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I realized I got it all wrong. Everything is working (nearly) as intended. The game was never supposed to be about going from a merc to a warlord like Mount&Blade with light 4x elements but about ponderous fleet battles and excuses for getting into them. The counter-intuitively abstracted economy, constant expedition spam and lack of faction interaction exist purposely to deliver constant massive battles to the player's door step.

This game actually sucks and not just because it's nowhere near finished.

>>15788944

And honestly, as a player that loves the game, I'm getting seriously tired of massive battles that I can only deploy 3 ships in against 30 enemy frigates. It's very tiring always being outnumbered despite spending hours fixing up and supplying a massive fleet of my own

>>15788944

>>15788947

I mean I'm still wandering about in the vulturing and smuggling phase while avoiding combat like the plague so I haven't experienced that. Do the main factions ever run out of resources to throw at you?

>>15788965

I doubt it, it seems the enemies have CR to abide by, but not supplies or fuel. And really the main factions haven't thrown anything at me yet, it's the pirates. I could handle a decent fleet of them since they usually roll with D-mod ships, but the numbers have just become too much for me to do even the simplest of fights now.

>>15788983

That. That's what I'm talking about. And I've got a bigger fleet than what you're rolling with there. I'd only be bale to deploy 3 of those against all those pirate ships at once. How is that even remotely fair or fun?

>>15788995

The pirate ships don't all deploy at once, they reinforce as they take losses. Also, check the reinforcement tab throughout the fight, sometimes it goes up for seemingly no reason (which is BS).

Also, you can retreat and eat the redeployment CR penalty if your ships are all past peak operating time.

>>15789004

It's not broken at all.

>>15789004

I'm playing it pirated and its working just fine

>>15789055

Even if they don't deploy them all at once, they still get to field WAY more than I do. I was doing this for hours last night, and every time I'd be up against at least 4 venture-class cruisers at once, not to mention all the Buffalo cruisers and smaller frigates. It's absolutely fucked.

>>15789099

They should add up to the same deployment point value as what you get.

I will admit that the 30-ship cap on you, but not on AI is SHIT.

>>15789112

Damn you for giving me hope I know isn't there, anon. Guess I'll try fighting piracy on the Westernesse front again.

>>15789099

You can deploy additional ships if you lose them duringb the fight.

>>15789123

I know, but I'd rather not lose my battlecruiser to five frigates because I can't deploy anything to back it up

>>15789099

You can still deploy more ships if previous ones are destroyed

You can still deploy more ships if you manually order ships that are mostly wasting points to replace them for more ships with CR

You can literally go into the files and modify the fleet limit along with commander limits ALONG with planet limits

>>15789132

>You can literally go into the files and modify the fleet limit along with commander limits ALONG with planet limits

Perhaps my favorite feature of the game, is that I can fix my issues with it.

>>15789137

The only thing I haven't been able to understand is how modifiers work for stuff like commanders skills, hence why even if I have my commander limit raised I can't manually fit them into ships and have to use the "assign idle officers" button

>>15789198

You can manually assign them. You do it from the Refit screen.

>>15789198

>>15789212

Click at the portrait, you dingalings

>>15789222

No you dumbasses I mean that I modified the files to have the max limit of commanders increased but I don't know how to change the skill that increases your limit in-game so you can have more commanders than allowed but you can't technically asign them by conventional methods because the commander skill in itself doesn't allows you.

Like, you can find commanders in random events even if you already have the max allowed but it won't let it assign them. Jesus

>>15788983

This is what you get for leaving survivors

>>15788944

I'm not sure what you're talking about because M&B is a lot less deep than this game, but Starsector also has better combat than M&B. I've played M&B for ages and this game feels like what M&B should have been, but it's still rough around the edges. Fortunately as others have mentioned it's really easy to mod. I have hope that the game will be a tight experience by 1.0, the dev seems to give a shit at least.

>see bitching about paragon

>melt niggers with my 2 tritac lances and plasma cannons

In might switch back to onslaught becasue there is something enjoyable about hull tanking shots.

i believe in you steelcladsfag dont give up

>>15789736

>not 4 t.lances for butter melting

Lmao

>>15789751

>>15789842

I like the plasma cannon utility. I feel like it Beats on shields better.

I'm getting bored fighting the never ending bullying from the other factions and destroying terrorists bases, is there anything else to fight?

>>15789996

Go into a red beacon sector, have fun

>>15789909

Who gives a shit? You use hypervelocity drivers to increase their flux, let them shoot at you a little, then you fuck their shit up with 10k tachyon lance salvo and before they dissipate that, you finish them with another. They can't do shit because they get all disabled, too.

>>15790017

already explored those places, just need to explore 1/4 of the galaxy and im done.

Already did the red planet miniquest and gave a home to the sleeping domain citizens

>>15790087

Where do I find the domain niggers?

>>15790087

Already took out the nexus station?

>>15788902

Not a 4x at all.

Player faction mechanics are swallow af and a completely missed opportunity.

>>15790359

>from what I've seen and there's absolutely no life to the world.

Traders are flying from colony to colony, patrols are patroling, scavengers are hanging out for a while, then vanishing. Nobody talks to you, but you can see others doing something.

>Trade in your own colony and pay tariffs, take resources from said colonies and pay 50x their value come end of month.

Taking from local stockpiles always costs you the base price of that commodity, perhaps you're just using fucktons of it and/or aren't used to taking so much of it at once.

>Have said colonies absolutely decked out in every way possible and their fleets still use ramshackle shit instead of those supposedly hard earned unlocked ships. The hell?

Do you have heavy industry/orbital works (the place where your colonies get their ships from, and not scraps from other factions) AND learned blueprints (so that these industries have something interesting to build)?

>>15790252

Its not a bar quest? Well fuck.

>>15790416

No, I think the only legit bar quest is the red planet one, after that you can find a few drone motherships, the cryogenics that basically give your colony a population boost, then you can also find a nexus starport in some red remant sector which is basically a harder to kill full built high-tech station

>>15790456

While I do agree with some of your points the world is definetly not dead, yeah outside of core sectors you won't see much action but in core systems the AI is almost always in conflict with eachother and if you side with some side you'll have to relentlessly fight the others.

Yes, the game lacks some stuff but for all I care it isn't done yet, also it lands the starfights pretty well, some balance may be needed but outside of that ships are not shit unlike shit like Starpoint Gemini 2 where it barely has squad tactics and you can't have more than a few ships around with a completely empty universe and meh combat.

>>15790456

>Bullshit. I took ~500 crewmen and around 300 fuel and it tallied ~300.000 at the end of the month. Tried several times and it always was 100k-400k. Tried buying and with tariffs it's less then 50k.

