Thread 2108402

Sierra my beloved.

>>2108402 (OP)
selkie pits

>>2108402 (OP)
Really? Starting another thread as soon as the last hits page 10, just so you can be the one to post your shitty meme? Again?

I hope all of you faggots die painfully.

>>2108402 (OP)
What are the best cheats to use right now? I was thinking of doubling the number of factions but I want to keep the relative powers fairly equal once things kick off and the wars kick off. I pretty much always auto include Diable and Imperium but I am open on the others.
I wish the 40k and Star Wars mods weren't such dogshit.

i just want mods that add new factions without adding new ships that break vanilla balance.
thanks to chatgpt I might just make it myself

>>2108402 (OP)
For me it's Seraph, I love her bloodlust.

Attention all Breakers of Bucks!
I plan to make an update for the mod

but I have a proposal
should I switch the built in omegas for Threat or Abyss weapons or should I not bother changing them?

I WILL change all the engines to use abyss colors though because I think they look way nicer than Cobra engines
This engine change is non-negotiable

>>2108831
Sneedault-Chuckoyan

When will a Hittlerblessed aryan white MAN make a netorase mod?

>>2108933
Kill yourself.

>>2108831
how about you make your own fucking weapons so the ships don't look like abysmal mismatched dogshit

>>2108933
xa'am stinger shipyards already exists

>>2109014
>how about you make your own fucking weapons
Give me sprites then

should i max out capacitors and vents before building the rest of the ship? I dont really understand shipbuilding yet

>>2109178
>vents
yes
>caps
no

unless it's a frigate, then do the opposite

>>2108831
Eat shit and die attentionwhore

>>2109178
>>2109193
That's one of the weakpoint of Starsector game design,
Always prioritize vents because it's far more effective in battle dynamic.
>increased cap?
Let ship shoot/shield for slightly longer time, then ship need to pull back to vent for a long time.
>increased vent?
Let ship shoot/shield for much longer time, then vent in no time without leaving combat.

>>2109084
>make my mod (that's entirely assets made by other people out of someone else's sprites) for me pwease
NO
FAGGOT!

>>2109553
>>NO
>FAGGOT!
GIVE

ME

SPRITES


NOW!!!

>>2109460
Kill yourself Noah

>>2108402 (OP)
Today is the day I play the game

Did colony management improve lately?

>>2109713
yes but also no

>>2108402 (OP)
>UAF
might as well install Tahlan Shipworks with the official buttplug-plugin at that point bro

>>2109559
DIY, i'm not making slop for your donutsteel oc mod

>>2108933
>chad cuck
My wife's pussy does not control me.
>virgin monogamist
Waaaah my wife is having sex with other men and this affects me for some reason.

The only mod faction i install on every run is BDY all the others seems to add a lot of bloat and text narration.

>>2109178
Vents are better for sustained combat. Caps are better for speedy hit and runs. Frigates and phase ships are much better off with caps over vents, for example.

sierra rape when

selkie rape when

>>2110262
>>2110268
Make new weapon sprites for buckbreakers and maybe I will make that real

>>2108733
>I pretty much always auto include Diable and Imperium
same, also the FTL ones and Anarakis
Scy is cool but the AI can't fly their ships, since they rely so much on active venting
still not sure about Xhan, they feel balanced but don't really stand out gameplay-wise despite the unique visuals
and last I checked Kadur didn't work on the new patch, but they were also reasonable

>>2110250
What does that mod add that you like so much?

>>2110395
it adds gay porn

Sex with Radiant-chan

Dead thread about a dead game

>>2110959
>dead
I wish it was at this point because holy shit this thread is utter AIDS

>hundreds of hours in Starsector
>mostly space trucking
>realised I have never used marines or launched raids before
I might be retarded, so question: How to raid?

>>2111067
destroy the station, bomb planetary defences from orbit, drop marines

>>2111067
Destroy station, saturation bomb until decivilized, go home.

>>2111067
Marines and raids are pretty lame as is. Even with nex they barely are any better. The game is all about the space ships and their combat, the marines almost feel like an afterthought when you think about the fact that you wouldn't always want to completely obliterate everything from orbit or take occupy a planet while (mostly) maintaining it.

>>2111067
Don't destroy the station, approach it while there's no (or no more) defending fleet.
Then you'll have the chance to raid it.
Destroying planetary defense is if you are attacking a planet.

To minimize losses you can launch a small attack on something, and the real attack on something else.

Raiding is a good way to obtain extra supply/fuel from a station you were going to destroy anyway.
I wish Marines were more useful, with deep space station requiring you to fight the security system to obtain loot.

>>2110997
It's almost like some cocksucker is forcing the last couple of threads

I want to get into this game. Are there any recommended mods for a first playthrough or is it just best to go in 100% vanilla?

Also just curious if there are any mods that meaningfully expand the diplomacy / worldbuilding.

>>2111448
> Are there any recommended mods for a first playthrough or is it just best to go in 100% vanilla?
go vanilla, maybe with some minor mods like combat chatter
>Also just curious if there are any mods that meaningfully expand the diplomacy / worldbuilding.
about the diplomacy part, nexerelin lets factions interact with each other through sabotage, alliances, raids, invasions, etc. it sounds good in theory, but it can get messy, as this is done according to a faction's views, so militaristic factions might be constantly sending raids and invasions with these super powerful fleets often (which breaks the "stagnant sector where resources need to be carefully managed after 2 big wars" lore thing). if you want it, you should consider this after a vanilla playthrough.

about the worldbuilding part, this is mostly done with mods that add exploration content, i guess. there's also some faction mods that add quests which might interact with the rest of the sector in some way, or their own internal affairs. you shouldnt worry about worldbuilding with this game though. there's plenty of it you'll find through vanilla quests or exploration

Bought this game years ago (before that youtuber made a video) and it has been a while since I last played. I got that new TriOS mod manager, is it good? Looks good.
Any recommended mod packs? The site I used to use is gone so I guess its just the forums, but I haven't perused a forum in like, 15 years.
Was Nexerellin or...whatever its spelled, a good mod still? I liked the colony management aspect.

Also how did that modder drama go? I recall the liberals won or something and the cool mods got removed.
Any recommendations for mods that improve the colony aspect/add sort of 4X elements/change up the map painting mode of it?

Thanks!

>>2111600
Oh and are there mods that make my AI allies better? I know its heretical but I don't really like the ship combat as much. I don't really care for designing ships, the whole thing is confusing, and I don't care much for piloting them. I just like to put everything on AI and watch the battle happen, its a lot of fun. So should I play on an easier difficulty if that's the case?

any coomer mods

Try making a less shit thread instead of larping a newfag for bumps

>>2111622
My questions are legit and I'm hoping for answers desu
so far all I have is this

>>2111626
>>2111622
Also will the 0.97a mods work with the newest version? I really wanna use that Star Lords

>>2111603
Ai tweaks and advanced gunnery control.

>>2111661
thanks. I'll look for them
but this star lords mod isn't updated so I kinda don't wanna play now, it sounds sick

>>2111675
it adds a deathstack to every station as a permanent fleet. cool mod but with dumb shitty bloat that you can't turn off. use Nex task groups instead

>>2111448
Always go without mods for a first playthrough of any game. There are a lot of QoL mods but you wouldn't know if you want them until you've actually tried playing the game.

>>2111949
Ah fair I guess

Was the maximum amount raided supplies loot count nerfed to shit? I've never saw a 400+ supply from raids only sub 400.

>>2111627
>Also will the 0.97a mods work with the newest version?
generally yes

>>2112095
The mod manager says they won't but I'll try it thanks

>>2112100
you'll need to open the mod's mod_info.json in a text editor (notepad etc) and change the gameVersion from 0.97 to 0.98. that way the mod loader will think it's for the current version and load it without throwing warnings.

>>2112143
Oh, that's sneaky. Thanks

>>2108831
someone just make a Gundam mod already (not some gay AC version like IBO, but from the legit 0079 UC version).

>>2112186
it's just a retard check

played too much modslop, forgot how fun using a harbinger is. I am also a fan of running SO aurora and splattering frigates on my windshield.

>>2109014
>>2109460
back to USC you sad, sad men.

>>2109553
>noooo you can't make fuckaround mods and playable shitposts they don't give no bragging rights
every year i'm more fascinated people that with these mindsets actually manage to have a community.

shit, the single largest mod game ever, GMOD, was built entirely on fucking around and unauthorized assets.

Any mods that make planets have more than 400 fucking fuel when my max cap is 6000 and I am constantly refilling?

>>2108402 (OP)
Not sure if this got posted before, so I'm posting it now

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gmbojmhxy75a3mbrtztpwa3c/post/3lv7u6zrjgs2v
>Reduced the leash range on the "Defend" (and similar) commands by a third. Seems to be working well so far - the actual performance of the fleet in battle is *much* better with the new leash range!

>>2112476
that's not an improvement

quick question
every single game I find the most dogwater systems where colonies would be shit
is there a mod that can change that? I don't care if its "cheaty". Let the other factions expand to better places too. I just ask for a place with 3-4 hazard 175% or lower planets that can reliably get ore, food and fuel. That's it. Well, and at least 2 stable points. I guess 1. But I can't even find that.

Why are rapesector devs cucked?

>>2112532
>what's that you want to knock up a fertile woman? you must be a pedophile
hm

>>2112532
>devs
it's dev in the singular, like a single slav autistic savant holding all the closed source code and then the regular cadre of self-important discord moderator simps

>>2112531
Are you certain? I haven't played a single campaign without at least one good system of 2+ decent planets + x mediocre to bad ones.

>>2112558
>>2112554

>>2112572
God that is the most fucking retarded reasoning I have heard in a while. Good to see that the RScord immediately started huffing the same retard juice as the fucking USC. My hate for that platform is justified every day.

>>2112572
>/ksg/ poster with a dogshit opinion

>>2112599
I thank y_hweh every day that I didn't end up a /ksg/ or /ddlc/ spiritually hollowed-out subhuman
though snootgamers and andrew leyley folx sure are getting up their in subhumanity

>>2112567
I'm serious
Best I found was one with a 125% hazard Terran (good organics, poor farmland, I forgot what else), a like 200%+ hazard poor ore place and another junk planet
Searched 80% or so of the system so maybe its out there idk

>>2112603
>yhwh
semite. put your faith in deus pater

>>2112637
>>2112603
>y*wh
>deuce pater
Can we rape and behead these niggers in the name of Ludd?

>>2112213
There used to be a UC Gundam mod but it hasn't been updated in forever https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=24162.0

>>2112567
Get Customizable Star Systems and make your own, I like to make customized copies of Konturga's Faction Mod with themes for each playthrough I'm doing and give each run a different custom star system or cluster

What is the name of the mod that let's you tell your ships to do certain things through hullmods?

I remember people posting it regularly.
I know it's lazy but I just wanna fly my ship instead of having to tell the retards what to do constantly, especially because they'll just die.

[TRAGIC NEWS] Famous germanotranny cheatmodder Lukas04, creator of popular cheat mods RAT and SiC, is taking an indefinite break from the starsector community due to the success and popularity of evil 4chud rape mods

>>2112676
>RAT
>SiC
Which ones are those again?

>>2112678
Ctrl+f

>>2112678
random assortment of things, which had that red abyssal depths before current vanilla abyss
and second in command, the skill tree revamp using executive officers

>>2112681
>second in command
literal cheatmod

>>2112532
kek what a bunch of fags

>>2112673
You may be thinking of Automated Commands, last updated in 0.96 but still working in 0.98 if you change the modinfo. It allows you to add hullmods that trigger a few things like giving uncaptained ships aggresive personality or automatically retreating when their hull is low or their CR is out

Very useful assuming you remember to keep the hullmods updated

>>2112676
Oh no! A drama queen is trying to get attention! What will we ever do? Also that conversation lmao.
>mentioning this mod is banned
>But not its acronym
>Or maybe the acronym is banned too, but the drama queen gets a free pass
>He won't ask which one it is though, asking is probably banned too.

