'https://gitgud.io/rsdev/RapeSector';

'>>1744367
slop';

'>get A Lost Thread in a system I had already explored
>get literally nothing on sensors or anything even with Reveal or neutrino detector
What the fuck am I supposed to do, then? Did the thing simply not spawn?';

'>>1744358
>>>1735763
It's still up you retarded nigger';

'>>1744398
It's literally in the star(blackhole) next to it';

'It’s cool how you can instantly assess a person’s Starsector knowledge by hearing what they think about the HAG.';

'>>1744367
>>1744373
Discord and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race';

'>>1744452
Well I mean, so was this place technically speaking. Not that I am defending discord, but...';

'>>1744446
I like how it goes boomboomboomboomboomboom';

'>>1744446
funny dakka gun that tears apart frigates, destroyers, and light cruisers
if only there were ships with large ballistic slots and accelerated ammo feeders';

'>>1744465
Atlas mk2';

'>>1744466
If only there were real ships with accelerated ammo feeders.';

'>>1744468
Invictus';

'>>1744468
It's real son, and most large ballistics+large missile/DP in this game and on Capital ITU.';

'>>1744479
This anon was killed before he could finished this post. Pray for him.';

'>>1744446
who the fuck calls it HAG';

'>>1744507
For esl who don't know how to spell Hepatitus';

'>>1744507
The game files.';

'>>1744509
*heapheatus';

'>>1744358
Haven't played this game in 4 years, did it change much? I'll give it another install assuming my key still works';

'>>1744507
hefausto asaulturu gaunu';

'>>1744509
>>1744512
hephelephagus';

'I sincerely doubt anyone really has trouble spelling Hephaestus.';

'>>1744426
Black Hole is not part of the Venera system';

'>>1744545
Your black hole is part of the venereal disease system though.';

'Anon that was having that weird crash here. I went the nuclear option and just uninstalled and deleted everything. Spent an hour reinstalling and re-downloading every single last mod. I'll report on if the error comes back.';

'>>1744446
Best weapon in its slot next to mjolnir';

'Lets have some fun

Write a bad(or good) relationship change reason.

Example:
A Sindrian Diktat engineer was found attempting to copy a data chip of Tri-Tachyon designs, he was promptly hanged.

Relationship between Sindrian Diktat and Tr-Tachyon reduced by -35';

'A TT anon posted a garbage meme from predditron beta uplink on a persean sector basket weaving symposium, Independent anons are pretty sure they are a tranny from discordia.

War has been declared.';

'I love this lil nigga';

'>>1744615
angry faces in the large phase coils';

'Phase ships are cringe.';

'>>1744625
I agree but I like the look of that fucker even though I don't use it. The description is... interesting.';

'Phase ships are based.';

'>2024
>AI still can't use phase ships properly';

'>>1744635
Yes so far I am piloting the Grendel.
Its fun has well with SO in the early game but I doubt theres a good way to fit it into a larger fleet composition given the way AI handles phase ships.';

'>>1744625
phase cargo ship';

'Post irredeemably ugly ships';

'>>1744660';

'>>1744664
>pilums';

'>>1744670
pilum on muh dick
ooooo gottem';

'>>1744675
kill yourself';

'>>1744684
kill yourself urself nerd';

'>cthulhu core
we can never have enough Abysscore mods';

'SERVANT OF MOLOCH BEGONE';

'>AI just sitting on its ass doing nothing
>chuddic path has a lil melty
Letting the rogue omega AI use the planetkiller on Gilead, best day of my life.';

'>>1744730
>harmless';

'>>1744732
The charges officer? Where's the evidence';

'>>1744734
Marines, take him down.';

'>start new game
>generated Sector isn't aesthetic
>start another new game
>repeat';

'>>1744749
Wouldn't it be easier to use something like adjusted sector to adjust the sector?';

'>>1744751
That's cheating.';

'>>1744753
You're already cheating by rerolling.';

'>>1744749
total fps death';

'>>1744468
Eradicators';

'>>1744756
>90 fps in system
>3 fps in hyperspace';

'>>1744590
Baikal Daud was called a manlet by an aristocrat from Kazeron.

Relationship between the Hegemony and the Persean League is unchanged (-100)';

'Is there a mod faction that you always like to have around in your games?';

'>>1744795
space truckin is kind of a faction. I like it better than just running guns and drugs every time.';

'>>1744624
Which are the same angry faces on Gremlin coils';

'>>1744799
You know you could just NOT smuggle drugs even without that mod... right?';

'>>1744806
Yeah but I like space truckin.';

'Nothing better than making some nice cash right off the bat by doing a single drug run.';

'>>1744590';

'I feel like I should branch out with the skills I prioritize, but at the same time not have Containment Procedures and Makeshift Equipment just feels so painful.';

'>>1744795
underworld for wacky pirate shitbarges instead of infinite eradicators every time';

'>>1744590
A Tri-Tachyon diplomat was revealed to be an AI catgirl.

Relationship between The Hegemony and Tr-Tachyon reduced by 100';

'>>1744749
I have this autism.';

'>>1744660
fuck you I like it';

'>>1744898
I'm going to fuck you and you're going to like it.';

'I think I FINALLY fixed that weird crashing error. All it took was a complete re-install of everything, from the base game to the mods. I think my game was screwed up because I installed Starsector without uninstalling the previous version, and there might've been a conflict.';

'>>1744937
It was actually because you touch yourself at night.';

'>>1744730
What do you expect of the retards that want to turn sci-fi mount & blade into normal mount & blade
>Letting the rogue omega AI use the planetkiller on Gilead
Does that have any negative consequences outside of Gilead dying?';

'>>1744730
>i literally just want to move you from one planet to another
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FUCK YOU HUMAN LEAVE ME BE OR I'LL BROADCAST THE FACT YOU USE AN AI TO EVERYONE WHO HATES AI
alpha cores are niggers';

'I haven’t played in about a year, and just played a bit in vanilla. Are there any good up to date videos/ guides so I can get back into the game?';

'>>1745058
It is the same game as it was a year ago. What do you want a guide about?';

'Starsector 2 when?';

'>>1745071
After every anime mod is 100% complete.';

'>>1745066
Idk wtf I was even doing on my playthrough and now want to start over but forgot everything';

'>>1745058
>guides so I can get back into the game
grim';

'>>1745074
Go through the tutorial and don't rash your progress. Growing fleet too fast can complicate things.
If you really has to have some guidance, check Big Brain Energy on youtube, he has a playthrough example for noobs.';

'>>1744452
>implying it's any better here';

'>>1744887
>reduced
>implying they wont simp for her hard and actually improve relations by 50
Even those luddic cucks can't help but throw money at them';

'>>1745044
>denies the fact that he uses AI cores when asked like it's something to be ashamed of
>surprised that the AI core gets mad
It can broadcast the fact that i overuse AI to anyone it wants, i already send a picture of me and my Neuro Core holding hands to Daud's office every friday. It'd actually be doing me a favor.
>mfw i visit a luddic shrine just to tell that one choir boy faggot that i openly support AI rights';

'>>1744756
how do i change the amount of systems? some sort of mod?';

'>>1745044
The AI cores seem strangely clingy to being planet bound. I mean yeah phasecraft scares the shit out of them but regular travel doesn't seem to bother the remnants.';

'Sometimes life is like a reaper torpedo.';

'Kinda sad that with 0.97 colony crisis they made the game much more focused on combat.
Now you really can't have a trade fleet that is super efficient and just dedicate yourself to large scale trading, since when you get colonies you will be invaded constantly.';

'>>1745112
>they made the game much more focused on combat
Nigga, what?! Game was always about combat.
Everything else is just for flavor and not really well done.
How do you even have fun with large scale trading when it just… "fly in a straight line from point A to point B"?';

'>see bounty fighting Remnants
>wait since I can't join the fight
>Remnant kills bounty and I get the payment
Is this deliberate?';

'>>1745121
>is AI taking jobs away from me deliberate?';

'>>1745121
Yes, because check condition is hard';

'>>1745121
Well, technically you probably recorded death of the target, making client happy. Nobody is going to investigate if you shoot dude personally or not.';

'>>1745117
some people just like space trucking anon';

'>>1745234
No, I know it can be fun, I play euro track myself. But in starsector there is no substance to the process of moving shit around.';

'>>1745087
It was before you got here.';

'>>1745117
>>1745238
You can seek to make the most cost efficient fleet for hauling goods, find the best trade routes and then you could get colonies for resource extraction.
All while seeing credits go up.';