Weird. It's cheaper for me to take stuff from local stockpiles than to buy it on the market. This sounds like a bug, since unless you have perpetual excess of these commodities on your worlds, they should sell for about the average price.

>>15790478

Not to mention not paying for it until it is actually done means it's no hair off of anyone's head.

>>15790542

>The same fights where fighters and worse bombers and even worse yet carriers charge to their death? And yes, before you ask some condescending question the carriers are exclusively equipped with long range weaponry so no PD even and almost all bombers fly by over his ship even after expending their load.

Someone hasn't used all the game features.

>>15790542

>I can't go into config files and change the map size myself

You don't even need to know how to code you useless nig, I'm not shilling it, I'm just saying that your opinion is shit if you even consider SG2 good despite the fact its a worse offender of the shit you just whined about

>>15790589

I'm honestly waiting for more player-ai interaction, the other anon says "the world" is dead, which isn't true but I would understand why he feels like that, factions and in general barely have interaction with you, like the rep bar with individual characters, do they even fill a role right now?

>>15790633

I think it would be nice if you could consume positive favor for individual characters by "asking a favor" primarily to raise your reputation in the faction they belong to but perhaps certain ones could hook you up with free supplies or to be ignored by security.

>>15790646

Also the whole expedition fleets need to be looked at, I don't think it's something bad to happen, but you should be able to either send fleets as well or create cells like luddics or pirates to lower stability, maybe have a special building for it

>>15790633

>the world" is dead, which isn't true

Mate I don't think there's another space game in existence with a more dead world than this one.

>>15790633

>edge of sector

>retarded and need fuel

>tons of scavs but don't want to engage because that would harm reputation

There needs to be a jammer skill with upgrades that allow you to blockade entire star systems during bombardments, or just eliminate fleets in remote areas without harm to your reputation.

I also want to be able to build faction traps in star systems.

>everybody hates luddfags

>everybody is getting attacked by luddfags

>glassing them is a war crime

Gay as fuck.

Hostile factions shouldn't bitch when a third party exterminates their opponent.

>>15790662

There's an unused tab in the command center after you get a lvl 3 patrol base.

>>15790674

You know what pisses me off about luddfags? That their base can't be found just like the pirate ones, you have to either come across it or get the bounty which usually just gives them time to grow and be an annoyance.

>>15790387

>Do you have heavy industry/orbital works (

Dont forget nanoforge looted from systems with remnants

Only this way your colonies can produce high tech ships

>>15788947

Open \starsector-core\data\config\settings.json with a text editor, ctrl+f for maxbattlesize, set it to like 1000, then in game go to settings and drag the battle size all the way up.

Size 600+ battles make the game bog down because java lmao so I just turn on autopilot for the first half of the battle until framerates become playable

>>15791016

I haven't tried that yet so thanks for telling me, I'm running this really cheaty-casul modified game that yields stupids amounts of debris just to fuck around in the game.

Also accidentally made all ships have 5 d-mods at 95% quality

>>15791188

When you try to remove an Alpha core admin after it has been in place for awhile, a dialog pops up explaining that the thing is missing and there is a transmission from it.

Basically its not happy you're trying to remove it as an admin and if you push for removal it goes rogue in your system, a stability debuff like luddics and pirates.

Not sure what happens after that.

>>15788902

So, kinda like Space Rangers but with no content.

It's literally No Mans Sky level of boring. Why it's being shilled here so hard?

>>15791308

Star fortresses are protected by minefields. Mines are part of why tier three stations are so scary, and they only show up when fighting tier three stations or the Doom.

>>15791332

That is, ALL tier three stations have mines. The high tech one has a fancy mine teleporter, the low and mid tech ones just have passive minefields.

>>15791348

Huh just read on them being designed. I guess there was just a few spots my fleet didn't eat them all and I kinda floated into it?

>>15791389

Unless you hate advancing in the game everyone uses officers for battle skills, your main character is mostly for the industry perks and the ones for planet administration, extra ordinance and extra fleet speed.

You know, all the shit that does matter

>>15790206

what is that?

>>15791442

Is the game actually good at this point?

Are you guys having fun?

Since you guys are talking about it so much it seems so right?

>>15791389

>>15791442

>>15791475

Yeah I just recently maxed out the entire industry tree/discipline/skillset and now I'm wondering what to get into next. Some of the tech abilities seem really neat but the fleet bonuses in leadership seem good. I've yet to find or hire an officer, but I haven't looked very hard either.

>>15791588

It's alright. Lots of bugs and enough things missing to make me not want to pay money for it anytime soon but it's at least worth your time.

>>15791572

Why do you have so many Mules?

>>15791588

It was fun for a couple of days, and was enough to satisfy my autism for another week. There's not actually very much content yet, I'll probably stop playing it soon.

>>15791588

>Are you guys having fun?

its fun, for a while, but it gets old fast when you need to protect your damn main colony from other factions and you have seen all the types of planets and shit in space.

>>15791588

It's an autism simulator, at least from my side I haven't seen an actual good space game since dunno, fucking Startrek Broken Mirror or something like that.

But like others said a shitload of times while being called shills, the game is unfinished and has a lot of issues everyone is aware of, we just manage to overlook them and keep playing.

>>15791605

Because recovery, now I'll get a real fleet

>>15791605

>>15791644

Mules are delicious for smuggling though, at least if they're the pirate kind; I have three of them.

>>15791752

More trees, randomized trees, trees unlocked by item drops. There's a lot of things this game could do pretty easily to be more entertaining.

>>15791725

The trees should be tracked independently so you aren't forced to give up one tree for another. You could get combat xp based on how much you fight while in control of a ship, logistics from commanding or doing shit with the fleet, science from fighting remnants and surveying ruins, and production from trading, salvaging, and managing colonies.

I had so many hopes for this thing, and the combat is legitimately fun, but the dev autistically tweaks numbers to no effect all day long and will never get anywhere close to this being a finished game. Do some melees and quit, it doesn't get any better despite it looking like there's more beneath the surface.

>>15791855

This would be good anon, it removes most of the downsides but not all of them.

>>15791752

Problem is the game is balanced around you not instantly having lvl 100. I don't want it to be easy and i don't want my ships to magically have stronger guns, faster bullets and faster engines than 90% of the AI ships in the game, but i also don't want my bullets to be magically slower than a random other ship i run into.

Rather all ships and weapons just have their stats set, with no skill bullshit. AI commanders should only improve through their AI, maybe as they level up giving them less errors per minute, and you pick whether to increase aggression, defensiveness, etc each level up.

