Starsector thread
just got this big beautiful fucker, never had a battleship before but this has to be the best one
What to do once you and your faction conquered the entire galaxy?
>>332285090
hell if I know, Playing vanilla
>>332285090
Go to war with your faction and take it all back
>>332285883
wut?
>blow 200 k on a doom class cruiser
>killing fleets of these by myself
hegeshit combat tactics
>>332284727
The Onslaught is cute, CUTE!
>step out into hyperspace
>instantly assaulted by pirates
Fuck. How to survive out there? I have a heavy destroyer and a frigate as well as a mining ship (which is amazingly good at combat it turns out, for a mining ship anyway), but I can't stand up to pirate fleets of 10+ ships.
>>332286601
There is a disengage button.
>>332286601
Don't go out there until you've got a fleet of yourself.
>play a tiny, tiny bit
>not really enjoying the combat
fuck sake was looking forward to this
>>332286882
Combat is incredibly good, it's all the rest that is very void.
>>332286960
yeah, and didn't click with me
was hoping for another M&B, game I played to death since beta or whatever the fuck it was in
>>332286882
What don't you like about it?
Any tips for building a fleet up in a way that you aren't crippled in income? Also, what are some good ships/weapons to keep an eye out for? Have all the 7.2 faction mods if it matters.
>>332287070
i'd like to give a big explanation for how i think it's flawed but really duno, just not enjoying it
still super early in the game, not given up yet hoping it clicks eventually because concept of the game sounds pretty great to me
>>332286601
after 6 months since i last played, i booted up the latest vanilla, popped myself in a lasher
i could kill any groups of up to 5 pirates
then i bought another, and i could take on 10 of them
then bought one more, and this got me to destroy entore armadas by myself
i could set them to all engage a capital ship, and they would just surround it and pick it apart like wolves
i stacked 3 buffalos and got to 300k credits, after which i signed up with the triple niggers and bought an afflictor and doom class phase ships
now literally nothing can kill me past supply starvation
maybe youre playing it wrong
>>332287280
Well I really hate piloting some of the ships, especially the slow lumbering ones. Try piloting a fully decked out cruiser and see if it's more your thing if you didn't like the starter frigates.
>>332287451
will aim to get a cruiser then, see if things change
how's it on a tactics level when you get bigger fleets? work well enough?
I love the game and I don't even personally control any ships in about 80% of fights.
>>332286601
Don't go to hyperspace until you have a decent-ish fleet.
>>332287341
I severely doubt those 5 pirates were any decent. Doesn't matter how good you are, if your shields get overwhelmed you're dead.
Anyone have ideas for Scarab setups? I tried a triple anti-matter setup, but I didn't have the flux to fire all three.
>>332287698
Even in giant fights there is not much tactics involved in it. Most important thing is sending few ships to relay or something.
>>332284727
>>332286508
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>>332288329
>triple anti-matter setup
You should NEVER equip more than two AM blasters on a frig. NEVER.
Do New Galactic Order ships lack quite some punch or is it just me? They got nice shields and durability but I can't seem to get a decent firepower output on them.
>>332287698
Get a phase ship and be the Cold Steel the Hedgeheg of space.
>>332290039
>phaseships
*unsheathes katana*
ded
>>332290351
*Phase cloaks behind U*
>mfw arcade mode
FUCK YOU CRISTARIOUS AND YOUR FUCKING HOMING CHEAT GUN!
You heathens don't know the meaning of ship superiority!
HOW DO I GET EXPANDED FLIGHT DECKS I'M TIRED OF ONLY BEING ABLE TO SEND OUT OR REPAIR ONE FIGHTER AT A TIME
>>332295994
Isnt it locked behind the Fighter buffs on the Leadership Tree in SS+?
>>332295994
Get a ship with flight decks.
Invest points into the green skill tree
Install hullmod
Wow so hard
Also one flight deck is enough for 2-3 fighter squadrons
>>332295994
Read all the skills your character has. Hull mods are unlocked as you reach higher tiers in some skills. Can't remember which one gives expanded flight decks.
Though if I remember correctly, expanded flight decks only speed up repair time. It doesn't give you an additional flight deck.
>>332296168
>>332296217
>>332296382
Don't see it anywhere in any skill trees or in hull mods.
>>332296553
Look harder.
Also you do have Starsector+ right?