'>>1745283
You can, but the payoff is minimal and it's less cost effective by time than just buying 10 cerberuses early game and hauling drugs from luddites to eouchou bres';

'>>1745294
smuggling is also a part of trade.
buying shit for cheap in criminal and terrorist dens, then selling it in the black market of main factions and independents';

'>>1745097
adjusted sector';

'>>1745332
i didn't argue that it isn't, but it's mechanically almost identical. You want to buy and sell on black market, no matter if you're smuggling or not.';

'>>1745112
>>1745234
>>1745283
anon i don't want to be an asshole but this sort of thinking is why this game remained shit for so long
its a spaceship go boom game in the same way m&b or bb are';

'>>1745348
thanks anon';

'>>1745397
the game remains utter dogshit to this day because alex is a lazy faggot nigger squared and the modding community is full of discord troon troonies salivating at pictures of greasy cocks like the bitch niggers they are you dumb fucking faggot';

'mutt moment';

'is there any point to this game other than installing rapesector, kidnapping women, satbombing the entire core worlds until they disappear and then raping your prisoners endlessly for a whole cycle until you get bored?';

'>>1745421
This except screeching about penises, chmosolov needs to get his shit together';

'>>1745459
sir this is a sandbox with ships';

'>>1745459
You're only supposed to satbomb Chico.';

'>>1745459
I like doing faction-only runs these days. Assembling a travelling circus of overpowered, mismatched ships and making super colonies gets boring after you've done it the first time.';

'>amass a fleet of like 15 pirate class Hounds
>they are fast and cheap to repair
>chase down smaller fleets
>RELEASE ZEE HOUNDS
>mfw watching them dogpile the enemy';

'>>1745467
>not satbombing kazeron
shalom';

'>>1745504';

'What don't hostile factions just lay a bunch of mines in front of all the Gates to fuck you over?';

'>>1745510
why don't you stop putting bread in public urinals? think you are quirky?';

'>>1745421
how many threads have you made bitching about manor lords?';

'Please do not bomb Tri-Tach planets. Think of the android girls.';

'>>1745515
Just 3 over the past month, faggot
>>1745518
TT cucked itself to the manlet nigger
The corporation has fallen, millions must die. Simple as.';

'>>1745534
kek all you do is hate';

'>>1745518
I VILL sat-bomb every Tri-Tach planet.
After evacuating every android/AI core to my colonies of course.';

'>>1745539
you will hate yourself even more which is why you'll be joining the 41% sooner than Alex releases the next update';

'>>1745499
>Hounds
Are they capable to actually defeat an equally strong fleet? Rugged construction makes them a decent meat shields, but I don't think that medium mount is enough to defeat most frigates.';

'>the Diktat joined the Greater Hegemony
lmfao';

'>>1745557
nah thats you';

'Sinking the Bismar is so easy lmao
Good training for retards to not be overconfident just because they got a big ship.';

'>>1745397
I get where you're coming from. I see how Alex concentrating on adding content to colony management in vanilla is kinda of a mixed bag.
On one hand, a lot of the fights are epic on both fluff and crunch level. Going against 6 persean blockade in a row to protect your independence is kino.
On the other hand, it took like a massive amount of time both in game and out to play that content (both reaching pop 5 and filling up the danger bar), which could of been more easily available by taking higher tier bounties.
Granted I do see Alex's view too. "Majority players now skip combat and just do logistic/colony sim, so why not force them to freak out and fight?" Now he did add some RP text adventure loopholes to not completely piss those players off, but I can see the designer's logic.';

'>>1745625
Just remove colony and smuggling already.';

'>>1745564
>fastest ship in the game with a top speed of 180, or 230 if you get the LP version from the terrorists
>good armor and hull for a frigate
>low maintenance cost
>high peak performance
>rugged construction and shielded cargo holds
They are extremely based, you don't need anything else in your fleet, just hounds';

'>>1744398
>get A Lost Thread
>it's Starsector thread
God fucking dammit';

'>>1745633
I'd rather they removed combat instead';

'>>1745660
>open spaceships game
>it's anime waifus';

'>>1745633
>>1745661
They should just remove the entire game.
But only for you, i get to keep playing.';

'>>1745661
There are better games for trading.';

'>>1745633
Honestly that would make it back into Starfarer which was... underwhelming, so no.
I don't wanna capture 10 Buffalo Mk2 with my vigilance to buy a destroyer...';

'>>1745714
Wasn't in the farer era. Why not just salvage a destroyer?';

'>>1745706
But trading games usually have shitty plots and uninteresting worlds.';

'>>1745769
It is still not a good trading game because sailing across coreworlds is a stroll.';

'>>1744446
>120 base damage
lol';

'>>1744664';

'>>1745766
Basically in Starfarer you need marines board and capture ships (if they're salvageable). The bit that's hard is that your starting frigate can't really carry that much marines, so you need to hunt for shitty pirate ships that has very little crew for a while to actually start becoming a proper fleet.
It's fun, but very grindy.';

'>>1744660
All vanilla ships and modded vanilla recolors and shitbash.';

'Should I go Hedgemonkey or FPE?';

'>>1745976
Derelict Enthusiast. Use only shitbricks and derelict reconstructions from that standalone HMI mod.';

'I don't really get combat, where do you find early game battles? My fleet of little guys keeps getting stomped by big pirates';

'>>1746063
You don't. You run drugs and explore until you are able to buy/find some good ships.';

'>>1746063
>>1746066
Plus you can pick off small pirate groups easily enough if they're just frigates and shit';

'>>1746063
Fight better against a large group in simulation.
Go explore and fight automated defense system and remnant pickets that are guranteed to be tiny, also a chance to salvage derelict ships. Any other mission also pays to get some ship. Drag pirates into patrol in system bounty. Get more trash ship from salvage if weapon is abundant and store them in system if can't pay for fuel. There are 3 abandoned stations that stores for free while other needs to pay.';

'>>1746078
Pretty tricky to do this with the standard starting fleets, i went for scavenger and I'm having a really hard time. I was hoping to work my way up to bigger battles.';

'>>1746094
the ships in galatia should be enough to get you going.';

'Is it "ga-lay-shia" or "ga-la-tee-ya"?';

'>>1746101
yea';

'>>1746063
>where do you find early game battles?
First you look where there's pirates bounty, you participate as much as you can but most importantly: capture then recycle everything, it's a great way to get money/supply/fuel.

Then you explore, find good ships, not too big or you won't be able to crew them or equip them.
If you find a ship too big to use now, you can put it in storage in abandoned station (no fee).';

'>>1746101
ga-la-tee-ya, considering the name is of greek origin.';

'>>1746101
>>1746125
γαλατία on google translate on Greek.';

'>>1746101
Second one.';

'>>1744358
I am getting fed up with exploration and empty systems. Half of the systems in the game are empty stars, and there is literally no point to exploring them. I jump in, see no planets or objects, and ther's never a reason to explore. They really should put some occasional rare drops so i don't just immediately jump back out.';

'>>1746191
>he doesn't know alex putted it at the edge of the system';

'I also don't get the point of surveying gas giants, they are expensive and never have any good survey results, nor do I find research station more often around black holes or neutron stars like people say, its about the same for all stars.';

'New java update when';

'>>1746063
You want to avoid combat until you have at least a destroyer in your employ. You ideally would get a capital ship, but they're not feasible until you can pay for their maintenance and upkeep.';

'>>1746191
Get Adjusted Sector, you don't even need to increase the size of the map (although you should), just increase the number of derelicts/probes/research stations or whatever.';

'>>1746191
check the outer reaches';

'>>1746191
There's a distance modifier for the frequency at which stations/derelicts/probes/etc. spawn from the core worlds. The further you are from the core the higher the chance you'll find something of interest. Set it to 1 and practically every unexplored system will have something of interest.

