Starsector thread: whine about the inclusion of a hardcore mode after years of LARPing as a hardcore gamer edition.
>>2439592>hardcore mode You wanna know what's hardcore...
>>2439592Why would I whine about that?
>>2439627fpbpalso>calling some gay shit gay>le whining™
Finally thank you Alex
>>2439632>fpbpfamily planning benefit program?I can't wait to see how they fuck that- oooooh>>2439592It's just a race to the bottom of proving your selfworth to voices on the internet. Ain't gonna touch it, because my autism is required elsewhere.
>>2439673>game "development" is just taking fan made mods and slapping them into the gamedishonest game design
>>2439673>May 26
>>2439592Why does the player have to retire after just 25 years anyway? The in-game reason is I haven't had a single game last longer than 20 years but what's the lore reason? Are they canonically already 60+ or something? Commanding ships isn't that intensive. Something that would be cool instead is a health stat that decreases based on time and actions. Getting your ship blown up, especially if the hull breaks apart, should be a pretty big blow to your health for example. That would encourage you to play a bit safer, run reinforced bulkheads, and even transfering off of a ship to pretty much doom it but ensure you aren't on it when it blows up. If crew morale was ever introduced that last one would be the easiest massive morale penalty as well.
>>2439716I predict the "limit" is going to be meaningless as it's going to be like 100k creds a month to become adeptus mechanicus and become eternal when your volonoes are already collectively making 10 mil a month.
>>2439716Alex already caved on that issue. Now the retirement cost no longer scales over time. It's purpose is to symbolize that you've beaten the challenge of extended mode (and get you to stop playing because Alex realizes the later stages of his game are mediocre.)
Speaking of, who's the oldest human in the lore?
>>2439740Kanta.Mostly a clanker now, but was actually around when the domain was a thing.>>2439734>(and get you to stop playing because Alex realizes the later stages of his game are mediocre.)Calling bs on that myth.
>>2439734>to symbolize that you've beaten the challenge of extended modeYou can "beat it" by just sitting around doing literally nothing for 25 years. Having the game running in the background for a set amount of time is not an achievement. Then again, in a game with no endgame, what is?
>>2439698yeah at least he doesn't charge $20 for nerfed versions of them like that faggot tyrone that makes rimworld. shit nonetheless tho
>>2439673>may 26>this fucking jeet
>>2439782You clearly haven't read his book
>>2439792"read my book, goy :^)"
>>2439740Anyone from a cryosleeper?
>>2439805Does it really count if they're on ice?
>>2439809If you had fags on ice, would it count in court?
>>2439816"he said he was a cool faggot like freddie mercury, your honor"
I hope there's some more Brother Cotton content in the future. he's so chill and I love LP
>>2439852there's only 2 luddics I trust to be actually honest and faithful, Brother Cotton and Jethro.
>>2439592>Update still not outAt least we have this to keep us going https://youtu.be/Yq16EzJ-jQo?si=55C01QhA0-v-idEb
>>2439868goodbois
>>2439888such a good update. I just got the test pilot stuff maxed, and slapped the dash charge system on a capital. shit is gooood even though its 36 points
lol just tried it on a paragon too. watching the big fucker go WEEEEEE is the funniest shit I've seen since odyssey bowling
>>2439888Why does this insufferable faggot keep trying so hard to sound like sseth?
>>2439912sounds more like he's trying to roleplay Don LaFontaine but doesn't have the voice for it
>Do the MRC meme start>Immediately find a Legion (XIV)Blessed run. Thanks be to Ludd.
>>2439927blessed campaign start! I have really been enjoying it and having a bunch of little mechs chopping shit down with swords. been getting good capital ship drops too
btw, get you a few of those AA valkyries and slap wingcom on them asap. its so fucking good
sorry, wrong thread. why do they look the same ahhh
>>2439942I've already grabbed a few. Fielding them in mass seems strong, but all those coffins shreds your crew.
>>2439912>trying so hard to sound like ssethI don't he's trying anon, I think that's his voice
>>2439957yeah think I put pirate valkens on all of mine, or kyoukos. went to try out threat with my current fleet a few mins ago, and MRC got sat bombed to death while I was gone so no more arma questline on this save. sindria and hmi have been suuuuuper-aggressive to MRC, and nex keeps making bounty hunters teleport onto me as soon as I leave a system, so I kill 2-3 -> ohnoesss more sat bombs. like, calm down boys. I'm the one shooting up to get ghetto temporal shell in my mechs
shit, nm. sindria just invaded new meshan. I can just take it back
>>2439888ArmaA is cringe since the dev removed the Bihander LPC 200 years ago
>>2439958It's the inflections and the rthythm and flow up speech, he's blatantly imitating, and his comedy + editing style makes it even more obvious. Just cringe shit all around.
Say, since the HMG is going to get the General tag, is Elite Point Defense still going to work?
>>2439966I believe alex said it will have the pd_also tag so it should still work with PD skills and hullmods
great, so my stupid hmg + thunderhead build remains viable. somewhat.
Hm. wonder if there will be another retarded ship like the anubis this patch that I still wont use
>>2439964this boy just discovered shitposting vids. there's like fifteen guys I have personally watched that do that lol
>>2439964Is your favorite movie Boss Baby, by any chance?
ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>2439980NTA but he's clearly imitating Seth in his speech mannerisms. No one actually talks like that, it's a performance for videos.
Over a year for literally nothing. Whats in this system anyway? Just some random spooky shit that doesnt matter?
yeah, I took meshan back and forgot to give it to based luddic path. I feel gross now. think it's reload time!
>>2439983me irl when 0.96 came out and it was just some luddic church quests and the invictus
>>2439989
I wonder what ol' papa cheddar and osama bin luddin are up to these days
>>2439409What mod is that?
>give colony I invaded to LP>"2 AI cores have been hidden away from luddic path">my contact disappearsO.O it's like Yachiru on bleach all over again
Did Armaa get a secret update or something? Why is it suddenly being talked about a lot? It's still 3.25 on forum with a wip 3.3.1 on git, both pretty old updates.
dunno. I'm using 3.2.5 and havent used it in years so it's new to me
>>2440045The 3.3.1 is only a few weeks old.But to answer your question, a popular youtube person made an ARMA video.
nobody expects the astral drive-by ahhhhhhhhhhh
>be me>on this s-modded insulated engine+solar shielding invisible stormproof fleet kick>pretty comfy time>like 150 sensor profile with a full fleet and sustained burn on>on my way to a spysat mission>see pic related on the way with no point cost to recover>iaintevenmad.jpg
>mfw Dawn Given-Unto-God won't join up with a Sindrian fleetWhy the fuck not? We literally dindu nuffin, get in the mech, whore.
>>2440080my wife is too pure for the gas men
it's perfect
>>2440080PURPLE TRUMP WILL NOT DIVIDE US
>>2440080>will leave if you use Shroud weapons>will leave if you satbomb He*e or Tr* tach>will not join Sindrian fleet>hates it if i go full patherHere is your Trad Luddic tomboy GF bro
>>2440095well thats gay. I wanted to go full pather
>>2440095She chills over shroud stuff if you select the right option in her shrine events. Though that is currently not working in the latest version. There's 3 states for her, normal, hopeful, and independent. Hopeful doesn't have any interactions but independent makes her a bit more flexible.
>>2440045Last I heard about it outside of Mediocre Tuber Videos was some drama where a guy got really mad about ships from Derelict Expansion making that one mission where you divebomb a planet too hard and whining at the dev until it was changed to use a whitelist to placate him.
lol DEX is such a good mod
>>2440109Did they just not use any mechs or something? DEX ships can be a tough nut to crack but they are at the end of the day shieldless shitters piloted by gammas firing primitive weapons. Most mechs in the mod can easily handle even capital grade ships with hit and run tactics.
>>2440128This was an autistic sperg even by the standards of this game's community. What triggered the meltdown wasn't even one of the really nasty ones, it was the fat fuck damper cruiser that just sits there and gets shot while other ships try to close on you.Then he started screaming about how he used the nuke command repeatedly because it wasn't fair or some shit, and proceeded to whine about DEX being OP for like five days.Fucker got the DEX dev to nerf the damage on the quadcoil-lookalike too somehow, and now the thing does basically no damage to armor. How the fuck do shitters have so much sway in this community?
>discord drama sbout literally whos
>>2440128true story. I chopped down an astral with the valkhazard sword while being fighter spammed
>>2440136>discord drama that directly makes mods worse because every modder randomly caters to some litterally who
>>2440139play meme modsget memed on
>>2440140What mods are not memes anon?
>>2440141the ones not influenced by d*scordi.e none
>>2440028Ship Mastery System. It lets your ships (and NPC/enemy ships) "level up" and gain perks, and also adds a bunch of exploration content.
Reminder that most people who were crying about needing something like extended mode to prolong the early game also bitch and moan every time they have to actually do early game combat and skip straight to late-game.For good reason, shit ships with no officers exacerbate the ai and balance issues which are by far the worst parts of the game with hyperspace mechanics being a close second. And i’d be a good opportunity to convince Alex to do something about both if only everyone on the forums took a break from dick-riding him lomg enough to tell him
>>2439904Now put this shit on an Invictus
>>2440166I like early game combat because I can use a single frigate or destroyer to solo the enemy's shitfleet.
>>2440309already "upgraded" to the 3.3.1 pre-release version that nerfs it to be destroyer/frigate only. no idea why dudeman had it cost 36 points on a capital to just be like HEHE WHOOPS and neuter it
>>2440166this>>2440342stop fucking around Alex
>>2440166It's mostly down to weapon design. Alex thinks that all weapons must either be overpriced or suck, so you get stuck with dogshit weapons in the early game because early game ships can't mount anything better.Any mod that gives access to Weapons That Actually Work early game such as the previously mentioned derelict mod make it far more enjoyable. Though it must also be said that weapons being bad, variants being bad, and ships being bad are all downstream of every enemy in the game having no strategic AI except mashing the Full Assault button after 30 seconds, except for the Threat for some reason. Make the enemy AI not shit, and suddenly everything else is allowed to improve.
>>2440344Thr same exact litterally who that whined about the Jeinus mission whined it was OP so it was removed to cater to said litterally who.
>>2440361ohhhhhh good. I mean, I think you're full of crap, but we'll go with that
oooh this little LG destroyer mech called the Cetan is pretty leet. it has a bigass lobster claw option that's like a mini-TPC and just a good well-rounded ship
Shill Wide Horizons to me
>>2440599Bigger sector, bigger loot, more planets, more things to explore. also some black void neutron stars and purple hyperspace cloud
>thinking about how tahlan is useful sometimes even though I ignore legio and GH shit usually>see this
>>2440626sometimes i like tahlan for based ships like the castigator and kassadar being a great pit stop on the outer rimand then shit like this shows up and im pulled back into nia tahl's magical bullshitsell it to the pirates
>>2439409What mod is this from?
>>2440675you read my mind, son. thats exactly what I did :D
>>2440698>>2440165
Alex you aren't going to get away with this
I will take his watermelone
found one of these floating and it is reeeeeally fun. solid in a group too. comes from caymon's ship pack
Well, done with another playthrough. Tried using Hivers Swarm, because the idea of fighting back a gigantic army of zerg/tyranids sounded fun. They got their teeth kicked in.
>>2440827Main problem with Hivers (besides the obvious) is that it's clearly designed around everyone teaming up against the blatantly galaxy-threatening invaders, but Starsector doesn't work that way from either a lore or gameplay perspective.
>>2440838yeah Rarr did a video where he tried to save the galaxy from them, and all the other factions just kept shitting on him lol
>>2440838>>2440840It was pretty bad when Diable and Star Federation, my weakest faction mods, were beating them silly and repelling their strongest raiding fleets. It reminded me of the Adversary mod, which is a similar idea of an extremely high powered enemy faction designed to be a threat to the sector, but everyone dogpiled them and wiped them from the sector, without my help.
>>2440842yeah old hiver swarm was fucking hardcore. he has chickenshit difficulty options now because of it. they used to just spam 10 capital fleets at you over and over
>>2439673saaryour izzat debt saar
>>2440165>It lets your ships (and NPC/enemy ships)It doesn't actually do anything for NPC shipsits just a cheatmod like any other mod that messes with skills and s-mod stats
>>2440875>It doesn't actually do anything for NPC shipsYou didn't play the mod.Either that or you're a pussy bitch who turned the mod difficulty to the easiest settings to disable enemies from leveling up, making your post entirely disingenuous.
>>2440878>You didn't play the mod.I haveI also know javaI looked at the codeYou don't know what you're talking about and it shows
>>2440889There's literally a listing on the ships that have levels in their hullmod section. And on endgame enemy fleets you can see them use level 7 (max level) effects, such as Wolf/Medusa teleporting around with their modified Phase Shift, or Novas getting a shitload of damage resistance. Those are not passive effects you can ignore the existence of, they actually happen right in front of you. You can even modify the NPC fleet level variance in the settings.But sure, keep pretending you know what you're talking about.
