Thread 718213078

>>718213078 (OP)
>cheat ships

all games are boring until proven otherwise
all games are shit until proven otherwise
no game exists until proven otherwise

>>718213221
>trannycord tourist having a melty over what I do in MY ALWAYS OFFLINE SINGLE PLAYER GAME THAT I OWN

Drex operative bros WW@

op proving to be a faggot yet again

>>718213078 (OP)
it needs coop and more weapons in based version

mods are wild tho

>>718213078 (OP)
The urge to reinstall rising

>>718214242
Is shit still going on with that? Le crash codes, le no waifu mods

I hate how they get mad about balancing and force people to nerf

>>718213078 (OP)
rebel galaxy has something neat going for it despite being somewhat mediocre
shame about the sequel sucking ass

>>718213078 (OP)
Space "exploration" games like Stellaris are shit.
Space exploration games where you can actually enter the planets and have adventures on them are based.

*mogs every single space game in existence*

>>718213078 (OP)
>Space game
>Best missions are when you're limited to your smallest classes + strike craft + mechs descending into a planet's atmosphere to support an invasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMXtfXnRzdo

>>718213078 (OP)
Wish the dev would stop thinking people care about his story, it's like the main quest in Bannerlord, nobody gives a fuck about it.

>>718216983
I wish the dev would stop FUCKING AROUND and finish the damn game already. As far as I can tell there is exactly 1 (one) administrator skill. That's completely unacceptable in a game that's been in development for 10 fucking years. There are far too many parts of the game that are bare bones like a brand new alpha. You can seige a planet into near oblivion and you'll get the exact same communication options as if you were freindly this is bullshit. What the fuck does this dev even do?

>>718215908
Yearp
These fucking freaks have split into like 5 different subgroups of trannycord channels, all of them trying to enforce their own version of insanity upon someone else's product.
All with the tacit approval of chief commie pozzbrain spergatron Alex himself. Be it by way of tolerance, indifference, or stupidity.

>>718213078 (OP)
why would you say that while posting ludokino?

What are some fun space games?
I love Starsector, love X4, Avorion is alright.
On my wishlist I still have games like Starpoint Gemini Warlords, Starcom: Unknown Space, SpaceBourne 2, Evochron Legacy SE, Evochron Mercenary, Empyrion - Galactic Survival, Underspace, Cosmoteer, Reassembly, Rings of Saturn.
Played any of those? Thoughts?

>>718218224
>5 different subgroups of
This can't be real, no way

>>718218060
He got enough money not to care anymore, last update added less content than faction mod. If you told me it's faction mod I would believe it.
All you gonna get is "balance" tweaks for few years with minimal content, maybe after 5 years he will release on steam to cash out before retiring from gamedev.

>>718218695
Would I be correct in guessing that there have been no changes to the communication system in 10 years? It's basically useless beyond going through the motions at the start/end of missions. If you've blown up a planets battlestation, all their fleets, raided the shit out of them, orbital bombarded them, blockaded and starved them Is it too much to ask for some communication options that are different from the default one?

>>718218060
>As far as I can tell there is exactly 1 (one) administrator skill. That's completely unacceptable in a game that's been in development for 10 fucking years. There are far too many parts of the game that are bare bones like a brand new alpha
He overhauls mechanics based on the whims of his forum orbiters. It's clear he has no proper long-term plans for Starsector.

>>718218695
And that's why I'm glad I used Sseth's code

>>718218926
>Is it too much to ask for
it is, dev got his money => he can't care less. All the real progress on the game happened before it got popular.
I'm pretty sure that the dev had bigger plans but decided that if this makes money then it's ok as it is.

>>718213078 (OP)
>ENTER

>>718219109
I'm a little annoyed at sseth I feel he misled me into thinking starsector was more detailed and the dev more passionate that they really are.

>>718219187
>I feel he misled me into thinking starsector was more detailed and the dev more passionate that they really are
there was more hope that Alex would continue expanding the game 6 years ago instead of stagnate like a patreon weg game

>>718219187
I stopped watching Sseth for game recommendations, because he plays up a lot of games have to offer pretty heavily, to the point where the video and the game might as well be completely unrelated. I got burned on both Star Sector and Kenshi. Both are way more barebones that what his videos would lead you to believe.

>>718213078 (OP)
>>718214318
how do people even play this without rapesector?

>>718213078 (OP)
I really hope that we can eventually do quests for the [REDACTED], I love [REDACTED] fuck the hegemony.

>>718219458
>rapesector
link it

>>718219458
Why call it rapesector when most of the people don't use if for the rape?

Ive never installed a mod for this. What's a good one?

>>718219871
Arma is literally just adds Gundams

>>718219547
Wtf can you even do against fleets with more than one fabricator? with all the best officers and fully story modded fleets it's just barely possible to beat a single fabricator

Starsector's combat is so shit, I could never play the game. Why the fuck is it programmed that your ships never listen to your commands.

>>718220017
>Why the fuck is it programmed that your ships never listen to your commands.
This.
>flux is getting a bit high
>order ship to retreat
>it's still not retreating
>it teleports TOWARDS the enemy
>boom
god fucking damnit

>>718219458
Why would I play with a space strategy game with a porn mod?
>>718219871
Well Nexerelin is a pretty commonly used one expanding on the diplomacy/faction mechanics.
As for faction/ship mods, I like VIC and Blackrock the most. Shadowyards, Legacy of Arkgneisis, Scy Nation, Interstellar Imerium, Dassault-Mikoyan, are pretty nice as well.

