>>2327048
Drop the heavy maulers for thumpers

Vengeance for Mayasura
satbomb Pather worlds to dust
conquer and industrialize Church worlds
break the Hegemony

Is the Conquest any good?
I don't really see a niche for it.
Am I missing something?
Seems significantly worse than Onslaught/Paragon for fighting the three spoilers.
It's faster, but is it fast enough to kite any of their capitals?
Prior to that, it seems expensive and difficult-to-acquire overkill for pirate/LP bullying.
Worse at catching runners than a Falcon, Aurora, or Fury.
For hunting stations early on, I think carriers with Perdition bombers are better, and those are still useful against the ungainly pirate ships.

starsector is some elements of good gameplay and cool setting in a not actually very good game, and thats a shame

I actually enjoy the story and hope to see it continued.

>>2338512
Its a kiter. You always go with cautious doctrine and you assign like 2 cruisers with ranged mods/escort package along with them like eagles and eradicators. It tends to do well against core fleets but not so well against "outside" enemies because the moment an enemy is both tough and fast it suffers.

>>2338512
4 gauss

I wonder if the planet Earth is still alive in the game.

>ask anon for advice
>anon gives advice
>follow anons advice to the letter
>anons advice does not pay off
>tell anon their advice didn't work
>WeLL yOu sHoULd hAvE dOnE tHeSe thiNgS i neVeR mEntiOneD
yeah that makes total sense buddy

>>2339034
>handhold retard
>retard complains you didn't handhold him enough
should i just play the game for you?

the correct solution is of course to just tell you to kys right off the bat instead of lending a hand

just pet the fucking dog
>but, like, how

>>2339044
I was pretty clear what information I was looking for.
not really my fault you're too stupid to meet the request.

pretty conceited of you to think you actually lent a hand when all you said was
> lol just use ziggy, its completely braindead autowin
even when I started out saying I was not going to be a pilot.
guess it was not so braindead if I had to use some specific build eh?
and I asked for build, your ass is just too afraid to give one in case someone else gives you shit for it not being perfect somehow.

basically, why did you respond to a request you could never adequately fulfill?
you are a disappointment anon.

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okay star sector pros how about this?
would this hull and build be useful against remnant?

since you can't give more than 5words worth of advice you can just give me a yes/no and I can keep throwing pics at you to approve or disapprove of until I am done.

>>2339115
I dont remember the nova loadouts but the radiants will shoot reapers if no shield is present. The rockets might stop some, specially if linked and if theres ammo left, but if some land its devastating. If they have HILs (cant remember) they will just wipe you right away.

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>>2339133
cool

>>2339137
Is that from Moar XIV?

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>>2339143

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yes? no?

>>2339106
>you you you
i'm a bystander simply commenting on what a bitch you are, i have no idea what your retarded question was

Nice to see this general is as shit as ever. Update, when.

>>2339163
thats the best excuse you could come up with? pathetic

>>2339044
>the correct solution is of course to just tell you to kys right off the bat instead of lending a hand
Almost always is.

>>2338267
I don't recognize the capital ship on the left, is it new?

>>2338267
Hey, I dunno what you guys think about Gwyvern (the guy who made LOA and the lizard mod). Is there's a version of LoA Dev (The one that has the old lizard ships before they got turned into a different mod) that works on 0.98.

>>2339249
Fuck I forgot the "?".

It was supposed to be a question btw.

>>2339254
"is there an X that works on Y"
is still a question without the questionmark.
the only people who would be confused are people you do not want answers from anyway

>>2339158
Gonna be effective only against human hi tech stuff. You need a tiny bit of armor cracking.

>>2339158
No.

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>>2339106
Anon, your request was help you clear a remnant system without using s-mods or without piloting your own ships.
If you're too lazy to play the game yourself, too lazy to use the in-game good boy points to make any ship build work, and too lazy to actually test/theorycraft your own builds, then why should any of us help you?
>oh but I have one arm
Not an excuse, you can rebind the game to be played with one hand
>oh but I'm too much of a shitter to grind story points
Okay then use your millions of credits to try different builds, maybe read a build guide.

>>2339044
Hell, it's probably bait anyway, there's no way someone would actually be retarded enough to consider 20 monitors and a ziggurat a proper fleet.

>>2339171
i wasn't dumb enough to reply to your initial query because >>2339203, but i will happily call you an ingrate faggot retard for your behavior afterwards. cope however you wish. maybe every post in the thread is me?

>>2339137
Can you try the following build?
Replace all forward facing smalls with railguns, the medium slots with flaks, add ballistic rangefinder, swap extended shields for omnishields, drop the rear and side machine guns
Maybe try alternating fire for the railgun firegroup

>(D) Monitors to distract the AI
>sniper Sunders
>Odysseys to activate Escort Package on the Sunders, while keeping up
good or bad idea?

>>2339707
also, I know the Odyssey is bad in AI hands
Conquest is generally better, but it isn't very fast
I could even use Paragons for minimum speed, maximum power
but I heard that Threat has a ship-printer you need to shut down fast
Will they charge me anyway and I don't need to worry about that?
Or can I just run around them with an Aurora to take care of that?

Does the bootleg Magellan Protectorate work in 0.98?
Anyone used and had/not had problems?
>Last updated 2 years ago

>>2339710
actually nevermind, apparently they only go up to max DP
45 speed should be fine
missile ammo could still be an issue though

>>2339218
The only one new here is (you)

>>2339106
>even when I started out saying I was not going to be a pilot.
Your weapons for it fucking sucks you retarded nigger
Should give it all omega missiles in every slot if you want it to autopilot

Not to mention you don't even have fucking phase anchor because you're a retarded nigger

>>2339891
True :)

>>2339892
based and true

>>2339891
>>2339218 asked a perfectly reasonable question. Not everyone slurps modcock and even if they do there should be no expectation for them to slurp the same cock you do. If you expect everyone to recognize a cock that speaks volumes about, either, how deeply you have it ingrained down your throat, or, your compulsion to slurp and (honestly quiet impressive ability to) remember every cock you come across.

every poster below me slurps cock btw

Selkie pits...