It doesn't affect planets/ruins and their conditions though, you'll want adjusted sector for that.';

'>>1746191
You can see if there are no planets before entering them.';

'>>1746358
That isn't the point. What I mean is nothing ever spawns in systems without planets. So half the map is useless.
It's almost always the same with the way shit spawns and its very annoying, even in systems with tons of planets. If I don't find something at the first two planets I travel to, there's almost never any need to explore the rest of the system. But if I find something by the gate or at the first planet, I know the enitre system is going to jam packed with research, mining stations, probes, etc.
Most systems are either empty or full of crap.
It totally negates the point of exploration.';

'>>1746375
>That isn't the point. What I mean is nothing ever spawns in systems without planets. So half the map is useless.
Don't know what to tell you besides "werks on my machine". Even before I tried mods there wasn't an abundance of empty systens,';

'I love this little nigga.';

'>>1746389
That's because it's so broken.';

'>>1746389
>i love cheats';

'[I won't stop intensifies]';

'Is armor distributed evenly?';

'>>1746500
Every cell on a ship as the armour value displayed.';

'>>1746101
I say ga-la-shia and I don't really care if I'm wrong';

'Glacier';

'Galaga';

'Using manned fighters seems outright immoral given how quickly they get obliterated. Don't care how much hazard pay they get.';

'>>1746199
volatiles';

'>want to replay the game after like 2 years
>go through my mod list to reinstall the latest version
>half of them are not available because tranny modder freaks just can't keep themselves in check
WTF?';

'>>1746566
The more fucked up part is that matt did that to a mod that wasn't even his originally. He was just supposed to "maintain" (up the version number every SC update) it.

And he then deleted his original take no prisoners mod, so rapesector is the only one with the features.

He went bonkers.';

'>>1746566
use tranny mods win tranny prizes';

'>>1746619
>rapesector
What is that? Can I rape the tranny modder's OCs to death?';

'>>1746645
bullseye';

'>>1746650
So the tranny modders threw a fit because people were raping their OCs in game? That's both hilarious and pathetic.';

'Discord trannies you're just too obvious for your own good.';

'>>1746645
>>1744367
kill yourself';

'>>1746645
>Can I rape the tranny modder's OCs to death?
Yes, yes you can! It's why they hate it so much, they wanted their self-inserts to be protected. I'll be completely honest, RS is the only reason I started using Iron Shell and UAF.';

'>totally organic posting';

'>>1746689
You first matt';

'>>1746709
>RS is the only reason I started using Iron Shell and UAF
same';

'>totally organic raping';

'>>1746619
>rapesector is the only one with the features
mfw';

'>>1744367
does this only work if you have modded factions?';

'>>1746550
So what, low tech also deliberately hull tanks while having a lot more crews onboard because they won't lighten up to dodge, efficient shield tank and automate like high tech. The moral responsibility is makesure picking the right equipment, tactics and training so the gain is well worth the risk. Skills and hullmod shows casualty can be reduced by ejecting ans rescuing';

'>>1746619
>people want the ability to capture officers
>Take no prisoners is the only one that works for 0.97
>Rapesector comes along and does the same thing
>TAKES DOWN TNP, SO NOW RAPESECTOR IS THE ONLY ONE THAT LETS YOU DO IT';

'Fuck you Nia';

'>>1746874
>The moral responsibility is makesure picking the right equipment, tactics and training so the gain is well worth the risk. Skills and hullmod shows casualty can be reduced by ejecting ans rescuing
No, also I'm keeping the shield shunt on. Now grab the welding torch and vac suit, rodriguez, we're going in.';

'>>1746550
it's kind of crazy that they would exist considering how popular drones are in modern day
even the luddic path wouldn't be against technology that existed on earth
anyway I don't know why someone would man one given that they always have a 100% fatality rate, they just stay there until they die.';

'>spent several weeks playing starsector to fix a bug that would constantly crash my game
>finally fix it
>super happy to use all my mods again
>get burnt out by the time I get a colony up and running

Cursed monkey's paw.';

'>>1746619
the more time goes by the more i'm thinking the reason we have monopolies isn't because we fuck them over, it's because the concurrence just keeps taking itself out';

'>>1746905
>by the time I get a colony up and running
the trick is to never do this';

'>>1746912
The colony doesn't have much to do with it. I get excited to clear through a laundry list of bounties and IBB missions, not to mention a whole bunch of stuff to find and building up an army, but once you construct the perfect army, you just burn out. The moment I got the Altagrave EX, nothing in the game could hurt me.';

'>>1746104
>capture then recycle everything
Do you get more materials like that? I thought the game just auto scuttles any ship that you don't recover and it's the same';

'>>1746566
>Exotica tech
Is there no way to get a previous version up and running again? I made some pretty ridiculous ships with this mod.';

'transsector';

'>>1747082
For me just changing the game version number in mods_info.json worked';

'>>1747082
Also the mod is still being maintained and can be found on the forum index';

'>>1746922
>Do you get more materials like that? I thought the game just auto scuttles any ship that you don't recover and it's the same
You do and you know the tips on the starting menu?
One specifically tell you that.';

'>>1747173
jesus
Least conceited tourist.';

'>>1747173
>screencapping a reddit post
kill yourself';

'>>1747173
>screencapping your own reddit posts';

'>>1747173
>>1747180
>>1746750';

'>>1746909
It's called natural selection';

'Every faction should have their own logistics ships.';

'>>1747251
objectively correct take, especially for all the factions with their own aesthetic';

'>>1747255
different anon here, I don't mind faction using other factions ships, as long as they have at least a few of unique ones, especially for any oc's. In the same sense, that other countries used Italian military trucks to some extent for example, but still put in their own touches in how they use them';

'>>1746874
The only way to conduct space warfare without garunteed casualties (because even high tech is going to take hull damage eventually) is with a fully automated fleet. However, Remnant ships themselves may be considered immoral, either because AI is an abomination inherently, because unleashing a powerful AI you realistically can't control is reckless (Radiant-chan could almost certainly just fly off after you fully integrate her and you couldn’t stop her), or because forcing AIs to fight for you is arguably slavery.

Thus it is apparent that the solution is to have more simplistic automation, controlled by computers that are too simple to rebel or be enslaved.

Maybe the Domain was on the right track with those derelict drones after all.';

'>>1747308
>even high tech is going to take hull damage eventually';

'>>1747167
>"Scuttling a ship - or simply not recovering it - will produce more value in fuel and supplies than selling it would.",
Is what the tip says, copied from the tips file';

'Any mods that make combat more tactical? I want to execute some basic flanking manoeuvres without it costing all my "command points". Can you queue up orders or something?';

'>>1746909
the arch-example of a terrible monopoly is rockerfeller's standard oil, which was forcibly broken up by the us government at the initiative of roosevelt and taft

during SO's vicious monopoly reign, the price of refined oil dropped to an eighth';

'>>1747401
just assign some ships to defend your flagship and there you go, instant flanking detatchment';

'>>1747410
I guess I could lead the flanks myself, also how am I supposed to tell what is going on from the map, why do the icons need to be gigantic?';

'WHERE THE FUCK IS THE UPDATE';

'>>1747466
>delayed 2 more weeks';

'What are your must-have hullmods? For me it's efficiency overhaul';

'>>1747416
Zoom in';

'>>1747703
Augmented field drive and solar shielding are always s-modded on every ship for smooth sailing.';

'So is this like a 2D top-down Starfield or something';

'>>1747710
>solar shielding
Might not be so necessary if the game didn't path me into fucking suns all the time';

'>>1747715
It's basically Sid Meier's Pirates in space';

'>>1747715
Battle: It's a pimped up asteroids + mechwarrior.
Logistics: Kinda of a light version of bannerlords in space.';

'undefined';

'>>1746896
why aren’t there suicide mining drones/wasps in vanilla
Shepherd (LP) when';

'>>1747715
It’s much closer to EVE Online, if it was singleplayer';

'>>1747710
Solar shielding 100%
Saves so much supplies
>>1747723
More so for the storms';

'How many of you guys are returning players, I noticed it seems there's alot people coming back including myself. Also are modders becoming more retarded these past few years or are you guys just obsessing over them more?';

'Lads, what is the best mod to kek at troons and REKT foids with?';

'>>1747881
theres generally more retardation in modders now but starsector specifically just has a terribly behaved modding community';

'>>1747881
I returned after 4 years but kind of dissapointed to see the game went nowhere.';

'>>1747881
Go back';

'selkie buttsexxx';

'>>1747893
see >>1747890';

'>>1747895
i will go bareback on selkie in order to impregnate her';

'can't impregnate men';

'thread schizos btfod forever';

'>implying arnold was human';

'>>1747881
>>1747888
I just don't remember people mentioning modders this much few years ago. These past few threads I seen anons posting modder misdeeds, obsessing over people like nia, obsessing over discord and trannies, and some other stuff that's related.

