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winterwerefox posted:So far, i have a couple Shepherds, a Dram, and a troopship in my support fleet. my combat fleet is 2 condors, a hammer head, and 2 wolves. Whats a good freighter to carry my stuff? I'm running shielded engines on everything, militarizing everything and only taking ships that dont have engine issues. Looking at adding 2 more Shepherds to the support fleet, but if there is anything better in that role, id like to know. Buffaloes? Pirate ones come with shielded cargo holds too. Easily brought up to speed.
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I think that's pure chance. I'm pretty sure I've gotten different stuff from them on restarts.
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Nov 22, 2018 20:02
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OwlFancier posted:I mean you need to be really close to a system to get the updates so, you should be able to search your literal neighbours. this is what my fleets are like because i LOVE fighters and what's better than FREE fighters, that also makes surveying cost almost no supplies?!
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Nov 22, 2018 20:07
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Seeing as cargo is one big fleetwide pool, as is fuel, how does a shielded cargohold work to keep you form getting scanned?
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Nov 22, 2018 20:17
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winterwerefox posted:Seeing as cargo is one big fleetwide pool, as is fuel, how does a shielded cargohold work to keep you form getting scanned? At least, that's how I remember it. Section Z fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Nov 22, 2018 20:18
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The amount of illegal cargo you can carry and get away with via shielded cargo holds is equal to the cargo space of the shielded cargo hold vessels. Kind of. It lowers the probability of getting caught with anything by quite a lot but it's never zero.
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Nov 22, 2018 20:19
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I will say that fuel wise, the mid size tanker is the best option. You can mod it to have better fuel efficiency to capacity than either of the other options. If you need more fuel, buy another phaeton, don't get the giant tanker.
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Nov 22, 2018 20:24
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Now that there is a 30 ship fleet cap, never not get the larger fuel or storage ships.
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Nov 22, 2018 21:18
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So do you get to name and pick an icon for your 'faction' and stuff when you make a colony now? It was fun in Nexerelin making 'Anime' the scourge of the sector.
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Nov 22, 2018 21:53
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Yes you can. You can also choose your flag from a preset list, which has to be expandable somehow.
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Nov 22, 2018 22:03
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The flags really feel like there should be a way to change the color schemes somehow but if it's in there I can't find it.
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Nov 22, 2018 22:10
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Anime rides again. 
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Nov 22, 2018 22:49
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McGiggins posted:Yes you can. You can also choose your flag from a preset list, which has to be expandable somehow.   It's a little fiddly but First you need two .png files anywhere inside starsector_core though I'd suggest putting them with the others in: \starsector-core\graphics\factions\custom, they can be named anything but I would, again personally suggest naming them the same with the different appends _flag and _crest. The first .png needs to be 410x256 and will be the flag. The second needs to be 256x256 and will be the crest. Second you need to open \starsector-core\data\world\factions, player.faction, and scroll down to "flags":[ Underneath you need to add the file path to your new flags like so: code:
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Nov 22, 2018 23:47
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I hope alex makes it easier. Just a set image size and toss them in "custom flags" folder.
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Nov 22, 2018 23:52
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Heh just found a system named Brigador.
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Nov 23, 2018 00:31
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How do you increase the number of points you can field per battle? I don't mean max in the game, I mean as an admiral
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Nov 23, 2018 01:37
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i salvaged some sick rear end capital ships but theyre fully one half my deployment
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Nov 23, 2018 01:44
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In settings you can increase the max battlesize up to 500. Any higher and you need to file edit. Not sure what else is being asked.
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Nov 23, 2018 01:51
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Capital ships are supposed to be deployment point hogs. Fielding more than 2 is going to run you low on support for them. Even more so if you're up against a bigger fleet.
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Nov 23, 2018 02:17
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Jinnigan posted:How do you increase the number of points you can field per battle? I don't mean max in the game, I mean as an admiral If you have a bigger fleet then your opponent, you get more deployment points. The total is always 200 (unless the option is changed), but you get more of it. So it might be 110 vs 90, reflecting that your total ships outnumber your opponents even if they aren't all fighting.
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Bremen posted:If you have a bigger fleet then your opponent, you get more deployment points. The total is always 200 (unless the option is changed), but you get more of it. So it might be 110 vs 90, reflecting that your total ships outnumber your opponents even if they aren't all fighting. Oh, ok. That makes sense.  this is my entire fleet currently. i do have a colony set up. any ideas on what i should be building or gearing? right now i'm having a hard time even with bounties in the 100k-150k range
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Nov 23, 2018 03:40
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my kinda ape posted:Heh just found a system named Brigador. Remove the marked Mudskipper to accept your contract.
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Jinnigan posted:this is my entire fleet currently. i do have a colony set up. any ideas on what i should be building or gearing? right now i'm having a hard time even with bounties in the 100k-150k range In the same system you also want at least +2 rare and +2 normal ore, +3/+3 on a volcanic planet being ideal. This is because one colony in a system is a target even with a High Command, Heavy Batteries, and a Star Fortress, two colonies with High Commands are much harder to hit, and 3+ in the same system (as long as they're all at least size 5) can be left alone because even the strongest attacks are gonna get dogpiled to hell before they even reach anybody's orbit. (you may want starbases and/or ground batteries anyway to get stability 10 with freeport, mileage will vary) You'll want a gas giant or cryovolcanic planet settled for volatiles. And yes, you do want free port because A: 50% accessibility bonus, B: you get in on exporting to the lucrative as gently caress Recreational Drugs market. Only build heavy industry/fuel production/refining on low hazard worlds. The upkeep multiplier on high hazard worlds is brutal. Obviously everything gets a High Command though, and even at 250% hazard those are pretty cheap upkeep as industry starts rolling. With all that in one system, it's nigh impossible to get any shortages due to your internal merchant fleets being hit, and all that being close together should cancel out most/all accessbility maluses after they get past size 4 except if you're way off in a far corner of the map in which case keep surveying something like this should pop up in the first ring/ring and a half of systems. After that, you should easily have a million a month coming in and you can do whatever you like. More and bigger ships, survey more for more blueprints, etc.
