An object of fear, worship, and avarice; wars have been fought over the use and regulation of AI. Gravity is exceptionally low, though significantly above zero-g, on the surface of (market). Playtesting Humans require powered exoskeletons for regular movement and find even basic actions exhausting. You might reasonably ask, why? The reason is that theres a change to how phase ships improve the overall fleets sensor profile instead of applying a flat reduction, it now applies a multiplier. Though it is in-development, you can purchase Starsector now at a discount to gain access to ongoing builds. Different factions will modify the amount of credits and reputation received per core. So when building in hullmods, the game keeps hold of the ship that it was built into, and stores this record, and when speccing out of this skill, it goes through these records and checks all the ships it finds. Hullmod: Hardened Shields - reduces damage take by shields, Hullmod: Integrated Point Defense Al - small non missile weapons act as point defense; PD not affected by decoy flares, Hullmod: Integrated Targeting Unit - increases weapon range, more so for larger ships A Gamma Core has 3 skills, a Beta Core has 5 skills, and an Alpha Core has 7 skills. Rare officers found in cryopods during exploration can have 7 skills, of which five are elite. Officers gain skills like the player, but only to a maximum level of 5 (6 with the "Officer Training" Leadership skill), which are chosen from a pool of 4 skills when they level up. Since, again, there are other mechanics holding phase ships in check and phase cooldown is not a critical issue we can apply a more liberal bonus to it. You can farm Alpha cores by secretly building a space station in high danger system. **The base minimum armor value is 5% of the max armour value. For example (surprise?) This gets more complicated, because not all the officers you might have that exceed these parameters were actually trained by you for instance, those cryopod officers we talked about earlier; they have to be excluded. (This condition can be removed by Disrupting the Spaceport/Megaport), Only up to date for version 0.9. The transplutonic deposits glimmering with unbelievable density on the sensor-grid evoke portents of a power which could forge mighty war-fleets to burn worlds to ash -- or an eon of splendour and wealth for a polity of crystal towers as existed in the pre-collapse cycles of the Domain. And if the bonus was phrased, as, say, reducing the weapons flux generation by 20%, thatd be considered amazing. The elite effect increases projectile speed I think thats maybe a deceptively good bonus, since on paper it doesnt do very much, but it can increase the hit rate, especially vs smaller/faster targets, by quite a bit. Leave your mark upon the world and determine the fate of the Sector with your decisions. Any living being must be confined to a shielded habitat to live for long here. ", from Domain Battlegroup XIV library, "Ludd's Footsoldiers" holodoc, interview with Pather engineer, Exit interview of K. Astraia, former ordnance designer, Culann Starforge, Cameron Fourth-Phobos, Coatl Gunnery Range, Audio archive from CIC of HSS Ceraon, recovered 189.09.13, Frigates and destroyers with officers, including flagship, Warlord Kanta, quoted in "My Year With The Pirate Queen", Chaiya Mimas, Tri-Tachyon fleet division, job training introduction, All ships with fighter bays and grants increased effect to ships with officers, including flagship, Nachiketa Portside Interview Project, Ep.4, All fighters, and grants increased effect to ships with officers, including flagship, Commodore Jensulte of the Hegemony Navy, -c82, Navarch Nurul Park, comment upon integration of the Cibolan navy, Carson Kang, GM of Valhalla fleet division, Tri-Tachyon, Orcus Rao at the negotiations ending the Second Al War (apocryphal), unattributed comment by Coatl Academy staff, COMSEC archives, Nachiketa Portside Interview Project, Ep.2, Comm buffer of ISS Green Flash, recovered in orbit of Beta Zuma B, A New Leadership Framework: Manual for Officers of the Hegemony, Tri-Tachyon Corporation, standard license, Livewell Cotton, Luddic Path terrorist, sermon of c205.2.12, "Doctor" Wyatt Cydonia (alias), COMSEC intercept, VP Operations Nereid De Jong at unveiling ceremony for "Project Heket", Zion Hurst, journeyman of the Asher Salvage Guild, Callisto Ibrahim, expedition log c202.10.15, engineering chief Kasi Thea-Radiative, hidden holocam interview, audio backup transcription, Jericho Wheeler, leader of expedition "H"-team, Tri-Tachyon strategic development memo, pre-Collapse, anonymous pirate agitator, HEGINT surveillance feed, 0-flux speed bonus applies as long as your ship is not generating flux, -25% combat readiness degradation rate after peak performance time runs out, When below 50% hull, repair 0.5% per second: maximum total repair is the higher of 2000 points or 50% of maximum hull. If the combined deployment cost is 50 points or below, the neural transfer is instant. _343_Guilty_Spark__ 9 mo. So, once again, a universally useful skill, but even more effective for certain types of ships. Set in the year 3126, the player commands a fleet of spaceships and engages in combat, trade, and exploration in a procedurally generated world.. Reviewers praised the game on release and have continued to do so on every update, calling it a . *A slow-moving fleet is harder to detect in some types of terrain, and can avoid some hazards. Hullmod: Neural Integrator - specialized Neural Interface for automated ships. These mods are MY personal favorites, but which mods are YOURS?