>>15791588

I'm in just for the combat. If you don't like Starsector's combat, then it's not really a good idea to play it.

>>15790359

>yuv444

STARSECTOR

WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?

SJW trash. Dropped.

>>15791725

>im bored of this profession, it's time to do something else in my 40 hour playthough

Unless you spent all these 40 hours in hobo phase, there really isn't a point. What's the challenge if you're rich anyway? What's the danger, if you can just instantly reacquire everything that you lost? It's better to restart even if you could respec or there were no skills.

>>15791989

exblainings pls

>>15792000

It's being developed by a SJW dev team. If you give them money you support white genocide.

>>15792013

damn

now I feel retarded

>>15792101

>Have no idea what to do with nanoforges and blueprints

It literally says "right click this" in the description.

>>15789512

That should be in the starsector-core, character folder, skills. IIRC, you should be able to open the .json files with notepad easily.

>>15789736

I'm making progress. I think I can make the whole thing work without EZFaction or Nexerillien (so standalone), but that means I have to generate all the systems and details, and for all the factions in the mod that takes time simply to type/code.

>>15791685

Perhaps he prepares major update with trannies and cuckoldry.

>>15792013

explain this you reddit spacing faggot or get out

>>15792186

this

I got 2 astral carries without d mods, hardened stabilized shields and each with 3 wings of dagger torpedo bombers, 1 wing of longbow bombers and 2 wings of warthog fighters.

Both ships have 0.32 and 0.41 flux/dam ratio.

I got two defensive commanders operating them, with almost all strike command skills.

Plus some support ships that I can fit in 30 points left.

And they are too scared to tank ludd path base with their shields, can't engage without losing formation, losing all their fighters for no reason, TURNING SHIP'S BACKS TO FUCKING STATION AND GET FUCKED TO THE ENGINES, almost don't use their ability to teleport fighters back to the ship, and don't launch them simultaneously with other carriers to overcome station's point defense.

>>15792771

Even on easy luddic path bases will dunk on Astrals, you need way more than just two astrals to crack those.

>>15792771

why the fuck are you giving astrals wartogs

warthogs are fucking slow and bombers line up in formation now, so they're fucking slowing down your whole bomber strike

and the astrals don't use the recall device because warthogs are assault fighters and want to stay in

astrals are for BOMBERS ONLY

and the astrals don't want to go in because even a shitty station has 300% rangeboost and astrals are too slow to back off to vent, give them some tanky cruiser or capital support

>>15792771

>using carriers to tank

Carriers regardless of size can get easily overwhelmed, get high armor ships, I used to get a dominator modded for tanking + commander with all damage reduction skills. If you really want to tank it all you could also try getting something with fortress shield like the monitors.

>had onslaught in nexarellin game

>would just burn into the middle of ebemy formations and just watch and the plethora of gunstrashed everything

>enemy frigates and small destroyers not fast enough to get out of that way when I hit burn drive would just get smeared on the front of my ship

Only issue was vs stations but besides that its armor could just shrug off anything. Heavy armor, reinforced bullkeds, blast doors. Bam, tank god.

unless the enemy has emp, then its a bad time

>>15792771

Retard, you need to diversify your firepower.

Warship caps and cruisers should be your main tank for stations, destroyers and frigates can help but they need to be agile or able to take serious bursts of abuse.

If you want carriers with minor tank, Moras have a dampening field but will eventually be overwhelmed by sustained firepower/EMP.

Depending on the station, Herons may be a better choice of carrier since they can boost fighter damage but they are far more fragile. Getting focused by a star fortress will shred them pretty quick.

>>15792835

Armor cruisers might be fine for lowtech and midline but hightech stations will disable them quickly. Apogees seem to generally be a better choice with their high flux cap, strong shields and large energy hardpoint.

>>15792013

>SJW dev team

its one fucking person, but he did ban crusader memes from the forums for being offensive so maybe you have a point.

>>15793138

Yeah, planet admins are just a moneysink until you get alpha cores to use as administrators

>>15793376

Depends on an administrator. I had one with Fleet Logistics and Industrial Planning, he easily doubled profits of my capital. I didn't have any skills, though, so that may influence things. In 500k, 25k is still a drop

>>15792060

>>15793215

>>15792042

If I remember right he banned some guy that made a "space nazis" faction mod.

>>15795373

The mod is still there and the guy isn't banned. He made him remove stuff from the mod, though and wa a cunt to me when I questioned him about it.

Aight downloaded a dumb amount of mods except nexerelin one because it isn't updated

>>15796224

It's a mod. MOD.

It's insane to even consider the game developer responsible.

And even more insane that fictoinal space natzi's are evil.

>>15797280

You can edit them out pretty easily, fyi.

>>15797280

The sector is, lore-wise, a backwater shithole. Of course there aren't any whites in the space ghetto. The Hegemony is a cargo cult, the Sindrian Dictat is an oil-based sandnigger dictatorship, the Luddic Church is space Africa, the Persean League are lolbertarian 56% ancaps, and the Tri-Tach are literally kikes. Starsector is the tale of what happens when the subhumans are cut off from the whites they parasitize.

>>15797318

Even given that, nigs maintaining even basic spaceships is absolutely retarded.

This may be one of my favorite games ever, but it has it's issues.

>>15797327

No, see, they just force the whites and/or cubans to do it for them. https://archive.fo/EmJzy

>>15796002

that isn't much of a defense, looks like >>15792013 is right and giving money to these fucks isn't worth it. still looks worth pirating though.

>>15797412

>Say what you will about Nazis

They were great!

>>15797412

Mechanicus where? I like it though.

>>15797557

Salvaging already is the best source of income, what do you want to buff?

>>15797557

I think I modified too much shit and started getting huge debries fields that lagged out every time I salvaged it because of how many resources it had, I think I fucked something up.

Still it wasn't only that, I modified a lot of stuff to make it casual as shit since I wanted to try some stuff out but got bored because of it, so I'm going back to the basics.

>>15797569

Not him but are you referring to research station/habitat/etc salvaging, or post-battle salvage? Because the latter barely gives enough to cover the cost of the machinery

>>15797600

Post battle salvage isn't intended to be profitable. It's intended to give you slightly fewer supplies than it costs to deploy an equivalent force of ships, to incentivize under-deploying and winning anyway through superior piloting and commanding ability.

>>15797600

The former.

>>15797628

Hm. I wonder how viable is it to be a pirate in this version. I may check it later.

