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Suggestions / Actually set up a Galatia Scholarship

« on: April 06, 2024, 08:46:35 PM »

I know it's a joke answer to throw Baird off, but can we, like, actually set up a Galatian Academy Scholarship?

Could be a way to get a new officer, or maybe it's a passive bonus to indie relationships, or maybe it's just you giving money to the void for the funnies. Still, I feel if you have the option there, you should be able to do it.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Hazard Mining Incorporated (Thumper Ed., 0.3.7b)

« on: March 31, 2024, 04:53:10 AM »

This post

Sorry, missed this post.

Magiclib is the only thing needed for Magicbounties.

The Andersson MG was a long range fragmentation ballistic weapon, but it was kind of unattractive. So I turned it into a Thumper/Devastator analogue, and now it's a weapon that's lore consistent with fighting the Mess / Domain drones.

HMI weapons being uncommon is more due to me rebalancing them so only the sane ones show up, but HMI markets tend to be more starved than usual, and sell smaller amounts of weapons. The Gendo market on Fuyutsuki was also nerfed to prevent them from selling silly amounts of stuff. I will have to examine the markets to see if they need a buff in some way.

I'll consider making the medium Mbeke's missiles rotate faster so you can use them from side-mounts. And the large version of the Mbeke is, essentially, the Locust SRM. Similarly, the large mining laser is essentially the High Intensity Laser.

The Xiu Lu Accumulator is a cheaper, longer ranged, weaker version of the Devastator, and it's fairly uncommon. Might need to figure out it's spawning.

For the Junk, I was talking about some of the small mounts being upgraded to medium, so slapping Toothers or Medium Xiu Lus makes it a touch more useful (and even more venomous if you slap HVDs and Maulers on them). There isn't any large HMI missiles, as the large Mbeke is the Locust, while the large Seth is the Hurricane.

Again, many thanks for playing!

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Hazard Mining Incorporated (Thumper Ed., 0.3.7b)

« on: March 31, 2024, 02:19:57 AM »

Brighton question:
Are the DomRes variants of Centurion/Hammerhead/Mora/Eagle supposed to be recoverable by the player if they do not have the automated ships skill?

Yes. The idea was to have automated ships that the player could use, as a fun little extra drop when fighting the DomRes.

Is this HMI content or MagicLib content?

https://i.imgur.com/TxnZymV.jpg

Whichever it is, it is not only terrible writing, it's terrible for my immersion.

Mine, apologies. The general idea is that going to HMI space and looking for bounties is terrible, because everyone is trying to stab everyone in the back for practically zero money for the dumbest reasons, like a STarsector version of Jerry Springer. Such as that one being arguably the absolute dumbest you'll encounter (and I really should add more dumb bounties). And as stupid as it is...it does have a ring of truth to it. Insane fans do all kinds of awful things to each other if they think it'll get them closer towards their obsession. I chose something suitably lurid and scummy and repulsive, and used that as the basis for the bounty. Also, the amount of pay you get for these bounties? It's nothing, because these whack jobs can barely (or you may find in some cases unable) to pay the bounty.

However, fighting these silly little bounties is a fun little diversion, with some set up to make you fight an enemy in an unexpected way, or look at a ship in a different way, or consider a different playstyle, and potentially may drop a neat, one of a kind ship.

I do apologize if this has broken your immersion Pesci, but from my perspective it's not too far off from modern day reality, and I could see it being something that occurs in the reality of Starsector.

yeeeeeeah, looking at it closer, remnand lasers are acutally completly useless now

...

you DEFINETLY screwed something up with their stats

Okay, I'll look at them again, prolly remove their capacitor function and make them more OP cheap. I envision these lasers being used to 'pin' missiles or fighters in place so other things can murder them, while also disrupting bombers. So the damage looks bad, but they should be able to completely shut down a lot of ordinance fairly easily.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Hazard Mining Incorporated (Thumper Ed., 0.3.7b)

« on: March 31, 2024, 02:07:34 AM »

This entire post.

