Starsector thread
What are you
>flyan
>smugglan
>jewan
>buyan
Also... Where and how the fuck do I buy new better ships. I've been stuck with shitty ships for sale for a while. Do the stores restock at some point or what?
>>332699838
Markets refresh over time, just visit them later again.
>flyan>Donar
>smugglan>nothing
>jewan>destroying
>buyan>more ships
Any decent torrents of this? Detest buying indie games as most are shit.
>>332700819
Torrents are not updated. Some anon posted a pastebin with everything you need for the game.
And it's pretty good. Pirate it and buy it if you like it. It's being developed by one guy. He has an artist kind of guy who works in the design and music I think.
Reminder that holding Shift while travelling speeds up time.
Reminder that Transponder On/Off is a double click.
Reminder that Hunter Fleets will always be intercepting your ass even when out of sensor range, so either jump out of the system to another or drag them into a faction that is hostile to them (and hopefully not you as well).
>>332701132
Where the hell have you been lately.
You missed a ton of threads.
I justpiratedthis, and.. uh..
I don't know what i'm getting myself into.
I thought it was just going to be some kind of quick fun ship customization and shootan game.
WHAT THE FUCK IS ALL THIS HOLY SHIT
>>332700819
Version i'm using is up on kat.cr, sandboxied it and it looks clean to me.
>>332701284
Not the original guy, sadly, but he is needed. While he is gone in the void of space, I will do my best to keep his memories going.
Remember, assisting an invasion fleet attacking a planet with 3 huge attack fleets in orbit and a defense fleet coming from said planet can be a bad idea.
>>332701287
>WHAT THE FUCK IS ALL THIS
Looks like a pretty good oppurtunity to stock up on supplies on Sphinx anon.
>>332701749
I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT EVEN MEANS OR HOW
This shit is way more in-depth than I thought it would be.
>>332699838
Desdinova, thinking I want to get an Onslaught XIV because I love that shit and the feeling of bulldozing motherfuckers
No smugglan
500k+ Bounties and IBBs
Buying fighters. It's hard to find Valiants or whatever the Diable ones are that are fucking awesome. My Heron hungers.
I'm considering signing up with the Hegemony and building a fleet entirely of XIV stuff, then crusading the Templars
I hear a lot about this game.
And now I'm curious.
Why is it so fun to you?
>>332701287
please enlight me about this game
>>332702695
The combat is fun. The other parts are fun. It's a fun game. And it's not an easy game.
Fun things are fun.
>>332702695
It starts like Cowboy Bebop and Firefly and ends up feeling like Battleship Yamato. You can play as a smuggler, a trader or a bounty hunter. Gameplay wise is pretty fun and somewhat complex but not brain braking.
>>332702819
SHIT NIGGLY YOU'RE ASKING THE WRONG NIGGA.
I'M IN WAY OVER MY HEAD.
COMBAT TUTORIAL WAS KINDA NEAT, EXACTLY WHAT I WAS EXPECTING.
HIT NEW GAME, OKAY COOL SOME ROLEPLAY-ESQUE OPTIONS
OKAY THIS MAP SCREEN WASN'T IN THE TUTORIAL WHATEVER, LETS CHECK OUT THIS INTEL TAB MAYBE IT'LL TELL ME WHERE TO GO
[FUCKING MENU IN THE SCREENSHOT]
what the fuCK
>>332703398
HOW BIG IS THIS FUCKING MAP NIGGA-ANON?
Some general information here for new guys.
Having Transponder off will cause non-pirate factions (assuming you're allied with pirates) chase you like a cop chasing you without your seat belt on.
Tri-Tachyon are space jews and deserve nothing but destruction. If you must friend them, only do it to get their super annoying phase ships and/or weapons.
Low-tech ships have low flux and sometimes no shields but have high armor and hull health. Typically outfitted in ballistics only or ballistics with missiles.
Middle ships are a combo of shields and hull, and use energy and ballistic weapons.
High-tech are all energy, maybe with missiles, and have high flux capacity/dissipation. A series of them are phase ships which can at times be pretty bullshit to fight against.
Mods are very simple to install and get, somewhat akin to Bethesda games. Just make sure to follow the steps of upgrading the Java in the game to a newer version and edit the vmparams file to give more memory or else the mods will overload it very quickly.
Starsector+ adds the most things I believe, with Nexerelin behind it.