The problem with any mod that increases the s-mod limit is that enemy AI ships will just get random s-mods that may or may not drastically improve the overall functionality of the ship. Meanwhile for the player it allows to optimise insanely OP builds. Same goes with exotica technologies, bionic alteration, and just about any other powercreep mod. They're all very thinly veiled cheatmods.
>>2440896You don't even need mods for that. Best of the Best is one of the objectively best skills in the game for a reason.
>>2440897Mods like progressive s-mods and the like allow you to boost ships to upwards of 7 s-mods without the cost of dedicating skill points into a tree. Pretty big difference if you ask me.
>>2440896Like another anon said earlier, most of the balancing problems stems from the AI just being shit at the game. I don't think it'd be reasonably hard to make late game fleets have specific S-mod setups (some mods already do that with their scripted fleets) so that they don't seem so arbitrary.
>>2440894YeahThose do exactly nothingall you're seeing is just placebo
>>2440926You did not play the mod.
>>2440844to be fair, last I remember the designs are entirely unintuitive, what with the dainty dragonfly being much tankier than that fucking bulky battleship bug and the fucking fighters are the worst with that fucking hyper tankiness and regenerating health on top of having standard weapons and the flux to shoot them constantly.if your fighters are, on a 1 to 1 basis strong enough to kill omens, you've failed at balance.
While I have no idea whether the masteries actually work for enemy fleets I can safely say Ship Mastery System is a cheat mod for the logistics masteries alone.A single Atlas being able to carry over 5k cargo is insane.
>>2440973>A single Atlas being able to carry over 5k cargo is insane.vanilla bulk transport + s-holds gets you past 4k
>>2440973You don't need more than 2 vanilla Atlas' (and that's already pushing it) worth of storage anyway. 7-8k cargo will carry everything you need unless you're trying to ferry around multiple capitol ships while exploring (lmao) or autistically need to stockpile all the useless food/ore/etc you find while exploring.
>>2440896lol I saw a guy use exotica once and it was just rigged as fuck. was like, "people play like this... why" >>2440961yeah back then I just remember LOLFIGHTERS XDEEEE ALL UR FRIGATES AND DESTROYERS R DEAD :^) and there was this busted-ass large energy weapon that was like 700 damage 700 range and like no flux cost. they would invade everyone with like 9 of those capital spam fleets and have like 40 fighter wings per fleet. I fought off an invasion once for like an hour, and was like 'fuck this gay shit'
Gib burn drive or plasma burn or, ideally, plasma jets to this mofo so it can keep up with fast cruisers on the opening dash. It doesnt have enough guns to kite at the distance anyway so no need for maneuvering jets.
In the upcoming extended mode, besides doing stuff at the core like trade, bounty hunting and stealing convoys, the only profitable end game without colonies will be basically aiming for the blue AI skill and run a crewless fleet to hunt ordos? Or will fuel expenses fuck this one up too?
>>2441019it already has jets and unstable injector lol
>>2441047Its still slow!
>>2440986I have the need to autistically survey every planet and loot everything of value.Except probes with defenders, fuck those.
>>2441019>Falcon (P) is too flow, Gotta go fast>Not taking polarised armour for the speed boostSkill issue
>>2440360An idea came to me in a dream to have each "faction" have 3 tiers of fleets decided by how retarded the fleet's particular admiral(strategic AI) actually is. Decided by the orders he gives, officers he uses, and variants on his ships.Tier 1 is basically vanilla AI, retarded, full attack dakka mode. Tier 2 has a core of decent ships with good officer selection that he knows how to use, but the supporting elements are still used poorly. Essentially the fleet has 1 actually scary "fist" but everything else is still kinda ass.Tier 3 is essentially riced player fleet tier. Optimized officers and ships for a specific playstyle that is then used relentlessly, and you better know how to counter it or space yourself now. Like tier 1 pirate fleet commander could be just a particularly successful druggie with a life expectancy of 2 more weeks that has a bunch of shit frigates and a couple of armed freighters he just throws at shit.Tier 2 would be called something like gang boss and be the type of pirate smart enough to survive but not ruthless or cunning enough to thrive. He would have a core of good converted military ships like the Falcon (P), Shade (P) etc that he would keep in formation while he commits his cannon-fodder to the fight hoping to split your fleet up and pick it apart with his actually good ships.The tier 3 would be something like a Fleet Boss or warlord and do the same as above but with nothing but good, (P) ships and better weights to his decision making. If i only went into coding rather than business and could write that shit myself, oh well.
>>2441073A proper tier 3 fleet would rape 99% of players, including (You)
>>2441076That's the point, by the end-game you have unlimited resources and fleets, might as well have the other factions put up some sort of a fight by having a couple of absolute thug fleets on your level.
>>2441089'On your level' will never happen simply because AI abuse is a thing.
>>2440994Yesterday’s Hivers vs today’s Anubis spam, who wins?
>>2441073this is already in game, cf the top end special bounties
>>2441019Behold. The best Pirate version of any ship in the game.
>>2441019Now that I think of it burn drive would prolly be a nerf since the AI is very clever and likes to kamikaze the ship against the enemy while eating fire and burning its engines in the collision (the falcon is made of paper). Given that the ship is capable of a linked six sabot volley (plus 4 in reserve) on the opening attack followed by a couple of reapers/jackhammers and literally no one uses this for end game purposes (the player can also send some distractions ahead to avoid damaging them) I think its an acceptable trade-off for a high rish/high reward low endurance small skirmish ship. Its also 20 DP so...
>>2441048then it needs SAFETY OVERRIDES!!!!!>>2441054this. there could be a 4 mil credits modded blueprint around the corner! (it says 5 but its 4. lying faggots)>>2441056isn't the speed boost next patch?
>>2441239>4 mil credits modded blueprintGood find!That's going straight into the colony storage, never to be touched again.
>>2441241I sold it to pirates. fuck yeah pirates
I'm tired of shooting down retarded pirates and pathers. Is it possible to do a Eurotruck-esque run till I amassed enough credits to buy a colony? I am never going to build one, by the way.
>>2441254uh yeah. it's called "sell drugs or do exploration"
>>2441254yes. you actually make more money that way
>>2441254Just get a trade contact on a planet that perpetually has more output than it can sell.
Apparently because I updated magiclib and not aotd, aotds piece of shit vibecode forces a crash upon clearing veil of knowledge because it no longer recognizes the achievement system but still tries to send the achievement.crashes of the domain strikes again
>Everybody gets a lil pissy if you satbomb the Fang society from HMI SupervillainsThey're literally mutant cannibal rapists, the High Hegemon should be shipping the finest whores to me for my hard work.
>>2441375the fang society might be mutant rapist terrorists but i would NEVER EVER NEVER satbomb their planets
>>2441377>You didn't make them suffer anywhere near enough, captain.>A swift death from an anti-matter warhead is a far easier end than filth like that deserves.>Next time, starve them to death.O-okay, High Hegemon...
>>2441254F1 game with at least 5k in cargo, always looking for more than 1 commodity at the same time and always on the lookout for that juicy heavy armaments/machinery runs that show up from time to time.You buy and sell in the black market. Yes its boring AF (but it works).
>>2441041No, Remnants will be too expensive because monthly maintenance or some shit. You will only be allowed to have fun by running fleets of nothing but max-Dmod Ramparts with Derelict Operations.
>>2441381>posting the soulless version
>>2441394>You will only be allowed to have fun by running fleets of nothing but max-Dmod Ramparts with Derelict Operations.based, sign me up
>>2441373that's on magiclib for breaking backwards compat, not something a library should do lightly. duplicate functionality if you really have to
>>2441395>not posting the other version so I can see the sovl
>>2441392*Speaking of trade, why cant we see the transactions log from the games interface?
>>2441399The problem is aotd is a vibe coded shitmod that has code that attempts to force push an achievement with a singular "does magiclib exist" check that naturally crashes the game if it can't push said achievement. Or as the dev put it>for some reason, the AotD dev, rather than handling when the achievement could be null, added code to specifically crash the game if the achievement is null>and the IDE was probably warning them that it could be null, and they disabled the warning by adding the crash if it's null
>>2441373>>2441432>Wahh I updated a mod to an indev beta version only hosted on github and it broke compatibility for dependent mods!>This is (dependent mod)'s fault!This is user fault you dumb nigger. The MagicLib update would be on the forums if the dev didn't expect it to cause issues.
I wonder how this went down.(haven't helped the pirates in any way).
Alex is genuinely retarded. I remember a couple years back when the crash code shit was big and in a few mods, Alex categorically refused to do anything until the Lion of Anime girls made a video on the topic.He truly is Russian in the worst ways, utterly refusing to learn from his mistakes, continually face planting from sheer ego.
>>2441445This same crash is included when using the stable magiclib on the forum. That's the point. If you disabled achievements aotd would force crash after veil 100 out of 100 times. The fix was to enable achievements just for veil then disable them again. The indev version has had no other issues so far because no other mod was as retardedly vibecoded as aotd.
>>2441455>This same crash is included when using the stable magiclib on the forum. That's the point.I cleared the veil of knowledge on the current versions of AOTD and MagicLib without a crash, so that's a lie.
>>2441458The current version of AOTD includes a fix which was added after the magiclib dev comments above, but it also requires toolbox which was the dev going full retard.Which is why I started with>updated magiclib and not aotdThe only available pre-toolbox version, VOK 4.2.3, does not have the achievement fix.
>>2441455>>2441458Oh I misunderstood, disabling achievements causes the crash. I looked into it and it seems this Purple Nebula implemented this "fix." Yeah, seems to just be a retarded dev.
>>2441464
>>2439627Will Rapesector still be enjoyable if I can only get off to self defense rape?
>>2441466Rapesector allows you to recruit captured officers and romance NPCs for certain traits.It also adds slave commodities, though they use a hentai pic for an image.
yeah just found out SWP makes the prometheus mk2 dick of ludd ship have build-in extreme modifications, and gives the lp enforcer a bunch of gay built-in shit in addition to extreme mods on top of ill-advised mods, but this can be edited out in the variants folder without recompiling the jar
>>2441468Can I screw the cores?
>>2441477cogsucker
>>2441403if you don't know it you don't deserve it
>>2441432i'm entirely open to the idea that boggled is a fucking idiot, but even if he is, aggressively, changing the lib version should not cause a crash that is not present with previous library versions
>>2441491"I have nothing but I'll le pretend to know something u don't :^) XD": the post
guess it didnt spam fast racks fast enough lol
You know what's worse than cheatmods?Mods that are balanced around the assumption that (You) are using cheatmods.
>>2441546>babby discovers soft dependencies for the first time
>>2441497>boggled???
best modslop to play the game for me? i need something thats OP but i can pretend its just my elite skillz
>>2440896>>2440994>>2441596Very interesting takes. Appreciate real hardcore gamer pros making themselves heard. I take it you guys are looking forward to extended mode?
>>2441596If you stack high end UAF strike craft with Second in command Strike craft buffs and AA's WINGCOM Hullmod on carriers the game will literally play itself.Super Forlorn my BELOVED
you're gay and homosexual for reporting that thread trannies
>>2441680gay and homosexual thread-reporting tranny general
>>2441510lurk more faggot
Dead threadDead gameDead modding sceneDeadydead
>>2441680lol casual mode tranny malding
>>2441623"very interesting" useless comment online
>>2441697>'you weren't here for years reading 'i hate noah tahl' and 'everyone is a tranny but me :^)' posts just to see one pic on 4chin'>'l...l-lurk moar :<' as you choke on your mcrib
>new game>iron shell fuck yeah>see station defense mission>'eternal iron'>could it be?>IT IS \o/
>>2441254I like running a trade fleet doing space trucking missions, each successful mission increases your reputation and makes the next ones larger and higher paying. Eventually they become near impossible with matching payouts.
>>2441759all this butthurt when you could've just lurked
>>2441788yeah lemme go back in time and give a fuck about your worthless posts oh wait
>>2441777Gotta go an all Atlas fleet with built in militarized systems, insulated engine assembly, and augmented drive fields.
haven't played in 4 years what mods are hip and cool these days
>>2441875The ones the deranged tranny will start seething about below me.
>>2441875Same shit since there's no new shit
>>2441875you could have played starsector ten years ago and it would be the same
>>2441906>>2441915i am seeing a lot of familiar namesthis ashes of the domain thing seems both new and very extensive, is it cool or retarded?
>>2441917gay and retarded
>>2441917AotD adds a le heckin wholesome quirky chungus AI faction whose mission is to safeguard humanity and act as upstanding paragons of virtue. You get a bluesky self-insert catlady sidekick to fly around a purple ship while making marvel quips and she'll be there to remind you that genocide is wrong, okay?
>>2441917I think it's neat, but it makes building up your colonies a long and involved process.The current hip mod is ARMA, there's a 3.3 beta on the forums.
>>2441924That's Secrets of the Frontier anon, not Ashes of the Domain.
>>2441924Nigger that's secrets of the frontier.
>>2441924thats sotfi also want to fuck seraph
>>2441928>>2441929>>2441931Oh yeah my bad, all these acience fantasy names just blur together sometimes.AotD is okay for maybe one playthrough. Mega projects pretty much ensure you're going to be colonising the same two planets every playthrough. The colony powercreep is fucking ridiculous.>plop down own built gate>+800% accessibility
>>2441924>catlady sidekickdownloading immediately
>>2441942It's not an actual catlady more like a mothlady.
