Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
The resolution seems to be the problem, when I dropped to 1600x900 (1440x900 isn't an option) I encountered a similar issue. I've added an option to change credit costs to my dev version and I'm working on finding a better way to handle the UI.
I notice no one ever tries to retreat before their peak time runs out so they can reengage at a lower CR level but with full peak time again.Doing that means forfeiting the battle salvage from all but the last engagement. It's something I do when I really want to win (like when conquering Chicomoztoc in Nexerelin, or in other strategic objective type combat situations) but during for-profit fighting it almost guarantees a net worth loss. It's a worthwhile cheese prevention mechanic, even if it's slightly annoying.
I know at least part of it is that retreating is very dangerous, but I don't think I've seen anyone even consider it.
Edit: I mean retreating from combat, not the retreat scenario.
The idea is that by the time you've finished fighting other enemy ships (while managing the threat from enemy phase ships), the phase ships are already pretty close to exhaustion if not already ticking down. Fleet compositions tend to work towards this, with phase ships being much less likely to be found in smaller fleets. If this "CR battle" thing happens occasionally, it's... not great, but imo acceptable. If it happens frequently - i.e. a large portion of the times you're fighting phase ships - then it's more of a problem.The primary culprits here are the Afflictor and Shade, in low ship-count battles.
If you don't mind, this info would be very helpful - how often does this happen for you, and what fleets/fleet compositions are you fighting (and how much/what you're deploying) that leads to this happening?
AI is not that good at kiting. If you are in phase frigate/Hyperion/phase DE yourself, catching anything is trivial.I've never found phase skimmers to be useful to kill phase ships. In my experience they'll be at incredible range when they choose to vent, and it's not like venting turns off engines. I've had the occasional lucky shot from just beyond the maximum range of something hard hitting with a triple phase skim, but luck is all it is. The occasional lucky shot, which happens with AI controlled vessels too, does not make it worth my time to fight. If I wanted to play a completely luck based game I'd load up a slot machine simulator.
Scarab can probably catch phase too. Wolf can catch, but will have to do so at least twice (since one Heavy blaster won't kill fast enough).
Player piloted Medusa with character skills usually allows to catch them too. AI does not fully understand your ability to chain skim x3 + insta-melt it with Heavy Blasters when picking to spot to vent.
All of above was without SO usage. With SO any frigate/DE + Aurora/Falcon cruisers will likely be fast enough.Hah, as if. SO frigates are, mostly, fast enough to keep a phase ship away from a fleet and I'll task them to hound phase vessels while the relevant ships fight, but I've never had one catch a phase vessel under any circumstances that I'd want them to - Lasher vs. Doom is a bad match up. An SO with anything larger than a frigate is just pointless. Manually piloted SO ships suffer from the same problem that AI ones do inasmuch as phase ships are effectively uncatchable. Sure, maybe I can cut one off at the map edge and down it if I don't get too close and cause it to clown through me and start kiting the other way before it vents, but then I've got my SO ship away from the fight dealing with one vessel of marginal value. And to be fair, I detest phase ships for being hard to kill after the fight, not because I think they're overpowered (they aren't).
Basically, you should not expect to counter phase by just moving in their direction and shooting. Using one of faster ships with mobility system is mandatory (or SO). Or just drown them in fighters, that works too.
Only if your fleet is capable of neither does waiting for CR become main method of fighting phase ships.
SS+'s named bounties only working with certain factions seems like a leftover from before the DynaSector split. I'll see about making it use vanilla's eligible faction check instead.In that case, I'll just wait for the good to continue getting better.
Those aren't binary systems (such are clearly identifiable with the "<star name> B" names). I assume it's failing to use the extended positions list somehow, although why it'd do that I have no idea; will have to debug.I went and re-downloaded and reinstalled, that seems to have fixed it. Something must have gone wrong with my recent download. Sorry for bothering you, and thank you for looking.
EDIT: Can't reproduce on Nexerelin v0.7.5c+ dev
Am using all faction mods for nexrelin and most general quality of life mods(version checker, ect)I had the same error and fixed it using Java 8 instead of Java 7, a solution suggested a page or two back by DefiasOne. This does open you up to some random crash bugs, though, so save more regularly than you're used to. DefiasOne, could you note in the download section that the Homeworld faction requires Java 8? I'm not sure about the other one but if it also requires a different Java version than is packed with the game to work a heads up somewhere more visible than wherever you've got it would be prudent and save problems for people.
When I launch the game with these three mods, which, as a homewolrd fan I very much want to use, I got this error on my starsector log, any ideas as to what I did wrong?
oopsWorked like a charm. Thank you for your excellent support response on top of an already excellent mod.
Here, use this fixed .jar (place in Nexerelin/jars). I'll publish a fix later.