Where's the gameplay
I killed pirate bounties until I had a couple of destroyers, then aligned with a faction
Now the rest of the galaxy hates me and there are no missions from my aligned faction besides the regular delivery missions which are literally impossible 99% of the time anyway. Randomly picking fights with opposing factions gives such few rewards that it's pointless. What's the progression supposed to be here?
>>332296975
Idk faggot have you tried hunting enemy mercantile fleets, sending their systems into anarchy, and then making a ridiculous fortune selling shit to the destabilized worlds?
>>332296689
oh wait I found it. it was up ya ass faggot lmaoI've had them forever and just didn't realize until now ty tho
>>332296975
There's nothing more to it than space battles currently
>>332297043
Money which you don't need and can't do anything with, you rake in millions just by doing bounties
>tri-jew kill fleet
>meh, whatev
>notice a strange frigate zipping and cloaking but never venting
>kill fleet
>yuppie! boarding, what will be this time? A wolf? The tanker?
>is the frigate
>well miss Excelsior, i want to see what you're capable of
>try it in the simulator
>can't make head or tail of what i'm supposed to do to use it effectively
Help?
>>332297089
You're welcome ya faggot.
>>332297145
Its almost like the game is about creating your own goals and narrative, and what I described is one of the funnier ways to accomplish it
Alternatively you can play a mod like nexerelin that adds real meta-level goals
>>332297371
Really grasping at straws here
>>332297701
Not really? It's a free-access alpha sandbox game. If you can't create your own fun then you won't have any. Are you surprised?
>>332298174
Completely missing the point
>>332297371
>>332298174
>u hav 2 make ur own fun
Yeah I can do that with a shovel and some mud, doesn't change the fact the game currently is very lacking in stuff to do that isn't spacebattles.
>>332298663
Just wait until Industry then.
>>332298663
>>332298490
I never claimed the game wasn't lacking in features, you complete faggots.
>>332297147
ship system removes projectiles near you while building flux, depending on projectile. holds 3 charges and regenerates.
built-in weapon is stronger if you have higher flux level and consumes flux
phase cloak accelerates you and consumes flux, requires flux to maintain
venting hurts enemies
due to the hullmod being overloaded means you're pretty much dead
Do not install vents, put all on capaciators and flux adjuct whatever(that gives you extra flux). install other hullmods you want(reinforced bulkheads, unstable injector, blast doors, ect.)
>>332298663
>i'm so unimaginative and dull I think playing in the mud is on the same level as commanding a fleet in a sandbox universe to accomplish whatever my heart desires because i really cannot think for myself
wow great really stellar opinion
>>332289897
They are good, just different. Don't expect blackrock levels of strike potential, NGO is more of a slow moving line of flux effective tanky death.
>>332300023
yeah exactly! sustaining fighters
>>332284727
I'm thinking about buying this game but I see now it's not a steam game or any platform it's just on it's own right? Should I be worried I don't trust shit unless I have my DRM to back me up.
>>332289897
isn't the downside of NGO supposed to be lower number of hardpoints?
>>332294528
everytime I see this I don't understand why it was drawn so young. I mean seriously, it's a goddamn cruiser.
>>332300953
You could just pirate it like the rest of /v/.
>>332301197
Fucking lel I'm broke as fuck why did I completely forget about pirating. I haven't pirated in so long. Thanks bro.
>>332300953
well, as far as I can see he doesn't look like he's going to give up on developing anytime soon. he's cooperative with the modders, and due to this there's a lot of high quality mods going around that makes the game even better.
the thing about this game is ship combat. I mean, people bought this game even before campaign mode was in, but we still have a long time before we can call this finished.Industry update never soon.tm
>>332300023
Yeah NGO ships are fairly strong defensively, their weapons are kind of average aside from those Drill SRM missiles and one of their Large energy beams
>>332301313
>>332301197
>no seeders
fug
where can I pirate this game. I need to try before I buy :)
>>332301693
There's a mega link in the archives.
How exactly do tugs work?
>>332301324
Industry is the next big update according to the dev and the forums.
>>332301901
It brings the slowest ship's max burn in your fleet up by 1. They are not at all efficient, so use as few as possible. They're only really good for keeping a capital ship or an Atlas at burn 8 or 9.
Look at mouse cursor or turn with A and D? Seems to me like using the mouse to turn the ship is a lot better.
