all hail bloat(edited)

also, starsector is a cool and good game

2D single player top down space and economy sim

What IS Star Sector

Just answered it

Thanks

you should play it

instead of bad games

like runescape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvo3S0MD-o

hmm

Want to shoot ships? with your own custom ships? in fleet actions? with lasers and guns and missiles oh my

also raid pirates (or govt forces because fuck the man)

start with nothing, some garbo frigate and some credits

kil lsome punk pirates, or get lucky on a trade opportunity

make a sick run, go dark in a nebula

hide from the customs agents

...

or go full bounty hunter and murk pirates. get a commission from the tri-tachyon megacorp, the church of ludd, the hegemony, or the sindrian diktat

mods galore

i think i need this

did you play gratuitious space battles

and found it lacking and lame

this is a better scratch for that itch

maybe?

its early access (I know) but the dev takes his time and releases good, solid, well fleshed out and LARGE updates twice a year or so that drastically alter the game in good ways every time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dd4uqcGPPg

this is from the Blackrock Driveyards mod, from goon Shaolin Fuckfiend/Cycerin

ships designed around light armor, heavy/exotic weapons and FAST venting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf3TkVBI6Xg

best ships, dah dah dah dah dah

BUY STARSECTOR.

Fuck if you're too poor I can even whip up a crack for the current version for you, shit's written in Java.

com.fs.starfarer.B.new

private static final String jdField_new = "Nobody will ever pirate starfarer, because starfarer is not pirateable. It is not pirateable because I am so god damned good at writing top secret code like this. Are you not amazed by how truly awesome this code is. Well if you are not, balls to you then. Youve got some nerve, mister. Oh and another thing, just because I have this string in here does not mean that the crackers that will trying to cracj this software won't crack it. THey will crack it, but when they discover this special shout out they will not go on any further with their cracking efforts. They will simply say: Wow. These guys had heart. I will not";

public static boolean o00000(String paramString)
{
boolean bool = false;
oSuperLongStringThatMakesNoSenseBecauseObfuscation = new oAnotherSuperLongName(o00000());
for (int i = 0; i < 500000; i++)
{
String str = o00000(localoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO);
if (str.equals(paramString))
{
bool = true;
break;
}
}
return bool;
}

boolean bool = false -> true. That's it.

Or fuck just replace the whole method with a return true

you madman

crushing the fragile spirit of the comment he left in the code to try and dissuade you

Well I'm not uploading my work to torrent sites or w/e

So I don't feel too bad

And theoretically I could also just share my key here but I don't feel too good about that.

so im playin a tri-tachyon run

lost most of my fleet to some BULLSHIT

ansyway i clawed my way back up, got 3 medusa-class destroyers

and im flyin around murkin pirates and hegemony mans

well i see one of my factions patrols being chased down by a hegemony patrol, im running dark in hyperspace because fuck broadcasting to everyone where you are while you're in BFE right

so the hegemony doesnt like people rolling without IFF transponders on, it's illegal and shady and blah blah so they intercept me (i sat and waited for them) and they bitch at me about my IFF being off, order me to turn it on

"sure thing, chief"

i turn it on, they immediately "oh shit", cut comms and power up weapons lmao

my fleet so far. an aurora light cruiser, 3 medusa destroyers, a sunder destroyer, and two wolf class frigates

my flagship is one of the medusas, i have two pulse lasers on the center turrets, point defense lasers on the rear flanks and aft, two longer range tactical beam lasers in the front turrets, and two antimatter blasters on the hardpoints

its great at killing anything up to cruisers...i was able to take out an advanced carrier but it was a little dicey....they can almost soak up more punishment with the shields than i can actually inflict, so it was a slow earing down, in the meantime i had to dodge fighter wings and AI drones plinking at me the whole time

it absolutely smokes frigates/fighters, destroyers dont last long 1v1 and cruisers dont fare so well either but i do have to be careful with the medusa...theyre kind of expensive/rare (im surprised i found 3) and its easy to get overwhelmed and surrounded if you arent careful with the phase skimmer

i really want a tempest frigate, two medium energy mounts and a missile hardpoint, spec it for speed and you can outrun strike craft, missiles, and dodge energy bolts, plus it has a respawning AI drone to cover you

http://i.imgur.com/6xjsUmR.png

threw down for an astral class carrier and some fighter wings. also a phase frigate and a couple wolves for extra screening for my carrier/capping points

@here http://i.imgur.com/df0q2pj.png

lost my astral to more BS

but im snapping up more and more ships

also i got a tempest :3

oh cool dudes be playing starsector

its a great game

it is(edited)

@here http://fractalsoftworks.com/2016/07/17/exploration-salvage/ missed this blog, but the dev is describing exploring proc-gen systems

tfw dead channel for a great game

I blame tay

Me too

Wait, what is this game

top down 2d space shooter, trade and exploration sim

.yt starsector trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvo3S0MD-o

@amalilakab

.yt starsector diable avionics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgYCZFbAVNY

looks gnarly

its good and a pro buy imo

Nobody plays it tho

😦

Starsector? I play it every now and then(edited)

i play it all the time

when updates drop every 6 months theres this rush of activity on it

and you can alwyas pirate it, but the dev is a legit good duder and not a complete itiot

