Well frick
ok look, there's some things that can't just be directly classified with straight numerical or ordered methods. A ship's performance, for example, is entirely dependent on how you equip it, and what role it's meant to play on the battlefield. You can get an Onslaught, but if all you do is equip it with medium ballistic weapons and try to use it as a point-defense platform it's not gonna be too good.
That being said:
S-tier:
Eradicator -- Role: attack cruiser, tank, point-defense. (DO NOT USE PIRATE VARIANT: REMOVES THE ACCELERATED AMMO FEEDER)
-Amazing firepower thanks to AAF, plenty of medium ballistics to cause damage, enough flux to work on it. Be careful because shields are not great, and vulnerable to being flanked
Fury -- Role: Fast attack cruiser, hunter-killer, escort.
Excellent shields when you kit it out, excellent mobility for a cruiser, can be exceptionally dangerous in player hands, watch out though, it's a bit fragile if the shields are out.
Eagle -- Role: All-rounder, long-range support
3 medium energy slots that can focus on the same target can output good pressure, together with 3 medium ballistics, while also keeping good mobility thanks to maneuvering jets and a good shield; it's role will change drastically depending on what weapons you put in the medium energy slot.
Falcon(P) -- Role: Missile support
4 medium missile slots, +2 small ones. That is a lotta fricking missiles. Obviously requires a properly equipped officer, but the damage output potential can be ABSURD. In player hands, it's arguably the most fun cruiser I've ever played. Equip it with all anihilators for overwhelming almost anything it faces, but careful, AI struggles with using missiles right.
pirate variant is still pretty good with its lower DP and burn drive to quickly get in combat
I find it better for chasing down smaller ships or quickly getting into brawling range
A-tier:
Gryphon -- Role: Missile support (obviously)
Try to keep it with an officer using missile spec and system exp for maximum missile spam. Equip LRMs for long range support, stick them in the middle of your fleet and you have a big source of firepower that can't (and shouldn't) be attacked by the enemy. Just 2 with their squalls can cause just about any capital ship to start retreating because of shield pressure. Keep in mind, AI struggles with staying away from the enemy. Give it escorts if you don't want to constantly babysit them.
Falcon(normal) -- Role: Fast cruiser, harassment
One of the fastest cruisers in the game for a modest amount of deployment points. Simultaneously, not too much firepower, not too much flux stats. Good for kicking destroyers away, also dunking on frigates, but it struggles with facing other larger cruisers or capital ships, so don't let it do that. It's still in A-tier because it's generally capable, and the AI handles it pretty well. That being said, the pirate variant outshines it a lot.
Heron -- Role: Carrier(obviously)
3 fighter bays for 20DP. 80 top speed. 0.8 shield flux/damage. Good, good, and good. As a carrier, it can project a large amount of firepower by sending 3 fighter wings of anything to anywhere while using its system that increases said fighter's damage, while also having the speed to accompany your fleet or turn tail and run reliably. Naturally being a carrier you don't want it on the frontlines, but the shield efficiency is always welcome. Still, a bit expensive to deploy at 20DP.
Aurora -- Role: attack cruiser, hunter-killer
Imagine the fury. OK, now make it bigger. Yeah. More damage, better shields, more flux. Slower, More DP cost. I put it in A because I don't think the 50% increase in DP cost is particularly worth it, and the fury can equip the same amount of medium missiles, so yeah. By no means a bad ship, but overshadowed by its smaller sibling. That being said, the AI can handle this one better.
>ECCM package with all reapers >Torpedos on an AI controlled ship >Dedicated targeting core instead of point defense AI with exclusively PD weapons >Putting that much short range PD on a ship that shouldn't be getting hit by missiles anyway
This fricking sucks
3 months ago
Anonymous
oh I also forgot, get rid of the dedicated targeting core, it doesn't affect missiles and if you want your PD to be better you should use PDAI
>ECCM package with all reapers >Torpedos on an AI controlled ship >Dedicated targeting core instead of point defense AI with exclusively PD weapons >Putting that much short range PD on a ship that shouldn't be getting hit by missiles anyway
This fricking sucks
I'm not sure it's AI controlled. That being said, don't knock ECCM out because of using reapers. +25% top speed and maneuverability means it accelerates faster to reach a greater top speed, meaning significantly less time for enemy PD to intercept it, as well as less trouble to lead the shot.
Also, ships that "shouldn't" get hit by missiles is always a toss-up. Particularly the gryphon is not very fast to get away if shit goes sideways or it goes full moron and decides to advance to the frontlines.
3 months ago
Anonymous
The cyclone reaper launcher description says that it accelerates it to full speed before it leaves the launch tube but I suppose it applies to the small ones. I think it's stupid to put 1 OP missiles (small reapers) on the ship with missile autoforge and integrated expanded missile racks though, especially if you are also taking ECCM package.
And even if this is a player controlled mega torpedo killer ship, wouldn't you want sabots instead of harpoons on the side so you can pressure shields? There's not much to torpedo otherwise and using harpoons for shield pressure instead of sabots is just stupid. Probably take a hypervelocity driver in the medium ballistic too.
B-tier:
Apogee -- Role: none lmao
Ok, to be honest, the Apogee is a quirky kid. As the description itself states, it's basically a glorified exploration ship equipped with guns and missiles. That being said, it's exactly what you should be using it for. It's not gonna be particularly combat effective, but a large energy and missile mounts give it some bite. It'll work.
Champion -- Role: medium cruiser, tank.
Jack of all trades, master of none. It's not too slow, pretty well-armored for a midline cruiser, good shields, good weapon mounts. That being said, exactly because of that it's hard to get an officer on it that makes a particularly large difference. The large missile and energy mounts are nice, I guess. Don't try to use it as long-range support. It has those features for a reason.
Venture(also applies to the pirate and LP variants) -- Role: Also none, lol
Much like the Apogee, the Venture is a ship that you buy more because of its logistical uses than military ones. One fighter bay, 2 medium missiles and fast missile racks give it some decent enough bite to fend off pirates, but you mostly keep it for the surveying equipment and decent cargo capacity. A bit on the slow side, but It'll also work.
Doom -- Role: phase cruiser
I don't use phase ships lmao, but I hear they're pretty good.
continuing the list later.
r8 my gryphon
Pretty ok for player control, but the AI is gonna struggle to use reapers right, and particularly thanks to that equipment, it's gonna try and get close to the enemy. Could be dangerous.
3 months ago
Anonymous
anyways:
C-tier:
Grendel -- Role: light phase cruiser
It's a low-tech, ballistic-focused phase ship with AAF. It's original, if nothing else. Decently low DP cost, but again, I don't use phase ships.
Eradicator(P) -- Role: tank, I guess?
Imagine an eradicator. Ok, now hit its arms with a baseball bat until they break. Cool. Now give it roller skates.
If I'm not being particularly charitable it's because I hate it and think it should die in a fire. The AAF makes a PHENOMENAL difference to the Eradicator, particularly with a sys exp. officer, and changing it to Burn Drive feels like a monumental downgrade. Even the -6 DP cost is not enough to compensate for the loss in firepower, imo. Still, it's pretty tanky and the medium ballistics are still there, even if they're no longer the beasts they could be.
D-tier:
Mora -- Role: battle-carrier (yes, you heard me)
Take a Legion, now make it shitty. It would be less dissappointing if that were it, but as if that's still not enough, the damper field systems completely frick it over.
It's sluggish as frick, has poor flux stats, decent hull and armor and a serviceable omni-shield, but that won't save it from any enemy given its similarly mediocre weapon mounts. All this for 20 DP. The only "saving grace" is that it has 3 fighter bays, but that won't do much on its own with every other shitty thing about it.
please pick a heron instead.
Dominator -- Role: Heavy cruiser,weapons platform, capital ship escort
It is SO SLOW. It is literally the same speed as a Legion. You know. A capital ship. Nearly all front-facing weapon mounts, including 3 medium missiles and 2 large ballistics makes for a formidable ordnance package, if only it weren't sloth-like mobility-wise. Just about any other cruiser except maybe the eradicator or the less fortunate carriers can outmaneuver it. Serviceable shields with a small arc given its size. The AI also definitely struggles to make use of it because its turn rate is so bad. (cont)
3 months ago
Anonymous
(cont.) It's only a threat when its flanks are protected by a capital ship and/or other cruisers, but the AI sucks at doing that well.
F-tier:
Welcome to the colossus zone, where we only have colossus, colossus, and MORE colossus! (sound of cruiser exploding in the background)
Do not fall for the meme. Never use the Colossus mk2 or mk3 under any circumstances. Terrible hull, terrible shields, terrible speed, terrible flux, mediocre armaments, comically useless ship systems. Mediocre weapons at best. I only give a single shitty little star to the mk2 for having the large missile mounts, because those are kinda cool and can be used at extreme ranges.
Even then, don't.
The cyclone reaper launcher description says that it accelerates it to full speed before it leaves the launch tube but I suppose it applies to the small ones. I think it's stupid to put 1 OP missiles (small reapers) on the ship with missile autoforge and integrated expanded missile racks though, especially if you are also taking ECCM package.
And even if this is a player controlled mega torpedo killer ship, wouldn't you want sabots instead of harpoons on the side so you can pressure shields? There's not much to torpedo otherwise and using harpoons for shield pressure instead of sabots is just stupid. Probably take a hypervelocity driver in the medium ballistic too.
>says that it accelerates it to full speed
I think that's a recent addition, still. 25% top speed boost. Less time for PD to destroy it and waste a precious torp. >I think it's stupid to put 1 OP missiles (small reapers) on the ship with missile autoforge and integrated expanded missile racks though
debatable. I can see where you're coming from though. Anihilators would be fitting there, assuming the guy wants to keep the short-range build. >sabots instead of harpoons on the side so you can pressure shields?
my beloved anon. the reaper IS the shield pressure. Ok, tbqh, the cyclone launcher genuinely *does* work as shield-breaker against most things smaller than a capital. 2 reapers directly to shields is pretty heavy damage. While technically not enough to overload many cruisers, it's only slightly away from that. At which point the harpoons, small slots, or other allied ships can finish the work. Still, it's *very* dependent on a player knowing how to use it like that.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Anon you just may be shit at starsector, and thats coming from someone who is awful at the combat.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm batting a bit too hard for the guy's build because I'm a bawd for reaper torps and the thought of having so many of them to use at once makes me giddy.
Shame that as a player it's so hard to get sys exp and missile spec together.
3 months ago
Anonymous
The reapers are not terrible at pressuring shields but the harpoons are. >Sabot: 2000 x 3 shield dmg >Reaper: 2000 x 1 shield dmg >Harpoon 375 x 3 shield dmg
Sabot and harpoon both fire 1 missile per second.
A-tier:
Gryphon -- Role: Missile support (obviously)
Try to keep it with an officer using missile spec and system exp for maximum missile spam. Equip LRMs for long range support, stick them in the middle of your fleet and you have a big source of firepower that can't (and shouldn't) be attacked by the enemy. Just 2 with their squalls can cause just about any capital ship to start retreating because of shield pressure. Keep in mind, AI struggles with staying away from the enemy. Give it escorts if you don't want to constantly babysit them.
Falcon(normal) -- Role: Fast cruiser, harassment
One of the fastest cruisers in the game for a modest amount of deployment points. Simultaneously, not too much firepower, not too much flux stats. Good for kicking destroyers away, also dunking on frigates, but it struggles with facing other larger cruisers or capital ships, so don't let it do that. It's still in A-tier because it's generally capable, and the AI handles it pretty well. That being said, the pirate variant outshines it a lot.
Heron -- Role: Carrier(obviously)
3 fighter bays for 20DP. 80 top speed. 0.8 shield flux/damage. Good, good, and good. As a carrier, it can project a large amount of firepower by sending 3 fighter wings of anything to anywhere while using its system that increases said fighter's damage, while also having the speed to accompany your fleet or turn tail and run reliably. Naturally being a carrier you don't want it on the frontlines, but the shield efficiency is always welcome. Still, a bit expensive to deploy at 20DP.
Aurora -- Role: attack cruiser, hunter-killer
Imagine the fury. OK, now make it bigger. Yeah. More damage, better shields, more flux. Slower, More DP cost. I put it in A because I don't think the 50% increase in DP cost is particularly worth it, and the fury can equip the same amount of medium missiles, so yeah. By no means a bad ship, but overshadowed by its smaller sibling. That being said, the AI can handle this one better.
B-tier:
Apogee -- Role: none lmao
Ok, to be honest, the Apogee is a quirky kid. As the description itself states, it's basically a glorified exploration ship equipped with guns and missiles. That being said, it's exactly what you should be using it for. It's not gonna be particularly combat effective, but a large energy and missile mounts give it some bite. It'll work.
Champion -- Role: medium cruiser, tank.
Jack of all trades, master of none. It's not too slow, pretty well-armored for a midline cruiser, good shields, good weapon mounts. That being said, exactly because of that it's hard to get an officer on it that makes a particularly large difference. The large missile and energy mounts are nice, I guess. Don't try to use it as long-range support. It has those features for a reason.
Venture(also applies to the pirate and LP variants) -- Role: Also none, lol
Much like the Apogee, the Venture is a ship that you buy more because of its logistical uses than military ones. One fighter bay, 2 medium missiles and fast missile racks give it some decent enough bite to fend off pirates, but you mostly keep it for the surveying equipment and decent cargo capacity. A bit on the slow side, but It'll also work.
Doom -- Role: phase cruiser
I don't use phase ships lmao, but I hear they're pretty good.
continuing the list later.
[...]
Pretty ok for player control, but the AI is gonna struggle to use reapers right, and particularly thanks to that equipment, it's gonna try and get close to the enemy. Could be dangerous.
anyways:
C-tier:
Grendel -- Role: light phase cruiser
It's a low-tech, ballistic-focused phase ship with AAF. It's original, if nothing else. Decently low DP cost, but again, I don't use phase ships.
Eradicator(P) -- Role: tank, I guess?
Imagine an eradicator. Ok, now hit its arms with a baseball bat until they break. Cool. Now give it roller skates.
If I'm not being particularly charitable it's because I hate it and think it should die in a fire. The AAF makes a PHENOMENAL difference to the Eradicator, particularly with a sys exp. officer, and changing it to Burn Drive feels like a monumental downgrade. Even the -6 DP cost is not enough to compensate for the loss in firepower, imo. Still, it's pretty tanky and the medium ballistics are still there, even if they're no longer the beasts they could be.
D-tier:
Mora -- Role: battle-carrier (yes, you heard me)
Take a Legion, now make it shitty. It would be less dissappointing if that were it, but as if that's still not enough, the damper field systems completely frick it over.
It's sluggish as frick, has poor flux stats, decent hull and armor and a serviceable omni-shield, but that won't save it from any enemy given its similarly mediocre weapon mounts. All this for 20 DP. The only "saving grace" is that it has 3 fighter bays, but that won't do much on its own with every other shitty thing about it.
please pick a heron instead.
Dominator -- Role: Heavy cruiser,weapons platform, capital ship escort
It is SO SLOW. It is literally the same speed as a Legion. You know. A capital ship. Nearly all front-facing weapon mounts, including 3 medium missiles and 2 large ballistics makes for a formidable ordnance package, if only it weren't sloth-like mobility-wise. Just about any other cruiser except maybe the eradicator or the less fortunate carriers can outmaneuver it. Serviceable shields with a small arc given its size. The AI also definitely struggles to make use of it because its turn rate is so bad. (cont)
You'll probably want something with enough flux capacity and venting or armor to be able to hold on until reinforcements come, or something with a special ship system or very high maneuverability so that they can get out of a dangerous situation if it's standing orders allow it to.
>windows update >starsector flickers to whatever was in the background every few seconds or when the mouse is used >click too much and the game just crashes >same for every other game or application
wow very cool microshit!!!
>lets his computer update despite being able to tell it otherwise >has no idea what updated or why, nor any idea what is going on in his computer to begin with >is a moron and can't bother to use his brain >uh it must be microsoft that shit my pants
wow very cool abdul!!!
Alright, frick it, the weekend is upon us and I want to try something wild.
Give me all the weeaboo power fantasy waifu dating sim faction mods and I will play them with Nex.
Them being also fun would be a nice bonus.
The trifecta of anime shit is UAF, Iron Shell, and PAGSM. All are power fantasy naturally with fighter/nuke spam, teleports behind u super XIV fleets, and fuel tanker antimatter fetish taken to the logical extreme.
PAGSM at least has some funny ships.
Alright, the preparations are done. Plenty of drinks, that one Java 23 conversion and about a dozen of other faction mods alongside those deep dark weeaboo fantasies.
Will it be fun? "Fun"? A massive fireball in my room in a few minutes? Time to find out. I've only heard stories about Iron Shell and UAF being ridiculously overpowered, but I also have some other OP factions in the mix, so it should be interesting to see how ridiculous things can get.
I mean, the fleets both factions field (the boss fleets) are insane, even with a kitted out ziggernaut it took me like half an hour just to destroy every ship the fleets had
Can't imagine how long it would take with a conventional fleet
See I'm not sure if you are a shill for that mod upset people disparaged your waifu cake feeding sim or if you're a hard-core anti laughing at the idea that anything abthat mod is okay.
>nuke spam
on a 300 second cooldown lmao >teleports behind u super XIV fleets
teleports a screen away so your burn 6 atlas can escape just fine >fuel tanker antimatter fetish
okay fine
This shit is actually crazy, I get like twice the FPS in battles. The game runs so well.
Nice try again, not using your troony shit.
Please do try it, it's very easy to set up. Easier than the "normal" JRE + vmparams replacement actually.
This sounds like shilling but I am seriously impressed by how much better the performance is. It's REALLY good. Here's hoping that Alex will finally bite the bullet and do an official upgrade to Java 23 or whatever.
Already am, noah. You should probably stop though.
3 months ago
Anonymous
holy frick how moronic do you have to be to not want free fps? you are either brainded, have a pc that costs 4k dollars or are just trolling
why the frick does it matter who made it if it doesn't have viruses or boggled ip loggers and lets your game run better? what are you, playing vanilla minecraft with no optifine or sodium?
Use troony mods, get troony prizes.
also what does this mean. like actually. what did he mean by this?
3 months ago
Anonymous
damn noah's mad tonight
bros... i'm gonna update to 0.97... if alex pushes another hotfix? it was nice to know most of you.
audio plus mechs update perhaps soon
you're gonna be mad if you don't wait for 2 more hotfixes you know it you moron
3 months ago
Anonymous
maybe you're right, but i dunno. it's been 5 days and i don't feel like waiting anymore. maybe i should, after all. not sure.
ah, frick it, i'll just work on the mod which will take me like 2 more days. if he isn't gonna push anything in that time i'll update
3 months ago
Anonymous
Content update is substantial and most mod only changed their descriptor to match the new version, I don't see any benefit to make the jump honestly.
3 months ago
Anonymous
the colony system seems cool, i wanna play without nex this time and interact with those events. it'll be like a year until it intergrates with the threat system anyway
tried it, so far it gives me slower load time when launching the game, but somewhat better performance in game
i dont know anything about nerd shit or why starsector runs on such old shit to begin it
Turns out there's a 0.96a version. I installed it, and here's my brief observation report using the recommended parameter and all. >Heavily modded >Hyperspace FPS is fairly stable 60 fps, substantial improvement from 40 fps average >BUT it was cut to half and dropped sharply whenever I use the speed button >Worst battle performance of around 20 fps in a heavy battle against a station while I can pump 30 to 40 fps normally
I have fairly old PC with 4th gen I7 and AMD GPU
Just update it already. I usually had to restart the game every 30 minutes or after a every major battle. I've run into zero issues with that java 23 update so far and I use a lot of mods too. 60 fps on normal speed, about 30-40 on on x2 Hell, I can actually reload a save now without restarting the fricking game.
>Restarting game every 30 minutes or reloading a save
Never had this issue. I usually just ignore the memory leak message, and never encountered a single crash or corrupt save other than for using shitty mod.
>tfw I manually replace every single animeshit portrait with someone from vanilla or something matching vanilla's style
Don't hate anime, just hate the clashing styles.
the amount of ace combat autists in this modding scene is incredible pic related is sexo
i never tried the elysian weapons in that playthrough so i cant comment on those but they also have another super secrit ai faction which has their own weapons and omega weapons mixed in too
>Sephira Conclave has a Falken >Neutrino has a Falken >Knights of Ludd has a Falken >DME has a fricking Raven(in a similar form but wrong color)
ITS THE FRICKING FALKEN RENAISSANCE
As returning player who comes with each major Starsector update, i was postponing my first save for this mod update but i did tested stuff with SCVE the last 2 weeks and i really like the changes, especially the ones to the Reisen (Deployment points and monthly supplies matching each other to satisfy my OCD + reduction of DP because the closest vanilla analogue was the Onslaught and yet that ship was nearly as expensive as Paragon and Invictus while the Novemember variant surpassed those even)
Really excited to try this mod since this will by my first time (Also with Iron Shell, AOTD, RAoT and of course the brand new Knights of Ludd mods)
Also the addition of UAF Destroyers is very welcome, especially since Alex gave us that new Escort Package to encourage Destroyers in general
Sometimes when a battle starts with one of my stations I try to back my people up and the station isn't involved in the fight. Is there a way to control that? It shows before the battle but then in the deployment screen and combat map its gone.
Found a radiant and idk what to do with it. Just slapped 4 tachyon lances and a reality disruptor on it, but it's lacking in PD. Is that and a XIV onslaught good enough to fight the luddic church and persean blockade?
Ive also got 2 apogees, 2 Sunders, 5 omens a tempest and a wolf for support.
This. Astrals are good, you just have to force them to get close to the enemy. Pairing them with a big meat shield sponge battleship is how you use Astrals. Gravitons also aren't as bad as a choice for medium beams since they now debuff shields. So putting those on with your Squalls and some burst PD and you have a great support ship to shit bombers.
Only issue with the Radiant is that they'll phase skim away from its escorts.
funny thing you mentioning graviton beams. i have exactly those on my astrals too. but no PD though, modded fighters are a b***h and they take too much OP.
say, doesn't ITU increase missile range too? or should i put a PDAI there with pd guns?
ITU is just ballistics and energy, but with gravitons and burst pd it's still good and squalls already have a long range. PDAI would make the burst pd not shoot at decoys since charges on the burst lasers are in short supply when it comes down to swarms, but that's in cases you go up against missile and fighter heavy fleets, so an option but not necessary. Expanded Missile Racks is obvious, makes those squalls last twice as long. ECCM could be useful for the squall spam, but most of its bonuses are wasted; with the exception of s-mod bonus, that range from ignoring ECM is VERY good against Remnant fleets, but like with PDAI it's up to you. Advanced turret gyros, s-mod that and your burst pd is golden, it also counteracts the turn rate debuff from the built in Advanced Optics.
Overall I'd use 5 burst pd (3 up front, 2 in rear medium mounts), 3 gravitons, and the squalls. Burst PDs are strong enough to swat frigates at least. Put only enough vents on to cover flux
Officers need to have systems expertise to make the most use out of the recall device, Elite Missile Spec for the squalls since it's their core support weapon, the Astral relies on shields for protection so Field Modulation is a given, and Target Analysis lets you squeeze extra power out of those squalls.
>defend my system from blade breaker raid >they kill a diable avionics taskgroup >get a free pandemonium >nice. >go back to my main system to kill hegemony fleet >kill half of it >run out of ships to deploy in place of dead ships >the pandemonium! of course! >75 Deployment points
what the frick.... what the frick!