Holy moly Balordezul many thanks for playing through! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And also, many thanks for the criticism!

Just about everything you've written aligns rather well with how I envisioned HMI: Primarily Junker fleets with Techmined ships maybe being sprinkled in. What I failed to consider was the idea that there would be different Junker fleets based on speed, with a slower, carrier fleet vs a nimbler, combat junker fleet.

Your ship rankings are on point, although I was disappointed that the Techmined destroyers and frigates ships weren't slightly higher. However, i can see how their rarity, and not being able to get them reliably could be seen as a major drawback. Another thing was how much of a negative the Techmined Hullmod is. IN reality a lot of techmined ships are hilariously broken, but from your feedback perhaps the Techmine mod is too much of a drwaback? I'll consider buffing the ships by reducing the CR% loss rate, maybe make them slightly more attractive to play with.

I'll look at the Locomotive (LP) and maybe throw a large ballistic on it to satisfy the BRF mod, and look at the rangefinding. I have no idea about the SWP glitch though.

I'll check the code on fighter engagement malus, as I did at some point fiddle with the engagement range malus to only occur at 3 and 4 d-mods. The main fear is that with lots of d-mods, there's very little to prevent a player form just slapping cobras / perditions / daggers en masse on Convicts and murdering everyone. Carriers in general don't get hit too hard by d-mods in combat if they can strike at range, and thus there needs to be a drawback for that extra OP gain.

EDIT: I'm an idiot. The engagement range malus was not integrated on Not Even Salvageable. Will fix.

Your feedback on the Junk was interesting, and aligns with previous feedback a long, long time ago where someone wanted to make the Junk a ship that was completely modular in how it worked. I'll consider doing something with this - maybe just straight up buff the Junk to have more armour or hull, make it the Anchor for a Junk Fleet?

I'll consider making the Slugworth faster so it can act as a proper 'combat' carrier. Convicct however needs to be slow; for it's weight class if it were actually fast enough combined with it's DP it'll be too easily spammable. Fishkill being more of an auxilliary vessel works quite well for what it is.

Glad the weapons fit in with what you found, as I've had complaints in the past that HMI weapons (not Redacted) are terrible when they appear and have been asked to release the mod without them in it. I may need to reconsider the balance on some of the Redacted weapons however.

I'm also glad you found the Shell and Taker very useful, but sadly disappointed by the rest. I'll give them all a good look at and maybe an OP change. Form your feedback maybe the Scale and Bombardment Drones should be cheaper, the Nail buffed to have better shields/weapons, and the Scogliari maybe needs a rework. Despite it being given quite beefy weapons it still fails to be a premier 'delete enemy light craft' option, so I'll look into improving it.

Again, thanks for playing, and many thanks for the feedback!

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Suggestions / Minor UI Improvement in Battle Command Screen

« on: February 27, 2024, 02:31:17 AM »

Would it be possible that double clicking an enemy in the Battle Command screen puts the attack command on that ship if it's an enemy, and a defend order on a ship if it's friendly?

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Holy Covenant of Kemet 0.0.4f (Boosting Ed.)

« on: February 11, 2024, 10:31:42 PM »

I think it makes sense for the faction to strongly favour their own tech. Personally i found myself more wanting some adaptation to make Kemet weapons more usable on non-Covenant vessels.

The problem is that a lot of Kemet energy weapons break the vanilla energy meta. Dedicated kinetic and high explosive energy weaponry is deceptively powerful on other hulls, hence why Kemet weapons are dedicated to kemet vessels, which have been balanced around them.