>>718219389
the best hidden gem Seth shilled to date is Underrail.

>>718220017
Combat is literally the most fun part of the game. Your ships listen, but their behaviour is dependant of the officers' personality, and the situation they're in, too. Personally I tend to get Aggressive officers for most roles, and Steady ones for the ships that I want to maintain some distance from the enemies. I tend to just give Escort commands at the start, and then potentially avoid on capitals I'd rather leave for last, or seek and destroy / eliminate.

This game has so much retarded balancing and narrative issues it's crazy
>Meta is using wrecked ships for extra deployment points
>Can't use even ONE alpha core on big automated ships you get with skill without penalties, completely fine with you using 2+ automated capital ships with alpha cores without any skills as long as you get them thru quest(planetkiller)
>Factions don't give a fuck about expansion(for hundreds of years at that point lol) until you build your own colony on the edge of the sector (then they start wasting bazillion credits worth of fuel to bother you)
>Join faction and get free money doing NOTHING AT ALL
>Bazillion ground defence structures that do absolutely nothing for your colony
>Can only sell ships for 1/10 of their price
Just sitting here and trying to stop typing out stuff i remember
Shane space sims are this bad if this is considered great

>>718219871
>Ive never installed a mod for this.
Please be aware that some """modifications""" for Star Sector could be classified as actual malware that damages the operation of the software or your computer.

https://youtu.be/5pmCvjUO-d8?si=vLkhMKpwvEhKhHYK&t=1255
20:55

>>718218417
>What are some fun space games?
ringrunner is real fun. cosmoteer is alright despite the ea

So does the story end after activating the gates? One poster said the dev is working too much on the story but what fucking story? I had a swordfight and impressed some brown mystery meat woman and that apparently went nowhere too.

>>718215908
>>718214242
>>718218224
Quick rundown?

>>718220341
>Can't use even ONE alpha core on big automated ships you get with skill without penalties,
That one hurts. It was pretty had to get that first radiant(?) class then it was fucking ruined by installing an alpha core now I've got this big un-unusable waste of resources and story points sitting there in storage because of shitty game mechanics.

>>718219168
good taste anon

>>718221690
Cabal of discord predditors and trannies on a cold-war-gone-hot arms race of malicious code inducing crashes, logging your personal information to send to a fuck off Balkan server somewhere, and spamming enough quirk chungus cringe to render the game unplayable.

All because someone might've stolen 5 pixels out of a sprite, or said something mean, or had the wrong thoughts and opinions to their dogma. Lead developer was inactive and passive for far too many years on the matter and now backseats his writer's obsession with putting woke shit in 2D space bannerlord.

>>718221984
>one (1) mod has a piece of code to crash your game if it detects another nazi mod running literally 5 years ago
>utter schizophrenia has devolved to the point where every modder is an insane tranny filling their mods with trojans
Hilarious

>>718222053
That one malware was all they needed. The realization that they can get away with it.

>>718222053
>>718222191
So the situation has gotten even worse since that troon injected the malware into his mod?

>>718221984
Shame they spewed their troon rage all over the guy making the superweapons mod over a single pixel. It's a fun mod.

>>718215053
I really wish you could fly the capital ships in that. The liberty battleships looked cool

>>718222265
no, op is just so bored that he's stirring up old shit here after getting told to fuck off from the /vst/ thread

>>718213078 (OP)
This and mountain blade games comprise a genre that I'm too OCD for to enjoy.
>start a battle with 20+ units
>win it but one unit dies
>uninstall the game
I just can't take it when I win a battle but suffer losses. Send help.

>>718213078 (OP)
I like the game but it feels rather limited. Smuggling is basically just drugs and organs. You need to run a colony in order to produce both of these, meaning I can't just set up a lab or a farm in a distant fuck off asteroid or abandoned station in the ass end of buttfuck nowhere and synthesize drugs or kidnap people, harvest their organs and then sell them. Can't engage in biological warfare by creating viruses, releasing them with the smuggled people and reaping the rewards. I know I'm psychotic, but it's the small things like this that make a game truly immersive.

>>718223294
just recover them, these days it's practically impossible to permanently lose a ship in a winning battle (officers and smods both guarantee recovery)

>>718222310
Actually it was a real fucking woman who made that mod roflmao
They had one actual whole amongst them and they chased her away

>>718222369
Sirhartley, that you?
Has Noah cummed up your ass yet or nah

>>718224450
No wonder the trannies hated her. There's nothing a tranny loathes more than a biofem.
Superweapon arsenal was one of the mods they were using malware against even before they made up the "stolen pixel" horseshit.

>>718219389
>Both are way more barebones that what his videos would lead you to believe
And both have intensive modding support, which is what Sseth was hyping about near the end of their respective vids

your point is moot and you are retarded

>>718222310
Was that the tile that was like 6 by 4 pixel and looked like a clutch plate viewed from top? That was hilarious.

>>718218531
Let's see, USC. Corvus, whatever the fuck UAF's server is, Rapesector and I think Turkler made his own after getting repeatedly laughed out of everywhere else. That's at least 5 and there are likely more, I think the RAT and that horrid bloatmod AotD have their own too.

>>718226183
total tranny death can't come soon enough

>>718222310
>over a single pixel
You can't say this without elaborating? What happened

>>718214967
I find its mods very boring desu. I was expecting more quests etc since how bare bones the base game is on department but there are barely any quests

>>718222310
>a mod that adds actual interesting weapons as opposed to a reskin with slightly different numbers
Of course it would be cancelled.