Damn, they beat me to it, I'll make a better thread when the post count hits at 900. I know you're eyeballing the post count discordshits, but next thread won't suffer from your crap. I'm watching you
hey guys rate my cool new faction idea
it’ll have its own line of ships and weapons and its ships are bonused in using its faction’s own weapons but they suffer a lot when you try to equip other weapons, and the ships themselves aren’t really good outside of their designated role
also the faction’s home systems are like 15 light years away from the core worlds so you’ll have to go very far out of your way to find their stuff
oh and I forgot to mention but the faction will also probably have reskins of vanilla ships despite them already having their own line of ships
oh and they have AI cores at their planets, which also produce unique commodities that aren’t fully integrated
and they have plenty of scripts for their weapons that don’t actually do anything worth the performance decrease
also the ships are powerful but that’s ok because they’re balanced out with above average maintenance and price
and to top it all off the ship weapon layouts are all either painfully generic and boring, or really awkward and lopsided
Literally how in the frick is this 'drama' or cringe? I was expected pedo aplogists or something along those lines, as that's what ususally infests discord.
Lol finally turkler is opening up the more useful part of his leak outside of all that smut he smuggled out of there? Thats something I would never thought would happend.
>picture got posted >whole thread got silenced
So discordtrannies raiding /vst/ isn't a joke huh. Now I wanna see more of it to laugh at these freaks. Bet they'll mass report this one to have it deleted, which can be viewed from the archives anyway.
>UAF discussion activity plummeted when this got posted
Gee, how curious. Similar to /vg/ and how its “generals” are essentially a discord extension for raids and shit.
>UAF discussion activity plummeted when this got posted
Gee, how curious. Similar to /vg/ and how its “generals” are essentially a discord extension for raids and shit.
Sup anons, as you know with Ironclad's video comes a new wave of influx. This is to all tourists that have atleast some of their neurons left. Do not be this guy. If you got technical problem with RS, then talk it here or through hotmail provided on gitgud page.
Please, frick off with your discord drama.
If i would've wanted to participate in it, i would join their shitty server. I came here to talk about game, however. So do us a favour and get back to your fricking cave.
you realize matter-antimatter annihilation is completely clean, right? it literally yields nothing except thermal and kinetic energy
Any explosion of considerable size creates plasma, which starts to rapidly radiate away energy in form of gamma rays. Any sufficently big explosion is radioactive. Throwing a rock into atmosphere at relativistic speeds is radioactive.
Adjusted Sector and the Java updates should be vanilla but instead Alex and David would rather add more walls of babby's first sci-fi novel text to click through.
Does this seem like a good target for an endgame build, focused on buffing the fleet? >Coordinated Manoeuvres, Wolfpack Tactics, Crew Training, Officer Training, Best of the Best >Navigation, Gunnery Implants, Electronic Warfare, Flux Regulation, Cybernetic Augmentation >Field Repairs, Polarized Armour?, Containment Procedures, Industrial Planning, Hull Restoration
I know the yellow path doesn't buff the fleet that much, but Hull Restoration + Crew Training does now let you have every ship start with 100% combat readiness, and I would like to have Industrial Planning, so the new Hull Restoration does feel like it lets me justify going yellow a bit more.
jesus christ is keeps getting worse
fricking annihilators recommended and using flacon (p) in players hands when the ai can shit out harpoons just fine
if you just want ships then bigbeans ship compilation got you covered
ship/weapon pack also gets you more stuff but its not as good as bigbeans imo
you can use both if you dont mind bloatmaxing your game
for factions they almost all come with new portraits which can be deleted but it takes a bit more to get rid of them than just deleting the portraits themselves
underworld adds more pirate stuff with the only portrait additions being some special snowflake fights otherwise its vanilla portraits
some more faction recommendations i forgot about
prv starworks adds 2 vanilla portraits with a different coloured hat so you wont even know the difference
osiris alliance adds a couple of vanilla looking portraits and even comes with a lowbie quest it however says its not updated to 0.97 but works just fine with a version change
mayasura may look like some anime mod with the mod banner but that shit is not ingame they are quite close to vanilla except slightly overpowered and if you have nexerelin hegemonkeys always capture their planet anyways
some more faction recommendations i forgot about
prv starworks adds 2 vanilla portraits with a different coloured hat so you wont even know the difference
osiris alliance adds a couple of vanilla looking portraits and even comes with a lowbie quest it however says its not updated to 0.97 but works just fine with a version change
mayasura may look like some anime mod with the mod banner but that shit is not ingame they are quite close to vanilla except slightly overpowered and if you have nexerelin hegemonkeys always capture their planet anyways
uhm bro, I just want a mod that removes the ugly vanilla portraits
Ok so I got for you a couple then, though do you want actual Anime portraits as well or just replacements for the vanilla ones? Anyways Anime Portrait Replacer is a decent one that works as advertised as well as Hime Portrait though if I remember rightly that one is a Discord exclusive. For the second one, blame captcha.
Glad you asked.
https://gofile.io/d/DbFCYO
Personally you can try this one if you want to replace everything.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28530.0
3 months ago
Anonymous
A FRICKING ELF
3 months ago
Anonymous
There's a e-girl and a parrot and you choose that one?
I like the vanilla portraits, everyone looks jaded and depressed. Really fitting when I come rolling in with my harem ready to sat bomb them back to the stone age. If they are all sad, then they should die sad deaths; I don't make the rules bruv. Gotta pump that orphan counter up.
starsector is very like Mount and blade - a sandbox but in space, you start as some no name mercenary, you can be whatever you like, space pirate, faction associate or indepdendent nation.
its strength:
- a good chunk of content is from your own exploration outside the predefined map, which has interesting secret/mystery and challenge
- you can establish your own faction in those new lands, planet colonization, and fight off anyone without having to crawl your way up as any faction's servant
- lots of mods to expand on the vanilla game without having to rely on total conversion mods.
- lots of customizations for your spaceships, from weapon to ship modifcation, which can change the way its played dramatically
- end game challenges are quite good on vanilla, mods can provide harder challenge too
- game runs well on potato machine
and finally, a great thing about starsector is that you can participate in this community and see the mentally ill drama due to this dedicated and vibrant modding community
I don't play with random seeds, I use console commands to check seeds a bunch of times for good systems, without looking at the name or map position so I don't know where they are in the sector. When I find one that's got at least one habitable, one secondary organics source (due to the new Luddic Majority thing, I like to not mine on my primary habitable), a vacuum planet and a gas giant (or top quantity volatiles cryovolcanic), I save it.
Then later when I'm ready to play I take one of the saved seeds and use it. I don't want to spend a long time getting invested in the play through and then find out there are no good systems.
What I've found on 0.97 so far:
MN-8701894105121401428
MN-8608240942826385920
MN-5765872850199489704
MN-4181089537156598868
MN-5859389960409701172
MN-4503795740343845592
MN-5375297852348189948 <- currently playing this one, started earlier today. Found a paragon and a pristine nanoforge already.
MN-6461174901538321492
MN-7572691828756038768
i have come to accept that systems i want to colonize dont actually exist so i cheat
also by the time i get to the colonization part im ready to drop the run anyway since babysitting colonies is the worst part of this game
>I used to use DIY planets but all the shit they added diluted the hell out of the colony item pool
this no longer happens and in the latest patch alex made motherships quarantee one of 3 colony items so you get more than ever before
don't worry it happens all the time to me too, like typing over instead of offer
not to say that our brains aren't rotting, but you're never alone when in deep shit
>TRANSplutonic ore >quartermaster, what the frick is this troony boolsheet in me cargo holds? >pardon, sir? >you are to be spaced today, my boy! along with the ore!
kek
>needing to FIND one >when nabbing the ones from the core worlds are not only EASIER but also BENIFICIAL for the COLONY CRISIS events
homie... stop being such a LITTLE b***h and just fricking take it already
Is this a gross misuse of an Onbawd? Yes. Is it going to absolutely rape anything smaller than a frigate? Yes. I cannot hear the haters nor see them past my sea of flak and canister shot. TPUs is all the primary weapon you need.
If you used the medium reaper missiles on the medium slot I honestly think that you could still handle bigger targets by cracking through their shields with repears then fragging them to death
S-mod the expensive hullmods and you'd have more than enough OP to swap swarmers for reapers. In testing the only times its ever gotten high on flux is when surrounded by fighters, bombers, and missiles almost constantly, and shooting the TPUs on top of that. While fluxxed there is a noticeable drop in firepower, but not enough to let any torps or harpoons through. The benefit of shield shunt in this case is to ignore any risk of being overloaded and caught with your pants down, and resistant flux conduits/repair units/armored weapon mounts means that those guns are going to keep firing with minimal downtime and curb the EMP meme.
It blows ballistic rangefinder doesn't increase flak range. The TPUs do have a ridiculously long range for pressuring shields and making gays back off.
Basically. The thought is to tank replacement rate of enemy carriers and missile stocks vs factions that spam fighters and missiles. As an armor/hull tank it's going to get worn down eventually, though reinforced bulkheads could make it last longer and buffed elite combat endurance can be viable for staving off attrition. Devastators can put down frigates that get close as it's explosive damage, and as an AOE weapon that doesn't rely on direct hits it can reach around shields. It's not optimal in any sense (a single HIL sunder can be the death of it), I just thought a hyper specialized meme build could be effective in this one niche. I also enjoy seeing the maximum possible bullet density being vomited from a ship where there's enough projectiles to be a shield.
If you were fighting other players it would be one thing but the AI doesn't play by the same rules the player does across the board. That said, usually my carriers are set up as long range harassers or PD boats and they work great for fricking up and distracting the enemy. Just don't expect to suddenly not see strikecraft at all in a fight.
>get hit by a turret as you're warping out >notice too late that all your supplies are gone >16 days to the closest settlement
It's over bros... I might lose every single one of my hard-earned UAF ships...
Should I go along with this obvious UAF's glowie honey trap prostitute? I saw her breaking a poor bastard's finger because he can't stop being a sperg, and she makes me very uncomfortable and erect.
i have actually noticed this
i have this bullet battery on my phase ship that does a frickload of damage, but after one volley the enemy ships actually start masterfully utilizing the shield.
it still leaves them defenceless to my mining blaster and autopulser, so... >picrel
Didn't play for a while, went for randomized start and got an enforcer for my start. Decided to roll with it, pic related is my early game loadout. Any tips for improvement? Put my first levels into armor increase and manoeuvrability increase. I am mostly going solo against smaller pirate fleets and the first 3 fights it worked well
>IS nanoforge fleet
Nerfed severely and/or scales with player fleet size. Can be beaten with a fleet of 240DP with S-mods. >UAF Solvernia death fleet
Lol, lmao.
Solvernia herself is the only threatening ship in that entire fleet and can be defeated if you have bombers and frontline ships.
>be me >update happens >try to warn anons to wait at least 5 hotfixes >even update a ticker >warn them to wait maybe another extra one or two even because of some very minor not really hotfix hotfixes >anons wonder why their suffering is eternal
Nah, I'm 90% sure it's some Remnant ship class getting borked.
They are mentally deranged, but crashcoding Rapesector would only give it more attention and they don't want it.
they are snowflake tritach subdivision or something so makes sense according to mod lore
its the other ai faction in the mod that has unique stuff not these guys who also use omega weapons
They don't really hit my fps at all though? Combat can be a bit laggy with a lot of individual units and stuff on screen but I don't really have a problem even with a slightly larger sector. I just like the clouds.
Other than once in awhile I don't use speedup. Mostly end up using it waiting on a colony to construct something or similar. Of course you're going to lag in speed up mode. Thats down to how the game was made.
well then obviously you wont have problems with fps no matter what potato you play on but if you speed up in hyperspace fps tanks extremely hard
3 months ago
Anonymous
...anon
3 months ago
Anonymous
yes running the game at double or triple speed is more demanding and disabling clouds helps a lot
i can get around 45 fps in hyperspace at 3x speed with clouds disabled
3 months ago
Anonymous
...ANON
3 months ago
Anonymous
...ANON
i refuse to take the bait
3 months ago
Anonymous
You are the one trolling, though. I'm talking about running the game normal and you're like WHAT SPEEDUP ARE YOU ON THOUGH?
Of course thats going to run worse no matter what you do? Why are you like this?
3 months ago
Anonymous
...AAANNOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!
3 months ago
Anonymous
I AM NOT CRAZY the cloud gains are real
3 months ago
Anonymous
kek original ...anon poster here, clouds indeed add some latency just was saying it had never been a problem for me. Enjoy cloudfree gaming.
I get around 35-40 FPS in Hyperspace, Normal Sized Sector, X4.0 speed with SpeedUp, using the Mikohime mod and the Java Dedicated GPU fix. Yes, I have hyperspace stormclouds enabled and untouched.
I'm playing on a laptop with a i7 CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a RTX 2026.
I'm gonna try and get in a really big battle with lots of fighters and missles and see how it performs.
i got 140ish with normal sized sector and increased zoom range at 3x speed with cloud disabled
with clouds enabled its about 120
with nexerelin + giant sector and a gorillion factions its around 40 fps at 3x speed with larger zoom range
>"Alright, all animu factions loaded, can't be as bad as people make it out to be, right?" >Check out the local planet to see if I got lucky with some delivery mission early on >Cute animu operator grill tries to groom me into joining her OC pirate faction instead >Is now a quest contact
Well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions.
I do appreciate that even tho arma has anime avatars, the author at least tries to be consistent with the writing of base game and she isn't a generic waifu
in lunalib settings you can disable the most overpowered ships they got but the system is still impossible for any faction capture even if all other factions invade them at the same time they will lose
the only solution is to disable legio entirely in lunalib which is what i do because that troon actually made a decent mod outside of the legio garbage
maybe he reduced their cheats lately but they shat up the sector in 0.95 so badly that i never enabled them again
its your game getting fricked when they start deploying their ships for half the cost among other things so their fleets are always twice the size of everyone else
even weirder then since I just bootleged noah's crap from 95 so I can rape and capture his precious OC donut steel since he removed it from his later revisions
he even made the changes retroactive so you literally cannot get that version of his mod anymore
I absolutely loathe all the anime shit in every way and can't wait for someone to come along and replace them all with normal looking people thanks to AI. Shit does not fit at all, best case it makes me laugh and roll my eyes
...they use AI anime avatars because AI is too stupid to make decent looking avatars in the same style of the game, so good luck with that. All the "realistic" portrait packs i've seen are shit and don't match david's style at all
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=22335.0
Hasn't been updated since 0.95 so you'll have to change the version in the mod_info but otherwise still works perfectly fine.
3 months ago
Anonymous
He didn't like the pack giving you such colorful captain names like "Kate Hikes" and "Nuck Figgers". Come on guys, hide your power levels.
Is there a reason to keep your Tech-Mining industries on until the ruins have been extensively combed through in 0.97? Any chance of finding something actually good, like a nanoforge or else?
You will never be a real modder. You have no files, you have no repo, you have no download links. You are a homosexual man twisted by discord and starsector forums into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.
>finally got around to updating to 0.97 >mostly due to my favourite bootlegs just work >and because UAF updated and that means a new handholding run instead of saturating the sector on Sigma Matter
leave Knights of Ludd's ZoE Doritos to me
Do Plasma Cannons benefit from Extended Magazines? I'm still toying with my Oddysey, but if they don't I might have to find a new one that I didn't S-Modded already.
I wish invasions only triggered once you start colonizing yourself. Having to speedrun reputation of whatever faction you want to commission to so you can get their stuff before they get deleted by another faction is tiresome. Not to mention the ever fun "lmao, get decivilized from raiding".
"invasionsOnlyAfterPlayerColony": false,
"invasionGracePeriod": 90,
"colonyExpeditionsOnlyAfterPlayerColony": false,
i wonder what these settings in nex do
kek while that anon isn't wrong and its nice there are settings for a lot of things modded or otherwise its fine to also lament how things are be default.
Sometimes people get too in the weeds of "well theres a mod for that!" or "you can fix it by doing this." Nice to have the ability obviously to do corrective surgery to a game though.
"invasionsOnlyAfterPlayerColony": false,
"invasionGracePeriod": 90,
"colonyExpeditionsOnlyAfterPlayerColony": false,
i wonder what these settings in nex do
There's also Lunalib settings for it you can change on the fly. You can tweak a lot of things without needing to frick with mod settings, just don't forget to click save.
kek while that anon isn't wrong and its nice there are settings for a lot of things modded or otherwise its fine to also lament how things are be default.
Sometimes people get too in the weeds of "well theres a mod for that!" or "you can fix it by doing this." Nice to have the ability obviously to do corrective surgery to a game though.
Any mod is made better by having settings like that. It's a single player game, why shouldn't we be able to tune it to our exact preferences?
>You can tweak a lot of things without needing to frick with mod settings
i do both just in case someone somehow managed to frick it up when making the mod
The artillery stuff sounded like a cool idea when I first tried it as long range attacks on the map level was a mod idea I thought of prior (basically nuclear torpedos on bootlegged shuttle hulls launched from fleets), but yeah IE artillery turned out to be shit, good concept bad implementation.
Every recent save (in .96 still mind you) with nex with the new arma the MRC immediately gets destroyed (they have 1 station, thats it) by someone as they are suicidal pirate terrorists and I love them.
nex rebellions get stronger if you sell marines and heavy armaments in the black market theres even a pop up telling you how much the rebel strength increased
Wish I could pay credits to selectively break a ship into having d-mods I want.
Or partially scuttle a ship, so it gains a d-mod and I get % of the scuttle value as supplies. Industry perk would be reworked to cost supplies so it's not exploited for free resources.
>answer summon of the station commander at Byzantium >huge 9 fleet armada is trying to attack their base >except their star fortress is an absurdly OP monster that can repel even a fleet of doritoes if it wanted >get 200,000 k for doing nothing, plus a bunch of free salvage
More Military Missions moment. The mod rewards you too much for too little, plus the fact that you can pretty much summon an aggressive fleet of ANY faction that won't get the faction angry at you if it's destroyed means you can easily get late-game gear very early in the game.
I really like the idea of the mod but have decided not to use it in the end.
Convoy missions are a good idea too, but they pay too much just for 'security' and too little for carrying extra goods yourself. Plus raiders aren't always certain to come so it's very easy money to make.
The convoy missions are a gigantic pain in the ass too >trade fleet gets hit by a hyperspace storm and flies into a raider fleet >mission is instantly failed >lose all the escrow money for carrying extra cargo
Rage removed the mod after that. Also it by default gives you intel for every spawned trade fleet in the sector, which is weird.
ALSO those station repair missions pay like actual garbage
I wish that it was a good mod because I like the idea of well, more military missions, but it sadly is not.
>ALSO those station repair missions pay like actual garbage
The point isn't really the pay. It's more about cutting down the station's downtime by a factor of 45 days.
I am evil for using IED ships against trade convoys? I know moral relativism is the second name of the game but this feels kinda wrong despite how both effective and entertaining it is.
i kinda love that about them. get like 8 faction mods and the sector is oversaturated with systems and colonies and you make no fricking money from food exports or whatever
but yeah, i also fear for my missile bros dying out if they find a strong enemy
>low-tech station has 'eavy dakka and big armor and hull >midline station is shit because the dakka side faces away from the enemy half the time >high-tech station has fricking fortress shield modules that are separate from the actual weapon modules
High tech has the same issue as midline where all the disco beams face one direction with the plasma cannon pod, however the range it has is absolutely ridiculous and beams don't miss, and the station comes with mine fields.
I absolutely loathe all the anime shit in every way and can't wait for someone to come along and replace them all with normal looking people thanks to AI. Shit does not fit at all, best case it makes me laugh and roll my eyes
Better yet when they use AI to make more anime in massive volumes because making passable anime with AI takes much less effort than making passable people with AI. Knights of Chudd and Tahlan do this which is why they're all samefaced.
He just updated it and added a bunch of buffs across the board.
https://github.com/scardwell15/diable-avionics/releases/download/v2.8.0/Diable-Avionics-v2.8.0.zip
A case of disney science >space elevator? Too basic, what about a space cheese string tieing two worlds together but actually it would be a space bumper because planets that close would fricking collide.
It could work in theory, however the planets have to be the same mass, rotate at the same speed, orbit at just fast enough to counteract the pull of their gravity but not too much to tear the tethers, and the tether needs to be rooted in deeper than the crust.
Either way it's fricking moronic and serves no purpose other than "what if elevator between planets?" moon logic.
To flex on the lower races that can't achieve such a feat. outside of that, my guess is not much, because the assumed maintenance costs and complexities would completely overshadow any benefit of having 2 worlds of resources and space conjoined.
Definitely from a mod. There's only 2 mentions of 'tether' in the game files, both for descriptions of Vast quality ruins (planetary and gas giant).
'spool' shows up 5 times; once in the description of the player testing their monowire during the Dicktat questline, the description of Fullarine Spool, Askonia & Samara market descriptions, and twice in the drop rates of rare item drops (item_fullarine_spool) rare_tech and rare_tech_low. 'Elevator' only shows up once in the Fullarine Spool's description.
Weird, "Elevator" is only mentioned once in the game? Player never rides in an elevator?
>Player never rides in an elevator?
you do, the obvious one is in the galatia quest where you take a "lift pod" or "travel-lift" up to the center of the station to see the provost
>rules.csv(9347): gaRequestMeeting1,DialogOptionSelected,$option == gaRequestMeeting1,,"You are led through a discreet secure-access door to a series of passages that bypass the public concourses. A travel-lift activates at the academy agent’s presence >rules.csv(9349): The lift pod is wrapped by diamond-matrix >rules.csv(10482): Cyclopean arcology substructure flashes by as you ride the primary ring tube to a far segment of the metroplex; a small passenger lift fills with the smell of sweat >rules.csv(17894): There is no perceptible change in subjective gravity as the lift accelerates upward;
Lift tube, lift shuttle, lift shuttle, but the Spool's description is the only one that says "elevator".
Definitely from a mod. There's only 2 mentions of 'tether' in the game files, both for descriptions of Vast quality ruins (planetary and gas giant).
'spool' shows up 5 times; once in the description of the player testing their monowire during the Dicktat questline, the description of Fullarine Spool, Askonia & Samara market descriptions, and twice in the drop rates of rare item drops (item_fullarine_spool) rare_tech and rare_tech_low. 'Elevator' only shows up once in the Fullarine Spool's description.
Weird, "Elevator" is only mentioned once in the game? Player never rides in an elevator?
Tech mining is cheap, install an alpha core on it and let it run for a month before removing it since most of the value is in that first month. If it's a size 3 colony then the alpha core won't attract attention.
>jump into imperium system >get colony defense mission against like 5 hobofleets >free money because imperium station will just frick them over >comissioned fraction decides to start war with imperium >i am surrounded by 8 patrol fleets and the single strongest station in game, and there are 5 more attack fleets incoming
thanks nexerelin, i just wanted to do my no story points run
>select expendable ships and strip them >use IE detach fleet >dab on their navy by leaving heroic volunteers to catch the patrols for you >transverse jump away
>updated 6 hours ago
fine there are buffs now but ive seen people say diable is buffed for fricking months when the dude maintaining it did nothing other than change virtuous weapon choices
3 months ago
Anonymous
You aren't wrong there, and I actually agree with you that the people saying it's been buffed over the past few threads when it clearly hadn't been were annoying as frick.
Because it got shit on by tourneygays who cried "2 op pls nerf" and left us with a bunch of ships with both anemic flux stats and weapons with high flux draws.
You know my post history huh mr glowbot?
I was able to unfrick most of the changes in .96 I do not possess the knowledge to undo all the skill changes in .97.
Man, the last time I bought a game (small indie) outside of Steam was Minecraft whenever it was on beta on sale. Then they sent a fricking migration email and terminated my account.
>Diable Avionics ships are designed with advanced fire control systems. These systems finely tune the reactor output towards overpowering the weapons, increasing their damage and flux cost by 30%.