Most factions are balanced, save for Approlight and Templars, which are meant for boss factions. Hiigaran Descendants also has a bit of OPness to it, but that's mostly in its burn speed and maybe a few weapons/ships as far as I know.
Almost all mods require the couple Lib mods, so get them first. Almost all mods will also have a link to the Lib mods.
Carriers and ships with flight decks can service around 3 or 4 fighter/bomber wings during combat. The Combat Readiness percentage goes down in fighter/bomber wings when they are destroyed and replacement chassis are made in battle. As long as you have a carrier in your fleet somewhere, either in or out of battle, you will not lose the wing completely. Information on the wing when you own it will show how many Replacement Chassis it has available for combat.
>>332703664
SHEEEEIT I DUNNO
LOOKED KINDA SMALL BUT I JUST REALIZED I WAS IN ONLY ONE SECTOR.
FUCKIN TRADE ROUTES AND SHIT? FACTIONS AT WAR? THE FUCK MAN.
IM STUCK MAN IM TOO SCARED TO GO SOMEWHERE, THERES SO MUCH SHIT.
How the fuck do I make mining profitable in Nex? Between supplies and crew replacements I'm barely breaking even.
>>332703926
I THINK I'M GOING TO DIG THIS GAME, THKS NIGGA-ANON FOR PROVIDING ME WITH SOMETHING ELSE TO DO INSTEAD OF STUDYING! IF THERE ARE BLACK HOLES AND SHIT I'M GOING TO BUY THIS FUCKER
>>332703875
Mining power yields more resources gained. Mining also gives experience to you and your crew, but not your captains. Pay attention to the Hazard Level, which is percent chance to have an accident. Accidents include loss of Combat Readiness, taking hull damage, and losing small amounts of crew. Mining has a chance to find a secret cache of items, weapons, or even some ships and fighter/bomber wings.
Economic events will be told in your Intel screen. In the map in the Intel screen you can hover over star systems to find the stations and planets that belong to factions and their stability/power level. Stability level makes a difference when invading as they have more to repel you with.
>>332704298
If you can get the big space lobster/crawdad looking ship from Blackrock Drive Yards, the Hammer Claw missile alone gives a good 30 or so mining power due to originally being used to smash the shit out of asteroids.
>>332704315
Currently no black holes, but they be a future thing. Also in the future updates the 4th skill tree will be unlocked and able to be used.
Max Burn Level is your travel speed. Generally try keeping it at minimal 9, or 8 if you have good cash and ships to ward off any faster hostile fleets.
When doing trade runs by comm quests, try going for the ones at least 30 days unless you know you can get the merchandise and reach it before the lower time limit.
How in the FUCK do i increase the chances of coming across a Neutrino flag ship in the ports or market places? Are some of them shut off by default? Neutrino was BTFO by someone in my current game and while i find the occasional ship for sale at the prism freeport they aren't capital ships anymore. Not even the unsung spawns in shop anymore.
If I take Neutrino locations from other factions, does that add Neutrino ships to my possible pool? If anyone could tell me what to edit to increase the odds of seeing Neutrino ships, that'd be great.
So, i just started playing this game
Is it okay if i just auto-pilot all of my ships and just watch the battles unfold, only manualing my capital if i REALLY feel like it?
The combat feels a bit odd and clunky for me, but watching it and giving orders around is gr8
i'm still playing vanilla and getting my ass rekt all the time by pirates
GODSDAMNIT DONG UPDATE FUCKING WHEN
>>332706127
Works fine. The AI is pretty good for the most part. If your ship feels too slugging in combat, hold Shift to constantly aim to your cursor and strafe (in the event you're not) and get the Auxiliary Thrusters hull mod. It helps a lot when your ship is slow to turn.
>>332706127
I love the combat, there's no better feeling that slapping enemy ship around in big capital ships.
That said, what orders do you give your ships? I never found a good way to utilize most of the orders available to you.
>>332699838
are all the (good) faction mods updated to latest version yet
>>332707121
I usually just set up the waypoints in the middle of the map and use them to flank the bigger enemy ships
i plan on using it to protect my carriers as well when i get one
I've been away for a while and I've been reading this thread and I'm intrigued. What is this game?
