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same. would spawning a new one by console work?That's the meme bounty cathedral that's only the core and engine. It's (probably) not supposed to be repaired. Even when you fight it, it's only the core and engine.
Even vs a doom, a single light needler burst against no armor does ~215 hull damage when the Doom leaves phase. That's actually more than a phase lance is going to do!What. Are we talking about the same phase lance? The one that does 1250 raw damage and is definitely going to do more than 200 hull damage against stripped doom? Phase lance does more than that against FULL armor lmao.
For reference, each Harpoon will do 720, but they travel so much more slowly and are so much easier to shoot down that they are less effective vs phase imo than sabots.I mean if we are going to be shooting point blank sabots, I think there's a pretty good chance of those harpoons landing, but I wouldn't use harpoons against them, I'd be using hammer or reapers or atropos, maaaybe gorgons.
while being as tanky as a brick for their immense speed (the Doom has 1250 armorThey have more armor than most other ships in their hull size but their total hull isn't anything special. Doom only has 7000 hull, that's less than other cruisers except falcon and fury which are both fast cruisers, and heron but that's a carrier and the rest are not intended for combat. A far cry from an actual brick like dominator with 14k hull and more armor or venture that has the same armor and 3k more hull. Once you get through their armor, they get too scared to come out of phase, flux out, and die. Which is the key to beating them.
"instant" high alpha damage weapons such as needlers, sabots, burst PD, IR autolance, and phase lances do well vs phase enemies. Alpha striking a phase ship when it just emerges from phase to attack, before it can rephase, is key to fighting them close.Alpha weapons are good but needlers and sabots are not really the best examples of weapons to use against phase ships. Needlers due basically nothing to them due to low hit strength unless it's a frigate I guess. Sabots are better off because of emp and higher hit strength but I wouldn't pick sabots as my missile of choice against phase.
A new battleship costs around 500k, maybe a bit less if built yourself. Restoring costs more than that. No public bounty offers that much, they top at around 350k.Well, I know just the skill that saves you that 500k lol. And you could also just not restore it and keep using it.
How is this a question? The AI does maintenance. In your fleet, you don't allow the AI to do maintenance because it could physically remove the safety checks you put in place, checks which are the reason AI ship dp is limited. Those beatup fleets you find in hyperspace have presumably been out there for a loooooong time, longer than they had maintenance supplies to be out there for so naturally they are basically falling apart. In systems, the fleets regularly return to the nexus to resupply or hunt unfortunate travelers.This is fully intended; automated ships may not have crew in combat, but when they're in your fleet, they have to be maintained and so on, and the quality of that is affected by the training and skill of your crew.So who does maintenance in Remnant fleets where there are no humans? Do Remnant fleets just fly around until they fall apart, whereupon the Nexus *** out some more? That does sort of explain the condition of those Remnant fleets you find in hyperspace with Tri-Tachyon codes a hundred years out of date.
Losing ships at all is effectively a loss - a pyrrhic victory at best, unless it is something like a cheap small ship in a 300k+ bounty. Also, with the lack of skill points, if player does not boost the fleet, the flagship has to pick up the slack when the enemy has a better fleet than him. Today, the flagship does not have significantly greater skill power than a high-level officer (6/2+ human or alpha core), assuming player took some Combat. If the game is hard enough that losing half the fleet is the expected outcome, then either rewards need to be much higher or Restore needs to be almost free.I don't get this part at all. If you deploy a full 240 dp, that's 240 supplies to recover, assuming no ship losses or running past ppt, right? So that's around 24000 credits. Easily covered by the bounty. If you lose a paragon (and recover it, you definitely put an smod or officer on it right?) that's another 25500 credits (assuming 85% max CR, it cost 255 supplies to get back to max CR). So tell, how is losing this paragon in that 300k bounty a net loss? Even counting logistics, if it took you a month to get there and back, that's maybe around another 25k credits from supply, like 20k from crew, and around 30k for officer payroll(I am not even going to get into fuel because 1) it's super cheap and 2) it's extremely variable thanks to slipstreams and gates). So while it "cost" you around 130k to take on the bounty, you got 300k + whatever dropped. You made almost twice what you spent and that overhead carries over to any other nearby bounties. Even if you lost several paragons, like up to 7, which you can't field all at once anyway lmao, you'd STILL make profit albeit a very slim amount. You'd only be losing profit if you lost several low tech capitals since that's a ton of crew loss and ironically they cost more supply to recover to full CR. Although even that is questionable if you were specced into industry so recover costs are essentially halved.
2. Sell them to HIGH accessibility worlds. This allows the entirety of their demand to be filled by your colonial imports.Demand is demand, it doesn't matter how much access they have.
You have to manage 3 resources; credits, fuel, and supplies. This suggestion, consumable items replacing story points, would add at least 10 I can think of offhand; combat escape, quick repair before combat (which could possibly be reused for difficult recoveries but then why do you only need one for both when the former can repair several ships at once?), stable point generation, stealthy raids, elite skills, skill respecing, officer mentoring/retraining, smodding, colony improvements, AI core integration. This is ignoring all the various story story point uses like having sword training or talking your way out of a fight or the upcoming hostile activity escalation. And what about mods? Now they have to add their own items for their own story point uses.Consider the idea earlier in this thread of using a "minefield" item to enable the disengage without fighting option. Now there needs to be a new item, the player needs to buy it and actually have it on hand when it's needed, you have to figure out how much it should cost, and so on. That specific idea, mainly it's 1) a hassle for the player, and 2) added clutter for the trade/inventory screens. Now, imagine this times 20 or 30 or whatever - for all of the various story point mechanics. Different mechanics, new items, new rules. It would just be a straight up bad idea to add to the game, dev-time entirely aside (and that's a pretty big aside), just for the sheer amount of complexity and hassle it would add.This actually sounds pretty interesting! And let's be honest - managing resources and dealing with scarcity is a significant part of the game already.
Probably because your commissioned faction went to war with heg. When the war stops, your rep gets returned to the level it was previously minus 10 points.Commissions exist.
I have avoided commissions because the rep system is unforgiving. Last time I tried them I had Heg at 'vengeful' pretty quick. This feature is compared to 'Mount and Blade' mechanics but it really is not like that.
I have some deep-seated need for some kind of regular income to offset costs in this game, without having to devote my fleet's life to colony protection while I'm still exploring. The latest build seems to discourage this.Commissions exist. But yes, a size 3 colony will mostly avoid, if not completely, hostile activity including core and item spam.
I'm beginning to think only Alex knows what's going on under the hood here.What's under the hood is there for you to look at if you want.
Do not spam install Gamma cores, there's some complex market math that can end up making you less money.This hasn't been a thing almost since colonies were introduced. Your own colonies don't contribute to total market share so reducing their demand through gamma cores (and higher ones) doesn't reduce income ever. See the notes of patch 0.9.1a, "Income from exports no longer counts demand at player colonies for total market value". You still don't really need to spam them though, especially with the new hostile activity system.
The system I'm in doesn't have a slot for a com relay! also the rest of the planets are like 200 hazard should i still colonize them?Make a slot. Either destroy existing infrastructure or create a new slot by interacting with the central star.
