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Thanks for the help! BTW, everyone should try the Captain's Edition mod. It makes the game both much harder and much more fun. Slug A is my favorite poo poo, though the Shivan is hardcore overpowered. And a lot of fun to play with. Edit: I'm playing 1.067, but I see that 1.069 has come out with lots of new features. Exciting! Edit 2: Unfortunately, I have no loving clue how I installed the last version on this mac. I don't understand macs at all, I really just can't use them 
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Kiavahr posted:This advice applies to everybody, but try out the hotkeys. I don't know about you people, but I feel like a total operator when I'm adjusting power levels, selecting crewmembers, and activating functions with one-handed keystrokes while only aiming with my mouse.
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Dec 7, 2013 03:20
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You know, I don't think that has ever come up for me. Probably because I almost never target weapons when I'm not paused. Still a good tip.
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Dec 7, 2013 04:36
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I really do love the Crystal Ship Type B. Victory to vessel "Board to Death"! I was even able to go back to the crystal sector because the game thought I unlocked the crystal crew members. Those weapons are so badass.
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Dec 8, 2013 08:04
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ASSTASTIC posted:I really do love the Crystal Ship Type B. Victory to vessel "Board to Death"! The only requirement for getting into the Crystal Sector is "Have a crystal member on your crew" when you get to the beacon. The big kick in the balls are the following are the only ways to get a crystal man: 1) jump through hoops that require you to be really lucky with zones and events 2) start with either Crystal A or B.
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Dec 8, 2013 08:21
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The Gila Monster is absolutely not as fun as I'd hoped it'd be. I'm a huge fan of boarding, so after getting the Mantis ship after 38 hours of gameplay, I was actually pretty stoked. It's amazing if you can get the ball rolling, but I feel like it's so easy to get torn to shreds by any number of matchups in the first couple of sectors. Maybe I've just had poo poo luck- I figured I ought to be rolling in scrap by killing crew but attrition is killing me usually before I can get some survivability upgrades.
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Dec 9, 2013 06:22
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The Gila Monster isn't really a boarding ship. It's just that boarding is the least bad option with it because it takes so much effort to turn it into anything else. The hull itself is probably the worst in the game so the entire utility of the ship comes from the crew. Play it to unlock the Basilisk, and never play it again once you have experienced the glorious power of a 4-slot teleporter.
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Dec 9, 2013 06:56
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Nah, its really good
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Dec 9, 2013 17:26
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I appreciate your most murderous crewmember of all time being a mantis named 'Dr. Jones'. 
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Dec 9, 2013 17:42
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Yeah that wasn't even a guy I named, he's from this event.
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Dec 9, 2013 17:47
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Shbobdb posted:Thanks for the help! I decided to look into this but then I thought I should probably unlock the Rock ship first, since this could conceivably make the Rock Homeworlds even more impossible to show up. Then I started up a game and on my first run unlocked the Rock ship, giving me all ships. Then I thought I should probably get the second layout for it since it could, theoretically, make fire bombs and defense drones less likely to show up. My first run with it I got the Stasis Pod in my first jump of the second sector, then I got an Engi ship with a defense drone in my second jump, and a store with a Fire Bomb and Crew Teleporter on my third. I even got the pod fixed in that same sector. Unfortunately I didn't get the Rock Homeworlds on that run but I still unlocked the alternate layout for the Rock ship. Mods ahoy!
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Dec 10, 2013 22:25
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You can shuffle your crew inside a room by pausing the game, ordering 2+ of the people in there out of it, ordering them to stay in the room again, and unpausing. So long as you get the order in which you tell them to return correct, your guys will just switch places; this is very useful if you're fighting in close combat and need to change who's taking the hits, and who's shooting their phaser into the enemy's back. This is very obvious I know, but just in case someone was having trouble with boarding actions, micromanaging the health of your individual dudes is vital to maximising the damage they can do. A dude on 1% health does just as much damage with his ranged attack as he would with 100%; even Engi and Zoltan can be very useful in a boarding situation provided you manage who's taking the hits correctly.
