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Author Topic: Any plan for "Gratuitous Space Battles"-style player fleet battles?  (Read 1340 times)

oorek

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Star Sector has this annoying curve where after you figure out how the game works it becomes very easy, and it almost feels like cheating to play against AI. Adding some form of player-vs-player combat seems to be the natural solution. Has Alex considered adding a system like GSB where you can match your fleets against pre-made fleets uploaded by other players?
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bobucles

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Re: Any plan for "Gratuitous Space Battles"-style player fleet battles?
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2020, 06:04:51 AM »

Have you seen the tournaments? Players essentially create a fleet according to the tournament rules, and face off against each other in a custom mission.

Nick XR

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Re: Any plan for "Gratuitous Space Battles"-style player fleet battles?
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2020, 10:18:20 AM »

There's a PvP mission in the coop mod:  http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=11598.0

But it's definitely bolted on.  There were some great matches in the last tournament:  https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=starsector+tournament

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Re: Any plan for "Gratuitous Space Battles"-style player fleet battles?
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2020, 12:03:12 PM »

I assume he meant something in this vein, but with many aspects automated (variant files, fleet composition). I doubt this kind of thing will ever become big enough to make this worthwhile to Alex.