>>2339158
please just put a heavy mortar in one of those hardpoints
otherwise anything more armored than a frigate will take unnecessarily long to kill
>captcha: star of david

Is there any mod that introduces a final boss of sorts? I hate getting burnt out because I unlock everything and have an entire system of ultra-murder fleets killing everyone that blinks in my direction.

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I LOVE RADIANT

Is there a mod to make salvaging derelict/debris field ships always Option 1, and recovering them always Option 2?
If there's a lot of fighting, there can be like a dozen derelicts and debris fields in a system, with more continuously popping up.

>>2340377
Ship and Weapon Packs has the IBB system, with a series of increasingly difficult bounties.
Gladiator Society does something similar with an additional option for fighting randomly generated end-game fleets.

>>2340491
strange migu

>>2338968
one of the first lore things you can read is how historians consider the destruction of old earth the beginning of relevant human history.

>>2338727
Conquests slap around Threat.

Aurora or Odyssey for player flagship?

Where are the "Strange Filaments"?
For the Wide Horizons quest chain, but the posts in the thread don't seem to explain it.

>>2341230
Odyssey

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>add a bunch of mods
>go exploring on a new-ish game
>oh neat there's a paragon circling this star that I can recover
>someone slapped troon colors onto it
Off to a great fucking start I guess

>>2341318
that just looks like pirate colors to me
like the pirate shrike

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>>2341320
Since when does a pirate variant use baby pink colors. It's usually red or at the very least red-ish.
Anyway since they added "This ship is neat." to its description I'll know who's responsible for this shit once Notepad++ finishes looking through all of my mod files.

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>>2341324
Oh yeah
It's "Volantian Reclamation Initiative"
That's what I get for adding a bunch of faction mods on a whim

>>2341326
>trans.skin
FUCKING
L O L
O
L

>>2341326
wait it's actually named "trans"
bloody hell

>>2340542
just reordering the options in rules.csv would be fairly simple

>zoom in and out hotkeys doesn't work on refit screen
FIX THIS ALEX

>>2341326
VRI cant even balance their mod, why would you expect them to have balanced hormones?

>>2340491
perfect opportunity to drawn five titties and what does the artist do? pah

>>2341568
*to have

>>2341568
there is never a good opportunity to "draw five titties"
stop gooning lil nigga

I want to make a fleet-wide fast CR recovery hullmod. (Ideally that uses the proper amount of supplies.)
Idea being maintenance and crew rotation ships.
Anon last thread said this would be like 5 lines of code, I hope I can actually find those 5 lines.
Is there any hullmod which directly affects the stats of other ships in the fleet?
As far as I know, Drive Field Stabilizer actually gives the ship with the hullmod a "burn bonus" stat, rather than affecting the burn level stat of all ships in the fleet.
Efficiency Overhaul affects the CR recovery rate of the ship with the hullmod.
I doubt there's a "whole fleet CR recovery bonus" stat.
I'm looking at skills like Tactical Drills, Crew Training, and Flux Regulation.
It's kinda complicated, but it might be the right path?
I don't know Java or the API, so I can only really copy and paste existing things.

>>2341601
https://pastebin.com/smescpKe

figure the rest out on your own

>>2341741
that one was slightly broken

https://pastebin.com/Qbj69tDB

this one accounts for game save and acquiring new ships

>>2341601
Skills -> Industry -> Field Reapers
"type":"CHARACTER_STATS", "script":"com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.skills.FieldRepairs$Level1"
Affects repair/CR recovery of all ships in fleet.

Might be worth a dig.

>>2341820
the mechanism that uses does not discriminate between CR and Hull/Armor Repair I believe

>>2341836
Is that a bad thing? I get the flavor for recovering CR but I don't see the purpose in being strict on having no repairs being that the two are mechanical parallels.

>>2341318
>>2341320
>>2341324
>>2341326
51% chance of catastrophic malfunction at any point in time

There's also an Astral version from that same tranny mod

>>2340491
why does she look tired?

Alright explain it to me like I'm retarded because I don't get the Conquest, what's so great about the Conquest? It's armor is meh, it's shield is meh, it's a built for broadside so half the guns are not used unless surrounded which is rapetown for it.

>>2342141
>>2338512
Bot malfunction

>>2342155
Nope I just don't understand. I like my front-towards-enemy Onslaughts and Paragons with herons and eagle escorts.

>>2342141
The Conquest is built for manual control where you can use its broadsides effectively, it fucking sucks on auto. It's useful for flanking maneuvers because you don't have to sacrifice forward speed to get around an enemy ship, so you can quickly open up targets for your fleet to backstab.

>>2341537
They? Take your pills xister, that tranny faggot loser's AI generated code shits itself every time he tries to "fix" one of the innumerable bugs reported in his forum page.
He is a fucking loser and so are you.

>>2342162
this poster does not experience qualia

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>>2342214
>seething because someone used the wrong pronouns
YWNBAW

>>2341758
thanks anon

>Haven't checked in into Starsector anything for almost half a year now
>"Alright, lets check out all the mods I thought were interesting back in the day for a brand new run"
>VIC is still abandoned
>UAF somehow still around and making more progress than VIC
Off to a great start. Are there any new faction mods that have come out in the meantime that are worth checking out?

Yep time for another star wars run

>>2342214
>???
calling all anons, did I say something that could be construed as defending the VRI faggot or is this man just having a melty?

