Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Planet Search Overhaul (07/13/24)
Locomotive central hull could really use a base flux dissipation increase, the base value is VERY low considering the amount of mounts it has.
That's the main thing keeping it vaguely balanced, and it's true for virtually all junkers; they struggle to use every weapon mount well, and you'll need to make a compromise somewhere, even if you have lots of extra OP from d-mods. You are not going to go all out, all the time.
A planet having all its demand met will be stronger, but at some point the only thing that will help is more/bigger planets and more industry.
Requested colony expeditions IIRC always go to the player, but you can go to the resulting planet and transfer it to your faction.
If you mean the player faction specifically, it generally doesn't do much on its own, that's what you're for.
If it's a commissioning faction, depends on things like their economic production (for generating invasion fleets; this part also relies on having enemies to begin with) and whether they're set to launch colony expeditions. Which faction were you working with?
