WHEN'S THE FRICKING PATCH ALEX?

Sounds fun.
Code that makes it so uf you have UAF installed new aurora gets sat bombarded at the start of a new gsme.

how about buffing the other shield mods instead?

You think that's bad, look at the makeshift shield generator.

90 degree arc, 1.2 efficiency, it saps 20% of your speed, and its upkeep is half your flux. Did I mention it's massively overpriced.

The speed penalty and OP cost far exceed any gains.

If they make the mod actually interesting then sure, but the ESL-tier writing with the laziest, most cut-and-paste npc archetypes imaginable and no coherent fluff to bring it all together, it's somehow a distillation of the worst qualities of weebshit, with none of the personality, or even any original ideas or gimmicks to set it apart from anything else, other than the unjustified, fat-fingered insistence that it is """the""" anime faction.
That most characters are based on or creations of "real people" as per one of the 9 gorillion shithead tips that litter the strings folder, it's hard to like it despite being waifushit because behind each face is probably some enormous homosexual.

The groundwork is competent. Fighters and ships are kinda cool, but it's soulless. It desperately wants to fill the void left when creature went on hiatus, without actually bringing anything new to the table, except for a quest or two.

You mean the dogeza pic? I just made it with AI like I did Sierra's portrait and some other things.

Here's the upscaled (and slightly more nsfw) final version if it strikes your fapncy: https://files.catbox.moe/4ya1eu.png

Kitbashes aren't inherently bad, but %95 of them look like procedurally generated garbage. They don't look like something a desperate spacer cobbled together from drifting hulks to fit a purpose, they explicitly look like they were thrown together in MS Paint just to throw shit at a wall and see what sticks in a purely aesthetic sense.

The Kaffir-Mordenar

the lion's Executor

Excelsior

Make a colony near the core worlds for safety' sake.

Pretty neat, I like the idea of puzzle-light bossfights taking some game mechanics to their natural extreme. I'd install.

Though
>one is a ship that can be permanently phase-cloaked and can leave bombs everywhere, but it has no other weapons, and the only way to beat it is to drag it into its own friendly fire
Sounds like a humongous chore though, and predicated on the AI doing something for you to win. Also, how would it take damage from its own bombs if it's phased out 100% of the time? Is there a way to hardcode damage on phased ships?

Yeah, it’s possible

I hate Legio so much it's unreal. What a fricking prostitute b***h this author is.

No meme drive please. Flares would be way more useful, salamanders were always a pain in the ass for me with that ship specifically. Are the side-mounts there capable of facing forward? If not, I'd say it'd be less low-tech than already existing brawlers because low-tech tends to feature concentrated frontal firepower and the durability to faceroll flimsier ships in an extended slugfest.

well now you have to rape her.

yeah

Sauce of the image?

>https://litter.catbox.moe/rodbq4.png
Where's Ava Nitia lewds?

How it started:
>picrel
How it's going:

There are some mods that add aggresive OP factions, like Hivers or Knights Templar, but they don't do the same "grand invasion" stuff like the dark knights did. I'm not even sure if the Knights Templar have Nex compatibility. There's also the Legio Infernalis from Tahlan Shipworks, but the author's

Good start, but
Sprite alpha channels and dynamic custom faction paintjobs and decals when

I have never even once thought or cared about fighters being the same color as their carrier. I don't really like the precedent this sets as if this should matter at all.

Any way to turn that shit off? I love my mismatched carriers

>Didn't insert it
Completely missed opportunity.

joe the sniffer is sending him to drown in the pacific, very sad stuff

>leaving sierra on some random rock
rude
Have you tried creating a detachement or task force with her ship?

Maybe it's jealousy and mod depicts realistic situation when everybody salty about chad Andrada?

the latest buff to that low tech cap was really unnecessary. it was already good.

>mayasuran navy update adds a victory battleship with a twin avengers and four large mounts
the onslaught is obsolete now

>mayasuran navy update adds a victory battleship with a twin avengers and four large mounts
huh? this been part of ship and weapon pack since forever.

new portraits? Where?

would you kindly, give us the portraits that you made anon?

>new portrait pack unlocked

All the missions are pretty good.
With the only exception being the last mission where you get the Janus device.
That mission really soured my taste.

Boo. Get better material.
Literally.