I have contemplated 'levelling' Kemet weaponry, but I fear that this might affect the general balance of the faction, as suddenly the flux savings from the Seshat Systems become less significant - to the point of being meaningless, and thus the faction loses it's gimmick.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Hazard Mining Incorporated (Thumper Ed., 0.3.7b)

« on: February 11, 2024, 10:26:58 PM »

Dear King Alfonzo,
I started some days ago with a modded 0.97a run for which is used your old HMI version but with manually adapted mod_info.json. Your recent update to HMI 0.3.7 sadly broke my save game since you seemed to have removed some assets.
I could fix it by removing all instances of the following lines in the campaign.xml file of my save game

Code

<st>mcg_ml</st>
<st>kane_missile</st>
<st>signpost_med</st>
<st>signpost_sml</st>

Could you consider some empty placeholders for removed assets in your next update, such that outdated save files load but lose the assets you removed (ideally saving would then remove the placeholders)?

I do tend to do this - the Remnant Thumper is still there despite it, too, being destined for the scrapheap. The problem is at what point do you remove this excess content? I felt that with a new game update out, that a lot of people would start new games entirely. Hence, why this version has those removed.

I do understand if you find this particularly frustrating, but this really was the best time to remove this content.

Also

Hazard Mining Incorporated 0.3.7b

-HOTFIX: (Hopefully) Fixed rare CTD crash on generating a new Sector.

DOWNLOAD HERE.

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Suggestions / A minor quest tweak

« on: February 10, 2024, 10:38:55 PM »

During the extraction from black site mission - would it be possible to add a dialogue option when talking to the Scientist? Specifically if you've killed all the fleets and they mention the merc fleets, you tell him you've already dealt with them and he just looks at you baffled, that there were more than just three fleets.

And then do the funny and spawn five mercenary fleets close to the player.

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Mods / [0.97a] Hazard Mining Incorporated (Thumper Ed., 0.3.7a)

« on: February 10, 2024, 08:21:46 PM »

Hey, I have a small bug report for HMI Brighton.
The description of the Brighton base assembly hull mod states that it regenerates ammo 75% slower, but it actually regenerates it 75% faster. Either the description is wrong or the code should be

Code

stats.getMissileAmmoRegenMult().modifyMult(id, 1f  / (1f + MISSILE_MULT));

Thanks for making this great mod!

Whoops! Thanks for the catch!

Tried HMI only run and stumbled upon strange thing. Mbeke luncher flight time is only 3.75(600range) and Mbeke turret is 12 seconds (more than 3k range).

This has since been fixed as a part of a wider rebalancing (see below)

Curious if the following is intended:

Around Fuyutsuki there are 2 types of patrols: standard HMI patrols and then "Company Patrols" that tend to have better quality ships. The Company Patrols are always neutral to me, even if I'm 100/100 with HMI. Further they don't seem to take part in attacks on HMI. In my last game a large invasion fleet attacked and the Company Patrols did not assist with attacking the fleets or defending the station. However, they did burn straight for me when I turned off my transponder to try to hide from Ludds wraith so their AI does work, somewhat.

This is not intended behaviour, however I believe I have fixed it.

In the supervillain pack, I obtained and learned a Wolf (Assault) blueprint without problems. However when mousing over it in the ship builder, it crashed with a null pointer error. I think it has to do with the "GreenFlare" StyleID of one of the engines being undefined in the standalone mod.

Thanks for the catch on this, fixed in next version.

Hi.

Since 0.97 dropped, Anthracite, in the Obsidian system, always decivilizes after one and a half cycle. It is because its stability is almost always at 0 because it has too much industries for its size (giving it a -5 penalty to its stability). Therefore, it is "stuck" at 1 stability and any shortage of food causes it to decivilize.

It's weird because it was never happening to me before 0.97.

I've tweaked the economy so this shouldn't happen, thanks for the catch.

I know this says to not use in a pre-existing save. However, lately I have been doing that for a lot of faction mods to introduce their ships/weapons/hullmods into my game while cutting down on the markets they spawn.

Seeing as this adds a ton of markets I was wondering if adding post save would either:

a. crash my game.

b. miss out on story content (not sure if this has any)

HMI could still spawn because I turn on respawning factions in Nexerelin. I'm not a fan of randomized sector to cut down on size of markets.