I was hoping more from Starsector after a few years, but the big additions seems to be the abyss, few new quest, some new ships, and some changes in hyperspace. Otherwise seems to be the same game. I don't think Alex is lazy, but he doesn't seem to have his priorities straight with all these balance changes to ships and skills. At least some QoL changes are finally coming, maybe I'll see the game completed in another few years.';

'>>1747904
Probably a consequence of stagnation.';

'>>1747904
Well the main aspect of flying your ship around, buying, selling and fighting is already pretty much set. Not sure exactly what they could add to that beyond more ships, more types of contracts, more weapons, etc.
So the main focus for a while has been on colonies and rebalance.';

'>>1746651
some of them were obviously getting off on it - and similarly some of the rapesector users were as well

the whole thing is extremely gay';

'>>1747388
There isn't one about the distinction between recovering stuff and scuttling?
I swear there was.
Well I guess you've seen them all. Now I've gotta make sure the increase I saw isn't mental. I make a fuckton more supply recovering/immediate scuttling than I do clicking the scavenge stuff.
Maybe that an exploit or something.';

'>>1747949
Sometimes I forget Nexelerin is a mod and going back to vanilla playthrough is always so boring because the core systems are so static, no invasion fleets, alliances, etc.';

'>>1747978
Not that I can find

The only other one that even mentions scuttling talks about things related to story points

If you're gonna run some tests let us know how it went, who knows maybe it is bugged';

'>>1747904
Well recent updates haven't really added much.
I'd love to have more vanilla discussion but there's only so much you can talk about unless you get into nitty-gritty optimization which I don't think much people are into.';

'Does anyone else play with Unthemed Weapons Collection?
I've found a system with a bunch of derelict ships and a "??? cache" somewhere according to object analysis, but i can't seem to find said cache anywhere.';

'is sneedault-chuckoyan a real thing yet';

'Who was in the wrong here?';

'>>1748134
delayed another week';

'>>1748157
off to kill myself';

'>>1748145
you';

'I don't understand the point of this shit. I got it years ago and lost my email and recently bought a new key, and there's still nothing to do.
>missions
There are like 4 mission types and one main story thing, and its literally the worst rpgmaker tier quest design ever, just flying around talking to personality-free npcs in an extremely overlong series of space walking sim steps.
>rp
Doing what exactly? You can run 5 colonies and get a bunch of money to do what with? All the planets look and feel the same, all have the same UI messages and screens. There is zero soul to any of it. It just grinds away time. It plays like a mod.

I'm really surprised after all this time there's no ancient aliens or end game crisis or soulful developed characterized party members or at least immersive elements to make any of the shit you do worth it? What has this dev been doing for 3 years?';

'I love the Fury, such a neat little ship. I have two SO furies with neural interface installed and I can kill pretty much anything';

'>>1748201
What do you use with it. Not gonna lie, I gave the Fury a chance but I just didn't enjoy piloting it.';

'>>1748206
?*
Forgot a fucking question mark good lord.';

'>>1748201
>I love the Fury, such a neat little ship
It's an ugly piece of shit like most high tech ships.';

'>>1748200
>one of the few good sci-fi games that doesn't go balls to the walls with aliens
>"nyooo where are the funny green goblinos reee"
Some sort of toggleable endgame crisis could be cool though, maybe something like in Battle Brothers where one crisis is randomly chosen from a limited selection after some amount of time.';

'>>1748200
>soulful developed characterized party members
lmao';

'>>1748206
Dual heavy blasters and reapers. You can bully anything smaller than you and larger ships are no problem if you use two furies and work in tandem, since you can instantly teleport with the neural interface. Once I beat the doritos I'll switch the blasters for cryoflamers/blasters.';

'>>1748200
The game will never be finished or at best Alex will slap 1.0 on the next version and say 'done'';

'>>1748228
He's not gonna do it until the gate story is totally finished (hypershunts included)';

'>>1748229
>Alex releases final story update
>Ending is reopening the gates
>Huge sector ending threat is hinted at
>Ends in a cliffhanger
>Starsector 2 is anounced to release during the summer of 2113.';

'look at this absolute qt just happily doing it's job, i'd give it a hug if i could.
>>1748231
>Starsector 2
>he doesn't know that the story ends with a starfield collab';

'>>1748231
>reopen the gates
>the domain is in even worse shape';

'>Gates reopen
Hopes? Fears? Expectations?';

'>>1748236
>Hopes?
sexy aliens/AI overlords/extradimensional beings';

'>>1748236
There's nothing.

Every single trace of human civilization has disappeared from the Galaxy outside of the Persean Sector, and nobody left can figure out why.';

'One thing I have always disliked about the game is how much the vanilla faction ships are kinda trash. Stuff like Luddite stuff especially aside from the smaller ships with built in. I would imagine something like the prometheus to be a cheap gigachad brick wall to push into the center of combat like a battering ram spraying hot molten lead. Like sure an actual capital would be better but you could get it way earlier etc. as it stands I don't see a benefit for seeing one to my fleet ever.';

'>>1744358
HOLY FUCKING SHIT this fucking gate quest shit is the worst quest design I have ever seen in my entire life. Hours of just clicking through shit and busy work, and every time I think there can't possibly more boredom, there's 7 new retarded "click+sit+wait" things to go fly to in places i've been a hundred times. Whoever this dev is he may actually be the worst quest designer I've ever seen. There is no way he could possibly have thought this would be fun when making it. It is truly unbelievable in the actual sense of that word.';

'>>1747949
For how many years now? If what you see is what you get, why don't they give it a proper release already?';

'>>1748236
>(You) are sent to explore the new (old) human civilization
>theres nothing left and you are drifting in emptiness running out of fuel
>game ends with you entering cryptosleep caskets with your most trusted officers
>credits roll and you crashland in Rimworld
>after escaping to the stars on your spaceship you show up in galatia piloting your starting ship again';

'>>1748236
>Fears
Reopening the gates does nothing except giving you +20% to accessibility and an industry slot / ends with le spooky aliens killed everyone now they are going to kill you too XDDDD and a system similar to new shitty crisises';

'>>1748234
That'd be interesting, if, turns out, the Persean Sector is like a lone beacon of stability. Heg goes from just "temporarily holding down the fort" to "holy shit, we might be the last ones left."';

'>>1748236
might be lame but:
>very hard mission trying to hook up the hypershunt with luddics on your tail
>shit links up, but something fucks up as usual
>all of the core worlds get pulled into a massive >wormhole and spat out in a different galaxy
>new threats, new derelict stations/ships, new systems to explore and story';

'>>1748200
the game you want is mass effect
this game is not about fleet management and space battles';

'>>1748201
>>1748206
Fury is mogged by Aurora badly.
If you want a high tech speedy cruiser use the Aurora.';

'>>1748329
cringe even
have it so when it opens, a ton of [SUPER REDACTED] ships tumble out of it and starts attacking all gated systems';

'Without a doubt the faggiest part of this game is that the MOST FUN PART aka the early game lasts about 5 minutes until you find a random floating abandoned Onslaught and btw you have plenty of cash to maintain it because you can sell scrap found floating in the nearby research station for ten billion dollars gg Ordos lose.';

'>>1748329
>shit links up, but something fucks up as usual
The only problem is that the hypershunts, gates, and domain-era tech in general are actually one of the safest shits in the fluff. They have fail safes on top of fail safes going near infinite. That's why you can use them even if they were neglected for 2 centuries. Corrupted nanoforges are in a way a rare exception, and even that only works inefficiently rather than fucking up a entire planet in grey-goo.
The luddics and heges are really anti-AI in general, because they're techs that actually fucked up pretty badly unlike safe domain-tech.Obviously they have exceptions too like Sentinel.';

'>>1748372
Best option is that nothing happens. They try to go back towards the Domain only to find out everything is fine and the domain just didn't give a fuck about some backwater faggots when they have hundreds of planets and systems conquered.';

'>>1748404
I remember reading something that implied that, but that might have been a dream.';

'>>1748414
The domain itself a vast empire and a lot of their shit is automated according to the lore. It won't happen but I just think it would be a way better "story" if they basically shrugged their fucking shoulders when the sector got cut off and its not some lurking evil or some bullshit. Certainly would be more realistic to have an apathetic overlord empire.';

'>>1748418
Why would Tri-Tachyon and luddics move to a backwater shithole sector if nothing was going on in the domain?';

'>>1748423
Wasn't it a Tri-Tachyon branch the one that's in on the Persean Sector? It's not the actual, full on, megacorp based entirely within the sector';