>>2342388
Tahlan Shipworks

>>2342456
you used "they", which is a gender-neutral pronoun
it's a bit of a reach though

>>2342487
fuck off nia

>>2342316
desu it still has a couple of errors; i wrote it in notepad

just paste it into gemini or chatgpt or something and it will fix it for you

>>2342504
oh
I don't have either of those set up

I think Conquest could use +15 speed and +15% ballistic slot damage.
Sounds like a big buff, but surely it's no stronger for the AI than the braindead Paragon/(XIV) Onslaught.
Nor any stronger in the player's hands than the Odyssey, Afflictor, Harbinger, Ziggurat...
What's the point of a battlecruiser if it can't outrun the Radiant?
It's just gonna die.
Currently, the Executor is faster, and it's a meme battleship instead of a battlecruiser.
>>2340665
I like the design of the Conquest, but the stats seem unforgiving.
What do you equip and support them with?
Where do you tell the AI to go? One Conquest on each side?
(I guess you'd have to either use a symmetrical loadout, or use specific loadouts for left and right.)
Can they handle two Ordos?

>>2342508
What you do with a conquest is pretend like it's sideways.
Select your favorite side. Load that side with big fuckoff guns. spend the leftover on flux and hullmods. You now have an objectively better atlas mk2. Will it perform miracles? not really. but it has a non insignificant amount of frontal firepower.

>>2342508
(Maybe Ziggurat is a silly comparison, since it's a trophy, but I think the others stand. Odyssey is faster, with Plasma Burn for even more speed, and lobs neverending sabot/atropos from bombers ordered to hug - or Xyphos ion beams. Afflictor and Harbinger are phase ships with silly systems, also Doom exists.)
>>2342522
I know it can work, but for a capital it just seems underwhelming.
Monitors have great synergy with Sunders, so a faster Conquest would really complete the lineup.
Odyssey seems like what I want mechanically, but the aesthetic synergy is lost.

Executor should be slower and have better flux stats
It's a battleship, not a battlecruiser

>>2342540
by midline standards it is slow

>>2342524
>Odyssey seems like what I want mechanically, but the aesthetic synergy is lost.
so you're saying you have a brain problem, rather than the game having a balance problem

>>2342505
you dont need to set anything up just paste it into chatgpt.com and tell it to fix the syntax errors and walk you through packaging it

>>2342456
He's having a bit of a spazz, too much tranny fatigue is taking a toll

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Anyone tried the new buckbreaker guns yet?

>>2342670
dead meme

>Browse twitch randomly for Starsector live streams
>"UAF is a high quality mod"
>"Anyway, let us watch the trailer for the new update"
Commander, cringe is upon us. I've already allocated spare monitors to the front line to alleviate the pressure of the endless super fighter spam until our main forces can push them back.
The Buckbreakers already contracted us and offered their assistance if needed.

>>2342871
>USC le bad

oh god the USC posting in these threads will be insuferable for the next month or 2 again

>>2342871
>"UAF is a high quality mod"
It's not even finished, it still has placeholder text, the relevant systems are all out of the way, and the fighter craft are crazy overbalanced to the point they're basically frigates.

>>2342670
what are these from

>>2342547
Well, it's not *exactly* what I want mechanically, but it fills a similar role.
They're both battlecruisers, so they should fill similar roles, Conquest is just bad at being a battlecruiser.
They'd still be different.
I like the focus on guns instead of energy and fighter bays.
Aesthetics and theming are considered important in this game, that's not a "brain problem".
If two ships fill similar niches, but one is significantly worse at it, that IS a balance problem.
(Unless it's a pirate or derelict ship meant to be fodder, which by its visuals communicates to the player its nature as garbage.)

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>no updates in a year
what the fuck is alex doing
i'd bet that scam citizen has a 1.0 before starsector at this pace

Dominator needs an AI fix and Heavy Ballistics Integration.
Maybe a slight flux dissipation buff.

>>2342946
Hes lost motivation, but doesnt recognize it so he can let go and move on. The interest he does show seems to populating the world with shitty scripted and narrowly defined stories, instead of refining core gameplay and updating poorly implemented systems.

>>2343044
I really wish he hadn't released part of the campaign in that case, it seems like it'll never see a conclusion now.

>>2342946
he opened rules.csv one time too many and said "you know what fuck this"

>>2343044
the updates he did show/mention on social media seem relatively minor too

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I aint really played since 0.95? (2021-2022 something like that) Any cool new mods out worth chucking into my modlist before starting a new game?

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AI cores are based.
Loyal, don't ask to be paid, skills can be changed on a whim.
The only time they are trouble in-game is if you're trying to remove an alpha core administrator - and this is only really unreasonable if there's an incoming Hegemony inspection fleet you want to hide them from.
Otherwise it's completely justified paranoia, though still annoying if you wanted to re-assign them somewhere else.
Both can be solved with the option Nexerelin gives you for a story point - which could be abused to hand them in, but no sane player wants to waste an alpha core like that anyway.
The only times I know AI to be trouble in-lore are if you
>make a retarded paperclip maximizer Threat
>go far beyond Alpha level because you drowned in hubris do we know why the Omega class went rogue?

>>2343104
>Loyal

>>2343122
When have they not been?
Remnants are just following TT's directive to guard their systems.
And as far as I know, Omega isn't even evil, it's keeping the gates shut down to keep the Music away.

>>2343126
oh, and there's the Ziggurat it tries to blow up, but again that's because it's some kind of space horror that the AI justifiably hates/fears, it's protecting itself and/or you

>turn off the limits for Automated Ships, using the mod settings of Quality Captains
>assemble a fleet of salvaged Rampart shitboxes with gamma cores

>>2343089
>Prooooooooooooooooo :--DDD

>>2343050
>>2343057
Thats what im saying.... Its the creators dillema. Theres clearly a demand for the creation to grow into something else, but the creator cant let go of full control of everything.
He wouldnt even have to give it all up... he could let someone else work on aspects hes less interested in while he focuses on story time or whatever actually interest him.
I get it though.... Why the fuck hasnt someone else just ripped off starsector? Or some modder done something besides injecting their waifu faction with op ships in? Gives you the impression you dont have to change anything.

Don't use the Prototype Radiant mod.
It makes the Luddic Church way too strong.

