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DatonKallandor posted:You can also grab some Plagues from the Biology tree and Bio-War the planet to death - that way you get to keep the infrastructure and reuse it when you colonise again. Is there any sort of morale or diplomacy hit for that? Most games with those options penalize you heavily for that stuff. Granted, most games also penalize you heavily for annihilating an entire planetary population in a brilliant conflagration of nuclear fire, meteors, and beam weaponry. Is there a way to capture a planet with its population relatively intact?
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Dirk the Average posted:Is there any sort of morale or diplomacy hit for that? Most games with those options penalize you heavily for that stuff. Granted, most games also penalize you heavily for annihilating an entire planetary population in a brilliant conflagration of nuclear fire, meteors, and beam weaponry. Assimilation plague!
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Assimilation plague! If you go down this road, remember to nuke the planet really loving well with the plague to get it mostly intact, or otherwise you won't convert enough people and it'll just be a massive civil war that won't net you the planet itself. Atleast that's how it worked in SotS1, the more missiles you get into the atmosphere the stronger the plague.
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Dec 11, 2012 21:51
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Is there a trick I'm missing with torpedos? My human ships utterly slaughter my foes when they deign to fire them, but they won't shoot until I've spent a while randomly jiggling the AI approach/facing/priority weapons settings and there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency to what combination works.
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Dec 11, 2012 22:02
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Tracking torps, or direct fire?
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Tracking, fusion specifically.
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Regular fusion, not Detonating?
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Talkie Toaster posted:Is there a trick I'm missing with torpedos? My human ships utterly slaughter my foes when they deign to fire them, but they won't shoot until I've spent a while randomly jiggling the AI approach/facing/priority weapons settings and there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency to what combination works. The fire rate is incredibly slow, and if you're using tracking energy torpedos it's possible they're getting shot down near instantly in a brawl - they have very little health straight out of the barrel, and build damage and health as they travel.
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AlanFrost posted:Regular fusion, not Detonating? DatonKallandor posted:The fire rate is incredibly slow, and if you're using tracking energy torpedos it's possible they're getting shot down near instantly in a brawl - they have very little health straight out of the barrel, and build damage and health as they travel. Talkie Toaster fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Dec 11, 2012 |
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Dec 11, 2012 22:20
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Are you setting your ships to top (1.5x) speed? That pulls all the weapons offline for full power to the engines.
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Dec 11, 2012 22:24
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I've never had any issue with Torpedoes firing so I'm not sure what's going on there. Fusion Torps especially have a massive firing arc (wheras Photon torps basically require you to be staring straight at at the person you want to shoot). ^^^ AlanFrost posted:Are you setting your ships to top (1.5x) speed? That pulls all the weapons offline for full power to the engines. This sounds like a good place to start.
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Dec 11, 2012 22:28
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AlanFrost posted:Are you setting your ships to top (1.5x) speed? That pulls all the weapons offline for full power to the engines.
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Dec 11, 2012 22:36
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so I am giving this game another go after shelfing it for a year. I jump into the chat channel in game to ask some questions and find that its nothing but neckbeards argueing about the political scene in europe and how america is loving over the world. Needless to say I didn't get any answers
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Dec 11, 2012 22:46
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Talkie Toaster posted:I didn't realise that- I thought it just cut the sensor range. Problem probably solved. Something to keep in mind about that - what it does is set all your weapons to no power, which means fast fire rate weapons come online very quickly. Especially Point defense is practically instantly back to firing when you drop down to normal speed.
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Dec 11, 2012 22:49
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Does anyone else get long pauses in between turns?
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Dec 11, 2012 23:32
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Now the game crashes whenever i try and autoresolve a pirate fight :T -EDIT- Actually any appearance of pirates at all results in a crash when i try and fight them. Goddamnit Kerberos. Neruz fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Dec 12, 2012 01:22
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Police Cutter Supremacy!!! Dammit they really are loving up aren't they? They tried to do the CD Projekt RED thing of offering an Enhanced Edition with free content to pull in customers after a well-publicized rocky launch. The thing is, you need the game to work correctly for all those players you pull in. Otherwise they have the same lovely experience or you just get hit with worse word of mouth and the franchise suffers. Who am I kidding, they're desperate for money and beyond caring about the franchise right now. Serious question: was there EVER a good time to come back to this game? Or has it been an unbroken series of bad times since the launch to now?
