Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Planet Search Overhaul (07/13/24)
For the alt key, the only snag there is it sometimes triggers when you're alt-tabbing and that's a pain. It has a certain minimum distance you have to move it for it to kick in, but even with that, I've made a few accidental sales. Otherwise, I'd love to have it on by default!
Merlin and Gargoyle are limited to only PD weapons. If you say "just change the weapons and the ship systems so they aren't overpowered", soon enough the suggestion becomes "I want superheavy fighters", which I'm not sure if you intended.
The point is that it can be satisfying to make a thing "yours" through personalized touches. The ability to dedicate a ship to its role & christen it as "completed" by building in its primary guns so that its role can never be changed once you've scraped together all the parts it needs to be exactly what you've wanted it to become would give the game a completionist-specific kind of fun. Building in a gun could do nothing & it still cost full OP to have it there and I'd still think it's a good idea to add it to the game.
I just don't feel that the mass produced guns getting built-in would add any sense of personalization to your ships either. [HIGHLY REDACTED] weapons and other rarities, maaaaaybe. Like if you could find special guns that have degraded performance unless permanently fused to the ship hull. That would give your ship a sense of "oh, it's THAT ship". Or finding/capturing ships with rare weapons built in. But not just some Common weapon.
Though maybe it could also be a drawback for some heavily d-modded ships, having some weapons be stuck inside their mounts. I could see pirates doing that to a gun that was falling apart...
Has the empty AO markets thing been fixed?
What empty markets thing? The ships in military markets? Or the Gilead station, etc markets?
The first is a vanilla bug the second is intended. And the ships that would be in the military markets are instead in the open and black markets so they actually are more accessible for now.
Or is this something new I'm not aware of?
As far as I am concerned, the game could simply not have a ship cap at all.
Doesn't quite seem right, does it?Fleet slots as they are started at the 0.7a releases. Before that, you had Fleet Points (0.5 releases) or Logistics (0.6 releases), and ships and personnel counted toward that. Before skills were added, player had 100 points. After release with skills, unskilled has 25 points (enough for four or five frigates, or a lone Conquest) while those with max Leadership and Fleet Logistics had little over a 100 (enough for thirty frigates or three capitals).
Also, enemy fleets were more reasonable, no bigger than 200k bounties (and they may have been a bit over the limit). Today, we have huge capital spam (and officer spam as of 0.95).
Player can generally use more ships with fleet slots than with Logistics.
There is a mod that addresses this: https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=22191.0
I think to be balanced, it would need to take the same slots as built in hull mods, or at least interact with that mechanic in some way. Otherwise ships with built in hull mods and weapons would have insane amounts of free OP.
Gilead orbital station is empty.
Most of the mods I'm waiting on are the one's by Yunru, but the author seems to be lazing about rather than fixing and creating content.