Lol
I do find it odd how Diable was nerfed into the ground so hard, especially when Tartiflette's other mods like Scy and ORA didn't suffer the same fate, at least not to the same extent. Call me a schizo but I think he resented Diable as it wasn't even his own mod to begin with.
diable is the most popular faction mod in the game so it attracted the most balance autists
the very same autists who are responsible for everything you like getting nerfed
blue blocks and ships with tails arent nearly as popular so nobody bothered to complain
>(and my secret capital class mech)
whats all this then
personally i like using the zaku from epta because it's fricking busted
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm making a capital class mech from basically scratch and am just being a smart ass mentioning it. No one here wants it and I'm not gonna spam about it. I'm very partial to the sleeper start valk and the aleste swordsman in nekki. Just 2 really hilariously fun mechs.
3 months ago
Anonymous
sounds fun, i want it when you're done
3 months ago
Anonymous
Well thanks. It will probably be awhile as I'm learning and doing at the same time. Much easier than other projects I've worked on though. Hulls and weapons are WAY easier to add to starsector. My mech is basically is a carrier with a sword and PD at this point.
3 months ago
Anonymous
lookin forward to whenever you're done with it
hope you have fun making it
3 months ago
Anonymous
Thank you. It is certainly more enjoyable to work on than adding events or text boxes or anything like that.
A good practice to adopt is to immediately look in the portraits folder of any mod you download >VRI >see this shit >the rest are colour swapped/shitbashed vanilla portraits >named characters are inexplicably anime
VIC has some "furry" portraits but its genetic modification and body modding which is part of the faction. Its not full on anime wolfgirl. JYD has some furry ship names but no furries in game that I saw.
>Do you think this is justified
could be, as long as the next three major patches are big enough to "complete" the game.
Chances are low but not impossible imho.
have other people been complaining about it
i havent played in a while or checked the threads
is there a way to contact and whine directly at her
i shall do so if so and if you personally let me know
Sephira Conclave portraits, even for my guy
I also change the BBslaught officer's portrait for a female SC one so I can handhold it for extra bonuses the KFC Colonel bounty officer is considered a woman by the handholding mod LOL
>Couple of hours into in my anime factions and and other stuff extravaganza campaign >Some agent animu girl tried to groom into joining her genocide faction >Couple of tsundere girls wanting me to work for them, but "not really, but there just isn't anyone better for that job out there, don't get the wrong idea idiot" >Eleet strike force fleet girls >An exiled kingdom or something with their queen and officers craving my independent, massive Onslaught >More tsundere AI because why not >Not Rome got rid of that one planet anime faction in record time >Also you can apparently gift some stuff to some of those girls because frick it, dating sim elements
It's kind of fun actually. Just wish I could find a decent system already to settle in.
Hegemony portraits are probably the hardest to adapt to new ones I think. It's not just the cap, you have to make sure that, if they have one, the belt is on the right side, as well s checking they have the right epaulets and uniform design in general. Other factions' portraits are much easier to work with I think because of their looser uniform standards I think.
i didnt read and indeed, i don't care
make that b***h an avatar in whatever mod you're making
i've already stolen it if you want to spite me so too late for that, mon frond
So are you just making new vanilla portraits by kitbashing others together? Seems like a smart idea of increasing variety that isn't too noticeable on the playing end.
Probably the shinier hair making her look like she's graying out. Gonna see what i can do about it.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Ok.
BROWN.
3 months ago
Anonymous
are you fricking moronic you already had a good version, go work on your other shit
like not to diminish no yeah you fricking moron go work on your shit that needs work and come back to this later
3 months ago
Anonymous
Brown looks better, but the first one you uploaded still looks the best.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Now you know why I take so long to finish everything.
Here's a family photo. Clearly adopted since she has none of their jawlines or race.
3 months ago
Anonymous
the lighting on the hair makes it look like shit anon
the og version doesnt have that lighting on the middle part of her hair
3 months ago
Anonymous
I like the result, she looks like an actual officer.
That's mean, Anon. The mod is gonna have plenty of hot, white women for you to collect when it's ready.
Though some might need a retouch now that I'm seeing them together and compared to the most recent ones.
So are you just making new vanilla portraits by kitbashing others together? Seems like a smart idea of increasing variety that isn't too noticeable on the playing end.
Yeah. Mix of kitbashing and AI generation of vanilla portraits and concept art for games I found around the internet. Already put out a collection of the ones I've made so far, I'm sore some Anons have them.
Would it be possible for a mod to increase the amount of physical debris that generates upon a ship being blown up, as well as increasing the force at which it's thrown when an explosion does occur? Would be cool to see ships being knocked about by chunks of other ships.
against my better judgement and taste i have decided to use anons anime portraits because ai sloppa is being spammed so hard that i have started to hate it
>game has antimatter >used predominately in planetary bombardment >2 weapons have it, one recently added
Why isn't here a support power just shower antimatter fuel
Antimatter is safe, entirely green, and leaves no toxic wastes behind unlike traditional nukes
What the god fricking darnation are you on about
Explosions on that scale release massive amounts of ash and gases to a planets atmosphere, blocking out the sun for years or decades dropping temperatures on a planet and causing plants and animals to die out, a habitable planet is going to likely take at least a century for the ecosystem to fully recover
Ya know... I think Andrada made some good points on the Pegasus modifications, it runs amazingly in my fleet. Just need to equip special []Redacted[] weapons.
This ship is controlled by the ai. Not myself. But most energy based projectile weapons are flux heavy, making them impractical on the conquerer. But with [redacted] weapons, they are more flux/damage efficient.
anon... put a dualflak in the rear
its more than 100% worth the cost compared to singleflak
The forward pd is very effective, mostly at disabling fighters and missiles. But large energy weapons act like PD anyway, I have yet to see this ship overwhelmed even when surrounded, cause everything around it is often disabled anyway.
look at his legion on the side and realize he cannot be helped because he is doing it on purpose
Frick off, my Legion isn't meant for killing but for suppression and it does a dam fine job for what it costs.
never forget most of the discordians especially those that cry about it the most use it. They also post about it on twatter and preddit as well as here gushing about their "rapes"
It is truly pathetic.
>take a gander at the starsector discord for mod updates >look at the modded gameplay chat >some poor shmuck posts a link to rapesector >entire chat goes full on meltdown >10 mods appear >guy gets permabanned within 30 seconds
That's just one part of it. The other is the seething about it being a fork of Take No Prisoners made both without permission and being patched and up to date.
>sarissa >xyphos >light mortars in the front >no PD on the sides because the fighters have PD
Still underpowered for its size but better than a pirate carrier has any right to be
>no gun >2 fighter wings/ or spam piranha against station >hide behind other ship kilometers away
In this niche its okay, optimal even for having 2 broken fighter bays for 8dp.
The other way, gun ship, won't work because combat is stat sensitive, yet every stat is shit even for carrier or price, and the benefit of being upsized is null, and not fixable by hullmods because of OP limit and upsize cost.
I really like the new rapesector 'give her to the crew' option for CR recovery bonus you can use on throwaway pirate c**ts
But there should be an even further ryona / snuff option that gives even higher bonuses and automatically kills the girl in the end. Better UX then doing it now, checking up on her, and manually executing her once she's all icky and abused with loose holes and blackened genitals.
Willing to write it btw
>pirates send trade fleet to my colonies >other factions in system kill said trade faction using my station >station and planet now have shipping disruption
kek god dammit
Thinking about it, it's weird that there's not more 'independent' traders given that all those 'concerned person at the bar' quests for hauling 13,000 ore or food or whatever. Like an independent shipping union that handles most bulk resource trades.
Roider and Tiandong fall under mining and salvaging, but I can't think of a trade/transport focused faction. What would that even look like? Every ship a combat freighter? The SFC but cargo instead of fuel?
3 months ago
Anonymous
They could use generic ships from other factions for defense but have unique fuel and cargo ships. Maybe some pirate bps with shielded cargo.
Roider and Tiandong fall under mining and salvaging, but I can't think of a trade/transport focused faction. What would that even look like? Every ship a combat freighter? The SFC but cargo instead of fuel?
It would be better if there were less fleets in general. It feels dumb and arcadey when the Hegemony loses entire battlegroups to desertion with legions and onbawds every week, yet the high hegemon needs to break a champagne bottle over every new eagle chassis that's finished on chicomoztoc.
Sure, nanoforge printing makes it different from how economics/industry works today, but there should be more economic and worldbuilding sense in the campaign layer.
3 months ago
Anonymous
It would make sense if they rewrote it as a celebration for the launch of a flagship for a new fleet or something equally large.
Why does Nia self-insert and visualize himself as a cute girl, when he's a guy named Noah in real life?
Why is that true for that Avanitia bloke on the discord as well?
What drives a man to play Starsector or present himself in the world with a female avatar?
if a game ever lets the player use a female avatar/model, even if it’s almost never seen outside of a few menus or scenes, then you can sure as hell bet that there will be gay men using those options, even when they can’t even use the excuse of “I don’t want to stare at a man’s ass” because the game in question is either first person only or something where you only ever see your character through their portrait
This 'update' added literally nothing and hasn't had any announcement by the author. This version also still says that it's being maintained by Avanitia, the devs have abandoned it but did a zero-effort update to coincide with Lion's shill video.
3 months ago
Anonymous
either you dont understand what abandoned means or you are some gaas zoomer who needs infinite additions to his games/mods
its a finished mod that still gets bug fixes years after it was released
3 months ago
Anonymous
>its a finished mod >still has unfinished contact missions
3 months ago
Anonymous
>unfinished contact missions
explain
ava nitia and that other b***h work just fine by improving relations with them
3 months ago
Anonymous
They still have missions in their dialogue trees that don't exist, there's a popup that says they're under development.
3 months ago
Anonymous
he means the two unfinished unique conquest missions
>abandoned >when it just got ANOTHER update for 0.97(and it's the third one)
lol
lmao even
Sephira Conclave is deader than IRS
and both are alive as frick
DESU, IS is better than like 99% of the starsector "faction mods" in the sense that it isn't just a glorified ship pack. It adds an (unfinished lel) questline, characters, campaign layer mechanics, etc.
Well, it clearly depends if you really need the Flux Capacitors of not. Stabilized Shields has the S-Mod bonus that converts a percentile of received Hard Flux into Soft Flux.
S-mod stabilized shields because it has a bonus and put the points into caps. Stabilized shields is very big on ships with large shield flux generation. Take the Paragon's shield upkeep flux: it's 750, SS is a 375 reduction in flux/s, for 15 OP. It's over twice as efficient as opposed to putting on vents to cover that upkeep.
Putting caps in place of Hardened Shields is a better option for the same cost because at the end of the day you're looking at total hard flux capacity, and you also have a higher base flux capacity as a buffer for weapons. If you have maxed out caps then you add HS to squeeze more performance out of the shield. HS is the flux coil equivalent of shields.
Fricking alex broke galatia questline AGAIN
I can't talk to horus but memorydumping shows that all variables related to ATG quest are complete.
This is bullshit, and i can't do anything. Is there a way to complete a particular quest step without just finishing it?
THIS FRICKING Black person
NOTHING FRICKING WORKS
I HAVE TO FORCE THE GALATIA QUESTLINE WIN NOW AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO EXPLORE NEW VOID SHIT
FRICK ALEX
>private mods
Good, frick them, can't play with every mod nor would I want to >Ironshell
Let's look at the Ironshell for example - I haven't interacted with them at all in a couple of weeks playing SS, so for me ironshell being publicly available made no difference >UAF
Let's also look at UAF recently - not only the Solvernia is a hag now, but CY bloats the mod with more ships and it's already as weighty as a certain turkish pussy that can't shorten his fighter bays! >sephira conclave
It requres DME which sucks ass, at this point they could just decouple from it. The ships are alright I suppose but that's about it (plus the bugs), plus the color scheme looks kinda gay besides being divorced from the color scheme of the portraits (why the frick?)
Sup anons, as you know with Ironclad's video comes a new wave of influx. This is to all tourists that have atleast some of their neurons left. Do not be this guy. If you got technical problem with RS, then talk it here or through hotmail provided on gitgud page.
>Alright, I finished the story and still haven't found a good system to colonize or terraform, now what? >Thinking about it, despite having all this weeaboo stuff installed, I didn't really interact with it besides buying some aux ships from them, lets check them out in detail and maybe get a commission >Why can I buy rice cookers from them? >Why is there an confectionery building here? >Why is this a resort planet? Will I have to go through a beach episode at some point? >"Oh you want a commission? Go there, talk to that girl, maybe bring her a cake, you can buy'em here" >"Btw her name is Nia Auroria" >Actual fricking "Nya's" in her dialogue >"Commission? Do some work, here's my contact info" >You can give her presents or compliment her to increase reputation with her
My actions continue to have consequences and I am afraid of how deep this hole goes.
I have to admit though that a lot of effort went into this weeaboo fantasy.
in sectorgen.java look for this >float minRadius = plugin.getTileSize
change the 2f to 999f to completely remove clouds
you can edit it with a regular notepad just fine
well, you are the troony who trannies with troonys while troonying in a troony forum troony troony troony
Do you ever shut the frick up? Please stop posting anytime
If you guys have all that out of your system..
Would it make more sense for a capital mech with a sword to have a physical sword that bats ships away when it swings, or a laser sword?
I kinda like the sword "igniting" but there is something to be said about it flinging frigates and shit. Would that be too op though?
You can try copy-pasting the hull graphics and ship file data from the old version and then update the current ship_data.csv with the old version of that specific ship
You can then replace it or add it as a different ship as long as there are no conflicting IDs.
No, my vessels are eternal, i haven't lost a ship once. I am just trying to find some fleet compo that would kill 5 smodded tesseracts now. My flagship has a 3.5 temporal time speed without ability, and moves faster than the cryoflamer projectiles when in shell.
anyone done the sindria quests in 0.97?
i had my save get bricked earlier by the second part where you get the guy from pirates to the lions guard and the lions guard patrol never spawned
Industrial bloatvolution, for some reason disabling his shitty pets in lunalib does not remove a pet food item from clugging planetary markets. >Verification not required
>disabling his shitty pets in lunalib does not remove a pet food item from clugging planetary markets
this makes me seethe to no end especially since they start showing up randomly after a while
industrial evolution keeps adding pointless bloat into it
this is why you check the mod settings before starting a run so you can disable pointless garbage while reading the modders passive aggressive comments for disabling them
Probably not gonna use them because I like the original ones, but I don't think they look half bad unlike other anime portraits, which tend to make look everyone much younger and cuter.
>make vanilla portraits into Anime, if you're into that
Man why the frick people gotta rui-- Oh hey, it's the good type of anime. I guess this can slide.
>make vanilla portraits into Anime, if you're into that
Man why the frick people gotta rui-- Oh hey, it's the good type of anime. I guess this can slide.
Yeah I think more than anime it kinda looks like characters from a 80's/90's cartoon show remade in 2020.
This and the AI gen'd MRC/ArmaA portraits are the only ones that don't really bug me.
based i will definitely use this since anons portrait pack only replaced the women so all stations were filled with ugly ass default male portraits and anime girls
how much do you explore each system? I was fricking around one time and traveled a ways towards the end of the map and found a weapons cache, it contained mostly garbage but still I'm wondering if it's worth it to explore systems a lot more than what's considered normal
If it's a probe infested star cluster, I use neutrino scanner and try to locate all probes/survey ships/mothership. You'll get a lot of survey missions that will point you to things you might have missed anyway.
bros how would one go about editing a colonies stability? AOTD fricking bricked my save and I have a sneaking suspicion its because an event is trying to give a colony -3 stability when its already at 0.
>the main epta dev has done a new mod >instead of keeping work on epta >in fact epta is fricking ded bc his friends arent interested in developing it anymore
??????
cool supership though
Food is dogshit if you think it's more important than ore or volatiles you're moronic.
The real issue is always that the planet is habitable and that blocks mantle bores.
Does anyone use Hounds for combat? I found them all to be neat distractions at best. The SO chaingun/HMG hound is a funny build, but compared to a Lasher they're still not great. I found a better use for them with ECM package and Nav Relay so they actually provide a benefit to the fleet for their 3 DP, add a HVD so they can plink at shields once in a while.
>multi-fragmented like a junker station >almost 10,000 crew capacity >mid section is almost completely defenseless, but the sides are lined with guns and hangars
More like it's a combat ready starliner. Infact, the "vast hangar" hullmod lets you install a converted hangar, doubles the amount of bays you can install, and nullifies all the downsides.
The obvious thing is fleet command. Those sunders are doing absolutely frick all with those HILs sitting in the back and behind wrecks, move them with a waypoint order: also, swap iron cannons for literally any other beam weapon because it's too short range for the sunder. Redesign that Gryphon. If it's getting that close replace the forward weapons with reapers because dragonfires are a meme with their pathetic ammo count for a large slot, and get rid of those fricking gazers it does nothing for you and swap with breaches or gorgons if you want DEMs. Liberal use of EMP to disable their weapons and use cheap piranha bombers since that shitbox isn't moving out of the way. Get rid of the PD (emitter is already the best PD weapon period) and put an antimatter blaster on your omens so it forces them to get close to use their EMP emitter and alternate between cooldowns.
>put an antimatter blaster on your omens
absolutely fricking disgusting omens are made for escorting your big ships so you can ignore pd on them completely
And they do that by just attacking alongside your fleet and gangraping larger ships with Emp damage. "muh escorts" sure, it'll keep your ships protected when it counts when it's busy trying to body block some lasher to the side and tickle it with a PD laser (not even in range with the emitter) because Alex is a moron and can't code escort orders right. It is not my problem you can't use your ships flexibly.
>the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
Frick off with this moronic.
You can just skip every combat with plot armor points Alex doesn't have a fricking clue what he's doing.
>skip every combat with plot armor points
Until you suddenly can't anymore because you pissed them all away. Your s-modded and unique ships WILL be unrecoverable after the fight and there's nothing you can do about it.
>Remember that the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
How? >lose random pirate battle >lose all your ships, wake up in israelitengala >lose random pirate battle while exploring space >lose all your ships with all unique items >oh, so you are 40lvl captain with 3 smods on each ship, lvl 7 officers and omega weapons? >then why half of your ships get destroyed when fighting a star fortress thats supported by at least 10 ships? >then why you can't take out quarter of persean blockade without losing half of your ships? >10 hostile armada fleets with 6 burn speed can't catch your fleet? No problem bro, a single moronic mudskipper officer can catch you and force you to take unwinnable fight >Your fleet only contains frigates and destroyers with 10 base burn speed but your exceeding %put_random_number_here% dp limit? Sorry bro your fleet is TOO BIG to disengage. >Your unique ship gets disabled while disengaging? Don't worry bro, it has gone forever.
Story points are moronic and should be removed from the game.
i'll bite >lose random pirate battle
skill issue >lose all your ships, wake up in israelitengala
skill issue + bad planning >lose random pirate battle while exploring space
skill issue >oh, so you are 40lvl captain with 3 smods on each ship, lvl 7 officers and omega weapons? >then why half of your ships get destroyed when fighting a star fortress thats supported by at least 10 ships?
skill issue if you lost with that, it's a stationary target and fleet moron >10 hostile armada fleets with 6 burn speed can't catch your fleet? No problem bro, a single moronic mudskipper officer can catch you and force you to take unwinnable fight
sure would be nice if there was something you had to escape an unwinnable fight. skill issue, play on normal speed >Your fleet only contains frigates and destroyers with 10 base burn speed but your exceeding %put_random_number_here% dp limit? Sorry bro your fleet is TOO BIG to disengage.
skill issue; fight them normally, blow up a few ships, retreat, then you can flee without pursuit >Your unique ship gets disabled while disengaging? Don't worry bro, it has gone forever.
skill issue, don't commit it to fights you aren't sure to win
>Oh you want to play the game(you can't play this game without winning every fight)? Just have fleet bigger than the most armadas or pilot every fight and kill entire fleets by your own so you don't have to deal with moronic AI behavior that can frick up simplest fights
you suddenly can't anymore because you pissed them all away.
They're given out like candy and you will not have to use them that often unless something is going very wrong with your run and the scaling.
You're a fricking moron and the fact you're defending them based on scarcity is pretty fricking humorous.
>Your s-modded and unique ships WILL be unrecoverable after the fight and there's nothing you can do about it.
hull restoration chads just keep on winning
I've never had an S-Modded ship be unrecoverable before, even without Hull Restoration.
I think the default survival chance of player ships is just way too high.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Officered ships will never be unsalvagable
3 months ago
Anonymous
Also anything with Rugged Construction I think. So completely irrelevant to everyone except Derelict-users and Hounds.
I think you missed a key part of it: 'This is one of the few topics that I..'
Nobody gives a shit what a moron who works for free as a moderator on a forum and a discord 'thinks' about. They're the Untouchables of the internet. Especially homosexuals like this guy
I think story points were a bad idea, but I actually don't know how I would do it differently.
It just feels silly that story points are "lol you rolled a 20 and can do whatever you want" whenever you have to make a story decision.
Yeah I guess most of the time its used to skip combat, but it just feels wrong to me.
What really sucks is that you then need story points for things you actually care about, aka building in hull mods, upgrading officers and improving your colony structures.
Then you realise how starved you are of SP, especially if you spend them on green options.
It's your cheat allowance. Remember that the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
Hitting a hyperspace storm wrong and getting bounced into a remnant fleet you're not prepared for sucks, what sucks more is if you can't get away from it and end up wiped. So allowing an option to weasel out of a bad deal at a cost is a good thing. As these points can be sparse and have so many applications it forces you to think and spend them wisely. Spending them all on getting free raids without rep loss is fine and dandy until you realize you want to s-mod, or buff your colony, build an officer, or you found a XIV Legion with s-mods and it's only salvageable by spending a point. Yes it is silly you can perform "special maneuvers" to cleanly get out of an unwinnable fight, or convince some dude you're working under orders from Phil or Kanta, but you're not forced to spend them. It's plot armor to make up for bad luck and bad planning.
When you get into the mindset of "uh story points are a shit concept because it lets you handwave problems" you get Iron Shell greying out the option entirely and taunting you for mousing over it.
Ironman mode is meant for neets with too much time in their hands. It's virtually impossible to have anything bad happen to you by just playing the game on normal speed only
>virtually impossible to have anything bad happen to you by just playing the game on normal speed only
this
aint nobody got time to slowly fly around just in case some fleet is hiding inside an asteroid belt
>the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
Frick off with this moronic.
You can just skip every combat with plot armor points Alex doesn't have a fricking clue what he's doing.
>Remember that the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
How? >lose random pirate battle >lose all your ships, wake up in israelitengala >lose random pirate battle while exploring space >lose all your ships with all unique items >oh, so you are 40lvl captain with 3 smods on each ship, lvl 7 officers and omega weapons? >then why half of your ships get destroyed when fighting a star fortress thats supported by at least 10 ships? >then why you can't take out quarter of persean blockade without losing half of your ships? >10 hostile armada fleets with 6 burn speed can't catch your fleet? No problem bro, a single moronic mudskipper officer can catch you and force you to take unwinnable fight >Your fleet only contains frigates and destroyers with 10 base burn speed but your exceeding %put_random_number_here% dp limit? Sorry bro your fleet is TOO BIG to disengage. >Your unique ship gets disabled while disengaging? Don't worry bro, it has gone forever.
Story points are moronic and should be removed from the game.
And they do that by just attacking alongside your fleet and gangraping larger ships with Emp damage. "muh escorts" sure, it'll keep your ships protected when it counts when it's busy trying to body block some lasher to the side and tickle it with a PD laser (not even in range with the emitter) because Alex is a moron and can't code escort orders right. It is not my problem you can't use your ships flexibly.
