/stsg/ - Starsector General

>image
kek

It's over, anon. Let go.

So the game crashed while it was saving. I have Notepad++ to open the .bak
Recovery, how to?

Drawing [REDACTED] Battlestations, part 2
http://fractalsoftworks.com/2017/07/15/drawing-redacted-battlestations-part-2/

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BRRRRAAAAAAAAPPPPPP

>>182887019
>delete old save
>rename bak to whatever the orig was

>>182889026
>lv 72
Fuck the police.

>ship
>somehow fits ~480ish OPs worth of shit into 455 OP
Also fuck the police.

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This guy's bounty still had a month or something left on it and he just decides to fuck off to hyperspace.

>>182889026
rofl worst fucking fits ever seen by man

Why is there an ITU when it comes with ATC

>>182897112
This is from before the ATC was added.

>>182881387
Well, I noticed an imperfect pixel on those ships. Hate to break it to you anon, but Dong is flaccid indefinitely

high tech is disgusting

>>182901495
Onslaught master race amirite?

>>182901991
Dominator, all day every day.

>>182902714
Either way, you're getting reaper'd.

What if Reaper launcher recharged

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>Leave hellbore on autofire
>It snipes a talon

>>182901490
Heh, wait until you see the improved Wuzhang sprite.

Is Onslaught a cake?

>>182908214
Onslaught XIV-sama is a Christmas Cake. I want to hug her and reassure her that she'll always be my flagship no matter how old she is, even if the younger Paragon-chan says otherwise!

I want to lick her TPCs and watch her moan.

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>>182908972
L-l-lewd! Shipfu's are for handholding.
>>182904983
I don't know if a pleb like me will be able to notice what pixel changed. I'll just have to resign myself to an expanded Dong

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>>182908972
>>182901991
>>182902714
>>182901495
>All the the Onslaughts and low techs are having a large Ara Ara~ tea party and fun battle
>worst Shipfu Aurora has to stay on the sidelines by herself because of her paperthin armor

The Aurora is so overrated holy shit, worse ship.

>nomad ships all have built in weaponry

I guess I kinda like it, and I kinda don't like it

>>182915301
How are the ships themselves?

>>182911382
No pixel memes, it is changing a lot, and will be 100x cooler.

Trust me.

>>182915742
Dnno haven't played it too much yet

Seems like all their weapons are all just pulse lasers, their missile destroyer ship seems terrible, haven't got cooperative yet for cruisers/battleships.

>>182914676
Reminds me of that pic of a nerd standing in a corner at a party while complaining about his feet hurting and other things.
>>182915301
>I kinda wanted to make a mini faction based around low-tech ships and hard pointed torpedoes. Make the torp launchers revolver cylinders that you could spin up to dump the torp load rapidly. They would run merc net, where you could use money to roll for random ship officers. Don't know why I got off on a tangent.

>>182916813
Crud didn't mean to greentext that

>>182916180
Yeah, I saw a few of your before and after pics. Take you time, I doubt you're slower than the wait for Alex.

>start the game
>every military market is selling capitals like they're going out of style
>finally hit Cooperative
>nothing but shitty cruisers everywhere

>>182921478
At least you get cruisers

tfw want the dong but will never get it
why am i alive

I'm surprised this general has lasted this long. Didn't think it would after mods kept purging us from /v/

You know what would be nice? A market that only sells unmanned drone derelict ships and REDACTED ships. A massive fleet of cheap disposable machines seems like a fun idea.

>>182928004
hm?
It dies every night

Man, I miss that one version when every missile reloaded. Good times.

>>182881387

Best large energy?

Berst large missile?

Trying to outfit an Apogee. So far I have sabot srm in the small missile, antimatter blasters in the small energy, and heavy blasters in the medium energy.

I have most of the faction mods installed too, so I am really lost.

>>182937003
I'd just go with the classic, Tachyon Lance/High Intensity Laser and Hurricane MIRV/Squall. A lot of mod weapons tend to clash with vanilla aethestics.

>start only at friendly with Nomads even when you are one of their faction
>Have to go trade fucking survey data to their Oasis ship hidden somewhere on the map

I'll let you know when I finally get some & do it

>>182937003
Well compare flux/dps
Range
And usually just whatever is availible

That unstable photon cannon from Neutrino is fun

Laggy though

>>182942919
Yeah, I've heard how powerful they were so I tried out 4 on my Panda. Fired off about three rounds and said NOPE!
Basically the gun produces like two dozen rounds, with each round spawning dozens debris shit as well

>>182942919
I'd like that weapon a lot more if it had more sustainability. As it is now, it doesn't feel like you can do much before you run out of shots.