>>2112676
>indefinite break
>pushes a RAT update just ten hours ago

Boy that was a long break wasn't it

>>2112532
>>2112572
reproductionchads... it's over...

>>2112373
and yet you can't even be fucking bothered to fuck around with said assets and actually make something with them instead of having to outsource it to others and cry when others don't make your mods for you
concession accepted thoughever

>>2112699
hope you get thrown into jail, you sick fuck.

>>2112572
>>2112590
Rapesector is literally a fork of another mod, so he would know

>>2112213
You know I could add Buckbreaker mechs if I really wanted to

after all
I made the ARC Virtuous and Versant from scratch

>>2112676
Good riddance
he's a literal pedophile groomer and a cuck

[SAD NEWS] Posting screenshots with visible buckbreakers ships has been upgraded to a bannable offence in the USC because it glorifies male rape

>>2112737
>hueshifted two Diable sprites
wow, you did that all by yourself?

>>2112676
>>2112745
Discordniggers OUT

>(literal) niggerfaggot and discordfaggots
Just let the thread die, holy shit.

>>2112751
no nigger
leave if you're so offended

>2112753
Don't (You) me, tranny.

>>2112745
>fictional practice memed into existance by jews
Also which ship is even from sneedault chuckoyan and why does the cuck even know

>>2112751
This. Fucking hell is this some forced cringe shit.

>>2112755
Imagine being such a limp-wristed passive aggressive little vaginal pussy that you backspace away a > as a sign of your bleeding cunt discontent

Imagine being so desperate for (You)s you have a mental breakdown because someone didn't directly qoute you in his reply. kek

>>2112766
Keep crying little pussy

>>2112756 (me)
Actually, I think none of the ships are from buckbreaker, closest match in color scheme is this spearhead from sephira.
The only ship I dont recognise is the carrier in the bottom left.
Theres some MVS frigates, the SC broadsiding capital, a reskin of the scalar missile capital, succubus from underworld, and the seraph cell.
Buckbreaker lives rent free in the heads of discordniggers.

Discord was a fucking mistake.

>>2112745
>Mind gets buckbroken into thinking buckbreaking is real
This mod is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

>>2112748
Yup
not just that I already stole some gundam sprites from a chinese mod as well
looks better than the gundam sprites from the UC gundam mod in the forums

>>2112781
>posting a screenshot with a ship that even LOOKS like a bb ship is enough to get banned/formally warned
lmao these USC cucks are malding. I can see why they even manually dug through the entire rapesector rules.csv to find the kanta fucknugget amputation gangrape scene (which barely 1% of the playerbase knew about) just so they can pearlclutch even harder. Now they're studying buckbreaker sprite sheets like the opfor hull profiles they drill to you in the navy and airforce and they're GETTING IT WRONG
it's almost a caricature

warned you about the RS niggerfaggots

told you

>>2112795
very "impressive", feel free to keep that shit to yourself bub

>>2112805
You sound cucked
Are you one of those USC fags?

still mad your precious OC got raped?

anyone bitching on 4chan against 4chan rape mods is obviously an outsider shill

>>2112745
>>2112676
We need more evil 4chan mods

>>2112818
nah just not a fan of low-IQ shitbashes.

>>2112748
I steal and hueshift a LOT of sprites all by myself

>>2112737
I tried making a Gundam 0079 mod years ago but couldn't find any good models for White Base at the time to use on Blender for the top down shot.
There's probably way more now.
I have all the mechanics for the mod stored in my head; how to handle map transitions (Space being Hyperspace, Sectors being Earth & POIs like the Moon, Luna II, the Sides, etc., battlefield maps can take place on Earth or Space (or the Moon or Sides etc.)
The whole Universal Century naval set is perfect for this given all the various classes of battleships, cruisers, carriers, support craft, etc.
Mobile Suits replace fighters and are sent out as squads and are replaceable (also Mobile Armor).
Ace units act as powerful frigate units that can be piloted by the player or officers (potentially newtype ones).
The game has a dynamic story mode that follows the One Year War and the player acts as an Autonomous Corps, receives a commission, and can acquire ships/units from their faction progressively (new tech & units unlocks as the game progress).
The goal is to conqueror the enemy and win the One Year War (or make your own faction and dominate everyone else).
The whole thing is perfect in my head, I just can't translate art that I see in my mind's eye/vision to make this expansion mod.

Pretty much I want to make Gihren's Greed but for Starsector.

>>2112876
>Gihren's Greed
And if you're a Gundam fan, this is one of the best strategy game series I've played; real >>>/vst/ material. It's up there with Moo2 and Civilization for me. You just have to learn some japanese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys_ZL1KjYrI&list=PLdyqewRqunnh0JxcWReXE8nXWi6myrMOr

>>2112876
>but couldn't find any good models
maybe I can dip into the old ship sprites of from the SD Gundam G Generation game series.
has really crisp & slick models.

in the history of gundam there has been one (1) good looking ship design (and it wasn't the pegasus. zieg zeon)

>>2112909
you're right.
it's the Dolos

>>2112947
also one of the best end-game bosses of this hypothetical Gundam mod I want to will into existence

(oh and btw, I've got great way Minovsky Particle mechanics..:)

>>2112947
also one of the best end-game bosses of this hypothetical Gundam mod I want to will into existence

(oh and btw, I've got great way Minovsky Particle mechanics..:)

>>2112676
what is RS mod

Is nexerelin any good? If not is there any alternative that does something similar that's good?

>>2112951
>>2112947
Don't forget to add a d-mod that slow its replacement rate.
The Dolos canonically "didn't have enough catapult to launch its full complement in a timely manner"
Arguably the logic doesn't stand much in space where you don't need aerodynamic lift for aircraft, but we can imagine the mobile suit were moved too slowly inside.

>>2113024
bloated and outdated, no

new update when?
did Alex abandon us?
t. haven't been here since the spooky update and the oldslaught nerf.

>>2113042
FUCK updates
we're the discord-drama general now

>>2113044
did a new drama come up?

I have a really stupid question. Are there any good Starsector character cards or lorebooks for SillyTavern? I nornally use it to fap to degenerate shit but I want a bit of spice for my next playthrough, I'd use it to roleplay as a deranged drug-shipping sat-bombing bitch-fucking John Starsector and see how long it takes for SillyTavern to dictate my gameplay into burning the sector to the ground. Or just hooking Sierra up to a sex robot with a massive futa cock and seeing how that goes.

>>2112756
>memed into existance by jews
they practice it themselves

>>2113024
the premise sounds cool but fighting invasion after an invasion after an invasion to keep a small faction alive is not fun.

>>2113094
https://char-archive.evulid.cc/#/search?query=starsector
I'd advise you to write (or at the very least edit any stuff you get from the archive) yourself though.

>>2113094
>mindfucking sierra with p space brainwashing to turn her into a hypersexual degenerate with a massive cock
>let her loose and fuck all the anime girl mod OCs into oblivion
Fund it.

>>2112890
You need to get rid of the shadows and making the lighting more uniform

>>2113009
seriously nigga
https://gitgud.io/rsdev/RapeSector

>>2112676
This is the reason why the best modders for this game dont even interact with the community, they just post their updates then vanish for the next 6 months LMAO.

"Waah some peopel said they like x mod, the community IS DOOMED"""!!!!!!111

>>2113024
I personally enjoy Nex, but it's not for everyone. The good news is you do have the option of fine-tuning the gameplay with LunaLib if you don't like stuff like factions satbombing each other into oblivion immediately on game start

>rape this rape that
>tries rape sector mod
>its just the same animations and text for different npcs
i dont get the hype
got tired of it after 2 sessions and just let it sit in the background for the rest of the run

>>2113212
>background for the rest of the run
even if you don't enjoy raping it's great for that, literally TNP/CCrew but better, without memory leaks.
For me it's part of immersion and the power fantasy to take prisoners from enemy factions. Not to mention the utility on officer recruitment and management

Even a totally vanilla player who wants to do something like recruit overpwoered IBB villains like pokemon will have to use rapesector, since it's the only TNP fork that makes a point of whitelisting every NPC for capture and recruitment

>>2112745
>faggot Discord moderator being a faggot.
Wow and water is wet.

>>2113212
Me neither. Appreciate the idea but it's so fucking barren when it comes to actual content.

>>2112745
>gay sex is le heckin wholesomerino until it isn't
least capricious 'cord janny
also I don't see a single buckbreaker ship from that
the only mods I see ships from are:
>underworld
>machina void shipyards
>neutrino corp
>and some ships i don't recognize that are probably from chinese mods
there's no buckbreaker ships with their dark reddish brown colors, dassault-mikoyan hulls, and obnoxious bright red engine plumes
there's not even the harpoon gun from rapesector

>>2112781
>>2112797
so apparently black and red ships are enough to make them kvetch about le heckin ebil raep mod
don't let them know about vanilla pirate ships
and that example isn't even remotely close to the average buckbreaker shitbash kek

>>2112745
>kike behaviour
>black and red ship is le heckin evil and nazi
It's like saying you read Mein Kampf in the public.

>>2108402 (OP)
>Image
HOI4 can learn a thing or two from this to become less irredeemable.

>>2113212
I immediately dropped it when I saw a "breeding facility" on Qaras and pirates use some weird harpoon

>>2113305
I learned that that stuff can be turned off using lunalib

although at the very least the faggot harpoons should be turned off by default (because they arent why I installed the damn mod)

>>2113277
>so apparently black and red ships are enough to make them kvetch about le heckin ebil raep mod
So Diable is now a rape mod?
>>2113305
>>2113311
>Harpoon gun
I'm tempted to try RS out now just because that sounds like a fun weapon.

>>2112745
What about rape sector? They are upset you cannot rape boys there and now they are upset of male rape?

>>2113339
I know it's hard to understand here but most normies tend to be against rape of any kind or flavor

>>2113347
Only feminists are really against it.

>>2113026
the thing was a pez dispenser for MS.
I want to make it put the Astral to shame.

>>2113161
Thanks.
I'm not an art guy, so that helps.
(I have to borrow rather than steal)

>>2113435
ngl, probably gonna use AI to help me make the models
(prompt: remove the shadows and even the lighting in the image)

>>2112266
my endgame usually involves me just soloing as a Doom-class phase cruiser dropping mines very fun
always worth checking Prism Freeport

newfag here
are there any mods that are considered so essential that i should run them on my first time
or should i do a vanilla playthrough first and then start fucking around with mods?

>>2113480
It's a good idea to play a game without any faction/ships/weapon packs so you can wrap your head around vanilla balance and Shipbuilding, damage types, etc.
What I'd consider vanilla lite is something like nexrelin, adjusted sector for 1.2x size, star lords, and rapesector, possibly fleet size by dp. But that's just me. Nex is the biggest game changer and a minority really hate it, but coming from the mountain blade world I think the game flows better with it than without.

>>2113480
speed up is essential

>>2113486
Been playing Starsector for years and have never used Speed Up, it's not that essential

>>2113502
That means you've been playing the game wrong this whole time

Also I found this

What does it mean?

>>2113513
Someone needs to NGO-ize the other ships

>>2113523
These things work pretty well as overworld station sprites

>>2113529
even has a cool gate lookin thing

>>2113513
Huh, I guess Stars in Shadow assets could work in Starsector. Decent MoO clone on its own.

>>2113532
The Gremak is literally used as NGO/Buckbreaker kitbash parts

>2025
>Still no ship that's more fun than the Retribution

The wiki says that I can hand this over to any Luddic Path station commander to stop their annoying sleeper cells from forming and stuff. But I don't have the option? Not from anyone. I do if I offer it to, like, Tri-Tach or the Hegemony?

>>2113732
Also how do I stop this "Luddic Church Takeover" event? They have 4 massive fleets.

>>2113737
try anti armor

Are there any mod factions that use the crisis system?

