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Now that is a nice looking fleet. Oh and I definitely need some practice. My combat chops are to put it kindly, "No so good." I may give this a try.
TaLaR and Dri spend nine for their games.
The purpose of the topic is to see if many players spend more or less the same number of points (about nine or more) on aptitudes. If so, then what is the point of the aptitudes? I know Alex did that as a buffer balance, but if everyone spends nearly the same skill points on aptitudes, they all aptitudes really serve (in practice) is a skill tax or lower effective skill points player has for skills. It would seem that if everyone spends nine or more on aptitudes, then the difference is probably one max skill at best.
\Nope for sure. I have snatched one (D) as derelict floating in space and they're not loosing D prefix.
Huh. Weird weird.In that case I got nothing.
D-PigeonsSpeaking of them - D versions do not loose the D or change skin upon restoring to full condition. Tested it in a new playthrough.
Can't be sure, but this is likely because the "Pigeon (D)" that comes as a skin with this mod is not the same as a "Pigeon (D)" the game creates as a damaged ship after a battle or as a derelict. In the former case, restoring the ship just brings it back to being a D-skin but without the D-mods, while in the latter it restores it to a stock Pigeon.
D-PigeonsSpeaking of them - D versions do not loose the D or change skin upon restoring to full condition. Tested it in a new playthrough.
) and the sentinel wolf feels way better. First off, I haven't seen any around aside from the one I've bought at some forsaken black market in persean leauge territory. So it feels already thousand times better in comparison to every pirate scout rocking with 2 of them and just eating you. I didn't done much combat this time yet so I'm not fully aware of it's new/old capabilities but the SNT Wolf in general was doing okay on the retreats. The drone/fighter seems to have more reasonable range and was doing some good and much wanted distraction & acted as far range PD.No, Derinkuyu is specifically set to change from Pirate to Independent, shortly after the end of the campaign tutorial. Your Hegemony contact specifically says that they'd be going in and cleaning up, after you stabilize the jump point, and then tells you that you can either stick around and take advantage of the bounty they just created, or be free to travel elsewhere.
Generally speaking, if you haven't been drawing attention by smacking pirates, and have turned your transponder off, pirate bases will trade with you even if you're at Vengeful. Just like smuggling onto hostile faction bases.
So I was sort of right here. But I was thinking that actually a BM bought ship could be "detected" as stolen good? Cuz as I said above, I've been inspected a few times after BM ship purchases and were loosing reputation as scans were coming out "positive".
Patrols will only confiscate what's explicitly illegal. If you bought a ship or some (otherwise legal) supplies etc on the black market, they'll only suspect, which will lead to a rep drop but no confiscation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_68NtUgi-bkConcerning cargo inspections not finding illegal goods, I don't have any ships with Shielded Cargo Holds, so that's not it.
There's some randomness, and smaller quantities are much less likely to be found, especially when accompanied by legal goods. There's also the "nothing illegal found, but you're carrying plenty of stuff and are suspected of smuggling due to recent BM trade" result.