>>332301749
I ctrl+F mega for every starsector thread I found in the archive and I didn't find shit
SO is this game worth 15 dollars or what. Dev needs not reply.
>>332302285
Mouse is better in most situations unless you're using a ship that likes to broadside your enemies like a Conquest.
>>332302362
I honestly doubt the dev posts here, this game doesn't need to be shilled, it's simply that good.
>>332302285
>Look at mouse cursor
Unless you use ships with broadside mounts invert shift button behaivor.
So you should be using this most of the time.
Unless you use a torch gunboat, but nobody uses the torch.
What to do with your own faction on nexelerin?
>>332302362
Recent threads have stopped posting 'em because most everyone here is a regular by now and have the game. Search for threads a week ago.
I'd tell you to do the cunt thing where you dl from the official site and just use a key bu unfortunately, it only has the most up to date version there and no one has been kind enough to give a key for that yet so you have to do some java fuckery if you really want to pirate that version.
We really should have like a proper thread opener or a pastebin for this shit.
>>332302724Your conquest is the sea of stars.
>>332302362
Buy the game anon.
Is nexelerin any good or should I just play vanilla+?
>>332302362
Game is definitely worth it, and with mods it's arguably worth full AAA money. There are torrents on kickass if you want to try the game first.
>>332303278
Nexerelin actually gives the game a much needed goal. If you play vanilla, you'll just be fucking about.
>>332303278
Both Nexerelin and SS+ together enhance the game greatly. Nex allows you to make other sectors aside from the default Corvus one. Get it.
I played the game for about 2 hours on vanilla before I got mods. Vanilla is pretty shit but if you mod it with the recommended mods the game is fucking great.
>>332302863
>We really should have like a proper thread opener or a pastebin for this shit.
I made one but got scorned for it. Something about 'going full /vg/ on /v/ or something like that.
>>332303772
If not an opener then a nifty guide pic for all the newcomers then.
>>332303772
You shoudn't have done it. I dont want to end on /vg/ because of people like you.
>>332303002
>tfw you'll never lead the Republic or Empire to conquer nexerelin
How do I get motivated to play this game?
>>332303915
I shit with Image making, but I guess I could try. But not in the relevant future, I don't have time to make a guidline image.
>>332304313
Well, sure, but could you be a bit less... you know, agressive? I mean, It's not like I made the op because I meant harm, I just wanted people to know this game.
>>332304625
How do you get motivated to play any game, anon?
>>332304625
Chase bounties.
They're timed to be just cacheable if you set your route right, but you will be on a tight schedule.
>>332304741
I'm sorry.
>>332304936
Apology accepted.
Also, I ask of this because I genuinely don't know, but what does "going full/vfg/ on /v/" imply? Does this mean that we would be deleted because of having an OP? Or attracting ofher people?
What the fuck do I put on the Brawler for the AI to pilot? No PD sounds like death by Salamanders.
>>332305548
Dont take my word for it, but I think the new ship system solves the Salamander problem, as it reduces EMP by 75% in addition to all other damage.
Put resistant flux conduits on a Brawler and it should be fine.
Brawlers are also so hard to kill now that they won't really die if they get flamed out.
>>332304917
They're on tight schedule because nobody sells good ships. I scoured every sector and either they sell crap or crap. How do I gitgud ships?
>>332305505
Other games that have a daily post on /v/ are generally moved to /vg/ because other people are annoyed by it, but it's very common that when the discussion moves to /vg/ it becomes shit, waifu talk and all the joy of this posts dies.
>Order Aggressive officer in a Nevermore to capture a point while I phase past the hordes of wanzers to take on the carrier
>Ignores orders and tries to fly through the wanzers to fight the carrier too
>Doesn't activate his shields and gets torn apart
How do I travel across stars in this game?
Do I just head in that general direction in game?
I finally finished my shit ass portrait pack which is intended to complement the portrait pack on the forums. It has a whopping 219 portraits.
I made it so there'd be less officer clones around the game. I'm pretty happy with it but it doesn't fit the game's art style at all so a lot of you might not like it.
Anyways, what's a good place to dump this shit for anyone who wants to get it?
>>332306053
PUT IT HERE FIRST I WANT TO SEE IT NOWWW
>>332306135
It's 7 mb zip file. I don't think I can embed it on 4chan.
>>332304542
>tfw no legend of the galactic heroes mod
>>332306408
Use media fire or something
>>332302604
Torch is such a weird ship.
