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General Discussion / Re: Persean League Crisis, and Crises in general, killed my desire to play more

« on: March 03, 2024, 12:43:11 AM »

The League crisis could stand to begin a little bit later...

Tbf, this would probably help a bit with some of the issues that people have had.

...they could make a bit more of an effort to protect the supply fleets - keeping a fleet watching over them...

Having one of the support fleets guard each supply fleet possibly might be a good thing.
Maybe have one support fleet assigned to protect each supply, but the fleets get thier assignments rotated every couple of weeks so there's a window of opportunity that can be exploited while they swap over.

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Suggestions / Re: Built-in Drones should not be Fighter Wings

« on: March 02, 2024, 01:57:10 PM »

A year ago:

iirc the skills do have a floor, though idk how much sou need to spam to reach it

I'm not sure they do have a floor (aside from 0), just a very aggressive diminishing returns thing going on.
To get your fighter bonus down to 1/5 of normal (ie: +10% replacement etc) you need to have ~42 fighter bays.
And having 50 bays only pushes it down to +8%.

It looks like the bonus drops off like:
8 bays = full bonus (+50%)
10 bays = *0.8 (+40%)
16 bays = *0.5 (+25%)
20 bays = *0.4 (+20%)
42 bays = *0.2 (+10%)
50 bays = *0.16 (+8%)

You probably could get the bonus effect down to 1% (or less), but you'd need a lot more bays to do it than you'd ever realistically have.
Certainly much more than I have on hand rn.

Smol number of fighter bays = big bonus, which is nice.
Big number of fighter bays = smol bonus, which is less nice but still okay because you have a big number of fighters. With a bonus.
And you will always have a bonus, because you're never going to have enough fighter bays to get it to zero.
Going over the "limit" does not matter.

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General Discussion / Re: Persean League Crisis, and Crises in general, killed my desire to play more

« on: March 02, 2024, 01:06:04 PM »

Buildin' free ports in the hot sun
I fought the League, and I won
I had a Retribution and the League had none
I fought the League, and I won

To me, the system almost feels too slow, but I guess that's the difference between vanilla and modded runs.

Same.

Eg the fuel "crisis":
I tried building more fuel plants in an effort to make the Diktat do something, anything. But it's tied to "highest single output" rather than "total output".
Things are ticking up at ~5 points per month, and I can't do a single thing about all those delicious and tempting raider fleets or all the pirates who are hanging around because it will remove progress.
Which is a shame because working off the total would have made more sense, and given an optional way of accelerating things.

The crises seem to be paced fairly well when you first have a colony, but really struggle to get going later on.
And it's really easy to accidentally avoid a crisis just by fighting pirates and other rando hostiles.
Super looking forward to being able to push a button and send Andrada a formal letter stating that he does indeed smell or something.

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Suggestions / Re: Built-in Drones should not be Fighter Wings

« on: March 02, 2024, 08:24:07 AM »

Just tried using Engage on a Venture and Tempest and, yes, it kills the 0-flux boost.

Tried the same using a Heron full of Mining Pods - same.

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Announcements / Re: Starsector 0.97a (Released) Patch Notes

« on: March 01, 2024, 05:04:26 AM »

It would be nice if there was some optional means of hurrying crises along.
Waiting for this bar to fill up while you scrupulously avoid any kind of conflict around your base is absolutely tortuous.

I've always thought the ability to assign officers that have no skills but exist to add behavior settings to ships would be nice.  Add that to support doctrine or something.

That's been floated a couple of times previously independantly of skills, and never seemed to have any interest.
Which is a shame, as it solves a recurring problem with current mechanics/resources.

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Suggestions / Re: My wishlist for the next update

« on: February 29, 2024, 05:13:47 AM »

Oh. So it's choice someone is making, and not a fundamental limitation of Safety Overrides as (wrongly) implied.

I disagree with the premise presented, and consider point defence weapons to be both useful and desireable on an overriden ship.
Because PD weapons (except one) all have very short ranges and so don't care about the range cutoff, at all. They have fairly decent dps which is very accessible given the range such a ship will be fighting at. Many of them output kinetic damage, which is incredibly useful in this environment. And they still shoot down missiles etc just fine.

There might be some difference in the choices you make with high vs. low vs. midline ships where the calculus does not favour PD lasers and such.
But that is failing of energy weapons, not Safety Overrides.

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Suggestions / Re: My wishlist for the next update

« on: February 29, 2024, 02:35:24 AM »

When you are doing SO, you have no point defence.

I can put PD guns on a ship with overrides, and they shoot at missiles + stuff just fine.
Explain pls.

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Mods / Re: [0.97a] Ship/Weapon Pack 1.15.1

« on: February 28, 2024, 04:29:27 AM »

Version 1.12.1 (December 25, 2020)
- Renamed Revenant to Nightwalker

Try updating the mod.

