addofficer personality level
Officer skill system even with the officer management mod made me quit this run. I want to try different things, but I'm locked into doing it through "balanced/random progression". You know what? I don't even care about the new content at this point. So much time dumped into this run and I haven't even gotten a single useful ship blueprint. And, oh boy, what fun it was trying to farm bounties for a single Legion when I needed 4. Even with console commands, it's mind-numbingly boring and tiresome.
Until there's a mod that allows to edit officers like AI cores and switching smods, and proper dev tools that allow cloning ships and officers, I'm done with Starsector.
It's like the most interesting aspect of this game was made to be as painfully uncomfortable as possible.
Oh, and tech-mining still being yet another useless waste of time FOR ALL THESE YEARS is really great! Also, no "in-game" ship search. As if running around playing casino with black markets if you wanted a specific ship is what everyone has the time to do.
A few responses to this, and not being disrespectful and all:
Finding a Legion (or other specific ships): Since you are willing to use the Console Commands mod, save the tedium and straight-up add the ship you want to your fleet. If you don't want to do that then deal with the tedium (easy mode is also an option to speed things up).
list ships legion
addship legion_xiv
list ships onslaught
addship onslaught_xiv
addship onslaught_mk1 <<< for the giggles LOL
Alternatives:
* Scrape-raid the faction shipyards for blueprints (and deal with the consequences)
* Get special blueprint missions from the Storyteller (costs story points - console the story points in if you want)
Officers: I agree with this to a point. I would like to see spending a story point have the officer come up with an interface like that for AI core skill selection. Though once a skill is chosen, the officer should not be able to have the skills re-chosen at will - people aren't as flexible as an AI core with hypercognition being able to run training simulations at lightspeed. To me, people learning should be a one-and-done affair, not something to forget entirely and learn something completely new in its place.
I still like the ability to re-choose elite skills for officers by spending a story point. It's a good mechanic IMO.
i would like the ability to have a "stable" of officers, like some mods allow. It would be good to allow you to unassign officers from your ships and then shift around the "extra" officers that are currently in your "back bench". This would allow a player to nurse and level up officers to fit specific fleet styles, then to switch fleet styles by changing out ships and shifting the inactive officers from the "back bench" to being active. As it is, the game requires you to fire officers and re-grind their replacements experience.
Once players have done that a few times we will likely switch to console commands - I might make a video for use of the following (it can be tedious and there are some tips to help new users):
addofficer aggressive 6
respec <officerslot>
In-game ship search: Console is all you have.
list ships
findship sunder
forcemarketupdate
Edit:
Yes, visiting every single planet in the core worlds to find specific ships is a pain. Sometimes it's all you can do. I did that when I was last looking for Odyssey and Anubis: the black market ship maker is your friend, as is some of the legit officers who need to use up some production slots. Making someone a contact will improve your chances.
Stelnet also has market searcher for ships and other items. You need to configure it to show black markets or hidden markets though.
Nice one!
For the OP and others who might be interested:
THE DANGEROUS ART OF EDITING YOUR SAVE
MAKE A COPY OF YOUR SAVE!
You break your save, sucks to be you.
(No support, or caring, or anything other than rolling eyes and laughing, given by anyone. So copy your damn save first.)
Regarding removing S-Mods from your fleet, this assumes one or both of the following:
1/ You don't want to addship, addstorypoints, and rebuild the new ship from scratch
2/ The ship is a unique one that you bollocked up the S-Mods and you want to fix (or test) new ones
You can edit your save file to remove S-MODS:
((((FIRST))))
MAKE A COPY OF YOUR SAVE!!!
(I hope that I have stressed this enough.)
a) Open your save (campaign.xml file) in notepad or notepad++
b) Search for your ship by name, examples:
(https://i.postimg.cc/xd3Gn0Y9/Save-Edit1.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/h4XnYs9t/Save-Edit2.jpg)
c) Scroll down until you find the section which describes the s-mods on this ship, example for the Oldslaught:
(https://i.postimg.cc/VkQbvdYX/Save-Edit3.jpg)
d) Remove the S-Mod that you don't want from all three locations, example I am removing the S-Mod "reinforcedhull":
(https://i.postimg.cc/vZ27BGNy/Save-Edit4.jpg)
NOTE: ALWAYS LEAVE AT LEAST ONE S-MOD. If you remove all then you may bust your save. At least, I'm not risking it - I can S-Mod in something else, then re-edit the game to remove the final S-Mod that I don't want to keep.
e) Save. Load your game. Console in story points. Build in more s-mods. See note above.
Now lets say that you have a ship where you integrated an AI core. Lets say that it's a Gamma core. Now you want to put in an Alpha core. You cannot remove the Gamma core - ooops.
You can edit your save file to allow removal an integrated AI Core captain:
(Do I really need to stress again the importance of making a copy of your save file? Alrightalrightalright, make a copy of your damn save file.)
i) Find your ship by name, as the above - let us look for the Oldslaught
ii) Scroll down to where you find $captain_unremovable like this:
(https://i.postimg.cc/MKmbCC27/Save-Edit5.jpg)
iii) You can:
* Change "true" to "false" - I have done this and it works
* Remove the entire selected section as above - I have done this and it works
Probably the best is the first way, changing "true" to "false":
(https://i.postimg.cc/YCfFGYqQ/Save-Edit6.jpg)
iv) Save. Load game. Console in a story point. Continue.
Lets say that you really want a ship to be automated. (HOW DARE THE ZIGGURAT BE AUTOMATED WITHOUT BEING AUTOMATED!!!1!11!!)
You can edit your save file to make the ship be automated:
(Hmph.)
Un) Find an automated ship to use for an example, in this case we will look at the mods on the Oldslaught
Dos) Now we scroll down to where the mods are listed - oh look, is that "automated" we see there?
(https://i.postimg.cc/WbjqRSvg/Save-Edit7.jpg)
Tres) I wonder what happens when we paste that into the same section in the Ziggurat?
(https://i.postimg.cc/JzCLYdCC/Save-Edit8.jpg)
Hmmm!) Not *quite* what we were looking for...though it does have interesting possibilities for a hullmod...
(https://i.postimg.cc/fWjdH19Y/Save-Edit9.jpg)
Hmmm?) Lets go look at the Oldslaught ship definition (starsector-core\data\hulls\onslaught_mk1.ship):
(https://i.postimg.cc/jjjV9Dvy/Save-Edit10.jpg)
Automated! Interesting! Lets see about adding that to the Ziggurat ship definition (starsector-core\data\hulls\ziggurat.ship):
(https://i.postimg.cc/Z5HPnnm7/Save-Edit11.jpg)
Hmph. No change, okay. Still, the ship does act as an automated ship now: it will only accept an AI Core officer and doesn't require / allow crew. That's maybe cheating bonus enough.
(What, you're still here? Doing dangerous stuff with me? Go ahead, what can possibly go wrong...)