>>2113813
Huh? I just let the event run its course. My stability didn't drop low enough so I'm fine.

>>2113814
>the crisis system
code-wise it's so freeform that you're basically working from scratch

>>2113484
well right now i'm still trying to wrap my head around manual piloting so i've got a ways to go before any of that lol
definitely gonna use nexrelin once i get the hang of things though, i fucking love m&b type games where you're just some nobody in a fully simulated world that doesn't revolve around you. star lords looks perfect for what i want, got any other mod/game recs?
also unrelated but how the hell am i supposed to do this mission to place a spysat right next to a military outpost? i just hung around until the patrol randomly moved away but it feels like there should be a more elegant way

>>2113867
Yeah those missions typically aren't worth it. Just like m&b there are noob trap mission types.
Easiest way is to deposit your fleet in an abandoned station and take a single phase frigate while running dark

>>2113929
>Just like m&b there are noob trap mission types.
Cattle escort quests are kino

>>2113009
RapSector or Rhythim and Poetry Sector. Tranies hate culture and respecatble black people

>>2113814
vulpoids

>genetically engineered furry sex slaves
>USC: =D *fluffs ur tail uwu*

>punished pirate criminal / luddic terrorist sex slaves
>USC: >=( *banhammer*

why do subhuman NINGEN keep acting like that

>>2113732
You need to approach a Luddic fleet in space and open comms with them, then pay the "tithe" they ask for. After that ask for a permanent arrangement and you'll be directed to someone you can talk to to turn the planetkiller in.

Alternatively, keep the planetkiller as a trophy and just blow up the Luddic Path's fleets long enough. They won't totally stop operating on your worlds, but they'll require twice as much "Pather interest" on a colony before they'll start pulling shenanigans as normal.

>>2113867
If there's a sensor array in the system you can approach it quietly and hack it to broadcast fake signals, which will cause fleets in that system to go off on wild goose chases into the middle of nowhere. This is the same trick that Gargoyle suggests when she asks you to hack the Aztlan relay. You can also store your fleet somewhere (or use Detachments if you have Industrial Evolution installed) and take a single phase frigate to sneak in, but even a phase frigate with S-modded insulated engines can still be detected by fleets that get close enough, and the spysat missions love to park extra patrols directly on top of wherever you need to deploy the spysat, so combining a phase ship with hacking the local sensor array should give you a big enough window of opportunity to sneak in - just be quick when the patrol leaves, because more than once I've darted in after the patrols all fucked off only for a new one to launch from the station directly into my fleet with no warning

>>2114023
Sweet, thanks. I'll just try to do that then, it'd be nice not to have them messing with me.

>>2113292
ck2 is the best grand strategy parashit game for a reason

>>2113867
in the options, tick invert point to mouse movement.
it makes the ship point to the cursor by default. i can't pilot ships at all without it.

Is there any point to the Arbalest Autocannon?
Looking at the stats it's basically just a railgun?

>>2114094
In terms of medium slots the Arbalest is cheaper compared to others while the railgun is more expensive then other smalls. They also do different armor/hull damage and fire at a different rate with different accuracy.

>>2114088
Could never get into it. Wrong kind of autism. I find more macro level autism appealing instead. CK is just too personal.

>>2113540
Ah. I don't use ship/faction mods, only some QoL.

Whats the closest thing to a shin megami tensei mod, where you can talk to and potentially recruit enemies? It looks like you can do that in rapesector, but it seems like it's more focused on the rape aspect and starsector isn't really the type of game i'd want to jerk off to while playing.

>>2114114
Does that make it better or worse than a railgun then? Because if it's worse, I can just put a railgun in the medium slot.

>>2114024
see i KNEW there had to be a more elegant way, thank you anon i will keep all those mechanics in mind for the future
>>2114091
i've kinda gotten the hang of strafing, my problem now is mostly figuring out how to build ships that don't suck (but i'm still kinda bad at aiming, hence the mostly). i've just been using auto-fit, which i assume makes a bunch of retarded choices, but there's so much different shit going on that it's hard to tell which choices are good
having bad ships can be fun though, i took a mission to deliver something to the bottom of the map but i misjudged the distance and ended up getting marooned down there. the ancient robot fucks kept wiping the floor with my shit fleet so fast that i had to plan a daring heist just to get some fuel from a debris field, but that fuel was only enough to carry me to another system with more robots, and so on and so on until a friendly merc showed up. very memorable newfag experience

>>2114094
the larger hit size takes it from being pure anti-shield to actually chewing stripped hull at a decent rate

>>2114218
if you want to pay an extra 15 flux per 100 damage and deal with a windup in exchange for better nominal accuracy, sure

>>2114247
>big circle: enough fuel for one way trip
>smaller circle: enough fuel for 2 way trip. reach the edge and return
i still suck at building ships even after playing since 0.95a.
but in general:
>have both anti armor and anti shield on the same ship
>have max weapon + shield flux lower than ship flux
>vents are mostly more important than caps and are built first
>safety overrides are great on AI ships
there are some exceptions like phase ships wanting caps more than vents and the Onslaught overcapping its flux but you can consult youtube and the thread.
use safety overriden Brawlers LP (Luddic Path) or even TT (tritachyon), Hammerheads for a start then Eagles.

>>2114272
>have max weapon + shield flux lower than ship flux
extremely wrong

Here is a brief rundown of RS since so many people don't know why people use it.
Captured Crew mod let you capture the enemy crew and captains. You could butcher the crew into organs and they were slaves to be sold by default. Several mod author made the commodity illegal for their factions and no one really had a problem with it.
Captured crew had a BAD memory leak issue. It would eventually make your save unusable regardless. it's no longer listed seems like.
President Matt Damon made his mod Take no prisoners. It just let you capture enemy Officers. He was very slow to update and it had alot of issues. He eventually pointed out anyone could fork it if they wanted it fixed so bad.
Meanwhile Techpriest AKA Timid had been talking about making a dating SIM. Lot's of people liked the idea but Techpriest just kept teasing about it. Iron Shell was the same way i.e. Ironshell does exist.
RS Dev forked it and made this shit a reality. I don't know about how the development of it all came to be but eventually PresidentMattDamon got pissed and demanded it be taken down but he'd gave everyone free reign and couldn't take it back. People loved the dating shit since they loved it when Timid was gonna do it.
RSDev has slowly added every feature that modding cabal has felt was impossible to implement into the game. RS even has plugins that would allow other modders to do crazy shit but hey won't.

Given how Starsector is a sandbox with terrible options backed in and actively encourages the player to be a terrible person in Vanilla, even has tool tips for it. The mod took off. Technically the mod is amazing.

Well the reason why normies are against rape is it goes against their "It was consensual" mindset. Simple fact is lots of people get raped and spoilers it isn't the loser here doing it. People feel that regret after. People get hammered. Most colleges have a police department that's main job is preventing people from sueing for rape.

>>2114302
didn't read

I have a question though.

Did SotF implement some shit to block RS like some others did?

I keep getting an error anytime the Nanite swarms are supposed to spawn in.

Due to the nature of the error being that RS has a feature that disables the plugin apparently. I get a null pointer at this.random which seems like a thing that could be done on purpose. I'm actually doing the Haunted story shit too so I expected the Nanite Swarms and didn't realize RS disabled them.

Anyone had this shit happen?

>>2114306
i hate the fact that the petting gif has an obviously obese hand
disgusting as shit

>>2112687
You were right I was. Thanks.

>>2114313
I hadn't really noticed but, you're right. I think the original was a hamster or a rat or something.

>>2114306
>Nanite Swarms and didn't realize RS disabled them
There's a lunalib setting for RS that handles that
basically you need to not capture Felecis in your prison dungeon

people say the anime mods are overpowered

that semibreves are broken

all of this is true

but my brother in ludd, you do not understand the sorts of threats my fleet has to face on a regular basis

not remnants

not threat

not demons

not daemons

much, much worse

>>2114460
I thanks for the info. I didn't think that was it but it was. Thank You.

I started a brand new campaign and used the sotf_becomeHaunted command. It allows you to add the Haunted background/start to your character regardless of what you choose.
I get into a battle and it starts.
RS plugin SotfFelInvasionBypassPlugin goes off.
Battle progresses a bit then crashes.

I have never engaged with that side of SotF. I only use it for the added Combat Objectives and due it used to be Arsenal Expansion.

What does "Enable AI Core Interaction" supposed to do in RS? I haven't used that either.

Hopefully TaxMage will see this and fix his issue as he outed himself on the forums due to not fully reading the log file.

>>2114467
>installs n*x
>gets nex'd
face it, the mod needs a ground-up overhaul

>>2114481
its not nex, its mmm station defense

>>2114474
>What does "Enable AI Core Interaction" supposed to do in RS? I haven't used that either.
Just the usual
>Talk [placeholder text]
>Add to Inv
>Leave

>>2114467
>much, much worse
A solo afflictor can beat all that shit without station support

>>2114517
the invictus would successfully bore you to death

>>2114527
jokes on you
I have hardened subs s-modded

>>2108402 (OP)
Hmm, today I feel like leaking shit from the UAF server. What do you guys want to see? As always, I'm still on the server watching and cataloguing whatever retarded shit they do, though they've opted for using the voice channel more so they can lessen the chances of writing retarded shit like this.

>>2114649
Post something actually interesting plx
Something that a simp will screencap to make the Malaysian troon have a breakdown and purge

>>2114649
>>2114658
>'cord drama
fuck off

How many dollars do I need to start a colony up? I have 1.3m and this is what my fleet looks like
I got a bunch of AI cores (3 alpha, 2 gamma, 26 beta) and a pristine nanoforge and some random upgrades.
running some light mods

>>2114649
Unless you're leaking that Milky is finally paying Meso what he's owed no one gives a fuck what's happening on a Discord server

>>2114663
>undersizing the main guns on a dominator
retard

>>2114649
>i find myself with a lot of pressure from everywhere to give up on modding
yeah i wonder why

>>2114666
eh?
I just clicked auto fit. I don't really know what I'm doing.

Also some tiny ship jumped me after exploring a "colonial hypershunt" and it wanted cores
I said fuck off and killed it

>>2114670
>autofit
more like shitfit

>>2114663
Everything is going wrong in this picture

>>2114683
Huh? Its just stuff I've scavenged. I found all of those ships usually as wrecks. I found the big 2nd one on like, the 2nd month of playing somehow haha. Well I bought the freight stuff.
>>2114681
well it wins me battles!

>>2114695
yeah
against pirate shitfleets

>>2114649
Get that shit out of here you SEAnigger Discordtroon. Discuss about the game not some gaydrama you are jacking off at.

>>2114649
>discord drama nigger
fuck off

>>2114695
It doesn't look like you fight much though, you would have better weapons and better fits if you did.
The aurora has its antimatter blaster facing the side for some reason and has no damage outside of its missiles.
You have that green cruiser barely outgunning a tempest.
The champion really wants the hvd from the dominator and squall from the legion if youre sticking with the tachyon lance, and the blasters are better on the auroras front slots.
The dominator is kind of useless without using its large mounts, at that point its just a wider hammerhead with more missiles. You could atleast put actual weapons in the medium turrets.

>>2114663
You NEED large weapons. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding two Hellbores and two HVDs for your Dominator, and >>2114708 has excellent advice; if you need weapons, the illegal weapons dealer in the bar event is your best friend. Pic related is a personal favorite for my brawling Auroras, but it can be a bit vulnerable to massed Salamander salvos (at least in AI hands).

>try a Luddic Church themed playthrough
>get bored
>take the patherpill instead for SO on everything
>game is fun again
Every time.

Damn this thread is dogshit. Where have all the nonbrownoid chad ss anons gone?

>>2114663
A mil at least.

