Starsector - Waste no part of the Buffalo II [Preorder Alpha]

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Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

The discrepancy between running large ships and small ships is huge. I swapped out my Conqueror battlecruiser for two destroyers, and just a few battles later I have more supplies than I know what to do with and like 500,000 credits, whereas I was struggling to keep the fleet supplied while using the BC.

I imagine the proper thing to do is to level up sufficiently until you can support your fleet of smallships AND some freighters, THEN buy a battlecruiser. Not Wolf->Medusa->Conquest.

Saint Celestine fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Sep 16, 2013

# ¿ Sep 16, 2013 14:45

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# ¿ May 19, 2024 09:51

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

chami posted:

Pretty much, and always be open to piloting destroyers or frigates when you don't need to break out the battlecruiser to deal with other capital ships. Maintaining the big ships if you bring them out every time is murder on your supplies.

I miss the previous version though, where I could run around with my fleet of 5 battleships and just roll through everything.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2013 14:53

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

SHAOLIN FUCKFIEND posted:

Uomoz helped me set up a system for Blackrock, and basically moved everything there. So I've been making it pretty.

Not 100% sure what to call the sun/system yet.

OOoo Pretty.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2013 19:38

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

How do you attach a tug? Just have it part of your fleet?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2013 16:42

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Voyager I posted:

Yeah, armor ships kinda kick rear end. You burn drive into the enemy's face and let your armor protect you while dump damage into some high-tech rear end in a top hat until his shield overloads and he folds like a paper bag. You really don't want to get into standoffish flux wars because your shields are just too lovely to win that kind of fight and your mobility is really only good for getting up in grills (or running away afterwards if your engines are still online). You will gradually bleed armor while the enemy backs off from pressure until you eventually die.

Unfortunately, the AI really does like to use those shields like it's an Aurora or something.

There should be a ramming ship. Like that one hilarious mod with the hammer ship that was literally a flying hammer.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2013 20:02

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Paging Shaolin -

Requesting a Blackrock ship with massive engines and extremely heavy frontal armor .

# ¿ Sep 17, 2013 20:52

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Kersch posted:

A tiny, super dense ship. No weapons, no shields. Tons of armor and burst jets to ram things.

In fact, just take an asteroid and attach engines to it.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2013 21:34

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Hermetian posted:

Am I the only one who just leaves the missile slots empty on big ships? Maybe it's just me, but the burst damage just doesn't seem that useful compared to more flux vents or hullmods.

I leave them empty as well.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2013 15:19

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Can I modify how much supplies a ship uses and will it affect my saved game or do I have to start a new one?

I want to try some of these ships, but having one suck down 45 supplies a day is no fun.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2013 03:59

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Shadowmorn posted:

I love how you dont even get to wing it with the hulk of your ship. Denied in every way imaginable.

I like how you dont even SEE the enemy, its just this huge gently caress-off beam that comes in and vaporizes your ship in a second flat.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2013 20:45

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# ¿ May 19, 2024 09:51

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

SHAOLIN FUCKFIEND posted:

Everything in the gif except for the Lasher is from my mod.

Why is every single gif we have of this game so far about some poor frigate getting hypermurdered?

I have an neutrino battleship with 6 neutron lances? I can make a gif of an Onslaught getting hypermurdered if youd like?

# ¿ Sep 27, 2013 18:49

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