Have you guys experimented with fucking around with ship's FPs? I wonder if slashing everything across the board will double the number of ships fleets field or something, that could be cool.

>>182947985
FP is how the the AI calcs the power of a ship
DP is how many ships you can field at once and it is better to just up the battle size in the options menu instead of fucking with the ship stats.

>>182948201

FPs are also used by the code to make fleet compositions iirc.

>>182948395
And also how the AI judges to pounce on your ass or to run away with its tail between its legs

>Think I can fight this giant scavenger fleet because its all shuttles/freighters
>oops missed like 15 destroyers when I was counting their ships

~____~

DONG WHEN

>Encounter fleet
>Pirate armada
>Fuckyes.png
>Intercept their fleet, They've got more ships
>my fleet composes of 15 or so Astrals
>Talons Everywhere
>Hostile fleet is destroyed in less than two minutes.

>>182954104
DONG NEVER :&(

>>182954104
You see, it is technically ready, however the author found a rogue pixel, but he decided he liked it, so he remade the entire artstyle of every ship.
However, once finished, he found ANOTHER rogue pixel, and this one looked so much better than the one before, so he's remaking the entire artstyle again.
When he'll be finished with the new makeover, he'll find YET ANOTHER ROGUE PIXEL and he'll like it so much that...

>follow invasion fleet
>make it to destination
>help fight off response fleet
>capturing planet...
>fails to capture planet, fucks off
>now surrounded by angry fleets
I don't know what I was expecting, but it was more than them bringing two marines to capture a planet.

>>182957720
Dong is entering fairytail status, from the sound of it

>>182962456
Fairytail (animu) or fairy tale (folk stuff)?

>>182962564
Folk stuff

>>182937003
>Apogee
'member when it had the extra range?

The hell is JVM heap and why am I getting warnings about it?

>>182968846
Allocate more ram

>>182968846
That means you are playing on slav computer. Restart your pc and hope it won't show again.

>>182962456
>>182962564
>>182963891
Long long ago there lived an anon who loved to play. He lived close to MesoTroniK and he used to stare at the lovely Dong that hung there.
"How juicy it looks. Oh I am sure this melts in the mouth when you have it. If only I could reach it".
One sunny day, the fox woke up and saw the Dong glistening by the sunlight. The mod forum looked heavenly and the Dong looked so luscious that the famished anon could no longer control himself. He jumped to reach it but fell down.
He jumped again. No, it was much higher.
He jumped even more. But it was still out of reach.
He jumped and stretched and hopped but to no avail. That yummy Dong hung higher than the anon could reach. No matter how hard he tried, anon could not reach the Dong. He panted and began to sweat out of exhaustion.
Giving up finally, he looked up in contempt and said as he walked away, "That Dong surely must be sour. I wouldn't play it even if it was served to me by MesoTroniK himself."

I'm sure I got this right

>>182969710
>fox
fug, I had one job

>>182963891
There once we're anons
who hoped for Dong in vain.
Do you want me to tell you
this story again?

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>>182934887
That can be ~this~ version if you really want it to be.

>>182974004
I love encores

>>182978826
>dat filename
If I delete ammo count, do I also delete system 32?

>>182976428
>>182978826
Wrong post.

What are some nice builds for Eagles and Falcons that aren't just boring ass beam boats? Seems like that's all they can do with those stats they have.

>>182985636
SO

>>182976428
>not giving the torpedoes reloads too
Cmon, put your heart into it.

>>182985636
Flamers and SO

Welp, It was a fun month, good game, and cool general. I'll check in a month or two if Alex made a new version. Godspeed anons.

Flamers suck because they can't hit most frigates

>>182994537
>month or two
>new version
Anon...

>>182996726
Aim where they will be no where they are.

>>182996726
Use fighters to kill frigates for you or some other ships

>>182996726
That just means you're not going fast enough.

N-no! It can't end like this! DONG still needs time to expand!

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>>183005518
LAST PAGE BE GONE!

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post ideal fits

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>>183006898

ded

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Page 11 begone!

Yeah, gotta wait until the next Alex epoch

Nomad ships kinda suck ass

>>183011308
All kind of seem all bland though flux efficient ships/weapons. Anyone found the oasis yet?

I really wish ORA had another capital, or just some more weapons. That one they have now seems underwhelming.

>>182997258
shhh, its better if he doesn't know.

>>183013672
Haven't gotten around to ORA yet, still toddling around with a Diable run. Didn't seem to bad from what I saw from the tournament.