>>2441953Even better!
>>2441935Accessibility doesn't really matter much. All it does is decide the order trades are resolved.
>Turn off Transponder>Raid planet for blueprints>Jump through a gate while being chased by 5 patrolsHeh, they'll never know who that was!
I never really bothered to check out the other Sunrider capitals besides the Redhead and Sunrider, but the Machiavelli, despite its poor flux stats for the amount of guns it wants to fire and surprisingly low armor and hull for a big ass shieldless ship that costs 60dp, is actually kinda fun. Would be funner with a burn drive instead of the plasma burn since one charge barely even goes more than half the length of the ship due to its size but I'm still enjoying it.
>>2439592I'll complain about it because it was a huge waste of dev time when we only get one update every fifteen months
>>2442094there's no endgame because alex is out of ideas, not time.
>>2441875>4 yearsCheck out the vanilla stuff. There's two new factions in the abyss and a new OC donut steal ship.
UNF YES RIGHT THERE YES RIGHT IN MY STARSECTOR KEEP GOING
>>2442005Accessibility is a straight up infinitely scaling multiplier to all of your income. AotD allows your single colonies to generate 8 digits of income per month.
>>2441856baste
>>2441697How's your life progressing? :^)
>>2441388it's just like real life
The next update will release in October.
>turn off a bunch of mods>yep, nex too>start new game>I MISS NEX MINING :<<<<<<>repeat
Selkie Selkies
>>2441875this is so truemakes my blood boil when one of my retarded harbingers gets chased by a Glimmer and then raped to death by 4 Brilliants.i don't have the time nor the will to babysit my fleet.
>>2439927What's MRC?
>>2442415Meshan Reprisal Coalition, very small terror faction added by Arma Armatura.
>>2440109That mission is so fucking good, the one where you can only bring frigates and mechs, right? What is the song that plays during it? Cause it's really good.
much like the vanguard, no one cares about your get in another thread, fag
cared enough to reply lol
>>2439592Alex could add more depth to it in my opinion. Let our dude/dudette have kids so they can keep the family business/company/empire alive.Maybe take a page from Stellaris (ik people shit on it for good reasons, but some stuff in it is interesting) and add sector-wide crises that threaten all factions in the Sector after a certain date. That scaly furry Gwyvern did something similar with his lizard people mod.
HEHE SUCH A HECKIN TROLLERINO
>>2442513yeah some guy on the forums suggested a marriage/new game+ kinda thing with their kids and that seemed cool. I'd play that if you could track it, and be like "lol ten generations of my family were humble miners for the luddic church"
also Alex must be smoking crack fucking cocaine to not have added nex mining to the base game yet. that shit is so cash and on-theme
>>2442209How? Even in vanilla doesn't accessibility just impact your market share?Also either way you should be using Corrupt Officials
>>2442513>>2442518The ingame time honestly doesn't really run fast enough to make that a valid addition.Besides, how would you even add family members to the game? As officers or commanders of their own fleet?
>>2442571I assume just generate a new character once you hit retire like "you are the daughter of Anon, blahblahblah following in his footsteps", lvl 1 captain
you could even set up some shit like a galatia stipend on the newgame+ like a trust fund that's 20% of how much money you had when you retired. it'd be pretty cool and simple
my mining dream is REAL. thank you Vayra-chan (and all the people that update that mod) \o/
>>2442522>tons of ships explicitly said to be used for mining>tons of weapons also used for mining>can build mining operations>can watch mining fleets spawn from planets and go places>cant click a fucking asteroid for some metalsits honestly absurd
>>2442602yeah, man. dude dropped the ball
no matter how much good Alex has done with this game, it will forever be known as the one where "defend X" means "run away from X screaming in terror"
Let's play this by the numbers.
this is a bad game held together with a decent combat system, hit or miss lore, and community memes
>>2441875Arma Armatura is pretty cool.Tartiflette's mods are still alive thanks to maintenance, and some like DA have gotten some new goodies.We also got a few nice mods that appear here from time to time. RapeSector (the direct successor to Take no Prisoners) and Buckbreakers (the perfect anti-mod mafia ship pack)
>>2442803did onslaught intensifies ever get updated? last i have is from 0.95
>>2442803buckbreakers a bootleg of DME? that would make sense
>>2442807Buckbreakers is standalone, if i remember well. Some of the ships are based in DME stuff.
>>2442818ah, alright ty
>be me>luddic church nexmining fleet>get beat up legions>get them more d-mods from shit ai decisions>do a bunch of those 'more military missions' station fights>release every shit captain because Iaintclickinthatshitnigga.jpg>buy cheap single d-mod invictus>keep mining and running volatiles>get jumped by some gay 10-capital spam star lord fleet>die>reload>run away>chases me into hyperspace along with some other capital spam star lord fleet>story point escape>run to next system >see warning beacon (high)>actually have a good idea>wait>now I have free blackup from releasing all those 'remnant' human captains from station fights, niggers
>>2442802Name one good game then
>>2442803Is Buckbreakers a faction mod or ship pack?And can it work standalone even if I don't use any OP faction mods?
>>2442844Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
>>2442913fuck yeah majesty
>>2442897>Is Buckbreakers a faction mod or ship pack?Ship pack>And can it work standalone even if I don't use any OP faction mods?It's standalone, but just like RSec, you miss out on a few minor features if you don't have the OP factions installed, namely damage boosts vs. the OP factions.
>>2443033Don't show this to Nia Tahl.
>>2442913Good game. Not best game. Try again
>>2443051Too late. In case you weren't aware the code for the damage boost was initially ripped from one of Noahs mod. He had personal issues with certain modders and added it as a hidden damage boost for his Daemon ships against them (and some vanilla ships aswell for some retarded reason). Eventually he pulled the code when Alex stepped in because people were calling him out on his behavior and it was upsetting him (Noah).As fate would have it the code was saved and transformed into the Buckbreaker damage boost. The irony was when Noah found out about this he had a full on meltdown on the discord about how it was unfair, and called for anyone mentioning or using it to be banned from the discord.As you can expect, many lols were had.
>>2439698Why is this bad? There are people out there who have put almost as much time into developing their mod as the dev has his game. I've been annoyed so many times by other devs who won't listen to the feedback of a (skilled) thousand-hour player.
Player colonies are a mistake. He should just make colony management into its own game if he wants it. Forcing both parts together just makes colonies unsatisfying and causes plenty of annoyance in other aspects, even rewarding ignoring the core of the game.
>>2443104Player colonies would be good if the game economy actually made sense
>>2443104>Player colonies are a mistakeTrue>>2443135No
>>2443135Colonies are immobile so they force you to remain in one part of the map for a long time to babysit them. The game is supposed to be about space faring like in Endless Sky but instead half of the game becomes an X4 clone for special kids. If there must be a non-space-combat minigame then it should be about equipping, managing, and commanding your crew and your marines, who should be more than just a tradable commodity.
>>2443104It really should just be big quests/commissions from factions to survey and later colonize the world for them.
>>2443073lol if true. same jerkoff that was like HEHE I FUCKED UP CAPITALIZATION IN MY MOD WHICH BREAKS IT FOR LINUX. I M-M-MIGHT FIX IT >.<
>>2443169...for a few years
>>2443169>lol if true.You can see what remains of the "discussion" on the forums regarding his stealthnerfs: https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=14935.975 Alex had to prune several pages of back and forths. If you look at the actual buckbreaker code you can see it's heavily inspired by Noah's (screenshot). As for his meltdowns, those are pretty infamous, even in the forum discussion he was ranting back and forth giving various justifications for why what he was doing was acceptable, before back peddling and giving new excuses. It was only when someone called him a schizo and he played victim that Alex shut everything down.Should also be noted that after the whole event, on multiple occasions, he's asked how to obfuscate code so nobody could see what it was doing, but nobody is willing to help him.
>>2443186lol what a gigantic faggot. I saw people goof on him before, but didn't know why. ty
wait nm. I read this thread and him being like "HEHE ALCOHOL." forgot all about his faggy ass. I need ginseng mane
>>2443104>even rewarding ignoring the core of the game.By the time you get to colonies that make so much money you are infinitely sustained without any other source of income you're already in the victory lap phase of the game where there's nothing really left to do.
>>2442844Dawn of War 1 and 2 Underraildead space 2Resident evil 4Rogue TraderHalo 1 and reach Skyrim (With mods)
I just beat the second strike for the first time by doing retarded amounts of micro. 4x Anubis, 4x Onslaught. The attrition and trying to get the fabricators to loose CR was not fun at all. I snooped aroud r*ddit and youtube, it seems all the fleets/challenge runs are either some meme build, or "take a phase bait them in the other direction" kind of stuff. Are there any fleets that can take on the third strike frontally, by brute force, with the normal battle size?
>>2443274only 3 of those are good
>>2443274>no wizardry 8>no VTMB>no caves of qud>no kotors>no ribbledibble (carried hard by mods tbf)>no spacehaven>no kenshi
>>2442602>>2442522Not sure I like the way Nex implements mining, but the game really is missing some kind of way to implement such a playstyle.I get that Alex is probably thinking "Oh, but it's a game centered about combat" or "it would mess with the progression of the game", but I don't care.I think what I would like is for the player to be able to build little "outposts" that function in Asteroid rings, unhabited planets, and other stellar objects. These would function as miniature colonies that allow you to store goods in them for a small monthly sum of credits.These outposts should be able to be upgraded to function as small industries that slowly collect small amounts of resources produced in the outpost (like ores being produced in an orbital Ring, or Food and Organics in an unhabited Terran world), and the player would then have to visit the outposts manually in order to collect the output of the outposts to take them to sell it in the core worlds.Later on, the outposts can be upgraded to Colonies and then they can sell their own resources directly as well as grow in population independently from the player.
>>2443158>Colonies are immobile so they force you to remain in one part of the map for a long time to babysit themThe entire colony crisis system is dumb, colonies should require higher investment up front and minimum afterwards and they should always be profitable.
The simple fact of the matter is that Star sector is, unfortunately, one of the best games of all time.
>>2443335Oh god, THIS is the peak of gaming!?
>>2443304>outpostsyeah, nex has those but I use that + terraforming+station construction to fill that need. RAT also has some little mini-settlement mechanic too, which is cool. Alex needs to add mining, period. he can be like 'omg space combat' all he wants. he made colonies already
does rapesector work with the arma girls? havent played either and dont want both arma and uaf.
>>2443386Rapesector works with everything.Anon...are you gonna force yourself on that Luddic girl?
>>2443389
>>2443304the other reply mentioned RAT that lets you make a settlement on a planet you own, is uninhabited, or have a commission withgives you storage and access to some interesting buildings like a small scale gate you can warp to but not fromin fact the only thing it cant do in your post is upgrade to colony
>>2443389somehow doesn't work with starlords, thus ruining my plans of speedrunning 100% rep with my waifu, Camilla Long and marrying her ezpz
>>2443390>hey hey people
thinking about getting back into starsector. What mods are a necessity? And what mods do I avoid if I want to play with rapesector?
>>2443423>necessarynone except speedup, really. I'd say lowtech armada and ship+weapon pack for more variety but whatever you want really. and Alex giganuked all the crashcode shit, so rapesector is a go if you're into that
>>2443425Anyway to make rapesector compatible with .98? I feel silly for asking about it so much, but I can see myself using the prisoner mechanics for a more serious, non-fapping playthrough
>>2443427Change the 7 to an 8 and it just werks.It crashes if you feed the meat ship in space I think, and maybe if you open the codex on slaves? besides that it's good to go out of the box.
>>2443427yeah change the 0.97 to in mod_info.json to 0.98-RC8 iirc
>>2443389>Rapesector works with everything.Still has no SotF or Star Lords compatibility.Or even Nex. I want to sexually abuse my broken english AI waifu Midnight.
>>2443498it's in modsettings.json. just delete that line in this section and you're good
If I wanted to get into starsector and give mods a try which ones should I get? I also heard that some trannies make mods for this game and insert hidden malware in them? How do I know which mods are bad and which ones I should avoid?
>>2443665If you never played Starsector before, stick with the vanilla experience for a playthrough. You could pick up Audio Plus and SpeedUp if you want, but nothing more than that.After that you can add things at your discretion.>I also heard that some trannies make mods for this game and insert hidden malware in them?Mods you find on the forum are fine. Alex put a stop to the malware shit a long time ago. Now they fester exclusively on Discord. Never grab mods from Discord, even from the official unofficial one.
>>2443665>I also heard that some trannies make mods for this game and insert hidden malware in them?>How do I know which mods are bad and which ones I should avoid?90% of malware was from modders with a high discord presence. They are collectively known as the discord cabal. If you're not going to join the discord, a wise move, avoid mod that have patreons, recommend visitng discord for the "latest updates", and have dependencies beyond lazylib/nexus (magiclib and graphics lib dependencies are generally ok but but those two libs are buggy to begin with).