>>2343185
also it's cursed as fuck fighting the Luddic Church and watching multiple reddish-brown Radiants phase skim toward you and fire lasers

>>2343181
>Why the fuck hasnt someone else just ripped off starsector?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3080070/Order_The_New_Dawn/

China also made a mobile game that seems to use reverse engineered/copy pasted code in many places. I cant remember what its called but it also uses some mod sprites

Cosmoteer would be good if it had a story and a breathing world

>>2343181
>Why the fuck hasnt someone else just ripped off starsector?
m8 starsector is just an escape velocity ripoff

What should I name a hullmod that increases CR restoration speed fleet-wide?
Idea being you put it on a Starliner or similar, and the exhausted crews rotate out with ones who have been resting, plus some parts get swapped out.
>>2342565
This is powerful.
I hope it actually works once I compile it...

>>2343276
by name, I mean the ingame fluff name
the id is just "crewrotationhullmod"

>>2343276
CRcheatmod1

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>>2343241
I always thought it was based on SPAZ

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>>2343089

>>2343170
>>2343408
I have no idea what either of you mean. : (

>>2343418
mammoth

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Am I losing my mind or didn't there used to be a way of getting the game to show multiple rows of the UI buttons at once?

>>2343276
>Idea being you put it on a Starliner or similar, and the exhausted crews rotate out with ones who have been resting, plus some parts get swapped out.
"Crew rotation" is probably the most adept description, it's generally assumed that crew are rotated either amongst the existing crew as part of shift duty and occasionally with other vessels in the case of none-essential personnel. If you want to put focus on why they rotate to this ship in particular "leisure facilities" might be more apt.

If a vessel has it built-in, slap something like this in the description:
>This vessel is equipped with a range of facilities to help crew members relax and recovery when off duty and has a small supply of class-1 shuttles to ferry crew to and from other vessels. The passenger cargo bays, previously used for storing luggage, have been repurposed as a distribution point for parts and components within the fleet.

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Thoughts?

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>>2343276
>>2343511
And here's a low-effort icon if you haven't shitbased one already

>>2338413
Don't forget to fill the holes of the Iron Shell gals. once you're done pounding them to paste.

>>2342915
They were originally from Noah's old mod, Sylphon R&D. Before he removed them, the mod had a pirate faction known as the Sylphon Outcasts. Those were their guns.

The Metafalica from Tahlan was also originally an Outcast ship.

>>2343528
Why should we put thought into this when you clearly haven't?

>>2343641
How so?

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>>2343640
Knew I had the OG Meta somewhere.

enos... forgive me...

Shit, where can I find the latest NSFW prisoner mod? I had to re-install Windows and need to redo all the mods..

>>2343936
gitgud dot eye ooh
only up to 0.97 but working with a version change, just be wary of some mouseover crashes on meatship stuff

>>2344052
The known crashes are when you look at RS codex entries and if you try to feed the meatship NOT docked, works as intended if you're docked at any station.

finally got it to compile
it crashes
disappointing
I have no way of knowing whether I'm on the verge of a breakthrough or ten more hours deep
I'm out for now

What are some of the buggier/less stable mods?
Going to install a bunch of stuff, and want to reduce the risk.
I heard Knights Of Ludd is messy, some other mod I don't remember says something about it.

tryhard or powerslop?

Can factions crowd each other out of space if they're supposed to spawn in the same area, or will it just lead to a dense cluster of systems?
If they don't have Wide Horizons support, will they just spawn in an awkward place?

>>2342214
>code shits itself
good to know

>>2344145
faction systems are (typically) hand placed, and there's a shared map document that's used to make sure you don't put stuff on top of other stuff

if you ever think "well that's a fucking stupid place to put a faction" it's because the good spots were already taken

>>2344238
How would you go about moving systems? I want to put the UAF closer to the core because it's ridiculous that it's right at the edge of the map.

>>2344238
>there's a shared map document that's used to make sure you don't put stuff on top of other stuff
oh, neat

>>2342141
>what's so great about the Conquest?
>it's a built for broadside
You've answered your own question anon please try to be less tarded

>>2344272
does broadside confer some sort of advantage

>>2344273
Consider the crab

>>2344275
I don't understand.

>>2344278
The crab operates on broadside principles.

>>2344239
edit the system creation class and recompile the jar (you don't)

actuallly the star locations may be in \data\campaign\starsystems.json, in which case it's trivial. but they may also not be.

>>2344292
*starmap.json

you can also just runcode in the console, but if you have to ask how i wouldn't recommend it

>>2344279
crabs are just underwater dominators

Do you know of any modded large ballistics with long range, and either very long refire delay, or magazine-based system?
Kinetic preferred, energy alright.
Nes's SAW has the 5-6 shot version of the Mjolnr, but I want BIGGER.
Storm Needlers have low range.
>why kinetic/energy
FIRE THE REAPERS!
Or Hurricanes if the enemy doesn't have much armor and uses non-AOE PD.
Squalls have good stats on paper, but they make the enemy pull back, wasting (admittedly high) missile ammo.
I think anti-shield missiles are better for chasing down enemies in a ship you feel comfortable getting close with.
>>2344279
Yes, that is neat.
But that doesn't fix the Conquest.
>low defenses for a capital
>not any faster than Radiant
>not enough firepower to justify this
I am ALL IN on the *idea* of the Conquest.
Looks, theming, design concept, and gameplay mechanics.
It just needs a stat buff to be equal to other capitals.
60 speed, +10% ballistic damage.
For AI, it's still no Onslaught, Paragon, AI SO + shield-buff-hullmod Aurora.
For player, it's no Odyssey/Hyperion/Harbinger/Afflictor...

Also, slightly buff Maneuvering Jets to make it a just little bit faster than Phase Skimmer.
This way, if both the Conquest officer and the Radiant AI core have Systems Expertise, Radiant won't have 15 extra effective movement speed, which would negate the buff.
There's still an instant burst of speed, so keeping your distance is still difficult.
And Phase Skimmer also benefits from instantly dodging fire.
So it's still the better system overall.
Nova will still be much faster, as it should be.

>>2344311
>For player, it's no Odyssey/Hyperion/Harbinger/Afflictor

The only set ups that get into the same category of high impact firepower with rapid engage and disengage options are the dual Fury build, the player piloted Radiant with Systems Expertise which will cost you 12 skill points and the vanilla cheat ship.

