Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
Plus if you are not the Hegemony, you can use an AI core to help you plan the fixing of Mairaath to at least a less hellish place.
It's really unrealistic for any government to make trade completely unprofitable by taxes. This just ensures ALL trade to happen on the black market, drasticly reducing the total tax income.I always assumed the 30% tariff was inter-faction only. E.g. the Hegemony chooses to engage in protectionist trade policies that benefit their own businesses so that the cheap-labor combines on Kazeron can't undercut their markets. And the only way to fight tariffs is with tariffs of your own; matching tariffs is a pretty common strategy. And tariffs of 30% are not unheard-of, historically, in the real world.
If a modern country would take ~3% taxes on every transaction without refund rules, this would be more income than all other currently used tax sources summed up.
Why are there so many failed terraforming projects that have completely stopped, when minor effort could make them viable again?I think 1, it's more story conceit and that the massive fleets and oodles of credits the player can acquire, and the relative ease of creating size 8 colonies in just a decade or two of game time, are not really reflective of the lore -- the player is a superman.
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Or is that just a gameplay/story segregation thing and it's considered much more expensive to build reflectors/shields/shipping infrastructure than capships?
1: Please please let us build Hydroponics on worlds unsuitable for Farming/Aquaculture as many players are asking to!Colonies are already way too good and don't need income buffs, even if tiny, and tariffs absolutely should not go down. Always people complain about the tariffs being so high. I don't understand it. Sindria is killing us with unfair trade deals. Billions and billions every year. (Legitimately -- trade needs to be unprofitable if it doesn't risk combat.)
7: Systems with Asteroid belts increase Refining and Heavy Industry income by 10%. Systems with Nebulae increase Light Industry and Fuel Production income by 10%.
8: The other change many players are asking for: Tariff reduction (and increase) based on commission and reputation.
2: (Rounded down for both) Heavy industry needs Planetsize/2 Organics and Light Industry needs Planetsize/2 Metals.How would this impact the gameplay experience, lead the player into combat, or result in more interesting player choices?
3: Every four industrial/productions units (not cargo units, that would be silly) of total black market change (purchased+sold) leads to -1 stability.
4: Option to permit/forbid planets from buying from their own black markets to meet demands if legal trade and production are not sufficient.
5: Not being Free Port reduce Pather success change by 10%.
6: Planets with disrupted Spaceports can't offer Procurement Misssions, sorry!Yes. The ol' "Donn raid and trade" is way too safe and profitable of a strategy right now.
This build demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding, or a willful ignorance, of flux dissipation and opportunity cost when it was posted on the subreddit, and it continues to do so now.When you got few weapons / Odyssey[close]
I'd love a way to get on the REDACTED's good side that didn't involve commissioning with Tri-Tachyon.Wait -- there's a way to get on their good side, and it somehow involved TT commision? I have commissioned with TT before but never found a way to get rep with [redacted]...
How to they prevent bombardment anyway??Presumably, as you surmised, they could adjust their orbit, and although saturation bombardment only takes an instant for the player, I think it's fair to assume it might take a few days -- a long enough time in geostationary orbit over target locations that the orbital station could come disrupt the process.
there are only two situations where you'd want to fire an officer3. Personality: Timid
1. personality doesn't line up with skills/intended role of the officer (cautious personality on a frontline ship/aggressive or reckless on a support ship)
2. you have mods installed and the officer's portrait is some straight-up weeb ***, eject that ****er into space
...some of them also have portraits / music / decorations that ruins the immersion.Humans LARPed as the Western Roman Empire for almost 1500 years after it fell. Who's to say it won't come back into fashion 1500 years hence?
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For example... Space centurion with space brush helmets