Great I'm getting the fatal string issue again, fuck me for trying to be a casul

>>15797637

It's viable. Use cheap d-modded ships to pick off merchant caravans that can barely fight back, go fast enough to outrun patrols, and sell the booty at the places your piracy is causing shortages in. Alternatively you can run drugs and supplies to pirate stations, as they're hostile to everyone and thus constantly starved for basic commodities.

>>15797649

Is that the one where the game crashes if you try to get details on an accepted mission? I'm getting that too, and I have no idea what caused it or how to fix it.

>>15797637

Using d-moded ships isn't as bad as people say it is, you get a lot of leeway for deploying ships. Thats why usually you have those ludden faggots deploying shit-tier ships and overwhelming you with numbers

>>15797694

No, it was the one you get after installing the game and getting a "fatal:string" when replacing the starfarer file, I have no idea what the fuck happens but I uninstalled it and installed it again and now it works.

>>15797724

Shit. I've gotten "fatal:null, check starsector.log" from the Intel screen. I actually just got it again, this time trying to scavenge a debris field, which is a first.

>>15797685

>run drugs

That's what I've been doing and it's quite profitable but it's made the persean league suspicious of me. What's the best way to grind reputation? I would say bar quests but I don't find a whole lot in their turf for some reason. Hegemony love me since there's no profitable smuggling route near them and I do an occasional bar quest for them, so it added up over time. I'm also trying to become actually friendly with pirates just for something to do/self-made goal. I've been chipping away at it by accepting "need X" missions for them when it is convenient.

>>15797750

Oh yeah I also got that bug from time to time, its a constant reminded that I must constantly save because fuck me if I have any idea of why it happens

>>15797831

Missions and bounties are the most reliable way of gaining reputation outside of a commission. IIRC it's 5 rep for a scanning or surveying mission if you're lower than 15 rep, 3 for a bounty kill, and 3 for every system bounty kill. You could wait for a system bounty to show up in a Persean League system and hunt down a bunch of pirate fleets for 3 rep a pop, but of course this will tank your pirate rep.

>>15797858

Finally got my pirate rep up from -80 to -70 I think so that one isn't an option. I will have to try scanning I guess.

>>15797840

Fuck, I seem to be getting it now just by flying around, which is bad news for my save file. I don't even know what to look around for in starsector.log to see if I can fix anything.

This also begs the question, why the fuck is the default option for saving/quicksaving an overwrite? Why do I have to hit "Save Copy" first, then hit Save to get a separate file? What kind of braindead system is that?

Friendly reminder to get the autosave mod from the forums. It's just a reminder and doesn't actually auto-save, but it's saved me many hours of pain.

>>15797959

You must be actually retarded if you can't remember to hit f5 every while and need a notification to remind you

>>15798060

Buying them from planets. Buying them from military planets. Having a faction commission and buying them from the middle tab on military planets. Making a colony and custom-ordering them. The black market. RNG derelict salvage. Salvaged from the enemy after a battle.

Take your pick

>>15798060

>get comission

>raise rep

>buy top-tier ship

>fuck off to another faction

>rinse and repeat

>>15798060

>I've not found anywhere that sells ships

Literally every outpost in the game sells ships. Ones with larger populations tend to sell bigger ships, and military worlds will sell you mil-grade ships if you have rep with them.

>>15798060

Have you heard of your lord and saviour, the hotkey "F"?

>>15798414

OH SHIT IT'S A GHOST

>>15798427

>>15798414

that's scary as shit.

>>15798571

cicadas are harmless unless they mistake you for a tree

>>15798954

Building heavy industry, light industry, refining, and fuel production on a 200% hazard planet is a terrible idea. Find a nice 100%, 150% maximum, to build your high-upkeep industries on.

>>15798954

Below average, but could technically be worse. Next time don't found a colony until you have at least 2-3 beta cores and a nanoforge, in addition to the synchotron core. And wait until you find a lower hazard percentage planet. And make sure it has farming or at least a higher-tier amount of ruins. Actually if I'm quite honest, it's pretty bad. A small bonus to ore production doesn't nearly make up for missing entire industries or that 200%

>>15798983

>>15798970

Well, at least it is profitable. Once I build back up I can make another, better colony. I made this colony while drunk and poured all my finances directly into it.

Fuggin revenant blows my dick clean out of my anus. Is there some secret to beating them more reliably or is it just one of those situations where you gotta bring more guys to the field? My current battle fleet has XIV legion Onslaught, TWO capital ships from ORA (one capital ship and one capital carrier) and two eagle XIV legion medium frigates.

I can take down pretty much any fleet I come across along with the toughest of space stations but revenant fleets still regularly fuck me up even when I'm trying to be strategic n' shit.

>>15799025

Field more bombers. Remnants are highly mobile and will rotate in and out to vent flux, so slow gunship heavy fleets will get memed on. The Radiant especially will just alpha strike your capitals and then phase skim out while laughing if you can't chase it down. Depending on how high your battle size is, you need 2 to 3 herons filled with bombers to alpha strike them down when they get high on flux; I prefer to load them up with 1 Longbow 2 Dagger wngs.

>>15798060

Scaving till I have a ton of Moras, then setting up a colony that shits out all the good stuff from all the blueprints I've amassed.

>>15797831

>What's the best way to grind reputation?

Bounties. Fuck pirates.

>>15796002

Do you have the original?

>>15799075

The ORA Carrier can host up to 8 slots for fighters. Are revenant bombers pretty good? I like using ships that don't cost crew members. That or high survivability fighters. I'm using the Diable Avionics mod as well because having mech fighers is RAD AS FUCK and I think they're supposed to be pretty gud.

>>15797412

How can you add portraits? I want some waifus as pilots and admins

>>15799104

How fast are they? Are Revenants the ORA Antimatter bombers? If so, they're slow and won't work. You want fast bombers.

>>15799114

I've collected lots fighters/bombers. What is your quint essential fast strike bomber?

>>15798954

>only 2 fucking resourses

you fucked up

>>15799123

From vanilla? Daggers or Khopeshes. From mods? The DME Damselfly, the SRA Raksasha, the SCY Ker.

>>15799207

Meant for >>15798954

Sorry

>>15799207

Also, >>15799259 webm is for myself, I hastily picked it and thought it was the tropic thunder clip.

>>15799346

If you can slip by the remnants and colonize that planet, its free real estate

Remnants won't attack your planet and act as free security against pirates/raid fleets

>>15799259

If you place a colony in all system planets you'll get still a moneymaking machine, the difference is in how much money you'll have to put on front for it to start being productive, after you get 2 or 3 well made colonies you can start just colonizing everything for the sake of extra military ports so they fuck invaders over. For example, you don't need a special slot for fuel making, just scavenge some synchro core in two planets and you'll probably have 50% market share from it and roll in cash

>>15799207

Why doesn't building commerce on a planet create any income? Who are all those tariffs going to? When I buy stuff from myself on my own planet, who am I paying tax to?