[...] >skip every combat with plot armor points
Until you suddenly can't anymore because you pissed them all away. Your s-modded and unique ships WILL be unrecoverable after the fight and there's nothing you can do about it.
[...]
i'll bite >lose random pirate battle
skill issue >lose all your ships, wake up in israelitengala
skill issue + bad planning >lose random pirate battle while exploring space
skill issue >oh, so you are 40lvl captain with 3 smods on each ship, lvl 7 officers and omega weapons? >then why half of your ships get destroyed when fighting a star fortress thats supported by at least 10 ships?
skill issue if you lost with that, it's a stationary target and fleet moron >10 hostile armada fleets with 6 burn speed can't catch your fleet? No problem bro, a single moronic mudskipper officer can catch you and force you to take unwinnable fight
sure would be nice if there was something you had to escape an unwinnable fight. skill issue, play on normal speed >Your fleet only contains frigates and destroyers with 10 base burn speed but your exceeding %put_random_number_here% dp limit? Sorry bro your fleet is TOO BIG to disengage.
skill issue; fight them normally, blow up a few ships, retreat, then you can flee without pursuit >Your unique ship gets disabled while disengaging? Don't worry bro, it has gone forever.
skill issue, don't commit it to fights you aren't sure to win
Holy frick, Knights of Ludd is some of the most egregiously overpowered but fun shit I've played in a while.
Found two Delerict Motherships right next to each other and both gave me Syncronotron cores.
Are there more ships for a chance I can get a Pristine Nanoforge from or am I fricked?
what did you find op about them?
the weapons ive tried so far were all garbage and the ships rely on shields that get shut down for long periods of time
its some ancient shield tech that overcooks itself and has to cooldown completely before it can be used again so its thematic
also armoured sections that fall off when destroyed
>hyperspace storms >slipstreams >pristine pirate murderstacks lurking in space
Alex is really trying to force you to watch your fleet in hyperspace travel, huh.
This. Before this latest version that lets you reverse polarity of slipstreams, I literally just set my desitnation then alt tab out. I've only been fricked over once or twice
Domain Exploratorium Expansion just updated last night, and it's got a capital-sized LP torpedo ram with no shield and safety overrides. Not exactly low tech, and honestly some of its ships are pretty busted, but seems like it might be the kind of thing you're after.
If you don't also alter the distribution of loot, remnants, derelicts, all that stuff, then it'll be very empty. It does result in a longer initial load of both the game itself and any new games you start, but once you're loading a save that's already underway there's no difference.
I think I might have overdone it with the number of stars per constellation here, but it's no big deal. I'll occasionally find stars on top of each other that look like they should be binary or even trinary systems but aren't, and are completely seperate.
>Ava Nitia's nanoforge death fleet spawns a disproportionate amount of capital ships based on how many of them are in your fleet
That explains the inconsistent fleet sizes that people were posting.
Capspammers get the rope.
hello, I have a query
PLEASE LIST WHICH MODS HAVE FALKENS IN IT
I HAVE A TERRIBLE IDEA WHICH IS GOING TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE
hardmode: not neutrino, sephira conclave and knights of ludd
>me, an intellectual who barely runs capitals
hahahahahahahahaha you cant beat my FALKEN autism
just delete all of them except the scanner since that is built into the capital salvage rig
no need for any of that bloat garbage or any of the other ships really
Nebula color indicates constellation age, old constellations have more habitable planets. Yellow/orange suns are better for habitable planets. Black holes, neutron stars and nebulas are unlikely to ever be habitable.
You'll want to finish the gate storyline, have one Tri-Tach high level contact (part of the storyline), a fleet strong enough to reliably destroy a big fleet from each faction and at least one Phantom transport + 200 marines. If you're aiming for optimal endings, 10 Phantom transports + 2000 marines.
Start small and antagonize only one faction at a time.
No matter what you do:
Pirates will bother you the more unstable your colonies are. Their goal is to steal from you. You can bribe them away, higher up you bribe the more permanent the solution.
The others are conditional.
Persean League will bother you if you have a size 5 colony or 2 colonies with at least one as size 4. You can make a bunch of size 3s and they'll ignore you. Their goal is to force you to join them (vassalization and taxation). You can immediately surrender and eat 20% GROSS profit tax or you can make yourself more of a problem than you're worth.
Tri-Tach only cares about competitors in their markets, which is drugs, luxury goods, refined metals and supplies/armaments. They'll ignore you if you only produce ores, food and consumer goods. They'll raid your trade fleets if you produce anything else. Only way to get them to stop is to do something similar to them, need a high ranking Tri-Tach contact to seal the deal.
Ludd Church becomes a problem if you have farming or light industry. They start off as a bonus to stability, but then the knights get involved. Fight or talk to their leaders.
Sindar Diktat only cares about fuel production. 4+ causes them to freak out.
>have heggie commission >go to war with the askonia rebels and guerilla-war astroid ambush their fleets >realize 80% of their women I capture are virgins
what's rsdev's logic in this, are they like that girl in 1984? no time for casul sex, saving their pussi for the supreme lion himself? not complaining btw
They can be. Default is 0.5. Sindrian Diktat is not modified.
>have heggie commission >go to war with the askonia rebels and guerilla-war astroid ambush their fleets >realize 80% of their women I capture are virgins
what's rsdev's logic in this, are they like that girl in 1984? no time for casul sex, saving their pussi for the supreme lion himself? not complaining btw
Have you checked your lunalib settings? There's a flat modifier to rates, but that goes for all factions. Default is 0.
Ok, so at 16 points a month, it'll take 24 months to reach 600 points for the Persean League to do something other than "patrol" my systems. I already stole their Pristine Nanoforge. Guess I'll go exploring for a couple years while I wait.
While I find it funny, it is like banging on trash cans, eventually the raccoons show back up. In this case the raccoons are degenerate furry troony homosexuals with anime avatars.
>try out the hades missiles >no pilot >put on an eccm package >almost instantly deletes an onslaught
Haha wtf are these missiles? They're practically hypersonic nukes. There's no way in hell any PD can even shoot them down fast enough
You don't actually need that much shit to have a net-neutral colony. If I find an early good low hazard world, I just rush it and administrate it myself. It can cover monthly expenses like a commission, just don't go too overboard until you get enough ships in fleet to deter medium-large hostiles
>first playthrough in a couple years >made some decent startup money but didn't find a lot of cruisers yet, fleet is mostly destroyers, half of them D-modded >getting filtered by a 2 star luddic path bounty
How the frick did I get so bad?
Well it's d-modded low tech vs d-modded low tech, my fleet is supposedly bigger and yet the first few tries went so badly I haven't launched the game since.
The concept is neat, but it's another ship system that hurts the ship in AI hands. The only acceptable time to use Termination Sequence is never as you throw away PD in exchange for 1200 energy damage + 500 emp damage. Not only does the AI spamming it tank their own replacement rate, but half the time it's wasted on nothing. I'd replace it with something like the Heron's Targeting Feed.
TS is a system that works better conceptually with Pathers, imagine a refit Pather Shepherd that uses it's drones as kamikaze bricks.
first for reminding everyone that NERFS ARE FOR SISSIES
why is this ship asymmetric
More ships should be.
Asymmetric ships are ugly and no sci-fi ever uses them. You think Star Wars would employ such designs?
U rite
....yes
That's not asymmetrical. One side just has the wienerpit in it.
Which would make it asymmetrical
Asymmetrical only to be applies to the body itself, not to stuff on it.
Anon your definition of asymmetry makes no sense and you sound like you huff glue.
Starsector?
Always has been
Is it safe to update to 0.97 yet? Has Alex got the hotfix autism out of his system?
Playing through it right now. Not seeing any major problems. Go for it.
He has not done a full set of 5 actual hotfixes to his update yet. Take that for what you will.
Could you somehow have picked a more Reddit meme than this for the OP?
Don't you feel any shame?
You know they don't anon.
You can date Sierra?
no
What's the best cruiser to put in AI hands?
What do you want, a fricking tier list? That's way too broad a question.
Eradicator, Aurora, Eagle and Champion do good.
Not him but I could go for some tier lists, help a noobie out.
Well frick
ok look, there's some things that can't just be directly classified with straight numerical or ordered methods. A ship's performance, for example, is entirely dependent on how you equip it, and what role it's meant to play on the battlefield. You can get an Onslaught, but if all you do is equip it with medium ballistic weapons and try to use it as a point-defense platform it's not gonna be too good.
That being said:
S-tier:
Eradicator -- Role: attack cruiser, tank, point-defense. (DO NOT USE PIRATE VARIANT: REMOVES THE ACCELERATED AMMO FEEDER)
-Amazing firepower thanks to AAF, plenty of medium ballistics to cause damage, enough flux to work on it. Be careful because shields are not great, and vulnerable to being flanked
Fury -- Role: Fast attack cruiser, hunter-killer, escort.
Excellent shields when you kit it out, excellent mobility for a cruiser, can be exceptionally dangerous in player hands, watch out though, it's a bit fragile if the shields are out.
Eagle -- Role: All-rounder, long-range support
3 medium energy slots that can focus on the same target can output good pressure, together with 3 medium ballistics, while also keeping good mobility thanks to maneuvering jets and a good shield; it's role will change drastically depending on what weapons you put in the medium energy slot.
Falcon(P) -- Role: Missile support
4 medium missile slots, +2 small ones. That is a lotta fricking missiles. Obviously requires a properly equipped officer, but the damage output potential can be ABSURD. In player hands, it's arguably the most fun cruiser I've ever played. Equip it with all anihilators for overwhelming almost anything it faces, but careful, AI struggles with using missiles right.
pirate variant is still pretty good with its lower DP and burn drive to quickly get in combat
I find it better for chasing down smaller ships or quickly getting into brawling range
A-tier:
Gryphon -- Role: Missile support (obviously)
Try to keep it with an officer using missile spec and system exp for maximum missile spam. Equip LRMs for long range support, stick them in the middle of your fleet and you have a big source of firepower that can't (and shouldn't) be attacked by the enemy. Just 2 with their squalls can cause just about any capital ship to start retreating because of shield pressure. Keep in mind, AI struggles with staying away from the enemy. Give it escorts if you don't want to constantly babysit them.
Falcon(normal) -- Role: Fast cruiser, harassment
One of the fastest cruisers in the game for a modest amount of deployment points. Simultaneously, not too much firepower, not too much flux stats. Good for kicking destroyers away, also dunking on frigates, but it struggles with facing other larger cruisers or capital ships, so don't let it do that. It's still in A-tier because it's generally capable, and the AI handles it pretty well. That being said, the pirate variant outshines it a lot.
Heron -- Role: Carrier(obviously)
3 fighter bays for 20DP. 80 top speed. 0.8 shield flux/damage. Good, good, and good. As a carrier, it can project a large amount of firepower by sending 3 fighter wings of anything to anywhere while using its system that increases said fighter's damage, while also having the speed to accompany your fleet or turn tail and run reliably. Naturally being a carrier you don't want it on the frontlines, but the shield efficiency is always welcome. Still, a bit expensive to deploy at 20DP.
Aurora -- Role: attack cruiser, hunter-killer
Imagine the fury. OK, now make it bigger. Yeah. More damage, better shields, more flux. Slower, More DP cost. I put it in A because I don't think the 50% increase in DP cost is particularly worth it, and the fury can equip the same amount of medium missiles, so yeah. By no means a bad ship, but overshadowed by its smaller sibling. That being said, the AI can handle this one better.
r8 my gryphon
>ECCM package with all reapers
>Torpedos on an AI controlled ship
>Dedicated targeting core instead of point defense AI with exclusively PD weapons
>Putting that much short range PD on a ship that shouldn't be getting hit by missiles anyway
This fricking sucks
oh I also forgot, get rid of the dedicated targeting core, it doesn't affect missiles and if you want your PD to be better you should use PDAI
I'm not sure it's AI controlled. That being said, don't knock ECCM out because of using reapers. +25% top speed and maneuverability means it accelerates faster to reach a greater top speed, meaning significantly less time for enemy PD to intercept it, as well as less trouble to lead the shot.
Also, ships that "shouldn't" get hit by missiles is always a toss-up. Particularly the gryphon is not very fast to get away if shit goes sideways or it goes full moron and decides to advance to the frontlines.
The cyclone reaper launcher description says that it accelerates it to full speed before it leaves the launch tube but I suppose it applies to the small ones. I think it's stupid to put 1 OP missiles (small reapers) on the ship with missile autoforge and integrated expanded missile racks though, especially if you are also taking ECCM package.
And even if this is a player controlled mega torpedo killer ship, wouldn't you want sabots instead of harpoons on the side so you can pressure shields? There's not much to torpedo otherwise and using harpoons for shield pressure instead of sabots is just stupid. Probably take a hypervelocity driver in the medium ballistic too.
hey thats MY gryphon
B-tier:
Apogee -- Role: none lmao
Ok, to be honest, the Apogee is a quirky kid. As the description itself states, it's basically a glorified exploration ship equipped with guns and missiles. That being said, it's exactly what you should be using it for. It's not gonna be particularly combat effective, but a large energy and missile mounts give it some bite. It'll work.
Champion -- Role: medium cruiser, tank.
Jack of all trades, master of none. It's not too slow, pretty well-armored for a midline cruiser, good shields, good weapon mounts. That being said, exactly because of that it's hard to get an officer on it that makes a particularly large difference. The large missile and energy mounts are nice, I guess. Don't try to use it as long-range support. It has those features for a reason.
Venture(also applies to the pirate and LP variants) -- Role: Also none, lol
Much like the Apogee, the Venture is a ship that you buy more because of its logistical uses than military ones. One fighter bay, 2 medium missiles and fast missile racks give it some decent enough bite to fend off pirates, but you mostly keep it for the surveying equipment and decent cargo capacity. A bit on the slow side, but It'll also work.
Doom -- Role: phase cruiser
I don't use phase ships lmao, but I hear they're pretty good.
continuing the list later.
Pretty ok for player control, but the AI is gonna struggle to use reapers right, and particularly thanks to that equipment, it's gonna try and get close to the enemy. Could be dangerous.
anyways:
C-tier:
Grendel -- Role: light phase cruiser
It's a low-tech, ballistic-focused phase ship with AAF. It's original, if nothing else. Decently low DP cost, but again, I don't use phase ships.
Eradicator(P) -- Role: tank, I guess?
Imagine an eradicator. Ok, now hit its arms with a baseball bat until they break. Cool. Now give it roller skates.
If I'm not being particularly charitable it's because I hate it and think it should die in a fire. The AAF makes a PHENOMENAL difference to the Eradicator, particularly with a sys exp. officer, and changing it to Burn Drive feels like a monumental downgrade. Even the -6 DP cost is not enough to compensate for the loss in firepower, imo. Still, it's pretty tanky and the medium ballistics are still there, even if they're no longer the beasts they could be.
D-tier:
Mora -- Role: battle-carrier (yes, you heard me)
Take a Legion, now make it shitty. It would be less dissappointing if that were it, but as if that's still not enough, the damper field systems completely frick it over.
It's sluggish as frick, has poor flux stats, decent hull and armor and a serviceable omni-shield, but that won't save it from any enemy given its similarly mediocre weapon mounts. All this for 20 DP. The only "saving grace" is that it has 3 fighter bays, but that won't do much on its own with every other shitty thing about it.
please pick a heron instead.
Dominator -- Role: Heavy cruiser,weapons platform, capital ship escort
It is SO SLOW. It is literally the same speed as a Legion. You know. A capital ship. Nearly all front-facing weapon mounts, including 3 medium missiles and 2 large ballistics makes for a formidable ordnance package, if only it weren't sloth-like mobility-wise. Just about any other cruiser except maybe the eradicator or the less fortunate carriers can outmaneuver it. Serviceable shields with a small arc given its size. The AI also definitely struggles to make use of it because its turn rate is so bad. (cont)
(cont.) It's only a threat when its flanks are protected by a capital ship and/or other cruisers, but the AI sucks at doing that well.
F-tier:
Welcome to the colossus zone, where we only have colossus, colossus, and MORE colossus! (sound of cruiser exploding in the background)
Do not fall for the meme. Never use the Colossus mk2 or mk3 under any circumstances. Terrible hull, terrible shields, terrible speed, terrible flux, mediocre armaments, comically useless ship systems. Mediocre weapons at best. I only give a single shitty little star to the mk2 for having the large missile mounts, because those are kinda cool and can be used at extreme ranges.
Even then, don't.
>says that it accelerates it to full speed
I think that's a recent addition, still. 25% top speed boost. Less time for PD to destroy it and waste a precious torp.
>I think it's stupid to put 1 OP missiles (small reapers) on the ship with missile autoforge and integrated expanded missile racks though
debatable. I can see where you're coming from though. Anihilators would be fitting there, assuming the guy wants to keep the short-range build.
>sabots instead of harpoons on the side so you can pressure shields?
my beloved anon. the reaper IS the shield pressure. Ok, tbqh, the cyclone launcher genuinely *does* work as shield-breaker against most things smaller than a capital. 2 reapers directly to shields is pretty heavy damage. While technically not enough to overload many cruisers, it's only slightly away from that. At which point the harpoons, small slots, or other allied ships can finish the work. Still, it's *very* dependent on a player knowing how to use it like that.
Anon you just may be shit at starsector, and thats coming from someone who is awful at the combat.
I'm batting a bit too hard for the guy's build because I'm a bawd for reaper torps and the thought of having so many of them to use at once makes me giddy.
Shame that as a player it's so hard to get sys exp and missile spec together.
The reapers are not terrible at pressuring shields but the harpoons are.
>Sabot: 2000 x 3 shield dmg
>Reaper: 2000 x 1 shield dmg
>Harpoon 375 x 3 shield dmg
Sabot and harpoon both fire 1 missile per second.
Imagine being professionally wrong like this.
>fury
>in fricking S tier
consider your opinions invalid
Least likely to get raped if the enemy does a determined push
You'll probably want something with enough flux capacity and venting or armor to be able to hold on until reinforcements come, or something with a special ship system or very high maneuverability so that they can get out of a dangerous situation if it's standing orders allow it to.
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>windows update
>starsector flickers to whatever was in the background every few seconds or when the mouse is used
>click too much and the game just crashes
>same for every other game or application
wow very cool microshit!!!
>lets his computer update despite being able to tell it otherwise
>has no idea what updated or why, nor any idea what is going on in his computer to begin with
>is a moron and can't bother to use his brain
>uh it must be microsoft that shit my pants
wow very cool abdul!!!
Alright, frick it, the weekend is upon us and I want to try something wild.
Give me all the weeaboo power fantasy waifu dating sim faction mods and I will play them with Nex.
Them being also fun would be a nice bonus.
>Them being also fun would be a nice bonus.
kek good joke
The trifecta of anime shit is UAF, Iron Shell, and PAGSM. All are power fantasy naturally with fighter/nuke spam, teleports behind u super XIV fleets, and fuel tanker antimatter fetish taken to the logical extreme.
PAGSM at least has some funny ships.
Alright, the preparations are done. Plenty of drinks, that one Java 23 conversion and about a dozen of other faction mods alongside those deep dark weeaboo fantasies.
Will it be fun? "Fun"? A massive fireball in my room in a few minutes? Time to find out. I've only heard stories about Iron Shell and UAF being ridiculously overpowered, but I also have some other OP factions in the mix, so it should be interesting to see how ridiculous things can get.
>Iron Shell and UAF being ridiculously overpowered
they are mediocre as frick with the exception of one fighter from UAF
I mean, the fleets both factions field (the boss fleets) are insane, even with a kitted out ziggernaut it took me like half an hour just to destroy every ship the fleets had
Can't imagine how long it would take with a conventional fleet
>UAF
>mediocre
lmao
See I'm not sure if you are a shill for that mod upset people disparaged your waifu cake feeding sim or if you're a hard-core anti laughing at the idea that anything abthat mod is okay.
this is a man who does not play the game and parrots things he sees shitposted here
UAF is mediocre because its troony garbage no one should install.
your programming socks are in the mail
>power fantasy
have a nice day savin
>nuke spam
on a 300 second cooldown lmao
>teleports behind u super XIV fleets
teleports a screen away so your burn 6 atlas can escape just fine
>fuel tanker antimatter fetish
okay fine
why do the anime factions feel like overpowered shit
>some weeb modder was able to port the game without the source code to java 23
Fricking how? I've never had this game run so smooth.
Nice try again, not using your troony shit.
Why not? It genuinely improves performance.
Do you only trust frogposters?
This shit is actually crazy, I get like twice the FPS in battles. The game runs so well.
Please do try it, it's very easy to set up. Easier than the "normal" JRE + vmparams replacement actually.
This sounds like shilling but I am seriously impressed by how much better the performance is. It's REALLY good. Here's hoping that Alex will finally bite the bullet and do an official upgrade to Java 23 or whatever.
>Please do try it
No I don't think I will.
Nice try, noahs.
Enjoy your crashes, slowdowns and low FPS then.
>he has crashes, slowdowns, and low fps
sounds like a third world problem to me.
You're just aimlessly shitposting.
You're just poor.
Smoke some weed, bro
Already am, noah. You should probably stop though.
holy frick how moronic do you have to be to not want free fps? you are either brainded, have a pc that costs 4k dollars or are just trolling
why the frick does it matter who made it if it doesn't have viruses or boggled ip loggers and lets your game run better? what are you, playing vanilla minecraft with no optifine or sodium?
also what does this mean. like actually. what did he mean by this?
damn noah's mad tonight
you're gonna be mad if you don't wait for 2 more hotfixes you know it you moron
maybe you're right, but i dunno. it's been 5 days and i don't feel like waiting anymore. maybe i should, after all. not sure.
ah, frick it, i'll just work on the mod which will take me like 2 more days. if he isn't gonna push anything in that time i'll update
Content update is substantial and most mod only changed their descriptor to match the new version, I don't see any benefit to make the jump honestly.
the colony system seems cool, i wanna play without nex this time and interact with those events. it'll be like a year until it intergrates with the threat system anyway
I'm sure he has his reasons but is there a legitimate reason why he won't update java?
tried it, so far it gives me slower load time when launching the game, but somewhat better performance in game
i dont know anything about nerd shit or why starsector runs on such old shit to begin it
alex is moronic in a way that he didn't update to the newer java when it came out and it probably warrants too many changes now.
but as i've said before, doesn't it work? the java 23 mod? without breaking anything? what the frick is he doing?
Does this shit work on 0.96a I don't want to make the jump yet until 0.98 is here.
Turns out there's a 0.96a version. I installed it, and here's my brief observation report using the recommended parameter and all.
>Heavily modded
>Hyperspace FPS is fairly stable 60 fps, substantial improvement from 40 fps average
>BUT it was cut to half and dropped sharply whenever I use the speed button
>Worst battle performance of around 20 fps in a heavy battle against a station while I can pump 30 to 40 fps normally
I have fairly old PC with 4th gen I7 and AMD GPU
It's a snake oil
Just update it already. I usually had to restart the game every 30 minutes or after a every major battle. I've run into zero issues with that java 23 update so far and I use a lot of mods too. 60 fps on normal speed, about 30-40 on on x2 Hell, I can actually reload a save now without restarting the fricking game.
>Restarting game every 30 minutes or reloading a save
Never had this issue. I usually just ignore the memory leak message, and never encountered a single crash or corrupt save other than for using shitty mod.
Nex but official wen
>tfw I manually replace every single animeshit portrait with someone from vanilla or something matching vanilla's style
Don't hate anime, just hate the clashing styles.
same, but I'm too lazy so I settle for anime.
>Slingshotting myself across the sector using the "Generate Slipsurge" ability.