Clones don't work that way in starsector. Loke is a clone of a long dead domain officer turned pirate, and he's pretty much his own person.
more importantly, permadeath in a game with no ironman mode doesn't really encourage a fun playstyle, it just forces you to saving often.
The ransom thing kind of exists in that you probably just pay off whatever killed you with half your money.
also

Ergo the loss of Skills, Levels, and Experience when waking up in a new body. It's just a justification for the player being able to respawn and not just dying and having to restart all over.

Teleportation by dematerialization and rematerialization is also a moronic idea, yet several ships have phase skimmer systems already

it's a logical extension of the phase system, dipping into p-space, moving forward at higher speeds, then jumping back out of p-space.

For the player? I wouldn't. They don't die, because it's not their time. If you HAD to implement it, I'd say to stick with the plot armor angle set by the game instead of clone frickery.

You should first have checks to survive and escape capture based on things like level, skills, hullmods if relevant. Paying captors for freedom is fine. Even a vengeful faction will have people that don't give a shit. If you get fricked outside the core worlds, you could either make them pay up in story points, or force them to rely on a cryopod. The disadvantage of time passing could be the loss of standing and contacts, loss of EXP, levels and skills in the event of a cryopod malfunction, and the fact that if you're using Nex, entire factions could come to dominate, or your favorite faction could eat shit and you lose.
In this, permadeath could be simply made a player choice by making starting over more enticing, and offering the unique perspective of someone who woke up from stasis and actually gave a shit.

You want the truth? You have to heavily nerf the save system for this to even be slightly effective. It's the same reason why games like Zelda: Breath of the Wild lack challenge. There's no point in dying if you only lose a little bit of progress,. and iron mode is only a small stopgap to fix this.

What should happen is that saving should be a limited resource. You can only do it either on your own colonies (with a special structure that needs to be built) or you need to go to a friendly colony to ask them for permission. This way excursions out of the core worlds will actually be dangerous, and you can't just save scum before a remnant fight, or pirates after you. To add extra difficulty, you could have your save be at risk if the planet becomes decivilized or conquered by an enemy faction.

I don't know, this sounds autistic, but it was something I've been pondering over.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has the infamous 'Saviour Schnapps' system where you can only save when quitting the game or by consuming an in-game item that can be found, bought or crafted through certain methods.

I'm playing through Wild Arms 3 right now and it has something similar called a Gimel Coin. It's interesting because, even though I'm using an emu, it also functions as a restart for certain battles. Wonder if Starsector could have something like that? Lore-wise you can just say that the Janus Device now lets you travel through time.

Limited saves have never made a game more challenging, only more tedious. Trial and error are a necessary part of the experience the way most games (including Starsector) are made, so punishing the "error" means also punishing the "trial", so you just don't want to engage in it - either to avoid errors completely (autistic super-safe playstyle) or to avoid the boring grind of rectifying the consequences of punishment for errors ("uuugh yeah I can frick up that Remnant fleet, but it'll put me back like third of my cash and 5 SP, so I just won't").

Making Starsector a game where "there are serious consequences for not thinking things through and fricking up" will just mean a game where you actively avoid most of the combat (the core gameplay element) unless you can guarantee massive success with certainty. And the only way the existing combat system allows you to guarantee success with certainty is having a bigger and better armed fleet - so the optimal approach would be just making cash while not fighting anything until you have a massive fleet, at which point you do begin fighting things that are definitely way weaker than you. An anti-fun playstyle.

A better option would be not punishing savescumming, but rather tracking saves and providing players with additional rewards for winning fights with no saveloading. Like, you still get all the same money and loot from beating a bounty, but if there's a special tracker initiated when you pick up a mission and you didn't save/load once though it - you get a hullmod that adds a cool graphical decal to your flagship for bragging rights, and which is also occasionally used in dialogues, like high-profile NPCs recognizing that "you're that motherfricker who killed X" .

>How would you implement Permadeath
>for NPCs
Impossible without branching storyline, only solution is mission failure reloading the start of the mission

>Officers
They die and you have to hire a new one, next.

>Player
Iron-mode, if you are sadistic you erase the last save game if he die.

also:
>Permadeath
>SP/clones as extra live
Don't you see an error here?
All you did is reinvent "limited respawn" and it doesn't work unless you remove savegame

Ergo the loss of Skills, Levels, and Experience when waking up in a new body. It's just a justification for the player being able to respawn and not just dying and having to restart all over.