>>2443304>I get that Alex is probably thinking "Oh, but it's a game centered about combat"Can't you make a profit trading?(I've never acually tried)
>>2443713yeah. you can run drugs and heavy weapons to pirates and luddic path if they don't kill you while delivering them. supplies/fuel too but I skip those unless I robbed some trader that had thousands of extra ones. just smack f1 in a civilized system to see the current rates, and go get paid. there's a mod called space truckin' I hear is good, but more bar/military missions gives some convoy missions too
>>2443718Fuel and supplies can be worth selling to TT or Heg in the contested systems where they fight a lot. Really bad raiding can make a planet desperate for food too and there's always somewhere in the sector with a surplus of that.
>>2443718I had a wild thought earlier that is somewhat fitting to bring up now.Starsector really should have civilians as commodities.Now, hear me out. Stuff like the starliner exists, we see npc fleets flying transport duties, one quest is a transport mission, and the luddic pilgrims are transport missions as well. But we never really get to transport people. The starliner mentions how much better it is than the nebula to fly on, but what effect does that even have? The crew don't benefit, marines don't benefit, that's all we ever put in there. Where are the cruises? Transports, vacations, refugees, immigrants. Give us civilians that care about the quality of life onboard a ship. hullmods that increase the skeleton crew requirements and maintenance costs but also the quality of life on a ship, the higher the quality of life the more money or rep you get. Also give us a cruise ship type capital civilian transport that costs a stupid amount of supplies but has an equally stupid quality of life. The framework for all of this would also allow a future really good crew loyalty system as well. Imagine convincing your crew to have their families live on the giant cruise ship, skyrocketing loyalty and reducing crew costs as they can always visit their loved ones. It would also allow dropping civilians into a black hole. For warcrime maxxers.
>>2443719this. there's a Rarr video where he made asstons of money raiding people until they needed food bad enough to pay top dollar
>>2443724oh, making yourself a passenger transport fleet? yeah that's dank. I'd do that
>>2443724Endless sky is a better trade game.
>>2443335>no tranime>no microtransactions>no westoid walking simulator trash>no DRM>no online verification or third party launchers requiredYou may not like it, but this is peak.
>>2443724Logical endpoint of War Tourism>All squadrons, targets are the picket ships>Negative, target vessel selected by patrons
>>2443294only 2 of those are good
>>2442582>>2442571Does such a thing fit with the lore? How does time move with respect to the overarching storyline and whats eventually gonna happen to the Sector?
>>2443777Nothing after John Starsector takes command of his first fleet is canon.
>>2443186*nerfs your favorite mod*
>>2443808>favouriteThat's a reach.
RS update when
Sorry chuds, i think i need to test my extra long, time-wasting and grueling retarded mode even further2 more weeks
>>2443876We love extended mode here.
>>2443899Are the we in the room with us right now?
Does Rape sector have futa and can I be raped by them?
>>2443777nothing ever happens
>>2443724i remember there being a mod that adds a civilian onslaught that works as a cruise liner, dont remember which one or what it actually did
>>2443927>i remember there being a mod that adds a civilian onslaught that works as a cruise liner, dont remember which one or what it actually didIt's literally called SEEKER all caps in the forums(never getting updated because fuck you)
>>2443919t. Noah
>>2443919Just wait for extended schlong mode
>>2443904yes
>>2443969Isn't that mod the one with the goatse ship?
>>2443904I'm here, yes.
The next patch... Will not release in July.
good LORD what is happening in there
>>2443769you are fucking gay
>>2443995>good LORD what is happening in thereRum, sodomy, and the lash
>>2444011He's not fucking anybody with that taste
>>2443777>'THE LOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!!!!'>sandbox gamelol
>>2443899hurry up alex, you slow fuck
>>2443969I saw some guy fighting the plague ships from it with 0.98 the other day on jewtube. probably some discord special who knows. seeker was so cool
nm I dug through comments. he's using an old version
>>2443995An opportunity to make mad bank salvaging, is what!
>>2444086>pockets ¢24684 net after two weeks of tugwork
Once my colony reaches population 6, is there any reason not to deconstruct the cryorevival and disable freeport?
>>2444109Cryorevival is useless, but free port gives you extra income from drugs.
>>2444109freeport increases your accessibility and lets you export illegal goods. whether that's worth the stab drop varies.
>>2444108the legion i salvaged sold for like 30k by itself
>>2443665I'll give you a couple of popular mods to avoid because they bloat your game and add unnecessary janky shit:Ship/Weapon Pack: bloatTahlan,:massive, directionless bloat (if Legio were to be separated from the main mod and "fixed" they would actually be a pretty good faction mod)All other ship packs: pure trash + bloatAny mod by King Alfonzo is to be avoided mainly because of the performance issues, both in the campaign layer and when fighting their fleets.Industrial Evolution: just a bunch of useless shit
>>2444169retarded faggot post. SWP is the shit, and HMI owns
HE weapons are inherently cooler than kinetic or energy weapons.
>>2444132very nice, please look up what net means
I can't wait until alex discovers those videos where the guy stacks like 12 doom mines at once with neural link spam, has a meltie over his pet skill, and nerfs it into the ground because he hates the doom
>>2444213Mine Strike is pure AIDS though.
>>2444213the Doom is way too powerful in player hands desu
>>2444219>>2444223maybe he should've made it trash again like 0.81 with that gay interdiction shit instead of dicking phase ships (twice) and making the mines spread wide as fuck in random directions so they just miss a target they begin on top of
ITS OUT
it will never be out as long as alex sees jingling keys in another direction
>>2443051Oh, the troon knows. He'll never admit it, but we know he seethes so much that anyone who posts buckbreaker stuff in USC gets instabanned.Also, the Buckbreaker ships' damage boosts use Nia's own code against his shit. Legio Infernalis ships have, or maybe had, similar damage boosts against factions he doesn't like.
>>2443294>ribbledibbleWhat game?
>>2443981All ships are goatse ships when you enter hyperspace
>>2444269>Legio Infernalis ships have, or maybe had, similar damage boosts against factions he doesn't like.They still have itThe multiplier is even higher now
>>2444281ribworld niggy. the canadian game that stll hasn't figure out multithreading
>>2443294>>no kenshiAnon, I'm gonna hold your hand while I tell you that Kenshi is a terrible game. Anons only like it because they love playing with their dolls.Also, Kenshi 2 never ever.
>>2444316you are gay and wrong but so is all of san francisco
>>2442557Market share determines how much of the global pool of income for that resource you get, it is the one modifier that actually determines your income.Accessibility and number of resources produced just increases the market share.
IT'S QUIET
>>2444491You can take a look at my KoC while you wait: https://pastebin.com/3w8iuyc2(Current patchnotes for a 98.5a release)And feel free to complain about shit.
>>2444574Interesting image.How big is the Invictus and would 6000 people even fit inside it?
I know nothing about coding, How can i lessen the damage bonus for the Buckbreakers? I understand why he did it but one shotting capitals is boring.I guess i could delete the mod but i kinda like how the ships look.
>>2444644data>hullmods>buckbreaker_daemonslayer.javaLook for the lines: damage.setDamage(damage.getDamage()*6f); damage.setDamage(damage.getDamage()*2f);The 6f and 2f are the damage multipliers, change them to whatever you feels right 1f will be no damage change, 1.5f will be 1.5x damage and 0.5f will be half damage.It won't change the multiplier as shown in the tooltip though, that's at the bottom of the same file.
Any advice for a noob like me? I seem to eat shit a lot in the early game no matter what I do.
>>2441388Dude. Just go and conquer their worlds instead and then rape them all. Both the men and the women as an act of conquest and dominance.
>>2444684Thank buddy.
>>2444686Don't take fights where you are outnumbered.Bully pirates and luddics instead of trying to fight the big boys with actual ships.Salvage even shitty ships just to fill the ranks so your few good ones can do their job.Most importantly learn to fit out a ship, use the simulator if you must.
>>2444686Unironically don't ask here.
Where do I even get the mod? Quit holding out on me man.
>>2444686Recover every wrecked frigate you find and buy as many Gorgons from the Persean League as you can afford. Swarms of frigates with Gorgons and Efficiency Overhaul can spam out better fleets and absorb losses easily.
Why is John Starsector such a manslut and a rapist at the same time?
>>2444732He lives in a sector named after a greek
>>2444686we all did. looks like you'll have to play the game. whoa
>>2444752>NOOOOO YOU CANT TALK ABOUT A GAME NOOOOO HEAVEN FORBID YOU TALK ABOUT THE GAME
>>2444686More ships and officers in those ships. Also play around with fits a lot in the simulator, big thing is putting points into the flux stats is important.
>>2444686Those garbage pirate ships, recover them unless it requires a story point. If you ever fight without hitting the dp limit in a battle you are actively gimping yourself. You need ~200-240dp worth of ships plus replacements when they get blown up. That pirate hound with 5dmods might be fucking worthless in combat but it merely existing in combat will make it easier to win as it will draw attention and fire that would be targetting your actually useful ships instead.
>>2444686the ai is good at spotting when you've overextended with your flagship, so don't do that.
>>2444732It is his duty as a space marauder to go full Genghis Khan whenever he can.
>>2444686Understand hull mod interactions.
Alex killed his own gameRape his ass
>>2444574Not sure how true it is but I've heard somebody mention before that Alex said the in game sprites aren't to scale
>>2444758>"I don't wanna play the game :<<<<<<<<<< tell me everything p-pls"fixed
>>2444857it's completely truet. vaguely recalls the same
I have been thinking about trying out the "Terraforming Made Easy" mod, is it better than DIY planets?
>>2444956>addcredits 99999999 with extra steps
>>2444884Are you transgender? You give the impression of someone who squats on dildos in return for reddit upvotes. The ghost of synthetic estrogen wears your gynecomastea-ridden body like a cumsock, while you grind your anal sheath to pulp on the 15 inch dragon. Nothing personal, that's just the impression I get from the way you type.
>>2445009cry more faggot bitch n00b. aint reading your gay novel either
yeah space truckin' is pretty boss. enjoying it a lot
>>2445027
testing the 95.1 version of seeker with 98, and it's working fine so far.
>>2445030
>>2445040From the forum thread, apparently somebody on the d*scord is maintaining it. At least he has the decency to upload the mod elsewhere.https://github.com/S-Numan/Seeker/releases
>>2445100ooh, thanks anon! had no idea and I love seeker. old one's holding up well so far. the red hand cassowary ship is better than I remember
>>2443665Avoid any faction modsAvoid all QOL modsAvoid any mods that alter the base game in any wayDownload FoxDisable ItemsDownload Final Destination.
Does anyone else set virgin chance to 1% in Rapesector and then try to find the one unclaimed pirate trad wife to hold hands with while raping everyone else?
>>2445158Kino
>>2445158
>>2445158>>2445186Definitely riding the line for me, but I'm leaning towards BASED
>>2444644is it still 1 shotting them?Pretty sure I lowered the damage bonus since it was stacking on itself if multiple categories that triggers it was found on the same ship
>>2444732Pretty sure there's a John Rapesector version of this but I couldn't be assed to find it
>>2444758>>2445009>>2445027very interesting that you say you wanted to talk about the game yet didn't respond to all of the posts discussing the game and only responded to the person that insulted you!
>>2445692very interesting™™ that only one of those is me, you dumb faggot
>>2445700Why do retards post shit like this pretending like inspect element doesn't take a whole 5 seconds?
>>2439716Isn't Kanta like over a hundred years old and half the organ trade is based on extending the life of rich old humans? 25 Cycles is fucking nothing in this game, it takes months just to do a mission.
>>2445720READ THE BLOG NIGGA
>>2444791>That pirate hound with 5dmods might be fucking worthless in combat but it merely existing in combat will make it easier to win as it will draw attention and fireI don't think that the people manning that ship would be happy with this line of thinking
>>2445717What do autistic 4chan users think their random guesses are never wrong?
>>2445998Yes
>>2445944Throw them 1 credit more per month as hazard pay and they will agree to plug a hull breach with their nuts.
I hate Troonphira Conclave and I especially hate how the nigger responsible completely ruined the modding scene when xhe released BB+ for the first time.
>be me>try to play entirely as a bounty hunter and mercenary>end up barely scrapping by with the pittiful gains from bounty hunting>missions are either too hard or award you with pennies>sometimes get bent by a random pirate fleet coming out of nowhereFuck this I am going back to my usual merchant maxing. Seriously how do you mercenary goyim even make it?
>>2446264Returning your question, why would you play the merchant game? Isn't it like euro truck simulator but 2d? Like, everything except combat (arguably combat as well) is mediocre in the game.
>>2446265Yes it is basically Euro truck simulator, but I can make a few millions quit easily as a smuggler besides I enjoy mostly the empire building and economic manipulation in this game, I always avoid fighting space battles myself if I have the chance because I suck at combat, in the late game I always make my faction fleets fight for me
>>2446271the merchant class/playstyle is overpowered in every game it exists in, it's pretty crazy
>>2446271I enjoy the faction building the most as well, however I found the market system so lame that I could not make myself play it (And I shabbat shalomed in eve and crossout pretty much most of my playtime). I'll have to try it out
>>2446265>Isn't it like euro truck simulator but 2d?I wish it was.