>>2114817
Too busy playing SS to post here

>>2114806
>>2114697
>>2114708
I guess yeah. Honestly I just let the AI autopilot for me, I enjoy space trucking/colony building/quest doing more haha, I don't really like the combat as much. I have a mod that makes combat 6x so I click "full assault" and then 6x mode and either watch the fireworks or alt tab
>>2114852
I managed to get like 4m! I think I might be good! Found a really nice system!! Has a hot rock, a terran world with good food, a nice volatiles place with no atmosphere and some other misc (kinda shit) places. Hazard ratings are high but eh.

>>2115013
Something worth noting about speeding up combat is that the game's tick rate has a hard limit, meaning the AI can make questionable (more than usual) decisions if the game speed is moving faster than it's expecting, and some weapons (especially beam weapons) behave differently when not at default speed. What this essentially boils down to is that, in some rare cases, you can suffer casualties or win/lose battles you otherwise wouldn't have at normal speed values. Speed Up isn't designed for you to plow through or skip fights, it's meant for getting into initial combat quicker or finishing off those last few ships that are trying to escape, so use at your own risk.

>>2115022
Ah, I see. Well that's fine, its honestly worked out in my favor. For the hard fights I play on 1x or 2x, and I do it like a strategy/tactics game, ordering my ships around and trying to micro manage them "eyes in the sky" sort of. Just for anything that seems like a stomp (looking at you, derelict probe fights) I just max speed it since its a clean sweep.
But thank you, that's good advice.

>>2115024
No problem, just giving you a heads up on the quirks of the mod.
Also, make your military-contric colony on a planet with Extreme Heat. If you don't know why already, you'll thank me later.

>>2115030
Yeah! Uhh, I found a thing that increased fleet sizes by 100% if installed on a super hot worlds. So that's why I kinda liked that place lol. I was gonna slap heavy industry and patrol on that, since I can do a farming/refining planet, and a mining planet and some other stuff.
Should I put patrol HQ's on every planet?

>>2115032
Every Patrol HQ produces patrol fleets that will protect the sector (to the best of their limited abilities). Military Base and High Command increases the strength of those fleets at the cost of higher monthly upkeep. Upgrading to Military Base turns it from a Structure (which you can have unlimited of) to an Industry (which you have a limit per colony). It will also remove the Luddic Majority bonus if you care about that.
In short, yes. If you can afford it. Which you should be able to if you're starting to establish colonies. Save the Military Base/High Command for your military planets. With the Cryoarithmetic Engine and Pristine Nanoforge, you'll be able to push your faction to being able to take care of itself from even the roughest of expeditions/invasions, though you may have to help them with a few of the Colony Crises once they reach their breaking points.

>>2115034
Ohhhh. That's handy, ok. I did not know that it'd become an industry when upgraded. Thank you!
So the pristine nanoforge should be on my HOT planet with heavy industry and all of that then. Heck yeah. Is it worth kinda replicating that on a worse planet with a decrepit forge too? There's just a normal hot rock with nothing else really but I could do a crap forge on it as well as more patrol
But thank you!

>>2115035
Your fleets will build off of the best nanoforge you have, so if you have a Pristine Nanoforge, the bonuses to your fleets are faction-wide. The only thing adding Corrupted Nanoforges to other planets would do is increase their commodity output, which doesn't strengthen your fleets but still means more money for you.

>>2115036
Ohhhhh. OK I see. I also had no idea of that. That's really cool, ty. I'll just sell them then for now, the money will help.

>>2115038
IIRC, if you sell a colony item to a Black Market, it will stay there indefinitely so long as the market doesn't become decivilized, so you can always buy it back later.
Selling on the open market will have the market consume the item if it has the appropriate industry, making it disappear from the market entirely so the colony can use it for their own industries. Concerning the Nanoforges, be very careful who you sell them to, as selling them to a faction that doesn't normally have access to one can end up strengthening their fleets. Giving the Pirates a nanoforge can have some hilarious consequences.

>>2115041
Wait, really? I was told if you sell like, nanoforges to black markets, then pirates gain access to them and start souping up their fleet. So you're telling me the open market is what does that!?!
I'll keep that in mind, I don't want to accidentally beef up an enemy lol.
...now I kinda wanna do a playthrough where I'm on the pirates side and I keep feeding them nanoforges.

>>2115044
I don't typically sell colony items on the markets for obvious reasons, so I'm only working off memory. I do believe the open market is how they get colony items, but the colony itself also has to be able to use it. For example, if you sell a corrupted nanoforge to a colony without a Heavy Industry, nothing will happen.
As for the black market, selling blueprints on the black market WILL give pirates access to said blueprint. I know this for a fact. Go ahead. Sell a Paragon blueprint on the Black Market and see what happens.
>...now I kinda wanna do a playthrough where I'm on the pirates side and I keep feeding them nanoforges.
It's even better if you're friendly with them. Nexerelin makes it easier to do this. I've had my fair share of Pirate-themed playthroughs and they tend to be my favorite since allying yourself with them generally requires you to make enemies out of the rest of the sector, which usually leads to a much more combat-focused playthrough.

>>2115045
That does sound appealing, though the only way I know how to make money is space truckin' and identifying probes.
Thinking back on it maybe I shouldn't have sold that 2,000,000 credit IX Battalion package, huh. Oh well. Cool mod but those guys kick my ass.

>>2115045
Also Pirates have the best friendly market theme in the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNz2S4pAKbU

>>2115046
>Thinking back on it maybe I shouldn't have sold that 2,000,000 credit IX Battalion package, huh.
Yeah, you probably shouldn't have. Every blueprint you use for yourself will also be used by your faction's and colonies' fleets, while also allowing you to produce them manually at your own colonies for your use.
You can get more blueprints by exploring, specific bar quests, or raiding other factions.
Most people get money by smuggling drugs, supplies, heavy armaments, etc. Bounties can be great if you prefer combat, though those aren't really an option for a pirate-themed playthrough. Once you get your colonies set up and good to go, they basically print money for you to where you'll never have to worry about credits again.

>>2115053
Smuggling is alright but you get detected so easily and so quick escaping even using bursts and transverse jumps feels like a coinflip, and even if you do it totally stealthily you still take relationship hits and everyone starts hating you which annoys me.
I'll try to figure it out though. I can't just keep selling Volturne lobsters to Hegemony worlds forever haha

>>2115056
Smuggling is best early on when you have a smaller fleet. Find Insulated Engine Assembly and rig your fleet with it to hide it better. -50% sensor profile when added, -90% sensor profile(!) when S-modded, making almost any ship as stealthy as a phase ship.
Also try to keep your Burn Level at 10 or above as best you can early on; with level 10 burn, Emergency/Sustained Burn will allow you to outrun any other fleet. Augmented Drive Field (or Militarized Subsystems when applicable) can help with that, though the former eats up your OP so if you're packing something like a Dominator or literally any capital ship, forget smuggling as you're probably better off with trade contracts or bounties at that point.

>>2115060
Alright, I'll do that next time I play. (Never used S-mods, I save all of my story points for escaping from bad fights or colony upgrades)
It sounds like a fun playthrough. Smuggler pirate who tries to beef up the Pirate faction. Thanks for the tips
Guess it relies on RNG to find that engine assembly which could be hard starting as a pirate..

>>2114649
But thats old shit

>>2115044
Selling blueprints on the black market means the pirates get to produce whatever was on that blueprint - if for example you sell a Paragon blueprint on the black market, pirates will start deploying Paragons in their fleets. They'll be shitfit Paragons with mining lasers and whatever else weapons the pirates have access to, but they will still be Paragons.

To give the pirates a nanoforge, though, you need to go to Kapteyn Shipworks (which, in vanilla, is the only planet the pirates have with an orbital works) or another mod-added pirate planet and sell the nanoforge on the OPEN market, not the black market. After a month or two every pirate fleet you find will have zero d-mods, which is dangerous on its own, but combine this with selling blueprints on the black market for quality ships and quality weapons and before you know it the entire sector will decivilize because the infinitely spawning pirate fleets will overwhelm every single NPC fleet there is, eventually permanently destroying all trade.

Alternatively, sell orbital fusion lamps (the spares you don't give to moth Kanta) to cold pirate planets like Donn or Kanni or even Umbra and then laugh as the sector-wide volatiles market demand spikes into the stratosphere as the pirates completely and permanently fail to meet the energy demands of their new disco balls and your volatiles mining worlds roll in money for the rest of the game.

>>2115119
That's hilarious. So I could intentionally screw over pirates by doing that? Selling them high-tech ships but not weapons?
That's some great tips though lmao, so hilarious. Thank you.
Also the volatile thing is so funny. I'm surprised there's nothing to prevent that. I don't know if I've gotten extras of those, but if I have, lol.

>>2115135
Selling blueprints on the black market for ships you want to farm off the pirates is a time-honored tradition. If you don't sell the pirates a nanoforge or any weapon blueprints they'll field the ships in a heavily d-modded and poorly fitted state, allowing you to possibly salvage them from relatively easy battles. If you're not colonizing or don't have your own heavy industry yet you can use this method to acquire otherwise rare ships semi-regularly.

>>2115142
That's genius. I'll try it on a next playthrough I guess, gonna save up to ~5m and get my colonies going. I want to start 3 at the same time.

>>2114817
playing other games

>>2114817
We're all playing UMAMUSUME: Pretty Derby

One of the ships Alex is adding in the next update is pretty sick.
RIP Anubis though even if the nerf is deserved

>>2114817
i can't bother to care more about the game than alex does

>>2115227
post it i don't have fag twitter

Apparently he's reducing the leash range on Defend orders. Thank god. Soon defend won't mean hang out across the map from your defend target.

>>2115227
Made me look

Why are you faggots unable to make your own mods?

>>2115450
i did though, and it has a lot more stuff than a shitbash with no custom shit

>>2115119
You can also give the nanoforge to Kanta, she will put it on Kapteyn Shipworks herself after a month and you also get all the other benefits of having a truce with Kanta.

>>2115464
That's a bad deal, though. Now the pirates have a nanoforge, so their fleets are stronger, and if you steal the nanoforge off Kapteyn Shipworks you lose Kanta's protection.

Give moth Kanta her lamp. It's the only option that gives you a truce with Kanta that actively benefits you in addition to the truce by increasing demand on the volatiles market.

>>2114897
>>2115161
dropping in to say 'this.' thread looks like ass cancer and gay porn. kthxbai

>>2108402 (OP)
The UI in this game is so fucking ugly, just zero personality or charm

>>2115510
That's because the UI is canonically made by Tri-Tachyon

>>2115476
why not just be friends with the pirates?

>>2115510
>ust zero personality or charm
Why the fuck would a fucking UI fucking talk to you?

>>2115510
What? Do you want a UI plastered with anime tiddies?

>>2115562
Even at 100/100 rep with pirates random pirate fleets in space will still attack you. Even with max rep and a pirate commission in Nex random pirate fleets can still attack you. Being "friends" with the pirates more means being in the good graces of Kanta's faction, but it doesn't stop mean every pirate in the sector will be on your side

This Sephira thing is fucking awesome.

>>2115761
The same can be said about every faction. All factions will have those splinters that will go against the faction's general standing and harass/attack you (granted, this is almost exclusively reserved for colony related issues). Pirates just tend to be a bit sneakier about it due to them not being a true unified faction, like Independent Smugglers turning aggressive when you get near them, or opportunistic assholes chasing you down when you set off an alarm during scavenging.

>>2115798
Why are you getting exited over a fucking Scholar?

>>2112745
Anyone who is still not banned from that shithole is sus.

>install tahlan shipworks
>ignore the warning about legio because I thought it was hyperbolised
>start game
>play a bit, start noticing all these popups about legios going to war with hegemony
>their ships single-handedly rape them all and raid their colonies to death
>check out their colonies and realise that hegemony can't even retaliate because they have insanely strong defences and pop out 9 trillion ships a day, who are so overtuned that they bully the fuck out of anything vanilla
what the fuck, adversary is not as bad as this

>>2115988
Legio either starts snowballing early or fucks up and gets stonewalled forever. There's no in-between - they win big or lose hard. Depending on difficulty settings (ie turning on early and harder Daemon fleets) they either win more often or lose more often. If you don't want them overrunning the sector and they haven't fucked up and gotten stuck in a forever back-and-forth over Madeira and Cibola or Gilead and Asher you need to stop them yourself. That's why they're designed as an End Boss kind of faction, like IX Battlegroup or Hivers.