>>183010971
this

>>183018932
Sadly they are doing worse now since the update to .8
Which sucks due to that they were great before

GIVE ME THE DOOOOONG

>>183018932
The Enlightenment is slow as balls, and has a pretty hard time actually killing shit with ORA weapons in my experience. The Invocation Launcher pushes whatever you're firing at out of range of your weapons, and it's too slow to use the Sempiternal Repeater effectively as well.
Could just be I'm just shit though, if somebody wants to tell me what I'm doing wrong.

>>183026296
Even time someone asks, Meso delays it a week.

>>183030839
Jokes on you. Everyone asking about the update is Meso, he needs more time

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Can't decide what to make my next Nex campaign.
1-2 ORA
3-4 Imperium
5-6 Shadowyards
7-8 Hegemony
9-0 NGO

>>183030395
Maybe I'll put Diable on hold and try ORA. What's their strengths? Beams?

>cruiser with 1 fighter slot
>REFUSES TO GO ATTACK SHIPS NORMALLY BECAUSE "HURR IM A CARRIER"

>>183031928
The opposite. All of their ships are broadsides, but they come with a special hullmod that makes beam weapons cost 3 extra OP, while PD weapons cost 2 less OP.

not much to talk about with this game

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So, /ssg/, I have a request for you, if you will:

Pitch me this game as if your life depends on it.

indie
glacial development pace
lots of buggy mods needed to enjoy
pay 2 play
needs a top tier pc to have above 10 fps
control schemes are awfu

>>183041659
I'm considering buying it if__ I ever get a job. How's that?

>>183043538
If you are having problems with buggy mods, then you are playing the wrong mods.

>>183041659
Su-suport this game, mister, p-please! I have wife a-and c-children!

>inb4 Alex just wants more vodka

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How about we keep this thread afloat by posting shitty balance ideas?
For example, piranha's bombs should be untargetable by auto pd weapons

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>Diable Avionics because im a front mission fag

Is it me or are their capitals kind of garbage?
I've been trying fighting sindrian diktat and i've been getting shredded by them until i started fielding their salvaged 3 slot carriers and filling them with wanzers

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>Dong posters, while waiting for a while, know that their favorite mod will come out

>Meanwhile appro never

I want my chinese over the top mods.

>I've looked at this the previous weekend and it seems like the changes are not too complicated.
>I need to do some testing but it should be rather straightforward. Stay tuned.
HYPE

Why is dong so loved again?

Last time I tried them it seemed just like a worse version of vanilla ships.

>>183057853
That's exactly the reason.
Worse than vanilla=GOOD BALANCE

>>183051217
DME is integrated in the base game as-is

>>183032828
From what I understand, beams are op on ORA hulls. So he introduced the increased OP cost so other weapons might be used, but beams are still great on ORA hulls.

>>183051389
>capitals kind of garbage
kinda, their shield arcs suck and the efficiency is 1.0, around mid tech. Wanzers was always the draw for Diable, if you really didn't use them I have nothing to say.

>>183057853
>>183059307
Dong isn't worse than vanilla, it's damn close and in a sea of special snowflake mods damn close is rare.

>>183057853
dong blends in seamlessly which is why everyone loves it, its like s free EXPANSION pack

>>183062126
>Dong isn't worse than vanilla, it's damn close and in a sea of special snowflake mods damn close is rare.

?

Didn't most mods lose to vanilla?

Besides, if I want to underpower myself I can just solo instead. If their ships offer worse options I'll just stick with default.

>>183062484
>Didn't most mods lose to vanilla?
The mods were purposefully gimping themselves in the tournament.
Especially DME. Submitted an intentionally shitty fleet so to show "SEE? BALANCED! DON'T MIND THE FACT EVERYTHING IN THE MOD IS STRICTLY BETTER THAN VANILLA! SEE? IT TOTALLY LOST! SURE THE FLEET WAS NEUTERED AS FUCK BUT TOTALLY BALANCED GUIZE!"

>>183010971
lold

>>183062658
Uh no retard, but many entrants on mod factions had bad fleets due to incompetence

>>183062658

Do you have a single fact to back that up besides your bias towards those mods?

>>183063452
The fact their cruiser variant WAS FUCKING NAMED
>"NEUTERED"
YOU INBRED SLAV-LOVING KEK

>>183062484
Most mods lost out for a few reasons.
1. Ship weapon pack was allowed for vanilla, which is a mod itself.
2. No mod has an equivalent or counter to sabots
3.Meh to bad fleet setups for mod fleets.
4. Cost of d-mods needs to be looked at

dongposting page ten away

>>183064969
m8
Laser torps and Shrike ASM missiles from Shadowyards