Starsector 0.97a is out! (02/02/24); New blog post: Save/Load UI, Autosave, Intel Map Markers, and More (04/10/24)
Oh... In the blog posts Alex made it seem like scavenging and salvaging was a viable method of income.I mean, you probably could make a living PRing as a scavenger, sneaking around, looking for battles and picking up what you can from debris fields, but certainly not on the level of doing missions.
Coming back to this game from a very long hiatus and I seen that salvaging is a thing now, something that one can make credits doing. I've done some basic salvaging as explained in the tutorial but I am wondering where to go from there. I am having trouble finding debris fields and ones that give good returns as well (I'm having a hard time breaking even on the fields that I do find). What does a salvage fleet look like as well? How important are salvage rigs? If anyone can point me in the right direction that'd be great! Thank You!
It feels quite prone to exploit that you can sell on a regular (short) interval even to a backward colony for nearly a million worth of credits of anything you happen to find (trade goods but also pricey blueprints and proscribed stuff found in far systems).Yeah, selling 500k worth of survey data to a lvl pirate station before destroying it feels weird.
If not mistaken, M&B had a limit on how much money a given merchant had? Most game do in fact, to prevent such exploit. If Alex can ponder and consider that perhaps it can do good to the game balance, a kind of dynamic reserve that resplenish over time... Having better relations can also perhaps boost this limit, there is a whole gameplay stuff to tap here!
I wasn't implying that the player should ignore named personal bounties and just fly around doing system bounties, auto-resolving against every 6-frigate pirate fleet in the system.The context seemed to imply like that's the solution to the reputation hit from expeditions.
If the system is actually getting raided and there are big enough pirate fleets, you can make some decent money from system bounties. 1400 per frigate may not sound like much, but that's also 2800 per destroyer, 5600 per cruiser, and 11200 per capital (assuming each size class simply scales the bounty by *2). If it's mid-late game and the pirates are active enough in the system or still had some raiding parties there, you can make a pretty easy 50k+ without having to spend the usual amount of fuel to leave the core systems for "personal" bounties.
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Yeah, exactly! I've thought about this quite a bit; making the actual colony "management" more involved really just makes it into a minigame, which I'm not a fan of. So anything where you can just do a good or a bad job of it and make the colony better/worse seems disconnected from the rest of the game.
You *could* have something where colony-level decisions make it better/worse at something (i.e. do you use a piece of prime real estate for Mining, or for Heavy Industry?) but you get a similar effect from using AI cores (at least while the alpha cores are limited) and just picking the industries in the first place.
(I'll say, it's certainly your prerogative to *want* that. I just wanted to mention that I did consider it and don't personally think it's a good direction to add more depth in, and would rather put that effort into other things, such as, say, more story-type content. Welcome to the forum, btw!)