'>>1748423
They were told to. It isn't a democracy of hugs and rainbows.';

'why is black sun a default ship name?';

'>>1748426
Good ship name.';

'>>1748418
>an apathetic overlord empire
The thing is though it's somewhat implied that they tried to help, or at least continue the colonization attempt (i.e. the gate hauler), but when they got cut off they couldn't really do anything due the vast distances between the FTL abyss. So I think they just deemed the Perseans lost as they weren't pinging back and/or Ludd was evidence of actually something terrible that had to be contained.';

'>>1748426
because this game is made by Jews obsessed with forcing muhdiq porn into impressionable minds';

'>>1748426
Its from star wars *wink*
>>1748428
I don't disagree just saying I would enjoy it more from a story standpoint if it was a giant empire that gave up rather than "muh evil ai/demons/warp ghosts/whatever"
The idea of the empire trying to take the sector back over and having to fight a terrorist war against them would be the most interesting outcome but its going to be some tranny bullshit.';

'>>1748426
Because Alex is massive Star Wars fan-fag. I mean so am I so...';

'>>1748429
Anon you've spent too long on /gif/
Black Sun isn't some bbc shit kek';

'>>1746063
afflictor vs onslaught
(afflictor wins)';

'>>1748429
that is black thunder';

'>>1748441';

'>>1748423
The luddics are "native" to the Persean sector, as their religion started there.
Tri-Tac in the sector is just a branch of the whole megacorp... but it is implied that they moved the backwater shithole to do unregulated R&D away from Domain's eyes. Hence why there are like fucktons of prototype Hyperions and Scarabs floating around in the sector.';

'>>1748428
that's what i mean, make it so the rest of the domain thought it got perma shut off was because something flood-level must've broke out
so when you open up the gates you get flooded with dominion tech warships, hell, it's been over 200 years so maybe they've evolved so much over that time (exponential growth) that they maybe have themselves been changed by their tech (gene editing, neural interfacing/merging/melding) that they can't even be communicated with and they don't remember what humans looked like or something, so any human they see are identified as the shit that had to be contained, and in the case it reopenned, had to be purged.';

'>>1748474
You're not me liar.';

'>>1748477
proof next thread?';

'>>1748331
>the game you want is mass effect
giving people a motive to play besides soothing their autism with micro and sorting things does not make it a casual story game, it just makes it a good game.
Interacting with any of the quests at all in this game makes it impossible to miss the fact that this guy can't do anything but combat to save his life though.';

'any mods dat add proppa orky shipz an’ dakka?';

'>>1748236
>gates open
>fly through
>credits
Whatever is on the other side is best left to speculation. Prior to that will be confronting whatever the music is, which presumably is related to the entire network being shut down to begin with.';

'>>1748057
>If you're gonna run some tests let us know how it went, who knows maybe it is bugged
I don't know how I can test that.
Saving in the middle of a debris field and scavenging different way while the pause is on?
While I'm sure some spacecraft will appear the same each time, not sure there's no RNG.';

'>>1748236
>gates reopen

>you were the only ones left out
>everyone had a great time, the Domain became a participative delicracy that no longer use money
>everyone is now half-human half-AI semi-gods, hearing the song of hyperspace like Ludd did
>they've also initiated first contact with hyperspace aliens
>they are all repulsed at what you have become
>they've been observing you ever since they could
>they tried to tell you through a new form of hyperspace communication but you had not done the preliminary work for that';

'>gates reopen
>it's selkie
>rapes her';

'>>1748613
based ending';

'>>1748236
>>Gates reopen
Just read Hyperion.

The hyperspace network was visible by hyperspace aliens.
When Ludd (psychically attuned to them) walked into the network, the aliens started entering.

Omega did the only thing it could do.
But there wasn't enough time to warn everyone and prepare a post-collapse economy.
All Omega could do is instruct the Doritos guarding the hypershunt to shut-down everything and prevent reactivation.

So when you reconnect to the center of the Domain
Navigate through aliens lifeforms slowly coming back to life because YOU are also psychically attuned with them.

You eventually reach a single station where you will meet:
- Omega, who seeing you, decide that it no longer have time to try to find another solution himself.
- in cryo: Ludd, completely in tunes with the aliens
- in cryo: Domain representatives
- in your mind: alien talking to you through hyperspace song

Everyone is brought to discuss

You get to choose who you supports:
- Omega say human must be modified to no longer be attuned with aliens
- Ludd say religious nonsense about leaving in peace and harmonies with aliens
- Domain representatives want to reestablish the Domain and fight those aliens
- Aliens suggesting to turn mankind into aliens, there may be loss in the process

The moment you click on the only "I have chosen" choice given to you, END credit.';

'Wait, this game has lore?';

'>>1748236
>Hopes
Domain broke down for some reason, no-one really knows why anymore at this point.
Reconnecting the Persean part of the gate system to the Orion part gives you the ability to explore randomly generated smaller 'sectors' with unique stuff like (mutated) derelict drones/autofactories acting weird, hostile domain-spec ships controlled by motes and star systems still populated by humans that are barely managing to survive, who are also willing to trade special domain-tech shit in exchange for blueprints or a steady supply of ressources from your colonies or something.
>Fears
Just a 1:1 copy of the "Lions and Tigers and Bears" from Hyperion coming out and going "hurr AI bad we'll help you uplift yourself durr"
Or just Aliens at all, really. I prefer the current state of things (i.e hyperspace ghosts/motes are implied to be some form of aliens but nothing is confirmed).';

'What mods improve combat?';

'If the gates shut down Domain-wide we can expect lots of mini-Persean sectors - a functioning core surrounded by dead and decivilized systems formed by the migration and consolidation of resources. Circumstances should be different though, since the Persean sector had circumstances that made it badly equipped to handle a collapse. We also don't know the geography of the Persean sector other than that it was a backwater. It's slightly implied the Persean Sector was already isolated and surrounded by uncolonized systems, that the core was a geographic reality before the collapse, but I can't see the rest of the Domain being like that except on a far larger scale.';

'Honestly, playing this just makes me wish for a 4x Homeworld instead.';

'>>1748756
Curious on why? Because I find that Homeworld is a totally different genre both in gameplay and lore. If it's like Firefly/Serenity or even like Battlestar Galactica I understand.';

'>>1748673
Yeah it is warhammer 40k fanfiction.';

'>>1748815
nothing to do with cringehammer';

'>>1748815
>warhammer 40k fanfiction.
The whole idea of setting sci fi in a former backwater of a collapsed/collapsing empire is much older than warhammer. Earliest sci-fi I've read with that is foundation, but I imagine the idea originally comes from Rome.';

'>>1748673
For nerds, you guys aren't nerds are you?';

'>>1748837
>A vast empire with a militaristic culture
>Have a influential religious figure "die" due to Imperial authority
>Authority crumbles and ultimately the sector fractures into various fiefdoms ushering a dark age
>I imagine the idea originally comes from Rome
Well yeah... No shit...';

'>>1748845
Reading is for nerds you nerd
I just shoot ships';

'>>1748829
>>1748837
I'm not joking. Ask Alex.';

'>>1748433
It's a shame Eagles are ugly.';

'>>1748865
No Alex I won't ask you, just fix you're game already you Slavic Nigger';

'>Phase Skim
>forget to bring up shields again';

'>>1748885
No I refuse. I am going to rework colony crisis again.';

'>>1748896
But what about the skill tree!';

'>>1748946
Don't worry thats next. I was thinking of a sphere grid like Path of Exile.';

'>>1745283
X4 is a far more satisfying game for the space kingpin playstyle. Look into it';

'>>1748960
lmao';

'>>1748961
lmao';

'>>1748961
this';

'>>1748961
X4 is a more satisfying game period';

'gigachad frigate captains';

'>Tundra World
>Bountiful Farmland
?';

'>>1748884
It is your fault if you can't appreciate the aesthetic achievements of the Domain.';

'Weapons should change color according to the hull/paintjob of the ship they're assigned on, like LPCs Fighters/bombers do, and tyou should be able to switch the paintjobs of ships between a variety of options.

The most important of combat is looking good while fighting the enemy.';

'>>1747834
>Shepherd (LP) when
This is brilliant, the terrorists would convert the borer drones into manned jihadi suicide bombers';

'>>1749078
>>1749085
orange looks like shit';

'>>1749100
Nuh uh.';

'>>1749100
There are many reasons why orange is a cool colour. Here are a few:

1. Vibrancy: Orange is a bright and vibrant colour that stands out in any environment. It's cheerful, energizing, and instantly grabs attention.

