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[Dadada]

There are ways to get lots of supplies, the easiest one is a way station on a bigger planet I guess.
Nex has a feature that lets you build supply stations if you click on a planet... As mentioned you can add waystations to your colonies (with a blue [redacted core]), you can make more heavy/fuel industries, so many options. You don't happen to have a couple super dreadnoughts from some mod in your fleet? Some of them could have really high fuel and supply costs per month, and you do have enough logistic ships to carry all your stuff, right? The tools to fix your problem are all there, I wish you success.

[Gus979]

There are ways to get lots of supplies, the easiest one is a way station on a bigger planet I guess.
Nex has a feature that lets you build supply stations if you click on a planet... As mentioned you can add waystations to your colonies (with a blue [redacted core]), you can make more heavy/fuel industries, so many options. You don't happen to have a couple super dreadnoughts from some mod in your fleet? Some of them could have really high fuel and supply costs per month, and you do have enough logistic ships to carry all your stuff, right? The tools to fix your problem are all there, I wish you success.

Thanks for the tip- I was ignoring waystations because I started in Penelope.  I've only considered them for their access boost and not a means of supplies and fuel for my fleet.

I'm not at home looking at the game now- I think the outpost detail was kind of generic- are they any good?  I got the impression they were a exploration tool when you are far out.  Do they make supplies and fuel at planets for you at cost?  Does it make any sense to put one in Penelope alongside my colonized planets?

[Dadada]

You should try it all out once you are home, but since you don't have way stations this will be the solution, they pile huge amounts of supplies and fuel, one is usually enough to supply more than one huuuge fleet, but the 10% or so access you gain may also be worth it, access multiplies your export value and the way station upkeep is cheap, you can supply at every single of your colonies if you build them on all your colonies, I recommend doing that. Remember that a blue redacted core makes them stock even more.

[xZarif]

Do defense fleets (requested task force ones) factor into the invasion autoresolve, if the player is absent from the system? Let's say I get a notification for an incoming invasion, so I hire a defense fleet targeting that market. Even if the defense fleet is "fairly strong" versus the invading "fairly capable", the intel estimation on the invasion vs. defenders still says "superior" i.e., unchanged after the defense arrives. The invaders defeat the station and deploy their marines while the defense fleet is still 'alive' in my intel, as if the defense task force doesn't exist.

[spazza]

immediately invaded tigra city and installed an alpha core admin, the first step towards n o h e g e m o n y except mine

[Maethendias]

There are ways to get lots of supplies, the easiest one is a way station on a bigger planet I guess.
Nex has a feature that lets you build supply stations if you click on a planet... As mentioned you can add waystations to your colonies (with a blue [redacted core]), you can make more heavy/fuel industries, so many options. You don't happen to have a couple super dreadnoughts from some mod in your fleet? Some of them could have really high fuel and supply costs per month, and you do have enough logistic ships to carry all your stuff, right? The tools to fix your problem are all there, I wish you success.

Thanks for the tip- I was ignoring waystations because I started in Penelope.  I've only considered them for their access boost and not a means of supplies and fuel for my fleet.

I'm not at home looking at the game now- I think the outpost detail was kind of generic- are they any good?  I got the impression they were a exploration tool when you are far out.  Do they make supplies and fuel at planets for you at cost?  Does it make any sense to put one in Penelope alongside my colonized planets?

Be mindfull however, since drawing supplies /fuel from a waystation still costs you money
a better way is to use variable manufactories with supply/fuelsupply vlc slotted into them

[Dadada]

variable manufactories with supply/fuelsupply vlc slotted into them

That is Industrial Evolution aka mod content and not a vanilla aka base game feature...

[Histidine]

Do defense fleets (requested task force ones) factor into the invasion autoresolve, if the player is absent from the system? Let's say I get a notification for an incoming invasion, so I hire a defense fleet targeting that market. Even if the defense fleet is "fairly strong" versus the invading "fairly capable", the intel estimation on the invasion vs. defenders still says "superior" i.e., unchanged after the defense arrives. The invaders defeat the station and deploy their marines while the defense fleet is still 'alive' in my intel, as if the defense task force doesn't exist.

The autoresolve basically just sums the 'fleet point' strength of all fleets belonging to the attacking and defending faction, and the station around the specific target. This includes the requested defense fleets. The side with more points wins. (Third parties aren't counted even if they're friendly/hostile to one side or the other, which is a bit annoying)

One thing that can shift the strength comparison (without otherwise being known to the player) is if a special task group or two on either side decides to invite themselves to the battle.

Also fleets can't die in autoresolve, so if e.g. you encounter fleets in hyperspace returning from a failed raid they'll all be at full strength.

[nimtiz22]

i know that this kinda defats the purpose of this mod but is there any way to make it vanilla as possible as i only use it cause the uaf mod requires it and not for any of the 4x aspects as i pefrer how vanilla starsector handles factions

The big thing you probably want to disable is invasions (and sat bombs), with the enableInvasions and allowNPCSatBomb settings
You could also disable diplomacy by editing its file in the config folder (make the event interval super long), and re-enable the vanilla hostility system with console (copy and paste the following):

Code: java

runcode import com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.FactionHostilityManager;
FactionHostilityManager fhm = new FactionHostilityManager();
Global.getSector().addScript(fhm);

If you look around, there may also be other stuff you might choose to mess with (just try not to blow up your game in the process).

do i need to run the code of every save load?