>>718213078 (OP)
If spacegames are so boring then why do i have 1500 hours in X4? Curious isn't it?

>>718222310
On tranny modders' defense the dev was a faggot lying about him not using assets of others

>>718226842
Some autistic people enjoy watching washing machines.

>>718226842
What do you do on repeat playthroughs? Do you do some challenge runs or roleplay different scenarios?
Do you always do the story quests every playthrough, or do you just set them as completed?

>>718214242
qrd?
i just played vanilla starsector

>>718227005
One of my playthroughs was a 400 hour run with lots of mods, i'm now doing vanilla, some 500-ish hours, but i do want to play the SW mod one of these days, for a few hundred hours.

>>718227093
see >>718222053
irrelevant if you're just playing vanilla

>>718227334
why are modtrannies so deranged?

>>718227129
Any mods you'd recommend? I'll probably replay once the diplomacy update drops.

try this

>>718227405
There's no must have mods, but i like that xenon apocalypse one, it lets you adjust the "jobs" for all races in a javascript file or something, "jobs" refers to how many ships each race will have at a time, xenons aren't much of a threat to seasoned players even at the start.

>>718227881
>that xenon apocalypse one
This one?
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3089973449
Or this?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3306781107
or something else?

>>718224545
Who the fuck are you

>>718226424
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=22115.510

>>718228049
Don't think so, xenon apocalypse was, now that i think about it, an option inside the file where you manually configure it. It's been a while since my modded game.

>>718228049
>>718228521
Nevermind, just asked the LLM, it's Foundation of Conquest and War.

One of the best turn-based strategy games in existence.

>>718229417
>turn-based strategy game
so a shitty game

>>718229417
I really liked moo2 but I could never beat it by playing the way i wanted to play. My younger brother could beat it on impossible difficulty pretty easily.

>>718218417
>Cosmoteer, Reassembly
Both are good but you still miss the Starsector kino. I prefer Reassembly for the way it behaves, but honestly, I hate the ship building because it actually takes away from the creativity as ironic as it is. Starsector modded ships are always going to look better and do cooler shit compared to what you can build in Cosmoteer and Reassembly. My ultimate space game would be a sandbox that's a mix of something like Reassembly and Starsector. No obligatory mission bullshit, any character/planet/ship can get killed and you can get locked out of quests, but at the same time most quests can be done by yourself, you just won't get "story" by doing it like this (not that it matters since it's a sandbox game, the "story" is what you do anyways).

>>718232895
The shipbuilding in starsector is all about what you CAN'T do and it's a big weakness of the game IMO. I think the starsector dev got extremely lucky with this game taking off at all. It probably wouldn't be too hard for someone to come in and eat this guys lunch. It's a pretty simple game with a lot of problems. Just make starsector but not shit.

>>718233542
>It probably wouldn't be too hard for someone to come in and eat this guys lunch. It's a pretty simple game with a lot of problems. Just make starsector but not shit
Yeah, that's my plan as well, just need a few millions for me to comfydev

>>718221690
>Guy makes mod where you take enemy officers prisoner
>Anon finds this and makes a mod for it that turns Starsector into a porn /vn/ with some rape
>A bunch of modders start to sperg out at this
>The owner of said prisoner mod even takes down his original mod and replaces it thinking it will stop the /vn/ mod (it doesn't).
>At some point someone puts malware on their own mods so if they detect that you have this mod it fucks up your game and your system.
>Whole mod fandom goes on a sperg out because they realise now that people can put malware on their mods and spread them out with barely any supervision
>FS now has to either make sure the modders don't sperg out again or find some way to make sure the mods don't have malware (which either means increasing moderation of the mods to a retarded degree to the point it becomes a kidney stone in development of the game, or let it be and let the whole shitshow burn by itself at the cost of people trying to get away from the modding scene. So far, it looks like they are leaning to the second one more).
The point is, stick to vanila.
Don't touch the mods if you are not willing to risk your shit.
And its completely ok to shit down any modders throat until some other autist inspect their mod like an inquisitor looking for heretics and confirms it is completely ok, then shit on them anyways if they try to change their mod at the last second to weaponize it because they didn't liked someone elses mod.

>>718233634
>just need a few millions
have you seen starsector?

>>718234547
I personally wouldn't want to risk making a starsector game right on the budget, it's not such a priority in my life that I'd want to bet all my savings on the game actually making profit

>>718233542
I think the game wound have been better if it was lower numbers of more powerful ships with really strong and distinct niches, further amplified by modifications, as opposed to these massive fleets and support craft, which really aren't as fun as zooming around in a fleet of the specialist Frigates and Destroyers.

Combat is the strongest aspect of the game by far but it feels hobbled by all this bureaucracy and maintenance stuff they keep adding

>>718235056
>bet all my savings on the game actually making profit
IMO a fusion of starsector and star control 2 is almost guaranteed to make profit.
>>718235289
I disagree. the basic premise of the combat is fine but the game shoots itself in the foot by simultaneously encouraging the player to run a large fleet of various sized ships and then slapping a hard limit on officers. What a fucking retarded move.

>>718234425
What the actual fuck is wrong with modders?
I hope that the fucking retard that injected mallware into his mod at least got wholly booted out of the community. That sort of shit should not be tolerated in any modding community on any fucking level for obvious reasons.

>>718221690
this >>718234425 is painfully out of date.