>>15799375

One time I went to help defend my station from attacking pirates, and it told me they wouldn't let me join because they don't trust me. You don't own nothing goyim

>>15799360

wont they attack your merchant fleet?

>>15799403

Keep your fleet together, that venture and heron are going to be raped. Use your command points.

>>15799426

The heron and venture fell last, heron was armed to the teeth and venture was full tank

How bad are expedition fleets really? The oil niggers are mad at me because I'm stealing their entire market and I'm tired of paying bribes.

>>15799468

If you have a fully upgraded starbase they can't really do shit to you. Add good fleets on top of that and they're fucked. When you start a colony just build all the defenses as soon as possible and you should be fine.

>>15799468

If you have a star fortress and military base you should be ok.

>>15799468

It'll tell you in the expedtion fleet description if your current defenses can take it or not. Generally if you build a tier 3 station and stick the guaranteed alpha core in it, that'll fend off everything but the absolute worst of expeditions.

I messed with fleet doctrine and decided to get as many carriers as possible. Turns out when you do this they start stocking longbows and high tech fighters, even if the carriers are crap.

>>15798060

Explore outlying systems, manufacture resulting blueprints at established colonies. The best place to get blueprints are research stations and you can find those most frequently around black holes and neutron stars, or randomly in asteroid belts or around gas giants. Make sure you get the +50% rare salvage skill.

>>15798414

Sick beat tbh

>>15799631

Seems like both are related to intel, post it in the support section of the forums, Alex should be able to take a look.

Does this game has base building and making stuff for you own faction or its just about fleet combat?

>>15799672

If you read into the thread, you'd know it had base building.

>>15799675

>base building

Not really, or at least not in the way that I assume he means, having some degree of customization. You just build a few abstracted industries without any control over what they do or how they operate. You set your fleet doctrine and that's about it.

>>15799672

Does it has faction building? Yes, barebones, does it has actual basebuilding like an rts? No

Player colonies are more like a way of getting money and crafting that one fucking ship you never find at the market

>>15799685

What about guys you can put in charge and AI cores? Certain planets will have more of a certain resource than other ones so that will influence your industries.

>>15799659

I just realized I'm running an older install of 0.9 (RC6 vs RC10) so I'm going to see if updating that will fix it before posting.

>>15799672

>base building

Not really. Colonization and faction management is a placeholder at best.

>>15799876

I mean, suicide ramming is a tactic but it shouldn't be your first choice.

>>15799876

He barely took damage, but yeah hes a dumbass, also if he didn't took down the shields he would have just gone overload and be a sitting duck with a ship that it barely has flux venting

>>15799876

Mate when you do the special boost you can't put your shields up.

Also 'fun', not optimal. You're a bitch if you play vidya optimally though

>>15799914

>>15799898

You fags forgot to ask the real questions: why there isn`t dedicated ramming vessels, hell how come there isn`t a mod that adds a faction specialized on that

>>15799914

>no reason

>fire slow as fuck reapers without saturating the whole fucking screen with flares or crappy missiles

>get shot down and waste one use weapons

Was retarded what he did? Yes. But you launch torps at almost point blank because of how stupidly easy to shutdown they are

>>15799924

There is though but iirc its outdated, it was called knights of something and had a special ramming system that basically was an emp bomb

>>15799929

You know what I want? Suicide vessels. Give them a one-time boost, no shield, no hardpoints, but a fuckhuge explosion.

>>15799830

No fucks giving eh, anon?

>>15799943

Have you considered that some people don't enjoy playing like a braindead retard?

>>15799952

Source anon?

>>15800048

I'd bet you like femdom.

>>15800071

A Headpat a day keeps the Nightmares at bay

>>15799929

Knights Templar have a ship with sorta-kinda thing you're thinking of.

>>15799924

Ramming a colossus with an SO brawler is the best way of retreating.

>>15800210

>t. man who prefers to shoot loads at the enemy

>>15799924

HAMMERTIME

>wake up

>waifu posting

No, go away.

Found another two XIV Legion battlecarriers. Where do I get a XIV Onslaught or Eagle short of a Hegemony commission or bullying their main patrol fleets near the Chicory-atzec capital planet?

>>15801371

High level Hegemony deserter bounty fleets can have XIV ships in them. Most of the XIV loadouts have reinforced bulkheads, so if they spawn in the first place they'll probably be recoverable. Just make sure you have a lot of free ship slots out of the maximum of 30, because you'll never get more ships offered for salvage than you have ship slots left.

>>15801371

Bounties, literally every answer is fuck pirates up

Well, dicktat expedition (2 fleets) eliminated without ever touching my orbital station. Got a free Conquest out of it, too.

I hope the simulation is improved because right now the game world feels sterile.

Factions should fight over planets, I know there's a mod for this but it should be in the base game. They should also colonize, maybe tie it into the exploration missions and survey data you can sell.

I would also like to see other actors doing missions, right now there are bounty hunters and scavengers but from what I've seen they just fly around aimlessly. It would neat if they could accept missions just like the player does, receive cash, salvage ships, and build up their fleets.

If this game doesn't at least get to Mount and Blade levels of sim,I'll probably lose interest very quickly.

Does anyone know how to make it so that going through those storms doesn't divert my path as much? It's annoying setting a path and then ending up way off course.

>>15802563

I agree but the problem with that is if you let the AI play the game with you there's a good chance one faction could just end up steamrolling another and gobbling up everything if you're not careful.

If they add proper planet stealing/capturing and what not it needs to be one of those things that don't happen too often and when it does it's a big deal. Whenever someone begins a conquest every faction would buckle up and spurn them. Otherwise, I think you run into the problem of everyone attacking everyone all the time and shit just going bananas.

>>15804526

>>15802563

The think the largest and solely most important thing they could do at this point would be to add X3-like elements. Add companies - un-abstract the market in general. Second would be faction-related things: colonization, diplomacy, reasons for geopolitical things to happen. Third, everything else, bar fighting.

The tagline with this game is that combat is fun, varied & well thought out, but absolutely nothing else is.

>>15804573

>Add companies - un-abstract the market in general.

He abstracted the trade because it would've been too unstable or time consuming to simulate all of that.

>>15804526

Politics shouldn't be simulated outside of rare events, until the player joins the game and the balance of power is thrown out the window.