Anon's Portrait Pack:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/i5fv2c6a68po3va/Messy_Portrait_Pack.zip
0.7.2a RC3 crack:
https://www.4shared.com/archive/FmONLyGSba/com.html
How to use crack
>backup starfarer_obf.jar
>get winrar
>open starfarer_obf.jar
>paste crack into folder and overwrite contents
>enjoy less but more stable mods
>>332708024
I think it's Starsector, but I'm not really sure anon.Think S.P.A.Z, but with a much more complex combat and a Mount and Blade style progression.
>>332706543
When it is done. In the mean time you can play THI 1.06 in SS 0.7.2a by using a compatibility JAR made by a user that is on page 8 of the thread.
How do i start getting money in this game?
I made my character, but i can't find any decent pirate fleets for my level, and i don't think trading is profitable at al for a newbie like mel with all the supply & fuel expenses and tariffs
>>332709427
See if you can partake in large fleet battles. Salvage at the end is dependent upon the amount of damage you deal to the enemies however, so if you don't even scratch them then you aren't getting much. Just go kill some of the small stuff if you can.
>>332710680
Where do i find small stuff?
I've been hanging around pirate bases and in hyperspace it's been forever and they almost never appear
>>332710937
Well I was referring to the small ships and fighter squadrons in big fleet battles, but I'd go find a star system with 2 or more pirate bases (with allied bases of course) and see if you can find small fleets there. More bases generally = more fleets. Just hover over the systems in the map in Intel page and it'll tell you all the stations and planets inhabited.
pls post lewd ship-fus
>>332699838
What is this
Is it like FTL? I liked FTL
>>332712423
>>332712501
Not at all, man. It's combat is more like a very very advanced version of Asteroids.
>>332712778
i really want to fuck the imperium's ships
all of them
>>332712996
>>332712875
are there cool upgrades i can unlock
i like games with shit to unlock
is it a roguelite or do i build a permanent ship
>>332713103
>>332713191
I don't know who is drawing this shit but I want some Neutrino-tans right now.
Also can anyone answer >>332705320
>>332713174
When you level up, you unlock upgrades you can slap to your ship providing you've got the capacity for it but they're more like stat bonuses than anything.
You buy ships and create your fleet then fuck around in space. It's still on beta though but people just stick a couple of handfuls of mods to make it playable.
>>332713279
What are those 3 weapons?
Thumper, Assault Chaingun, and something else?
>>332713441
Guy who's drawing them are finishing the vanilla ships firsts.
Prism freeport is totally random, as far as I know it spawns shit not even available in the game proper as it pulls everything from the database. You just have a ton of mods so the odds of it spawning a specific ship you want goes way down.
>>332713690
Cobra Autogun from Citadel mod
Man, how do you guys manage to deal with your supplies?
Mine run out so fucking fast and they're so expensive and difficult to replace
>>332716693
1. Don't deploy all ships; deploy just enough to beat the enemy without taking hull damage
2. Don't fight pirates and pathers if you don't have to. Only fight them if there are active per-kill bounty in the system, or if they are named bounties themselves.
>>332716954
Not the anon but where do I get officers to Captain my ships?
>>332717959
Same place you get missions. Press one in station. Just talk to those mecenary officers
>>332717959
Check the top option at stations for mercenaries
>>332713103
does this artist have a site or what?
>>332713103
mimir-chan when
rescue
Where in the fuck do I figure out how to console command in ships?
>>332721542
Read the manual and use the command line built-in help?
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=4106.0
>>332712778
Did you know her right Tit is slightly larger than her left Tit?
Editing the combat chatter mod. How does it actually assign the character profiles? Automatically? Because I want to add more character archetypes and delete some but I don't know if the game will pick it up.
Daily reminder that Alex has succumbed to zionist interests.
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10051.msg173287#msg173287
What line do I have to edit in the SS+ settings.json to increase the number of procurement missions available? Wanna start a Nex game with a generated sector and I've read that increasing the amount of missions can help with shitty market generation.
>>332722842
It's a forum. What did you expect?
>>332722907
>mods\Starsector Plus\data\config\settings.json
>maxMarketProcurementConcurrent
>>332723072
And 4chan is just sheeky forums.
I feel like I hit a wall when smuggling. There are not that many ships i find suitable, so aside from getting a larger fleet of shitty ships, is there something else that I should be doing?
Should I get some more frigates and switch to piracy, or get a commission?
>>332722907
I usually just reload if I see price of supply+price of fuel>120 or so
>>332723375
I haven't installed any mods, are they necessary for more content?