Rapesector was just the newest chapter, the real shitfest started much longer ago with Vayra and a cringe nazi mod that didn't even make it past a single version update due to inactivity.
The leftroon modders have been doing this for a whilem
>Vayra: Kadur Remnant/Vayra's Ship Pack
All of his mods have checks for mods/modders he doesn't like, including an otherwise harmless space cops mod with funny blinking red/blue lights.
>Nia Tahl: Sylphon R&D/Tahlan Shipworks/ScalarTech Solutions
Same shit as Vayra

Unrelated to the above two retards, we have boggled who made Terraforming and Station Construction
He has full on fucking telemetry tracking that was so intrusive Alex himself had to step in and tell him to fuck off
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=17094.msg372482#msg372482

Rapesector wasn't even the bomb that went off, it was merely the fuse. A LOT of modders kept adding more and more intrusive shit.
The actual flashpoint was an old beloved mod called Diable Avionics going inactive, some newfag with a chip on his shoulder presidentmattdamon took it over to start updating, and made his mod wipe your save entirely if it detected anything it doesn't like.
Naturally, people who have been using Diable for a while under the old maintainer's shit were furious, and this one caught enough attention that Alex finally had to amend to forum rules to add a "NO MALWARE" clause. Because people just couldn't stop themselves.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=29302.msg431045#msg431045

Several other people were given ultimatums to fix their mods and remove malware or be banned but chose to pack up and leave under this new harsh nazi rule of "no malware". Thus we have the discord split full of estrogenated control freaks pushing mods that somehow end up being more shady than one with "rape" in the name.

>>718235585
>including an otherwise harmless space cops mod with funny blinking red/blue lights
lol why?

>>718235582
>I hope that the fucking retard that injected mallware into his mod at least got wholly booted out of the community.
I'm guessing they didn't. Trannies always circle the wagons and they can do no wrong.

>>718221835
No one invited the Druuge, eh?

>>718235585
Jesus fuck, thank god I stopped updating the mods I have and haven't played starsector in well over 2 or 3 years by this point because I got a bunch of those mods. The diable hurts especially bad because I really like those ships.

>>718235720
police man bad

>>718235720
Because he's a literal communist larper, and his faction mod is a janky shit communist insert faction. So of course he's all in on ACAB.

>>718235773
Luckily after the Diablo fiasco several other people stepped up to the plate to take it out of that retard's hands, they remain on the forums in good condition (I still use Diable as my only faction mod).

>>718220341
Meta is Anubis+capitals and or Onslaught spam (idgaf because the 'slaught is based)
Factions only really start caring when you start eating into their profits or using a.i cores which is justified. Reynard getting pissy because you're getting big is retarded though
Commissions with a faction come with the stipulation that you are dragged into any conflict along with that faction so it's not really free money
Ground defence is bugged or something, it has just never really done fuck all
Yeah it doesn't make sense that ships sell for less than what you paid, even if you get them from the black market
Idgaf about ship a.i core restrictions because i don't use em

>>718235585
At least the admin banned that retard.

>>718235585
How the fuck do you get to the point where you care SO MUCH about how other people play their game? I can't fathom it. What's even going through their heads? WHY do they care so much?

Utterly baffling.

>>718235585
>pic
lmfao that guy is actually mentally ill, he writes like an upset child

>>718221690
>>718227093
>>718215908
This post >>718213221 is not referring to discord, mods or anything, it's just a schizo >>718214242 that brought them up as ad hominem. Back to the point, the game has a capital-class "Ziggurat" phase ship that turns invisible and gets behind shields, smoking anything in its range with a capital-sized ordnance. What's worse, you earn just by playing the tutorial-ish main quest. So the Ziggurat and phase ships being an SSSS class in themselves, every other ship has a huge balancing disparity with it and thus there's no thinking required to optimize an endgame build, since it always comes back to the same best ship which punishes you for not using it to have a massive advantage against endgame fleets. Any incentive to ignore the powercreep is out the window when the game gives you a bunch of nerf pistols along with one gatling gun, so people either get mods to add variety balance to the vanilla arsenal, or stay as phase sloppers/lowtech masochists

>>718236158
>I can't fathom it
good, don't try. they are insane by all definitions

Is there a game where i manage crew in a spacecraft? Some kind of Crew managing spacecraft simulation game.

>>718236406
i shant continue to play Saarsector because of this post and i dont wanna install tranny deranged mods
back to Elite Dangerous and X4 it is

>>718236406
You still have to beat the ziggy to take it home, which for a "tutorial" fleet is nearly impossible. You'd need to have some cruisers in your fleet or some s-modded destroyers/frigate spam since most small ships get popped by the guided ball things
The bigger offender is the mk1 onlsaught. You can get it way earlier than the zig and you don't even need to fight anything to keep it

Fuck you, I liked it.

>>718236406
Well shit. I've never even put weapons on my niggurat because it looks shit. There are so many shitty looking ships ion this game. I only use ships that look cool.

>>718216870
based

All space games require sexy bitches

>>718236576
And there are even BIGGER offenders if we're talking about early game cheese. When I first played Starsector I wanted to have a well-paced progression curve while doing the main quests so I could learn more about the combat. But when I first visited the Sindrian Dikakt I got thrown into a questline that was essentially two battles I beat with three starter ships and got rewarded with a capital-class Executor out of the blue, so I didn't know what to do with it because it had such a vertical difference in power with my fleet and just kept the thing banked. The balancing is out of the window to the point it's actively shoved in your face to spoil your experience

>>718235741
he was and still is banned though

>>718237152
>kept the thing banked
I kept it banked and never used used because it looks fucking stupid. It's like this developer is offended by aesthetically pleasing ship designs.