Putting the Conquest even close to that proves a fundamental misunderstanding of the hull.

>For AI, it's still no Onslaught, Paragon
Closer.
The Conquest is less good at capital duels than any other of the big boy assault capitals. The Paragon is the long range shield brick, the Onslaught is for putting in a lot of pressure with its TPCs and fuckton of Annihilators, the Invictus is the armor brick.

The Conquest's design is similarly singularly good at keeping a lot of smaller ships at bay and providing a bit of long range support.

The hull has no issues you cannot build around.

the onslaught is blatantly overpowered (undercosted) and not a good balance point of reference

>>2342508
>I like the design of the Conquest, but the stats seem unforgiving.

The conquest has bad shield stats but an absurd flux bank. Every bit of shield efficiency goes a long way to make it durable. S-mod extended shields.

If you have trouble with getting the Conquest to face the enemy: build it lopsided. 2 Mjolnirs, stuff the missile slots with guided missiles, because the AI is never going to line the large slots up without leaving itself open and the medium slots never at all.
Get yourself elite ballistics on the officers and gunnery implants so you start shooting first. If you have trouble with fighters, mount a devastator on the other side, if you find yourself in trouble against heavily shielded enemies, add a HVD to your main battery, heavy maulers for armor.

If you do all that, the ships are going to charge into battle sideways and keep firing on what's in front of them.

Main point is: take full advantage of the flux stats of this thing.

Odyssey >>>>>>>>>> every gay faggot capital you liked in vanilla

>>2344357
Ziggurat.

>>2344238
>there's a shared map document
>all of the colonies of Tahlan Shitworks have been renamed to Noah
Kek.

>>2343104
I am disappointed Alex removed the flavor text about the bombs put in a core.

Who is right in this somewhat wordy Reddit thread? I came across it when trying to learn how to build my ships right, how to distribute my points across flux/cap, weapons and hull mods and I'm still not entirely sure I'm building my ships right?
https://old.reddit.com/r/starsector/comments/1nidq2o/whats_the_meta_and_nuances_of_capacitors_and/neitfx6/

>>2344395
Too gay, didn’t read, but they are all retarded for even arguing because vents are king. You max vents, and then you put whatever is left into caps. The only exception to this rule is builds that run so cool that shields up+all guns firing cost is still lower than vent rate in which case the only way you are raising the flux bar is through absorbing shit with the shield so you max the caps instead.


The only other exception is frigates that have such low capacity that they need a little bit extra caps on the grid to be able to absorb a heavy strike without dying from 0.

>>2344363
No gayer capital than this

>>2344371
Post screenshot

>>2344395
It's basically exactly like >>2344417
said. unless the ship is critically low on max flux you want to max vents before doing anything else. After vents you want critical hullmods that fix a damning flaw/allow the ship to do what you want it to, then you go for the most important weapon slots for your build. From there you can select between luxury hullmods, smaller/less important weapon slots, or capacitors as you wish.

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>>2344476
>Post screenshot
For a something that is available for the general public to view on the official forums... that's a special kind of retarded request, but whatever, here you go.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=11422.0

>>2344336
>The Conquest is less good at capital duels than any other of the big boy assault capitals.
But how do you avoid a capital duel with 2 Ordos?

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monitor gameplay

where's latest buckbreaker

>>2343528
Not a fan, changing Grav beams from a constant effect to a burst fucks with its role as suppression. Tactical laser feels like it would become super oppressive, ditto for the mining laser

>>2343528
>mining laser no longer acts as constant PD
>graviton beam support effect becomes useless

>>2342871
The worst excuse for watching a VTuber.

You think Trans Paragon is cursed?
Shield Shunted Paragon.

>>2344899
You hate the idea of making them lance fire in general or just have a problem with numbers? Because numbers are definitely up for some tweaking.

>>2343528
>>2344899
making the phase beam flux free, deal more DPS, cost 4 OP and mount in small slots cannot possibly go wrong

>>2344950
it's retarded all the way through, leave this "design" stuff to people that aren't fucking morons, or at least are retarded in a funny way

nta
copy of graviton beam but 12 OP and 175 DPS?
current feels underwhelming for shield pressure without ballistic support or close-range energy

>>2344950
Grav beam just doesn't work as a lance fire beam, unless you wanted to change it to the point of it being unrecognizable.
I'm not inherently opposed to the idea of the tactical lance(name in progress), but I'm honestly not sure what you'd have to change with the numbers to actually make it balanced.
Mining laser on the other hand seems like the kind of thing that'll never really be balanced, since from my (admittedly spotty) knowledge of damage mechanics, HE damage on a burst laser like that would be incredibly strong against any kind of armor.
Your only hope there is that it might be shit on AI, but the player can and will abuse the shit out of it.

>>2344596
>Tahlan has snowflake systems in the four corners of the map
Guess you've gotta have your 'safe-space' eh' chud.

>>2344969
Pretty much the idea. I like lances and want to shake things up a little for my next run and I never use gravs anymore anyway. Just spitballing whether or not to make them straight up notphase softflux kinetics with 600u or keep them 1000u.

>tacs and mls
Just experimenting with those for now. TACs as lances perform as either cheaper phases tailored for bullying destroyers or even worse than baseline, neither of which is ideal, and yeah, mls refuse to be balanced as anything reasonable. I was thinking of giving them aoe frag effect instead for ghetto shortrange flak action.

So some decivilized worlds still seem to hand local governments, they are just either a non player in the sector or cut off. Kinda funny to imagine your guy showing up with a fleet, pointing a gun at them, and saying I'm putting a farm here now and a biofactory that makes heroi

>>2344992
I imagine they're like city states or planet-bound nations without orbital capabilities since you need blockchain fabricators to build anything advanced If you don't want to rediscover everything from scratch.

>>2344992
Only group that really gets the shit end of the stick are satellite colonies orbiting a gas giant. They are essentially a ticking timebomb to just dieing cut off and alone without any supplies.