-----0:00 - Intro0:5. 4176 Posts 57 Topics Last post by kirbness in Re: [0.95.1a] MagicLib v. This involves two main changes. After returning from deep space, expedition force received repairs in faction colony and went on defense mission against pirate raid. Some abilities also make the fleet move slowly when activated. If youve read part one of this post, you might be wondering where all the colony skills went. Just as long as theyre nottoo game-changing. Each had a distinct flavor and things that worked better with it. It would require farmers with talent equal to their desperation to make these lands bear fruit. One of the goals was to do a pass over the elite effects of the combat skills and make them more interesting/powerful/appealing. Unless he starts abusing it (manifesting Hypercognition every time the party gets stuck without even trying first), use it to gently guide him back towards the party's destination. High temperature conditions of (market) necessitate specialized equipment to perform normal operations, complicating life support and infrastructure. Workflow and operation of (relatively) heavy machinery is complicated by the non-standard procedures required to deal with altered conditions of friction, weight, and pressure dynamics. With the test conditions established, I played a lot. This may cause other factions to view this colony with distrust. Which amounts to piloting a Radiant-class Battleship yourself. But once you add in another fleets sensor strength which could easily be 1000 the actual reduction is nowhere near that. ), or 2) convert the officer into a mercenary on a new contract instead, letting them keep all of their skills. Hull Restoration wasnt directly useful in combat, of course, but just being able to tolerate losses more easily is a big deal, so its good enough at this baseline level. The Hegemony carries on these policies with even greater fervor. No appreciable atmosphere exists on (market). Reassigning skills I primarily focused on testing with a low-tech fleet, and a different high tech one, with some fairly indifferent loadouts. +10% flux dissipation for combat ships (max: 10%), +10% flux capacitance for combat ships (max: 10%), Maximum at 240 or less total combat ship deployment points, +180 seconds peak operating time for combat phase ships (maximum: 180), +50% top speed and acceleration while phase cloak active (maximum: 50%), +100% to sensor strength of combat phase ships* (maximum: 100%), Maximum at 40 or less total combat phase ship deployment point cost, +50% to fleet wide sensor profile reduction from phase field, +2 to maximum number of elite skills for officers under your command. Once a ship unphases, its vulnerable for a couple of seconds before its phase coils cool down and it can phase again. Use of AI cores on a colony may trigger Hegemony inspections and attract the attention of the Luddic Path. *The base maximum number of permanent hullmods you're able to build into a ship is 2. Just basing the cooldown on it doesnt work, though; thats still too volatile. Sensors are impaired, and operations must be made with care. Now, humanity is scattered in pockets throughout the galaxy, trying to recover from the great Collapse. Organics are boosted by this item, but I don't think I've ever seen a non-habitable world with organics production. Otherwise it takes a few seconds, based on how much the threshold is exceeded. The first is simple the game now remembers which skills youve made elite at any point, and speccing out of them then making them elite again doesnt cost you an extra story point once its been made elite, making it elite when speccing back into it is free. Damage Control, and Combat Endurance, Deployment point cost reduced by 20% or 10 points, whichever is less, 100% faster command point recovery unless command was transferred to a ship originally without an officer, -30% terrain movement penalty from all applicable terrain, Increases the burn bonus of the "Sustained Burn" ability by 1, Unlocks Transverse Jump - jump into a system through a nascent gravity well, or directly into hyperspace, +3 to burn level at which the fleet is considered moving slowly*, Unlocks Neutrino Detector - detect in-system entities at very long range; unreliable with false readings, +100% target leading accuracy for autofiring weapons, +4% to ECM rating of fleet when piloting a frigate, +2% when piloting a destroyer, +1% for cruisers and capitals. They originally designed and patented the first Phase-class ships and technologies that the Domain Fleet usually use. The trace volatiles found here barely warrant harvesting. Countless fleets are scattered and lost. This skill is the renamed Phase Corps (which sounded a bit too much like