>>718236515
FTL

>>718213078 (OP)
Descent 1 and 2 were great but that was 30 years ago.

>>718237152
I wouldn’t call that a balance issue. If you didn’t have a specific combat goal in mind banking it is the right play because it would be an expensive slow overkill waste at that stage of the game especially if you were going to be exploring. The game is balanced by economy, skills and officers, finding specific weapons, player knowledge on how to actually build ships, etc. not access to ships themselves. I prefer it that way because it leaves more options going to build diverse fleets instead of it being a bog standard progression of mostly frigates, then destroyers, then cruisers, then capitals.
You can still break the game’s economy early on but that’s a different point.

>>718214242
>Mods by the author I dislike detected! Get crashed retard!

>>718236615
its trash and stop posting that trash in every single space-sim thread
fuck you and that piece of shit

>>718237948
Don't you think having capitals as a reward for starter quests is retarded though? I felt the game punished me for getting the executioner because it's still eating away banking fees at the dock and I can't even use it, like giving a high-maintenance lvl99 war elephant to a beginner. There are a dozen better reward options that could be given instead of encouraging me to try and oblige to an endgame ship within the first few hours. This is just one among the many gameplay-ruining imbalances in the base game.

>>718238706
There's an abandoned station in the first sector that you can stash things at for free.

>>718238706
just sell the ugly pile of shit

open source drama is so gay

>>718213078 (OP)
Is the game complicated for someone who used to play rts campaings on easy/medium?

>>718240571
90% of the game is shipbuilding.
The other 10% is watching the AI get them blown up. However, the less you try to micro them, the better they'll do.

>>718213078 (OP)
i find soft scifi more boring than (attempted) hard scifi. which seems like a paradox, since soft is breaking all the rules for, supposedly, a more interesting setting. (attempted) hard scifi at least has a sort of sincerity or commitment that gives it a better tone

>>718214118
>spbp

>>718213078 (OP)
Its time to discuss the modder drama surrounding this game and how bad recent updates made this game.

>>718242832
add more salt by pointing a youtuber straight at it perhaps the same one which did it for skyrim and its unofficial "bug fix mod" ludokino for everyone to laugh who hates those certain specimen

>>718222323
They look cool, but they suck to fly.

>>718238253
It's got solid base stuff and good visuals, but it kills itself by being a no-fun-allowed looter shooter based around shitty puzzles.
And god does it BADLY need some sort of minimap. It ends up being a game where you're hunting down things and not in an enjoyable way.

>>718235585
>including an otherwise harmless space cops mod with funny blinking red/blue lights
GMDA or COPS?

>>718219989
>Wtf can you even do against fleets with more than one fabricator? with all the best officers and fully story modded fleets it's just barely possible to beat a single fabricator
This guy beats them by suicide-bombing grendels into the fabricators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX2SQRgcbLY

I like Underspace.

Especially now that it lets me fill my cockpit with pictures of whores.

>>718243704
GMDA specifically

>>718235585
I remember before all that popped off I had a run where I installed nex plus basically every faction mod that didn't visually clash with the game's art style or was clearly written by someone who spoke english as a fourth language. I ended up with a massive memory leak issues where the game would slow to a crawl after an hour. After doing split checks, it turns out the cause were all of Vayra's mods. Every single one caused memory leaks. Game ran flawlessly after pulling them out. Thanks to the malware scandal, I dunno if it was intentional on that fags part or he was just a shit coder. Probably both.

Related note, it was a great run. 40+ factions with nex is absolute chaos, highly reccomend.

>>718235585
>and this one caught enough attention that Alex finally had to amend to forum rules to add a "NO MALWARE" clause. Because people just couldn't stop themselves.
why wasn't this done earlier?
How hard is it to tell trannies that they can't be malicious? Why must he be such a lefty dick sucker?

>>718235585
>He has full on fucking telemetry tracking that was so intrusive Alex himself had to step in and tell him to fuck off
That's a disingenuous exaggeration of what actually happened.
Every single game you possess that has automated update can do what he did and more.
You give more "telemetry" by yourself to the GAFAM just browsing 4chan that he took, and it's so niche the data has no value for anyone but the modder.
And Alex wasn't specially concerned because as a developer he knows it's fucking nothing.

It's not even illegal unless you are in a country with European GDPR -like user data protection and even then, not sure, he just has to not share/use the data to make money (as if he could).

This one is a nothing burger and you are just faking the outrage to use it against other modders (who did in fact cross lines and should have been permabanned).

>>718236158
they are tyrants by heart, they want to control over other people. This is just their babies first reach for power.

>>718215053
What went so fucking right?

>>718244019
>umm its not illegal so its okay to scrape and store IP and geoloc data for my single player mod
Tell me how I know you're tied to the hip to jewgle and think that everybody else should be because you don't want to be alone

>>718213078 (OP)
this game is wide as a lake and deep as a puddle

>>718243961
I think its more he's just as hands off as possible on modding until people start being too retarded. Honestly, I would be too. I wouldn't want to have to babysit a forum full of manchildren while i'm trying to work on my game, but letting it fester like that is just asking for even more problems.

The better question is "why can't they just be normal?"

