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[xenoargh]

Looks great

Anyhow, it's got engines and stuff now, but I still haven't given it a role, other than being ridiculously hard to approach by small stuff:



Which it is. 

I took away all the Cruisers in The Last Hurrah and gave players one of these as a replacement and tried out flying beside it in a Conquest.  It's a pretty intense experience; Frigates, fighters and missiles just kind of evaporate around it, letting you deal with the big stuff.  It can't really handle Onslaughts and suchlike solo very well, but it's much less of a fragile wallflower than a Mantabee or Astral (of course, this comes with a catch- it only has two decks).

[dmaiski]

are those carrier bays? i thought they were engines or carrier bays soo...

also when is next release?

[xenoargh]

Yeah, those will be bays, I think. 

Release?

Pretty soon, I think; maybe a day or two.  I have plenty of time tonight and nothing super-important on my plate until Monday, for once, and I want to get this done and out there for people to play. 

Still need to finish up working on the Transporter Ray, making the Repair weapon look good (it functions well, but it's not exactly polished visually) and maybe I'll get around to coding the Station Assault battles... properly, rather than the yucky hackish way it is now

[Aklyon]

Well, I've got to say, this is interesting. Though I'm not quite sure if I'll be able to try other sides, the starting ship for the Glagh seems to be far and away the most durable, despite no shielding.

[Roddy Mcrizzle]

Maybe I'm missing something in this Mod, but it seems to me the vast majority of the ships I encounter are SOOO long ranged I can't even see them to hit them.

[xenoargh]

The Glaug are currently a bit OP, that's certain; it's one of the things that's getting fixed in this next build; I buffed up their Armor Regeneration a bit too much

Maybe I'm missing something in this Mod, but it seems to me the vast majority of the ships I encounter are SOOO long ranged I can't even see them to hit them.

Zoom out; the mod's designed to be played at maximum zoom.  That said, getting hit from things that you cannot observe yet is pretty normal for the mod; ships with High Energy Focus can and will shoot you from distances where you can't even see them on the radar yet.  Just part of the game, but you usually won't meet them until later in a game

[dmaiski]

i actualy like that beam boats have monster range in vaccum, but being able to zoom out more would bve nice... there must be some way to hack the zoom range

[Aklyon]

i actualy like that beam boats have monster range in vaccum, but being able to zoom out more would bve nice... there must be some way to hack the zoom range

Well, you can always switch to looking at your enemy instead, assuming you have one targetted.

[Nanao-kun]

i actualy like that beam boats have monster range in vaccum, but being able to zoom out more would bve nice... there must be some way to hack the zoom range

Well, you can always switch to looking at your enemy instead, assuming you have one targetted.

That leaves you vulnerable to the enemy though, especially missiles.

[xenoargh]

 

there must be some way to hack the zoom range

Set devmode to true in settings.json (the one in starsector-core, not the mod one).  Then zoom is unlimited.  This is something Alex is going to address for mods in the next patch, too

[xenoargh]

Finally, finally made a halfway-decent Burn Drive AI.  No more ships constantly flying in erratic annoying patterns, yay.

Also, Needlers are back to being very effective anti-missile weapons (without a corresponding buff to overall damage).

Haven't done the rewrite of the battle system stuff so that Epic Battles are supported more properly, and I haven't re-organized the Hull Mods or finished organizing the ships by factions... I'm thinking maybe I should get all that done before I call this build finished.

[xenoargh]

The Pirate Kings have a new space-superiority fighter, the Claw:

[Nanao-kun]

The Pirate Kings have a new space-superiority fighter, the Claw:

"IT'S CLAWING INTO MY HUUUUUUUULL!!!" 

[xenoargh]

Yeah.  I was just going to call it the "Super Talon", since that's basically what it is, but that seemed boring.

That, and one of the unused fighter graphics that comes with the game is called a claw... although it's obviously meant to be TT design.

[xenoargh]

Well, I think I've fixed the last great memory thing.

Apparently, in long-term games with big universes, cargo manifests for Stations (in particular, ships in cargo) were eating a lot of memory in big games.  So I wrote a culler routine that auto-populates cargo when you change Systems. 

It was that easy to remove 150-200MB in long-term memory growth (probably got worse than that if you waited a game-year or so, but I just tested a month with the maximum size of 25 Systems).

I think that the current upper limit on Systems is probably way more than most people will want to play out, so... I guess now even people on fairly weak laptops can play with a big Sector size, if they want to.  Woohoo!  That kind of encourages me to think about adding more weird stellar... things.