>>332306408
MEGA
>>332303696
Vanilla is good, mods just make it amazing.
The issue with Nexerelin is that the sector generator tends to make the sectors have ridiculously high prices on supplies, fuel, or both, making it a pain in the ass to do anything at all.
>>332306013
Yeah the weeaboo cancer was contained to /vg/ for a while but it's gotten so bad that it's leaking back out and onto /v/. Waifufags ruin everything, just look at the new Fire Emblem games.
>>332306408
Just post it on the forums.
>>332306408
>not having dropbox
>>332306595
I just made an account. I hope Hiroshima doesn't flag my post as spam for this.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/i5fv2c6a68po3va/Messy_Portrait_Pack.zip
>>332306870I'm kinda embarrassed to.
>>332305990
Depends on who you're friendly with.
Independent? Nortia in the askornia system.
Commisioned to a faction? Find a planet/station with a military base and you can access the military market there.
As a bounty hunter nortia is the best bet, as you will AT LEAST be able to grab an onslaught there, assuming that your're cooperative to the independents.
>>332306021
Fighters is like that ship's weakness, what did you expect
>>332306048
You need fuel first. After that, press tab and look for purple dots. Those are jump points. You can enter hyperspace through there, but you will consume fuel daily in hyperspace.
>>332306021
I heard wanzers are OP. Honestly I think fighters being able to dodge from time to time balance them being paper thin as fuck.
>>332306619
Torch would be WAAAY better only if hullmods worked as intended. You can't convert shields installed by the front shield generator hull mod in to omni-shields via the onmi shield hullmod. If possible, it would take up aboe one third/forth of the torch's OP(with shield extention, hardening, accelerating and all that), but having a shield is important. Imagine a conquest without a shield, it would be destroyed by strike fighters and reaper-armed enforcers.
>>332308005
The Luddic Onslaught can be operated without a shield just fine. It's got so much armor and Hull that it will kill most of the enemy fleet before damage is an issue
>>332302604
having the regular hold shift to look at mouse behavior makes it much easier to look around you in my opinion
it's completely personal preference
>>332307453
Dude just post it on the forums, like fuck man there's an entire mod faction for weebs, a space Nazi mod, some guy on the forums with a Hitler avatar, and someone even ripped a bunch of portraits from an H-game and listed them on the forum as potential mod material. You have nothing to lose.
>>332307601
That'd he's stay at his assigned point with the others to take on anyone that came close to him while I take care of the carrier.
Nah, He wanted to hug the carrier on the other side of the map while the wanzers blew out his asshole.
>try a new game as SCY
>we're at war with BRDY
>robberflys
>robberflys
>pirates with robberflys
>finally find a pirate fleet that wont fuck me in the ass
>beat them
>barely worth it
>ludd strike fleet comes from nowhere chasing me
>run away
>brdy detachment
>they both emergency burn after me
>sandwiched between them
>exit game, new game
such is life
>>332308484
>ripped a bunch of portraits from an H-game
That one's actually in this portrait pack.
>>332308484
>some guy on the forums with a Hitler avatar
Who?
>>332308557
She just wanted to protect her onii-chan you fucking savage.
>>332308568
What's wrong Anon, don't you like robberflies?
>>332308391
Well , most of the time, I spend more time on piloting the ship than looking around. I pull around a fleet of heavilly modded destroyers since I make more profit that way, and thus is much less vulnerable agaist strike fighters and can reposition easier.
I guess you pull around a capital ship?
>>332309336
No I never pilot anything larger than a destroyer.
Like I said, it's personal preference.
>>332303015
>>332303493
>>332302863
>>332302552
I bought the fucking game. I REALLY wished I pirated it first. Fuck man. I'm not happy with it. The guy is smart for not releasing the early access on steam. I can't get a refund now.
>>332308568
>problem with robberflies
Just get a ship with an energy mount, get a tac laser and your problems will go away. Probably a wolf with a graviton beam and three tac lasers, as well as swarmer srm will help.
>>332308484
Dev plays Dominions, so he's obviously a pretty chill dude, hence that stuff is allowed.
>>332309419
>Like I said, it's personal preference.
That's what I'm trying to say...
>>332307453
Pretty cool!! Love you
>>332309508
Wait, he does?
Neat. Starsector and Dominions have been the games I've been playing most recently.
>>332309456
Too bad for you I guess. I liked it since the first alpha.
