Starsector 0.96a is out! (05/05/23); Blog post: Narrative in 0.96 aka Movie Night With David (06/02/23)
I mostly lurk here but honestly this is pushing my buttons one too many times.
From what I've experienced and read on this board this modding community is one of the most TOXIC I have ever encountered. They act like any mod that might possibly affect the "artistic vision" of their mod is some horrible thing that can't be tolerated and one of you has flat out threatened a lawsuit against another modder who made a mod that did a similar thing as this one. I understand wanting to protect something you've poured dozens if not hundreds of hours into but acting like a bunch of paranoid Gollums does nothing but hurt the community. I don't know if it's even registered with most of you but when this kind of thing happens with the pretty much implied threat that if you guys don't get your way you may "take your toys and go home" so to speak it stifles other modders who are afraid of stepping on your toes for fear of the backlash of the players who enjoy your mods dogpiling them. This is a blatant and clearcut issue of using peer pressure to control what other people may make.
There is a difference between someone making a mod that affects a broad change that will affect other mods and someone say for example taking someone else's mod wholesale, readjusting the flux values of the ships in it and reuploading it. In the former case you are chasing someone out of the sandbox because they built a bridge over the moat around your castle. The latter case you would be justified in that person being punished or having their content removed as it would be akin to them adding something to your sand castle without permission. To extend the analogy even further the modders need to remember as well this is not their Sandbox, it's Alex's. It is not your perogative to decide what is and is not acceptable.
The solution to this problem I feel is that Alex/members of the moderation team need to get together and set down a set of guidelines on what is acceptable in broad strokes for modders to do when it interacts with other mods and what they need to seek permission from other modders whose content they affect.
As noted this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened and with the rising popularity of the game (Sseth's video having reached just shy of 1.5 MILLION views) it will not be the last and I expect it will increase in frequency in the future as more people discover this game and desire to contribute to its modding community.
[war flashbacks to gregtech intentionally bricking the game with certain mods in MC, people setting their mods to private because of a single banal comment on the skyrim nexus, that entire subforum of cancer hidden on the nexus forums]
ah yes
starsector's modding community sure is toxic
telling people to just ask before making addons, or otherwise affecting their work
how h o r r i b l e
Hotfix for II Bazaar being spammed in random sector (arglebargle)
ChangelogSpoilerv0.9.2d
* Player colonies' population growth halved, income reduced 25% when in Starfarer mode
* Player colonies have size growth even when autonomous
* Interstellar Bazaar submarket is transferred on market capture
* Raise/lower relations cooldown is added to action time instead of blocking action
* Show remaining blueprint trader points after each purchase
* Return to market main menu after market transfer (instead of closing dialog completely)
* Adjust some intel text
* Fix Interstellar Bazaar spam in random sector
* Fix NPC factions sometimes building military base in violation of industry limit
* Derelict Empire, Remnant raid fleets won't fail to drop AI cores under certain circumstances
* Note: All currently spawned fleets in an existing game will cease to drop cores[close]
Dreamyr: Do you still have the save with the two Blackrock fleets? I'd like to take a look at it.
(Also specify if you've done anything like raise the maximum battle size)
I'd expect a battlestation on a size 4 market to defeat two invasion fleets (in general the invasion strength will not be hugely superior to the defenses), but it may be that Blackrock carrier fleets are disproportionately strong for their size. Given the sort of thing that can be done with mass Drovers + Sparks in vanilla, I wouldn't be too surprised.
Got around to looking at the save (thanks for uploading it!)
Seems the fleets are so big mainly because of the Star Fortress with alpha core. It's generating 189 FP of combat ships (before doctrine modifiers) to match the patrols from a size 4 High Command... and 870 for the station. Also, it turns out that contrary to my previous belief, alpha cored HT Star Fortress does not actually kill infinite ships.
I'm reducing the strength estimate multiplier for stations in the next version, by about 30%.I then had people tell me that it arbitrarily limiting the ships I can deploy when the enemy fleet was under no such restriction was it working as intended.Enemy obeys the fleet cap in the same way that player does.
You can increase the limit in settings as Axle suggests, if your CPU can handle it.Would it be possible to order the construction of a fleet to follow you for <X> days, in a similar way of putting in orders for base strikes and invasions?I could do something like that somewhere along the way, yeah. (I'd need to find a way to get the AI to follow the player reliably though, the Follow Me implementation is a bit of a mess)
Most thinking it'd be nice to order a custom sized fleet to have the set orders of following you around for a time (say, 60 days, or something that you assign with a slider?) if you want to go crack some REDACTED heads on the fringes of the galaxy.
It is set to 500 however given the enemy was fielding a half dozen capital ships plus a ton of cruisers and smaller that seems a little absurd that I would get LESS deployment points. Think about it, you are fighting more enemies so we're going to make the battle HARDER? that doesn't make sense to me. If it's not the bug I'd read about with the default battle size limit then it's still something that needs changed if that's the logic it's working off of.
If you're outnumbered, you should feel outnumbered. The enemy being able to throw wave after wave of units at you wouldn't matter if you could destroy the waves as they appear.