If you want time to build up before they go all out, I suggest setting Nex options so that none of the factions invade or satbomb each other until you start colonizing. That'll give you time to find good systems, do the Main Quest if you have that turned on, and get things situated before you colonize and the !!FUN!! begins.

gonna make the day's most obvious statement and say that tahl's garbage is fucking gay

>>2116015
And you're on 4chan, we're all fags here

how do I make a faction mod? I've long had this Idea for a faction that's just a province of a major Alien empire that can be contacted mid game either by a minor questline or just by accident, as they'll presumably be always in the literal furthest corner of the map from the core worlds. it just weirds me out how despite the game being literally a decade old nobody has made a single alien faction.

>The forked version of Starpocalypse is receiving new updates on GitHub developed by the new dev in charge of it.
>It's actually improving upon what's already my favorite mod and making it better.
Absolutely Nova,.

>>2116028
For those interested:
https://github.com/frakern/starpocalypse

>>2116027
to make some basic lore for it:
>Massive Alien empire TM (product name pending).
>empire is so huge it makes the entire star sector (heh) look tiny but it's mostly off map.
>Ruled by classic tall greyliens that are ancient and psychic demigods (think like a cross between Viltrumites and Jedi)
>empire is diverse and includes some humans but greys treat other species like pets/slaves/snacks.
>had multiple wars with the domain but these wars were largely completely forgotten or were censored in the late domain era.
some gameplay mechanics too:
>faction in game is just a small frontier province of the empire always on the literal edge of the map no matter the size
>the only way you can find them is by going on a minor questline involving UFO nerds investigating domain era shit or whatever
>still ridiculously OP with a borderline cheat buff to it's capitol planet/market that allows them to destroy most factions, even modded ones.
>think China from CK2.
>ships are Flying saucers with OP weapons that are fundamentally incompatible with all human tech (duh) and have a everything from domesticated tyranids to refitted AI to super powerful space drugs they can use to absolutely dominate the whole sector
they basically serve as a late/endgame threat and the ultimate flex is to beat them

>>2116027
>paint sprites
>paint more sprites
>paint sprites again
>write some java
>fill in some spreadsheets
>redo all the sprites
>redo all the sprites again

>>2116027
there's several alien faction mods

>>2116050
So basically Hivers but with extra steps.

>>2116052
>there's several alien faction mods
where? most modded factions are some form of human or anime tiddy girl
>>2116051
Really? that's it? sounds easy enough, though some of my ideas on the unique faction mechanics might enter untouched territories
>>2116066
think more like the Advent from XCOM 2 or Half life's Combine

>>2116070
Hivers and Borken immediately come to mind in terms of alien factions

>>2116073
>look both up
>borken hasn't been update in at least 6 years
>Hivers looks cool but not really what I'm looking for
thanks anyways

>>2116076
Check Corvus Discord, Borken has a bootleg

I played, cheated some ships in, and then dumped the game
uhh I know this is usually true for other games but how do I enjoy this game without cheating in ridicolous amounts of moneys? I want to run a whole intergalactic faction, not being a small fry chud

>>2116096
>uhh I know this is usually true for other games but how do I enjoy this game without cheating in ridicolous amounts of moneys?
Practice self-control.

>>2116096
You need to build up to that anon, run drugs and marines between Chanceledon and Umbra for a bit, build up your fleet and cash reserves (500k is a good start), then go poke around the outer regions of the map until you find a planet you like.

Once you set up a colony it's a piss-easy feedback loop to Embiggen until you can break the Hegemony's nose with a single patrol fleet.

>>2116103
yes but doing the same thing over and over to gain credits kinda makes hate the game , literal burn out
hey, maybe its just not for me

>>2116107
That's the easy way anon, people tell you to do that on the assumption that you just want to go through the early game as fast as possible. If you want an actually engaging experience, try running an exploration fleet, or system bounties with one of the factions.

>>2115761
With Nex I noticed most will be friendly. But your transponder has to be on, which can be hard to remember while exploring.

>>2116107
There's a few ways to make money, drug smuggling is just one of the quickest and easiest. If that's not your thing, build a combat fleet and do bounties - factions will frequently put out a marker on a randomly generated fleet that will spawn somewhere in the sector, letting you hunt them down and not only get cash but some salvaged ships. When pirates or other faction raiders are hitting a system factions will also put out a system bounty to attack whoever is attacking the system (usually pirates), which can also net you a good early nest egg.

If you like combat but don't want to bother leaving the Core Worlds to hunt bounties or wait on systems to get a system bounty, go into hyperspace, turn off your transponder and pirate trade convoys, then sell the cargo to the highest bidder.

If you want a more structured way to get paid for combat, pick a faction you like the ships of and take a commission with them. Not only will you get paid for fighting your commissioner's enemies, they'll also pay you a monthly salary and give you access to special military markets that sell stronger ships you normally need to salvage from battles.

If combat's not your thing and you don't want to smuggle, take trade missions from bars or developed contacts to do space trucking, or simply buy low and sell high. If you're playing vanilla tariffs on the open market will rapidly annihilate your earnings, though, so if you're dead set against smuggling get used to being stop-searched by patrols for selling on the black market with your transponder on like a dumbass. Get ships with shielded cargo bays to hide your contraband or only sell legal cargo like food, supplies, domestic goods etc.

If none of this is interesting, go explore the procedurally generated outer systems to find loot and bring it back to the Core Worlds to sell. Keep colony items and contraband stashed away in one of the derelict stations (found in Corvus, Mayasura and Yma) and sell other loot during shortages.

>>2109178
it's just something you figure out over time depending on what you want to get out of a ship

>>2109178
Caps if you want to close in and kill fast, vents if you want to snipe or get raped by redacted. End of the day you need both in some measure.

>>2115450
>ziggurat mk.1
wow.
i think that this is the first time i've seen a ship that makes no fucking sense in any possible shape or form, peak modder moment

>>2116157
That thing has been floating around as a meme for months, and it's been dumb as fuck the entire time.

>Two bridges, neither point forwards
Absolute nonsense. Makes Remanent Ramparts look reasonable.

>>2116157
as opposed to the original ziggurat?

>>2116166
im confused why I have to explain this

>low tech mark I version of a ship that is one of a kind and literally is the first version

>>2116080
What are some exclusive mods i can get from the bootleggers discord other than the bootlegs?

>>2115450
>I can't brick any users Steam library if my mod with embedded malware detects a mod from a person I don't like already installed on their PC anymore
What's even the point really?

>>2116157
>i think that this is the first time i've seen a ship that makes no fucking sense in any possible shape or form
Tell me you never got the mk.1 without telling me you never got the mk.1

It goes to show how ignorant you are of the game by making these claims

>>2116175
>>low tech mark I version of a ship that is one of a kind and literally is the first version
>letting TT pay you 1m credits to scan the mk.1
>thinking they're not gonna do anything with that data you've provided for them
Retardation to the extreme

>>2116208
>onslaught mk.1 was the first designed onslaught built for specific purpose
>gets modernized over time

>ziggurat mk. i
>has no fucking reason to exist because zig is the mk. i
it goes to show that you're a fucking moron


>>2116209
>pay 1 million credits to make a shittier version of their ship without any of it's signature tech

pot, met kettle. please dont poison this game with any more of your dumb fuck ideas

>>2115828
Scholar Intensification when

it really doesn’t make sense lol, its like the US making an M1 Abram’s out of parts from a Sherman tank using design philosophy from china

>>2116234
unlike rl where it makes an M1 Abrams out of parts from china using the design philosophy of the Sherman

>>2116164
>windscreens in space
if you want to talk about making sense the bridge would be deep in the center of all ships

>>2116175
So "one of a kind" is supposed to explain the ziggurat making no sense either?
Stop posturing, you are complaining about literally nothing outside the norm by Starsector standard.

>>2116179
From Corvus you have a channel for bootlegs of abandoned mods and a channel for mods that aren't abandoned, but can't be found on the official forums or the USC due to the mod mafia. Stuff like Sephira Conclave, Stinger Shipyards, that portrait pack to turn the Secrets of the Frontier wAIfus into anime girls, etc.

I want a midline one of a kind ship, maybe even a blue sky project that wasn't ready by the Last Hurrah and is stuck on the surface of Mairaath somewhere.

>>2116470
>Stinger Shipyards
First time i've heard of that name. What does the mod add? Pics?

>>2116483
Stinger adds a lot. New Low Tech (like the pictured Myriad, basically a carrier Invictus), Midline and Hightech ships, new Remnant ships, and a new faction of gangsters turned semi-legitimate Heg-aligned mining company. There's also stuff like a hospital ship called the Brizo, 'stock' versions of the Starliner and Mora, Lion's Guard variants of the Champion and Gryphon and an NPC contact who will kitbash ships together if you do quests for her.

Oh, and it puts saucy shipgirl artwork on the main menu screen. You can turn that off in mod settings now, at least.

>>2116367
>ziggurat makes no sense either
...okay, so you're just retarded.

Carry on then

>>2116028
>>2116029
i'm autistic so salvaging or exploring or buying anything besides supplies/crew/fuel feels like cheating. instead i've always played permadeath, purely post-battle recovery runs (with starpoc's mandatory story point cost so every recovered/lost ship really matters). mods like exotica and gacha hullmods and bionics are nice alternative money sinks for that style
but man this new update is a game changer with the minimum standing and black market changes. even if it shakes out the same after a few hours, the beginning is so much more grounded and earned. take the bar event for the cheap impounded ship. why require marines? you just buy them from the same station and sell them after. now it's not as simple. the black market is inaccessible without a contact, and marines and almost everything else have reputation thresholds to buy on a stable open market. might sound like aids but you can always make early money trading between open pirate/pather/freeport markets. want some starting frigates to bounty hunt? a commission should at least let you buy as many basic missiles off the military market as you want. assemble a swarm of kites, farm some easy rep off pirates, maybe get lucky and find a half-dead patrol with a real ship to steal. or look for a modded market that's unrestricted (so far i found underworld's roboto is good for this, very limited selection of extra dmodded ships so it doesn't invalidate the system). lots of little things suddenly have more of a point
i still won't salvage npc-to-npc wrecks since it feels lame, and i still need to think of another handicap, but i'm finally going to do a more normal explore and buying-stuff run and see what i've been missing by treating this game like everspace. maybe a nex background would be good i never look at those. thanks starpocalypse forker wherever you are

>>2116230
Already exists but its in chinese
nobody cares enough to translate it

>>2108402 (OP)
>UAF still breaks the game before it can load itself
That's my case. It works for some.
Waiting for UAF 0.8. Maybe then it will work out.

>>2116649
Are you trying to load UAF without Nex

>>2116654
Thing is I have Nex and it is up to date.

Is there any way to save the hegemon girl being raped by the flesh ship from the Project Blacklight quest?

Why is it when I invade a pirate planet, it gets given to the Persean League?
At first I thought it was because I was a "part of them" - I stole their fancy ship making doodad thingie, demanded better terms, and then gave it back for said terms - but they kept taking the planets/spaceports I stole from pirates. So I ended my commission, pissed them off, whatever, wasn't part of it, and engaged the station again and it STILL gave them the planet?

Not in their systems either, in any system. Like that planet in the Sindrian home system, it fucking gives it to the persean league!

>>2116722
OK, I see. I was commissioned by them still somehow. Leaving the league didn't de-commission me.
Is there ANY other way to get the Hegemony off my ass about AI without being in the Persean League?
thanks

I also have the slight issue where, in my game, everyone likes everyone and nobody is fighting and the galaxy is now at peace and what the heck am I supposed to do about that!?