Who needs Gates? Alex finally made a fun overworld map ability.
So uh knights of ludd users, what goes on here? Poked in on my last save and got fried by a neutron star.
Use troony mods, get troony prizes.
mistakes is what happens inside
Why the hell does it looks like they just made the AI use Belkan equipment?
the amount of ace combat autists in this modding scene is incredible pic related is sexo
i never tried the elysian weapons in that playthrough so i cant comment on those but they also have another super secrit ai faction which has their own weapons and omega weapons mixed in too
>Sephira Conclave has a Falken
>Neutrino has a Falken
>Knights of Ludd has a Falken
>DME has a fricking Raven(in a similar form but wrong color)
ITS THE FRICKING FALKEN RENAISSANCE
Virginia Falken vs the Chad Valken
both are gigachad choices though
why does it look so fat
is that normal?
oh, it's scary
is that a fricking ZoE fleet?
22 fps on average if speed x2, normal speed x1 (normal) gives me 38-58 fps
battles could get as low as 10 fps if there’s a lot of ships. but most of the time its’s good
As returning player who comes with each major Starsector update, i was postponing my first save for this mod update but i did tested stuff with SCVE the last 2 weeks and i really like the changes, especially the ones to the Reisen (Deployment points and monthly supplies matching each other to satisfy my OCD + reduction of DP because the closest vanilla analogue was the Onslaught and yet that ship was nearly as expensive as Paragon and Invictus while the Novemember variant surpassed those even)
Really excited to try this mod since this will by my first time (Also with Iron Shell, AOTD, RAoT and of course the brand new Knights of Ludd mods)
Also the addition of UAF Destroyers is very welcome, especially since Alex gave us that new Escort Package to encourage Destroyers in general
Make sure to try out the Java 23 "mod", it massively improves battle fps
FRICK WOMEN
Sometimes when a battle starts with one of my stations I try to back my people up and the station isn't involved in the fight. Is there a way to control that? It shows before the battle but then in the deployment screen and combat map its gone.
bros... i'm gonna update to 0.97... if alex pushes another hotfix? it was nice to know most of you.
audio plus mechs update perhaps soon
You have noah'd your last noah, noah.
I was able to continue my save even after I added 2 hotfixes
Found a radiant and idk what to do with it. Just slapped 4 tachyon lances and a reality disruptor on it, but it's lacking in PD. Is that and a XIV onslaught good enough to fight the luddic church and persean blockade?
Ive also got 2 apogees, 2 Sunders, 5 omens a tempest and a wolf for support.
grab 2 astrals with squalls and tell the crews to escort the radiant
it's over.
This. Astrals are good, you just have to force them to get close to the enemy. Pairing them with a big meat shield sponge battleship is how you use Astrals. Gravitons also aren't as bad as a choice for medium beams since they now debuff shields. So putting those on with your Squalls and some burst PD and you have a great support ship to shit bombers.
Only issue with the Radiant is that they'll phase skim away from its escorts.
funny thing you mentioning graviton beams. i have exactly those on my astrals too. but no PD though, modded fighters are a b***h and they take too much OP.
say, doesn't ITU increase missile range too? or should i put a PDAI there with pd guns?
ITU is just ballistics and energy, but with gravitons and burst pd it's still good and squalls already have a long range. PDAI would make the burst pd not shoot at decoys since charges on the burst lasers are in short supply when it comes down to swarms, but that's in cases you go up against missile and fighter heavy fleets, so an option but not necessary. Expanded Missile Racks is obvious, makes those squalls last twice as long. ECCM could be useful for the squall spam, but most of its bonuses are wasted; with the exception of s-mod bonus, that range from ignoring ECM is VERY good against Remnant fleets, but like with PDAI it's up to you. Advanced turret gyros, s-mod that and your burst pd is golden, it also counteracts the turn rate debuff from the built in Advanced Optics.
Overall I'd use 5 burst pd (3 up front, 2 in rear medium mounts), 3 gravitons, and the squalls. Burst PDs are strong enough to swat frigates at least. Put only enough vents on to cover flux
Officers need to have systems expertise to make the most use out of the recall device, Elite Missile Spec for the squalls since it's their core support weapon, the Astral relies on shields for protection so Field Modulation is a given, and Target Analysis lets you squeeze extra power out of those squalls.
>defend my system from blade breaker raid
>they kill a diable avionics taskgroup
>get a free pandemonium
>nice.
>go back to my main system to kill hegemony fleet
>kill half of it
>run out of ships to deploy in place of dead ships
>the pandemonium! of course!
>75 Deployment points
what the frick.... what the frick!
he is called tardiflette for a reason anon
that ship is worth maybe 50dp if you increase the op by 50 and fighter bays to 4
The only good anime mod is a dead anime mod
Damn, they beat me to it, I'll make a better thread when the post count hits at 900. I know you're eyeballing the post count discordshits, but next thread won't suffer from your crap. I'm watching you
I love moronic theme factions like Holy Covenant of Kemet and Interstellar Imperium
hey guys rate my cool new faction idea
it’ll have its own line of ships and weapons and its ships are bonused in using its faction’s own weapons but they suffer a lot when you try to equip other weapons, and the ships themselves aren’t really good outside of their designated role
also the faction’s home systems are like 15 light years away from the core worlds so you’ll have to go very far out of your way to find their stuff
oh and I forgot to mention but the faction will also probably have reskins of vanilla ships despite them already having their own line of ships
oh and they have AI cores at their planets, which also produce unique commodities that aren’t fully integrated
and they have plenty of scripts for their weapons that don’t actually do anything worth the performance decrease
also the ships are powerful but that’s ok because they’re balanced out with above average maintenance and price
and to top it all off the ship weapon layouts are all either painfully generic and boring, or really awkward and lopsided
I feel the need to leak UAF discord chat logs... Should I do it?
frick off don't bring that drama here
>UAF
Shut the frick up about this animeshit please
I already know your tactics homosexuals. You aren't helping.
if you let me leak, sure
Have a dose of cringe you gays
Literally how in the frick is this 'drama' or cringe? I was expected pedo aplogists or something along those lines, as that's what ususally infests discord.
If you're itching that bad to do it, then just do it.
piss off
Cy simp detected.
Post something juicy or take this weaksauce shit back to Discord
NTA
>please post your account so we can immediately ban the rat
haha
___No
So you don't have anything and just wanted (You)s. Suck start a shotgun, homosexual.
Hmm, nyo
Now that's more like it. See, it's not that hard.
oh no no no no no no no no no noahxisters
Black person
I'm not the "leaker", dumbass. But the fact that you're so hostile to the idea of leaking anything tells me all I need to know.
Let me guess, you suck mesotronik's dick instead?
There's definitely cringe here, but it's not in the image you posted
Lol finally turkler is opening up the more useful part of his leak outside of all that smut he smuggled out of there? Thats something I would never thought would happend.
does cuckler ever do anything other than seethe?
And? What does this pisscord screencap mean?
brainlet moment
>picture got posted
>whole thread got silenced
So discordtrannies raiding /vst/ isn't a joke huh. Now I wanna see more of it to laugh at these freaks. Bet they'll mass report this one to have it deleted, which can be viewed from the archives anyway.
based schizos
>UAF discussion activity plummeted when this got posted
Gee, how curious. Similar to /vg/ and how its “generals” are essentially a discord extension for raids and shit.
oooh you're going to have them posting simpsons porn over this one.
You can also report their server for staging a raid lmfao.
Non-discordshitters do
who cares
You, apparently.
>talk freely
>toxicity
do this Black person really?
You can say whatever you like as long as I'm ok with it.
>also managed by me and my team
The discordtroony trifecta… so derailing threads and doing a marketing drive
Please, frick off with your discord drama.
If i would've wanted to participate in it, i would join their shitty server. I came here to talk about game, however. So do us a favour and get back to your fricking cave.
Any explosion of considerable size creates plasma, which starts to rapidly radiate away energy in form of gamma rays. Any sufficently big explosion is radioactive. Throwing a rock into atmosphere at relativistic speeds is radioactive.
Diversion tactics will get you nowhere
Leak the nude China dress Aeria as proof.
Holy shit I'll do it. Just so you can all shut up about it.
https://postimg.cc/K1v6h3gQ
nice dolphin porn
>No carpet to match the drapes
A shame.
>Someone actually posted it
Not bad. Almost worth forgiving you for giving money to the SEABlack person.
>no bush
gayer than Noah
>boring fetch quest storyline
Who exactly keeps asking for this? Why can't he add a less nonsensical economy to his "sandbox" game instead?
Adjusted Sector and the Java updates should be vanilla but instead Alex and David would rather add more walls of babby's first sci-fi novel text to click through.
what does claim victory do exactly?
Ends the battle as opposed to waiting for enemies to flee the map.
so anything still alive escapes?
Yes.
welp thanks.
>Starsector updated
>Rapesector updated
>UAF updated
>the fricking JAVA version updated
Where the frick is the buckbreaker update?!?!??
next thing you know neutrino and blackrock update before buckbreakers
They already did
no i meant officially. not bootleg kind
>uaf discorders trying to cause drama by pretending to "leak" uaf discord shit and then not even doing anything at all
Yes we know Iceto
one really has to wonder why there are a few "people" here who are really fricking obsessed with uaf
like who fricking cares
It's the same handful of people who force Rapesector 'discussion'
After the battle, the waifus become my trophies in my pirate fleet.
Does this seem like a good target for an endgame build, focused on buffing the fleet?
>Coordinated Manoeuvres, Wolfpack Tactics, Crew Training, Officer Training, Best of the Best
>Navigation, Gunnery Implants, Electronic Warfare, Flux Regulation, Cybernetic Augmentation
>Field Repairs, Polarized Armour?, Containment Procedures, Industrial Planning, Hull Restoration
I know the yellow path doesn't buff the fleet that much, but Hull Restoration + Crew Training does now let you have every ship start with 100% combat readiness, and I would like to have Industrial Planning, so the new Hull Restoration does feel like it lets me justify going yellow a bit more.
Another thread
Ruined
It can't be ruined if you're the one doing it first. Keep that in mind.
jesus christ is keeps getting worse
fricking annihilators recommended and using flacon (p) in players hands when the ai can shit out harpoons just fine
new player, what's a mod which is very close to vanilla without the ugly portraits
if you just want ships then bigbeans ship compilation got you covered
ship/weapon pack also gets you more stuff but its not as good as bigbeans imo
you can use both if you dont mind bloatmaxing your game
for factions they almost all come with new portraits which can be deleted but it takes a bit more to get rid of them than just deleting the portraits themselves
underworld adds more pirate stuff with the only portrait additions being some special snowflake fights otherwise its vanilla portraits
some more faction recommendations i forgot about
prv starworks adds 2 vanilla portraits with a different coloured hat so you wont even know the difference
osiris alliance adds a couple of vanilla looking portraits and even comes with a lowbie quest it however says its not updated to 0.97 but works just fine with a version change
mayasura may look like some anime mod with the mod banner but that shit is not ingame they are quite close to vanilla except slightly overpowered and if you have nexerelin hegemonkeys always capture their planet anyways
uhm bro, I just want a mod that removes the ugly vanilla portraits
Try Marvelous Personas (AI-slop)
So what do you want then anon? You got AI-slop, you got animu slop, and you got AI-generated Animu slop, plus the two meme ones.
Also what do you need a moat for Captcha?
animu-slop
>Also what do you need a moat for Captcha?
wat
Ok so I got for you a couple then, though do you want actual Anime portraits as well or just replacements for the vanilla ones? Anyways Anime Portrait Replacer is a decent one that works as advertised as well as Hime Portrait though if I remember rightly that one is a Discord exclusive. For the second one, blame captcha.
Glad you asked.
https://gofile.io/d/DbFCYO
Personally you can try this one if you want to replace everything.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28530.0
A FRICKING ELF
There's a e-girl and a parrot and you choose that one?
Blue Archive portrait pack
Cherino being Philip is fitting
ToT
>muh gas station
Does anyone really find it funny?
its alright atleast its not just hegemonkey ships with purple paint and shit stats
i figured you wanted mods without anime portraits because thats the most common complaint here kek
I like the vanilla portraits, everyone looks jaded and depressed. Really fitting when I come rolling in with my harem ready to sat bomb them back to the stone age. If they are all sad, then they should die sad deaths; I don't make the rules bruv. Gotta pump that orphan counter up.
People that have a negative experience are much more likely to voice their opinions
Sell me this game.
space game, it's free, go watch sseth's video
>it's free
Is it?
>Watch the video
>He gives his key away
>Alex hasn't banned it in years
Literally free.
That's not our job.
Would you kindly describe me the strengths of this game and what's the gameplay like, please?
check inside your butthole
starsector is very like Mount and blade - a sandbox but in space, you start as some no name mercenary, you can be whatever you like, space pirate, faction associate or indepdendent nation.
its strength:
- a good chunk of content is from your own exploration outside the predefined map, which has interesting secret/mystery and challenge
- you can establish your own faction in those new lands, planet colonization, and fight off anyone without having to crawl your way up as any faction's servant
- lots of mods to expand on the vanilla game without having to rely on total conversion mods.
- lots of customizations for your spaceships, from weapon to ship modifcation, which can change the way its played dramatically
- end game challenges are quite good on vanilla, mods can provide harder challenge too
- game runs well on potato machine
and finally, a great thing about starsector is that you can participate in this community and see the mentally ill drama due to this dedicated and vibrant modding community
>survey 80% of the sector
>find both hypershunts before finding a single terran/jungle/water planet
This game wants me to die.
I don't play with random seeds, I use console commands to check seeds a bunch of times for good systems, without looking at the name or map position so I don't know where they are in the sector. When I find one that's got at least one habitable, one secondary organics source (due to the new Luddic Majority thing, I like to not mine on my primary habitable), a vacuum planet and a gas giant (or top quantity volatiles cryovolcanic), I save it.
Then later when I'm ready to play I take one of the saved seeds and use it. I don't want to spend a long time getting invested in the play through and then find out there are no good systems.
What I've found on 0.97 so far:
MN-8701894105121401428
MN-8608240942826385920
MN-5765872850199489704
MN-4181089537156598868
MN-5859389960409701172
MN-4503795740343845592
MN-5375297852348189948 <- currently playing this one, started earlier today. Found a paragon and a pristine nanoforge already.
MN-6461174901538321492
MN-7572691828756038768
i have come to accept that systems i want to colonize dont actually exist so i cheat
also by the time i get to the colonization part im ready to drop the run anyway since babysitting colonies is the worst part of this game
There's always Customizable Star Systems. I used to use DIY planets but all the shit they added diluted the hell out of the colony item pool.
>tra-transponder???? ttaransplutonic ore???? AIIIIEEEE HELP ME Black personMAN I'M GOING INSANE!!!!
>I used to use DIY planets but all the shit they added diluted the hell out of the colony item pool
this no longer happens and in the latest patch alex made motherships quarantee one of 3 colony items so you get more than ever before
>quarantee
the mindrot is setting in me
don't worry it happens all the time to me too, like typing over instead of offer
not to say that our brains aren't rotting, but you're never alone when in deep shit
>TRANSplutonic ore
>quartermaster, what the frick is this troony boolsheet in me cargo holds?
>pardon, sir?
>you are to be spaced today, my boy! along with the ore!
kek
Where is her bounty?
>transverse jump
is the dev a troony?
you're like the moronic kid in school that learnt a new word and kept saying it all the time like a dumb Black person to fit in
i know youre shitposting but come the frick on dude
>get a heavy armaments delivery mission
>jack it up with a story point
>570k
oh baby, i sure am glad i invested into a tanker and cargo ship first
>3 weeks into playthrough
>enter first blackhole system
>get pristine nanoforge
>frick you
frick you
!!!FRICK!!!! !!!!YOU!!!!
i still can't find one
frick! you.
>needing to FIND one
>when nabbing the ones from the core worlds are not only EASIER but also BENIFICIAL for the COLONY CRISIS events
homie... stop being such a LITTLE b***h and just fricking take it already
>implying i play on 0.97
have a nice day!
and a legion in the same system
my goddamn pirate/salvager run got trivialized in record time
When's Tahlan Shipworks getting updated? I need my time traveling brick...
Same bro, my save is godlike
Just change the game version number in mod_info.json moron-kun
Is this a gross misuse of an Onbawd? Yes. Is it going to absolutely rape anything smaller than a frigate? Yes. I cannot hear the haters nor see them past my sea of flak and canister shot. TPUs is all the primary weapon you need.
If you used the medium reaper missiles on the medium slot I honestly think that you could still handle bigger targets by cracking through their shields with repears then fragging them to death
S-mod the expensive hullmods and you'd have more than enough OP to swap swarmers for reapers. In testing the only times its ever gotten high on flux is when surrounded by fighters, bombers, and missiles almost constantly, and shooting the TPUs on top of that. While fluxxed there is a noticeable drop in firepower, but not enough to let any torps or harpoons through. The benefit of shield shunt in this case is to ignore any risk of being overloaded and caught with your pants down, and resistant flux conduits/repair units/armored weapon mounts means that those guns are going to keep firing with minimal downtime and curb the EMP meme.
It blows ballistic rangefinder doesn't increase flak range. The TPUs do have a ridiculously long range for pressuring shields and making gays back off.
This but change the tiny rockets totorpedos or harpoons so that you can hurt larger targets when their shields are down.
>Is it going to absolutely rape anything smaller than a frigate? Yes.
So its only for strikecraft?
Basically. The thought is to tank replacement rate of enemy carriers and missile stocks vs factions that spam fighters and missiles. As an armor/hull tank it's going to get worn down eventually, though reinforced bulkheads could make it last longer and buffed elite combat endurance can be viable for staving off attrition. Devastators can put down frigates that get close as it's explosive damage, and as an AOE weapon that doesn't rely on direct hits it can reach around shields. It's not optimal in any sense (a single HIL sunder can be the death of it), I just thought a hyper specialized meme build could be effective in this one niche. I also enjoy seeing the maximum possible bullet density being vomited from a ship where there's enough projectiles to be a shield.
If you were fighting other players it would be one thing but the AI doesn't play by the same rules the player does across the board. That said, usually my carriers are set up as long range harassers or PD boats and they work great for fricking up and distracting the enemy. Just don't expect to suddenly not see strikecraft at all in a fight.
*Afflictor go nyooom and vrrrrmmm and pew pew pew antimatter into your ass
You still die like a little b***h
What did experimental templates do again? Are they better than normal ones? Got me an Aurora and Paragon template
*Odyssey
>get hit by a turret as you're warping out
>notice too late that all your supplies are gone
>16 days to the closest settlement
It's over bros... I might lose every single one of my hard-earned UAF ships...
tell hartley to suck your dick and turn artillery off
anyone of you know how to get the new unique officers in UAF?
Go to favonius to get some icecream, and then check the favonius tab afterwords
why am I being approached by a fed?
She is a totally normal scientist
Should I go along with this obvious UAF's glowie honey trap prostitute? I saw her breaking a poor bastard's finger because he can't stop being a sperg, and she makes me very uncomfortable and erect.
>ai perfectly turns off shields before overloading
why even bother piloting your own big ships...
i have actually noticed this
i have this bullet battery on my phase ship that does a frickload of damage, but after one volley the enemy ships actually start masterfully utilizing the shield.
it still leaves them defenceless to my mining blaster and autopulser, so...
>picrel
Why would anyone get a dedicated targeting core over an integrated one?
ITU is a modspec that you have to learn
Didn't play for a while, went for randomized start and got an enforcer for my start. Decided to roll with it, pic related is my early game loadout. Any tips for improvement? Put my first levels into armor increase and manoeuvrability increase. I am mostly going solo against smaller pirate fleets and the first 3 fights it worked well
Would you praise Ludd?
Valken III Sprite update wen
You just delayed it another month thanks butthole
>have AOTD
>raid chicomoztoc
>it doesn't have a pristine nanoforge... but it has a cool industy
kaysaar you moron
>IS nanoforge fleet
Nerfed severely and/or scales with player fleet size. Can be beaten with a fleet of 240DP with S-mods.
>UAF Solvernia death fleet
Lol, lmao.
Solvernia herself is the only threatening ship in that entire fleet and can be defeated if you have bombers and frontline ships.
>unironically losing to any modded ships that aren't Gregariousness-tier imba
Get your crossmodding game up.
>losing to a single ship of bullshit instead of a fleet of bullshit
get your modded trash out of my balans™
>NGO maintainer pissed off into the aether after failing to into nested mirvs for six months
NGO 0.97 never ever.
Does it not work with a mere version change in the files?
An Afflictor?
Tempest, kill him with hammers (metaphorical).
>downloads a bunch of .96 bootlegs
>just changes the version number
>gets semi-random crashes
why do I keep doing this to myself
>be me
>update happens
>try to warn anons to wait at least 5 hotfixes
>even update a ticker
>warn them to wait maybe another extra one or two even because of some very minor not really hotfix hotfixes
>anons wonder why their suffering is eternal
>he forgot to remove the crashcodes
NGMI
Nah, I'm 90% sure it's some Remnant ship class getting borked.
They are mentally deranged, but crashcoding Rapesector would only give it more attention and they don't want it.
>use almost my entire 0.96 mod list with a version change
>it just works
yes i was in the chess club
yes i was in the chess club
>barely miss the mission deadline
aaaaaaaa frick you
ultrawideboi over ere
AIIIEEEEEE
the frick is that thing that looks like a LOOOOONG falcon?
Its what is currently in anon's anus.
>default remnant drone fighters
ruined
they are snowflake tritach subdivision or something so makes sense according to mod lore
its the other ai faction in the mod that has unique stuff not these guys who also use omega weapons
I remember there being an omegaslaught mod way back. Does it still work with current versions or was it ported at least?
If its the now "banned" bawdpack then it should just need a version change as its all hulls.
I can find an old omegaslaught forum thread from 21, but I have no idea what that bawdpack is supposed to be, and I am rather curious about it now.
They made him remove some because he didn't have the "right" to use it kek
Hmm... The fuel range is actually accurate if you autopilot to your location and go dark in hyperspace
>types stormgod
>flies around lookin at pretty clouds
>changes one line of sector creation
>has no clouds that rape fps
They don't really hit my fps at all though? Combat can be a bit laggy with a lot of individual units and stuff on screen but I don't really have a problem even with a slightly larger sector. I just like the clouds.
how high is your speed up setting?
Other than once in awhile I don't use speedup. Mostly end up using it waiting on a colony to construct something or similar. Of course you're going to lag in speed up mode. Thats down to how the game was made.
well then obviously you wont have problems with fps no matter what potato you play on but if you speed up in hyperspace fps tanks extremely hard
...anon
yes running the game at double or triple speed is more demanding and disabling clouds helps a lot
i can get around 45 fps in hyperspace at 3x speed with clouds disabled
...ANON
i refuse to take the bait
You are the one trolling, though. I'm talking about running the game normal and you're like WHAT SPEEDUP ARE YOU ON THOUGH?
Of course thats going to run worse no matter what you do? Why are you like this?
...AAANNOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!
I AM NOT CRAZY the cloud gains are real
kek original ...anon poster here, clouds indeed add some latency just was saying it had never been a problem for me. Enjoy cloudfree gaming.
Not that Anon, but...
I get around 35-40 FPS in Hyperspace, Normal Sized Sector, X4.0 speed with SpeedUp, using the Mikohime mod and the Java Dedicated GPU fix. Yes, I have hyperspace stormclouds enabled and untouched.
I'm playing on a laptop with a i7 CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a RTX 2026.
I'm gonna try and get in a really big battle with lots of fighters and missles and see how it performs.
>RTX 2026.