2. Warmth: Orange is often associated with warmth, comfort, and friendliness. It reminds people of the sun, coastlines, and cozy autumn days, evoking feelings of happiness and relaxation.

3. Creativity: In design and marketing, orange is often used to represent creativity, innovation, and originality. Its boldness and uniqueness make it a popular choice for brands that want to convey these qualities.

4. Confidence: Orange is a confident colour that can make a strong statement. It's often associated with leadership, enthusiasm, and boldness, making it a great choice for those who want to express their strong points of character.

5. Playfulness: With its fun and lively vibes, orange is a playful colour that adds excitement and joy to any space or design.';

'>>1749106
>>1749109
nah';

'no idea how slowtechfags enjoy being kited';

'>>1749138
>implying AI can kite
The day this game has PvP high tech will stop being worst tech.';

'>>1748673
https://starsector.fandom.com/wiki/Lore';

'>>1749142
>implying AI can kite
They do it all the time in simulations, can't even test my ships since the AI doesn't even bother fighting.';

'>>1749149
>gets kited by the AI
oh no no no no';

'>>1749149
kek';

'>>1749149
>average hightechfag';

'Ok, hear me out, what if instead of splitting the Doritos are actually rotating in higher dimensions?';

'>>1749212
Don't care didn't ask
Omega = AI = orb that will get hugged by me.
>>1749109
Thank you ChatGPT.';

'>>1749050
weakest vanguard fleet';

'>>1749035
I've been trying to play x4 and the game fights me every step of the way. I played the fuck out of x3 back in the day so I'm not oblivious to their weird design but trying to do very easy missions and having them repeatedly auto fail on their own because of the simulation (ships getting destroyed, etc)
It is a very frustrating game to get started in.';

'>>1749285
>trying to do very easy missions and having them repeatedly auto fail on their own because of the simulation (ships getting destroyed, etc)
based af ngl';

'>>1749297
Yeah on the one hand its hilarious/great on the other hand its annoying as fuck when you're trying to learn a new game kek
The simulation will take out whole stations and shit and theres no reason to make a new save because thats just how it goes in space.';

'Some of you may die.... but not under my watch!';

'>>1749308
But that says that some did die under your watch';

'>>1749308
>RDT';

'>'arty nigger are among the thread
Grim.';

'>>1749299
>>1749297
I love X4 but the game really should cancel missions that can't be completed because conditions have changed. If the satellites that needed repairing or the suspected pirate ship were destroyed then the mission should have been removed that instant.';

'>>1749466
your character still holds hope thet he can find some broken satellites somewhere and maybe repair them after bringing them to proper place.
If you can lie to yourself, I don't see why PC couldn't';

'>>1749314
He was taking a nap';

'>>1748685
Console Commands';

'>>1749069
if it has rare ore its trash
if it has volatiles its also trash
if it has both its giga trash
if it doesn't have both then fucking claim that fucker NOW';

'>>1749504
More like being too busy grooming minors on social
>RDT
go fucking back';

'>>1749513
you aren't even guaranteed to get soil nanites so why the strict requirement?';

'>>1749520
>aren't guaranteed
But you are?
do you not fucking have Content Unlocking CUM?';

'>>1749524
>cheat mods';

'>>1749524
If you're going to use cheat mods, you may as well cheat in an entirely perfect system.';

'>>1749537
Well duh
the entire game is one big cheat mod
it has the fucking ziggurat and omega weapons';

'>>1749541
The difference is you earn those by playing the game, not installing a mod.';

'>>1749285
X4 missions are generally substantially better than previous x games. There are a couple types I'd avoid just because they can be very random still. But unlike x3 where I'd never do missions I do them all the time in x4.';

'>>1747881
The modding cabal suffered a heavy hit after Matt Damon screwed up everything for them. It feels damn good.';

'>>1749466
It does get removed that instant... after you've already taken it and flown to that spot kek
>>1749574
You basically don't have any choice other than to do missions starting out when you don't know what the fuck to do so its great to chase a ship to report back on just cruising around in a circle only to have them get shot by someone randomly because fuck you.

Oh well, x4 needs more mechs.';

'>"soil_nanites_reqs": "",
it just works';

'I like brawlers';

'What's the best capital + destroyer escort combo?
Is it Executor + Sunder?';

'>>1749626
Is the capital protecting the sunder?';

'>>1749626
Onslaught and Manticore.';

'Why is the Hegemonkey IRS also its special forces and why did it betray lowtech?';

'>>1749632
I don't know

>>1749721
I'm currently testing a 2x Pegasus 1x Atlas2 6x Manticore fleet with all pilums and elite missile officers
It's pretty funny but it's not nearly as strong as 2x Executor 1x Atlas2 and 6x Sunder

I feel like Manticore doesn't have enough OP or something, just feels like a worse low tech version of Sunder';

'>>1749746
Because modders can't into balance, or common sense either.
Why would the Hegemony waste the few precious, Domain-nurtured veterans of the XIV Battlegroup on a fucking tax collector team.';

'>>1749750
Manticore and Sunder are both artillery destroyers meant for long range support, which are pretty much the only viable destroyers in late game.
Yeah both are good. Manticore uses ballistic weapons and is tanky but slow, sunder uses energy beams and it is faster but weaker.';

'>>1749770
>on a fucking tax collector team
They do more than collect taxes and that's where my question comes from.';

'>>1749626
Anything + Monitor, because the monitor is just that good of an escort.';

'>>1748640
What about turning aliens into humans?';

'>>1749750
I only ask as I'd never consider sunder an "escort" to anything kek
The things are made of paper and perfect for long range agitation but beyond that I wouldn't use them.';

'Escorts are for pussies tbqh';

'>>1749308
has anyone actually lost marines during battles';

'>>1749787
I do like Monitors, not gonna lie. I'm however testing a kind of capitals & destroyers fleet doctrine where I'm trying to make the most out of the escort package hullmod.

>>1749793
They become so much better with the escort package hullmod built in, they get 40% more range and take 20% less shield damage when near a capital ship. Add hardened shields and field modulation to that and they're surprisingly tanky.

But, if you're not gonna use a Sunder for this, what are you gonna use? I already gave my thoughts on the Manticore.';

'>>1749804
Ah I don't use gay updates like .97 so I don't know about prostitute packages.';

'>>1749804
>escort package hullmod built in, they get 40% more range and take 20% less shield damage >take 20% less shield damage
brb shitbashing a destroyer sized monitor';

'>>1749816
kek based';

'>>1749816
Nah. Vanilla destroyers has little defensive hullmod so all of them have fire power and mobility ones. So a time waster like monitor will have to rely on ranged peppering or heavy armor and hull and cannot strafe as good.';

'>>1746619
>Instead of keeping up development on his TNP mod to match Rapesector as a sfw version, he deletes it.
lmao retard';

'>>1749800
Sometimes. If you have no room in the transport logi ship they'll hitch a ride in the next available space (usually capital or carrier), and when those are hull damaged they'll die with the crew. Granted most of the time this is a rare issue, because raiding isn't really a big mechanic currently.';

'Well /vst/?';

'>>1749918
how can i dance with a purple ball';

'>>1749833
The problem with escort package, especially destroyer doubling s-mod, is that you need to be very close to the capital to get the full 200% telemetry.';

'>>1749918
No
Eidolon is probably a niggerman, and niggermen hate my ai core frens';

'>>1749918
fuck off discord tranny';

'>>1749918
yes then proceed to shoot the onslaught in the ass';

'Mech pilots don't use discord.';

'>>1749976
yeah they use reddit';

'>>1749992
kwab nah thats you';

'>>1749994
kwab nah thats (You)';

'>>1749995
you first';

'>>1750025
you first';

'>>1750028
no u';

'>>1749788
Good catch,
Would rather remove the silly "turn into alien" and replace it by Aliens saying they want to enforce (via a different power) a ban on some hyperspace technology, the loss being that it would greatly limit mankind growth
That or Ludd is already mindcontrolled by alien.';

'>>1749923
I don't think it's too bad, but assigning more than two destroyers per capital creates a crowd';

'>>1749513
If it has both then that's better than just one or the other. Either way no soul nanites, but at least with both you get some extra mining goods.