[Histidine]

It should only be needed once from what I can see, but I haven't actually tried it.

If the hostility events are disappearing every game load, guess you'll have to do the runcode every load (or consider the idea shot, since I assume it forgets what it was doing before the reload).

[Catscrath]

Can Pirates and Luddic Path make alliances with the other main factions, or be offered by the main factions to join them? I am currently doing a Pather run and really want to make a Player+Pather+Pirate+Church alliance, but I am unsure if it can even be done to begin with. If I just need to wait or give some sort of offer in one of the menus.

I also remember there is a way to make pirates and pathers get counted as main factions but I don't remember where that option was. Would be super thankful is anyone who knows could tell me. (Found it. It's count pirate factions for victory condition.)

[Damonvi]

kind of hard to sift through the 300+ pages of comments, so i think it's fair to ask this, even if it's already been asked.

alliances. i'm in one. i use them primarily for the commissioned crew bonuses for my fleet. currently i'm in a 5-faction alliance (that includes me). there's another faction that i have a 97/100 status with, but they "dont trust my alliance", so they wont join. looking at their faction page, this faction has no relation with any of my alliance members, but that didnt seem to be an issue with the previous 3 factions i've recruited.

so i'm curious if this is a hard-cap to the amount of factions in an alliance, or is it just due to the AI faction not playing nice with the other AI factions?

i would assume there's no cap to how many factions can be in an alliance, but i could be wrong

[Catscrath]

kind of hard to sift through the 300+ pages of comments, so i think it's fair to ask this, even if it's already been asked.

alliances. i'm in one. i use them primarily for the commissioned crew bonuses for my fleet. currently i'm in a 5-faction alliance (that includes me). there's another faction that i have a 97/100 status with, but they "dont trust my alliance", so they wont join. looking at their faction page, this faction has no relation with any of my alliance members, but that didnt seem to be an issue with the previous 3 factions i've recruited.

so i'm curious if this is a hard-cap to the amount of factions in an alliance, or is it just due to the AI faction not playing nice with the other AI factions?

i would assume there's no cap to how many factions can be in an alliance, but i could be wrong

Could be that the factions have beliefs that oppose the core beliefs of your alliance. If a faction is against the core ideology of an alliance they will not be able to join no matter how high their standing is with the members of said alliance.

[Histidine]

Can Pirates and Luddic Path make alliances with the other main factions, or be offered by the main factions to join them? I am currently doing a Pather run and really want to make a Player+Pather+Pirate+Church alliance, but I am unsure if it can even be done to begin with. If I just need to wait or give some sort of offer in one of the menus.

I also remember there is a way to make pirates and pathers get counted as main factions but I don't remember where that option was. Would be super thankful is anyone who knows could tell me. (Found it. It's count pirate factions for victory condition.)

You might also find it desirable to enable pirate invasions in the same config, if you're trying to make them 'main factions'.

Pirate-type factions (this is pirates and Pathers in vanilla) don't enter alliances on their own, but player can invite them the same as other factions (dock at market -> special functions).

kind of hard to sift through the 300+ pages of comments, so i think it's fair to ask this, even if it's already been asked.

alliances. i'm in one. i use them primarily for the commissioned crew bonuses for my fleet. currently i'm in a 5-faction alliance (that includes me). there's another faction that i have a 97/100 status with, but they "dont trust my alliance", so they wont join. looking at their faction page, this faction has no relation with any of my alliance members, but that didnt seem to be an issue with the previous 3 factions i've recruited.

so i'm curious if this is a hard-cap to the amount of factions in an alliance, or is it just due to the AI faction not playing nice with the other AI factions?

i would assume there's no cap to how many factions can be in an alliance, but i could be wrong

There's no max alliance size, although there are factors tending to push larger alliances apart.
As Catscrath said it may be an alignment mismatch; if not, you may need to raise their relations with the existing members. Check the alliance entry in the intel screen to see what's happening here.

[Damonvi]

There's no max alliance size, although there are factors tending to push larger alliances apart.
As Catscrath said it may be an alignment mismatch; if not, you may need to raise their relations with the existing members. Check the alliance entry in the intel screen to see what's happening here.

i know there's a screen that shows which factions "can and cant" join an alliance, or rather, are "eligible or ineligible", i reference it constantly as i try to expand the alliance, as well as see what factions exist that would be good candidates. currently, my alliance is technocratic, which is a broad one, and allows for several factions to join. i also have a small whiteboard with all of the factions listed that i'd want, with their respective commissioned crew buffs, so i can curate who to enlist next.

i wasnt certain if factions needed to only have a high standing with the player faction, or all factions involved in an alliance. if it goes off of the latter, how would one influence the AI factions to gain standing among each other? afaik, you cant really directly influence actions/diplomacy between the AI.