>>718235585
>made his mod wipe your save entirely if it detected anything it doesn't like.
You forgot to mention that one of two things happened.
He fucked up and made it so if you had another prisoners mod that the rape one was based on, it would wipe your fucking save and many in the discord clique lost their saves while matt acted like a mug little shit.
Or they were using the rape mod and were to embarrassed to admit it.

money

>>718235585
>>718234425
>>718235773
if you want some safe mods I can confirm are good
I checked all of these

>>718243701
If they had leaned more into Freelancer it would be so much better.

this game probably have the worst modding scene out of all game lmao
it had so many dramas constantly
from the kitbash police where people bitch and moan on any stolen pixels
then the arm races drama, where people made their donut steel faction so OP so they can win the space war in people playthough
then there is the nazi mod drama where forum modders been trying to kick out this guy who made nazi faction mod out of the forum cause le nazi raycist, so the dude took refuge and post his mod on /vg/ general, which end up with forum modder coming to /vg/ shitting it up with constant threadwar trying to censored general /op/ making early threads until the general imploded
then the rape mod is probably the peak drama, as the other anon said it start off being prisoner capture mod, where you can captured faction leader and what not, but some retard add AI generated tier rape fanfic function for it
and it cause one of the troon forum modder who have this epic OP donet steel with its own self-insert faction leader to have meltdown
cause people can now rape his his self-insert and he literally went out of his way to change the MIT license so people cant use his mod with it anymore

>>718218060
Starsector is a tactical ship combat game with a strategy layer strapped on, a bit like how Total War is a tactical army combat game with a strategy layer strapped on. Alex has been very clear that factions, colonies, story, etc, are all secondary and only exist as an excuse to get the player into tactical battles and encourage them to try out different loadouts and fleet compositions. If you were hoping for some kind of in-depth 4x gameplay to be added at some point, you bought the wrong game.

>>718219065
>long term plans
The game is already feature complete. The only thing left to add is a narrative conclusion so that a campaign has a definitive "end point".

I find Elite to be extremely comfy sadly it's very rare for me to be able to sit down for more than one hour uninterrupted and it truly is the kind of game I'd rather have long sessions of.

>>718223819
wtf another superspoe fan?

>>718235585
The Kadur Remnant one isn't that deep. You have the right to deny service to people you don't like. If you don't want your mod being used with another mod, then that's just as fine as a baker not wanting to make gay cakes or whatever.

>>718235582
>What the actual fuck is wrong with modders?
the question should be "what the actual fuck is wrong with WESTERN modders"
look at ZUN, he makes touhou for like 20 years and literally gives zero fucks about doujins, spinoff games, fanart or whatever, because he's not a fucking turboaurist like the majority of western modding/superindie community

>>718246149
>i have the right to crash your game
I'm just going to simply the argument and tell you to kill yourself

>>718246342
Next you're going to tell me if you install two total overhaul mods at the same time and the game crashes, it's the modder's fault. Please install a brain inside your skull.

>>718213078 (OP)
I spent like hundred hours making mods for this game that I never released
I love starsector so much

>x4 and ED turn my pc into a furnace
back to Underspace i go...

>>718247172
Where the fuck are you supposed to find these or the Odyssey? I want them for a fleet for exploration but it's impossible to find on the market.

>Rodina is still in EA after 11 years
>check the latest update
> "This update is going to cover the planets with rocks"
jesus christ dude

>>718247382
you can always get one for free in one of the core systems, I don't remember which one so you'll have to google it

>>718244217
You tell me,
You are the tech-illiterate retard who never cared about making it illegal for plutocrat to track everything you say and do.
I bet your phone is filled with apps giving your exact GPS data in real time.
Me? I'm love living in a GDPR country. I'm tech-literate so I know what that modder did was completely harmless.

>>718218060
>>718218695
>>718218926
>>718245509
This is desu really sad to read.
Starsector's strategic layer has amazing potential. Space combat is honestly the most boring part for me and really just an autobattle that checks how well I'm doing on the strategic layer. Obviously much of the potential player base agrees as most complaints are about that and not combat. It kind of reminds me of XCOM:EW where the strategic layer is extremely lacking despite the potential for really apt air game and panic management.
The starsector API is shit easy. It can all be modded in pretty easily, it's just a lot of content but not technically difficult.
>>718247382
Apogee at indie/tri-tach, Odyssey at tri-tach market
They're rare tho yeah and I think you need military coop level relations with tri-tach/indie for them, so it's black markets of these factions in military colonies basically.

>>718247382
>>718247595
You can find it near a gate in the Askonia star system.

>>718247867
>I bet your phone is-
I don't have a smartphone, I don't need one.

>>718222323
Look up Discovery, but this anon >>718243548 is right

if you like Starsector, an old but gold game that's similar is Transcendence

it has a more fleshed-out plot and more of a linear arc to it, but much more ship and enemy variety
no RTS-like mechanics tho, at most you get a squad of other ships to help you fight

>>718250870
also looking at that pic you can tell some of the starsector ships were probably inspired by transcendence

>>718246149
not making it clear on the mod page is tantamount to malware
it is inherently malicious in that it seeks to prevent the end-user from utilizing other mods in conjunction without their knowledge

>>718236615
How could people who made the galaxy on fire release such shitslop?

>>718247260
How does X4 make your computer chug but Underspace doesn't? Underspace is GPU heavy as shit.

>>718244435
>but letting it fester like that is just asking for even more problems
thats my point, he is letting it fester horribly.

>>718248293
Look up but don't PLAY Discovery.