Also soil nanites aren't really important unless it's sparse. If it has bountiful farmland who gives a shit about nanites?';

'>>1750118
>but at least with both you get some extra mining goods
Mining means no Luddic Majority which means no free +2 production
you're fucked either way since you don't know how the new game works now';

'>>1750123
You don't need endless bonuses. Bountiful farmland gets you plenty of food.';

'>>1750124
Just bountiful farmland fucking sucks
Bountiful Farmland + Solar Shades, now thats where the real money is at';

'>>1750123
you dont even need colonies at all in this game
all the +1 +2 +3 garbage is meaningless';

'>>1750131
>+ Solar Shades
Every fucking shade I've found has been on a desert/water planet with no farmland
Shades can eat shit and kill themselves.';

'>>1750142
>not just making shades yourself
shiggy diggy';

'>>1750123
>means no Luddic Majority
Good';

'>>1750152
But its literally free slave labour';

'>>1750106
>pilums
y u do this to yourself anon';

'>year 250
>30 million credits
>finally colonizing because there is basically nothing else to do
>make 6 colonies
>dump my whole 30 millions into them with hazard pay and have to do bounties all the time to stay afloat
>colonies finally start making a profit and paying my fleet upkeep
>+50k credits monthly with some colonies still in the negative due to hazard pay
>immediately lose interest in the game';

'>>1750178
its okay to achieve your goals in an open ended game like this, and then take a break, anon
did you have fun?';

'>>1750171
We have standards on our systems, thank you very much.
Next thing you know they're playing loud luddic rap at night, praying in the streets and painting everything green.';

'>>1750180
>did you have fun?
i had fun collecting credits and hoarding and saving AI cores from other factions.
i'm just wondering why the fun stops when you start turning a profit.';

'>>1750178
>only 30 mil in 50 years
You should really try trading. You can make that much money in the first year of the game';

'>>1750196
>>Next thing you know they're playing loud luddic rap at night, praying in the streets and painting everything green.
Fair';

'>>1750202
i-i bought many ships!
trading doesn't seem profitable unless done on the black market and factions hate you for trading on the black market with patrols stopping you.
i wanted everyone to like me.';

'Can this game satisfy my autism with mods?

Since i don't have a grasp of what mods can reasonably do or add, here are the features i'd like. Can you tell me if there's a mod that does it already?

>Infinite/absurd sized map
I like my games infinite, or with so much stuff that a lifetime isn't enough (or as close to that as possible). What's the max size a map can get with mods? Of course, size + procedurally generated content inside.

>No caps on stats/money/storage/ships/characters/in general
Or a cap absurdly high, obviously respecting the integer cap lol (so a BILLION would be fine!)

>Create planets/colonies out of thin air in every single available space on the map
You may have noticed a megalomaniac trend with my autism. My wet dream is being able to fill every inch of space (no "can only build near X/maximum number of Y") with economy-producing things, be it habitats, ships or planets. Bonus points if the following also is possible:

>Able to "paint the map" in my faction colors
I know this is a weird request, but is there a mod to color stuff that i own (ships, colonies or planets) in my own player colors? It should appear on the map for maximum autism satisfaction.

>Challenge

As much as possible, i like to fight tooth and nail even for the slightest prize or improvement. Can the game be a real challenge with mods or is it too easy by nature?

Finally, what mods are must have? I'd hate to start my forever-campaign only to realize i need to start over because i forgot a mod.

Thanks in advance for any help
Gacha: ASK KK2';

'>>1750211
You already posted this 4 threads back.
No I won't help.';

'>>1750178
What did you do for those 50 years?
What did you spend on those colonies that costed 5 million each? Generally 1 to 2 million per colony should be more than enough.
What kind of fleet you got that requires such a large upkeep? Are you hauling 5 capitals or something?
>>1750206
Pirates, luddics and independents are the go to for dumping illegal stuff on the black market.';

'>want to start a new playthrough
>have to re download all the mods
Fuck man, I hate this.';

'>>1750219
>What did you do for those 50 years?
farming (very) important contacts for each faction.
trying out different ships not in simulation.
trying to understand how combat works.
>What did you spend on those colonies that costed 5 million each?
i couldn't find a system with low hazard rating planet so my best colony had 150% hazard rating and my worst like 250%.
i built all the colonies at the same time so i had negative income for a long ass time. i had like 250k negative monthly income.
>What kind of fleet you got that requires such a large upkeep? Are you hauling 5 capitals or something?
until i somewhat understood the combat, i was hauling many capitals to fight difficult stuff whenever i encountered them.
in the core worlds, i had Revenants with phase ships so i can do smuggling, spy sat deployments and trucking missions all at once.
>Pirates, luddics and independents are the go to for dumping illegal stuff on the black market.
i feel bad cheating independents.';

'>>1750297
>builds multiple colonies on shitrocks
>hazard pays them too
>"why am i bleeding creds????????"
Actual retard';

'>>1750297
So you were doing a sort of completionist run trying to gwt everything but you couldnt find a decent planet in 44 cycles?
Well for your next run try to have a smaller, leaner fleet, focus on contracts that actually pay (spy sat deployments fucking suck past the early game) and look for systems with class V planets.';

'>>1750199
>i'm just wondering why the fun stops when you start turning a profit.
Because there's nothing to do after that.

This is why I generally stick do doing illegal shit, like running contraband in pirate fleets and/or operating a single colony. Once you get "big", there's nothing really to do.';

'If there was one simple mod I wish someone would make, it'd be this:
Add more trade convoys.

Raiding convoys is hardly profitable, it's mostly just for fun. There needs to be smaller convoys with higher payouts to encourage taking the risk and hitting state-run fleets in hyperspace. I mean you can already do that just by paying attention to news alerts, but the payout is never worth it. Attacking convoys right now is just something to do for RP purposes.';

'How do you beat the Diable starfortress?';

'>>1750196
>t. chinese tt bugman eating space dogs';

'>>1750206
MOTHERFUCKER YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TO USE THE BLACK MARKET TO SELL GUNS TO TERRORISTS AAAAAAA
>>1750211
People answered you multiple threads as >>1750216 mentioned you posted this before.
>>1750225
Thats what you get for updating, faggot.
>>1750367
>Raiding convoys is hardly profitable
Anon how in the god damned fuck? You what now? You.. I just. God dammit.';

'>>1750405
Have you tried shooting it?';

'>>1750367
>Add more trade convoys.

>/data/config/settings.json
>"maxEconFleets":120, # More trade fleets (Default 60)';

'>>1750413
Don't encourage him, he already got answers.';

'Just wait until all the convoys are using Gates lol';

'>>1750412
No because nobody can even get into firing range before being overloaded and spammed to oblivion with infinite missiles

The AIs dont even dare to approach it even with an eliminate order issued';

'>>1750416
It will only be the rainbow hair squad using the gates.';

'Why does the open market exist? It's only purpose is to troll me when I accidentally sell on it';

'>>1750432
Because you touch yourself at night.';

'>>1750432
Just think of all the important public services that those tariffs pay for. Like, uh';

'>>1750417
I have not played that mod, and this could be a stupid idea, but what if you way overloaded on PD? Like, get a bunch of ships with Devastators and Paladins to help you approach.';

'Any of these gud?';

'>>1750491
VIC ships are cool if you can look past the furry aspects of their officers.';

'>>1750491
vic ships are cool looking
most of the rest of the list is tranny shit (especially sephira)';

'>>1750493
At least the "furry" stuff in VIC is them modifying themselves a little bit and not fucking fursuit bullshit or anything. It fits the faction that people would start modifying themselves beyond the normal. People do that now on earth with fake spikes and shit.';

'>>1750491
I'm one of the three people who likes Magellan.';

'>>1750495
Yeah but some people would take issue with even small modifications like that, even if it makes sense for their lore.';

'>>1750493
Furry furry or animal ears furry?';

'>>1750501
Animal ears furry.
Their whole thing is that they're a gigantic megacorp similar to Tri-Tech, except instead of dealing in AI they deal with gene-modifications, allowing humans to mutate or modify their bodies to their liking. This results in people with animal ears, horns, wings, etc. They're still human at the end of the day, just genetically modified.';

'>>1750496
Hello, I'm the second person who likes Magellan';

'>>1750500
Yeah, like we take issue with people who do that now. Thats all I'm saying its not full on weirdo shit at least. It "fits" well enough and its not over the top. The viral bombardment shit is cruel as fuck and the ships are kino and they let you change portraits and shit in game easily so I'll allow some knifeears.';