>>332309554
You made the assumption that I only pilot large slow ships that don't require precise movements.
>>332309467
Don't listen to this monster. We don't want more dead Robberflies on our hands.
>>332309456
Are you retarded? If you wanted to pirate the latest version it's up on one of the two biggest fucking torrent sites.
>>332305548
I've had the Brawler AI do well with Hypervelocity Driver, Heavy Mauler and your choice missiles. 2 Heavy MGs + Annihilators also do alright with speed mods.
They're pretty tough with those damper fields. Most of the time I've lost a Brawler was because he got separated and had to 1v1 a Cruiser.
>>332304625
Like some other anon before I'm trying to fill my officer roster with qts. Kinda wish I can deal with some enemies Rance style and turn them to my side with the power of my dick.
It's also why I did the messy portrait pack mod~
How does the NGO's EMP drive work?
>>332310116
Uh, did I? If it looked like it, than I wasn't trying to.
I guess I fumbled or something.
>>332310202
Inversely, I find that robberflies with hardened front shield generators (FSG+HS) with a helmsmanship 10 captain nigh invulnerable. Even against onslaughts.
>>332309467
Robberflies get annihilated by large numbers of fast-tracking missiles, or several strong beams like tac lasers.
>>332304625
Go watch Space Battleship Yamato, Legend of the Galactic heros, or Space Pirate Captain Harlock and then pretend you are any of the characters in the show.
>game still unfinished in so many places
>mods are all just fucking speshul snoflek teleprot behind u unsheaths nuke missile and instant travel 7000 damage medium gun turret
>even the vanilla game has balance issues, mostly making a lot of ships redundant rather than overpowered
im at the point where i can kill everything on my own, i dont care its not a 50 ship fleet, ive driven this fucking doom class intro jangala and beyond and shat on everything hegeshitters threw at me
what do i even do anymore
also, holy shit, why are there so many redundant things and features tacked onto some ships
EMP emitters are fucking hot garbage, the doom class "partial engine shutdown thingamajig" does fucking NOTHING to impairing enemy mobility, and fills my flux up to half, some ships are just rehashes of hot garbage, like the monitor class i dont even fucking know why you would use that over the retarded PRESS F TO GET OUT OF JAIL AND ANTIMATTER BLASTERS FREE resist field that the brawler has, fighters and carriers are retarded past anything with torpedoes tacked onto it, dont even get me started on the fucking HERON battle cancerboat of uselessness and waste of supply
i havent even touched or used most of the other ships, especially capital ships because they all seem like huge wastes of supplies that are gonna drain me drry
id rather buy 50 lashers instead of spending that supply cost one one big lump of shit
WHAT DO I DO TO MAKE THIS FUN AGAIN
>>332311474
Dude. You're burned out. Maybe stop for some time and modify the files so that that fleets sapwn with cruisers and capitals instead of condor/herons with million daggers.
>>332311474
play a different game
>>332312373
>>332312717
ive played for like 3 days and i ran out of things to do
im not burned out, there is currently just literally nothing for me to do in vanilla and i just despise all mods ive seen so far
i took a titjew commission and everything wants to kill me
im ok with that, but there is literally no point in me slaughtering fleets of capital ships when it has no impact on anything in the game
>>332312741
Yes
>>332312741
I have played this game for hours just running around getting into fights with everyone, because thats the main focus of the game now. The combat.
If you ran out of things just wait until the game is more complete.
I just got into this game.
How do I travel thru hyperspace in early game without being fucked?
>>332312991
Turn off transponder, or alternatively don't barrel through space holding down shift and not paying attention.
>>332312991
I always turn off transponder to make my fleet less visible, and make sure to have a good burn speed to escape anything with a destroyer in it. Small bands of frigates are usually no problem with the starting frigate and optional starting Kite.
>>332311474
>mods are all just fucking speshul snoflek teleprot behind u unsheaths nuke missile and instant travel 7000 damage medium gun turret
Were you playing Crappolight?
The only thing that breaks 1000 DPS on a medium turret is the scatter CEPC, on large turrets it's the Autopulse laser and the heavy laser that SCY has but only because it deals additional energy dps on hull and armor (and is still a beam so it deal soft flux to shields).
For the whole teleporting thing there is the Karkinos (that's pretty strong), the Imaginos Frigate (logistic footprint of a heavy destroyer) and it's bigger brother the Morpheus (that goes through supplies like a fucking capital)
>>332312741
Well then.