>>332723375
Smuggling is hard work. You need less sensor profile but increased sensor range too. Also, the radar mod is a must have.
>>332723375
Pirates give commission payments if you can get friendly enough with them.
Smuggling can be tough. Gotta avoid patrols and keep an eye on the Intel screen. I usually buy spess drugs wherever it's legal and cheap on open markets and sell them on black markets to pirates.
>>332723631
Yeah. Game is merely 70% finished after all. With mods, it looks like a passable 1.0 version of a game.
The crap people say when you encounter them is so repetitive which clashes hard with the hundred plus portraits mod. Is there a way to rectify this?
got to level five
still no way to get money. town to 4k bux. Should I risk it and move to another system?
>>332723260
Thanks, what's a good value to set it to?
>>332724951
Triple of default.
>>332724951
Someone recommended 90. I'd go with that. Do note that the missions are still spread out in a sector if it has multiple bases.
Just use Prism Freeport local delivery system m8 :^)
>>332699838
What does this game play like? Are you a solo pilot, do you command fleets? I
>>332725839
You can start with 1 or 3 ships of different quality on vanilla. Has a choose your own past start that can be smuggler, bounty hunter, trader, something else i can't remember
Add mods and things turn more gamey and/or roleplayey depending on what you want.
>>332725839
Both if you want.
>>332725705
If you know real world governments' inefficiencies and corruption, you would completely understand why the base commander would buy shit for triple the price from his/her friends despite having access to cheaper prices elsewhere. That's how I see it in my head canon.
>>332726661
>>332726424
>shilling your twitter
Fuck off m8
>>332726813
>your twitter
Nigga what? It's a chairman from Texas who loves anime and gives 0 fucks.
>>332723990
What would you recommend?
>>332728521
Same as everyone. Latest Nexerelin and SS+, then the compatible mods for the base game.
Pic related, my RC3 game.
Okay. So being a trader was the worst decision I ever made. Buying form one place then selling to another isnt really that exciting. But starting with a free friend is so nice.
I keep running out of supplies rapidly (2 combat frigates 1 tiny cargo) . Yet I keep running low on funds if Im not a system that has a pirate bounty. The AI either starts killing them all or the pirates are just one big death ball.
Update when?
>>332730079
Open Market Fluctuation Trading is opportunistic at best. You also need to take account for tariff. Which is 30% loss on buying and 30% loss on selling.
Procurement missions have no tariff. That should be your bread and butter if you want to be a convoy runner. Not market fluctuation.
Then there's smuggling. You can either sell 500 legally x and 100 y on the black market to remain unsuspicious.
Of course, you can go full illegal smuggler. But eventually they will send assassin fleets if they hate your guts enough.
For general systems bounty, don't use Emergency Burn, don't chase them in hyperspace.
In other words, you need at least 11 burn if you want to make profit off hunting stragglers. That means a small frigate tier fleet.
>>332730597
>Which is 30% loss on buying and 30% loss on selling.
Forgot to mention that open market prices also degrades rapidly. If you sell 1000 x of something at initial price, it may degrade to worthlessness by the 500th one. Which adds the the unreliability of chasing market trends.
>>332730802
I keep forgetting to take actual missions and not the broad casted stuff.
What if there was a total conversion that turned space into the ocean and the ships into submarine- like vessels?
I just want to blow bubbles...
>>332699838
Why put Expanded Magazines on beam Wolf?
These 20 FPS battles are wearing me out man, is there a way to reduce the size below the minimum limit (300 in SS+)?
>>332732607
I believe so, in the data/config/settings.json
>>332732607
Get a better PC man
>>332732757
settings.json says min is 150 but in-game it's 300
I guess it's somewhere in the ss+ settings
>>332732841
epic mene man
>want to mod music
>all that shit inside sounds.json
>remember that I have never modded something in my life
I don't get it... Have any anon succesfully modded the music in his game?
>>332733050
A lot of mods add music, you even have a MusicLib provided with SS+.
>>332733208
I know, but it got boring so quickly, I downloaded a mod called Galatia Complete, but it seems that it doesn't work.
Shame because it seemed interesting.
>>332732253That reminds me: sub vs sub combat in Silent Hunter is fucking ridiculously hard. How the fuck did real life sub commanders do this much trigonometry on the fly back then?
>>332732253
Sounds like quite a lot of work. I think there was someone who made tank sprites, I don't know for sure if there was ever an attempt at a ground warfare mod.