Teleportation by dematerialization and rematerialization is also a moronic idea, yet several ships have phase skimmer systems already

>clone
NTA but it's a very cheap plot device
"skill loss" don't even begin to describe how far fetched it is to transfer every single memory from a body to another. If you have the technology to do so, then you inevitably have the technology to emulate an human being inside a computer, thereby achieving immortality & transcendence, or cheap clone army.
That's how you break a setting.

Schlock Mercenary webcomic do it properly though.

You sick frick. Get the frick out of here.

That's the ring finger though. The Eradicator is the other hand too

>good-looking kitbashes
no such thing

Is it actually a worthwhile challenge, or just meme-tier annoying trash like cabal?
If it's going to become the central focus of my next run whether I want it to or not, I'm not gonna bother with it

imagine remnant ai fleet but painted as pirates
and stronger

Seafood Shipworks is pretty good.

>Anon goes on a raping spree of the IRS
>all become bawds
>leak the footage sector-wide
>people will no longer pay their taxes and proceed to fantasize about fricking high ranking female officers

go ahead and have your fun with her, but be responsible and don't forget to BUTCHER afterwards

Remnant

There's nothing better than connecting an AI to an android body then raping it.

>Primarily, this is a system that interacts with slipstreams. In brief, those are temporary passages in hyperspace that can make travel much, much faster and enormously more fuel-efficient. One of the problems, though, is that it can be a little hard to plan for – there are some general indicators of where they are and where they might take you (i.e. the direction they travel in is seasonal, you can use the Neutrino Detector ability to find them, and so on), but I think for a lot of players, that doesn’t quite add up to being “enough” to make slipstreams as useful as I’d like them to be.
>to make slipstreams as useful as I’d like them to be.
>as useful

Mmm, slipstreamghetti

Not sure which of the flagships I like more. The Rebellion is cool for alot of reasons, but the fleetship with the huge shield is really cool too.

Would also like to ask for a solution. Women should not be captain.

They're generally boring, midlines are okay to meh, they really don't have much of a presence.
They're not THE LAW, they aren't MAN MADE HORRORS BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION, they don't have EL PRESIDENTE, they don't LUDDU ACKBAR. They're just there...

>But why does everyone seem to outright ignore the Persean League?
Because it's the poor man's Hegemony.
It even has a Pristine Nanoforge. And even that makes barely anyone care about it.

Isnt she a system admin and doesnt actually show up on space fights?

>start as any faction you want
>you can invade planets
>piss someone off and they'll send beefed up sixth sense fleet after you
>you can mine asteroids and planets (useless)
>you can use agents to frick shit up covertly
>adds alliances that don't really matter
>you can and will get shafted by random relationship events
>adds a cool neutral port with glitchy software update
>most importantly: adds "skip story"

drowns the sector in gigafleets

fine as long as you frick with some of the settings to make invasions less frequent
might slow down your game if you have a toaster, make sure to change the vmparams to give the game more ram

as any faction you want
By this Anon actually means that you start 'Commissioned' as part of the faction, not that you control the faction itself as if they were your colonies.

you can start as the governor of mayasura with a custom start, it's as close to "owning" a faction that isn't the player faction that you can get

all my homies hate nia
they STINK

use ebiciencyoberhual. Pretty much standard issue hullmod for me.
I can easily last one and a half year outside of core worlds without colony and keep the mercs and only go back to either dock for logi hullmod of new ships or more crew if I didn't start with enough.

nope, you've got a couple months at least

based
>venture variant
I'm going to be using this a lot my next playthrough when that update comes out I feel.

In a game full of beautiful sci-fi weapons and ships, even moreso with faction mods, I find it hard to play as the faction that exclusively uses crusty-ass boxes of metal and rust. At least with the pirates, you can reasonably justify using pretty much any type of ship by simply being a wealthy pirate.

I've destroyed more Remnants and israelitetach property than every Luddite warrior in history combined.

>why isn't there a quest to crash orbital station into Gilead?
I'd rather launch Galatia Academy into the sun

Enjoy your save bloat

No, just explore more

it's ambiguous about if they're decanting and recycling vegetables from failed pods, or if they're killing still-revivable people. otherwise no, that's it.