>>2344239
1) remove jump points from in system and their counterparts in hyperspace
2) move hyperspace anchor
3) re-add jump points

you can do this with a runcode command
im not writing it for you

figure it out on your own

Gah, why would everything be working in my game perfectly EXCEPT Stellar Networks Ship Finder Market Tab? The rest of StelNet is working perfectly, just not the ship finder.
There’s a couple of specific ships I want and I damn sure dont want to fly round like an asshole checking everywhere to see if they have them.

>>2344988
taking them all down to something like 600 range would probably help, maybe switch out the graviton shield effect for something like an emp, making it something like a short range HVD

New blog update dropped

>>2343528
Honestly, you might as well make a new weapon from the Graviton Beam, because the shield weakening effect doesn't really fit here anymore. Maybe double down on the idea of the beam pushing things around instead?

Similarly with the mining laser. You may want to change the tag here to general, but I'm worried about its performance being too good against armor. it's basically better than the phase lance as dedicated anti armor beam.

>>2343511
>>2341601
CR at all is in a weird spot.
Because it doesn't generally describe the crew but how the crew interacts with the vessel, because the crew itself is not really combat ready, but the hulls you use are.

That's why ships have different amounts of recovery and lose varying amount of combat readiness during deployment.
It's also why all the skills that increase maximum CR are about how the procedures in the fleet (in case of crew training and hull restoration) and the procedures in regards to handling the ship (Combat endurance) work out.

>>2339115
>no frontal PD
>storm needlers
gr8 b8, m8

>>2340491
my little jumpyboi can't possibly be this cute!

>>2343089
dunno but KoT still works with a version edit, and some madlad consolidated all three vayra mods into one + updated it, so it's got that 95a feel without derelict contingent actually being good (gayest thing I've ever seen Alex change desu)

>>2343528
You did this so you can't use HSA to trigger Thunderhead anymore didn't you

You luddic faggot

>>2343640
It's buckbreakers property now

>>2346000
Believe it or not the only one out of those three that overperforms at those stats is that TAC and mostly because super long range + non interceptable damage = really good finisher against something already chewed out. MLs look better than they are because unless it's a doom or ody stacking a bunch on manual fire they really don't do too much with that damage spread over multiple ticks and multiple armor sections. Still too much for a 1OP weapon tho.
I did change TACs to 225 damage and mls to 168 frag and it's about there.

>>2346045
The shieldshunted HSA thunderhead paragon meta was too strong.

rape luddics

Ironshell update when? But in all seriousness are there any major bugs after switching the version number, or at least things to avoid to prevent crashing to desktop errors?

>>2346618
>Ironshell update when?
"gameVersion": "0.98",
Problem solved.

>>2346618
ffs I hit post too early, I changed the version number and haven't had a single Ironshell related CTD since 0.98 came out.

>>2346651
>>2346652
Good, good, I'm just being safe, don't want some weird bug that bricks a save. With my luck I'll start a new game and then the update to 0.98 will shadow drop and require a new game because Murphy's Law applies to my life way too much.

>>2339156
>HTE
my condolences

>>2346730
nta
what's wrong with it?

I want to get back into the game but updating all the mods I want to use manually is somewhat tiresome.
Which mod manager is decent, if there are any?

>>2346733
Gloom was nerfed
It used to be a cruiser now its a destroyer

A lot of sprites got changed too
tranny sprite in the folder though seemingly unused

Is the threat just flavor or are they going to hit the core worlds? We got like 4 major issues right now.
AI, which may not be all that bad.
The hyms, which is something.
THREAT which may eventually hit the core worlds
And abyssalniggas which, I have no idea.

Hyms and abyss niggas might be related.

>>2346789
You could be waiting another ten years for those questions to be answered.

>>2346789
The threat currently have no access to hyperspace, so ????

>>2346805
I'm putting them in my cargo holds.

>>2346730
remember when the furry troon dev left the forums because he didn't want remove the crashcode for a mod that doesn't even exist anymore, then came crawling back a few months later anyways.

>>2346789
If we go by the main story it would mostly likely be music/abyssniggas

>>2346805
So it's just a matter of decades/centuries?
If humanity can't recover technologically and industrially in time, they're doomed?
Or do the threat not want to bother with things outside of the Abyss for some reason?

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Anyone using Second-in-Command? Is there anything in there that's properly busted? Are there any aptitudes that stand out as head-and-shoulders above the others?

>>2346935
Its bad that I cant tell which specific incident you're referring to.

>>2347023
haven't used it yet, but about to
I've heard there's a little bit of busted stuff
if you WANT maximum busted
use the corvus freeport discord's
>Second In Command - Safety Overrides
in the bootleg_updates channel, search for "1.8.1"
then search "second in command 1.8.2" in starsector_general to find posts of how to make it work with the newest version, and fully unlock stuff

>>2347040
oh, also enable devmode with the Console Commands "devmode" command, and hit shift+g to increase officer level beyond cap

Why had no-one produced anything as kino as Blackrock? Ships look so damn GOOD, and their teleportslaught is sick.

I dont get this game.
You have only 6 colonies. You can't give ships to your colonies.
How do you have any chance against any fractions fleet?

>>2346789
There was a dialogue with Cotton that suggests they'll be released on the sector. Possibly by Tri-Tachyon since you're feeding them their stuff.

>>2347198
Are you playing without Nexerelin or something?

>>2347005
Unless they somehow get a breakthrough or they are helped/unleashed by others I don't think the sector will be around long enough for the threat to threaten the sector, considering we open the gate system when everything points towards the domain intentionally shutting it down.

>>2346733
besides >>2346766 there was an incident where the creator added crashcode for mods he disliked >>2346935

years before president matt damon's spergout caused alex to FINALLY implement a no malware policy on the forums

>>2346935
>then came crawling back a few months later anyways.
said mod that "doesn't exist anymore" still exists btw

>>2347327
unofficially on some discord with a userbase of like 10 people btw

>>2347351
USC trannies and this furfag should be hunted down wherever their filth appears.