'>>1750469
I tried just that but it's all too much, the station guns can keep my capitals at a permanent state of high flux which causes them to hang too far back to return fire
I might actually try putting a shield shunt on every ship along with a reckless behavior officer to see how it goes
That station is probably the strongest thing I've run into in Starsector';

'>>1750526
have you tried all the valk ex's and valk p's you can get your hands on? Note I said all.';

'>>1750405
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nsooEI9HsY';

'>>1750534
mmmm that silky smooth starsector combat';

'>>1750528
I have no idea what you're talking about

>>1750534
I can't use that many S mods on my ships but I did get an idea, maybe I'll throw in a good handful of triple S modded monitors into the mix';

'>>1750537
If you're going to tell me with a straight face you use diable and don't use arma you need to go back to discord.';

'>>1750491
Goathead is a great comprise between functional sci-fi and organic tech, as far as the aesthetics go. The weapons are very well balanced too and an added faction for nex is the cherry on top, solid mod imo.';

'Somewhat new player here, so I think I understand what high and low tech ships are trying to do, the former have high mobility and can deal damage very quickly and then retreat and vent their flux while the latter are a big brick with lots of guns that just like to hunker down and shot at you constantly from long range with efficient ballistic weapons. But what are midline ships supposed to be about? What's their niche?';

'>>1750544
>what does the compromise option do';

'>>1750544
Jack of all trades? They have all averages across the board from shields, venting, armor, speed, and their weapon hard points are a mix of ballistic, laser, and missile.

Most of midline hulls are mid but there's some solid choices in there.';

'>>1750544
>What's their niche?
being mid';

'>>1750550
>Most of midline hulls are mid';

'>>1750544
gimmicks and missile spam. formerly carriers';

'>>1750544
Ignore the retards.
Midline is the most consistently good of the three tech types. If you wanted to do a whole campaign using only ships from one tech type then midline would be the best.
The main weakness of midline for the longest time was having a crappy capital but that was fixed with Pegasus.';

'>>1750569
>fixed with Pegasus';

'>>1750411
>Anon how in the god damned fuck? You what now? You.. I just. God dammit.
It's not profitable if you have a non-bullshit fleet, I don't know what to say. You earn far more money just running drugs or weapons. Attacking convoys doesn't give you shit. What are you going to do with 10,000 units of food';

'>>1750569
>ignore the retards
>drools on himself';

'>>1750572
Of course you earn more money running guns you fucking motherfucker god dammit AAAAAAAAA
Fuck you.';

'>Mods? Actually I play Starsector vanilla';

'>>1750598
You only get to keep chad status if you didn't update immediately to .97
Even .96 is pushing it.';

'>>1750491
vic and iron shell';

'>>1750606
>he pays taxes to trannies
kek';

'>>1750601
What are the actual issues with the updates? Or is this some case of schizo contrarianism?
I haven't played 0.97 yet but I had no issues with 0.96.';

'>>1750613
Because fuck you I don't want to update I'm comfy and in my lane, thriving.';

'>>1750330
>but you couldnt find a decent planet in 44 cycles?
yes. i explored the whole sector and surveyed every terran, tundra, jungle, water and that other type world.
lowest one was 125% but the other planets in the system were worse than the planets in the system i ended up colonizing.
>Well for your next run try to have a smaller, leaner fleet
since i finally somewhat understood the combat, i can and will run a smaller fleet. 2 capitals and 10 cruisers max for endgame stuff. i cannot go lower.
does battle size affect how small of a fleet you can run?
my battle size was 800 but after looking at youtubers to see how the wreck shit with a tiny fleet, they seem to have it 400.
>focus on contracts that actually pay
the thing is, they didn't always offer decent paying contracts so i had to pick up the spysat just to cover my running costs.
>>1750304
>"why am i bleeding creds????????"
i did not ask this.
i did this to have fun scrambling to stay afloat.
>>1750411
>YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TO USE THE BLACK MARKET TO SELL GUNS TO TERRORISTS
doesn't the market get saturated?
the profit margins were around 50%. they didn't feel to be worth the effort.
i only did heavy armaments runs when there was a deficit and over 150% profit margin on the black market.';

'>no general modlist.

What if I want someone to determine what's vanilla and not overpowered for me.';

'>>1750620
>What if I want someone to determine what's vanilla and not overpowered for me.
please rephrase your question.
i must be drunk.';

'I'm NTA above me, but I'm also really autistic about colonizing systems, meaning I often only really make colonies once I surveyed all/most of the sector, and even then I'm not 100% satisfied because I will never find a system with
1: habitable world without transplutonic ore or volatiles for soil nanites with good farmland and biofactory embryo with luddic majority (even crazier if stellar shades/mirrors, but that's pretty much impossible)
2: barren no atmo world for refining, fuel production + catalytic/synchrotron core
3: molten world for high command + cryo engine & orbital works + pristine Nanoforge
4: Gas giant with volatiles for mining with plasma dynamo
5: Domain era comms for otherwise unattainable +2 stab
6: 3 stable locations (for gate + nav buoy)
7: in range of hypershunt
8: not comically far from the core systems';

'>>1750620
Then you're a fucking faggot and need to kill yourself.';

'>>1750558
The Gryphon and the Champion are both awesome ships through';

'>>1750634
Give me Gryphon and Champion builds, I always like using the Apogee over them.';

'>>1750634
>The Gryphon and the Champion are both awesome ships through
They're okay. Champion wants to be a assault ship, but it's too low armor & hull plus energy focus to take on Low-Tech. They're pretty good on taking high-tech, especially Redacted, though. For general purpose it's best to use long-range beam.
Gryphons are best piloted and used to deal with mass frigates as support. NPC's don't want to use missiles. It's too slow to be a CQC/assault missile ship, and that role is already given to the PIC (which is also a midline, technically).';

'>>1750634
i despise the gryphon after mayasura's fall battle and i understand them since. champions i do not. they're ass and they die. give build fr';

'>>1750623
I have a system with
1. terran world with rich farmland
2. tundra world with sparse farmland, moderate ore, plentiful organics, low gravity, stellar shades
3. barren world with moderate ore
4. barren-bombarded world with sparse rare ore, abundant ore, hot (can toss a fusion lamp on it if I really want the biggest fleets)
5. ice giant with plentiful volatiles, extreme weather, cold
6. 3 empty stable locations (no domain era comms)
7. in range of hypershunt
8. next door to a cryosleeper, 84% efficiency
9. 11 LY from the core';

'>>1750620
there is no general modlist that does not cause instant shit flinging because of anime or balance or worst of all mechs';

'>>1747881
>How many of you guys are returning players,
less and less each year. weebs more or less replaced the original fans years ago. UAF and rapesector are where it hit critical mass and more or less took over the place.';

'>colonizing near the c*re';

'>>1747881
Play it on and off for 4 years. Playing vanilla more and more, and the main content is getting better but wish Alex would just wrap up the main plot and focus more on combat.';

'>>1750694
>the original fans';

'>>1750694
implying you are not a sseth tourist like everyone else';

'>>1750694
Eat shit faggot';

'So what is the Princess of Persea quest about?';

'>>1750740
>Princess of Perse
lol
lmao
Is this modded?';

'>>1750771
good one';

'>>1750687
go back to discord, faggot';

'>>1750211
>infinite map
I think Adjusted Sector lets you make an infinite map. Not sure, I'd have to check. There is a mod for this though.

>no caps on stats/money/storage/ships
You can modify all of these yourself if you know how to go into the files and change parameters.

>create planets out of thin air
Technically you can do this if you have the right mods. Like I know one mod that lets you turn stable locations into standalone stations.

>paint the map
I don't think anything like this exists. Ask the discord cabal if you''re curious.

>challenge
There's starfarer mode, iron mode, and difficulty settings in nexerelin and the library mods. Depends on what you're looking for. High value bounties can require alot of dedication to fight, you can be saddled with debt, you can lower how easy it is to make money, etc. Nexerelin even has a setting to make AI more strategic, to attack you when you're weak and etc.';

'>>1750740
it goes something like this
>le snooty crappy noble criticizes our wholesome high hegemon by calling him a manlet nigger
>our MC calls him out for it and says that the high hegemon is stunning and, dare I say, brave
>the issue has to be solved with a duel
>you can spend a story point to down extra fortified basedmilk before the battle, becoming a true social justice supertrooper
>stab the chud thrice, kill him and fuck his girlfriend
>alternatively get stabbed thrice
>not die... because you just don't, OKAY?';

'>>1750793
I don't think the guy dies.';