>>2116722
Any planets you invade while under commission will be taken by your commissioned faction. I think that if you have Ashes of the Domain: Question of Loyalty installed it also applies to worlds you conquer a short time after ending your commission, but I might be wrong.

To get around this, colonize and form your own faction, then request that your faction invade a planet. Escort the invasion fleet, then once your faction lands troops you should be able to freely join the invasion and capture the world for yourself.

>>2116729
I do have my own faction, but that sounds smart. OK. Do you know how I order an invasion? I have a pretty spicy set of colonies up, basically independent at this point. But that's cool I'll try it, thanks.

>>2116725
If you defeat multiple Hegemony grand inspections and go talk to Daud, he'll agree to have the Hegemony leave you alone for the rest of the campaign.

>>2116728
Use spies to lower relations, or commission with a faction then attack other factions with your transponder on to start wars.

>>2116732
Oh, sweet. OK. I'll try to do that then.
Very sneaky. I could probably beat the hegemony fleets, but one annoying part is that they send like 3 fleets against my 1, so I get like 125 deploy points and they have like 375 and suddenly its 3 ships vs my 1 and every fight is a pain in the ass

IT WORKED! HAHAHA!
Thank you. This is hilarious. The persean league can go and fight, then go and die!

>>2116731
To begin, go to one of your colonies. Approach the planet or its station and click "Special functions" at the bottom, then "Request a fleet". Set the mission type to invasion, the origin market to one of your planets (I'd suggest one with a high military rating, like a world with a high command), then the target market. Upping the task force strength will cause your faction to send a larger fleet with more marines, but if you have a huge fleet and a lot of marines already you can afford to send a cheap force so long as you escort them closely.

It'll take some time for the fleet to form, so hang out at the planet the fleet is launching from. When it launches, have your transponder on and follow behind it closely - don't fly in front of it or too close, or it'll try to maneuver away from you (some sort of old code to avoid fleet collisions I guess), and if your transponder is off it can possibly mistake you for a hostile fleet and try to flee if you're close enough to detect but too far away to get visual confirmation on.

When the fleet reaches its target, it'll take about a day to deploy marines and begin the surface battle. If *you* invade the planet before this then it'll cancel the invasion and give the planet to your commissioned faction if you win, so don't do that. Instead wait for your faction to land troops and begin the battle, then open the surface battle screen, join your attacking forces, and land your own troops. When the battle concludes, your faction should conquer the planet in your name.

>>2116742
That's...super informative. Thank you! I keep forgetting about the Special Functions. I haven't explored this mod very much I guess. That'll help a LOT. So far I plunged some of the world into chaos, but, like, I'd love to start taking some planets.

>>2116742
It worked! Haha. Bless you. OK, this seems to be going well. I mean, I do have a lot of bad dudes coming for my colonies, but, its gonna be fun! Win or lose.

Are vanilla colonies good now, or are they still a bunch of money sinks with little use?

>>2116893
At least you can store your unneeded ships and weapons for free there.

>>2117023
Well, shit. I find colony mods too removed from the game's intended designs, but I guess it's the only way to have fun with building your own empire.

>>2117048
How do you see the game's intended design for colonies?

>>2117103
I dress in my finest piss and vodka stained adidas sweatsuit and take a gigantic dump. The secret slav spirits in the fumes reveal the grand design of the alex.

>>2116893
colonies are fine, the problem remains that alex refuses to add an actual endgame so you build them up and then have nothing to do

you can also just leave them at size 3 and just enjoy the free money

>>2116640
I know right? Starpocalypse already made it harder to cheese in an easy buck and forced you to actually play the game to grow your fleet, but this makes it even better, without being so punishing by default (Black market needing a contact instead of just not being available if the transponder was on).

I'll never not shill the mod to people who wanna listen.

>>2114649
>t.USC

Scavenger or Bounty Hunter for babby's first playthrough?

>>2117532
If you're doing the tutorial, you'll wind up with some decent combat ships pretty early including a Wolf, so all you'd need to do is survive the first fight. Going Wayfarer and Shepherd is a viable combo.

On the flip side, two Wolves is better than one, so if you plan on doing a lot of fighting pick a Wolf+Shepherd and pick up more ships later in the tutorial.

If you're not doing the tutorial, I'd recommend Wayfarer and Shepherd, more useful for early trade runs, exploration and smuggling.

>>2117189
It's way too easy to make them.

>you can play the vanilla tutorial start in nexerelin
thank god,

How stupid it is to put shield shunt on Conquest?
Shield is a sort-of weak point of the ship, so getting rid of it will save ai from overfluxing too much.
And the downsides of lacking a shield Conquest can compensate by keeping its distance - it's artillery ship, not a brawler. Has plenty of pd too.

>>2117532
Bounty hunter, do the tutorial, then quit and do the spacer start

Did the game rebalance maintenance cost & crew/officer pay?
It's been a while since I played but I'm having more troubles than I remember. I'm using all the skills that lessens maintenance and fuel just to break even.
That said I'm not making colonies. Just wish I actually found good ships in my exploration runs. It's either probe barely worth the supply

Did the game rebalance maintenance cost & crew/officer pay?
It's been a while since I played but I'm having more troubles than I remember. I'm using all the skills that lessens maintenance and fuel just to break even.
That said I'm not making colonies. Just wish I actually found good ships in my exploration runs. It's either probe barely worth the supply or worse ship than pirates would use.

>>2117623
Almost as stupid as using that much DP for ai fire support

>>2117641
Are you flying a huge fleet on exploration missions or something? Don't use more ships than you need and things should be profitable.
Efficiency Overhaul is a good way to cut down expenses if you are not using it on every ship already.
Colonies need big investment to get going, so that would necessarily solve your issues.

>>2117623
It's more that it's kind of pointless. Conquest should never be in a situation where that shield's getting overtaxed. Its main defenses aren't the shields, it's the manoeuvring jets.

>>2117650
Always figured it main defence is blow shit up faster than it can blow you up.

im like a dying man in a desert and the only thing that will save me is a refreshing drink of sierra rape

fuck off retard

...guess i'll just die then
*dies from clinical lack of sierra rape*

I suppose there's no more fitting name.
Obviously it's reliant on missiles, but I'm thinking I can add more as the phase lance are redundant

>>2117787
>there's no more fitting name
HMS Dogshit fits better

>>2117647
Are you telling me a Ziggurat, 6x cruiser, 4x destroyers, 16x frigates, 6x phase tender, 3x Atlas is not a proper way of destroying a 50.000 credit fortress?
Next you'll tell me I have to filthy myself with scavenging.

I'm actually getting my tricks back,
I raid every fortress for supply/fuel before destroying them
I'm surfing in slipstream like it's aqualand
I help concerned man at the bar
I have 2x Salvage rig
And I'm not selling most of the stuff I scavenge

>>2117666
It's almost as if the point of the conquest-class battlecruiser is to win fights via its speed and overwhelming firepower instead of tanking things

>>2117798
Shocking, I know.

>>2117787
>lord british
is it that scammer guy who is actually american?

>>2117636
>do the tutorial, then quit and do the spacer start
for what fucking purpose

>>2117957
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British

>>2117957
I don't know what's sadder, your underage ass not knowing that or that sad wank thinking anyone even cares anymore

>>2118037
>In April 2022 he announced he had begun working on a new fantasy MMO that uses NFT technology with long-time contributor Todd Porter.[51] In August 2022, the game was announced as Iron and Magic.[52] However, in May 2023, it was reported that the game's official website has vanished and its Facebook page has lain dormant since September 2022, leading to many speculations regarding the status of the game.[53]

boomers literally fellate thieves

>>2117969
For the lulz mainly I would assume

Though honestly, do whatever start you like. Start the game at level 15 with a Radiant. Start the game with a level cap of 1 and you can only use frigates. It's a videogame, find your own fun.

>>2118055
>find your own fun
It's more for experienced players, who know what they can and can't do in the game. I don't understand why this argument is suggested to noobs, who had no idea how to achieve anything yet.

>>2118059
There's a subset of gamers who think that the only way to "properly" play a game is to make it as challenging as possible, or unfair in ways that require the player to follow a certain optimized playstyle to survive. Anyone who does things different is somehow ruining the game for everyone, regardless of if it's an MMO where you aren't playing a meta build for your class or a singleplayer game where you aren't playing with the difficulty maxed out and ironman turned on.

These creatures are called Grognards, and are best ignored.

>>2118067
>make it as challenging as possible
Enjoyment of the doing the task kind of depends on finding balance between your capabilities and challenge.
Doing something hard when you are bad at it is not fun. Doing something easy when you have 10000 hours of experience is also not fun.
It's kind of natural that nerds sink into these hardcore way of playing games as their skill grows.

You didn't beat the game.

>>2118158
You can't beat the game, duh. It has no Victory Screen or even a Lose Condition.

>>2118163
Technically Nex adds victory/lose screens, they just don't really do anything

>>2118167
>Mods
You didn't beat the game.

>>2118171
I don't care

>>2118175
Good.

>>2115988
play meme mods
get memed on

>>2117787
replace your mediums with resonator mrms
that way you don't have to give a shit about missile ammo

>>2118059
>retard asks something retarded
>gets rightfully shat on
>different retard asks something
>gets shat on by the previous coping retard
>yet another retard appears
It's a vicious cycle.

>>2117532
There is a tutorial start that most people mentioned, it doesn't give you anything op or anything it just gives you a mission that handholds you a bit.

If you don't want to do that, idk pick one, I'd pick Bounty Hunter

I need a recommendation for mods that change up the game. I've run it through about 8 times now with modding for factions, weapons, hulls, colonies, and the usual QoL, and would like for the gameplay experience to be somewhat different. Any good total conversions or mechanical mods I should download?

are you pre or post op trans?

I play the game and I don't ever control a ship or customize them myself
Autofit and AI control for everything

>>2118396
that would be nice if there was a way to obtain resonator mrms in any number you need

>>2118736
You mean you don't know?

>>2118662
Then you didn't play the game

>>2118766
I've played it lots and had lots of fun
Where's the problem, Lebowski?

>>2118662
I highly implore you to try a fast and easy frigate to use for the early game. Hyperion if you want to take things easy, afflictor if you're spicy. You're missing out on a huge part of the game.

>>2118782
No, I don't think I am. I really enjoy the game how I play it, like a tactical strategy. I don't find the flying mechanics enjoyable, and I don't care about nitty gritty ship designing. But thanks anyways!

I don't understand people who avoid flying a ship. The overworld is mostly a vessel that simply provides you reasons to fight battles. It is kind of like playing mount&blade without ever fighting yourself.

>>2118662
Unironical cuck

>>2118797
Sounds like you don't enjoy the fact that I enjoy playing a game how I do. What an interesting and enlightening thought!
>>2118795
I have well around 3,000-4,000 hours into M&B, and I very much enjoy the controls in that. Its great! I'm very good at it. But I don't like Starsectors, its slow, clunky and boring haha!
It'd be better as a grand strategy game.

>>2118804
>its slow, clunky and boring haha!
nigga just do what >>2118782 told you, both of those are ships that punch up and can easily solo capitals while maintaining high maneuverability
i will presume you've at least completed the combat tutorial and aren't a complete retard

>>2118809
That doesn't really matter. I've done some ship combat, a decent bit, and I don't enjoy it. I don't think its fun. I prefer to have a nice fleet of capitals, send them out, press F3 for 6x speed mode and alt tab until I get back to my management simulator.

>>2118811
>6x speed mode
Speeding up combat makes the AI dumber and fucks with beam weapons. I'm pretty sure I've seen someone else claim they use x6 on this general before and it was pointed out to them. If you still persist in this behavior then live in the hellhole you've made for yourself.