>>15804907

Good thing it's just shitposting

>>15804293

Going through them without getting diverted is actually a bit of a skill. If you go in on the centerline of the storm you can surf to your destination on them way above the max burn level. Helps to get levels in safety procedures and solar shielding too, basically eliminates the damage.

>>15804293

When you come across a big storm hit the emergency fuel burst, that way you'll keep your course but faster since the storm kicks you at max speed

>>15806925

Every troop carrier is free 100 marines-equivalent. Useful early game, but later on you might use something like 4k stacks of marines to raid, so having troop carriers or not doesn't matter that much.

>>15806965

Already salvaged it, but got an officer and a pirate blueprint pack out of that massive debris field full of derelict ships. So how does ground warfare work? Can you take planets if you meet the requirement?

>>15806981

At the moment you can only raid planets, either to steal commodities (useless, since who the fuck wants them) and unique items (like weapons, which are meh, or blueprints and modspecs which are the entire point you're raiding, but also rare as hell), OR to disrupt some industry and stop it from working for a long time.

>>15806993

You can also deciv a planet if you keep it with 0 stabilization for 16 months (you may want to change that in the config files) so you can take core worlds without exterminatus bombardment

>>15806965

I never even bothered with raids until I had enough spare troop capacity to take 1000s of marines with me everywhere.

>>15804918

I realize why the trade is currently abstracted, my friend. His focus is entirely on combat, which is in part why it's so good. Now that said main focus is for the most part completed, he has to address the next largest problem, being that the world is completely stagnant, small, & gets old extremely quickly. First step would be to un-abstract trade.

>>15806965

>4k stacks of marines to raid

the more marines you got the better the items?

>>15807259

nah unabstracting trade would kill the performance. This is v 0.9, the game that you see now is pretty much what will be finished.

Maybe some diplomacy and factional stuff but that's it.

>>15807457

Cringe

>>15807465

I'm not saying to literally turn it into X3, I'm saying to un-abstract the trade. Adding 20 items, maybe an average of 20-50 small fleets going from point A to point B at any single point in time, and checks for resources occasionally on planets would not kill performance.

>>15807763

Fuck off cyberdemon, don't you have some world record in an obscure game nobody plays to chase after?

>>15807763

That's rich coming from a brown-nosing shill that's laughably shit at the game. Fun combat was back when you had reason to keep your flux high, when missiles were not grouped into the two categories of slow and useless and overloading rape. Fun combat was when the ballistics had ammo counters but were specialized weapons with a load of heft and purpose behind every shot. And it was definitely fun not having some arbitrary bullshit time limit on your engagements while artificially slowing down every ship. Crutch ship mods that you're given but the AI apparently never uses don't help either, having 20-40% range, 50-60% armor on him and such.

As for the 2012 claim I made it because I've apparently kept a Starfarer 0.53.1a release in backup and for the sake of curiosity tried it out. Know what a shocker it was to play with the original bomber AI that can move across a large map, deliver and fly back to safety?

>confusion.jpg

How about you fuck off back to fractal or at least lurk more?

>>15807919

Honestly it's just funny seeing you get this assblasted at every single one of my posts, and how desperate you are to attempt to argue every thing I say even if they're mostly in support of your opinion & innocuous.

>How about you fuck off back to fractal or at least lurk more

I assume it's some /cow/ meme, but then where would that leave you

>>15807935

Glad you're laughing. Personally, I've seen enough cancer to last me several lifetimes but I'd give you an honorary mention. Fucking hell man, it's alright to say how something broken need's fixing. How something barebone lacking need's expanding. Yes man shit you're pulling is what got this game in this mess for the most part. I mean, why should this or any dev at that point bother with balance or actual content when some dipshit cheats in or at least grinds a battlecruiser and goes lololcombatguudddXDD without learning basic controls like how to strife?

I like this game, I really do. But in it's current state I'd plaster a mile long warning to anyone playing and let alone paying. I definitely wouldn't act like it's the God's own gift to gaming or like someone who just wandered in from San Francisco's hipster commune. Muh Cringe? Assblasted? Nigger, please.

>>15808060

tip for you lad, when you're a negative IQ jungle monkey, crying while repeating insults doesn't do much to your opponent.

>omgee what's wrong with you???

i don't know if this is your idea of fitting in, but it's pathetic nonetheless

>>15808291

I think the dev is a lite version of the guy who does dwarf fortress, thats why the game ins't on any platform outside the guys site.

Also it seems the dev pays stupids amounts of attention to certain stuff so I guess thats why anons keep pointing out stuff that could really use more work. At least thats the gist of it, I just like it because it has been ages since a decent space game that isn't spreadsheet like EvE or an X4 game, or a scam citizen autism simulator.

>>15799207

Get rid of the techmine, you've already gotten all the good stuff and it doesn't actually add to your income because you have bigger sources for everything else.

The economy works by the biggest source, if you have 2 sources of something it doesn't actually add together.

For example, if you had a techmine that gave you 3 fuel and a fuel production that gave you 7, you would have 7 fuel because the fuel production is the biggest source.

>>15808806

Really? That's remarkably low-IQ.

>>15808864

It also prevents slowdowns as more markets are added. With previous iterations of market simulations, adding too many markets via mods slowed the game down by a lot, to the point it became impossible to save after adding 5 mods.

>>15808864

It's jarring that the economy flip-flops and can't decide if it's exponential or not. Production doesn't stack on the basis that 10^3 fuel is completely irrelevant to 10^7, but market value and shortages always treat it like a linear scale.

>>15808854

there were. Sprites and ships are still there, but I don't think it's updated.

>download new version

>looking for mods

>the NGO modder stopped due to fags

That guy who made Dassault-Mikoyan was literally adding "SPACE NAZIS MUST DIE" to my game, this shit is pure cringe. What's worst, how can those people be so hypocritical when many mods use genocide, slavery, fanatism to build a lore and no one whines?

What fleet configurations aren't totally fucking useless to progress in the game?

Every time I've tried to go on the med-sec grand tour to lap up tech wreckage I get smashed by cruiser or carrier fleets that completely smash down all of my frigates and 1-2 light carriers.

Every time I've tried to start a colony on an appealing world some bunch of fags with pink names come-a-knocking with very low quality battleships that I can't quite beat by the time they show up.

Are specific weapons in each size slot just objectively so much stronger that using anything else cripples you? I already know that half of all missiles are objectively shit from being too slow to ever touch an enemy.

>>15809862

Don't worry, I'm adding space nazi's.

Soon.

>>15809905

For colonies, you need to get the space station up as soon as possible. Upgrade it and defend it while it's being upgraded to at least the second level.