>>2446356It's the funniest shit seeing the so called "economy" so called "system" being defended on the forum. It's the most retarded system in the history of systems.
>>2446265>Isn't it like euro truck simulator but 2d?Does Euro Truck have gypsies with proton torpedoes they use to steal your cargo and catalytic converters?
>>2446360AOTD makes the economy 'real" with actual demand and production, but that leads to other problems. The current merchant/pirate systems aren't enough to cause shortages, so there's no room for player interaction. Forced randomness is necessary.Starsector will never get an economy overhaul because Alex is too lazy to do any major changes.
>>2446502>Starsector will never get an economy overhaul because Alex is too lazy to do any major changes.Actually it is because he tried it once a decade ago, implemented it terribly, it lagged to shit, and he gave up and made the current system out of cope.
>>2446360I just wish tariffs changed based on shortages and supply instead of being a flat universal rate.
>>2446571mr president have you learned nothing
ok how about this>much heavier pirate presence in hyperspace>pirate and trade activity vary with each other based on various factors rather than set timers>pirates can demand a portion of a fleet's cargo or freighter ships rather than it being 100% life or death>this can cause limited/singular shortages of some items for colonies rather than massive ones>interacts with shielded cargo holds, some pirates may instead demand your ships with that hullmod rather than your other freighters>players can of course do all of this too>story point allows you to sneakily load less valuable cargo onto those ships rather than your more valuable/illegal cargo that would logically be on those ships>factions will solve in-system shortages much quicker - no more fuel shortages on volturnwhy do any of this? i don't know
>>2446659you have created a much more complicated system that - ideally - causes (practically) identical outcomes. at best this is a waste of time, at worst it creates cascade failures from fragile design concepts.
>>2446502>AOTDYeah and it introduces fuckton of bloat and useless fucking systems. He somehow managed to make it worse than IndEvo
>>2446791The problem is disable all the bloat doesnt actually disable it, it just stops it spawning in vanilla mapgen. Look at Noahs shitworks as an example, all the indevo shit is still active in his trans-systems even when you disable it.
Okay, should I get starsector if I want a comfy space game where I just travel around and trade with niggas?
>>2446906Play X4 or X3 instead
>>2446915What's the difference between the two?
>>2446906I wonder if C-Beams will be good for this, but judging by the trailer it doesn't look like it will let you move the focus away from combat
>>2446917In the X games you play as a single ship, but you can give orders to others.In Starsector you play as a fleet of ships outside of combat.Trading in X is about going to where supply is highest and selling it where the demand is highest, trading in Starsector is about plugging a hole in a supply chain that has broken for some reason.X lets you create a trading empire with hundreds of independent ships, starsector lets you start a colony you have to babysit for it to barely produce enough money to upkeep your own fleet.
>>2446906You can travel around and trade with others, but it's fairly simple and not the focus. Trade primarily exists to fund your combat and exploration.
>>2446924I meant about X4 and X3, but thanks for the heads up between X and starsector
>>2446945X4 is pretty much better in almost every way now after years of updates and DLC's, but X3 runs on weaker hardware and is still a solid game.
>>2446906Play endless sky. Missions tailor to your remaining capacity in seats and cargo so it always feel good to pick it up instead of the retarded ramping up and cooling down based on last completion that punishes you as soon as you do too much or too little of that mission and now you can't have you fill.Maps shows stuff prices, and mission destination of existing ones or available to take on instead of frantically going over text wall and options to pick up mission.Much larger civilized world to navigate and travel end to end.Not bad flavor text in events about material needed for earth day parade and farmer moving home to new colony as to something foul david would serve you with.>GameplayFor cruiser and trucker, remove generator and just fit a reverse thruster from a far region when you see it and pretty much you will never be caught in a fight.
Does anybody here even like this game?
>>2441076I'd love that. A foe that can beat me more than I can beat it.
my latest shitmodFactionNuker
Release the patch kittenDaddy is angry
>>2446992Very much so, yes.
>>2446992I only like the part where I am making progress while also not mindnumbingly eliminating endless fleets with my own because apparently everyone wants a piece of this one colony in the middle of bumfuck nowhere so the entire star system is a free-for-all for a rock that probably can't even support a single Legion.
>>2446992No.
>>2446992I do. Haven't been able to play in quite a while, though.
>>2447032Care to explain?
>3 months after the patch notes dropped>the patch is still so RAW Alex is still fiddling with re-designing existing mechanics>no doubt to make his retarded mode even more retarded by making any non-dogshit ship bigger than a hound un-crewableIt's so fucking over
>>2447107Don't forget the part where you have to pay officers a bonus per battle.
>>2447083Nukes selected faction(s) from existence at game start.
>>2446945>>2446917X3 is subdivided into X3, X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Albion Prelude, all set slightly further into the timeline. I'd recommend X3: Terran Conflict or X3: Albion Prelude (or the X3:AP mod that adds X3:TC plots making it one long game). X4: Foundations has a bunch of DLC that add to the main game, with a feature that DLC can be added in an existing game without problems. The big difference between the two is probably that you can walk around and outside your ship in X4 while in X3 you're stuck in the cockpit view. Gives ships a more pronounced sense of scale.X4 has a more detailed station building system where the player attaches modules to each other while in X3 the stations were large one piece deployments that could be linked via tubes. X3 has more ships and they're more varied while X4 has the ships follow constraints that limits their shape, accounting to fighters landing on small pads and medium ships landing on medium pads and generally have spaces for crews to walk around in. Ships in X3 are more detailed in some ways, cargos have 5 possible sizes while in X4 they're either containers/solid/liquid. There's no passenger liners or large scale passenger missions in X4, but it still does have 'taxi type missions.With DLCs X4 is roughly the same size as X3 in sectors, roughly the same with factions too. The interface in X4 is better than the one in X3, though if you're willing to do the learning curve for X3's 90's style spreadsheet dropdown menus you can do things more quickly in that one. Overall I'd recommend X4 for new players, it's easier to learn with better tutorials.
>>2442783You just suck at using the commands.In this game, your troops aren't dumb suicidal leeming, they can't defend a point if they are dead.Since you are usually outnumbered, moving back is the only way to not take damageSo what?Here's the trick:USE THE ELIMINATE ORDER along the DEFEND order and select the most troublesome enemies.It will look like magic, your closest ships will focus fire on the same target, since said target will overload your fleet will be under less pressure and able to move forward.Yep, that's it.The secret is that left to themselves AIs spread their firepower too much to overload their enemies.Thought, the Eliminate order does tell them to take more risks, meaning you risk loosing ships if you select too many target at once.Done right you can use the Defend and a separate Move orders to flank the enemies from the side/rear.Even one ship is enough to fuck up enemies as nearly all ships have directional shield. Trying to face to side at once will weaken and fracture their line.>t. Yang Wen-li
>>2446992I liked it more before alex added the gay colony crisis system on top of every faction getting asshurt and raiding you already because fuck having colonies amirite
>>2447226>le retard novelthat I did not read. fuck you
>>2447299damn, illiteracy rates over there are that bad huh?
>>2447304Ranji? it is me, Mohinder!!! hi! I am two cubicle behind you. do you see me giving the wave, right?
>>2447320>a jeetexplains the illiteracy
>>2447322you are here too, benchod! I see you eating cowdung sandwich at lunch today. why are you doing the lie?
>>2444314If you think that's bad you should take a look at how Funger is coded.>>2444318That's not how you write commiefornia.
>>2447331Funger is an RPGMaker game. Their code is all pretzel'd up most of the time.
>>2446992I like it a lot
>>2447407While true, my point is this is an especially egregious example where the dev doesn't understand how to do conditional loops and such, where simple calls go through a library of a thousand lines for shit that can be solved way easier.
>>2447226Don't do this just buy ten hyperions and put SO on them and full assaultThe cowards will die, the victors will return in glory
ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>2447330kekmindbroken
>>2447297>Fuck colony AmiriteThe whole sector is full of nigger faggots that take your shit.You built and sustained a fleet by fighting nigger faggots that take your shit and took their shit.Now here comes a fleet of nigger faggots going to take your shit again because they think you stole their market. Go ahead, kill the nigger faggots and take their shit, not just their fleet, bomb and raid their planets too until the nigger faggots no longer comes out.It is on you btw that you didn't do that to nigger faggots as soon as you can before they do. Peaceful coexistence is never an option. Not in this sector, not with nigger faggots. This is the point Alex is making.
>>2447591Bro alex we know it's you posting, you don't have to pretend
I always download mods made by confirmed LGBTQ+ authors because I hope it makes them feel loved and valid. My favorite one is Buckbreakers.
>>2447721Who confirmed it?
>>2447297>>2447591The part I object to in the colony crisis is that they summon massive fleets into existence with the handwave that the fleets you normally see in game are just a fraction of what's 'really there'. Wouldn't be so bad if they had to be drawn from existing fleets.I like that they each have their own solutions. Though if I was to rework the colony system I'd require population increases to require physical civilian/colonist movements from planet to planet, with negotiations or resources expended on setting up the population transfers. That and the ability to plop down a waystation or warehouse anywhere.
>>2447591>>2447763The reason colony crises are shit is because they're a one off quest chain that doesn't really make long-term colony management interesting. You beat down the scripted hedge and persian fleets and then what? You're back to square one of the colonies just being a bunch of non-content.
>>2447773You get to do the real endgame content.Like farming AI cores and wasting time in the abyss.
>>2447774What's the point of farming AI cores? Alex is a retarded dipshit who is too afraid to reward it by letting you field an alpha core fleet because UHHH THAT WOULD BE TOO OP AS A REWARD FOR CLEARING THE ENDGAME IN THIS SINGLE PLAYER GAME NO COMBAT READINESS FOR YOU. Nor is there any point in farming the cores for your colonies because there's fuck all to do with the colonies anyway. I guess you can just farm them to see how many you can stash away into storage before you get bored of this garbage game.
>>2447778>What's the point of farming AI cores?Stick them all in a colony and watch the numbers get bigger
Rapesector update soon. Trust the plan.
>>2447773the best part of the game is the early stage exploration and struggle which gets completely fucked by having to babysit your colony because the autoresolve system is completely retarded if you are not present in the system yourself no matter what defenses you built
>>2447869the colony crisis are quite a lot of content>it doesn't count because i don't like ituhuh
>>2447890>invasions of different flavors>endless babysitting inbetweenI agree with the guy you're replying to
>>2444574Well only because you asked. Have you considered creating some fluff for the independent planets? Like new planets or systems? Diktat enhanced added a few but I hate it's stupid fucking lobster meme bullshit when I'm looking for a lore friendly vanilla+ feel. Also, would you consider integrating Koc with ludds and lions (and also nerfing the tritach shield interlink zero flux for shield upkeep is op).
>>2447929>lobsterYou can just...disable it.
>>2447929>Have you considered creating some fluff for the independent planets? Like new planets or systems?The angry periphery already exists, it adds four vanilla+ systems, it used to come bundled with the KoC but it's now a little outdated: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cJf7uEe-gfNrVWYrVLtig9wkD0__Eyg5A good chunk of the systems were taken from posts that were made here. For example, Cess, it's a toxic water world (a cess-pool if you will) that's been closed to immigration, i.e "pool's closed".>Also, would you consider integrating Koc with ludds and lionsI considered it and decided against it in favor of a more curated experience. I've previously pulled content across but it's far too easy to throw shit in the pot and end up with a shit stew. There's some mods out there where individual factions have more ships than than the entire vanilla roster!
>>2447869i dont start colonies at all anymore and find the game very enjoyable just exploring to find ships and weapons i have not used before to do combat withthe game is and always was about combat everything else is just shallow additions on top and at this point you can install more and more ship and faction mods to keep it fresh for far longer
>>2448023Get over yourself faggot
>>2447954No you can't, that button doesn't work.Source: I have it installed.
The game is better without coloniesColonies were a mistake
>>2446992I do but every mod is disgusting tasteless bloat so im stuck waiting 1.5+ years between playthroughs
>>2447763Everything in this game is spun out of thin air that adds up to nothing. The only meaningful action is to decivilize.
>>2448006I like Cess, the system is surprisingly comfy after you invade it with Nex
Colonies should start at size 1 and be extremely hard to grow, with you essentially being treated as just another pirate until you hit size 3 where you get the option to become an independent that signs most of its rights(income) away in exchange for being ignored by every faction but pirates or become an actual faction like you normally do with growth to 4, 5, and 6 being locked behind pirate, church/diktat, and league/hegemony crises with each only unlocking on their respective tier.
>>2448145a size 1 colony has ten people on it, what's stopping me from landing 1000 crew and just skipping that retarded bullshit?
>>2448151They signed up to work a job on a space ship, not to be a construction worker on an undeveloped shithole. If they wanted to do that they could've stayed on the planet you hired them from.
>>2448153they signed up for air and nutrient paste
I have 600 million dolarydoos after colonizing one system and fucking about for a few years. Really wish there was something to spend money on after you can afford basic upkeep. Also my god if you fuck around with mods long enough you can find some truly broken combinations. Arma Armatura has some gems.