>>2347198
Radiant solos

>>2347023
I tried using it and the mod just totally trivialized fights. Way too many bonuses stacking on each other. I liked the concept but not the execution and couldn't be assed to try fine tuning it for myself when vanilla is right there and works ok

>>2347434
Yeahhh, I've got a couple of skills in each officer right now and its getting a bit silly. : / Funny, you would think that someone might mention that its OP as fuck in the mods thread. Save as UAF I guess, busted undercosted/underfluxed things just thrown at you but it seems to be stupidly popular too.

>>2347492
The forums are a cesspool of toxic redditor communists, so you cannot say things as they are, you have to lie about everything to assuage egos and satisfy dimwits and mutilated troons.

That's why I discuss things here, where I can be called a faggot while learning how to actually fit ships and what mods are actually balanced and fun instead of completely broken.

>>2347434
>>2347492
Basically any mod that allows you to take combat skills will always be absurdly broken because of how powerful the player ship is. In a normal game you usually take logistical skills because they have a ton of quality of life stuff but SIC forces you to offload them onto others while you only get the absurdly strong combat skills, some of which can turn even a normally mediocre ship into a supership.

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>>2338267
Wanted to ask again. Does anyone have a version of LOA Dev that works well with 0.98? The one before it became that lizard mod?

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>>2344311
>Do you know of any modded large ballistics with long range, and either very long refire delay, or magazine-based system?
>Kinetic preferred, energy alright.
The Orbital Mass Driver from Derelict Expansion seems like exactly what you're looking for.

>>2347531
What mod are the teal-ish blue/green ships from? The ones that are more blue than they are green.

>>2347538
Dev version of Legacy of Arkgneisis, weird lizard aliens use them iirc

>>2347551
Can you use it with the regular version?

>>2347531
Should be in his patreon thing
Or just look in the LoA thread in the forums

>>2347563
don't think so

>>2346805
They can slap your ass out of phase. It's only a matter of time.

>>2347531
Whatever you do don't use it if you also use AotD, as once that courier ship spawns that’s your save unrecoverably fucked.

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>watch uaf trailer
>blurb at the very end of the trailer
>"remastered and rebalanced"
1% hopeful
99% skeptical

When you realize that the

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>>2347939

>>2347939
>>2348116
i guess candlejack is bac

>>2347563
Sadly most of these were only on the dev version, as Gwyvern went on a years-long hiatus and then remade the mod to focus more on the lizard people.

>>2348407
>remade
it's more like a completely different mod tbdesu, I think he originally wanted to add it to LoA but seems like he decided to just make the lizards their own mod.

how would (You) fix the Giganiggacannon? (Outside of lowering it's OP cost)

>>2348650
Faster projectile or no wind-up time.

>>2348650
By putting it on a ship that can handle it.

>>2348650
Twice the damage half the cooldown

>>2348671
I mean double the cooldown I am retarded

>>2347930
I HOPE to be proven wrong but that trailer didn't inspire confidence within me. The whole thing was just "Look, more ships!" when the mod ALREADY has fifty billion ships, What it REALLY needed was a fucking rewrite because the mod is clearly ESL as fuck.

I'd also greatly prefer a rebalance to relationships so it's not purely a cookie buying simulator and expanded dialogue to actually fulfill their anime VNsector meme.

Ayo mshadowy trooned out in his forties lmao lole.

>>2348705
another one taken by the gaming equivalent of the crack epidemic.
grim.

>>2348671
>>2348672
wouldn't that just make it worse

>you can't down-fit a multi-type weapon slot unless the weapon is also the same multitype e.g a mining laser on medium hybrid
Bug or feature?

>>2348692
How badly do you think CW would chimp out if I made a fork for UAF with my own unfucked interpretation of what the fuck is supposed to be going on with his characters and lore and then spread it?

>>2348728
Think it's been that way for a long time (and documented as such on the wiki), so I'd reckon it's intended behaviour.

>>2348734
CY is stable compared to the mod mafia. I doubt he'll Soren himself if you do.

>>2348728
feature, you can basically mis-fit one step but not more (ballistic in hybrid, synergy in energy, small in medium)

>>2348705
i always thought there was something vaguely gay about SHY

>>2348407
Sounds like a mod that needs to be ethnically cleansed with portraits of attractive white people

>>2348728
bug because it's retarded for no gameplay purpose nor benefit and doesn't make any intuitive sense either, it is in fact counter-intuitive to what the player learns about fitting.

It's just some oversight by alex who doesn't even play or care about his game anymore which everyone just rolls with because it's not a big enough deal to bother fixing.

>>2348741
>malaysian faggot
>stable
He had to nuke and purge his server a couple of times in an attempt to take out someone who’s leaking discord logs in /vst/

>>2348767
wrong on all counts

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Any new or cool mods released since last year. i want to play space mount and blade again

>>2348741
CY is a faggot and a scammer he uses people like a tool and then throw them away

>>2348870
modders are working as hard as alex is, ie not at all

Dear god - AotD: Vaults of Knowledge really puts a massive cock-block on your colonising efforts doesn't it? I'm frequently finding myself with the best ships in the game in my fleet and my colonies barely scraping along at subsistence level still. I'm not sure if I should just remove AotD: VoK or if I should impose some more restrictions on myself to slow my fleet progression down, or what?
It feels like its a good mod, in theory, its just not particularly well thought out with regards to balance with how quickly the player progresses up to the largest ships. By the time I'm rocking the largest ships and dreadnoughts even (from some mod) I don't want to be bothering with babysitting some colony. What do I even need them for at that point?

steam release when

>>2348908
dear god shitmod does shitmod things

>>2347494
The mod author ironically enough ran a survey about his mod once on hhrheddit, checked it out assuming he wanted to balance things out a bit but all the questions were just vibe based bullshit which flavor of broken aptitude you like best. It's clear the intent was to just find which one was least broken and buff it more and to massage the author's ego
I asked the author what's the point as he won't find anything and the and got a long winding response which went from denial to concern trolling about seeking mental help and touching grass

>>2348692
I really wish the mod dropped the anime isekai bullshit, just make it proper in-universe isekai, a lost domain ark ship that ran into a wormhole 1000k years ago during the first age of domain expansion and spent half that time asleep and the other half trying to re-build civilization from scraps on barely-habitable worlds

>>2348908
I mean yeah, the mod does good things if you want a slower colonization progression, if you don't there's no reason for you to have it, don't get baited into thinking there are "Mandatory" mods, vanilla is a 9.5/10 game by itself as it is.