>>15809905

I've found that 4-5 wolves clear most of the rabble. Add some ventures or hammerheads and you'll with decent weapons and some practice take out expeditions. Now, if you really need to bring the pain I'd suggest also throwing some herons and gryphons into the mix. As for weapons small IR lasers hit way above their weight, kinetic sabots are amazing and you really can't go wrong with HI laser or two in your large hardpoints. There are more specialized weapons but using a combination of those three means you've got excellent flux management, good damage at all ranges and even some spare weight due to fairly low OR requirements. It's also real cheap, easy to replace and fast to obtain.

For flagship I'd suggest a Gryphon. Even without using it's special it's a beast with extended missile rack and being a cruiser remains mobile.

For bonus round both the strikecraft and the carrier AI is wonky in this patch so try to have similar or even better all the same per carrier, so 3x khopesh or longbows and not khopesh, dagger and lux for example.

>>15810230

Next time I'll prioritize building the space station first before all other endeavors I guess.

>>15810318

I'm strongly biased in favor of herons and whatever the shitty tech carrier is, I think it's the condor?

My problem is that I usually have extreme difficulty actually finding carriers for sale in ports or floating derelict and typically only have 1-2 cruisers and 2-3 carriers before I get fucked on - typically from having no ships that work as gap closers.

Do I need to play bitch to one of the major factions to get access to military vendors to get hammerheads? I have never seen one in the wild in around 30 hours of gameplay.

I've been buying small IR lasers wherever I can because of their obvious performance characteristics, but I never really thought about deliberately kitting out my ships with sabot clusters.

Most of my crushing defeats came from difficulties penetrating shielded ships or reaching them in the first place so maybe that would help.

>>15810421

As I said, getting half a dozen wolves is easy and it really gives you some teeth. And sunders are like a larger, meaner wolf with not panic teleport but a large energy slot. My gameplan was wolves with sabots, IRs and one tac laser and having them escort a sunder or two. I'd flank with my own torpedo autoblaster sunder and pick off priority targets. Having two herons with lux and longbows and my gryphon belching torpedo after torpedo really killed the game though.

>shielded ships

That's why I suggested you try a hammerhead. Pop your ability, shower him with shrapnel and let your HI laser support ships have a field day.

>>15810492

I'll definitely grab the HI lasers I can find this time and try using them.

An aside: Is there any reason not to use an unstable injector on all attacker / interceptor ships? I originally discounted them but reconsidered them when looking at the loadout screen again this morning.

>>15810421

I've almost never seen a base that didn't have at least one Condor for sale. You're checking the black market too, right?

>>15810492

Hell I had just one wolf and it was a real helper until I got some carriers along with a couple enforcers.

>>15810421

Drovers and condors were my early go to (jam the condors with high tech fighters in lieu of turrets or hull mods) and have some meat (either shield tank or hull tank) in front to protect them. The reaper bombers are almost as good as if not as good as the typhoon bombers but don't need nearly as much OP. (Typhoons I'd say have more sustained huge damage)

>>15810699

I'd say it's a horrible idea to sacrifice range under any circumstances but I guess more power to you if you make it work

>>15810853

>Wonderful pristine and high quality cars ships available to you at low cost, goy! 0% APR! Remember to thank greatest ally (((tri-tachyon))).

Did they make you take out a loan?

Can you decivilize a planet by destroying the space port and waiting?

Already waited the full repair time once and nothing.

>>15810888

No but it's probably related to running roughly 1000 tons of drugs (legal only here in (((tri-tach))) ) to space-persian space in less than half an hour. They're even trying to bait me back with a SECOND heron as we speak.

>>15810421

Actually, in this version there are many more combat ships on the open market, including even things like Onslaughts or Tempests. You might have to look around more, but they're still not hard to get.

>>15810902

To decivilise a planet, you need to keep its stability at 0 for majority of the time in 16 month time span. After that, there's a monthly chance of 10% that the planet decivilizes.

>>15811014

>10% after 0 stability for 16 months

Carpet bombing everyone doesn't seem so bad now.

>>15810230

You don't need space stations on every colony, especially if they're low hazard colonies.

Typically the AI will pick the one colony that's the most productive, and send all their shit there.

That is the one you build like a fortress.

>>15808876

avorion can handle an upwards of 300+ different unique products in a few hundred or even thousand scale sectors although admittedly a server hosting it will need serious RAM, but this can't handle actual market calculations for all of 10 products in like 60 systems on 16GB?

>>15790359

Why is the webm all black?

>>15812073

Its not, maybe there is something wrong with your browser.

>>15812046

I assume that Avorion isn't made in Java and by just one dude.

>>15812141

its two dudes for avo iirc

>java

Ok fair point but to be fair a database of SECTOR ID X LOCATION ID Y ITEM ID Z PRICE A TARIFF % B would be pretty easy

>>15812045

Is there any reason not to pick high tech stations? when I looked at the cost to build an orbital it was the same for each one so I assume that upgrading to fortress is much cheaper for low tech?

>>15812171

I guess that's the difference between perpetually drunk, perfectionist Russian and actual people. I don't think calculations in the background (trade, diplomacy, battle resolving) would take that much processing power either. I haven't played Nexerelin in 0.8 much, but economy there didn't appear broken.

>>15810201

Odinspeed, Kamerad.

>>15812258

low tech, mid tech and high tech stations use different weapons

low tech uses kinetic weapons and high tech uses beam weapons and those teleport bombs thingies

>establish a colony

>can't afford to set up stalingrad-tier defenses within the first month

>pirate raid comes

>reks Legio 14 battlecarrier and everything else that I had

>lose absolutely everything, have to start over with 2000 space shekels and ships that are worth fuck all really

Yeah fuck it, I'm restarting the whole campaing.

>>15818325

Yeah I made the same mistake on my first game. Got fucked by everyone. Second time around I took a commission or whatever it was called and just gathered money by slowly selling things and getting my pay from the Hegemony. Once I had a decent fleet and a fuckload of cash I found the planet I liked and bankrolled it quickly to avoid getting stomped out early again. My main problem now is that the game is just kind of boring. Combat is fun, but outside of that I'm out of shit to do besides go kick somethings ass.

>>15818486

But is it really a mistake?

>>All of this sent for a 10^3 colony

I get random raiders and I'd get local powers strongarming some tribute but the game just pulls some arbitrarily scaled fleet out of thin air to beat you over the head with. And with no warning or alternatives surprisingly enough only the space junta is open to some applied bribery to said beating at that.

Basically what I'm saying is how there's no diplomacy or purpose to the AI at all.