I honestly don't know if the game will crash or not, but I can guarantee that you'll miss out on story stuff. I suggest that you start a new game if you want to include this faction.

SO.

NEW GAME VERSION.

NEW HMI UPDATE.

This one was more directly focused on HMI's weapons (and fighting the urge to make everything a Thumper analogue). I've gone through and done extensive thinking and analysis of the weaponry, and there's been considerable changes to some weapons, others have been cut entirely, and some have remained unchanged. This should make HMI weaponry more unique and sensible and also desirable. I've also fiddled with a couple of ships and other things in the background.

Hazard Mining Incorporated 0.3.7

-Updated for 0.97a

Weapons:

-Chimboku is now a weak, long range pd laser with a strong movement-inhibitory effect. Now comes in hybrid.

-Medium Xi Liu Projectors now fire three shots simultaneously of variable velocity per shot.
-Medium Mbeke Rocket Turrets now fire in bursts and with faster, but less longer-lived projectiles; now works like an inbetween Locust and a small Mbeke turret
-Andersson MG has been completely reworked; it now functions like a mid range, HE Flak Thumper. Very useful when fighting the Mess.
-Clyde has been resprited.
-F-Type Mining Blaster has been reworked into a mid-range HE Thumper/Mining blaster. Now comes in Hybrid.
-Mining Laser Array has been slightly nerfed in range and damage. Now comes in hybrid.

-Suzuki-Clapteryon now comes in hybrid.
-Slightly nerfed the Baffler by making it's cooldown between bursts longer.

-HK-101 Rifle is no longer modular, and only shows up on the Shell now.
-Removed Signpost, McGuyver and Kane weapons; already existing weapons fulfil the same role and better.

Ships

-Locomotive now has two large composite slots on it's rear module, and an OP increase; should help it be more competitive vs other capitals
-Junk has been buffed with larger mounts and more OP; should now be able to turn away smaller enemies easier.
-Brasher has been resprited and given a buff; should now be a lot angrier.
-Mulligan and Mulligan (P) reworked to be more in line with the Grendel; they should still be garbage ships, while also being a touch more threatening in combat.
-Khorkoi's Jackhammer now reloads
-Bombardment drone now moves faster.

General

-Added a lot of silly MagicBounties.
-Added some content if Industrial Evolution is also installed.
-Fiddled with campaign markets a touch (Thanks SelfControl!)
-Added new [SECRET CONTENT] content, and tweaked some existing [SECRET CONTENT] content.
-Drastically improve [SECRET CONTENT] hullmod effect and fixed the typos
-Fleet sizes from [SECRET CONTENT] should be more reasonable
-Moved [EXISTING CONTENT] away from the Abyss.

HOTFIX 0.3.7a
-Fixed CTD if using random sector mode.

DOWNLOAD HERE.

Brighton Federation 0.0.3c
-Updated for 0.97a
-Fixed Missile Reload being incorrect (Thanks chdcl!)
-Moved Dieman down on the star map to get away from another mod's Boss Faction system

DOWNLOAD HERE.

HMI Supervillians 0.0.4e
-Updated for 0.97a
-Fixed problems with incorrect engines on Wolf and Fury Prototype ships (Thanks vicegrip!)

DOWNLOAD HERE.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Holy Covenant of Kemet 0.0.4f (Boosting Ed.)

« on: February 10, 2024, 07:05:53 PM »

I'm not entirely sure this was needed? At least for me, the way the flux cost reduction applied to everything already made the use of judiciously-selected non-Kemet weaponry exceptionally attractive; a heavy blaster or two with enough Kemet weapons to keep the flux cost reasonable, for example, packed a well-worthwhile degree of added close-range punch.

On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure it wasn't needed, and the extra range certainly opens up more options. I guess I'll just have to do some playing and see how it feels!

Hope you have fun with it!

