Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
im pretty sure i saw alex answer this question somewhere. it is included now, no need for third party installs anymore.Thank you very much for your prompt reply! Onwards then
Sorry, I have absolutely no idea what you are babbling about. Are you talking about the same game now?Considering that more experienced and established members have long since answered the question and apparently had no problem understanding what the OP was asking, I would seriously recommend reconsidering who exactly was "babbling" here.
Not looking for spoilers, just strengths/weaknesses.Trying to be as non-spoilerish as I can.
And whether you savescum or summon the ship via console, you are not playing the way you were meant to be in either case, you are playing the way you want to.I don't understand, why does people say it as if it is anything bad? Really, you think it's valid point saying I should play as somebody else (dev) wanted me to play, or else I am cheating? The hell? Next time when some developers would want people to play standing on one feet singing Michael Jackson, you will say "eh, if that's how they meant us to play" instead of "screw you, I have better idea"? What any game really is is a set of rules wrapped in a pretty graphics. Devs give you the set of rules, and you try it with all your wit to bend it, to squeeze what you want and get what you could without breaking the rules, that's what is a game - a war between a rules given by the devs and the wits of the player. And if devs by shortsightedness or any reason leave a loopholes between the rules, that's their fault, at that point they lost the war, and the player, clever enough to saw these loopholes, won a war. How hard it is to understand?
rejecting the game's RNG over and over until you get what you want even though it's a .0000001 chance is basically cheating,I see you point, let's just say that my code of honour says otherwise. Using functionality not in the game (hexedit) or not readily available to the player (dev console) is cheating, while using functionality available to the average player is not cheating no matter how many times you used it, 1, 10 or 100. Also, what about sense of achievement? I finally beat Salamander from the game after 30 attempts, and now I feel good, like "stuff you, game, see, I'm on the top, not you!". Would I feel it by spawning it from the console?
cheating isn't wrong as long as the game is singleplayer and the boarding mechanics are legit awful so why not save the time and just spawn the ship anyway, there's no real difference.
why not just spawn the ship if you are going to obsessively save scumI believe you might need to check what is cheating. Hint: a legit part of the game is not.
both are cheating anyway
but I'd be interested in hearing this without using the word "fun"As someone who just wasted whole hour mind-numbingly, loathingly replaying for like 20 times the same combat I grew to hate to the core again and again because this combat is the only, unique source for me to get certain ship in the game (Salamander & Undine in my case) I find it incredibly difficult to define what's broken in current boarding mechanics without using a word "fun", or, rather, "absolutely not fun".
I do have some other simple suggestions that I think would be easy to implement and would enhance the game.Dream on
I have been asking for a time acceleration toggle, instead of constantly holding a key until the finger literally in pain after pressing the damn shift for an hour straight, since bloody 2013! 
You want vanilla skills? If you need this that here archive. I have made it for myself. I don't like skills of it fashion.Thank you for the link DrakonST! Vanilla skills is not exactly what I am after, what I want is to modify percentages of some skills, like turning 1% each Computer Systems level adds to my OP into 2% and so on. Hopefully I would be able to understand what you did by comparing your archive with original SS+, but if you could give me more direct hint, that would be really cool!
link - https://yadi.sk/d/ZkKDIdTsywPmS
Maybe I wasn't clear enough: Further encouragement of the abuse of IP without permission will not be tolerated on this forum.I'm sorry Tartiflette, apparently I'm not allowed to reply to you seeing as I'm too lazy to create new account
That's not your call to make.But only because I don't know how to mod Starsector. At any rate, this is my opinion to voice.
This is about intellectual propertyUmm, screw the intellectual property? The most disgusting, ugly, culturally and recreationally damaging institution modern capitalism created. I fully understand why Disney clings to it, making half of the world bend to keep their fleeting control over almost century old franchise, but why do you?
and once you start going down the road of ignoring mod authors' expressed wishes on how their mods are to be handled you risk losing a lot of future content.It is my sincere