>>2118812
Yeah, but I'm winning the fights and it means I have more fun stuff in between fights while the baby is sleeping. Otherwise I don't progress much between feeding and other works.

>>2118804
I don't really care either way. I realize that you're a baiting shitposter but I'm still getting my jollies at calling you a cuck. Winwin.

>>2118823
I'm not baiting at all. I simply said "I like to play this way, this game is fun" and immediately people tried to bait by saying "NO, YOU HAVE TO PLAY IT -MY- WAY"
Continue on if you'd like.

>>2118825
Meds, friend.

>>2118828
>he didn't use chatgpt to make his reply
Well, that's just anti thematic.

>>2118831
I'll assume that's what you do.

>>2118832
I'd never soil myself with the tools of mammon

>>2118835
Then we're in agreement on that. Yaldabaoth's tools are not to be trifled with. Sofia and Logos guide and protect me.

>>2118836
>AI control for everything
>>we're in agreement
Begone servant of moloch.

If I own a colony or something, is there a way to request custom ships if I own, like, an Orbital Works? I have a Pristine Nanoforge in it. Some way to queue up ships that I want? Even if it costs a lot, I don't really care.

>>2118843
Oh, I'm so sorry, you don't bring any companion ships into your fights? How splendid! What skill, what tenacity!

>>2118844
Oh I found it
cool

>>2118848
>>2118844
dammit I don't have the blueprint for those awesome, uhhh
big storage ships

>>2118846
Ludd is the only companion I need.

>>2118851
Wait...
based?

heh
nothing person-ell, hege-kids

jesus fuck

>>2118852
A lion does not care for the opinion of tri-cucks

>>2118883
but y tho

>>2118883
i kneeled irl

how viable is a fleet that is just carriers
all carriers
I want to do a weird strike craft playthrough

>>2118892
You can opt for a maximum meme build derelict operations where you do nothing other than spam missiles. It works pretty well, but your framerate will be raped and you will have zero joy.

>>2118894
hmm
But I want fighters not missiles

>>2118892
Viable enough to be one of the latest meta cancers

>>2118898
really? So if I just slam a few capital carriers and a bunch of smaller carriers I won't get raped?

>>2118897
Fighters are just missiles with different behavior. You max out on dmods and deploy carriers that blot out the battlefield with junk. Few things can survive the onslaught

>>2118901
More along the lines if you know what you're doing a kite is fine too

>>2118902
thats pretty based but how do I intentionally get d-mods? I'm pretty good at the game

>>2118903
a cat is fine too

>>2118905
Giraffes give better bjs

>>2118904
Derelict operations is a meme strat built on meme gameplay fueled by memes. You essentially have to suicide your carriers until they max out on dmods by manually ensuring they die.
The result of this is extremely powerful, but you will die a little bit inside irl if you actually do this.

>>2118909
>he doesn't know

>>2118909
not him but I already suicide my ships

Is there a more efficient way to find systems / POIs on the map? Like some sort of searchbar. Right now if I find a place where I want to sell something, I just have to eyeball where a system is and find it through trial and error.

>>2118930
Yes.

>>2118950
Cool. How do I access/use this feature?

Who here /dualgamer/

>>2118892
Are you playing vanilla or with Arma Armatura and legions of cataphracts - or worse, the UAF Arma addon for massed Taufan spam? Either way, carriers are fun to field.

>>2118901
If you're going true carrier only, you may have a rough time if you're playing vanilla unless you consider ships with built-in wings like the Tempest to be 'carriers' (tip: they're not). Drovers are your only real option for escorts if so, and they're not great at that. Modded, of course, makes the all-carrier strategy more than viable.

>>2119059
I have none of those mods
I have a few things like Nex I guess
but hmmm

>>2119069
For pure vanilla carrier spam, I recommend Herons and Drovers with a Legion or two to act as flagship and a fleet anchor. Condors and Moras are too slow to survive being flanked and Astrals are too expensive to field. Use Drovers with Broadswords and Swarmer missiles to escort your Legions while Herons use Claws and a forward tactical laser + HVC to pressure shields and suppress anything that isn't shielded.

Depending on your mods you should swap out whatever ships don't fit your playstyle. For a Low Tech theme use Auxilias from Curated Ships (XIV Legions and XIV Auxilias pair fantastically together), or perhaps you'd rather replace the Legions with Sentinels from Strike Craft Expansion.

UAF are the queens of carrier spam though - and if you're using either Second-in-Command or Arma Armatura + the UAF Arma mod, you can fly some of their OP fighters directly.

>>2119089
I'll try to do that, thanks heheh. Would work pretty well I think. I do have second in command though, its a cool mod.

>>2119059
Spriggans are cool. They have one very hard-to-dodge blaster that fucks up ships

>>2119089
>UAF are the queens of carrier spam though - and if you're using either Second-in-Command or Arma Armatura + the UAF Arma mod, you can fly some of their OP fighters directly.
The runners up are probably- somehow- the vanilla derelicts if you use DEX. The fighters that mod adds are mostly cheap as shit glass cannons but they're very swarmy and can pressure just about anything if you can get enough of them without them all dying from one(1) flak shell. Some of the bombers in that mod are also completely bullshit (5op wing that gets a limited-shot mining blaster and a hammer torpedo and 100 armor, lol lamo).

The most up-to-date version of that mod has to be filched off of the discords though, because the dev's a lazy fuck and keeps claiming its' a 'pre-release' for the next version.

>>2119134
At least he's updating his mod, unlike his "Reincarnated as an Explorarium drone" fanfic

>>2119139
Eh, there's a quest version at least. But that's not been slow as shit too.

>>2119139
>shoots three salamanders and dies
Truly a compelling story

I am getting back into the game and plan to have something like this by the end. Simply hold position and shoot, no fancy strategies.
Is there anything I am missing? I am quite rusty, so I am not confident in my fleet building skills.

>>2118764
It's been a while since I played but as far I know you can only get them from fighting REDACTED at REDACTED around supergiant suns and those are in finite supply.

Unless that's changed you can only have limited quantity of those super guns.

>>2118662
Not piloting the ship yourself is understandable, it can get tedious and I'm not wasting any skills in combat cheat that I can use to give my fleet a -50% supply cost.
Plus the games has a cool Commandment system

Not modding the ship yourself however... that's missing on both fun and efficiency.

>>2119212
You want the brutally honest answer or sugarcoating?

>>2119276
Fuck, is it really that bad?
Sure, give to me as it is, anon. Preferably with advice for improvement, that would help, I think.

>>2119282
First drop the mods or at least name them. I don't know what else you're running with dude.

>want to hold the line
With what? Get some low tech bricks, cruisers+ preferably for that. Those eagles in those numbers and that configuration will overload and melt faster than a contested /v/ fanboy. Manticores work but not as something you slam against ordos frontally.

>want to shoot
Cool. Why are you stocking up on so much PD then? Some is fine but dear god what do you think you're going against.

>dems breachers mortars lone acs
>flak over devastator with bi
>general lack of good kinetic shield breakers
>post nerf geminis
>post nerf dampers

You do you but it's pretty awful from where I'm sitting. And that's before hullmods and vents I'm sure you went ham on.

>>2118736
>>2119214
If playing with mods, Nexerelin allows you to purchase them from Midnight Dissonant once she's a contact. However...
1. The event that lets her sell them pops up randomly and, in my experience, not very often.
2. She'll only sell one or two weapons at a time, and the ones she's selling are random with only one or two copies of each at a time as well.
3. They are expensive as fuck, with some reaching 6 digit prices.
But, if you have the money and patience, then, in theory, this allows you to get infinite amount of them.

As for Vanilla, there's also one Weapons Cache with [REDACTED] weapons that can be found by going to the Alpha Site and flying northeast to an unmarked spot on the map (Neutrino Detector can help you pinpoint the exact spot). It's guarded, though, by generic AI defenders so be prepared for combat.

>>2119214
>>2119290
Don't forget the once per game High or higher importance contacts only 1m remnant bounty with the [SUPER ALABASTER] flagship

>>2119290
Star Federation also gives you a bounty to fight a super Capital class dorito. Not sure if it's been updated for .98 yet though.

>>2119285
Ah, if you was concerned about guns, it's just random junk I've got from a quick start to show the concept of the fleet. Not a single ship was outfitted by my hands.
>Those eagles will overload and melt
Really? I expected them to be fairly tanky with shield builds. Low tech bricks would slow the rest of the fleet a lot, I feel like.
Manticores there are not exactly for brawling, but to keep fast enemies away from bigger ships.
>post nerf dampers
Are centurions bad now?! It was my favorite frigate!
>drop the mods or at least name them
If it was anything noteworthy, I would. I mostly run qol stuff. XP bar on the side is just alternative way to earn s-mods, nothing game changing.

>>2119212
>Centurions
I still have nightmares from my solo frigate starts with that thing.

>>2119302
Fair enough then, scared me for a moment there. I still think you'd be better off with champs or doms for your gunline instead. Call it a doctrinal preference and personal faggotry but I'm of firm belief eagles only shine as SO or at least close range strike ships.

I'd definitely drop any DEMs and put bombers on those geminis instead, their system at least synergizes well with long refit craft.

>>2119312
well it is a support ship

>>2119212
>>2119302
there's nothing wrong with those eagles

Not for a lowcaps resident shitposter there ain't

>>2119212
>That Conquest
Hydras are great at punching down, suck at bigger hulls. Not saying it's the wrong choice in general, but you don't have much stuff to break big ships going.
Which brings me to the flaks on the mjolnir side, you sure flak's the best for what you're going for? HVD and Maulers exist for that slot, while the medium energy up there can be switched out for a heavy burst laser if you're determined to have a PD arc. I'd tinker with those mediums at least is my point.
Regardless of why you're investing in so much PD, you'll thank yourself for switching those flaks in the large slots for devastators. It's got HBI, might as well use it. Might even be able to drop those flaks in the medium slots entirely for that trade if you're not expecting full carrier spam to be rammed down your throat.
The tac lasers on the PD side feels weird to me, you expecting to get surrounded by frigates a lot? Just sort of wondering if you can save some OP by switching to PD lasers or something. 'course that depends a little on how you plan on doing your orders or what your flagship is.

>>2119212
Try this >>2117666

>>2119089
Didn't UAF also feature those meme fighters which were straight up frigates they could throw at you constantly?

>>2119214
>REDACTED meme
oh come the fuck on you r*dditor don't pull this dwarf fortress "LE EPIC CLOWN ARMY" cringe shit
holy fuck you've never held a girls hand in your life

>2119458
Trying too hard.

>>2119458
Why would I want to bother holding a girl's hand when I can [EAT THE COTTON CANDY] to [RELEASE THE CLOWNS] so that my fortress can have !!FUN!!

But enough about [COMSEC REDACTED]

>>2119472
he's not trying hard enough, that shit is gay as fuck

>>2119290
That's the thing. I've already got the Alpha site one, and the other option are the rare loot unless you cheat/mod.

>>2119458
Reddit live rent-free in your mind dumbass.

>>2119479
>>2119472
>>2119537
r*dditcoded

>>2119578
Kinda shit, anon

>>2119578
Replace the rest by threatening weapon and we are on something

>>2119578
Zero synergy, zero focus. You can make a meme ship that is all about burst, fighters, phase, range etc. and they work well. What you have is something that doesn't do anything good at all.

>>2119609
This.

>>2119618
he must live a very boring life

>>2119609
you guys are no fun

>>2119578
Reality disrupter and cryoblaster are good enough to carry it

>>2119629
Cope

>>2119631
when do you need a second RDer?

>>2119654
when there are multiple smaller ships

>>2119659
just shoot them with a real gun and they go away

>>2119659
Holy mother of a skill issue

>>2119670
not for me, for the ai..

Eat shit attentionwhore

geez you guys are angry

I just posted a funny build, that works on human enemies but nothing else. then you started schizoing about schizos,

>>2119578
Where's your fucking SEXMAGS if you're gonna use a fucking cryoflamer?