RTX 2060
i got 140ish with normal sized sector and increased zoom range at 3x speed with cloud disabled
with clouds enabled its about 120
with nexerelin + giant sector and a gorillion factions its around 40 fps at 3x speed with larger zoom range
>"Alright, all animu factions loaded, can't be as bad as people make it out to be, right?"
>Check out the local planet to see if I got lucky with some delivery mission early on
>Cute animu operator grill tries to groom me into joining her OC pirate faction instead
>Is now a quest contact
Well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions.
kek even fricking ArmaA has em now. At least they fit the style of the game and I like the blonde one.
I do appreciate that even tho arma has anime avatars, the author at least tries to be consistent with the writing of base game and she isn't a generic waifu
They also aren't too bad despite just being some "AI" stuff apparently.
that one can be exactly as bad as people say because legio shits up the sector thanks to actual cheats and impossible to capture home system
Is there not a way to disable them doing that?
in lunalib settings you can disable the most overpowered ships they got but the system is still impossible for any faction capture even if all other factions invade them at the same time they will lose
the only solution is to disable legio entirely in lunalib which is what i do because that troon actually made a decent mod outside of the legio garbage
>because that troon actually made a decent mod
I don't buy it.
What prevents me from saturation-bombing them into the ground?
you as the player can but its more the other factions that cant do anything and you end up with legio painting the map
Impossible to capture?
How the hell did TT and PL do it in a couple of my runs then?
Hell even I did it once just for the heck of it but actually maintaining that turd system and making it profitable was a pain in the ass
maybe he reduced their cheats lately but they shat up the sector in 0.95 so badly that i never enabled them again
its your game getting fricked when they start deploying their ships for half the cost among other things so their fleets are always twice the size of everyone else
even weirder then since I just bootleged noah's crap from 95 so I can rape and capture his precious OC donut steel since he removed it from his later revisions
he even made the changes retroactive so you literally cannot get that version of his mod anymore
I absolutely loathe all the anime shit in every way and can't wait for someone to come along and replace them all with normal looking people thanks to AI. Shit does not fit at all, best case it makes me laugh and roll my eyes
...they use AI anime avatars because AI is too stupid to make decent looking avatars in the same style of the game, so good luck with that. All the "realistic" portrait packs i've seen are shit and don't match david's style at all
We can't expect all Starsector modders to hold themselves to the high standards of the meme pack.
>alex making him censor the pack
kek
Elaborate?
Can the portrait pack still be acquired?
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=22335.0
Hasn't been updated since 0.95 so you'll have to change the version in the mod_info but otherwise still works perfectly fine.
He didn't like the pack giving you such colorful captain names like "Kate Hikes" and "Nuck Figgers". Come on guys, hide your power levels.
You love to see it
Is there a reason to keep your Tech-Mining industries on until the ruins have been extensively combed through in 0.97? Any chance of finding something actually good, like a nanoforge or else?
I made a giant mech that has hanger bays and I'm not going to show it to you guys. Its my secret mech.
good nobody likes mechs
It looks really cool too and I'm super happy with it.
kek
You will never be a real modder. You have no files, you have no repo, you have no download links. You are a homosexual man twisted by discord and starsector forums into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.
I mean that was funny but I'm not a discordian like you noah.
You'll never get my mech.
drop link rn or fricking die
what are some good frigates or destroyers to protect my nibelung I keep over fluxxing
maybe it's the hephaestus guns
Centurions are neat, cheap little frigates with okay survivability and damage for their DP.
>finally got around to updating to 0.97
>mostly due to my favourite bootlegs just work
>and because UAF updated and that means a new handholding run instead of saturating the sector on Sigma Matter
leave Knights of Ludd's ZoE Doritos to me
>UAF
>KOL
>Iron Shell
>Sephira
>Yuri
>Armaa
>SBR
>Legio
>CLAIRE.png
should have a blue eye
>KoL
>the fricking selkie mod finally gets released
>still no Zigstral
Frick this mod sucks
does anon have any neat battle cruisers with much guns and won't implode by shooting all ot once
Try LTA sovereign
its literally just the Terran Battlecruiser from starcraft
even has a yamato cannon
Do Plasma Cannons benefit from Extended Magazines? I'm still toying with my Oddysey, but if they don't I might have to find a new one that I didn't S-Modded already.
no it increases how many charges something can store not burst size
I keep looking for the perfect planet only to disappoint myself
Take one that you like better from someone else. They don't need that many planets anyhow.
>update to 0.97
>use exact same vmparams values as I did in 0.96
>start getting the warning about JVM RAM exceeding half of system RAM
I wish invasions only triggered once you start colonizing yourself. Having to speedrun reputation of whatever faction you want to commission to so you can get their stuff before they get deleted by another faction is tiresome. Not to mention the ever fun "lmao, get decivilized from raiding".
"invasionsOnlyAfterPlayerColony": false,
"invasionGracePeriod": 90,
"colonyExpeditionsOnlyAfterPlayerColony": false,
i wonder what these settings in nex do
Guess I should have read the mod configs for once.
kek while that anon isn't wrong and its nice there are settings for a lot of things modded or otherwise its fine to also lament how things are be default.
Sometimes people get too in the weeds of "well theres a mod for that!" or "you can fix it by doing this." Nice to have the ability obviously to do corrective surgery to a game though.
There's also Lunalib settings for it you can change on the fly. You can tweak a lot of things without needing to frick with mod settings, just don't forget to click save.
Any mod is made better by having settings like that. It's a single player game, why shouldn't we be able to tune it to our exact preferences?
>why shouldn't we be able to tune it to our exact preferences?
kwab
Exactly. I'm not disagreeing.
>You can tweak a lot of things without needing to frick with mod settings
i do both just in case someone somehow managed to frick it up when making the mod
My favorite thing about LunaLib is seeing the frickboy who made Industrial Evolution voice his butthurt about people not liking the artillery crap.
The artillery stuff sounded like a cool idea when I first tried it as long range attacks on the map level was a mod idea I thought of prior (basically nuclear torpedos on bootlegged shuttle hulls launched from fleets), but yeah IE artillery turned out to be shit, good concept bad implementation.
Do factions ever get completely eradicated? I haven't seen that happen
Every recent save (in .96 still mind you) with nex with the new arma the MRC immediately gets destroyed (they have 1 station, thats it) by someone as they are suicidal pirate terrorists and I love them.
mayasura dies in months to constant hegemonkey invasions
then i dump heavy armaments and marines to their black market to revive them
Does that actually affect their faction strength and is it black market only?
nex rebellions get stronger if you sell marines and heavy armaments in the black market theres even a pop up telling you how much the rebel strength increased
Wish I could pay credits to selectively break a ship into having d-mods I want.
Or partially scuttle a ship, so it gains a d-mod and I get % of the scuttle value as supplies. Industry perk would be reworked to cost supplies so it's not exploited for free resources.
>answer summon of the station commander at Byzantium
>huge 9 fleet armada is trying to attack their base
>except their star fortress is an absurdly OP monster that can repel even a fleet of doritoes if it wanted
>get 200,000 k for doing nothing, plus a bunch of free salvage
More Military Missions moment. The mod rewards you too much for too little, plus the fact that you can pretty much summon an aggressive fleet of ANY faction that won't get the faction angry at you if it's destroyed means you can easily get late-game gear very early in the game.
I really like the idea of the mod but have decided not to use it in the end.
Convoy missions are a good idea too, but they pay too much just for 'security' and too little for carrying extra goods yourself. Plus raiders aren't always certain to come so it's very easy money to make.
The convoy missions are a gigantic pain in the ass too
>trade fleet gets hit by a hyperspace storm and flies into a raider fleet
>mission is instantly failed
>lose all the escrow money for carrying extra cargo
Rage removed the mod after that. Also it by default gives you intel for every spawned trade fleet in the sector, which is weird.
ALSO those station repair missions pay like actual garbage
I wish that it was a good mod because I like the idea of well, more military missions, but it sadly is not.
>ALSO those station repair missions pay like actual garbage
The point isn't really the pay. It's more about cutting down the station's downtime by a factor of 45 days.
I am evil for using IED ships against trade convoys? I know moral relativism is the second name of the game but this feels kinda wrong despite how both effective and entertaining it is.
p sure it bugs you because it's not worth doing it on a random trade convoy instead of a fleet worth nuking
High-tech Star Fortress, or AI Battlestation?
Star Fortress
Only advantage an AI battlestation has is that it summons AI patrols.
Is Alex done with hotfixing this version?
no
Neat. Mint condition Astral. Have to wonder why they abandoned it.
>2 more gravitons then you need
>dual hurricanes
they all died of cringe
>install yuri
>legio wipe them out because they're a one-system faction
Nia Tahl is a b***h-ass motherfricker.
i kinda love that about them. get like 8 faction mods and the sector is oversaturated with systems and colonies and you make no fricking money from food exports or whatever
but yeah, i also fear for my missile bros dying out if they find a strong enemy
>low-tech station has 'eavy dakka and big armor and hull
>midline station is shit because the dakka side faces away from the enemy half the time
>high-tech station has fricking fortress shield modules that are separate from the actual weapon modules
High tech has the same issue as midline where all the disco beams face one direction with the plasma cannon pod, however the range it has is absolutely ridiculous and beams don't miss, and the station comes with mine fields.
Better yet when they use AI to make more anime in massive volumes because making passable anime with AI takes much less effort than making passable people with AI. Knights of Chudd and Tahlan do this which is why they're all samefaced.
So apparently there's a version of ARC with mechs? Does anyone have that, along with the 0.97 version of Diable?
The unofficial diable works on 0.97. Just change versions.
He just updated it and added a bunch of buffs across the board.
https://github.com/scardwell15/diable-avionics/releases/download/v2.8.0/Diable-Avionics-v2.8.0.zip
>buffs
He did not
stop fricking lying
he just added fricking B-Deck as an s-mod to wanzer gantry and changed how you can get the Virtuous if you don't want to become hostile to them
Click the link and read the list, Black person. This is new as of today.
It seems I was also a Black person because I didn't link to the changelog.
https://github.com/scardwell15/diable-avionics/releases/tag/v2.8.0
>all those micromissile buffs
We are so fricking back.
>bunch of buffs
>not even omni shields on ships like maelstrom
Fricking trash
Do you need omni shields on a wolf too? I think Diable filtered you.
Not that anon but if its not shield shunted/no shield I want as much shield coverage and durability as possible on ships.
>two decivilized terran worlds connected with a tether
Only ran into a tether once a while ago but wew
How would a planetary tether work if both planets have rotation? That's fricking stupid.
The system has a warning beacon too but found no hostiles there, weird.
They are already aboard your ship.
man the more i think about this idea of a tether between two planets and how it's depicted in game, it just seems dumber and dumber as a concept
A case of disney science
>space elevator? Too basic, what about a space cheese string tieing two worlds together but actually it would be a space bumper because planets that close would fricking collide.
Originality is over rated
It could work in theory, however the planets have to be the same mass, rotate at the same speed, orbit at just fast enough to counteract the pull of their gravity but not too much to tear the tethers, and the tether needs to be rooted in deeper than the crust.
Either way it's fricking moronic and serves no purpose other than "what if elevator between planets?" moon logic.
What would even be the benefits of doing that shit?
so you could grab the 7'o clock train to jupiter
To flex on the lower races that can't achieve such a feat. outside of that, my guess is not much, because the assumed maintenance costs and complexities would completely overshadow any benefit of having 2 worlds of resources and space conjoined.
Its like truck nuts for space.
imagine the tides
Is this a mod thing? Or did you find tethers on both worlds?
Probably a mod, don't know which tbh but found it like that.
Definitely from a mod. There's only 2 mentions of 'tether' in the game files, both for descriptions of Vast quality ruins (planetary and gas giant).
'spool' shows up 5 times; once in the description of the player testing their monowire during the Dicktat questline, the description of Fullarine Spool, Askonia & Samara market descriptions, and twice in the drop rates of rare item drops (item_fullarine_spool) rare_tech and rare_tech_low. 'Elevator' only shows up once in the Fullarine Spool's description.
Weird, "Elevator" is only mentioned once in the game? Player never rides in an elevator?
an actual space elevator already exists in base game
its called the fricking fullerene spool
You can steal one from eventide
>Player never rides in an elevator?
you do, the obvious one is in the galatia quest where you take a "lift pod" or "travel-lift" up to the center of the station to see the provost
>rules.csv(9347): gaRequestMeeting1,DialogOptionSelected,$option == gaRequestMeeting1,,"You are led through a discreet secure-access door to a series of passages that bypass the public concourses. A travel-lift activates at the academy agent’s presence
>rules.csv(9349): The lift pod is wrapped by diamond-matrix
>rules.csv(10482): Cyclopean arcology substructure flashes by as you ride the primary ring tube to a far segment of the metroplex; a small passenger lift fills with the smell of sweat
>rules.csv(17894): There is no perceptible change in subjective gravity as the lift accelerates upward;
Lift tube, lift shuttle, lift shuttle, but the Spool's description is the only one that says "elevator".
I think its AOTD
Is tech-mining even worth it? If so is it best to build that industry first or last?
Tech mining is cheap, install an alpha core on it and let it run for a month before removing it since most of the value is in that first month. If it's a size 3 colony then the alpha core won't attract attention.
no it's not
mmm. cheese string.
>jump into imperium system
>get colony defense mission against like 5 hobofleets
>free money because imperium station will just frick them over
>comissioned fraction decides to start war with imperium
>i am surrounded by 8 patrol fleets and the single strongest station in game, and there are 5 more attack fleets incoming
thanks nexerelin, i just wanted to do my no story points run
>select expendable ships and strip them
>use IE detach fleet
>dab on their navy by leaving heroic volunteers to catch the patrols for you
>transverse jump away
Diable just updated to 0.97.
Same for Seeker and Unknown Skies.
Which variant of the Maelstrom is stronger
The Sephira one or the ARC one?
the Approlight one
Sephira's pretty busted though
What about the Templar one?
I'll tell you once I see it, haven't used Templars until now
someone managed to make it but refuses to share it anywhere
im not home right now, but I'll share you current Templars bootleg once I get there
>I forgot to put US in my 0.97 install
FRICK
thank you for the reminder
diable has worked with a version change for over a year why do you need an update?
buffs that you dont need to apply yourself
>buffs
i keep seeing this over and over but its literally the same with the exception of virtuous meme ship nobody actually uses
>he hasnt read the 2.8 changelog
>updated 6 hours ago
fine there are buffs now but ive seen people say diable is buffed for fricking months when the dude maintaining it did nothing other than change virtuous weapon choices
You aren't wrong there, and I actually agree with you that the people saying it's been buffed over the past few threads when it clearly hadn't been were annoying as frick.
Because it got shit on by tourneygays who cried "2 op pls nerf" and left us with a bunch of ships with both anemic flux stats and weapons with high flux draws.
>Same for Seeker and Unknown Skies.
And where do i find them?
Thank god a non moronic modder took over diable.
Shipgirl posters are worse than noah.
>t.vanilla ugleh bastard
That would be neet idea to make an option with their kanmusu(officer) portraits
I will not install version 97, ever
Alex can go fricking kill himself for ruining the game with yet another moronic forumite balance "update'
>boohoo 97 ruined balance
>boohoo 96 ruined balance
>boohoo 95 ruined balance
Same as it ever was. See you on .98's release.
You know my post history huh mr glowbot?
I was able to unfrick most of the changes in .96 I do not possess the knowledge to undo all the skill changes in .97.
I just took a shot in the dark and you went full schizo.
Posters like you are just super predictable.
If you took that seriously I think you have brain damage.
No, I know you have brain damage.
You are so dumb you couldn't be a glowie if you wanted to.
Again, predictable.
Keep seething over nothing.
Everyone here bought the game anyone who didn't isn't gonna.
Who are you shilling to?
>Everyone here bought the game
Reading full sentences is hard I know.
I'm a turboNEET that pirates everything and I still bought. Not playing with Seth's sloppy seconds
shit bait
Man, the last time I bought a game (small indie) outside of Steam was Minecraft whenever it was on beta on sale. Then they sent a fricking migration email and terminated my account.
>Diable Avionics ships are designed with advanced fire control systems. These systems finely tune the reactor output towards overpowering the weapons, increasing their damage and flux cost by 30%.
Lol
WHY DID ALEX HAVE TO MAKE PHASE SHIPS SLOW
I WANT MY DOOM BACK
EVERY PATCH HE HAS A CHANCE TO FIX HIS MISTAKE AND DOES NOT
Frick you
You will like ze Ziggurat and EAT ZA SLOPPA
I do find it odd how Diable was nerfed into the ground so hard, especially when Tartiflette's other mods like Scy and ORA didn't suffer the same fate, at least not to the same extent. Call me a schizo but I think he resented Diable as it wasn't even his own mod to begin with.
diable is the most popular faction mod in the game so it attracted the most balance autists
the very same autists who are responsible for everything you like getting nerfed
blue blocks and ships with tails arent nearly as popular so nobody bothered to complain
>diable is the most popular faction mod in the game
Nah this thread told me mechs are bad.
are there new mech mods or something
The only one that matters is ArmaA (and my secret capital class mech)
>(and my secret capital class mech)
whats all this then
personally i like using the zaku from epta because it's fricking busted
I'm making a capital class mech from basically scratch and am just being a smart ass mentioning it. No one here wants it and I'm not gonna spam about it. I'm very partial to the sleeper start valk and the aleste swordsman in nekki. Just 2 really hilariously fun mechs.
sounds fun, i want it when you're done
Well thanks. It will probably be awhile as I'm learning and doing at the same time. Much easier than other projects I've worked on though. Hulls and weapons are WAY easier to add to starsector. My mech is basically is a carrier with a sword and PD at this point.
lookin forward to whenever you're done with it
hope you have fun making it
Thank you. It is certainly more enjoyable to work on than adding events or text boxes or anything like that.
>No one here wants it
I do, frick you moron.
A good practice to adopt is to immediately look in the portraits folder of any mod you download
>VRI
>see this shit
>the rest are colour swapped/shitbashed vanilla portraits
>named characters are inexplicably anime
The ship line-up consists of crewed Remnant ships. Weapons are lack-lustre due to almost zero explosive damage sources.
5/10, not terrible, not good.
Ugh, that factions is why my portraits has a bunch of furry shit? I have to start checking faction portraits before I commit to it.
VIC has some "furry" portraits but its genetic modification and body modding which is part of the faction. Its not full on anime wolfgirl. JYD has some furry ship names but no furries in game that I saw.
Anyone know if approlight work with a version change ?
it just works (like 90% faction mods)
Storm
DP set to 23 (from 26)
Pandemonium
DP set to 65 (from 75)
kek
Hey, after game reaches the "0.100" version, do the devs plan to officially call it "1.0", or is it still too early for that?
>plan to officially call it "1.0"
Do you think this is justified
>Do you think this is justified
could be, as long as the next three major patches are big enough to "complete" the game.
Chances are low but not impossible imho.
>the vtumor still hasnt updated san batavia
not even once
She probably moved on and abandoned it to her simps. Very sad, many such cases.
if i post it every thread it will become true
have other people been complaining about it
i havent played in a while or checked the threads
is there a way to contact and whine directly at her
i shall do so if so and if you personally let me know
shitpost on the forum page or her stream i guess
thats gay man
can i dm her on shitter about it if i pay elon 5 bucks
how the frick should i know
why the frick wouldn't you know
you're worthless
completely inadequate
I've played the game for years but never noticed this button. Always switched to regular map to check if I could reach the intel target.
theres a bunch of hotkeys that swap you to different menus which are not clearly shown at all in the ui
Make a fricking mod header you fricking lazy fggots, how can i track all of them?
any good new mods or updates yet?
Forget anime mods. Where are my cowboy mods? I want to throw comically oversized dynamite at pirates.
Forget mods. Where are my rapesector portrait mods? What portraits do YOU use?
Sephira Conclave portraits, even for my guy
I also change the BBslaught officer's portrait for a female SC one so I can handhold it for extra bonuses
the KFC Colonel bounty officer is considered a woman by the handholding mod LOL
>Couple of hours into in my anime factions and and other stuff extravaganza campaign
>Some agent animu girl tried to groom into joining her genocide faction
>Couple of tsundere girls wanting me to work for them, but "not really, but there just isn't anyone better for that job out there, don't get the wrong idea idiot"
>Eleet strike force fleet girls
>An exiled kingdom or something with their queen and officers craving my independent, massive Onslaught
>More tsundere AI because why not
>Not Rome got rid of that one planet anime faction in record time
>Also you can apparently gift some stuff to some of those girls because frick it, dating sim elements
It's kind of fun actually. Just wish I could find a decent system already to settle in.
System choice;
Maand has a gas giant with decent volatiles but no very hot worlds and trace rare ores
Kang has a better Terra world but no gas giants and the volatile world is 275% hab.
I'm leaning towards Kang since it's got a really nice 75% Terra on it.
Depends on your melanin level
i refuse to live anywhere other than tundra planets
i hate the heat
>tfw colonized a system with three (3) tundra planets
It's so cool.
Hegemony portraits are probably the hardest to adapt to new ones I think. It's not just the cap, you have to make sure that, if they have one, the belt is on the right side, as well s checking they have the right epaulets and uniform design in general. Other factions' portraits are much easier to work with I think because of their looser uniform standards I think.
i didnt read and indeed, i don't care
make that b***h an avatar in whatever mod you're making
i've already stolen it if you want to spite me so too late for that, mon frond
Here's the properly sized portrait so that you don't need to resize it and it ends up looking weird in-game.
The second portrait to the left in the toolbar?
That's portrait_pirate16.png, a new pirate portrait from the vanilla game in 0.97.
why thank you my Black person, i hope you have a good day
So are you just making new vanilla portraits by kitbashing others together? Seems like a smart idea of increasing variety that isn't too noticeable on the playing end.
>That's portrait_pirate16.png, a new pirate portrait from the vanilla game in 0.97.
The art style just keeps getting uglier and uglier
2,0 version, with improved hairline.
Nothing about this is improved.
yeah i prefer the old one, this new hair makes her look like a real old ugly hag
Probably the shinier hair making her look like she's graying out. Gonna see what i can do about it.
Ok.
BROWN.
are you fricking moronic you already had a good version, go work on your other shit
like not to diminish no yeah you fricking moron go work on your shit that needs work and come back to this later
Brown looks better, but the first one you uploaded still looks the best.
Now you know why I take so long to finish everything.
Here's a family photo. Clearly adopted since she has none of their jawlines or race.
the lighting on the hair makes it look like shit anon
the og version doesnt have that lighting on the middle part of her hair
I like the result, she looks like an actual officer.
Here. Absolutely improved.
What the frick is that purple carre haircut abomination?
it's called an asian
Those only exist in TriTachyon. My immersion is broken.
Just make them white holy shit, no one wants to look at wakanda kangs or israeli space digging rabbis
At this point I think we need to segregate game avatars and portraits and stuff. If you're a Black person or bugcreature? Thats all you see.
I mean even if you are some sort of mistery meat, wouldnt you like to escape your shithole or keep seeing it even in a game?
Oh of course which is why it would be super simple to bypass and basically function as an "iq" check.
>"iq" check.
The player is placed into a room with a battery and a smoke detector, solve the puzzle in 5 minutes to ascend.
*chirp*
>[REPLACED]
's like swappin to the jap region instead of the yellow mutt region
if you dont do it, good
if you do do it, have fun
That's mean, Anon. The mod is gonna have plenty of hot, white women for you to collect when it's ready.
Though some might need a retouch now that I'm seeing them together and compared to the most recent ones.
Yeah. Mix of kitbashing and AI generation of vanilla portraits and concept art for games I found around the internet. Already put out a collection of the ones I've made so far, I'm sore some Anons have them.