If you want something to do then try out nexerelin without faction mods. That's the best I can come up with for you.
>>332312991
This >>332313105
>>332313175
i dont fuckin know what it was, i just tacked on this big ass modpack some time ago and everything that wasnt vanilla was its own flavor of broken shit that i never want to touch again
>>332313529
Agressive much?
>>332313529
>Uomoz sector journey
Is that actually still a thing? I remember it from years back, but the lastest version I can find on the forums is for like the 0.6 version.
>>332314110
its not, its still in my files since i first got it in 0.6.2
How to increase fleet size, officer max limit and officer max level?
>>332314313
starsector-core\data\config\settings.json
>>332314313
Friendly reminder:
Do not increase the max level of the officers beyond 35 or it will crash your save when they won't have any skill left to learn.
>>332314447
>>332314695
I heard there's weirdness going on when you up the officer limit to more than 10. True?
>>332314863
Mmh, dunno about that one. Then again I never changed the those values as I find the vanilla ones fine.
However there is some weirdness if you raise the fleet ship cap since the AI can field fleets roughly three times as large as the max size.
>"officerMaxHireable":20,
>"officerPlayerMax":10,
Player can only assign 10 to ships but can have 20 on reserve, is that correct?
>>332314863
I have my officer limit at 17 and I haven't had any problems
>>332315449
You can edit that btw same as your fleet sizes, but you'd have to stat a new game.
huh never heard of this game before.
Is it kind of like FTL?
>>332315807
Not at all.
Think like a less arcadey and more in-depth S.P.A.Z.
>>332309456
Have you tried asking for a refund on the forums.
>>332315629
You don't have to start a new game to have higher edited settings take effect. Maybe if you edit them to lower amounts, but never tried that.
>>332315807
No, it's a top down space shooter with mechwarrior customization, VERY basic trading and diplomatics
>>332316317
It crashes if you don't, not immediately but it will crash.
post em
>>332314447
>>332314695
>>332315449
Thank you.
Its like a wall of death when you deploy 6+ capital ships spread out over the battlefield. Going start a save file soon without animeand Neutrino
>>332317726
>>332318686
>7 speed
>1 battleship
are you new to the game?
>>332317726
What can I do to increase CR?
>fuck huge battle
>fuck huge map
>cant find the last enemy
>it's a frigate at 0cr on top of the map stuck in flying in a circle with permanent retreat boost activated because it lost one of its engines as it tried to retreat
wew
>>332316782
Not saying it isn't possible but I've upped my fleets to max 70 and officers to 20/40 and added new factions as they get updated throughout my current game with no crashing.
I'm more inclined to think yall just need to up your RAM limits or get more.
>>332317726
I-it's not much but
>>332319621
>yall just need to up your RAM limits or get more.
Yeah I set the thing to 2Gb max and it helps a lot.
Except for fuckhuge battles with Approlight/Templar
>>332319380
combat aptitude (pilot skill)
better crew
fighters cant go past 80% since they only get CR from the crew, and elite crew is the highest level that goes to 80% CR
>>332319704
Nice waifu. What mod?
>>332319257
Haven't bothered grabbing a tug despite no reason not too
>>332317726
>Become the Dark Pope
>Destroys everything including allied ships
>nearly invincible because KT
>slower than walking and has zero speed boosts
I've become lava
>>332320185
New Galactic Order.
>>332320185
NGO
So I got Nex and SS+ with some minor mods(Combat Chatter. Radar and more portraits).
Anything else?
I would like some new factions or more system for vanilla but without them being OP.
>>332320310
What mods do you use?
>>332321289
Shadowyard and Imperium are ok
>>332321289
Interstellar Imperium and Tiandong (0.7.1) are very vanilly friendly. Diable, Blackrock, Shadowyards, Mayorate (0.7.1) are also decent additions. You could also add Neutrino but they're a bit above vanilla.
>>332321391
All the updated ones
>step into hyperspace
>5 giant pirate fleets swarming all over
Time to savescum until I get through safely I guess.
>>332322735
Try turning your transponder off, or if another friendly fleet goes into hyperspace you can follow right after so you have time to use emergency burns.
>>332322735
>Attack pirates with 3 ships
> suddenly 15 others join the fight.
So the construction rig, is it better to have it or not?