I was also thinking on this as well - right now Kemet punishes beam weapons (so Tachyon Lances, Phase Lances, and HILs aren't incentivised) while also over-enhancing Kemet weapons choices. I was honestly contemplating just giving the 200 range bonus to all energy projectile weapons to be honest, to make other weapons more attractive to mix in, and rely just on the flux savings to incentivize Kemet weapons. Right now I think it's in a good position? I Hope?

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Grytpype and Moriarty Defence Authority 0.9.9h (New Version Ed.)

« on: February 10, 2024, 07:02:13 PM »

hey man, I'm working on a PMC for my mod domain reformed. Mind if I have a look at your data.campaign.econ.industries.GMDA_CondHQ code?

Sure, go for it. Most of it is based on the Lion's Guard and Military base codes with some tweaks for the Luddic Path Fleet codes.

How to deactivate this mod in an existing save without crashing?

You can't unfortunately.

I have heard numerous complaints about GMDA, and be assured I am thinking deeply on how to make them work. Heck, even I have stopped activating the mod when I play.
Right now they're too irritating to fight against and not really 'fun'. I'll be updating the mod here for 0.97a as is, but I am entertaining ideas on how to adjust their behaviour, or maybe even overhauling them into something else completely.

Grytpype and Moriarty Defence Authority 0.9.9h

-Updated for 0.97a

DOWNLOAD HERE.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Holy Covenant of Kemet 0.0.4f (Boosting Ed.)

« on: February 10, 2024, 06:48:16 PM »

A New Game Version Update

UPDATE 0.0.4f
-Updated for 0.97a
-Seshat Systems, in addition to giving Ka and Ma'at weapons a 200 range boost, now also gives a 100 unit range boost for all other energy projectile weapons. This should, hopefully, make using non-Kemet weaponry on Kemet ships more attractive.
-Added some content if Industrial Evolution is also installed.
-May have tweaked some stats to fix some AI issues.

DOWNLOAD HERE.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Luddic Enhancement (New Version Ed. 1.2.6e)

« on: February 10, 2024, 06:36:22 PM »

The "Improvised Explosive Ship" hullmod doesn't seem to be working like its description indicates.  It says it completely prevents recovery of the ship once it explodes, but numerous times I have fought the Pathers, and Dram(IED)s or Phaeton(IED)s that blew up during the battle are recoverable just like any other wrecked hull.

Annoyingly I haven't figured out a way to ensure it never comes back if someone takes the right skills. The best I can do at the moment is inhibit it's ability to come back.

any chance of a 0.97 release?

Right now!

You can just edit mod_info.json to change its game version to the current one. I doubt anything will break.

Pretty much.

Anyway.


Luddic Enhancement 1.2.6e

-Updated for 0.97a.
-Christopher loses Distributed Fire Control, and gains a worse version that still allows for range boosting hullmods.
-Lots of tiny little changes and tweaks


DOWNLOAD LUDDIC ENHANCEMENT HERE

Luddic Enhancement IED 1.2.6a
-Updated for 0.97a.

DOWNLOAD LUDDIC ENHANCEMENT IED HERE

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Modding / Re: [0.97] Utility Mod: Obvious Neutron

« on: February 10, 2024, 06:11:31 PM »

Updated for 0.97.

Nothing else.

Spoiler

Except it didn't really need to be updated, this mod works just by updating the game version in the mod_info.json. But for those of you who don't know how to do that - the mod has been updated for you.

[close]

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Suggestions / Tie weapon health to armour values

« on: January 22, 2024, 01:46:34 AM »

As the thread title suggests, if the ship has higher armour, then the weapons should have more health points, and converse. This would help shield shunt, high armour builds resist being perpetually stunlocked by direct damage to weapons, while still being a factor for lower armour ships. It is also logical, with more armour then weapons would in turn be more armoured. In these circumstances the argument could be made that armoured weapon mounts would be rendered useless, but if the armour bonus and recoil reduction bonuses were reversed, then armoured mounts becomes a lot more useful for longer ranged builds.