>F_03
plap
Just kill all hegemonkeys and you won't have this problem.
Would it be possible for a mod to increase the amount of physical debris that generates upon a ship being blown up, as well as increasing the force at which it's thrown when an explosion does occur? Would be cool to see ships being knocked about by chunks of other ships.
>UAF update
Huh neat, think I'll just port the cool ships to 0.96
against my better judgement and taste i have decided to use anons anime portraits because ai sloppa is being spammed so hard that i have started to hate it
you know what you must do
Haven't updated, what fun was added into the game?
no
I don't give a FRICK about what morons on Discord are saying.
Alex is a avid trooncord user. Now what?
Post your current portrait. These work rather well for a Diable run.
now and always
praise ludd
The name is John
John Necrocore
Nice habitable world you got there, would be a shame if some spacer were too... oh I dunno...
Dump a few metric tons of antimatter on it...
>habitable world
sorry john gay'o core, better luck next time
Captain Arboreal James Thatherton Mcguiness Tencent Rutherford, at your service.
got enough middle names there?
???
I omitted my middle name for clarity. Damn Ganker still hasn't increased the post letter limit.
Just so happens that I'm making an inverted version of this portrait anD I CAN"T GET THE FUICKING VISOR'S UI RIGHT
In due time you shall become biomass for the hive
*animalistic screech*
Your disregard for valuable resources shall be your undoing
begone, chineseman.
>antimatter
>valuable
lol
lmao even
also that liongay from youtube just got confirmed to be using rapesector
wonder how the current diable maintainer's feeling right now
>game has antimatter
>used predominately in planetary bombardment
>2 weapons have it, one recently added
Why isn't here a support power just shower antimatter fuel
?t=466
If it wasn't in a canister, wouldn't it just explode as soon as it touches a bit of atmosphere?
Antimatter don't explode
it just erases an equal amount of normal matter into light
But isn't that still a pretty energetic reaction?
It's Light and Neutrinos bro
Neutrinos don't do jack shit to normal space
its literal Phase Particles
So how do they use it to generate power? Boiling water?
yup
in the end its always ends up being about boiling water
Hey, it could be about boiling supercritical CO2 instead. This is the future after all.
I meant the biomass in the worlds you just polluted by glassing it
Antimatter is safe, entirely green, and leaves no toxic wastes behind unlike traditional nukes
What the god fricking darnation are you on about
you realize matter-antimatter annihilation is completely clean, right? it literally yields nothing except thermal and kinetic energy
Explosions on that scale release massive amounts of ash and gases to a planets atmosphere, blocking out the sun for years or decades dropping temperatures on a planet and causing plants and animals to die out, a habitable planet is going to likely take at least a century for the ecosystem to fully recover
A fellow Swords of the Stars fan?
I love raiding commodities and then selling Heavy Armaments to pirates, terrorists, and rebelling colonies at lucrative prices.
Koyan, how the frick have you reached this Sector?
As long as someone wants a weapon, there is no place NFF Services cannot reach
damn
the discord homosexuals are screaming that the buffs to the wanzers are too OP and want it nerfed again
wtf
Good thing we have this futureproofed version of Diable now and don't need to update to whatever idiotic changes they make.
I am bored with this game, what should I do? I've fought off everything except the heger inspection.
go again
>19
Inspect the heg instead.
How come most modded factions don't let you build their variant orbital station?
Ya know... I think Andrada made some good points on the Pegasus modifications, it runs amazingly in my fleet. Just need to equip special []Redacted[] weapons.
seeing your other ship designs on the side i rate this as a joke rather than a skill issue
This ship is controlled by the ai. Not myself. But most energy based projectile weapons are flux heavy, making them impractical on the conquerer. But with [redacted] weapons, they are more flux/damage efficient.
The forward pd is very effective, mostly at disabling fighters and missiles. But large energy weapons act like PD anyway, I have yet to see this ship overwhelmed even when surrounded, cause everything around it is often disabled anyway.
Frick off, my Legion isn't meant for killing but for suppression and it does a dam fine job for what it costs.
anon... put a dualflak in the rear
its more than 100% worth the cost compared to singleflak
look at his legion on the side and realize he cannot be helped because he is doing it on purpose
Any games for similar vibes?
Wayward terran frontier. Played a long time ago and it seemed unfinished
>IronCladLion makes a review of Iron Shell
>Uses RapeSector in a joke
Hooo boy....
None of the good goys can call him out without admitting they played it too, kek
I've told you stupid homosexuals about 20 times now the main audience of that mod IS discord trannies. You think I'm kidding but I'm not.
This guy tries way too fricking hard to be sseth
and he's not remotely good at it.
meanwhile sseth is making vids about dizzy games and dungeon siege 2
how much of a shill is this guy
He sucks the UAF dev's dick in every video he makes so that should explain plenty.
he's noah but gayer
that was probably him who posted that.
he shills all the anime mods, but honestly i do actually like iron shell despite the aesthetic
I rarely use the black market with starpocalypse so when those hoes show its always to give me money.
It would be different if he did more than just shill anime mods, at least IS isn't as self congratulatory as UAF.
der backpeddler
never forget most of the discordians especially those that cry about it the most use it. They also post about it on twatter and preddit as well as here gushing about their "rapes"
It is truly pathetic.
he got banned from USC lmao
Budget Sseth BTFO
What a fricking pussy. They're not gonna take him back if that's what he thinks.
>take a gander at the starsector discord for mod updates
>look at the modded gameplay chat
>some poor shmuck posts a link to rapesector
>entire chat goes full on meltdown
>10 mods appear
>guy gets permabanned within 30 seconds
speedrun bros?
>le rape is le bad because mkay?
These puritans need some correction space
That's just one part of it. The other is the seething about it being a fork of Take No Prisoners made both without permission and being patched and up to date.
naruhodo. mods being gays as usual
>puritans
They are mentally ill trannies who feel personally violated when you rape their donut steel self-insert OC's
Do you really need to join 10 different cumcord channels to just get yourself an update for a mod you need?
It's easier than hunting them down on the forum.
Yeah, because these subhumans refuse to post them there
Does Ironshell work with the latest version? Do I need to find a bootleg or is version number enough?
I wish the mk 3 colossobro was good. It looks so cool 🙁
>sarissa
>xyphos
>light mortars in the front
>no PD on the sides because the fighters have PD
Still underpowered for its size but better than a pirate carrier has any right to be
>better than a pirate carrier has any right to be
lot of loud talk from someone within raping distance.
>no gun
>2 fighter wings/ or spam piranha against station
>hide behind other ship kilometers away
In this niche its okay, optimal even for having 2 broken fighter bays for 8dp.
The other way, gun ship, won't work because combat is stat sensitive, yet every stat is shit even for carrier or price, and the benefit of being upsized is null, and not fixable by hullmods because of OP limit and upsize cost.
I like the Lean from JYD for similar reasons. !0 dp. 2 Fighter bays, 1 small missile slot. Great long range annoyance.
I really like the new rapesector 'give her to the crew' option for CR recovery bonus you can use on throwaway pirate c**ts
But there should be an even further ryona / snuff option that gives even higher bonuses and automatically kills the girl in the end. Better UX then doing it now, checking up on her, and manually executing her once she's all icky and abused with loose holes and blackened genitals.
Willing to write it btw
>art of a body explosively decompressing outside the airlock with a little dribble of frozen cum drifting away
>pirates send trade fleet to my colonies
>other factions in system kill said trade faction using my station
>station and planet now have shipping disruption
kek god dammit
For one, don't be friends with pirates.
But for the other, you'd think pirates would send smugglers.
I'm -30 with them.
Thinking about it, it's weird that there's not more 'independent' traders given that all those 'concerned person at the bar' quests for hauling 13,000 ore or food or whatever. Like an independent shipping union that handles most bulk resource trades.
Yep, its one of many reasons I like Space Truckin. I wish there were more trading, salvaging, and mining factions.
Roider and Tiandong fall under mining and salvaging, but I can't think of a trade/transport focused faction. What would that even look like? Every ship a combat freighter? The SFC but cargo instead of fuel?
They could use generic ships from other factions for defense but have unique fuel and cargo ships. Maybe some pirate bps with shielded cargo.
Carter's Freetraders?
I use CFT just for the carrack if nothing else.
Lorewise you're right.
In terms of gameplay though, it's for the best. Excessive fleets ruins your overworld performance.
It would be better if there were less fleets in general. It feels dumb and arcadey when the Hegemony loses entire battlegroups to desertion with legions and onbawds every week, yet the high hegemon needs to break a champagne bottle over every new eagle chassis that's finished on chicomoztoc.
Sure, nanoforge printing makes it different from how economics/industry works today, but there should be more economic and worldbuilding sense in the campaign layer.
It would make sense if they rewrote it as a celebration for the launch of a flagship for a new fleet or something equally large.
kek
getting jealous of her own daughter
pathetic
also
>CRISP. WHITE. SHEETS!!!
Why is there a kitten on her shoulder
oh that's gonna be the first responder to when Noah acks himself irl
How many Nia's self insert are out there?
About tree fiddy.
Why does Nia self-insert and visualize himself as a cute girl, when he's a guy named Noah in real life?
Why is that true for that Avanitia bloke on the discord as well?
What drives a man to play Starsector or present himself in the world with a female avatar?
if a game ever lets the player use a female avatar/model, even if it’s almost never seen outside of a few menus or scenes, then you can sure as hell bet that there will be gay men using those options, even when they can’t even use the excuse of “I don’t want to stare at a man’s ass” because the game in question is either first person only or something where you only ever see your character through their portrait
YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE HIM SHOW A PIECE OF THE RAPESECTOR UI
HOLY SHIT
buy an ad already jeebus man
forgot pic
Someone's late to the party.
>makes discord seethe
>tricks newbies into getting themselves banned
He might be discount sseth but he did the lord's work here.
Did he? I haven't seen anything like that.
>gold standard
>abandoned, unfinished mod that hasn't been properly touched in years
What is this guy smoking
at this point im convinced you just pick random mods someone mentions and say they are abandoned
It hasn't had a public update since 2022, it sure looks abandoned.
are you mentally moronic?
This 'update' added literally nothing and hasn't had any announcement by the author. This version also still says that it's being maintained by Avanitia, the devs have abandoned it but did a zero-effort update to coincide with Lion's shill video.
either you dont understand what abandoned means or you are some gaas zoomer who needs infinite additions to his games/mods
its a finished mod that still gets bug fixes years after it was released
>its a finished mod
>still has unfinished contact missions
>unfinished contact missions
explain
ava nitia and that other b***h work just fine by improving relations with them
They still have missions in their dialogue trees that don't exist, there's a popup that says they're under development.
he means the two unfinished unique conquest missions
>abandoned
>when it just got ANOTHER update for 0.97(and it's the third one)
lol
lmao even
Sephira Conclave is deader than IRS
and both are alive as frick
>Sephira Conclave is dead
yet you homosexuals won't shut the frick up about it.
DESU, IS is better than like 99% of the starsector "faction mods" in the sense that it isn't just a glorified ship pack. It adds an (unfinished lel) questline, characters, campaign layer mechanics, etc.
Tho ironclad is clearly a CY simp
Glorified ship pack >>>>>>>>> waifubait cringe with taxes and deathfleet spawning on top of you
>WOW! A HUESHIFTED FALCON
You sured show them Black person
>he doesn't like the falcone
>WOW! AN OC ANIME GIRL WITH HUESHIFTED OP FALCON
Yass queen slay
S-modded Hardened Shields or Stabilized Shields?
Well, it clearly depends if you really need the Flux Capacitors of not. Stabilized Shields has the S-Mod bonus that converts a percentile of received Hard Flux into Soft Flux.
S-mod stabilized shields because it has a bonus and put the points into caps. Stabilized shields is very big on ships with large shield flux generation. Take the Paragon's shield upkeep flux: it's 750, SS is a 375 reduction in flux/s, for 15 OP. It's over twice as efficient as opposed to putting on vents to cover that upkeep.
Putting caps in place of Hardened Shields is a better option for the same cost because at the end of the day you're looking at total hard flux capacity, and you also have a higher base flux capacity as a buffer for weapons. If you have maxed out caps then you add HS to squeeze more performance out of the shield. HS is the flux coil equivalent of shields.
Hardened shields after you buff it in the core files because Alex is a frickstain.
Remember not to update your game.
Seems Combat Activators has been made obsolete by the new update to MagicLib.
Mods are starting to migrate to it, such as Random Assortment of Things.
They were merged.
how do you deal with gryphons and auroras not doing enough damage? it's fun until you go against bigger ships and they don't just immediately blow up
Semibreve.
>gryphon
I give it ECCM as a default, built-in hullmod to free up some OP.
>aurora
Who cares about high tech
Fricking alex broke galatia questline AGAIN
I can't talk to horus but memorydumping shows that all variables related to ATG quest are complete.
This is bullshit, and i can't do anything. Is there a way to complete a particular quest step without just finishing it?
THIS FRICKING Black person
NOTHING FRICKING WORKS
I HAVE TO FORCE THE GALATIA QUESTLINE WIN NOW AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO EXPLORE NEW VOID SHIT
FRICK ALEX
>DIDN'T EVEN GET TO EXPLORE NEW VOID SHIT
You mean that empty abyss? But it doesn't need his shitty story to explore.
The game doesn't need to work.
All that matters is shitty nerfs and reworks to appease forumites and discord trannies.
I'm cooming
>augmented drive smod
Nice waste of a slot.
whats the point of tender? literally waste of resources
Rule of cool. It would be more valuable if the insulated drives s mod didn't make an atlas practically a phase ship on its own.
Tell me about rapesector. Is it actually fun?
Call me when the game gets content and updates aren't balance shuffles like this is some dogshit MOBA.
You have to accept the fact that you're only ever getting new content through mods.
>there's an entire world of unreleased mods you'll never play because they're kept in private Discord circlejerks
>private mods
Good, frick them, can't play with every mod nor would I want to
>Ironshell
Let's look at the Ironshell for example - I haven't interacted with them at all in a couple of weeks playing SS, so for me ironshell being publicly available made no difference
>UAF
Let's also look at UAF recently - not only the Solvernia is a hag now, but CY bloats the mod with more ships and it's already as weighty as a certain turkish pussy that can't shorten his fighter bays!
>sephira conclave
It requres DME which sucks ass, at this point they could just decouple from it. The ships are alright I suppose but that's about it (plus the bugs), plus the color scheme looks kinda gay besides being divorced from the color scheme of the portraits (why the frick?)
Sephira's definitely got too much purple and lavender going on. A darker violet might help.
>there's an entire world of unreleased buggy """mods""" you'll never play because they're kept in private Discord circlejerks
Sup anons, as you know with Ironclad's video comes a new wave of influx. This is to all tourists that have atleast some of their neurons left. Do not be this guy. If you got technical problem with RS, then talk it here or through hotmail provided on gitgud page.
the only mistake the man made was not pinging President and Hartley
Why are they such a hypocrites?
>Alright, I finished the story and still haven't found a good system to colonize or terraform, now what?
>Thinking about it, despite having all this weeaboo stuff installed, I didn't really interact with it besides buying some aux ships from them, lets check them out in detail and maybe get a commission
>Why can I buy rice cookers from them?
>Why is there an confectionery building here?
>Why is this a resort planet? Will I have to go through a beach episode at some point?
>"Oh you want a commission? Go there, talk to that girl, maybe bring her a cake, you can buy'em here"
>"Btw her name is Nia Auroria"
>Actual fricking "Nya's" in her dialogue
>"Commission? Do some work, here's my contact info"
>You can give her presents or compliment her to increase reputation with her
My actions continue to have consequences and I am afraid of how deep this hole goes.
I have to admit though that a lot of effort went into this weeaboo fantasy.
>Actual fricking "Nya's" in her dialogue
That's "her" cat making that noise.
i had a few cats and none of them made "nya" noises
japanese cats make that noise
It's what they say in Japan. Scientific fact.
Thats true I heard that on ebay once
I tried to tell you but you just though I was joking. Programming socks are in the mail btw.
where do I change the amount of hyperspace storms in the settings file?
in sectorgen.java look for this
>float minRadius = plugin.getTileSize
change the 2f to 999f to completely remove clouds
you can edit it with a regular notepad just fine
Just use Solar Shields bro :^)
>Corvus mod fanboyism creeping in
rs doko tbh ka...
Its in Ironclad Lion's modlist
>iron shell gets updated
>need to restart save
sigh..
use troony mods win troony prizes
rent free
Yet you're the one restarting your save to play with anime trannies, curious.
well, you are the troony who trannies with troonys while troonying in a troony forum troony troony troony
Do you ever shut the frick up? Please stop posting anytime
Its going to be ok Noah. Your lashing out won't get you banned like on discord.
It's not healthy to have this thread as your only source of social interaction
I agree, noah. You should really branch out more.
If you guys have all that out of your system..
Would it make more sense for a capital mech with a sword to have a physical sword that bats ships away when it swings, or a laser sword?
I kinda like the sword "igniting" but there is something to be said about it flinging frigates and shit. Would that be too op though?
I will add I have tested ugly versions of both and much prefer batting ships away with the physical sword.
Give it a war hammer
kek I just wanted a big ass sword mech. Might have to make it "modular" if I can figure out how to do that in a non janky way.
KoT had the best melee ship.
A fricking giant trex skull.
I liked the concept and the ships but I never liked how they looked in game.
No. Thats why I'm making one. Moving ships are a b***h.
Any capital-sized mechs? I know Epta has the Megalos
The Dickslaught is literally a mech onslaught
I think one of ymfah's mods managed to re-create it in all of its massive glory
>Less mount on Lillaru & Rillaru
What? Oh frick no. There has to be a way to port the data from the old mod over.
You can try copy-pasting the hull graphics and ship file data from the old version and then update the current ship_data.csv with the old version of that specific ship
You can then replace it or add it as a different ship as long as there are no conflicting IDs.
It's good to be the good guys.
Priority Very High importance contact, station commander on Chicomoztok.
i keep getting sold the same fricking falcon every time
oh yeah well the magical Black at the bar just gave me the location of an onbawd 14th gangbang edition blueprint so nya
>*attacks u*
>uh why you fight back -5 rep
I swear to Ludd I will smite all of you.
i am thinking that granting me option to buy dorito ships wasn't a great idea
do you just end up with 300 small ships?
No, my vessels are eternal, i haven't lost a ship once. I am just trying to find some fleet compo that would kill 5 smodded tesseracts now. My flagship has a 3.5 temporal time speed without ability, and moves faster than the cryoflamer projectiles when in shell.
Sounds boring.
Anyone got guides on how to make sprites?
post some legitimate uaf ship builds
anyone done the sindria quests in 0.97?
i had my save get bricked earlier by the second part where you get the guy from pirates to the lions guard and the lions guard patrol never spawned
wtf are pets? what even added them?
indevo
Industrial bloatvolution, for some reason disabling his shitty pets in lunalib does not remove a pet food item from clugging planetary markets.
>Verification not required
>disabling his shitty pets in lunalib does not remove a pet food item from clugging planetary markets
this makes me seethe to no end especially since they start showing up randomly after a while
truly worse than the artillery stations
industrial evolution keeps adding pointless bloat into it
this is why you check the mod settings before starting a run so you can disable pointless garbage while reading the modders passive aggressive comments for disabling them
Industrial evo is no longer on my modlist because of pets and other bullshit.
Isn't it still pretty important for the colony building aspect?
>when the hit the lobster too hard
I somehow doubt the veracity of this intel.
Some mod that just released to make vanilla portraits into Anime, if you're into that:
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28530.0|
Probably not gonna use them because I like the original ones, but I don't think they look half bad unlike other anime portraits, which tend to make look everyone much younger and cuter.
>make vanilla portraits into Anime, if you're into that
Man why the frick people gotta rui-- Oh hey, it's the good type of anime. I guess this can slide.
Yeah I think more than anime it kinda looks like characters from a 80's/90's cartoon show remade in 2020.
This and the AI gen'd MRC/ArmaA portraits are the only ones that don't really bug me.
based i will definitely use this since anons portrait pack only replaced the women so all stations were filled with ugly ass default male portraits and anime girls
how much do you explore each system? I was fricking around one time and traveled a ways towards the end of the map and found a weapons cache, it contained mostly garbage but still I'm wondering if it's worth it to explore systems a lot more than what's considered normal
i use the cheat mk2 neutrino detector which removes false readings so i know if there is something hidden in a system
I use sensors near every single stellar body to see if there might be something close by orbiting, but that's about it.
Total pirate death.
If it's a probe infested star cluster, I use neutrino scanner and try to locate all probes/survey ships/mothership. You'll get a lot of survey missions that will point you to things you might have missed anyway.
I usually just scan around the star with it being barely visible on the minimap
bros how would one go about editing a colonies stability? AOTD fricking bricked my save and I have a sneaking suspicion its because an event is trying to give a colony -3 stability when its already at 0.
>the main epta dev has done a new mod
>instead of keeping work on epta
>in fact epta is fricking ded bc his friends arent interested in developing it anymore
??????
cool supership though
>epta
and nothing of value was lost
Good, epta sucks. Best part of it was the tokyo drift submod.
>100% hazard
oh baby
>rare ore
Absolute dogshit
what's bad about those?
You can't put soil nanites in it
works on my machine
*cough* for some reason I thought high gravity increased accessibility...
>rare ore
>high gravity
Food is dogshit if you think it's more important than ore or volatiles you're moronic.
The real issue is always that the planet is habitable and that blocks mantle bores.
Are older versions still downloadable?
i dont know have you looked into the download tab
How annoying is pather interest? Should I just turn it off?
It's good. Because you do it and then do the mission for the Pathers and they ignore you but frick everyone else.
Is the traumtänzer good? I can't preview it because it got a few beefy boys guarding it
Oh, that's completely reasonable then
Keeping it in your fleet slowly unlocks several hidden blueprints. Its an entire mecha faction you are getting.
You're thinking of the Halbmond aka Ze KFC Bucket
Great missile battlecruiser, one of my favourite ships in the game and the only reason I use Tahlan.
I'm pretty sure that's only for the carrier, which you'll find in a black hole system.
I do love me some missiles
Traumtanzer has unique ship tag as well just like with the ziggurat so don't bother turning off your transponder
What could possibly go wrong.
>scavenge on 6
>he doesn't have auto salvage
Does anyone use Hounds for combat? I found them all to be neat distractions at best. The SO chaingun/HMG hound is a funny build, but compared to a Lasher they're still not great. I found a better use for them with ECM package and Nav Relay so they actually provide a benefit to the fleet for their 3 DP, add a HVD so they can plink at shields once in a while.
>found 2 Pristine Nanoforges from a single domain mothership
I guess this makes up for not finding any in my last playthrough.
my chance to find one is directly inverse to how much effort i spent finding one. explore everything? not happening. Dont explore? heres 5.
You literally have 1 out of 3 chances for it to spawn on Domain Motherships now
>implying i updated when alex isn't done hotfixing
lmao'ing at your life
What the hell kind of ship is this?
>multi-fragmented like a junker station
>almost 10,000 crew capacity
>mid section is almost completely defenseless, but the sides are lined with guns and hangars
It appears to be a very large Starliner.
More like it's a combat ready starliner. Infact, the "vast hangar" hullmod lets you install a converted hangar, doubles the amount of bays you can install, and nullifies all the downsides.
6 fighter bays and 6 medium missile mounts for only 15 dp. Also, 1000 cargo space and more crewcapacity than you'll ever need.
Can you just read the ship name? Mod shill
>Update to raise this ship's DP mere hours after this was posted.
I know you lurk here you m*dder scum.
