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General Discussion / Re: High Scatter Amplifier, yay or nay?
« on: March 27, 2024, 01:13:17 AM »
Nay. The whole point of beams is the range.
Losing that range to make them deal hard flux isn't worth anything because you have other ships in your fleet that can do that.
And if you're intent on setting your base range to ~600, then you may as well swap over to using more efficient or impactful weapons that don't require time-on-target to work.

High Scatter Amplifier is a tradeoff. But I'm not entirely sure what benefit you get from making that trade.
You're spending extra OP to turn your long-range beams into a mediocre facsimile of bolt/pulse guns.

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Suggestions / Re: Add official support for larger sector sizes
« on: March 26, 2024, 12:10:53 AM »
This would be a very welcome addition.

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Suggestions / Re: Add more rare loot to (red) Nexuses
« on: March 19, 2024, 12:27:12 PM »
Either that or made as a requirement to win the game or to start/finish a mainline quest.
Or maybe a type of potentially repeatable crisis which could tie into the reason that no-one has managed to create and maintain any kind of permanent (and accessible) outpost outside a small bubble in over two centuries.

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"Decent people shouldn't think too much about that."

What transpires beneath the veil of Autoresolve?

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Mods / Re: [0.95.1a] Unknown Skies v1.00rc2 (2023/03/19)
« on: March 13, 2024, 08:10:57 AM »
Unknown Skies is effectively "complete".
It will work with p. much any version of the game from 0.7 0.8 onwards (I think...), and will continue to work into the future unless the underlying generation method of the game itself changes significantly (which I fairly certain won't happen at this stage).

There is very little actual code in the mod, and what there is effectively self-contained.
It doesn't really need to be maintained anymore.
You can drop it into the game, and changing the version number in the mod_info.json file will allow it to work with no issues.

The link in the OP of this thread is the place to get it.

[mods]
Unknown Skies could probably go back onto the Index as an orange entry.
Might be worth having a dicussion about it at the very least.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Hazard Mining Incorporated (Thumper Ed., 0.3.7b)
« on: March 12, 2024, 02:17:43 AM »
Ngl, putting out a hit on someone for "onlyfans drama" is a little bit amusing.

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Suggestions / Re: Undercover colonies
« on: March 12, 2024, 02:06:44 AM »
An “outpost” toggle option
This. But make it a size 2 "colony" that doesn't count against the admin cap, and can't build anything except the spaceport (and maybe Waystation).
And can't grow into a normal colony until you add the normal startup costs to the resource storage and press a button to start it going - it's not instant so the player has enough time to have second thoughts etc.

Player storage bin / refit & resupply base, plus minor income from population.
Completely beneath the notice of anyone, except maybe the occaisional small pirate scout attracted by the few trade ships moving back and forth.
Remnants will still absolutely dunk on it if you put one in a beacon system tho. Machine don't care.

Unlikely to happen, but fun to think about.

Stealth colonies shouldn't exist.
They already do. Hidden base missions have these as thier targets.
Temporary they may be, but they still exist.

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Suggestions / Re: Officer promotions
« on: March 11, 2024, 12:40:39 PM »
You could probably make that distinction if officer promotion candidates were something you saw frequently? But they're not
This is actually a good point - I found that promotion candidates felt far too rare and adjusted some numbers myself.
After a bit of trail-and-error (and prompting) I settled on:
"maxOfficerPromoteProb":0.5,
Which is a bit of a jump from the default of 0.1, but it seems to provide a decent chance of having a candidate turn up without saturating you with people all the time.

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Suggestions / Resource Crises
« on: March 11, 2024, 12:13:39 PM »
A thought in two parts, prompted by:
More frequent minor crises that escalate each time one triggers would help immensely with this.

First thought
The Resource Crises as they are now are triggered by your single highest export number, without any other qualifier.
What if they were instead triggered by your total market share for that resource?

Market share already takes into account all the various modifers that represent how much "stuff" you are selling to people at large in the sector.
And also accounts for you having both buffed outputs and multiple outputs, which would allow finer control of how fast these events progress.


Second thought
If we're using market share to run major events, we can also use them to run minor ones.
For instance a "trade dispute" or somesuch - where you have diminished income from a particular resource for a time, and if some form of deal is not made you get a fleet from the angry faction come and try to disrupt your industry like an expedition from previous versions.

There's not really any limit to how many of these can happen, but it's weighted towards factions that have not taken any form of action against you in a defined period of time, so you always get a bit of attention from everyone eventually.
Pirates and Pathers can be excluded becasue they already have thier own mechanics for hassling you, but everyone else can pull from a list of "reasons" as to why they're upset with you.
This could be a generic list that everyone can use, with added sub-lists for specific factions. So the Church can complain about "blasphemous packaging", and the Diktat can whine about "insulting GREAT LEADER" etc etc.

Every faction keeps a count of how many times it's been upset with you, and the higher the number the bigger the fleet/more fleets it sends.
It's a minor event so probably keep this to no-more than a decently large bounty level at max.
Some factions could also have a chance to go the opposite direction and try to mimic the Path with small sneaky fleets that creep about (Tri-Tach would absolutely try this...)

Technically you could still do all this by using the highest number, but (imo) it feels weird because you can have a massive output of <thing>, but because of poor accessiblity almost zero market share - so why would anyone else even care about this enough for it be a crisis at all?
Conversely you can have modest output with a hugely buffed accessibility that massively inflates your market share, so why isn't the bothered party any more bothered than adding +4 every month to a 600 long bar?
Using market share "solves" both issues.

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Suggestions / Re: Officer promotions
« on: March 11, 2024, 04:47:39 AM »
I use the promotion mechanic frequently and consider it to be one of the best uses of a Story Point, as it returns 100% bonus xp and you gain a valuable character at the same time.

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Suggestions / Re: Ship loadouts
« on: March 11, 2024, 02:20:08 AM »
It would be super nice if player defined loadouts were saved as seperate .variant files in a common area in the "saves" folder.
The major obstacle to doing this would be untangling that functionality from campaign.xml, which is likely a non-trivial exercise.
(Although, the setpiece missions already kind of do this...)

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Use a notepad of some kind to open up \Starsector\starsector-core\data\config\settings.json
Search for the string "factionsClaimUnpopulatedCoreSystems".
Change the true at the end of the line to false, and save.

Wish granted (sort of).

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Hazard Mining Incorporated (Thumper Ed., 0.3.7b)
« on: March 08, 2024, 04:59:39 AM »
Brighton question:
Are the DomRes variants of Centurion/Hammerhead/Mora/Eagle supposed to be recoverable by the player if they do not have the automated ships skill?

Because it seems like they all can be recovered without the automated skill, but cannot be used because of the -100% CR modifier.
The same issue applies to DomRes ships built from the "prize" blueprint - you can build them or buy them from your colony market, but can't use them for the same reason.

Not completely sure, but it feels like they were supposed to have the same exception applied to them that the "sentinel cache" ships have, but something has stopped it from working.

[edit]
Seems to be related to this: https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=26888.0

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Announcements / Re: Starsector 0.97a (Released) Patch Notes
« on: March 07, 2024, 12:53:39 AM »
Thematically, making Ill-Advised part of Safety Overrides does make sense.

But if that ever happened I would likely never use SO again - having things malfunction and not come back is an "absolutely not". :P

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General Discussion / Re: How would you build a Wolf in 0.97a?
« on: March 06, 2024, 10:19:35 AM »
Wolf really starts to struggle when battles get larger and busier, and that fixed shield doesn't help.
Putting the Omni Shield conversion on it will give it a bit of a longer useful lifespan.

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