ones and the Ion Pulser ones. Do they scale with distance from the center of the sector? I kind of want to fight the destroyer-sized ones, which hopefully doesn't result in my fleet being wiped. I've got a Wolf, Hammerhead, Mora, Condor and the Odyssey, plus a Kite and Shepherd. Need some cash before I can fill out my flagship's large mounts.
You can if you take on the station fleet, which isn't hard at allI checked the hullmods file and the only new column is their monetary value, I think. There's probably some LPC stuff that needs to be done but I didn't check.
Also, is there anything new to do to carriers or hullmods to get them into the game?
Oh my god, I realised we need unique character quests. Pop into a market, see a questgiver, accept quest, and then you engage in some premade scenario, like relieving a siege on some backwater planet, or breaking up a drug deal, with allies joining in.Could also be used to have "character" ships that can join you for specific story driven missions...Something like "A former admiral working to prove his innocence" or "Hegemony detective hunting a group of smugglers from Barad B"?
I'm hesitant to have the player attached to a fleet outside of their control - it sounds quite boring to me to just sit and watch, doing nothing and waiting for the fleet to be attacked.The player already gets scripted (not sure if that's the right term) attacks from small pirate fleets while going on a procurement contract. Do the same thing with escort jobs, so you'll get a couple of guaranteed attacks. Maybe even make larger fleets avoid the target, so it doesn't become impossible.
Escort missions are the obvious low level mission that's missing to make the early game not a giant difficulty wall.One of the big challenges is often having to fight multiple enemy ships at the same time, which is relieved during an escort mission, because while you have to protect some incompetent freighter, you might also have a couple of mercenary escorts fighting alongside you. Even if it's just a Lasher and Brawler, makes it much easier when you have allies.
Is Salvage Gantry unique to the Shepherd? What other ships have it?The Construction Rig (or Salvage Rig as it's now know as) has it instead of the Repair Gantry.
Added visual ping for new sensor contacts in main viewThis is from the patch notes. It might help people get jumped less, but a time slow when someone tries to intercept you would also be nice.
My biggest issue with it, and the new Cabal ships, is the large, flat, smooth, nearly featureless sections of the shipThat's what I thought, too. I'd personally make the turrets have their own little sections, separated from the rest of the main ship piece. Also, I'd make the faint details on the side wings more visible.
-snup-You know, I'm not even going to ask why some of the numbers in that screenshot are as high as they are.
No images, but it's in the new patchnotes, 12th bulletpoint.
they are? Where? are the new ones available to view?
New inventory icons for fuel and supplies
Yeah, realised first that sensor range is added to sensor profile, so the actual detection range would be 330. And then that phase ships don't contribute, so it's 300.Phase ships have no signature anymore, so if your fleet is just those (unlikely as it may be), you'll only be 300.The new patch will have a min. signature of 300Minimum base signature of 330, since you need at least one frigate, and that adds 30 to the actual base of 300. I assume that if you use Go Dark you'll end up with 165.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that problem only occurs when games are advertised from an early age on big websites and providers such. Starsector is an Indie game with (I hate to say it, but it's true) not a huge amount of advertising. Compared to a lot of other games out there, Starsector is very little-known by the general public, so that issue of "people will lose interest" happens way less because the people who get into the game really get into the game.Yep, this is practically one of my dream-game genres (last game I played was Reassembly, and it didn't quite hit the spot). Open world, lots of different ships with interchangeable parts, factions with different relations, modding support? Pretty much perfect. Yet, I only found out that it existed when a youtuber (who I was following for a completely different genre of game) made a video early last year and I immediately went and bought the game. Not being on Steam is probably a big reason, though Starsector is not a game that should be on Steam, because of the release cycle and alpha and such. I feel like, maybe when the game gets a couple more updates (mostly more campaign stuff and Outposts and such), it'll get more attention.