it belonged in Leadership). That was until I saw this vid:https://bit.. (Can be achieved by Saturation Bombarding Size 4 colonies), Ruined cities can be found across the surface of (market), spilling from their broken hearts pitted roadways and crumbling magrail lines to the skeletons of factories, aquaponics domes, and comm-towers. Instead, the elite bonus of Field Modulation reduces phase cloak cooldown by half. To head off any confusion or potential over-excitement, this is not pre-release playtesting. But there are complications some ships might not be in the players fleet, or, indeed, anywhere that we might be able to find with code, but they could still exist. I started this section by talking about how skills are intertwined with phase ship mechanics, so, lets talk about those. (market) has recently experienced unrest of some sort. Starsector is a YouTube series adapted from a Twitch stream where I play incorporating a lot of viewer suggestions, but I've also not played Starsector for o. For example, consider a mod that lets you hire out some ships as mercenaries. Let's take a look at Starsector's Virtual Memory Parameters (vmparams) and go over how to fix some nasty RAM errors that can show up once you start modding t. 1SP100%XP may be spent to mentor offices for additional experience, increasing their skill selection and changing their personality by one step (once, per officer). It is relatively uncreative in problem-solving however, preferring to fall back upon direct, unsophisticated means. This bonus goes down once you have more than a couple of phase ships (this represents the limited engineering/science talent on your staff/in your fleet, and so on). Overview The Hyperion is a High Tech frigate with an immensely demanding upkeep for its size. Since the changes are pretty extensive, Im sure the question of whether the skill changes are save-compatible with 0.95a saves will come up. Civilization is collapsed and current population is effectively unknown, though groups of survivors, bandits, and looters can be detected. The surface of (market) is dark and full of shadow, receiving effectively zero illumination from its primary. Still, were not aiming for perfect balance, just viability of everything and things being in the right general ballpark. There is no stable ruling polity here. This condition will be added by bombardment or use of a Corrupted or Pristine Nanoforge on planets with the Habitable condition. With Combat Endurance being a skill thats great for small ships, the elite effect is, too, because of the potential to repair far more than 50% of the hull over the course of a battle. Diffuse volatiles can be found here, and may be sufficient for industrial extraction. The answer, for most of them except for Industrial Planning is in the bin. And, since its not something like a major content change to the underlying Sector which would be tricky indeed to make save-compatible this is actually doable. A river of wealth flows beneath the surface of (market) - for those that would find and tap it. (of fuel, supplies, and crew from the Waystation), (Station gets a level 20 AI officer in combat), (Multipliers will stack if a core is installed on multiple buildings). Phase Coil Tuning A brief recap when a phase ships cloak is turned on (i.e. We need something thats more elastic how vulnerable it is should be on how much it overextended, and how its being pressured. An alpha-level AI core is capable of excelling at any task. Abundant volatiles may be economically extracted from (market). But having a flat rather than percentage-based bonus is interesting, too flat bonuses can be more game-changing. The force of gravity on the surface of (market) is crushingly high. A rare and valuable independent AI core. This bonus goes down once you have more than a couple of phase ships (this represents the limited engineering/science talent on your staff/in your fleet, and so on). Phase Masterys elite effect increased speed while phased by 100%. increase the hard flux level at which speed bottoms out to 75%. An object of fear, worship, and avarice; wars have been fought over the use and regulation of AI. In 0.95a, the ship variant generator is a little too well, random. Another goal was making skill reassignment (you can respec your character by using a story point) smoother. but that doesnt mean that you should be able to sink skill points into colony-boosting skills. Its close enough to being toughest challenge in the game while also being a fairly general-purpose fleet, at least compared to some of the even more highly classified alternatives. When emplaced, the core is required to be fitted with an entirely analogue loyalty-assurance device; usually this takes the form of a crude chemical explosive with a mechanical trigger. Doubles the population growth from the facility, Derelict cruisers, capitals & stations in post battle loot (, Remnant cruisers, capitals & stations in post battle loot (. Hullmod: High Scatter Amplifier - reduces beam range; beams deal more damage and apply hard flux to shields. Power/Ability to: Perform complex mental operations drastically beyond what is naturally possible. This is what