ＪＵＳＴ

also fuck pirates

pretty death planet

http://fractalsoftworks.com/2017/09/19/economy-outposts/#more-3777

For Recreational Drugs (the purple syringes, fourth row from the bottom), we can tell that two units are being produced locally (bright icons), but that demand is being met by importing 3 units (1 dim icon, and also a crest of the faction the drugs are coming from on the left, in this case also the Hegemony). The red outline around the crest tells us that it’s a smuggling operation, the three dim red-outlined syringes tell us there’s a lot of unmet demand (and so higher prices), and the lack of a faction crest on the right tells us Jangala is not exporting any drugs.

@Hazlen @Lancek space druglords when

!thinking

oh he's rebalancing the economy

That's cool I thought it was a little weak last I played

And combat was hard

its a shame no one has made a 2d space MMO

this is all single player i take it

yeah

@here so i managed to save up about 1.5 million and a pretty decent Fleet

and so I took over the pirate base in the Askonia system

from there I was able to Branch out kill more pirate bases and now I have a sort of semi Empire it's pretty chill

this is all using the nexerelin mod

:black101:

monthly salary of 40000

keep main killfleet in storage , have either stronk merchant train or strike force most of the time

managed to save up more money, smoothed over as many relationships as possible

war with TT corp tho

theyre down to just 2 bases, but theyre big and bad and its gonna be a shitshow to cap em

if i do though i'll have two bigass markets that sell high tech ships, and i'll be able to really go hard on stability so bigger + better ships, i really want a brand new astral class (my current one is a D-Class so its kinda shitty)

still being able to shit out 6 wings of fighters is lit

rocket bomber + heavy interceptor combo = dead anything (with proper destroyer support, but fighters do a shitload of damage if you can keep the bigger ship occupied)

cant wait for the next update on this

same

but yeah the kopesh rocket bomber is stupid fun

dump like 10 wings of them at once

just high speed annihilator missile spam

I just read most of the update to the economy. I feel like I should wait for this update to come out before playing at this point?

its been a while since the last updaye, id wager sometime around Christmas

its worth playing the missions

also mods up the ass

Not sure it'll run on my laptop, but I may find out. I'll likely end up just playing a lot of CDDA since there aren't a lot of gaming options on this little guy.

mods eat up a lot of ram, if you use just a couple its usually ok

missions are hella good

ur hella good

https://webmshare.com/play/vPAj5

damn

Suggestions, tips, pointers, guides, etc. if I'm gonna hop into dis game?

play missions first, l2 fly and shoot

dont be afraid to duck and run if you're outmatched

normal trade is never profitable

smuggling is cool and good

rip

Ya, RIP

https://i.imgur.com/CC8Nb0b.mp4

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/187635036525166592/384554951445184522/screenshot000.png?width=1082&height=677

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/187635036525166592/384639185879040010/fleetroster-1.png

my diiiick 💦(edited)

My dick is a capital class battle ship and I'm going warp speed through your black hole

Lower your shields for a dock and board

im thinking peaches doesnt actually play this game! his terminology seems a bit...off

you are right I don't play this game

I am just using generic terms

http://fractalsoftworks.com/2017/12/21/colony-management/#more-3833

looks fun

http://fractalsoftworks.com/2018/01/03/revisiting-the-economy/

update when reeeeeeeee

also lol @ the reach map being this unreadable shitshow

thank god he dumped that idea quick

i like he does that

he legitimately goes, "Okay this sounds cool. But im not just going to do it, I'm going to actually see if it works. Nope it looks dumb, skipping it"

So how do I make easy cash in this game?

early game is slowish

what you have to do is exploit shortages and raid Pirates scavengers and do easier Bounty missions rather than trying to legitimate trade

very few trade goods are going to be available cheap enough and convenient enough to where you can just ship them around and make money

so you're going to want to take either easy procurement missions like get 200 fuel or whatever and hope there's a good bonus on it or you can start hunting down Pirates and stuff once you get three or four ships in your fleet

sensor scans are also useful will send you to some Backwater system and you can dodge drones Pirates and black holes and shit then you can just run a sensor scan on a drone and then get the fuck out and you get 10000 credits or whatever the hell they give you and hopefully you don't have any repair bills or lost ships and your supplies aren't getting drained to the point where you're actually running at a loss

I pushing into the midgame, now I just suck at combat

Like 1 on 1 I can't kill a combat freighter with a cruiser

are you running out of flux? using the wrong kind of weapons?