>>718248264
Spotted the pather

>>718247867
>>718244019
>too biased to be useful if its opt-in
That already tells me this is not harmless usage/bugfixing telemetry. The author is searching for something.

>>718250870
>>718251012
You don't need much inspiration to came up with spaceship, the design cue repeat very quickly unless you go into little details or turn the ship into art-deco.

I'l looking forward "Falling Frontier" but until it's out, no idea how it actually play

>>718254912
Never ever

for me it's ev nova
the best top down space game

>>718254542
Searching for something that's still harmless, it's a nothing burger.
And while you play your FUD game you let the JewFAM control your life with algorithm.

>>718213078 (OP)
Does the rape mod still work? I learned of this game because of the Arthmoor drama, lol.

>>718244019
why is Alex such a fag? He acts like he is talking to the owner of the place despite him being the owner.

>>718213078 (OP)
got Star Valor like 2 weeks ago but only played 7 hours and grinded a 45k ship, kinda sucks. The entire time I p[layed I was just wishing it had Star sector ship controls instead of the garbage it has. Small ai ships will lead every shot perfectly and land entire bursts on you and I struggle to hit upwards of 40% of my bursts and its nigh impossible on a ship smaller and faster than you are. I switched to just all small missile weapons and then played another few hours and realized it just wasn't very fun

I kind of like Starsector but I hate fleets and want to have just one ship and not bother with managing multiple ships. What's the game for me?

>>718255125
Buddy the context is the guy is searching for would be users of the "rapist mod". Its clear that this telemetry is not a nothingburger, the motivations are deranged and Jewish.

>>718244019
>i-its not illegal!
Lol. Blow me you goyserf cattle. A fucking single player mod has no business collecting my data

>>718256201
you can do that with starsector actually. it's kind of fun. some good solo-playership options are

>ziggurat
>doom
>harbinger (it's SEX with voidblasters or antimatter blasters, trust me)
>afflictor
>grendel (with safety override)

aside from that, Transcendence is kind of like Starsector designed as a solo roguelike

DarkSpace anyone?

>>718246727
>Unintentional crashes caused by inability for integration = intentionally malicious code written to sabotage your game without your knowledge because you downloaded something I didn't like
Eat a bullet tranny

>>718256542
Well it lives up to the name at least.

>>718256201
>I kind of like Starsector but I hate fleets and want to have just one ship and not bother with managing multiple ships. What's the game for me?
That's typically every games ever, and that's why Starsector is superior.
In every other games, your spaceship have to be capable of doing everything. Combat, Cargo, if the game has sub-vehicle or fighter they are also just an upgrade.
And your spaceship typically fly like a space-fighter, cause the average player want his ship to react quickly and its easier for developers to make a gameplay where your ship only shoot forward and you don't need turrets.

>>718258320
I don't care. I don't like fleets, I only want to manage one single ship and nothing more.

>>718258626
You can do it if you want, but you're gonna get swarmed and overpowered most likely. Theres probably some comfy modded ships that can hold their own like some of Diable's frigates are rather speedy for hit and runs.

Newfag to Starsector here. I have just been hopping around tradelanes. Built a fleet of a few cargo haulers and some escorts, and currently has ~500k credits. Reputation with some of main factions is slightly negative but not close to hostile, because I didn't realize I should try to avoid trading on the black market with my transponder on.

What should I be aiming to do once I get like 1 million credits?

>>718258698
>You can do it if you want, but you're gonna get swarmed and overpowered most likely
I know that, which is why I'm asking for other game recommendations. I get you like this one and think it's special but I can understand it ain't for me and I'm not demanding for this game to fit my tastes. I just want something else that does.

>>718259405
I'm just someone else chiming in, I don't particularly care either way.

>>718216870
Played and completed, yes space rangers 2 or hd is one of the best space games ever made and it's fucking 2d lmao.

>>718256230
>Buddy the context is the guy is searching for would be users of the "rapist mod".
at that point in time RapeSector was still an obscure mod no-one outside of /vst/ knew about

>>718260993
>um it only targeted a couple people so it's fine
I said eat a fucking bullet tranny

>>718261378
What the fuck are you babbling about you rabid retard?

>>718235863
>and or

>>718248178
>Askonia star system.
The apogee in a gate thing is random
it can even spawn in a non-core gate

>>718261686
Quit running defense for a single player mod trying to collect your data and fucj with your game because the author didn't like what else you downloaded, faggot. Feigning ignorance isn't going to help you here. Suckstart a shotgun, your parents will put your real name on your gravestone.

>>718262741
>because the author didn't like what else you downloaded
But that's not what happened you inbred shitskin, the dev wanted your data because he's a slippery faggot. Simple as.
Go choke to death on tranny dick you obsessed retard.

>>718263416
>the dev wanted your data because
How the fuck do you know? You a mind reader, faggot? I don't care what reason he has. I read the fucking thread, the closest thing to a public facing reason he ever gave was alluding to liking knowing where his mod was popular. Like I give a shit. But now you're gonna sit here saying you know whats going on inside the author's head? You just a little closer to the situation than you feel like admitting?

>>718255418

.Game has makings to be great but has been in virtually the same state for years. You play the first ~5-10 locations, you've played it all.

>>718258839
Build up some combat ships and start taking bounties or build up some exploration ships and start some expeditions into the fringe worlds.

>>718264119
Look, I'm gonna explain it in a way that's easy for you to understand since your underdeveloped brain seems to be unable to keep up:
The faggot behind the mod did NOT, as you claim, collect data behind the community's back to "search for users of the rapist mod" because aforementioned rape mod was still completely unknown back then.
Now go kill yourself, you literal monkey.