the reliable results of that look like: Even though the Radiant had its deployment points cost increased (to account for powerful it is in player fleets, especially now that it can be controlled directly with a Neural Link), they might be overall more difficult to face just due to how consistently deadly they are. Installing a gamma core in an industry reduces its demand for all commodities by one. At least, I dont see one besides, say, dont have skill effects like that. This was ok when phase ships were super fast while phased anyway it was almost (not quite, but almost) a quality of life bonus, since a phase ship could get away from anything regardless. Formerly, we had Shield Modulation and Phase Mastery now, most of their effects are combined into a single skill. While its not a major release, there are still a lot of things Id like to add into it ranging from minor features and QoL improvements to a number of less-critical bugfixes and just other miscellaneous improvements. Energy weapons deal up to +30% damage at close range, based on the firing ship's flux level. This also makes sense instead of having enough neural-aspect presence on the ship to yell at the bridge crew, your aspect actually has to control all of the ships subsystems! Although the locus of vast material and intellectual investment, alphas terrified Domain strategic planners. StarSector Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. The interstellar Gate System which binds the space of the Human Domain in a network of trade, industry, and empire collapses in an instant that shatters known civilization forever. Definitely horror holovid material there!) Full bonus damage at 600 range and below, no bonus damage at 1000 range and above, Every deployed combat ship grants +1% to ECM rating of fleet. Immigration controls are likewise relaxed, resulting in a greater in-flow of people, albeit sometimes of a more questionable character. Part one of this two-part blog post is here. +1 Volturnian Lobster production (Farming), (Note: This market condition is unique to Volturn in the Askonia Star System.). (market)'s crust roils chaotically with extreme quakes and cataclysmic volcanism events. Rich mineral deposits form a thick lattice within the crust of (market) but require an ambitious industrialist to exploit them for fabulous profit. What will you discover in the ongoing development of the world of Starsector? *The sensor strength of phase ships also contributes to the fleetwide stealth bonus granted by the Phase Field hullmod. Increases the production of organics, ore, and rare ore by 3. Making you a pile of credits isnt a point rather, thats just another question its asking what are all those credits ultimately good for? Some skills may be upgraded to Elite once unlocked, providing additional benefit at the cost of a story point . The other skill involved here is Field Modulation. err. This is rarely beneficial, but can help prevent or overcome shortages of a commodity. Whatll happen when youload an 0.95a save is: Theres still a bit of a way to go until the next release, though! Customize your ships loadout before battle, Hire officers to give skill bonuses, pilot auxiliary ships, and oversee your operations, Win the favor or scorn of powerful factions, Discover new worlds and salvage lost derelicts, Claim new worlds, build outposts and industry, Complete narrative missions and uncover hidden technology, Determine the fate of the Sector by your actions, Single player, gritty, dystopian sci-fi setting, Classic top-down gameplay style enhanced by modern technology, A procedurally generated galactic sector seeded with well-known core worlds and factions, Develop your character into a hot-shot pilot, a smuggler, a stern admiral, an industrial magnate or anything in between, Outfit ships with your weapons of choice and add hull modifications to create devastating tactical combinations, Explore hundreds of locations to find habitable worlds, rich resource deposits, and lost technology, Assemble a large, powerful fleet or a finely-tuned task force with hand-picked officers and crew, Cripple core world supply lines to create easy prey for piracy or bolster the rule of law and try to reverse the Sectors descent into chaos, Survey forgotten worlds and establish new colonies among the ruins. Notably, the ship AI does most of its armor tanking when its at high flux, so this skill combines with the existing AI behavior nicely. As a rule, skills should let you do new things and modify in-game actions. On the other hand, if the reduction is a multiplier, what it does to your displayed sensor profile is representative of what happens to the actual range youre detected at. Violent storms bristling lightning rage across the skies of (market). Along the way, I incorporated some phase ships mainly Afflictors and Shades into my test fleets. a quick guide how to get better performance in starsector especially if you have a crapton of mods ######### Giving it more ram. Hullmod: Converted Hangar - improvised fighter bay for non-carriers If youve read part one of this post, you might be wondering where all the colony skills went. I didnt experiment with different