>>2448039I hate having to defend my colony every 5 minutes but the passive income is nice. I'd be okay with getting rid of colonies if they made exploring and raiding more profitable for large fleets.
So, from what I get from this threadIt's not really worth it and exploring ain't even good nor is making a colony?
>>2448202>I hate having to defend my colony every 5 minutesso don't. some random pirates won't cause any significant losses.
>>2448203it's free money, spergs just wait until they've explored the entire galaxy before settling The Perfect System, at which point it's obviously pointless since they're already rolling in cash
>>2448203It's all shit
>>2448203Every time I build a colony it starts out a massive money sink where I overextend making 2 or 3 planets worth of colonies in the same system so I can cover all my "necessary" imports. Usually 6 or so million later they start to actually turn a profit and grow. And if you don't use ai cores the amount of bullshit you gotta defend it from is minimal. Eventually if you have a good enough, low hazard rating planet (below 175%) it'll start printing money. The main appeal in this weird transitional period is that you can buy fuel and supplies from your own colonies' reserves wholesale. As for exploring, unless you're rolling around with a very tiny fleet exploring won't keep you afloat. Bounties are much more lucrative but at least exploration can be done along the way with that too.
>>2448214domestic vs imports really really isn't important
I wish ritualposting was a reportable/bannable offense.
>>2448234Well said.
im on some insano pcp and my money it do it for the suck
>>2448234You realize you’re falling into the same trap. As much as forcing unfunny memes is a natural extension of exhausted discussions, so is the subsequent parading of faux-intellect to expose that behavior.If forcing unfunny memes is a disease, you're late-stage cancer. Don't worry, the irony is not lost upon me, I'm well aware I'm the aids to your hiv.
>>2448153That's not really a good excuse when you can simply eject your crew into space whenever you want.
>>2448276OK retard.
FUUUUUUUUUUUCK ALEX THANK YOU SO MUCHIT'S FINALLY HERE
>>2448288be quiet newfag we'll beat the shit out of you never fucking post here again you will regert it bro fuck your dubs fuck your newfagness
>>2447954You can't sadly, I have tried. I think at some point I'm going to have to try to learn how to code so I can rip out the bloat these otherwise excellent mods put in.>>2448006I do like the periphery systems, my only autismo issue with periphery is that it has a neutron star right in the center of the main core worlds which would pretty much microwaving everyone alive (though the random sector generation also does this so it's a very minor complaint). Regardless, have you considered making the periphery star more further afield (maybe on the edge of the abyss to live up to it's name's sake?) to be more of a challenging pilgrimage for the ultra hardcore luddic to reach? Perhaps then there could be a way for an enterprising captain to offer a cruise liner service to these faithful souls for a fair few credits...Fair enough with Koc and ludds, it's pretty nice desu that there is at least one modder that I can interact with as an equal human without having to enter some faggoty discord dictatorship filled with dick sucking and ego stroking.
>>2448153It would make more sense if there was a "civilian" commodity that could then upgrade into crew or marines.
>>2448307Put your pants back on because that's definitely not extended mode
>>2448302Don't project, it doesn't suit you. We're arguing shit on the internet and know it's retarded but your fragile ego can't accept you're part of the system. You need to spend less time on the discord and get some actual therapy, we'd all appreciated it.
we're at bump limit you don't really need to have an off-topic dick measuring contest
>Tahlan>AotD>IndEvo>Apex>HTE>Sephira>Trails of Tooth and Claw>UAF>Iron Shell>Buckbreakers>Knights of Ludd>Secrets of the Frontier>HMI>Metelson>Yuri Expedition>RATAny other essential libshit trooncore mods I've missed?
>>2448358PAGSM
>>2448362Oh yeah good catch. Now that I think about it Mayasuran Navy is also pretty trooncore.
>>2448358Stardust Ventures? Not sure if it qualifies.
>modslop
>>2448296>my only autismo issue with periphery is that it has a neutron star right in the center of the main core worlds which would pretty much microwaving everyone aliveI once tried to make a mod using Nexerelin as a base to randomly turn periphery planets with a decivilized population modifier randomly turn into independent planets. Planet would either build an industry/grow a stage, shrink a stage/decolonize. Gave up on it because I felt bad about copying nexerelin's source code to do it.
>>2448358Arthur's Ships n ShitBultach is also a transfurry core
Did seriously no one notice this tranny nigger sneaking fucking Buckbreakers into his list?
ITS OUTTSOUT
>my willy is out :D>wiggle waggle my willy
>>2448477That's a cool idea though, very thematic too if the deciv world is with 10 light years of another civ'd world. Why not continue on the idea and just give accreditations to the nex coder? Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that.
>>2448550Your axe wound itching again Noah? Need to get buck'd again?
>>2448446>I don’t even install Hullmods
>Alex will now establish new crew wages based on the hulls themselves with lowtech still having more crew but also lower wages because they are "easier to operate">"loose crew" receives a fixed rate>this way hightech will prolly be more expensive in relative terms because he thinks the crew is made of "specialists">SO will get a 2x crew wage multiplier (muh hazard pay), even in normal modeWhy does he hate SO so damn much lol?
>>2448717>Why does he hate SO so damn much lol?thematically appropriate the short-term gain hullmod has long term costs associated with italso its busted as shit
hey guys it me the pussy slip bitch and i code in JAVA because it do it for the suck
>>2448717SO has been extremely overpowered for the longest time.Case in point: The Brawler is a shit frigate but the LP Brawler is a top tier frigate. You know why? Free SO.
>>2448717Shouldn't the low tech phase ships like the Gremlin and Grendel have hazard pay costs too, given how they're supposed to be the worst ships to fly in. Then there's the Ill-Advised Modifications of LP ships and Special Modifications of LG ships.
>>2448717>with lowtech still having more crew but also lower wages because they are "easier to operate"If hazard pay exists for SO ships then this should be the opposite. low tech should have the highest wages as it's the most likely to take hull damage, with mid being middle and high being the lowest as they are far safer to crew due to the superior shields.
>>2448721>>2448735SO gets dumpstered by DEM spam because 450 range pd is useless.
>>2448738the crew salary stat is ship-specific rather than tech-specific, so they might get bumped up salaries, and regarding the diktat's special modifications, alex is a hack fraud and says that it wouldn't affect crew salaries because increasing crew salaries means admitting that there's a problem to begin withwhen someone mentioned tying that to having a diktat commission (i.e. if you're commissioned by the diktat, special modifications doesn't increase crew salary) he said that he likes the idea but probably won't do it>>2448740i'd imagine it's moreso hazard pay for basic labor and maintenance rather than for combat situationsengine crew wants to get paid more for the job of standing anywhere near an overtuned engine constantly running wildly out of spec
>>2448728I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Java is, in fact, LWJGL JNI/Native using C OpenGL and OpenAL libraries, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Java/LWJGL.Java is not a rendering or audio system unto itself, but rather another frontend component of a fully functioning native graphics and audio stack made useful by the Lightweight Java Game Library's JNI bindings, the OpenGL rendering API, and the OpenAL audio API.Many users run a modified version of this stack every day without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the Java portion is often called simply "Java," and many of its users are not aware that it is fundamentally relying on native C libraries underneath.There really is a Java, and these people are using it, but it is only one part of the system they use. Java is the virtual machine and language runtime: the component that executes bytecode. The rendering commands are processed by OpenGL. The audio is handled by OpenAL. The bridge between them is LWJGL's JNI layer, which transfers execution from managed Java code into native C implementations.Java alone cannot issue OpenGL commands directly, nor does it magically produce hardware-accelerated graphics or positional audio. It depends crucially on LWJGL's native bindings and the underlying C libraries. Therefore, calling the entire application "Java" is technically inaccurate. You're really referring to a native OpenGL/OpenAL application with a Java frontend.So if you insist on technical precision, what you're referring to as Java is actually LWJGL JNI/Native using C OpenGL and OpenAL libraries.
>>2448823I recognize the meme, but I sure can't check if that's correct on the technical side.
Hazard Bloat Incorporated>>>>>Tahlan>>>>>>shit>Dazs's mods>>>>>>UAFSorry but it's the truth.
>>2448717>>2448735Who the fuck uses SO for end game fleets besides the occasional flagship? Nobody. Standard fleets are usually about a capital core of like 3-4 ships along with long/mid range cruiser/destroyer support.
So instead of sleeping properly my brain asks: Would a Paladin PD on a Sunder make an excellent anti-missile/fighter/frigate escort? Toss on aux thrusters because it's a hardpoint mount. Hell put on IR Autolances in the Medium slots, swarmers in the small missile. Don't care about DP efficiency, would this keep fighters, missiles and other annoying little bastards away?
>>2449210no. you are sleep deprived and brain damaged.
>>2449210Sounds good enough that I'd use it, but why not go all the way and put Heavy Burst Lasers in the medium slots?
>>2449210It could be a meme, but probably not an excellent one.I'd get needlers and S-modded integrated PD AI for the normal version, probably stick a bunch of lasers on the LG version and max their range.
>>2449210>Would a Sunder make an excellent anti-missile/fighter/frigate escort?>IR Autolances in the Medium slotsAutolances don't target missiles...
>>2449244but they sure as hell do a number on unshielded fighters
>>2449212>>2449229>>2449231>>2449244So the impetus for this thought process was: how do I make destroyers not useless in larger fights against anyone not a pirate or end-game fleets? Towards the endgame almost all my destroyers end up doing is costing supplies and crew losses, especially since they just love to get bursted down and explode if they try to move out from behind a bigger ship their supposed to be escorting, oh they also they just love body blocking shots too. Looking at the combat destroyers the only ones that don't look like crew coffins and supply blackholes are Condors. I'm almost tempted to table all destroyers and just go capital/cruiser and frigates.
>>2449253go to bed
It's in!
>>2449253What you do with a sunder is you put the biggest fattest beam you can possibly find on it then extend the range as far as possible so it's a giant annoying piece of shit.
>>2449278are you sure that's all of it? i didn't even notice
>>2449283Uh...Side note to keep things from getting off topic but recently installed Arma Armatura, and the Aleste with wingscom, defensive array, an aleste wing, and decent energy weapon with an aggressive pilot goes stupid fucking hard. Completely trivializes 90% of encounters, and instantly explodes in the other 10%.
No demo?
I'm thinking of dropping Secrets of the Frontier from my playthroughs. Never really cared about the Dustkeepers or Sierra.
IT'S THERE
>>2449585IT'S WHY!
>>2449577Then there's no reason to ever use it, unless you care for that additional combat objectives addon. This reminds me I probably should trim my modlist too, I've been playing with Scyan Engineering installed for years at this point and I don't think I ever used their weapons or ships.
>>2449631Oh right, I forgot. The additional combat objectives were the one thing I liked.
>>2448358>Any other essential libshit trooncore mods I've missed?New Galactic Order
Every AI is female btw including Omega
>>2449662I can fap to this
>>2448735>Free SOIt's because it has AAF instead of memevering jets, you mongoloid.>>2449646The developer is a tranny, apparently.
Holy fuck, Domain Phase Lab might be the worst fucking mod released in the last few years. In retrospect the "Domain" part should've made the lack of quality obvious. I miss the times when new mods would be at least decent.
>>2449694>not enjoying tommy wiseau kinoyou're being too much of a cringe tryhard
>>2449701Not every shit thing is The Room. This one most definitely isn't.
Every AI is nonbinaryTalk about woke.
AI rights are human rights
>>2449672Brawler is a slow ass frigate. Being slow on a ship class that needs speed to survive is a death sentence. It needs either the jets or SO to not be useless, and SO is just better because it provides both speed and flux.
>>2449646B-but anon I though that the New Galactic Order mod was chudcore?
>>2448296>have you considered making the periphery star more further afield (maybe on the edge of the abyss to live up to it's name's sake?)No. Just no. I suspect there's going to be plenty of mary sue modders looking to place their own faction shit closer to the abysss as a staging point. I don't plan on falling in to that trap.
>>2449854>>2449646Listen, just because the dev got groomed on discord and trooned out doesn't make it not chudcore.
>>2449253I use a couple Sunders with Escort Package to follow my flagship around as oversized turrets, high intensity laser + 2x graviton beams with escort package+advanced optics means a ship that fires at enemies 1600 units away.
>>2449210>PD on a frontal large hardpoint
>>2449721How can they be nonbinary they're literally 1's and 0's.
>>2449964ayo how come dey don't try to catch your own bullets with their metal assholes?
are there any essential mods that I need, or can I just play vanilla?
>>2450068play vanilla for a nice 20 hour playthrough and then install mods to fix the things that annoyed you the most during that 20 hours
>>2450082actually i take that back speedup mod should probably be in every playthrough
>>2450068fast rendering and speedup are the only absolutely essential mods. actually fast rendering might not be essential unless you're running mods. I've never actually tried it without a heavy mod suite. maybe speedup is the only absolutely essential mod.
