i get the feeling a lot of ships and items have vanished from the world. I have 100 reputation with hegemony, tritach, and independent and access to the other 2 factions military markets and have yet to see an omen, an apogee, conquest, odyssey, hyperion, astral, venture, tempest, an aurora, affliction, or a doom. I stumbled onto a shade at the black market of a tritach non military planet, not a clue why it was there, doesn't seem to be any reasoning to it. Why have all these ships if you cant find and use so many of them, if you do manage to find one and it dies your fleet composition is screwed too, because you won't see another. Judging by the general discussion threads everyone's using mostly the same ships because they're the main things available.
Anyways my progress feels hindered more by lack of ship availability than by lack of money, jobs or exp. omg alex why do you do this.
I get what you're saying, especially about feeling hindered. Making specific ships reliably accessible without making it too easy is a tricky proposition, though, and being forced to make do with stuff that isn't the best or what you'd want to have in an ideal world is a very large component of the fun. I think all in all, the game would be worse off if every faction reliably had their best stuff for sale. On the other hand, I'm not saying the current situation is ideal, either. Just that I don't see a simple solution. I'll definitely keep this in mind, though... it was already something I was aware of before the release. I think maybe more pieces need to be in place before this can be satisfactorily resolved - perhaps production (i.e. market X has the Tempest blueprint, and so is much more likely to have it for sale), perhaps people you can talk to that can procure the stuff you really want, but at a premium. There are possibilities.
For now, your best bet is probably starting trouble with the factions that has the stuff you want, and then getting it that way - especially for weapons, though boarding is of course an option too.
Game is great right now. The only thing missing is the ability to take stations and found your own faction. No doubt we'll have mods for such soon enough.
Great work, Alex. There are so few games that I play year on year and Starsector never fails to recapture my imagination with each patch!
Thank you!
After playing for about two hours, I'm still hooked. The new campaign adds a lot to the startup, whereas in previous games I could simply grab a mercury, refit it with some reapers, and take out a buffalo to get money quick. Amazing work, probably won't sleep tonight to try master this new version
Keep up the good work, Starsector is, and probably always will be, my favorite game
That's quite a hefty compliment