>Bothering with esports balance in a single player game (where vanilla already gives you shit that breaks the game in two)
They are pretty strong but nowhere as bullshit as some mods get. Besides, what's the point of installing mods that don't add anything that can compete vs vanilla?
Also there is already a precedent with mod that explicitly makes ship better for same DP with 14th battlegroup ships, so I don't see an issue if it's within reason.

they are okay midline ship faction with some very good ships, who atleast put up a fight against the hegemony (and win sometimes) unlike the Persean league guys. i wish it was basically an overhaul of the vanilla PL

It is awful and the magic spawning doomstack shit is lame. Will not be in my next run, nor will yuri expedition with its needless animoo.

Dogshit, modders that ruin vanilla writing should be shot on sight

>At the very least, population should be a tracked market quantity instead of an vague abstraction with every stable colony hitting size 6 eventually. For example, it should be impossible for fresh player colonies to get past size 4 / tens of thousands without some major externalities, like a size 6 independent world decivilizing, refugees fleeing and resettling to other worlds, or a cryosleep tray being found nearby.
This looks like lesser inconsistency compared to sector not going extinct due to space warfare mortality, reaching many thousands per capital low tech encounter many of which happen every week. This makes hegemony, luddic church and path, pirates etc look like they employ large quantities of African warfare style expendable child soldiers to crew their ships.

But memes aside it's a good idea except it will probably make game performance shit itself.

Rape

fighters have sucked ass since the last skill overhaul, just shoot them with some guns

otherwise claws are the best. they won't kill other fighters on their own but they're durable and an ion hit on a fighter means it's harmless and very easy to hit for larger ships

some people like wasps but they're completely awful at anything other than trading with other fighters

I could ask you the exact same thing considering you flew off the handle because someone used the troony word.

I don't see you confronting any root causes honestly. Starsector is a great game, but I don't see how it warrants this much emotional investment when you're discussing mechanics or gameplay.

Why does it trigger you so much when strangers on the internet disagree with you? Why do you need to immediately ramp up the aggression and insults on the first breath, and bring up bogeymen from different sites, political ideologies, or orientations in a non-sequitur way?

Only by engaging in critical self-reflection, confronting why you feel or act in self-destructive ways, can you begin claiming yourself outside of a bad spell in your life.

Why do you feel the need to place yourself in the context of some struggle or war against the modtrannies? Does it give a modicum of positive feeling; of regaining control or power, when you 'win' against them in arguments about videogames online?

Oftentimes, this sort of lashing out or aggression or misplaced tribalism for a nonsensical fight or conflict indicates a sense of powerlessness and agency in real life.
I'm guessing you come from lower socioeconomic strata, and don't have much achievements or credentials.

high doses of estrogen are associated with manic episodes

Why do you feel the need to exert some sort of faux-elitism or ingroup exclusion on the modtroony bogeymen on here? Ganker blueboards are hardly that inaccessible or esoteric, compared to altchans or places you can get to with TOR.

Is it because you've been so excluded and alienated in most of your life, in school, at work, or general society, that you feel the compulsion to exert yourself in such a way? To be in the other side of the table for once?

It's about getting to the core of this knot of personal problem and unhealthy obsession with modders and trannies through reflection, tbh. Of course, you'll get a full read on a person based on a few sentences online, but the strong emotional responses indicate that there are deeply troubled individuals who would benefit to challenging their own perceptions and questioning why they act out or sperg in certain situations, or confronted and challenged in certain ways.

Regardless, a couple of posters seem deeply troubled, likely stemming from unsatisfaction or lack of personal agency in their day-to-day lives. Enough that they're jumping at the bit ready to go on a crusade against trannies or mod authors the moment a random person online disagrees with them.

I don't even know these Nia tals or Varyas or whatever that seem to have wronged them so badly, but it's' obviously been compounded onto existing trauma and unhealthy fixations from their real lives.

Holy baiteronni
That aside, i disagree an onslaugh eating half a fleet worth of missiles and trucking on is just on par with a paragon tanking every ship on the battle with stabilized shields. Capitals are strong as they should be.

You forgot to say: Rape is bad

The onslaught is fine, nerf paragon.

Low tech is in moronic place where it's still not worth using by player in serious encounters because it relies on finite non-regenerating armor and missiles, and enemy has much more of those than player, but at the same time it's fricked to fight against due to sheer amount of hit points everything has, forcing you into radical metahomosexualry if you want to kill that hegemony fleet before you have to go to sleep.
I think main thing that should be nerfed is amount of officers with elite damage control available to AI fleets. Without that shit it's not a problem.

Just spam Tempests, what more do you need?

rape