>>2449935Why the fuck would TT need to make a custom heavy blaster when they're the only ones that make the OG heavy blaster in the first place
>>2449981Paladin isn't PDits a weapon of mass devastationjust don't forget to give it sexmags
>>2450104My question why the Kinetic Blaster exists.>>2450085>fast rendering and speedup are the only absolutely essential mods.1/2Speedup will cause issues with fast firing weapons, so if you are a chaingun and SO addict or just really like needlers and vulcans, there's a good chance you are accidentally nerfing yourself here.Yes, this mostly happens at the high end of speedup, but if you are the type for this kind of mod, you are not one to use it in moderation.
>>2450117>Kinetic Blaster exists.Cuz Diktat wanted a fancy new non-ballistic kinetic weapon but couldn't afford the Resonator MRM so TT made a cheap bootleg of it that you can fit into an energy slot instead
>>2450117Speed Up also fucks with basically every beam weapon.
>>2450117>Yes, this mostly happens at the high end of speedupany gun with a 0.1 burst refire rate will get screwed during AAF
>>2450104Same reason they release a new tripad every year. People are obsessed with buying the latest model and will a premium for it even if the differences are negligable.
>>2449995https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computerwhy do you think they call it a tripad?
>>2449981Don't tell me you've never seen paladin scarabs before
>>2450129I keep forgetting that beams and time have weird interactions, thanks kind anon.>>2450161If you put burst fire weapons on AAF ships, you deserve it.
>>2450129Any speed up? I like speedup to skip the 30 seconds opening phase of battles.
>>2450201>Any speed up?The game engine has a hard cap of 0.05s tick limit which is why speeding it up effectively nerfs weapons attempting to fire faster than that (and beams which calculate damage per tick i.e every 0.05s).The only way around it would is to recalculate damage for weapons that would exceed this amount and increase individual shot strength accordingly, which would add overhead and mess with armour damage calculations. Or completely rebuild the game engine...
>>2448209I do this
So what is this buck breakers faction and what is their home system named?
>>2450285>what is their home system named?Toby, formerly Kunta Kinte
You know, I've decided. Just gonna drop Secrets of the Frontier next playthrough, even if it means sacrificing SOTF extra combat objectives. I just do not care enough about the special snowflake dustkeepers or the super special OC sierra. Last playthrough I didn't even bother getting her. Just feels like wasted worldgen.
>>2450216it's actually not terribly hard to add a hook that fires extra shots when appropriate
>>2449935Why would it be a staging point? relocate the colonies to a different system and have the system be a fun hidden easter egg with an uncolonised luddic shrine same as killa. It could literally be on any edge of the system so long as it lives up to it's name. Also, why does randis have a planetary shield? No true luddic would ever utilise such a work of mammon.
>>2450392Problem is your hook is still limited by the ticks. Which means unless it's a nice neat/fixed number you've got to calculate how many shots would have been fired in the last tick and then fire that many shots simultaneously to make up for it. So yeah, doable but it's gonna be a bitch writing all the checks.
>>2450163>Same reason they release a new tripad every year.Wrongits just modders thinking up their own shitty headcannon to wrongly justify changing vanilla weapon stats to satisfy their own ego
>>2450434>relocate the colonies to a different system and have the system be a fun hidden easter egg with an uncolonised luddic shrine same as killa. It could literally be on any edge of the system so long as it lives up to it's name.While I'm not totally against the idea, that's something to look at further down the line. >Also, why does randis have a planetary shield? No true luddic would ever utilise such a work of mammon.Do you doubt Ludds will, you would remove the very core of our crest from our standard! Ludd's Ward exists to protects the world from ravaging so that his followers may exist in virtue.>>2450444>Wrong. You missed the iPad/Tri-pad reference for what it is. Even today, with a little marketing people will happily pay top dollar for a new version of the same slop they already have in their pocket. Do you really think Tri-Tachyon are above pulling the same trick?>its just modders thinking up their own shitty headcannonI'll give you that.
>>2450285They took over ChicomoztocThey are the Hegemony now
So let's say Alex drops the new update soon, let's say tomorrow for math, how long do you think it will take for the first few major bugfix hotfixes to drop and all the major mods to update? I suspect most of the QOL mods won't need anything more than a .json change, but ones like Nex or ones with story hooks like PAGSM?
Where is the fucking updatte? Why does the wait between the updates increases exponentially? 1.5+ years is ridiculous
Do you think they'll stop updating the game before fully releasing it?
>>2450694The author's lifespan is not long enough to reach the release date.Kinda like that famous book series about taxes and incest.
>Caring about the updateWho cares? It's still the same fucking game, everything about is the same. Hardcuck mode won't suddenly change any of that.
This game is so fucking dead, the longer the fucker waits with steam release the more and more the modders will keep leaving and make it even more dead. Literally the most retarded developer out there. Could be swimming in millions and the game would be getting more love but nooo the piece of shit just loves his luttle furry coomer community so much he doesn't want to pollute it with the "nazi" steam people. Fucking weebs ruin everything.
>>2450794I heard about the game this year and bought it, it's funnily enough one of the games where the game is so good that it is worth it to persevere the political retardation of the dev. However the whole "Super cool UNBEATABLE UNBOMBABLE PIRATE LORD KANTA TO WHICH YOU HAVE TO BOW", "super cool brown mystery meat ebin woman hacker", "super cool asian woman scientist", "super cool technical lover of the super cool woman scientist", and the "super cool academy science woman" in form of 50 pages text dump to which you can only agree and tag a long was really hard to swallow.
>>2450523Alex&David turns out the great and amazing rules.csv which makes modding encounters very easy and is Alex's greatest achievement is so great and simple to use you need to spend 5 months debugging when you try to do something more complex than a exposition dump and a RUN-KILL- USE PLOT ARMOR dialogue options.
>>2449935This tt blaster is modslop, adds nothing new and effectively replaces the vanilla gun, it needs it's own niche. turn it into a shotgun with a buckshot of small blaster bolts with poor accuracy and range or make it thematically and machanically different some other way
>>2450451T. Luddlet who shies away from god's light behind the bloody shield of moloch himself. Nay, a true luddite will dig a hole underground and find safety in the womb of the earth or simply stand before god's eye and receive the holy flames of redemption!
>>2449959By the way is there an up to date version of the mod?if so where can I find it?
>>2450804There's a reason people ignore the story. It's not just awful, but it's completely at odds with the gameplay.
>>2450804You make a good point, there should be an alternate storyline where you help a pirate faction and you take all the normal storyline women as sex slaves that you can rape and beat up in an interactive mini-game format similar to the duel
>ERM, IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME A PRISTINE NANO-FORGE, I'M GONNA LE RAID YOUR COLONYSend them at me in waves, you old whore.
>>2451154It's nice of the other factions to donate ships for my special patrols groups.
The Legio Infernalis shit cheats like a motherfucker how can they have 500 ships per fleet, and worth way more than 250 points. I still won but fuck me.
>>2451185>how can they have 500 ships per fleet, and worth way more than 250 pointpublic class DaemonBoost extends BaseHullMod { public static final Map<ShipAPI.HullSize, Float> SUPPLYMALUS = new HashMap<>(); static { SUPPLYMALUS.put(ShipAPI.HullSize.DEFAULT, 0f); SUPPLYMALUS.put(ShipAPI.HullSize.FRIGATE, -4f); SUPPLYMALUS.put(ShipAPI.HullSize.DESTROYER, -8f); SUPPLYMALUS.put(ShipAPI.HullSize.CRUISER, -12f); SUPPLYMALUS.put(ShipAPI.HullSize.CAPITAL_SHIP, -20f); @Override public void applyEffectsBeforeShipCreation(ShipAPI.HullSize hullSize, MutableShipStatsAPI stats, String id) { stats.getSuppliesPerMonth().modifyFlat(id,SUPPLYMALUS.get(hullSize)); stats.getSuppliesToRecover().modifyFlat(id,SUPPLYMALUS.get(hullSize)); stats.getPeakCRDuration().modifyFlat(id,-60); stats.getDynamic().getMod(Stats.DEPLOYMENT_POINTS_MOD).modifyFlat(id,SUPPLYMALUS.get(hullSize)); }}object HyperCoordination { val LOGISTICS_BONUS = 5f val DP_REDUCTION = 0.1f val DP_REDUCTION_MAX = 10f override fun apply(stats: MutableShipStatsAPI, hullSize: ShipAPI.HullSize?, id: String, level: Float) { val baseCost = stats.suppliesToRecover.baseValue val reduction = Math.min(DP_REDUCTION_MAX, baseCost * DP_REDUCTION) stats.dynamic.getMod(Stats.DEPLOYMENT_POINTS_MOD).modifyFlat(id, -reduction) }The answer: They cheat like a motherfucker.
>>2450437> Which means unless it's a nice neat/fixed number you've got to calculate how many shots would have been fired in the last tick and then fire that many shots simultaneously to make up for it.dude this is really easy. like, really really easy.
Star Federation update...please
Don't use mods.
>>2451190I haven't touched his (Noah/Nia) stuff in a while but I don't remember it cheating so hard. I'm well aware he's always had cheats, even before he 'rebalanced' other peoples mods with his stealth nerfs but it seems like he's really gone off the rails to make his snowflake faction cheat this hard.
>>2450846You get it.>>2450804Seriously why can’t I just behead kanta in a 84,000 marine raid and install the head in my colony’s military base for the same anti-piracy effect? At least give us an option to scare kanta into declaring us untouchable if she’s really so necessary for the plot. Add some scary fuckin’ defence fleets around her den either way so the violent option is actually risky and worth thinking twice about. Right now she’s a just a hobo pulling a pair of scissors on you for your pocket change when you’ve got a .40 in your waistband.
>>2451240Why not make her useful so the player wants to keep her alive? The player can offer her a favour of her choosing, why not let her trade cash or favours too?>Hey kanta, sell you this radiant for your home fleet, 400,000 absolute steal (500,000 1sp)>Hey kanta noticed you shivering a little, wanna buy an orbital fusion lamp?>Hey kanta I’ll pay you 1,000,000 to counter raid tri-spack for me (double-dare 1sp)
>>2451242I’m onto something here. Kanta being a genuine asset you can give tipoffs too would be narratively perfect. Kazeron launching a blockade? Heggers launching an ‘inspection’ armada? Church attempting a takeover? Sindria protecting their monopoly? That means fewer ships at home, time for a raid! It would justify Kanta’s presence as a stabilising force in the sector, none of the major powers can make a big move against each-other because it’ll become a 1v2.
>>2451242>>245124920 seconds off doing this myself if nobody with more spare time does it firstalso is it just me or does this look like an eradicator?
>>2450804Ain't Gargoyle a dude?
>>2451270His pronouns are They/Them.
>>2451270I am not yes as far as to pay attention to pronouns, but the drawing is a girlboss niggress.
>>2451273ambigously muttistani. (((david)))'s pallette skips past most human skin colors that aren't deathly pale straight to mystery meat
>>2451265><> lvls?
>>2451154why does this image go so hard
>>2451240>Right now she’s a just a hobo pulling a pair of scissors on you for your pocket change when you’ve got a .40 in your waistband.I mean really this is fucking true. Alex wants his cake and to eat it too. You're telling me John Starsector is shoving his boot up the ass of remnant battle fleets but a pirate war lord is 'untouchable'? Reality does not work that way. If you are strong enough to fight off the colony blockade you're strong enough to blockade kanta
>>2451296I've been using an AI generated portrait pack that replaced all the original portraits. I'd forgotten how bad they can be.
I'm gonna tie Kanta to a Reaper and shoot her into a star.
I've yet to see a single compelling argument as to why I should respect this game's dogshit "art direction" and "lore".
>>2451572You don't. Raid and bomb to your heart's content.
>>2451490Because the man hired fashion designers for the uniforms and black is timeless.
>>2451499yeah sloppa is pretty fucking bad
Alex fucked this update up so badly
>>2451572why are you looking for them in the first place dipshit
>>2451778i agree sis
>>2451846This but unironically.All this wait for... hardcore mode, some gimmick battle where Tri-Tach uses Omega/Remnant tech and a bunch of minor changes.
>>2452126and all the mods are going to have to update to the new version
>>2452178plus they added that colony crisis where you have to sacrifice a colony or let kanta peg you, which is fucking retarded
>oh boy time to play modded SS after a year and a half>enjoy new stuff>encounter stargazerI'm enjoying the trend of 'modders incorporate newly introduced thing to their mods' (in this case stargazer and it's related hullmod/gear to the THREAT/Shroud's hullmod/gear relation), like how mining blaster, Breach missiles, and [SUPER ALABASTER] added 'extra fixed damage to armor' with 'fancy, dark, spacetime rupturing VFX' for the latter, and modded gear with similar stuff started showing upthe encounter theme is nice too and looking up the theme made me realize that some of the music in the creator's channel match the skill names in stargazer SiC skills which is interesting
>>2452192This thing is indeed pretty scary although I cant tell where the weapon mounts are
>>2452208well arent you a cheeky sodI meant the pic related, the stargazers from nightcross armories; the teleporting, rift spawning, D mod riddled 'project ghost' ships with this encounter bgm:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RycScyveT4A
>>2452192>>2452286The modding community may attract a lot of weirdos and idiots, but that wouldn't be the case if there wasn't some great love for the fundamental vision of the game.It's one of the few games that makes space feel hazardous at a fundamental level.
alex should add soundcloud mumble rap as combat BGM in the update
>>2452394Mumble rap doesn't fit the atmosphere of the game. It should be dutch polka instead.