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Arglebargle III posted:Police Cutter Supremacy!!! Loa don't get Cutters :T Arglebargle III posted:Serious question: was there EVER a good time to come back to this game? Or has it been an unbroken series of bad times since the launch to now? The game was both playable and sometimes even fun right before End of Flesh broke everything again.
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Bwahaha, I decided to give it a try and it crashed on the main screen. I went back and I can confirm that pirates hang the game now. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Dec 12, 2012 13:00
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NiknudStunod posted:so I am giving this game another go after shelfing it for a year. I jump into the chat channel in game to ask some questions and find that its nothing but neckbeards argueing about the political scene in europe and how america is loving over the world. Needless to say I didn't get any answers Join #sots2 on synirc. It's not super busy but Keisari and Mistervec have been incredibly helpful when I've had questions. I'm usually in there off and on during the day and can try to return the favor by helping another hapless noob!
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Arglebargle III posted:Bwahaha, I decided to give it a try and it crashed on the main screen. I don't have this problem. Pirates seem to be perfectly fine and as annoying as ever. At this point the main issue for me is the horrible memory leak which necessitates a restart every 10-30 turns. EDIT: Apparently not. Just got the pirate indefinite hang/crash. They will probably release yet another hotfix to fix the hotfix that fixed the hotfix. Nuclearmonkee fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Dec 12, 2012 15:46
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I'm getting mad missile kited by some Hivers. Is there any way around this or do I basically have to have a tech advantage to engage missile ships?
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Dec 12, 2012 15:54
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Battle Riders and PD my friend. Set your PD to either fire in Spread Fire or Ripple Fire to help take own missiles.Arglebargle III posted:Bwahaha, I decided to give it a try and it crashed on the main screen. Goddamnit same for me. I usually manage to avoid a lot of these crash bugs for whatever strange reason but now every other load crashes on the mains screen.
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Crashed before I even finished turn 1. Picked some research, went back to the map... crashed. Edit: And now it won't even start up without crashing. gently caress it. Finagle fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Dec 12, 2012 |
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Dec 12, 2012 15:55
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Deflector shields or Point Defense or Battleriders should work well against missile-kiting Hivers.
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AlanFrost posted:Deflector shields or Point Defense or Battleriders should work well against missile-kiting Hivers. Also cloaking. Cloaking works great.
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Interceptor missiles seem to be the best PD right now. They fire like mad and track everything including the stuff they shouldn't (other missiles)
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Arglebargle III posted:I'm getting mad missile kited by some Hivers. Is there any way around this or do I basically have to have a tech advantage to engage missile ships? Something to keep in mind about missile kiting is that while they stop you from killing them effectively, they also are completely useless at doing anything themselves, or stopping you from achieving your objective. Also, there's so many forms of PD in SotS 2, the odds of you not getting any at all are very small. Deflector Shields will provide 100% immunity to kinetics and missiles in a frontal half-sphere. Laser Point Defense and Phalanx Point Defense, Phalanx is linked from Very Rapid Fire Tech in the ballistic tree will be good all-round (Phalanx being better at killing bigger targets. Phaser Point Defense is anti-matter tech, but will provide decent protection, especially against bigger targets. Interceptor Missiles (in the Warhead tree after micro-fusion drives) have great range, are pretty much 100% accurate but deal almost no damage and fire extremely slowly(so they're really only good against regular missiles). They scale with numbers far better than any other point defense however, so if you put out a lot of them they can protect you from anything. Molecular Chaff and Quantum Chaff in the C3 tree will also help against missiles (and can be set to smart-auto-use in the options)
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Taerkar posted:Anyone else notice that you occasionally find systems now with all planets having the same hazard and rather crazy (10k+) biosphere? Yup. Was that system originally protected by a bunch of amoeba-looking 'Protean pods?' That system has been 'colonized' by the proteans, all the planets are at their ideal hazard rating. They are apparently a minor species of goop stuff that has no infrastructure, language, diplomacy, or FTL, and they show up as biosphere. If you get some biosphere preservation techs before colonizing it, and keep your civ population low, you can turn them into a big generator of psi stuff for the rest of your fleet.