Is Starsector potato friendly? I'm talking laptop tier witha GT720m
>>332323975
I run it on old craptop but big mods not run.
>>332323975
It runs pretty well on my potato laptop that can barely run CS 1.6 with 60FPS. So yeah, go ahead.
>>332322053
>that font
:(
Is there a way to profit without traveling through hyperspace in early game?
>>332324831
Minning.
get bunch of shepards and mining lasers.Need nax
>>332324831
Mining, trading within the system the few times there is a job for it, hunting down pirates, waiting for the faction salary.
This assuming you got SS+ and Nex.
>>332323779
Never worth.
So is this game good? Because I played it for like 15 minutes once, immediately got swarmed by ships and died. And I had no idea why or how any of the controls worked so I had no desire to go back.
>>332325356
If you quit because the game kicked your ass, you best not play it right now while it's still on beta.
I get this error when running SS+, mostly when I'm engaging in larger battles. I am already feeding the fucker 4GB RAM.
Any ideas?
>>332325637
Feed it 8GB RAM instead ;)
>>332325637
That's an outdated Tiandong I bet. That mod hasn't been updated for 0.7.2 yet.
>>332325552
Less because I died and more because I had no idea why I died or how I could have prevented it. It just seemed to control very poorly.
But I played this like over a year ago or maybe more.
>>332326109
Controls are fine m8, it just takes some time to get used to them.
Anyone have any idea what the hell could be causing this error?
4241891 [Thread-4] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.fs.starfarer.settings.B.getTextureId(Unknown Source)
at org.dark.shaders.util.ShaderLib.renderForeground(ShaderLib.java:1098)
at org.dark.shaders.util.ShaderLib.isForegroundEmpty(ShaderLib.java:634)
at org.dark.shaders.light.LightShader.drawLights(LightShader.java:948)
at org.dark.shaders.light.LightShader.renderInWorldCoords(LightShader.java:943)
at org.dark.shaders.util.ShaderHook.renderInWorldCoords(ShaderHook.java:135)
at com.fs.starfarer.title.C.o0oO$Oo.?00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.A.new.?00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatState.traverse(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.state.AppDriver.begin(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain.main(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>>332325868
Come to think of it, I think it crashes when i attak TIadong fuckers. Thank you
>>332326715
Outdated Shaderlib, or not the version for your game version I'd say.
>>332317726
Diable + Hiigarian combined fleet with Neutrino Capital ships is hands down the most aesthetically pleasing of all the fleets.
help i cant make any fucking money trading what do i do
>>332327092
Both are the newest version.
>>332327820
>trading
Do any mods increase the supply limit in battles? I got an Unsung and It destroys everything but I can never field anything else because of how expensive it is. I have fun, but I wish I could have more big ships fighting large fleets.
>>332326109
Did you do the tutorial?
>>332327820
Go and hunt pirates like a normal person.If you are playing Nexerelin go to Prism Freeport and exploit the mission/trading system for easy money
Fuck. Is there any good way to obtain micro missiles without joining or attacking Diable?
Their black markets don't stock them, their military stores require a commission, and I don't want to declare war on them because it'll piss off all my allies. Prism Freeport also hasn't been stocking them.
>>332328019
Well then that's weird because it has been reported multiple times and it was due to an outdated Starsector install with the latest Shaderlib. Latest Starsector is 0.7.2 RC3
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=7958.msg184052#msg184052
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10767.msg183532#msg183532
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10734.msg182991#msg182991
>>332328462
Agents.
>>332328150
You should tweak the game files, there wad talk about it last few threads, one anon turned it ip to 1200.
You should do it if you are confident that your machine can hold up.
>Flying around in my modest Sunder and accompanying Yacht, Thunder fighters, and light carrier.
>Pirates of 7-8 ships try to raid me
>Roll up with my Autopulse and Thunder fighters
>Completely fuck up pirate frigates + destroyers
>Once 5 or 6 ships have died the rest will get desperate and try to retreat
>Tfw the same pirates that made me reload saves a million times now flee for their pathetic lives
>Tfw the Thunders fuck their engines and they watch as my Sunder approaches them
I want to get into modding ships but I've barely played the game; should I do it anyways?
>>332329376
It should be able to. I figured out Im a retard and was running at 200 in the normal in game setting so Im gonna bump it up to normal max and see how that goes. Im wondering right now If I should Pull the trigger on a Pandemonium or Karkinos in Prism Free Port now that I can have bigger fleets.