>>332733478
I think that wasn't a mod but just a playlist to listen while playing.
>tfw trying to make peace with Neutrino as Diable
>tfw my faction keeps trying to fund terrorists
>tfw their alliance keep sending invasion fleets
Is this what it feels like to be a grunt in a 4x game with a totally unfeeling space emperor?
>>332733963
Agents, agents to boost the relations are the answer.
Fuckin LazyLib crashed my shit with a "Fatal: Index: 0, Size: 0" error. God dammit.
>>332734726
LazyLib really? That would be a first, that thing is quite bug free. Do you have a log?
>>332734796
With only lazylib selected in the mods list I get that Fatal: error and in the logfile
13716 [Thread-5] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(Unknown Source)
at java.util.ArrayList.get(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.loading.scripts.ScriptStore.new(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.settings.StarfarerSettings.o00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.launcher.ModManager.getEnabledModPlugins(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.loading.ResourceLoaderState.init(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)
>>332734935
Make sure you're running the latest version of the game, senpai.
Played a wee bit of the game without playing the tutorial... seems up my alley. Is the tutorial any good?
>>332734935
Probably an out-of-date version then, or you are on 0.7.1 and using the 0.7.2 version of LazyLib.
>>332735085
>>332735020
Using 0.7.2a, which should be the right version for this according to the thread.
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=5444.0
>>332735079
Tutorial is literally just how to control stuff.
>>332735132
RC3?
>>332735176
Fuck, RC1.
Daily reminder, check this thread if you are having issues with a modded game.
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10931.0
I've been seeing these threads a lot lately
What kind of game is this? What do you do in it?
>>332735464
Fuck around in 2d space and bullying other ship captains.
>>332735464
2D Mount and Blades in space. The first half of this board explain it in more lengths.
>>332735464
You slowly form a fleet of ships because you're tired of having to dodge all these delicious pirate bounties due to their fleet sizes and then realize that you're a faggot with no leadership skills and quickly go bankrupt.
>Update
>Wants me to enter key again
>Doesn't work
What the fuck is this
>>332737083
Using latest version, senpai? Read >>332708237
>>332708237
Thanks Kramer
>Supplies rose to twice their original price with fuel closing on triple the price I started my campaign on
>No signs of prices dropping with the constant disruptions increasing everything
RIP in piss capital ship fleet, the galaxy thought it was too much fun seeing 4 Victory and Banshee-class battleships bullying everyone. I guess I'm going back to phase ships and fighter spam.
>>332735176
Well jumped through all that bullshit to update to RC3 and I still get the same fucking error SHIT DAMN
did anon ever find the lewd portrait pack or did they forget?
>>332738672
>2 Million
>Complaining about prices
Are you kidding
>>332739819
>slowly building up to 10 millions
>all the hostile factions are in one system
Doesn't matter if it takes me a year! You'll be mine, Pope
>>332739819
I had about 9 million earlier, roughly 5 after buying Gilgamesh. Its pretty bad when your capital ship fleet consumes 100+ fuel a day in hyperspace, and a stack of that is 200k. Markets like Sindria don't offer fuel for much lower either because it can't keep up with my demand.
Now I'm just gonna run with a fleet trying to stay below 20 a day. Good thing fighters don't burn fuel so I can bring a few dozen of them if prices stay this way.
Well it is happening!
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=10935.0
November 11th guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>332740751
Raise some leadership skill goddamn.
best frigate flagship?
I wish you fags would post more combat webms.
>>332741641
Diable's Vapor if you're good enough.
November 11th for a full release when the game is this incomplete? Or will it be early access for another 6 years?
>>332741362
All maxed out, its an ungodly number to see that much fuel when I consume like 15 supplies a day. But it is also my fault for taking a bunch of Atlas freighters to do those 5k+ cargo procurement missions while having all those battleships.
You really can't win trying to do those big payout missions and bounties at the same time. My fleet was too fucking big and inefficient, and I should focus on one. When industry comes I'm going to hope to be more self-sufficient with fuel and be a gas hog all I want.
How do you take screenshots in this game?
>>332741297
>ss announced on steam
>kt finalized
What a time to be alive
>>332742712
printscreen, screenshot in game folder senpai
>>332742750
Thanks.
So, apparently you can get mercenary captains from the Knights even if you're inhospitable with them.
>>332741704
best ai frigate flagship?
>>332743119
Wolf.