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Dec 12, 2013 06:50
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 So I got the crystal pod in sector 2 on my Bulwark and spend the next 5 sectors going from engi to zoltan to engi again and again looking for the zoltan science station event. I do finally find it, and unlock my first crystal crew member ever. The problem? It was in sector 7 and my choices for sector 7 were zoltan homeworlds and rock homeworlds. Farthest I've gotten on this quest line, and still the game fucks me over.  By the way, the only other ship I have yet to unlock is the engi stealth ship. Is that a good way to unlock that other than searching for the engi homeworlds in sector 3/4 and restarting if they aren't there?
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Dec 12, 2013 14:51
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Some thoughts on Captain's Edition: Maybe it's just bad luck or whatever but I hardly ever seem to see weapons in store anymore since installing it. This means I've had very little exposure to the new weapons and I really don't want to modify the default loadouts for ships because that seems kind of "cheaty". The new events are pretty great but generally poorly written. The "trade system" is really kind of dumb but an augment that lets you get free scrap every time you go to the store is pretty good. I got one from a quest that let me get 110 scrap every time I went to a store and it pretty much broke the game. Space stations, AI ships, and capital ships are really cool. You can commit acts of piracy that make your crew uncomfortable. I haven't seen any actual consequence for this but it seems like it builds to a possible mutiny or whatever. Maybe you'll get an event where the person in the helm gets killed or people leave your ship. If you have a Mantis crew you can choose an option during piracy events that is essentially "we're loving mantises deal with it" and you get no negative reaction from the crew. A lot of the new drones and weapons seem to emphasize speed or multiple shots over power. This is interesting and all but running into a Zoltan ship/base with new weapons or drones is pretty much a death sentence because they will tear your ship to shreds before you can charge up the FTL or get their shield down. The same can be said for reaching late game ships/bases without a quick way to get through their regular shields. This also makes it especially difficult to use the stealth ship early on. Overall the mod is a lot of fun and gives you a lot of new stuff to do if you feel like the game had been stagnating. However, I think I'm going to uninstall it eventually because so far it seems like everything you encounter either crushes you mercilessly or makes the rest of the game way too easy.
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I agree, it is a very different experience. Lots of fun though! One time I was flying the Engi B and I committed piracy and it cost me a crewmember. The one crew member I had  One time I had a fully decked out Basalisk but I'd had some bad luck with weapon drops/purchases. I ran into the bounty hunter and dude just wrecked my poo poo. Oxygen is down AND there are fires everywhere, so I have people dying of asphyxiation and burning to death. Rotating people through the medbay while I hope the engines charge for a jump. Started with a full crew, ended with three crewmembers. Started with full health, ended with 2 bars. It was awesome.
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Alkydere posted:The only requirement for getting into the Crystal Sector is "Have a crystal member on your crew" when you get to the beacon. The big kick in the balls are the following are the only ways to get a crystal man: Slaan posted:
I bought this game a while back and have only recently started playing it; Steam says it's been <20 hours. I made it to the final boss once on Easy but I died. Yesterday, I'm crusin' around the galaxy, not paying much attention to what I'm doing (which is what usually gets me killed--playing casually while cooking or reading or whatever), and I jump into a sector with a quest marker in it. "Huh," I thought, "I must've picked up an escort mission in the last sector." Nope. I evidently bumbled into the Crystal Cruiser questline at some point and completed it without even being aware of its existence. I had to come browse the thread to see what the hell I'd done. One thing is for sure based on posts like the ones above--I'm not buying any more lottery tickets, because I'm pretty sure I've used up all my luck for the year.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I bought this game a while back and have only recently started playing it; Steam says it's been <20 hours. I made it to the final boss once on Easy but I died. Yesterday, I'm crusin' around the galaxy, not paying much attention to what I'm doing (which is what usually gets me killed--playing casually while cooking or reading or whatever), and I jump into a sector with a quest marker in it. "Huh," I thought, "I must've picked up an escort mission in the last sector." You need to let as many FTL players as possible know about this, because it will drive them mad.
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I'm only on about page 125 or something, but I just pulled this victory out of my rear end:
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LethalGeek posted:I'm only on about page 125 or something, but I just pulled this victory out of my rear end: Good lord. No teleporter, no cloak, no Max engines, no Max shields, and you manage to out damage the drat flagship. Incredible. On another note, my first win and secret ship was going through the crystal cruiser questline, and of course soon realised just how lucky that was.