The logic is that your fleet you scavenged/stole/bought from established factions is top of the line, but they did the leg-work of making them for you. While your own faction needs time and attention to get to the point where they can make them.
The entire point of the mod is to slow down and add depth to the colonization gameplay by giving you a lower starting point and a higher end point than vanilla.
For example you can start to manufacture limited quantities of Omega and moderately higher quantities of Dweller weaponry in the newest version without farming. Which for me makes it worth babysitting colonies, it's not like there is much to do with a tricked out fleet in the endgame anyway. Going from beating 300% bonus Remnants to 500% just gets gamey and annoying real fast

>>2348908
The point of the mod is longer colony phase so yeah I don't know what you expected

>>2348650
>Giganiggacannon
use the buckbreaker version instead

What facing faction does the new uaf update nerf?

It should be required to have salvage ships to salvage ships

>>2349184
No, because that implies workers rights you can't violate. Salvage without a dedicated ship means you're just sending guys out on EVA with blowtorches.

>>2349077
pretty sure UAF doesn't do that and oly NIA mods do

>>2349077
It nerfed itself
because the subfactions to its own faction don't share ship variants anymore

>>2349077
the standard ships are weaker than vanilla the mod is compromised

>>2348918
When it's done. Alex doesn't wanna deal with steamies' EA system.

>>2348769
Really? lol.

>>2348769
We need another leak again

>>2348650
Just raise the range. It's a flux efficient armor cracker that can't be easily shield flickered away, if it wasn't rangecucked, then it'd have a lot more potential as a finisher.

gigacannon is fine after the buff

>>2349350
>It's a flux efficient armor cracker that can't be easily shield flickered away
It's just a worse HIL in that regard though.

>>2347494
I swear some parts of the Starsector community are retarded, where touching any aspect of something, be it mods or vanilla, is sacrilege and "how dare you"

Everything from overpowered stuff ("It isn't overpowered! And if it is, it is domain era!") to underpowered ("It fits with vanilla and it's realistic!") stuff to anime portraits ("It breaks my immersion! My immersion of playing as a overpowered individual decimating/ruling the sector in few years") to writing "WRONG, YOUR X FACTION DOESN'T FIT IN SLIGHTEST IN MY 40k KNOCK OFF OP SI".

jezz, just take it less seriously mate

>>2349438
>anon discovers autism

>>2349428
Except they punish shield flickering in different ways. HIL provides constant chip damage that slips through the shield flickering whereas a gigacannon pressures the shield directly by spiking it(and almost certainly overloading if the AI is flicking it to begin with)

I'd take an overload over a bit of chip IMO.

>>2349466
>I'd take an overload over a bit of chip IMO.
well, it depends on your loadout's strategy doesn't it? an overload isn't worth much unless you can follow it up with a heavy strike (overloading ON the strike is just a whiff), and pressure builds don't really care if you're overloaded or not, they ultimately need to chew through the same flux and armor regardless

Today I discovered that you do not in fact install Fast Rendering like any other mod, that you put it in Starsector-Core and run the .bat file. Thought I'd been using it all along and just hadn't noticed it was absent in my massive mod-list, and this was as good as heavily modded Starsector performance got.
Nope! Learn to read, do it right, and the game becomes buttery smooth.

>>2349438
>("It isn't overpowered! And if it is, it is domain era!")
Then you suggest perhaps they just cost it appropriately in terms of maintenance, deployment cost or (for weapons) OP and they still lose their shit. At lot of them just seem to want their super special faction to be downright better than any other, even before the players gets their hands on the ship builder and pilots them in battle.

>>2349499
i see way more players complaining about nerfs than modders. just look at this thread where some sperg regularly loses his shit just from someone saying the 'n-word'.

>>2348769
Cy is unironically stable. He might be paranoid and overreact but most of the complaining is the discordfags from USC. They have a discord group where they bitch about him, call /vst/ a cesspit full of easily manipulated retards and pverall stroke their own egos lmao. When that VTuber began streaming pre-release of UAF and mentioned that she might have to make a subfraction of Hege because Ironshell is dead Selkie immediately panicked and began making an official update of Ironshell. It was hilarious.

>>2349712
god I hate discord so much

>>2349757
It's a bunch of troons, furfags and faggots playing politics while stroking their egos over "at least I am not that guy" and then laughing at their own shitty joke. It's some weird obsession with politics and friend games from high school. All of them also think they are better than everyone else and that noone suspects they post disinformation or hate for someone they dislike on 4chan. Subhuman pricks.

>>2349712
>she
i don't even know who this is supposed to refer to but i still know that
>she

>>2349712
Also don't forget, the Ironshell update is USC DiSCorD ExCluSiVE!

>>2349887
This literally defeats the purpose of making an official update. If the mod gets updated, but the update isn't accessible to most players then it may as well be dead.

>>2349901
Umm sweetie only insels aren't on tha 'cord.

>>2349712
>When that VTuber began streaming pre-release of UAF and mentioned that she might have to make a subfraction of Hege because Ironshell is dead Selkie immediately panicked
Incredible.

>>2349901
please understand modders egoes are so fragile if they exist outside of their hugboxes they might ack themselves.

>>2349922
I hate modders so much

But then I realize it's actually that most of them are some degree of batshit insane and retarded communist/liberal and not because they are modders.

The crux of it is that they are all faggot girlymen. They are juvenile narcissists living in utter delusion who run from responsibility like women do.