>>15818325

everybody in the past few threads was complaining about this. my solution was to do scan probe/derelict ship missions with min number of ships until I got 2mil credits, bought some cruisers, then made a colony with everything including nanoforge, beta cores on most things, etc asap. until your colony is size 4/5 with max military stuff you're going to have to constantly babysit it

>>15818603

a medium-sized ludd fleet will assrape you, not even mentioning multiple full sized hegemony fleets

get more money and get at least three or four fighting capitals, bare minimum

>>15818603

Independent other than crippling poverty but shit's still good

>>15818603

>one resource colony.

Just because you can settle a colony doesn't mean you should.

>>15818325

At the moment it seems that factions are overly possessive of their shares in raw material markets, but their reaction to you using nanoforges, alpha cores and free port is less ridiculous.

Also, hazard rating is the most important stat while founding a colony, you might have colonised a >200% hazard shithole.

>>15818595

The most important thing is to get a space station, they're stronger in battles than autoresolve suggests.

>>15818603

If you're not making >500k credits a month, you're not ready for genocide. And that hazard rating, and why the fuck do you have light industry if your colony isn't a free port?

>>15818486

>My main problem now is that the game is just kind of boring.

I personally love the idea of being able to start up a faction like this from the bottom of the pile but it takes a lot of mundane nothing to get there.

>Combat is fun, but outside of that I'm out of shit to do besides go kick somethings ass.

I didn't really find the combat enjoyable. I don't see what other anons are saying in the thread, that you need optimal commanding and piloting to win fights. Your options in the command screen seemed really limited, and I found I could fuck up most all opposing fleets of similar size by just having more Wolves than them and letting autopilot go. Combat as far as I saw it was "Carry the bigger stick"

>>15818588

>Basically what I'm saying is how there's no diplomacy or purpose to the AI at all.

The first invasion actually came from Hegemony in my game, they weren't happy I had a Free Port in my colony. I was at something like 48/100 relationship level with them, so why the fuck were they so mad? It ended up costing me 25 points on the scale to get them to listen to me saying "Fuck off, we're friends remember?"

>>15818595

Maybe it's just bad RNG on my end, but pretty much every single scan/find mission I got ended up on the absolute outer edge of my system. I never thought buying a fuckton of fuel and supplies just to get there would ever be worth it.

>>15818673

>At the moment it seems that factions are overly possessive of their shares in raw material markets

I'm pretty sure that's what did it. I remember seeing that I had like 9% market share in raw ore within the second month of an AI'ing my mining. No idea what I was standing at with my Beta Core refining, it was probably even bigger.

>Also, hazard rating is the most important stat while founding a colony, you might have colonised a >200% hazard shithole.

I'm pretty sure the planet was 125% Hazard rating. What made it a shithole was that I had to pay upkeep on my industries and spaceport before they were fully constructed. It was an expense I didn't expect to pay for yet.

>>15818325

I ran drugs until I had one or two million, picked a shitty planet as per >>15798954 and dumped those millions into building all security measures and industries. It became profitable quickly and I even had fleets to hold off a dicktat expidition without a nanoforge of any kind (doctrine: MORE SHIPS ALL CARRIERS). Made a second colony too.

>>15819535

>I never thought buying a fuckton of fuel and supplies just to get there would ever be worth it.

All you need is a dram.

>>15820372

The issue with Alex is that he underestimates fun coming from non-standard sources and he's not keen on risking fucking up things like, say, trade or more strategic gameplay, so he fucks them up by not doing anything about them.

>>15820402

I honestly don't know the guy or the memes behind him. What I do know is that I like my options and I like my hands on. I mean, what's the point otherwise?

I wish my ships would actually go to the waypoints I designate. Then maybe we would have a chance against Luddfags and their massive numbers

>>15820372

Faction commanding is a future feature, as indicated by the greyed out "orders" tab.

>>15821553

It is a good thread.

>>15820563

How many colonies?

>>15823878

A lot, started all over again since I came across a weird bug that would make my main colony go into 2 million negative for some reason

>>15823979

Such bizarre bug.

Also, be aware of "Abandon" colony bug, if it's your first you will get a CTD every time you select custom production.

>>15820563

Now do that without NPCs to prop you up

How bad/good are the presets? They seem alright to me for the most part you never know.

>>15825320

They are ok when dealing with base ships since the preset usually grabs the biggest ordinance numbers, this can lead to empty slots though, also for some fucking reason even if you do not pick bulkheads and blast doors option it still auto-fits ship with it.

You usually only fit a ship personally if you plan on using it yourself, also it can be tricky when dealing with very high ordinance stuff like mods, but you can template stuff if it comes to that.

>>15828925

Go into intel screen, go to planet screen, order them by size, proceed to raze the bases down to the fucking ground

>>15828920

I think that you had the unfortunate experience of happening onto a pirate raid. They're fucking brutal at the moment.

Are colonies managed by an alpha core exempt from the administrator limit?

>>15829705

yes

>>15829884

Thanks.

Super busy right now trying to find a luddic pather base that has infinite terror cells in all of my system without seeming to actually exist. There are tons of ludd ships everywhere but no base whereever I go. Two neutrino detector false positives chased to the edge of the system so far and no results.'

>>15830082

Visiting a bar in a system that's being attacked will usually(always?) tell you the location of the base. Or maybe that's only for pirates.

>>15830206

That worked for pirates so far but I just can't find the ludds. I checked the single planet in the system at least once and didn't see anything there, but there were tons of ludd fleets puttering around - killing them didn't change the colony threat tab in any way.

>>15830231

I think their bases are always stations, not planets. Again that might be pirates I'm thinking of.

>>15830261

they are stations as well and typically orbit a planet in the system it says they are coming from.

>>15830231

You just have to wait until one of the factions posts the bounty on that base. If you have found the system, though, you have to check out every planet and every dust ring, asteroid belt and accretion disk.

Just go into the planet intel tab and order them by size ffs, it lists bases you havent even come across

>>15837151

Wipe pirate bases and ludds too, usually they calm down for a whole 365 days and your convoys can live again.

>>15837151

>All those bugs, and they don't even care

That is disgusting. Best wasp trap:

>Big stowaway clear container with a hold cut in the lid.

>Top of a 2 liter soda bottle cut off and stuck inside the hole, so it creates a 1 way valve (for wasps at least, they don't go up nearly as well as they do down.

>Make sure that soda top is in there good and sealed with tape, should look like a funnel.

>Put in 2 inches of water. some old deli ham, and some sugar

>Collect 4 inches of solid wasps and cease having a problem