Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
where the only viable strategy is to have as much capital ships as possible.This is just plain wrong mate. I'm always flying around in cruiser fleets with some supporting destroyers and rarely do I have issues in campaign. Sure I'll grab a capital or two for the huge bounties or to defeat star fortresses but even then I roll with battlecruisers. And then there's carrier spam which is even easier to do than capital spam (and more bland). Anyways I just get triggered when people say capital spam is the only way to go since then new players will just copy that instead of experimenting with the game.
I don't like praising people just so. I've seen it too often to consider it meaningful. Alex is doing his job and I paid him and I continue to be engaged. If I didn't care, I wouldn't be here.I get what you're saying but there are also people being paid for their work for an average performance, or even worse. I feel positive reinforcement is suitable for those who excel at their work, regardless of the amount of money they're getting for it. Of course too much praising and then you slowly lose meaning and it just becomes bland. But in the end it doesn't hurt anyone, especially the devs who are always glad to hear stuff like this.
... actually, this reminds me of something pretty big I *completely forgot* to talk about in the blog post! Another type of "mission" is a "custom production order" that you're able to give - using a screen that's much the same as the colony ship/weapon/fighter custom production screen. Higher importance/relationship increases the max value of the order, which is delivered to storage at the colony after a time.YES!YES!YES! I remember this being a frequent suggestion, so glad it made it in. Finally some use of early game blueprint hunting.
You can pick either from your own blueprints, or from blueprints the contact has. Trade contacts don't have any, military contacts have their faction blueprints, and underworld arms dealers have the good stuff. The idea here is you can make intermittent use of blueprints you know before you have a colony up and running, and *also* it's a means to reliably get a hold of some stuff that's otherwise, for whatever reason, extremely rare.
Is the skill that lets you get extra officers being removed with he skill update? It seems like it would be 100% mandatory if officers also let you deploy more forces.Base number of officers is now 8, but you'll still be able to get to 10 with a skill. So yes, it would seem it's gonna be ridiculously good.
BTW, any chance for a blog post about the deployment system update? To me it's actually more exciting than the personal contacts topic^^"It certainly is more impactful. I was kinda surprised that such a big thing was casually mentioned in a thread dedicated to a completely different topic, not that I mind it tho. Not sure it could be made into an entire blog post, seems pretty straightforward to me.
It absolutely is yeah. There's a reason there aren't 5 different kinds of small slot fragmentation pd or 5 kinds of Onslaught with slightly different colours and slots. It's pointless bloat, bad for performance and bad for gameplay.By that logic, no one would ever play with mods since they're just pointless bloat no? Since whatever their role is, a vanilla ship already does that (in 99% of cases, unless it's some crazy special ship). Of course it's not the best for performance but there's nothing wrong with adding some extra flavor for some factions. Two ships with basically exact same slots but different stats and ship systems may play completely differently from each other.