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Nov 23, 2018 03:58
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This game can really be feast or famine with the blueprints and salvage. Just played a whole game and got utterly dunked on by the red planet because I never once found a capital blueprint. Just got hoards of pirate, ludd and hegemony prints. Seemed like a sign that low tech was my destiny. After that I finally got legion and paragon prints in the same loot, which is game changing.
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Nov 23, 2018 04:37
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I just repaired all the ships from the tutorial and I'm using 12 supplies a day for my fleet... that seems like a lot. What can I do?
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Nov 23, 2018 05:03
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Do you have too much fuel? that caught me a couple times. if you are over fuel cap, dump it or sell it
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Nov 23, 2018 05:13
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Hit F1 over your supply count and it'll tell you what it all is going to.
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I was going to hop in but judging by the posts, it looks like there's balance issues. Should I wait until the next patch?
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buglord posted:I was going to hop in but judging by the posts, it looks like there's balance issues. Should I wait until the next patch? Nah it's fine. The colony attack spam is easily brushed away with money. The two main balance issues are that's it's too easy to make money and factions attack you too often, but you can solve the later with the former.
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Baronjutter posted:Any tips on getting the AI to field Onslaughts effectively or are they just generally a bad ship vs the remnant? As a joke I made an all-onslaught fleet since my faction lives in post-scarcity luxury. I kitted them out with a ton of anti-fighter poo poo but they had trouble not getting over-loaded and destroyed by enemy fighter and long range weapons. I fly an XIV Onslaught as my flagship and this is the best advice I can give: don't even use shields. Put on Heavy Armour, Armoured Weapon Mounts and Integrated Point Defence AI , Skill Impact Mitigation and Evasive Action, fill all the small ballistic slots with Vulcans and the rear Medium slots with Flak Cannons and just pretend you don't even have a shield generator. Literally only use the shield to block incoming Reapers you can't shoot down because those are basically the only things that can hurt you. Also don't let the AI fly them because they'll put the shield up and constantly get overloaded because the Onslaught's flux is really bad.
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Nov 23, 2018 06:59
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Ayyy... waiting for favorite mods to update is painful. I want at least Dassault-Mikoyan Engineering or 'dong before I start playing this version. The DME guy is working on it, he's saying the mod already works but needs some last polish and stuff.
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What is considered a good or at least acceptable accessibility rating? I gather that’s a super important stat for colonies but I don’t have any sense of what I should be shooting for. Like by contrast, hazard rating also seems really important but there I know that 100% is good.
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Bold Robot posted:What is considered a good or at least acceptable accessibility rating? I gather that’s a super important stat for colonies but I don’t have any sense of what I should be shooting for. Like by contrast, hazard rating also seems really important but there I know that 100% is good. if the colonize screen gives you over 50%, it's fine. You can boost it with stuff no problem.
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Fewd posted:Ayyy... waiting for favorite mods to update is painful. I want at least Dassault-Mikoyan Engineering or 'dong before I start playing this version. The DME guy is working on it, he's saying the mod already works but needs some last polish and stuff. Soren posted:https://www.dropbox.com/s/4n437ioyew61g34/Dassault-Mikoyan%20Engineering%200.9.9b%20DEV.zip Okay, RC... let's call it 5.
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Bold Robot posted:What is considered a good or at least acceptable accessibility rating? I gather that’s a super important stat for colonies but I don’t have any sense of what I should be shooting for. Like by contrast, hazard rating also seems really important but there I know that 100% is good. I have a high gravity gas giant with nearly 200% accessibility
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Nov 23, 2018 09:27
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I've found that frozen and cryovolcanic worlds have decent odds of good volatiles availability with lower average hazard ratings than gas giants. Plus they can also have ore resources.
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Nov 23, 2018 09:32
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I get to play!
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Tarezax posted:I've found that frozen and cryovolcanic worlds have decent odds of good volatiles availability with lower average hazard ratings than gas giants. Plus they can also have ore resources. It has vast ruins and +2 volatiles. class V world despite its issues.
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Hmmmmmmmm. Me thinks that some of the mods are not yet ready for show time. Almost all weapons are not available, and blackmarket and hostile open shipyards never have any ships. Additionally, stations of any size only fit PD weapons, specifically Mini-flaks. I'm running the following:
I don't suppose anyone has run into the same issue?
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Complications posted:Depends on what your colony looks like. You want a planet with a low hazard rating <=150% and a lot of bonuses (more bonuses, the more 150% is worth it), and also a couple other useful planets in the system. Generally, a habitable planet with at least adequate farmland or any aquatic planet (which due to a bug gets double base food production), and you also want at least common organics on the planet. Nice post. I dunno if I've been unlucky or what, though, because I haven't found a system even close to as good as having all that together. I finally pulled the trigger on making my prime base on a 125% vast ruins/-1/-1/0 (farms, rare, regular ore). That's pretty good. I put up a second there on a 200% +1/+1/+1 (rare, regular, volatiles) that hasn't been worth it. Now I'm thinking of pulling up that 200% and starting outposts in a second system: 125% extensive ruins/-1/0/0 (farmland/regular ore/organics) 150% -1 (farmland) 150% widespread ruins/-1/-1/0 (farmland/ore/organics) This would probably be ok and nicely defensible with the 3 overlapping, but it's a far cry from +2/+3s
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