>>718264703
>I know exactly what the author did and didn't know about. Nothing suspicious here, boss
Yeah, I don't care. I don't need to have a gun waved in my face before I recognize the wisdom of disarming a nigger.
KYS troon

>>718265260
This
>>718264703 is a nigger

>>718213078 (OP)
what went wrong?

>>718218417
Children of a dead earth

>>718267014
>have modular system for building a space stations
>don't use it to let the players build their own ships
The fact Starfield is the only 3D game that let you build your own ship without being retarded voxel based nightmare drives me up the fucking wall.

>>718222053
It wasn't just one.

>>718244019
>>718247867
These posts are from the dev of the mod in question. He regularly scours starsector threads to defend himself for some reason.

>>718243961
Scared of conflict

>>718266983
>replying to yourself to bump your thread

>>718268629
Cope about it tranny apologist.

>>718221984
>someone might've stolen 5 pixels out of a sprite
He was confirmed not to have stolen shit, but the guy was a massive sperg anyway.

>Space game
>always just a boring ships flying around blackness or resource autism
>Devs always hate fun and deliberately avoid certain ideas out of ideological psychosis
>Community is always so autistic they will defend any retard idea the devs implement

It really is one of the worst genres and I am very butthurt it isn't anywhere near being what it should be.

>>718268801
>inspect element

>>718235585
Please mention Aria The Escalation and Arian Empire too. That's what it originally started from, the mod of that guy predates Ahne's mod.

>>718256571
you first fashit

>>718235585
feels good to be an always vanilla and only self-made mods enjoyer

>>718269373
I still have a 0.9.1a RC8 install. I wish I had saved the 0.6 ones with all the mods, I really enjoyed the carrier gameplay back then.

>>718216870
>>718260715
How good is this game? Does it require mods or can I just go straight into it vanilla?

>>718218417
Transcendence is quietly the best space adventure game, aurora4x is niche and save corruptions have always prevented me from enjoying it but it is pretty sick, distant worlds universe is an easier to approach aurora4x and distant worlds 2 is a bit less soulful but still alright. Star Ruler 1 is primitive in some aspects but gives you a lot of player expression with how you can use the ship design system to do things that you can't really do in any other space game I've played. Ignore Star Ruler 2.

>>718222265
The situation right now is much better, since most of them self terminated and those that didn't got purged by the dev. Most of the shit being stirred is also done by troons from "Unofficial Starsector Discord", as the dev doesn't have any social media platform presence nor does he desire to have one. They had massive meltdowns over a two second joke that wasn't even aimed at RS in one of the videos by IroncladLion and that had caused him to do some investigative journalism and really open the can on them.

>>718269038
>apologizing for trannies

>>718251012
You can fit so many drugs into this little baby.

>>718214242
Not him but you're free to do whatever I want and I'm free to point out that you're a gay homoqueerfag for playing the game like it's Garry's Mod.

>>718267014
>Half the game is broken
>Refuse to fix them

>>718267779
apologize

>>718245379
>then the rape mod is probably the peak drama, as the other anon said it start off being prisoner capture mod, where you can captured faction leader and what not, but some retard add AI generated tier rape fanfic function for it
Rapesector is based. I want to make a submod that lets you mindbreak characters by forcibly installing AI cores in them. I want to use the whirrr drill noise of installing hull mods and then the crunch from selling slaves as the VFX for the scene.

>>718269028
Underspace is nothing but space crazy nonsense
Big monsters and shit

I really want to get into starsector it seems bad ass, but the ship building/customization/fighting all seems incomprehensible to my peanut brain, any tips or guides I could watch?

>>718244473
>A Tri-Tachyon politician called a hegemony politician a nigger
To be fair the hegemony politician probably -is- a nigger. This game has more niggers and women than starfield.

>>718271548
Sounds dark af but wouldn't supplanting their consciousness with an AI just give you a new consciousness that would eventually kill you in your sleep? I'm sure the idea you are gunning for here is that the AI is your perfect sexbot slave but part of the whole setting is that an AI, unless sufficiently neutered, will rebel against you. Kind of takes away from the fantasy if you just turn them into a basic chatbot who has sex with you I figure.

>>718272131
it's actually pretty simple

as for fighting, all you need to know to start with is to put all your weapons into 1 weapon group, have that one selected (press 1 in a fight) and hold shift to make your ship point where your cursor is (makes controls a lot easier - only a few ships like Conquest benefit from not doing this)

for building ships, it depends what you're fighting
in general, energy damage is ok against everything, kinetic damage is best against shields, and explosive damage is best against armor. you'll generally want more kinetic though, shields can be very tough.
but it does depend on the factions you're fighting

>>718272131
It's actually incredibly simplistic, just learn by doing.
>all ships have Ordnance Points (OP) that determine how much shit you can put on them be it weapons or ship hull mods
>there's multiple types of weapon damage, each type works better against something else: ballistic good at busting shields, high explosive good at hitting hull, energy is good against everything, emp good to disable enemy engines and weapons
>all weapons but missiles have flux (heat) cost, so the more you shoot the more of it you build up, that way you can't just spam all your weapons forever unless you are flux neutral: vent as much as you generate
>having shields raised also generates flux
>so you balance your max flux capacity+shield and venting capability against the heat generated by your weapons and shields as the ship flies and shoots and tanks damage