>>332327330
>neutrino phase carrier
are they any good? phase on a ship that big just seems like a gimmick and not really useful
>>332329376
>You should do it if you are confident that your machine can hold up.
it's not a hardware limitation as much as it is a java limitation. JRE is under a lot of strain trying to run modded SS
This game's fucking great, reminds me a bit of Mount and Blade, but in space. The open possibilities and freedom, plus the light trading and diplomatic elements, and the fact that the first time I started, I fucked up royale within the first couple of hours, and yet I didn't mind going back and starting over again.
Can't wait to see what a finished product could possibly look like, but I'm so happy I gave this game a chance in the condition it's in now.
Missile boats best ships.
Why havent you loaded all your ships to the brim with missiles yet anon?
>>332332039
I love BIG THICK MISSILES/ROCKETS, but goddamn I really don't like the small swarmy stuff.
Best ship for solo'ing fleets? Any mod for the newest version is available.
What should I buy /v/?
>>332328150
Is my current fleet atm
>>332334054
Karkinos if you want to solo stuff,
Pandemonium if you want some fighter action around your solo capital.
>>332334054
Maelstrom is cool with all that missile spam.
About your fleet, the ship you are maining is it good? I mean compared to Onslaught or Dominator don't know.
>>332334054
Pandemonium to fly through hyperspace in style with Unsung
>>332336748
The perfect pair really!
Two lazily put together mirror joke sprites that turned out too awesome to not implement.
>>332329837
What kind of faction would you be thinking about making? What would they specialize in compared to the others?
I'd say make mods. More variety is always good.
>>332329837
You should play it a bit, if only to check what the other mods are doing. Also to be sure you are committed to modding this game as it is a lot of effort.
How do I control what my followers do? When I check the faction Tab I don't see them. I assume it's because they're an extension of me. Is it possible to say what is contraband and what isn't in game or would I have to go through the npc_faction files? Also hod do I do diplomacy? DO I go somewhere or just insert agents somewhere?
anyone have the key
>>332333094
>I really don't like the small swarmy stuff.
>have to fight a Diable bounty
>30 fucking fighter squads
>put Dart MRMs on everything
>run into the cloud of gundams
>release the moving mustard cloud of death
best 3 fps fight ever
>>332338940
I've got it right hereneutrino has the best caps but the worst cruisers and it makes me mad
>>332334054
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Is it just me or are a lot of kinetic/HE weapons really underwhelming in terms of damage?
>>332338619
You can't directly control your followers. Right now its treated as a faction started up by your actions, but you aren't seen as the head authoritative figure. Since you don't have control it acts like an NPC faction that acts on its own, it'll just be your own custom faction as if you're commissioned to them.
You'll have to configure what goods are allowed or not, as well as fleet composition and other items are sold in the config files. Nexerelin player factions are very basic right now, so they're at best a custom NPC faction. Hopefully as time goes on the mod will flesh out the features and have a whole diplomacy tab next to factions/intel.
>>332329837
That sprite looks decent.
>>332326715
java.lang.NullPointerException
something is named wrong
I'm just starting off in this game and I can't even move to the hyperspace jump point without getting destroyed.
How do I mine asteroids? I refit my ship with the lasers but I'm not sure how to use them.
>>332327330
>Putting someone other than yourself in the Falken Frigate
WHY
>>332340913
Try having 4+ frigates before going into hyperspace. Turn off your transponder before leaving, so every pirate fleet from the system over knows where you are. Keep your emergency burn and don't hold shift to speed up time, so you have more time to react to raiders.
Also there's no mining in vanilla, I think Nexerelin offers that feature. When you do you'll have UI options that will show you what ships and weapons you can use to mine that you need to have fitted on your vessel.
>>332340304
Kinetic is for busting shields and meh other things.
HE for busting armor and shite for shields.
Flak for hulls and missles/fighters.
>>332344170
Kinetic also does lots of damage against unarmoured hull.
>>332341069
I paid the price.
It blew up.
I haven't found another one.
I'm still mad.
>>332326715
debug and find what object is being called with nothing in it.
So what combat theme should there be for new faction mods? we already have high-tech factions, low-tech factions, costly CR factions, fast factions, slow factions, trade factions so what else could be get? Industry-based factions?
>>332344498
Everything does.