No idea, my current cruiser has two frontal arc graviton lances for steady DPS and two heavy needlers in an attempt to overload the shields, but the frigates keep fucking me up

They flit in, soak enough damage to almost overload, then flit out and dump flux

Like, as soon as I can close to <600 range the AI cruiser just dunks on them, but pinning them down is the hardest part

And missiles are shit, the enemy doesn't seem to ever run out, but my guys dump thier load in like 3 seconds into the first engagement

So I end up chasing shit all over the area until the AI gives up and leaves, or the shitty little frigate gets unlucky and it's engines get knocked out

graviton beams are kinda shitty imo

and needlers arent that good

dont discount tactical lasers and machine guns

also post pics of your fleet

The colonization and market shit is absolutely my bag

can't wait for that to hit

That and setting up AI defense fleets

Also, how the shit do you tell 'you two anti-fighter cruisers, park your asses on the fleet carrier and don't budge' or tell the fleet carrier to not mosey into heavy missile range of like 5 other ships?

use the "escort" command on the tactical map

and for the carrier itself, give it a timid or cautious officer

https://discord.gg/pMZPb2

yeah, but how can i tell it which two destroyers to escort it?

click and drag in the top down tactical map to select, or ctrl-click individual ships

or shift click i forget

and you can have your carrier park on a nav buoy or w/e

tactical map is real nice because you can have a pack of frigates cut around the side of a fleet and btfo carriers from behind, and also spook the AI into retaliating with ships that can't really catch the frigates so your main ships have less to deal with

as opposed to just "throw everyhting into the fray all at once" schools of thought

hammer and anvil tactics work, esp with ships like the hammerhead/sunder that have garbo shield coverage from behind, so if you can pin em down and force them to stay focused on the big angry cruiser they'll ignore the frigate sneakin around the back loaded with antimatter blasters (edited)

I think I just need to mix up the fleet comp, last few fights had no frigates at all

I need to buy and outfit a bunch

lashers are good, wolves are 💯

if you see an afflictor, snap it up

4 antimatter blasters on the front of an afflictor is Big Game Hunting

takes some practice but you can dust much bigger ships with it if you can get into position

Yeah, I'm learning that I'm just not very good at ships

hold Lshift in combat to orient your ship to the mouse

q/e to strafe

Yeah, I know, it fucks with my pubg muscle memory bad though

Plus it's ungainly as fuck and hurts after a multi-hour session

rip

Ya, RIP

you can change the keybinds

also having a lot of low/midrange ships isnt bad. more dakka

just stuff as many trash low OP weapons into the fray as possibly

quantity is a quality all its own!

but real high end weapons that use a lot of flux LOOK good on paper but are so power hungry you cant use em...meanwhile that lasher covered in dual MGs can just shit out ammo forever

It's mostly I need a good solid frigate swatting setup for a DD or cruiser

so I can hammer and anvil them with strike craft from the line carreirs

salamander missiles will EMP the engines and leave em dead in space for a while

Do the EMp lances work worth a shit?

if you just wanna pin em down, tac lasers have good range, low flux and the enemy will ALWAYS try and keep shields up and on them preventing them from venting

I need something with standoff

the phase lances are great but theyre burst beams, they dont stay on

I wanna be able to 'kill that guy' and have them all just burn it down

high intensity lasers are good for that but require a large mount. you can slap one on a sunder kinda early

So a 1000 range weapon with a 20-30% hull range bonus is pretty nice

problem is its high flux and OP cost

if you want to just up and delete shit, heavy blasters

high flux but if you can get the shields down or close to overloading a few blasters will do some serious damage

I was looking at an Ion beam and heavy mauler setup

ion beam is good...if you can get the shields down

maulers are beastly but only work if shields are down

so thats a great combo IF you can keep the shields down

dust the armor with impunity while you spray EMP hell all over the hull

so with that setup have another ship nearby thats just dumping bullets and sabot missiles into it

I'm tooling around in a falcon right now

use tac lasers on a falcon's "wings" and maulers or hypervelocity drivers

The issue is getting the shields down without them just withdrawing and venting just beyond effective range

^on the front mounts

flank em with frigates, or make your ship faster. safety overrides are great

you're not gonna be chasing shit down in a cruiser unless you get an aurora or something real snazzy

falcons/eagles are line cruisers, they take and hold ground but are shit for pursuit

Yeah, I'm seeing that now

http://fractalsoftworks.com/2018/02/12/blueprints-doctrine-and-production/

@here NEW BLOG POST NI🅱 🅱As(edited)

ship and weapon blueprints

my diiiiiiiiiiiick

saw that <3<3

http://fractalsoftworks.com/2018/03/02/zen-and-the-art-of-battlestation-construction/

@here

http://fractalsoftworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ow4.gif

damnit I missed the tournament today

some highlights from the tournament

https://clips.twitch.tv/PlainBeautifulPresidentMikeHogu

https://clips.twitch.tv/GenerousIgnorantNightingaleCurseLit

F

https://twitter.com/amosolov/status/979832398438453248

he's still getting 37 FPS with all of those fleets, either the code optimization is going well or his rig is a monster

por que no los dos