playstyles this skill might enable among the more obvious is having a bunch of reckless officers (and/or a high aggression in the doctrine settings) combined with ships with Safety Overrides but that seems like a promising use for that skill, too. A flat reduction applies to this combined value, but for example say you have 500 profile, and a reduction of 100 that feels like the range youre detected at should be reduced by 20%. And then we have the skill that lets you build more hullmods into ships in this iteration, Leaderships Best of the Best. (This condition can be achieved on Stations/Colonies with Station by decivilizing/destroying the Station/Colony with Station), The local port authority imposes almost no regulation on what cargo is traded. This is the physical soul of an artificial intelligence, an artifact of astounding complexity capable of sophisticated thought exceeding the human mind. Adaptive Phase Coils increase the hard flux level at which speed bottoms out to 75%. The main problem with phase ships, is, well, theyre really fast thanks to the time dilation effect. No bonuses or penalties to food production (Farming). The problem here is, what if that ship was destroyed? An AI core is incapable of affecting the outside world on its own. In this part, lets dive into a few details about specific skills, and some other points note. We dont want the game hanging onto it forever. I think Alex increased the base to 3 as such. This world is bombarded at an appalling rate by regular meteor-showers. It has rapidly grown all over the universe, reaching a golden age that eventually finds an end as these gates stop working. The problem is, right, its really fun, and I dont want to balance the fun out. The player can respec their own skills for 1SP0%XP. *Use the "Switch view to target" control (T) to switch between ships. Selling AI cores on the open market is prohibited by most factions. Phase ships An extra half second of cooldown might mean a ship gets completely obliterated, or it might mean nothing at all. You can still do quite a lot with beams and fighters, and overall the whole thing works, but I think it could be a lot better if they were more vulnerable. Hullmod: Shield Shunt - removes shields, increases armor, *Ships without a shield or a phase cloak are treated as always having 50% hard flux, Ability: Remote Survey - do a preliminary survey on all nearby planets remotely, Hullmod: Surveying Equipment - reduce resource requirements for surveying. +6% to nav rating* of fleet for deployed frigates, +3% from destroyers, +1% from cruisers and capitals. like the range youre detected at should be reduced by 20%. Skills cannot be unlearned if they are required for another skill. The short answer is, yes, they are! However, your knowledge is in fact the result of a rigorously logical process that you force your mind . ago This involves two main changes. Low temperatures found on (market) necessitates specialized equipment to perform normal operations, complicating life support and infrastructure. Phase Anchor increases time time multiplier to 4x, but reduces the ships speed while phased by half this is good for the brawling style. The elite effect speeds up venting; this is universally good but especially useful on ships with lower base dissipation rates. The reason for this is simple colony skills boost passive income, and thats well, its boring. A nice effect and primary goal of this change is so you dont feel locked into always flying phase ships personally or never flying phase ships personally depending on whether you have the Phase Mastery skill. Hyperion Systems, or Hyperion as it was called back at the Human Domain-era is one of the largest ship and weapons manufacturer that competed against the Tri-Tachyon Corporation. One of the goals was to do a pass over the elite effects of the combat skills and make them more interesting/powerful/appealing. The other skills were more just numbers go up kinds of skills. The second is complicated. Windows: Right-click the icon you normally use to launch Starsector and choose Open file location. On the other hand, once colonies have a more active role in the game right now theyre kind of a stub a bunch of mechanics that work together but dont have a larger point. (market) is nearly barren of organics reserves, though some extraction is possible. Thats certainly clean and elegant, but baby, bathwater, etc. -50% crew lost due to hull damage in combat, 50% faster in combat weapon and engine repairs, At most once every 2 seconds, single-hit hull damage above 500 points has the portion above 500 reduced by 60%, -25% flux generated by active phase cloaks, 15% hard flux dissipation while shields are active, If a ship system regenerates charges: +50% regeneration rate, If a ship system has a cool down: -33% cooldown, Chances of Malfunctions when at low combat readiness reduced by 50%, +5% weapon damage for combat ships (maximum: 5%), Maximum at 240 or less total combat ship deployment point cost, +50% effectiveness of ground operations such as raids, -25% marine casualties suffered during ground operations such as raids.

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