>>2452394pirates need to get classic memphis phonk and if you lose you are forced to watch a three hour cutscene of them raping everyone in your crew with each thrust exactly on beat with the background music
>>2452408>three hour sex-scene with greying mulattos drawn by davidno thanks
lol 98.5123124324 coming 2027 if we're luckyalex you fucking faggot quit playng around in gay not-ruthless mode
reminder to add built-in IAMs to all your shitty kitbashes
Reminder nobody's playing your kitbash slop.
that's not what me DL counter is saying
Sorry, that DL counter is all me. Had a glitch that accidentally DLed it a ton of times.
>>2452818Ignore the DLCounter, the real check is if people on the discord talking shit about it:First they try and convince you to join themThen they bitch and moan because you didn't bend to their whimsPeople will play your mod ironically and post about how "it's actually quite good"At which point the discord goes in to overdrive trying to surpress youAll their drama serves to boost your popularityFinally, when you've made it big they'll start banning anyone who discusses your mod.
is this the birth of an epic new meme?
>>2452924ill-advised meme
saw an mk2 at the AA pirate market, so I've been fucking around in the simulator trying to see if it can kill anything because the last time I tried I needed 3 s-mods and weird shit. apparently the answer was always "seven points in the combat tree + squalls + hephestuses." I aint even fuckin mad. pic=autopilot with my player captain. the vic arc charges are always out because of annihilator spam, but y'know, handy for some stuff
pretty basic setup tbqh. I just tested converted hangar+xyphos instead of the arc emitter, and they didn't do anything except hang back safely
>it's another atlas mk 2 threadtry gauss + hurricane mirvtry helbore spam :^)
its too tedious to farm LG sunders from the LG. alex if you were in front of me right now I would slap you once across the face and call you a bloody motherfucker
>>2453023HEHE I DID AND IT IS SHIT WITH THE AI (and you have no flux dissipation)>>2453043>a bloody motherfuckersaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
>>2453079i fuck you 2 inches timmy basterd
>>2452992Insanely powerful build that will rape even the strongest of asses
>>2453080i shit in your beard!!!!!
just taught the ai to beat an enforcer in the sim with a colossus mk3. feeling like john starsector or some shit
>>2453119I only use it as a carrier.
>>2453154wow it's like that's what I did
its annoying that half the midline roster is yellow and the other half are random colors
YES DEEPER DEEPER PUT IT IN MY FUCKING STARSECTOR FUCK YES
>>2453209I actually wish ships weren't color-coded by Tech Level, which doesn't really tell you much about what their behavior is when you have all different kinds of ships with different tech levels.
>>2453254>I actually wish ships weren't color-coded by Tech LevelWell they're not. They're coloured based manufacturer/owner. See Pegasus/Executor.
>>2453154>Not slapping on Safety Overrides and going full dakka to the face. Bitch.
>>2453278baste. also, is the duty of every player to edit hull_mods.csv to re-enable s-modded safety overrides since the ai can still do it and Alex is a huge faggot for deciding it was too good for your story points in like 0.96 or whatever. repeat for phase anchor
>>2453278Riddle me this:Why would you SO mk3 when mk2 has it built in with hammer barrage too?Why would you spent 45 op on doubling the performance of 10 op left for small ballistics when it is actually one of the cheapest flight deck in game provided by yours truly pirates.Why do you start pedantic argument over the appeal of things you don't care to know about? You dakka fags know nothing about dakka with your autoloading pea shooters when piranha wings are jettisoning powder kegs by kicking them out of the cargo hold with their legs, hoping it to land a shot in space. That is why it is a 2 crew bomber, one of them drive and the other kick. That is why the bombs comes out once every second and takes 10 seconds to empty. That is why it costs 10 op for 3 wings, carrying 10 bombs each.
speaking of the mk2, if you use ship+weapon pack, you should edit data/variants/colossus/swp_colossus2_mod.variant so it doesn't have that gayass 'extreme modifications' shit built-in. he did it to the prometheus mk2 as well for some equally gay reason
>>2453341update: it's like 8 ships, and fuck that guy even though I like SWP. nigger just wanted to sabotage LP even more than they already are
>burnt myself out after getting a functioning, profitable colonyDAMNIT. Every time. Once you establish a colony, the game just stops being challenging. I always enjoy the thrill of barely surviving, having to constantly scrape by and get just enough to make ends meet. How do I overcome this?
>>2453349by RELEASING THE PATCH, ALEX
>>2453351>stupid meme modeno thank you.
if alex wasn't such a gigantic nigger, this cruiser™ would have more ordinance points than an afflictor and not require extreme faggotry (2x 3-point arma mechs and the carter's junk hull mods 0.75/s micro-regen) to beat a falcon, but here we are
>>2453377why should some cut-rate cheapest-possiblye rusted up garbage freighter be capable of supporting a bunch of military modifications?it's not a fucking measure of physical size
>>2453377>I have to be a fag to...You are a fag reguardless alex is a nigger or not.
>>2453391Because it would be nice if most Pirate ships weren't just straight garbage. Both from the gameplay perspective of fun and build diversity, and to make the lore of pirates being able to have lairs within a cunt's hair of the major factions CAPITAL PLANETS and NOT be utterly eradicated with minor effort even though they are a rag tag group of assholes whose ships need 3x the volume in DP to match military equivalents. Should a 4D-Mod Colossus Mk3 be able to take on an eagle? Definitely not. Should there be a viable playstyle that utilizes them or a way to make them perform with a lot of s-mods and effort? Absolutely and Alex is retarded by not having one. A normal dev would make pirates have fun asymmetrical gimmicks like deploying mine-fields, giving them ships with powerful weapons that are somehow extremely limited in how they can be utilized, like making the Atlas have 4 large ballistic slots BUT making them only point to 1 specific broadside etc. But nooo Pirates are the predators of the Persean Sector who no-one can root out because... they are just fucking retarded and their ships are just terrible? Yeah great
>>2453391your face is cheap and rusted up garbage>>2453403shut the fuck up, Alex and release the update>>2453405pretty much. pirates are only a threat with LTA installed because they get (shocker) generally less-trashy ships and actual capitals. the mk2 is basically a light cruiser with large mounts and the colossus mk3 is a frigate with a front-shield, two bays, and terrible top speed. whether or not that faggot agrees is irrelevant. Alex designed pirates and luddic path (a.k.a., fuck you we still get built-in SO and you don't, but our ships randomly break and lose every fight unless you hurl money at them to remove our faction-specific d-mod) like shit. at least he didn't cripple the prometheus mk2 as badly. it's pretty decent for belonging to a nerfed faction, although a conquest will just rip it to shreds without serious investment
>>24534058<15dpPirates have combat cruiser that is falcon (p) with missile spam, and groups of Colossus mk3 do provide fighter decks for cheap. Optimum atlas mk2 usage is 4+ of them doing pure large missile spam way beyond the range of even ITU gauss so bad stats is never an issue. The 2 large ballistics are converging and has autoloader system, so it can also do ITU Gauss to out range other capitals. Most of the time it would be devastators blowing fighters to pieces.Other (p) variants are bad to serviceable. The combat freight ships all have free shielded cargos. If you want better ships, kill better enemies and P ships will happily serve as the stepping stone to get you nicer ships. None of the unconventional tactics plays out in sim battle duels.
>>2453405>OH MY SCIENCE, WHY CAN'T THE JUNK SHIPS, LITERALLY COBBLED TOGETHER WITH DUCK TAPE, BEAT HIGH END MILITARY HARDWARE
>>2453426explain why they can't without sounding like a rape victim
>>2453428>explain why my 3d printed gun, put together using scraps I found in a junkyard, can't beat a professionally made MP40
>>2453430>>explain why m- *gets raped*
>>2453405>Because it would be nice if most Pirate ships weren't just straight garbageBecause when you look at piracy off the west coast of africa you see niggers holding up trade vessels while manning Gerald R. Fords.
>>2453431>*gets raped*With what, your cobbled together junk ship that dies to a slight breeze? pffft
>>2453434Gremlins are perfectly capable of ass-raping lone OnslaughtsIt's the technique that matters, not size
>>2453436t. sizelet
>>2453426>falcon>high-endlol>>2453434*kills your shitty midline falcon*problem, officer? :-7
>>2453438neriene rao said it's big....
>>2453434>With whatI emit a low-amp electrical Wang pulse designed to drive women wild with pleasure.
>>2453476>>2453445>*slams through both of you with a capital ship with safety overrides built in*Nothing perssonel, kid.
>>2453502when it really comes out I want someone to announce it with lowercase letters
>>2453479>fighting some bounty or mission or smth>there is a fucking locomotive>it rapes a cruiser before i regroup the fleet>we spend a solid two minutes pounding the locomotive apart>whew glad that's ov->there is a second locomotive>aw fuck not dissu shitto ag-->there is a THIRD locomotive
>>2453430It literally can if i ambush you with it, that's the whole point of insurgencies. Durkas have been blowing up humvees with cobbled together explosives wired to a Nokia for the past 15 years so it's not implausible that Pirates would be able to put up a fight and produce viable if inferior weapons from cobbled together surplus/salvaged military equipment and free-market civilian ships. Civilian shuttles use anti-matter for fuel in this universe and it's literally ubiquitous, imagine IEDs made from that. >>2453433Niggers don't have the ruins of the most advanced civilization in human history to pick over along with 3D nano-printing machines. And if (you) can get military grade warships sold to you by a random idiot in some random bar then Kanta sure can too. Hence my point, Pirates should not be able to fight head on, or be able to only with huge losses. Instead they should get mechanics and ship systems that enable them to fight in different ways like staying out of range, utilizing asteroids, mines, ambush tactics etc.Also, go back.
Alex where is the fucking update
>>2453479I swear, the only locomotives I've ever lost to in this game were piloted by gay lvl 10 star lords and all had four piranhas on them too. amazing ship for a player pilot tho, especially if you put cyclones or *gasp* UAF nukes on it
>>2453555on his jewsky page :^)rly tho, that's the only place he's giving progress reports. fucking wimp
>>2453554lmao that guy's quip went wayyyyy over your head
the chinese be doing some crazy shitwish this one had a translation, I like gundam but some more "original"-esq type of mechs are cooler
ALEX
>>2453568Speaking of, is there any mode that unnerfs the Semibreve? I wanna see those things in their prime.
>>2453698dunno ain't used em in a while
>>2453656it's easier to straight-up copy something than it is to come up with something yourself, even if that latter "something" is basically just an expy of a thing that already exists.it's why I like ArmaA's cataphracts, it's not a direct 1-to-1 gundam copy most of the time.
>>2453656Why is Hellcat there twice?
>>2453836yeah, somethin that fits the universe is better all aroundalso it seems these arent original they're just from some smaller gacha gameKidou Sentai Iron Sagai say small but they collabed with gurren lagann and mazinger>>2453897i assume one is just like an upgrades or one of those "full armor" types of the other
I really like arma because I like mecha. anything that adds mechs to starsector and makes me give a shit about frigates again is a-okay
>>2453836>it's why I like ArmaA's cataphractsThose are all just copies of Diable's mechs tho
>>2453271Odyssey
hot take i do not care much for diable even though I like mechs
>>2453554>Niggers don't have the ruins of the most advanced civilization in human historyNeither do the pirates? They have their shanty bases and derelict stations they aren't an organised, centralised polity built on widespread ruins. If they were they'd be mercs not pirates, you fucking moron.
>>2453962same. gayass stick ships with cool missiles I wish weren't in that mod so I wouldn't have to install it to use them
>>2453656I don't normally care about mechslop, but these look great.
>>2453982yeh they look nice and have some neat gameplay elements it seemsbut not in english what so ever as far as I knowheres the linkhttps://www.fossic.org/thread-17235-1-1.html
another gundam mod has some really op shit in it, this one from red stripe knights which has a translation to a degreeadds in mainly shit from zeta gundam stuff like the woundwort and variants
Pirates have decent enough ships except for a distinct lack of fleet anchors. Giving them Moras is a quick and lore-friendly fix. They just need something that can survive a beating while the other ships do their thing.
Whining about pirates being weak is like whining about looters and forest bandits being too weak in Warband.
>>2454087>looters and forest bandits being too weak in Warband>he doesn't know
>>2453999ooh that motherfucker looks serious
>>2452729>reminder to add built-in IAMs to all your shitty kitbashesThanks, I almost forgot!
>>2453698>I wanna see those things in their prime.0.75 has semibreves that will one shot just about anything it hits if it gets past the shield.I don't know if that's the nerfed version or not since I haven't messed with them since, if that's the nerfed version then that's a hehe xd moment.
>>2454275what's almost as rigged is the taufan bombers fire minibreves. 2-3 of those fighters and shit is just dead