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General Discussion / Re: Officer Templates

« on: February 28, 2024, 03:57:55 AM »

They're in the API.
\com\fs\starfarer\api\impl\campaign\rulecmd\salvage\special\CryopodOfficerGen.java

In case anyone doesn't want to go spelunking:

Spoiler

Code

// BEGIN LEVEL 7 OFFICERS
		
		// fast high-tech ship
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.ENERGY_WEAPON_MASTERY);
		t.elite.add(Skills.FIELD_MODULATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.GUNNERY_IMPLANTS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.SYSTEMS_EXPERTISE);
		t.base.add(Skills.COMBAT_ENDURANCE);
		t.base.add(Skills.HELMSMANSHIP);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 10f);
		
		// slow high-tech ship
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.HELMSMANSHIP);
		t.elite.add(Skills.ENERGY_WEAPON_MASTERY);
		t.elite.add(Skills.FIELD_MODULATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.GUNNERY_IMPLANTS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.ORDNANCE_EXPERTISE);
		t.base.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.base.add(Skills.COMBAT_ENDURANCE);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 10f);
		
		// hull/armor tank, low tech
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.DAMAGE_CONTROL);
		t.elite.add(Skills.IMPACT_MITIGATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.POLARIZED_ARMOR);
		t.elite.add(Skills.BALLISTIC_MASTERY);
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.base.add(Skills.MISSILE_SPECIALIZATION);
		t.base.add(Skills.GUNNERY_IMPLANTS);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 5f);
		
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.ORDNANCE_EXPERTISE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.IMPACT_MITIGATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.POLARIZED_ARMOR);
		t.elite.add(Skills.BALLISTIC_MASTERY);
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.base.add(Skills.MISSILE_SPECIALIZATION);
		t.base.add(Skills.GUNNERY_IMPLANTS);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 5f);
		
		// phase ship	
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.IMPACT_MITIGATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.FIELD_MODULATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.SYSTEMS_EXPERTISE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.COMBAT_ENDURANCE);
		t.base.add(Skills.POLARIZED_ARMOR);
		t.base.add(Skills.ENERGY_WEAPON_MASTERY);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 10f);
		

		// generally-ok-for-most-ships, take 1
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.FIELD_MODULATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.ORDNANCE_EXPERTISE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.POINT_DEFENSE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.GUNNERY_IMPLANTS);
		t.base.add(Skills.HELMSMANSHIP);
		t.base.add(Skills.COMBAT_ENDURANCE);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 5f);
		
		// generally-ok-for-most-ships, take 2
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.FIELD_MODULATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.ORDNANCE_EXPERTISE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.IMPACT_MITIGATION);
		t.elite.add(Skills.GUNNERY_IMPLANTS);
		t.base.add(Skills.HELMSMANSHIP);
		t.base.add(Skills.COMBAT_ENDURANCE);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 5f);
		
		
		// SO, ballistic weapons
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.COMBAT_ENDURANCE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.SYSTEMS_EXPERTISE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.DAMAGE_CONTROL);
		t.elite.add(Skills.IMPACT_MITIGATION);
		t.base.add(Skills.FIELD_MODULATION);
		t.base.add(Skills.BALLISTIC_MASTERY);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 5f);
		
		// SO, energy weapons
		t = new CryopodOfficerTemplate();
		t.elite.add(Skills.COMBAT_ENDURANCE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.TARGET_ANALYSIS);
		t.elite.add(Skills.SYSTEMS_EXPERTISE);
		t.elite.add(Skills.DAMAGE_CONTROL);
		t.elite.add(Skills.IMPACT_MITIGATION);
		t.base.add(Skills.FIELD_MODULATION);
		t.base.add(Skills.ENERGY_WEAPON_MASTERY);
		TEMPLATES_EXCEPTIONAL.add(t, 5f);
		// END LEVEL 7 OFFICERS

[close]

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General Discussion / Re: [0.97a - RC8] Old Sabot can be added back again, let me explain why

« on: February 28, 2024, 12:08:24 AM »

We have the old sabot now (the spread).
It was changed to a single giant shot somewhere around 0.7, and then changed back again because it was just straight up not fun to deal with.

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Suggestions / Re: Cargo and fuel capacity should be a hard cap

« on: February 27, 2024, 12:27:35 AM »

No thanks.
I like being able to pick up a pile of stuff, and then toss the bits I don't want overboard in a single action without being forced to play an inventory minigame.

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Announcements / Re: Starsector 0.97a (Released) Patch Notes

« on: February 26, 2024, 11:52:08 PM »

Escort Package giving frigates more PPT would be nice.
Whether that be giving them a bigger clock, or allowing the clock to slow/stop when escorting.

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Suggestions / Re: Colony building that gives SP

« on: February 26, 2024, 01:20:57 PM »

You wouldn't nesessarily need to do anything special on the player-facing side to do this.
The Historian log already tracks when you found colonies, so all you need from that is the date you started your oldest colony.
Then as soon as the colony becomes permanent (aka, size 5) every year on that day the population throws a little "we made it!" party - and you get a point.

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Suggestions / Re: My wishlist for the next update

« on: February 26, 2024, 12:08:42 AM »

The single biggest improvement that could be made to the intel screen, would be the ability to lock tabs into a set location.
Ever since intel has existed I've spent nearly as much time looking for tabs as I have looking what's in them.

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General Discussion / Re: My thoughts and opinions on the new colony system, with some suggestions

« on: February 24, 2024, 01:28:46 AM »

All these various raider fleets and bounty hunters are some quite interesting fights.
It would be neat to see something like them turn up more often in other contexts.

Also, if you "avert" a crisis by dropping the score below it's defined threshold, can it happen again or is that it?
I'm kinda disappointed that I might have missed out on the Tri Tachyon stuff just because I was having so much fun with the raiders and pirates.