What are you talking ab-
>changelog: raised the ship's DP from 20 to 40
YOU SON OF A b***h
>litterally names the update "Fair and Balanced"
Absolutely fricking with you personally Anon.
im pretty sure a good number of modders lurk here, especially given that extremely obvious knights of ludd ad just when it released
And they constantly deflect and try to act like they belong as you just saw above.
Ok, if I'm going to fight these giant armor blobs I'm going to need some more anti-armor ships. Maybe carriers with torpedo bombers?
The obvious thing is fleet command. Those sunders are doing absolutely frick all with those HILs sitting in the back and behind wrecks, move them with a waypoint order: also, swap iron cannons for literally any other beam weapon because it's too short range for the sunder. Redesign that Gryphon. If it's getting that close replace the forward weapons with reapers because dragonfires are a meme with their pathetic ammo count for a large slot, and get rid of those fricking gazers it does nothing for you and swap with breaches or gorgons if you want DEMs. Liberal use of EMP to disable their weapons and use cheap piranha bombers since that shitbox isn't moving out of the way. Get rid of the PD (emitter is already the best PD weapon period) and put an antimatter blaster on your omens so it forces them to get close to use their EMP emitter and alternate between cooldowns.
(you)
Not the one that posted the image.
But this is some good advice though. I appreciate it.
>put an antimatter blaster on your omens
absolutely fricking disgusting omens are made for escorting your big ships so you can ignore pd on them completely
And they do that by just attacking alongside your fleet and gangraping larger ships with Emp damage. "muh escorts" sure, it'll keep your ships protected when it counts when it's busy trying to body block some lasher to the side and tickle it with a PD laser (not even in range with the emitter) because Alex is a moron and can't code escort orders right. It is not my problem you can't use your ships flexibly.
>skip every combat with plot armor points
Until you suddenly can't anymore because you pissed them all away. Your s-modded and unique ships WILL be unrecoverable after the fight and there's nothing you can do about it.
i'll bite
>lose random pirate battle
skill issue
>lose all your ships, wake up in israelitengala
skill issue + bad planning
>lose random pirate battle while exploring space
skill issue
>oh, so you are 40lvl captain with 3 smods on each ship, lvl 7 officers and omega weapons?
>then why half of your ships get destroyed when fighting a star fortress thats supported by at least 10 ships?
skill issue if you lost with that, it's a stationary target and fleet moron
>10 hostile armada fleets with 6 burn speed can't catch your fleet? No problem bro, a single moronic mudskipper officer can catch you and force you to take unwinnable fight
sure would be nice if there was something you had to escape an unwinnable fight. skill issue, play on normal speed
>Your fleet only contains frigates and destroyers with 10 base burn speed but your exceeding %put_random_number_here% dp limit? Sorry bro your fleet is TOO BIG to disengage.
skill issue; fight them normally, blow up a few ships, retreat, then you can flee without pursuit
>Your unique ship gets disabled while disengaging? Don't worry bro, it has gone forever.
skill issue, don't commit it to fights you aren't sure to win
>Oh you want to play the game(you can't play this game without winning every fight)? Just have fleet bigger than the most armadas or pilot every fight and kill entire fleets by your own so you don't have to deal with moronic AI behavior that can frick up simplest fights
you suddenly can't anymore because you pissed them all away.
They're given out like candy and you will not have to use them that often unless something is going very wrong with your run and the scaling.
You're a fricking moron and the fact you're defending them based on scarcity is pretty fricking humorous.
>Your s-modded and unique ships WILL be unrecoverable after the fight and there's nothing you can do about it.
hull restoration chads just keep on winning
I've never had an S-Modded ship be unrecoverable before, even without Hull Restoration.
I think the default survival chance of player ships is just way too high.
Officered ships will never be unsalvagable
Also anything with Rugged Construction I think. So completely irrelevant to everyone except Derelict-users and Hounds.
>what are vanguards
>what are cerberi
Opinions on this dog?
Funny? Sexual violence is hot.
someone should make a basedjak edit of his profile picture
it could be the gem that saves starsector
I think you should both have a nice day.
>"Grrr! Chud! I will give neither chance nor quarter for this infraction upon MY discord server!"
Gemmy
I think you missed a key part of it: 'This is one of the few topics that I..'
Nobody gives a shit what a moron who works for free as a moderator on a forum and a discord 'thinks' about. They're the Untouchables of the internet. Especially homosexuals like this guy
You certainly seem to.
Who gives a frick? Stop posting discord troony shit here.
Then why did they give that youtubergay a pass?
You can clearly see him have that mod on
Its okay when "they" do it.
Is that the homosexual that added pets into INDUSTRIAL evolution?
Only homosexuals take thread/board culture outside of it, so don't be a homosexual
why do they keep trying to force us to talk about them
Because they are self-important and incapable of imagining a world outside of their little cliques.
Post ships.
Wait until you realize that discordians both cry about and use RS the most. Wait until you find out you yourself are probably one of them.
I think story points were a bad idea, but I actually don't know how I would do it differently.
It just feels silly that story points are "lol you rolled a 20 and can do whatever you want" whenever you have to make a story decision.
Yeah I guess most of the time its used to skip combat, but it just feels wrong to me.
What really sucks is that you then need story points for things you actually care about, aka building in hull mods, upgrading officers and improving your colony structures.
Then you realise how starved you are of SP, especially if you spend them on green options.
It's your cheat allowance. Remember that the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
Hitting a hyperspace storm wrong and getting bounced into a remnant fleet you're not prepared for sucks, what sucks more is if you can't get away from it and end up wiped. So allowing an option to weasel out of a bad deal at a cost is a good thing. As these points can be sparse and have so many applications it forces you to think and spend them wisely. Spending them all on getting free raids without rep loss is fine and dandy until you realize you want to s-mod, or buff your colony, build an officer, or you found a XIV Legion with s-mods and it's only salvageable by spending a point. Yes it is silly you can perform "special maneuvers" to cleanly get out of an unwinnable fight, or convince some dude you're working under orders from Phil or Kanta, but you're not forced to spend them. It's plot armor to make up for bad luck and bad planning.
When you get into the mindset of "uh story points are a shit concept because it lets you handwave problems" you get Iron Shell greying out the option entirely and taunting you for mousing over it.
Ironman mode is meant for neets with too much time in their hands. It's virtually impossible to have anything bad happen to you by just playing the game on normal speed only
>virtually impossible to have anything bad happen to you by just playing the game on normal speed only
this
aint nobody got time to slowly fly around just in case some fleet is hiding inside an asteroid belt
>the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
Frick off with this moronic.
You can just skip every combat with plot armor points Alex doesn't have a fricking clue what he's doing.
>Remember that the game is intended to be played on Ironman mode.
How?
>lose random pirate battle
>lose all your ships, wake up in israelitengala
>lose random pirate battle while exploring space
>lose all your ships with all unique items
>oh, so you are 40lvl captain with 3 smods on each ship, lvl 7 officers and omega weapons?
>then why half of your ships get destroyed when fighting a star fortress thats supported by at least 10 ships?
>then why you can't take out quarter of persean blockade without losing half of your ships?
>10 hostile armada fleets with 6 burn speed can't catch your fleet? No problem bro, a single moronic mudskipper officer can catch you and force you to take unwinnable fight
>Your fleet only contains frigates and destroyers with 10 base burn speed but your exceeding %put_random_number_here% dp limit? Sorry bro your fleet is TOO BIG to disengage.
>Your unique ship gets disabled while disengaging? Don't worry bro, it has gone forever.
Story points are moronic and should be removed from the game.
have a nice day
Go away Noah
Noah u first
Noah niaself
>hate mods and the modders who make them
>can't stop using mods and talking about the modders who make them
If sexual violence isn't funny, how come 83% of female PiV rape victims achieve orgasm?
Checkmate, discordBlack folk
ALLLLEEEEEX WHERE IS THE LAST HOTFIX ALEEEEEEEEEX!
Found two Delerict Motherships right next to each other and both gave me Syncronotron cores.
Are there more ships for a chance I can get a Pristine Nanoforge from or am I fricked?
yeah they are called chicomoztoc and kazeron
In case anyone has problems with Mikohime JDK 23 (e.g crashing during loading), updating my GPU drivers fixed the issue for me.
Reinstalling game after a while
Any essential qol mods you'd recommend?
Speed up, stellnet, and console commands are must-haves for me.
planet search
larger zoom out (this can be done in the settings file without a mod too)
autosave to spam you every 5 minutes to fricking save
What pirate ships are better than their normal variants?
Falcon
Holy frick, Knights of Ludd is some of the most egregiously overpowered but fun shit I've played in a while.
Thanks for the warning
what did you find op about them?
the weapons ive tried so far were all garbage and the ships rely on shields that get shut down for long periods of time
>the ships rely on shields
>luddics
>shield reliant
mod author should kill himself
its some ancient shield tech that overcooks itself and has to cooldown completely before it can be used again so its thematic
also armoured sections that fall off when destroyed
the frigates suck and all the extra fun shit is Automated only so I dont really know what the point of the mod is.
All right, guys, pack it up. He's in their pocket now.
Literally who
turkler no one cares stay on discord where you belong with half the other homosexuals in this thread.
Go back subhuman
Is it normal to find only one hypershunt/cryosleeper each? I thought it was two per sector.
>hyperspace storms
>slipstreams
>pristine pirate murderstacks lurking in space
Alex is really trying to force you to watch your fleet in hyperspace travel, huh.
>quicksave
>autopilot
>alt+tab
easy game, easy life
This. Before this latest version that lets you reverse polarity of slipstreams, I literally just set my desitnation then alt tab out. I've only been fricked over once or twice
What are some good mod/ship factions that are not op/cringe?
I would like some low tech high armour shit.
Unironically Stinger Shipyards.
He said no cringe
prv starworks comes with a faction called rust belt which is essentially low tech bastardized versions of the main prv ships
dont forget the agni
Mod was separated into 4 parts
and all of them need to be purged
the modder split them so you just delete the agni folder to disable that garbage
Metelson industries
Roiders Union is pretty great.
Hazard Mining Incorporated adds some solid low-tech.
Iron Shell is great
Iron Shell is midline/high-tech in XIVBG colors.
Domain Exploratorium Expansion just updated last night, and it's got a capital-sized LP torpedo ram with no shield and safety overrides. Not exactly low tech, and honestly some of its ships are pretty busted, but seems like it might be the kind of thing you're after.
Rampart (P) my beloved
>black hole + red dwarf system
interesting
I saw that porno
What do you guys do when you've explored every system?
Jerk off to repetitive rapesector scenes.
I'll have started another run long before that happens
What are the downsides of having such a big map?
If you don't also alter the distribution of loot, remnants, derelicts, all that stuff, then it'll be very empty. It does result in a longer initial load of both the game itself and any new games you start, but once you're loading a save that's already underway there's no difference.
Thanks, might try it out on my next playthrough
I think I might have overdone it with the number of stars per constellation here, but it's no big deal. I'll occasionally find stars on top of each other that look like they should be binary or even trinary systems but aren't, and are completely seperate.
15 fps in hypershitspace
*laughs in purged storm clouds*
adjusted sector and abyss generation?
>Lenze is there
heh
>Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator is not just a nickname for SS anymore, but an entire game of its own now.
>mercenary fleet with triple-S high tech frigate spam
I'm sure to win due to my superior speed.
>Ava Nitia's nanoforge death fleet spawns a disproportionate amount of capital ships based on how many of them are in your fleet
That explains the inconsistent fleet sizes that people were posting.
Capspammers get the rope.
hello, I have a query
PLEASE LIST WHICH MODS HAVE FALKENS IN IT
I HAVE A TERRIBLE IDEA WHICH IS GOING TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE
hardmode: not neutrino, sephira conclave and knights of ludd
>me, an intellectual who barely runs capitals
hahahahahahahahaha you cant beat my FALKEN autism
How much flux stats do falkens need to let them use the plasma storm from superweapons arsenal?
so much they become Barghests instead
I tried to put one into a barghest and no dice
What gives
do you have cryoarithmetric from special hullmod upgrades?
unstable sigma matter fitted into it?
you need both, Plasma Storm is incredibly flux hungry
basically everythng in this game scales to your fleet
whoever thought not to limit the spam of these deserve to be skinned alive, salted, set on fire and anally raped
cover your ass because you're the one getting anally raped kek
i'm literally so mad that i spam reapers on every fricking mule that i see as these frickers always of two of them
kek
So you'd say your fleet fights are donkey shows?
>nerfs repears again
Cope :^)
i refuse
dont threaten alex with a good time
EMPGODS won. get over it.
>using reaper missiles
>go into the weapon config
>give them infinite ammo
>????
>PROFIT!
>my reapers are now beams that deals hard flux damage
Problem?
So Dragonfires?
>0.97
>keep all the nerfs for everyone else but make my own variants of each nerfed weapon that only my fleet uses
muahahahaha
Is there ever a reason to not take target analysis?
the early game is so fricking boring actually
the late game is so fricking boring actually
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=26224.0
why
some people just wanna watch the world burn then salvage it.
Filling my cargo holds with worthless metals in one month is too slow. I need to fill my cargo holds with worthless metals in two weeks.
just delete all of them except the scanner since that is built into the capital salvage rig
no need for any of that bloat garbage or any of the other ships really
>typos out the wazoo
>talks like either hes from india or russia
fricking ESLs
Your Paragon builds. Post them.
okay
>using p*ragons, ever
YWNBALTS (You Will Never Be A Low Tech Ship)
This flying manta ray is kinda cracked
wait until you get its actual weaponry
Oh hey look Space vegana.
I prefer the femboy being pegged
>100 speed
armor
hull
flux capacity
flux dissipation
>0.01 shield flux/dam
>10 fighter bays
Yep, it's modded ship time.
Is it named after a Vtuber though?
There isn't a vtuber-themed mod out there, right? I want to sleep in peace tonight.
Oh silly anon
>he lacks critical information
You will never sleep soundly ever again
Alright, we all have to face our fears at some point. Tell me about it so I can figure out a way to live with it.
SAR(San Batavia Republic)
>caring what the tasteless bloat modder does
>reporting to the thread where nobody gives a frick
i can't find any fookin habitable planets
skill issue
Nebula color indicates constellation age, old constellations have more habitable planets. Yellow/orange suns are better for habitable planets. Black holes, neutron stars and nebulas are unlikely to ever be habitable.
So wait, Sindra just give up if you steal their core? They don't ask for it back?
Thought it'd be like with the Persean League or Tri-Tach, having to negotiate a peace treaty.
Was certain that stealing the core would cause Sindra to declare total war and giving the core back would allow some mutually beneficial treaty.
How bad is dealing with relations after starting your own faction? Is it manageable or should you do all that you need to do before settling down?
You'll want to finish the gate storyline, have one Tri-Tach high level contact (part of the storyline), a fleet strong enough to reliably destroy a big fleet from each faction and at least one Phantom transport + 200 marines. If you're aiming for optimal endings, 10 Phantom transports + 2000 marines.
Start small and antagonize only one faction at a time.
No matter what you do:
Pirates will bother you the more unstable your colonies are. Their goal is to steal from you. You can bribe them away, higher up you bribe the more permanent the solution.
The others are conditional.
Persean League will bother you if you have a size 5 colony or 2 colonies with at least one as size 4. You can make a bunch of size 3s and they'll ignore you. Their goal is to force you to join them (vassalization and taxation). You can immediately surrender and eat 20% GROSS profit tax or you can make yourself more of a problem than you're worth.
Tri-Tach only cares about competitors in their markets, which is drugs, luxury goods, refined metals and supplies/armaments. They'll ignore you if you only produce ores, food and consumer goods. They'll raid your trade fleets if you produce anything else. Only way to get them to stop is to do something similar to them, need a high ranking Tri-Tach contact to seal the deal.
Ludd Church becomes a problem if you have farming or light industry. They start off as a bonus to stability, but then the knights get involved. Fight or talk to their leaders.
Sindar Diktat only cares about fuel production. 4+ causes them to freak out.
Pathers and Hegemony are well known.
>s-mods insulated engines
>trivializes stealth, detection, non-combat phase ships, balanced fleet building, salamander spam, and an entire campaign layer strategic consideration
psssh... nothing personnel
>have heggie commission
>go to war with the askonia rebels and guerilla-war astroid ambush their fleets
>realize 80% of their women I capture are virgins
what's rsdev's logic in this, are they like that girl in 1984? no time for casul sex, saving their pussi for the supreme lion himself? not complaining btw
Are the virginity rates different by faction?
They can be. Default is 0.5. Sindrian Diktat is not modified.
Have you checked your lunalib settings? There's a flat modifier to rates, but that goes for all factions. Default is 0.
Why do you use this mod? It's not properly visible-source, the "source" . zip contains a compiled .jar.
Have fun getting pwned.
what portrait mod is that i need it for a friend
Ok, so at 16 points a month, it'll take 24 months to reach 600 points for the Persean League to do something other than "patrol" my systems. I already stole their Pristine Nanoforge. Guess I'll go exploring for a couple years while I wait.
>you can auto-resolve against the ziggurat
Nani?!
Sorcery.
Yeah, ever since you forgot to turn off dev-mode.
But I don't even have console command mod?
console command doesn't turn devmode on or off
your settings file does
>(force auto resolve)
>[0.96a] Force Auto Resolve (v0.1.0)
You have this mod.
I don't have that mod. Could any of these be the culprit?
Forgot my mods.
More Military Missions, it has Force Auto Resolve as part of it's package.
Well, that solves that mystery.
Do you guys use fleet size by dp? Does it work with the current version of the game?
Yes.
Who cares, alex isn't done hotfixing it yet.
>survey a few planets
>convert survey data into currency
>can buy uaf nanoforges and ore things
Man, the whole keycard shop feels cheesy as hell
>Kaysaar's frontier bundle
kek
>three MILLION good boy points
What does that even contain?
I think it was a few colony items, 1k supplies, 1k machinery and other garbage
lol
Literally who
Ya gotta go back, ya just gotta!
Go back.
Stay there.
Do I really need to put a reckless officer on a shield shunted dominator for it to be useful?
Does RapeSector work with the new UAF patch?
>get rep with the ironshell researcher
Nice, I can just buy all their ships from her without needing to be commissioned
New thread apparently
way too early, noah
he had to make sure he got his OP image bright and early
At least it’s not another UAF marketing thread
yet
You could always post those shitty screencaps of discord logs to make them have another melty. Notice they went much quiet when
got posted
While I find it funny, it is like banging on trash cans, eventually the raccoons show back up. In this case the raccoons are degenerate furry troony homosexuals with anime avatars.
nta but give me enough time, I’ll grab a bunch of their logs. Pic kinda related
they said, unaware that their screencaps are just as cancerous
Falseflagposting is even more cancerous, Black person
Guess it's a good thing I don't do that, homosexual.
We don't sign our posts here.
I mean if you want to admit to being a Black person then sure you can think that's totally the gotcha you think it is.
Ok falseflagger
Noah really trying hard to play pretend again and act like he fits in kek
this place doesn't even need to be raided by usc
you're your own worst enemies already
ok noah
So are Yuni, Ruka and Kween related or something?
Are they Kween's daughters or clones?
>Keep posting Discord screenshots in Ganker.
Absolutely Rent Free. Why do morons care what other morons say?
We don't, they keep trying to pretend they belong here while starting shit about one another.
You know who would never post a thread pages early? Mech pilots.
Thoughts on shield shunt cruisers?
on lowtech? mandatory
on midline? suicide
on hightech? bruh what the frick are you doing
need a name for an alpha core waifu
needs to be a pun on alpha and core
gimme suggestions
Alberta Corallis
Cortana duh
more like c**tana
I just said it has to be a pun on alpha and core
what the frick man
do you not know how to read?
Alpha Coretana, there, solved.
I just named her Alphie Corenelia hours ago
>try out the hades missiles
>no pilot
>put on an eccm package
>almost instantly deletes an onslaught
Haha wtf are these missiles? They're practically hypersonic nukes. There's no way in hell any PD can even shoot them down fast enough
What mod adds that garbage?
Tahlan Shipworks
ECCM, especially when s-modded, is just OP in general when it comes to missiles
ALWAYS I WANNA BE WITH YOU
WHOO BABY THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT
Ok. NOW I'm ready to put up my first colony.
>tfw you have only 1 forge and it's corrupted
aiiee...
You don't actually need that much shit to have a net-neutral colony. If I find an early good low hazard world, I just rush it and administrate it myself. It can cover monthly expenses like a commission, just don't go too overboard until you get enough ships in fleet to deter medium-large hostiles
Can only 1 rare ship spawn in a save with Tahlan Shipworks? The manta ray isn't as fun as I imagined...
yes
but you can find a blueprint for it too
I do love me some taxes
Yeah I never really use the black market so I always get money from the dumb anime hoes
Holy frick this is so miserable. I haven't found a single new blueprint or item in the past several hours. Every system is for some reason empty
Talked to Historians in bars yet? Making donations to them I think makes them provide better opportunities and makes them spawn more often I think.
Thats because blueprints aren't found
they're generated
talk to "flashy dressed" bar people and the historians
MILITARY and UNDERWORLD contacts can also give spawn blueprint locations
Those pesky remnants have been occupying all the good systems with habitable planets
That is unironically true. If you go for yellow/orange suns in medium+ remnant systems you're more likely to find good worlds/loot.
>first invasion
>dummy planet
get fricked homie
>playing with legio enabled
It's like you hate yourself.
So if I give the planet killer to the Pathers, can I can put as many AI cores and forges into my colonies without having to worry about cells?
You can just wait for luddic path event and defeat thier sat bombing fleet
Cells will be disrupted for one cycle or so
only 1 cycle instead of cucking them out permanently? lame
the answer is yes
Is there a way to change the portraits of people in your planets?
WHERE BUCKBREAKER UPDATE?!?!??
Mechs.
>finally found how to enter Knights of Ludd's Nullspace star system
ok that's neat
>it's a literal reference to SOTF
lol
>it's a literal reference to SOTF
Secrets of the frontier? Or is "SOTF" an acronym for something else?
Isn't "nullspace" that shitty phase reskin from that dead Noah mod?
yeah, noah called it nullspace in sylphon but the kol one isnt the same thing
the star system is REALLY cool
>first playthrough in a couple years
>made some decent startup money but didn't find a lot of cruisers yet, fleet is mostly destroyers, half of them D-modded
>getting filtered by a 2 star luddic path bounty
How the frick did I get so bad?
Because you fricking forgot that Frigates are more OP than you might think
But only the hightech ones
lowtech frigs are absolute shit
Well it's d-modded low tech vs d-modded low tech, my fleet is supposedly bigger and yet the first few tries went so badly I haven't launched the game since.
You deserved it for using trash ships
Have you thought about "Getting good"?
Why does tempest have kamikaze drones now
Where is my '2 phase lances can oneshot anything for the next few seconds' buff system
Get fricked oldgay
The concept is neat, but it's another ship system that hurts the ship in AI hands. The only acceptable time to use Termination Sequence is never as you throw away PD in exchange for 1200 energy damage + 500 emp damage. Not only does the AI spamming it tank their own replacement rate, but half the time it's wasted on nothing. I'd replace it with something like the Heron's Targeting Feed.
TS is a system that works better conceptually with Pathers, imagine a refit Pather Shepherd that uses it's drones as kamikaze bricks.
nah i don't wan to talk about mat damon
Goddamn the other thread went to hell fast.
Guess this is what happens when m*dders go full moron.
>2 slow clunky-ass 1,000+ threads
why is this allowed
Trannies are too stupid to understand /vst/
Sad, many such cases.
BUCKBREAKER UPDATE WHEN
NEW THREAD
>new thread
>1.5k replies at in page 9
Frick you and stop lying