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LethalGeek posted:I'm only on about page 125 or something, but I just pulled this victory out of my rear end: Sweet baby Jesus, how the hell did you pull that off? That fucker keeps kicking me right in the dick like it's his loving job. Maluco Marinero posted:On another note, my first win and secret ship was going through the crystal cruiser questline, and of course soon realised just how lucky that was. You and I are those lovely new employees who get promoted to management after only having worked here for a month, when everyone around us has been working hard for years and are totally more deserving of the promotion. In short,  
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Does anyone know of a mod that increases the ships power maximum? I found the one that increases the system max for shields and weapons, but I want more power for the whole ship.
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Starz posted:Does anyone know of a mod that increases the ships power maximum? They're called zoltans  No, sadly I haven't found such mod
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Information on the new metal race in the expansion, the "Lanius."
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That link also confirms C layouts for 8 of the stock ships, backup batteries, and the ability to man the Doors and Sensors stations. Also you can rename crew midgame!
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jivjov posted:That link also confirms C layouts for 8 of the stock ships, backup batteries, and the ability to man the Doors and Sensors stations. Also you can rename crew midgame! I can't wait until this goes live. I will again disappear from the world for hours upon the time as I spread the component atoms of my ships and crews across space.
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Alkydere posted:I can't wait until this goes live. I will again disappear from the world for hours upon the time as I spread the component atoms of my ships and crews across space.
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I wish there was a Droid version so bad. 
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jivjov posted:and the ability to man the Doors and Sensors stations. I hope they give us more crew slots then
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I won't disappear from the world, because instead I will be playing FTL everywhere I go on my iPad. gently caress YES I will be right there with you man.
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sfwarlock posted:I hope they give us more crew slots then I doubt it, but at the same time I'm hoping they do as well.
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Dec 20, 2013 23:58
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That new race will be interesting with crystal dudes.
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sfwarlock posted:I hope they give us more crew slots then I feel like they might try to make it so you actually have to make a choice between full station manning vs "spare crewmembers who are your full-time boarding party" so I wonder if they will, actually.
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drat they and their ships look boss as hell, like big metal beetles.
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Is there some sort of accuracy stat? About 3 jumps into sector 1 I picked up an additional burst mark 2 laser. 6 shots every 12 seconds, pretty sweet right? But as soon as I equipped the both suddenly I couldn't hit poo poo. 5 out of 6 shots would miss. Even if I took down their piloting and engines, I was barely hitting 50 % of the time. This was in the first 3 sectors, so it wasn't like I was fighting super ships or anything. I had enough energy bares and weapons were manned. Is this normal or did I just hit a run of lovely luck?
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Is there some sort of accuracy stat? About 3 jumps into sector 1 I picked up an additional burst mark 2 laser. 6 shots every 12 seconds, pretty sweet right? But as soon as I equipped the both suddenly I couldn't hit poo poo. 5 out of 6 shots would miss. Even if I took down their piloting and engines, I was barely hitting 50 % of the time. This was in the first 3 sectors, so it wasn't like I was fighting super ships or anything. I had enough energy bares and weapons were manned. Is this normal or did I just hit a run of lovely luck? There is an evasion stat. Enemies have it too. If you knock out the enemy's piloting room or engines they will stop dodging shots. Nothing on your ship affects how likely you are to hit. Are you sure you took out their piloting or engines? If either are red their evasion goes to 0.
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Just a quick question- should I use Grognak's Mod manager or Slipstream? I heard Grognak's is better, but it's a hassle to use. How's Slipstream?
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Tenebrais posted:There is an evasion stat. Enemies have it too. If you knock out the enemy's piloting room or engines they will stop dodging shots. Yeah, it was weird. Even when their engines and pilots were down I was still missing a solid 50% of my shots.
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omeg posted:That new race will be interesting with crystal dudes. Oh, crap. Enemy Boarders that not only cannot be weakened or herded by suffocation, but start suffocating the crewmembers you send in to fight them.
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maltesh posted:Oh, crap. Enemy Boarders that not only cannot be weakened or herded by suffocation, but start suffocating the crewmembers you send in to fight them. Sounds like lvl2 o2 and opening all doors is the way to go. I would like it if they gave you a reward for those events where they teleport a bunch of dudes into your ship.
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Olaf The Stout posted:I would like it if they gave you a reward for those events where they teleport a bunch of dudes into your ship. Salvage their twisted bodies for scrap...
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