Is it common that you dont get many atlases in the beginning? Barely got one but have a dozen troop transports. Kinda cramps my expansion plans.
They won't be that common. I would make use of the Omnifactory as soon as you see one available 
It seems like if I feed a station tons of supplies, either from mining or killing the 100s of fleets that are attacking it, then the station will build bigger ships. It might be a coincidence, but I see a lot of Atlases and even an Odyssey a couple times, in stations I am feeding supplies to. My game is also very mature, I'm level 48. So maybe that's the reason.
Which leads me to my next post... (cause I need to quote and older post)
Yep when stations spawn fleets they will attempt to spawn the biggest fleet they can with the available fuel, supplies, crew and marines. If you 'feed' a station these things then it will more frequently produce larger fleets (to a point). Capital ships cost a lot for a faction to deploy so you are probably giving it just enough to reliably spawn capital ships more often.
I would prefer to do that rather than increase the appearance of capitals in stations.
You can't get the capitals of your own faction that way though.
I actually did take a quick look in the files but didn't find where this is governed, if you point me to the .java file that prevents capitals from appearing in stations It should be easy enough to modify this behavior for myself.
Sure, have a look at ExerelinUtils.java in the method addRandomFactionShipsToCargo.
You want to comment out the following:
if(fmAPI.isCapital())
{
// Get another one to reduce chance of capitals
memberToGet = ExerelinUtils.getRandomInRange(0, fleet.getFleetData().getMembersListCopy().size() - 1);
fmAPI = (FleetMemberAPI)fleet.getFleetData().getMembersListCopy().get(memberToGet);
}
It's approx. line 527. That should increase the chance of capitals in stations
Is that something anyone can do? I don't know java. I guess I need a java editor... Any free one that people recommend? Any tips for a lay person would be very welcome.
Will that noticeably increase my chances of ever getting a Paragon, or are they stupidly rare even without the nerf to stations selling capital ships?
I'm itching for a Paragon after messing with it in the fitting screen (there's a mission that has one you can try out) but my character is level 48 and I've never seen one, in a fleet or otherwise. Meanwhile Hegemony is invading my home system and regularly has Onslaughts (sometimes 2 in one fleet).
Yes anyone can do it
you just need Notepad
although I would recommend Notepad++
You can either comment out each line (put a // at the start of each line) or just delete them. I have it set as a config option in the next version so it will be a bit easier to change.
It will increase the chance of capital ships, but still not guaranteed.
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