The bucks are getting uppity
WHERE'S THE BUCKBREAKER UPDATE

>>2119849
I thought about it but extended mags also increases the flux issues, right? and the executor has lots of flux issues. Limiting how much it can do as various ranges was part of the idea, but again, it really is a meme.

>>2119853
>also increases the flux issues
It does not
you fucking retard NOBODY with a right mind uses fucking s-modded flux distributor on a fucking CAPITAL
you use Resistant Flux Conduits to speed up venting rate instead

>>2119853
if firing your gun more is a problem you done fucked up

trips check >>2119666

Anyone itt done a playthrough with AOTD? Does it meaningfully add to the game or is it bloat?

>>2119998
Except for the Question of Loyalty module, Ashes of the Domain is pretty good. The single biggest flaw it has right now is that usually by the time you're at the end of the tech tree and able to start using all the fancy stuff you've researched and built up the game is usually pretty much over unless you've installed a bunch of "endgame boss" mods like Legio Infernalis, IX Battlegroup and/or Hivers. The AOTD team is working on their own endgame content involving turning the Gates back on and checking out other starsectors and how horribly the Collapse fucked them up, but that's going to be awhile in development.

>>2119998
the very definition of bloat, avoid it.

>>2119998
I've never used it before this playthrough, so here are my thoughts.

The commission changes are flavorful, but severely hurt your income, especially if you're going full modded nonsense and need the income to support your warmachine. The Colony Policy options are cool, but the game doesn't really tell you how to level the milestones so it can feel aimless at times. The tech tree is cool in theory, but it's not very wide so you aren't really making any interesting choices on what to research. Overall if you want the game to be more difficult without completely breaking your balls it's not bad.

>>2119636
>five heavy needlers
...that's a lot of dakka

>>2120273
Not really, it's about the same as my load after going three days without masturbating. I once killed a camel that way.

>>2108831
What's the point of this mod when flying a venture with godmode on give the same effect?

>check the "lore" additions from Jaydee's Piracy
>think it's all pretty shit but the idea behind the planetkiller launch site is brilliant
>take a deeper look in the forum thread
>dev stole that idea from some other dude on the forum
I guess I expected too much from a faggot who randomly decided to give Sebestyen a tearjerking backstory with two dyke parents

>>2120472
The point is that it makes you mad

>>2120492
>I guess I expected too much from a faggot who randomly decided to give Sebestyen a tearjerking backstory with two dyke parents
Why the fuck would 2 lesbians even want to raise a son in the first place? That makes no sense

>>2120540
domestic violence between eachother gets boring after a while, they need someone new to abuse

>>2120492
>"stole the idea"
>literally asked for and presumably received permission
>credits the original idea guy in the first post of his mod thread

You can be mad about the faggotry without inventing additional reasons to be mad, anon

>>2120649
I guess he was still feeling betrayed after crediting that one good idea to mod's creator and finding out the truth later..

>>2120657
>one good idea
>the planetkiller launch site
>not the Supremator

Informing the Internal Security Ministry now

Before I invest in trying to make carriers work, it seems that the best way to play is to have 3-4 bomber squadrons per every 1 fighter (and broadswords are the best), use torpedo bombers because theoretically it's infinite torps, and micromanage them so the don't launch until the battle's really started so they don't blow their load too early and die tanking replacement times. Also use combat carriers so they get in close so that they don't have so far to fly to rearm. Is this right?

>>2120677
I recommend checking Big Brain Energy fighter tier list. He talks a lot about logic of using them and niches they cover.
I personally love using fighters and interceptors to fix holes in my pd coverage.

>>2120492
>Jaydee's Piracy
Imagine playing STD-ridden faggot mod by a faggot modder LOL

>>2120732
I got bad news for you about the Starsector modding community, anon...

>>2120677
Maybe, maybe not. More than one way to do it anon and you'll only figure out what works for you if you experiment.

>>2118782
>>2118809
Why do fags here keep reccomending shitty frigates and destroyers to pilot? They have like one or two weapon slots and die in one hit.
Use a real ship type for non sissies please

>>2120649
IIRC the original guy who had the idea didn't respond when he asked for permission so I said "stole" just to insult him

>>2120784
He did not respond in thread, no, but we can't rule out PMs being exchanged between the two.

I get that you just wanted to insult the modder, but accusing modders of stealing stuff without good reason is Soren behavior. You don't want to be Soren, do you anon?

>>2120540
So they can make him gay.

>>2120797
Sebestyen can't be gay, he's dating Sierra

>>2120780
Fast, agile ships are fun to pilot. A lot of flexibility. Even with only a couple of guns you can deal serious damage if you get into Onslaught's anus.

>>2120809
he's canonically in a quirky and faggy relationship with Gargoyle tho

>>2120780
>he fell for the single afflictor shitpost

>>2120818
And Gargoyle is a woman, your point?

>>2120818
Just ignore the retard

>>2120821
No
Gargoyle is a non-binary binary programmed robot

>>2120820
t. fag who can't do this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nld4aDyUPSI

>>2120890
>cheating in omega weapons
>actually using said omega weapons
Is that supposed to be impressive?

the hegemony can suck my nuts

>>2120993
We are talking about someone who's people still haven't invented toilets.

>>2120993
>cheating
>he can't LuckGOD the alpha cache for rift lances
NGMI

>>2121133
nigga... what the fuck are you cooking....
even without seeing your cap/vent settings and mods you at best might be doing suicide runs against capitals

>>2121291
>skill issue

>>2121133
Where the hell are your Squalls?
These type of bomber carriers are most effective with Squalls to pressure shields up to make sure your torp bombers can hit the hull.

Also the 2x2/1x3 Atropos bombers are just better

>>2121501
they ran off to do gardening or something like that, don't worry about it

>>2121501
It's just some dipshit that gets off on posting intentional garbage

>>2121133
>wasting OP on superfluous PD
>not using the Large missiles mount
This better be trolling

Are there any mods that have respawning Explorarium/Remnant battlestations/Omega so I can farm them forever? especially the Explorarium. I'm running out of probes and survey ships to salvage ramparts for my green brick fleet.

>>2121654
I don't know about respawning Explorarium, but with Secrets of the Frontier you can purchase upgraded Explorarium drones from a friendly AI faction called the Dustkeepers.

As for respawning Remnant and Omega, try Audax's Suitable Star Systems. It adds three custom star systems that spawn somewhere in the sector - one is optimized for colonization, one contains an uncolonizable planet that spams Remnant fleets and the third contains a secret planet that will spam all-Omega fleets if you hit it with the planetkiller.

>>2121671
>As for respawning Remnant and Omega, try Audax's Suitable Star Systems. It adds three custom star systems that spawn somewhere in the sector - one is optimized for colonization, one contains an uncolonizable planet that spams Remnant fleets and the third contains a secret planet that will spam all-Omega fleets if you hit it with the planetkiller.
isn't this a literal cheatmod?

>>2121673
>cheating
>in a singleplayer game

If the man wants to fight twenty Tesseracts at once with a fleet comprised entirely of Ziggurats he is welcome to do so

>>2121671

>Audax's Suitable Star Systems

>introduction gif showing a fuckton remnants popping out of the planet

Neat, I hope it's the same with Omega because taking on two Tesseracts isn't hard enough. Shame there's no Explorarium equivalent for farming their ships.

>>2121673

I mean. Is leaving a Remnant battlestation alive just to farm alpha cores and Radiants cheating? Also, you still need to deal with Tesseracts if you want to farm Omega weapons.

>>2121680
>you still need to deal with Tesseracts
The danger of omegas is vastly overstated. Third strike or the hardest dweller fight is much more difficult. Omega is just two supercruisers. A single paragon backed up with a few apogees and anbubises can easily take them on without breaking a sweat.

>>2121684
meant to say auroras, i get those mixed up sometimes

>>2121676
Sure, but it's still cheating. It's not necessarily a shameful thing to do, but an important distinction nonetheless.

>>2118158
field modulation is kinda dogshit though unless its on a phase ship.

>>2118883
kinoest ship with kinoest weapon that only the player can use effectively
>the backslots are also filled with kinocannons
alright thats a bit much

>>2118892
very enemy fleet dependant. If the enemy is fielding devastators or paladins it won't be as effective, but luckily enemy loadouts in this game make no sense so you'll do fine

>>2108402 (OP)
>Sierrasimping
>Not using the Sierra wAIfu portrait

fuck off

>>2121995
old hag begone
this is a loli thread

I have no interest in touching children.

this is why i'm scared to share my portrait pack

uhhhh share it anyway you DUMB NIGGER SCAREDY-CAT

>>2122043
>>2122133
concerning

>>2118892
>Laughs in paladin.

>>2122133
>>2122043
uhhhhhhhh
share

>>2118857
>When the chief communications officer asks if anyone can do a run for more four Loko

>>2122273
lol

>>2118857
you disabled whiteout screen at explosion didn't you you fuckin pussy casual

>>2122288
of course I did

>>2122288
>>2122296
why does alex insist on keeping it? it doesn't look good

>>2122299
no idea but the game should have an epilepsy warning
I could possibly sue

>>2122296
>cheatconfigging
shameless and disgusting

>>2122315
its literally in the options menu

>>2122299
slav masochistic tendencies

>>2122133
wut

rape... was a good friend...

Does anyone here remember the Shrike team from Victory Gundam?

What the fuck was Alex thinking with the Executor? Just giving the player a capital ship nearly for free?

>>2122824
You have to do a specific mission and make a specific dialogue option to get a free Executor, so it's not like it's something everyone gets. Further, since it's a Sindrian ship, Alex very clearly expects the player to sell it off at the first opportunity rather than use a "fascist" ship in their fleet.

>>2122839
>I may be a drug selling organ harvesting nuclear dealing pirate warboss with anime harem, but I draw the line at fascism
I refuse to believe this

>>2122824
There is almost no chance you'd naturally stumble on the perfect solution to get the free Executor if you didn't read the wiki. Like with many things in the game, if you want to make it easier, you can. I don't really think a sole executor early game lets you stomp through it anyway and the logistics are ass

>>2122839
Joke's on him then, I absolutely adore the surprisingly nippy fucker.

>>2122853
As long as you're not a total dick to the spiderfag and actually ask for the ship you get it regardless of any other interaction during that segment. "perfect solution" Nigga, please.

https://fractalsoftworks.com/2025/08/18/officer-flexibility/
>Talking about some changes that make officers easier to work with, as well as some changes to s-mods, and a quick update about the plan for the next release!

>lol that officer mod but only if you have a colony
>We’ve got a pretty big chunk of story-mission content coming (though not the “main” story)
ugh

>>2122857
You need a hegemony commission to avoid the the mercenary combat fleet when you do the ultimate quest. Good luck doing that one with a wolf+kite

Are there any roll sheets for Starsector like pic-related?

>>2122877
...wrong quest anon.

>>2116491
Pity turkler didn't continue the mod 'cuz he got filtered by rules.csv

Pity you didn't kill yourself

the poster above me is on his period btw, don't be too harsh on him pls

>>2122865
I very much like the changes. I rarely keep lvl 6-7 officers I find because they're way too expensive so the 10% cost of keep em inactive sounds great!

Only flow around here pal is coming from your asshole gaped by alex and his fagsquad

>>2122865
>s-mods are now removable
Damn now those bounty hunters/mercenary raiders with shitty s-mods are worth salvaging now

Aflictormaxxing is the only truly viable strategy. Prove me wrong.
>pro tip: you can't

>>2122865
So the idea is to put off updating for a year since there's nothing worthwhile in the new version.

>>2123250
same as last year, then.

hey alex, finish your fucking game

>>2122877
based retard

>>2122865
>>2123000
do you guys really not use the setting to remove smods from recovered enemy ships?

>>2117464
>everything that hates UAF is from USC
>me who hates UAF who doesn’t even know what USC is until someone brought it up
cy doesn’t send his brightest