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Neruz posted:Yes they do; any discussion of SotS2 lore and lategame is still considered spoilers in the Kerberos forums and the wiki remains woefully underinformed. In addition what little information there is on the Wiki is poorly formatted to say the least and outright incorrect in at least one instance. I'm surprised someone hasn't started their own wiki with complete info on it, and told the SoTS forum idiots to get hosed when they whine about it.
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-Troika- posted:I'm surprised someone hasn't started their own wiki with complete info on it, and told the SoTS forum idiots to get hosed when they whine about it. To be fair it's not like the game is in a good enough state to really justify the effort of a proper wiki. That's why I'm trying to collect a proto-wiki on the second post. I added some posts there again. Let's try to accumulate information about the game together, and if we gain enough knowledge about the game and the game actually becomes really, really good I think we could very well consider archiving that information somewhere. Even if only to include stuff that Kerberos consider spoilers and ban for. For now I hope that just simply "stickying" information in the second and third posts will work as first-aid to alleviate all the information black holes that Kerberos deliberately keep up.
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Keisari posted:To be fair it's not like the game is in a good enough state to really justify the effort of a proper wiki. The 'official' one is here: http://sots2.rorschach.net/SotS2_Codex, but it's fairly light and has informed me that leaders of the future love to sound like twelth century islamic poets.
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Hav posted:The 'official' one is here: http://sots2.rorschach.net/SotS2_Codex, but it's fairly light and has informed me that leaders of the future love to sound like twelth century islamic poets. Yeah sure I know about that, it's linked in the OP and all, but I meant a proper wiki for exclusively spoilers that Kerberos and pals don't want in their own wiki. Things like how stimulus and trade works, or what menaces there are and how they precisely work.
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Yeah the spoilers thing is really silly when multiplayer is supposed to be the big thing that the game is about. If it's a multiplayer game, the mechanics should not be random and obtuse - both players should know what the hell is going on so that they can make informed decisions and win or lose based on those.
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Anything about this game being considered 'spoilers' is especially stupid/funny because the game has literally been out for over a year. It's a tacit admission that no-one has even been able to play the drat thing for very long. Even the most stringent "NO SPOILERS" threads here tend to drop that long before a year has passed. I could understand story stuff maaaybe; but this game doesn't have a campaign or story mode, and there's no narrative or revelations built into the regular maps. What's there to even spoil? Background info? The silliest part is considering game mechanics and formulae spoiler material. "Players should NOT know exactly how the game works. Not in this genre!"
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Finally getting a grip on this game which is really cool and it's beginning to make sense. The interface isn't so bad when you get used to it, it's just... horrendously ugly. That said, the explosion on the floating station I encountered was incredibly weak.
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Stations are pretty much the only thing in the tactical combat engine that don't really look finished. They just disappear in stock explosions, while ships break apart into chunks that spin away trailing fire and secondary explosions. Does anyone know what effects closing systems has apart from stopping stimulus from affecting the system and cutting down on corruption? Edit: The fix for the fix of the previous fix is out. Pirate crashes are supposedly solved. DatonKallandor fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Dec 13, 2012 |
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DatonKallandor posted:Does anyone know what effects closing systems has apart from stopping stimulus from affecting the system and cutting down on corruption? There are a few techs in the Industry tree that will protect your colonies from civilian damage, I believe. All in all, it's inconsequential as far as I can tell. Eliza fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Dec 13, 2012 |
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Here's the patch notes:quote:Patchnotes 2.0.24567.1
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I really wish we knew how exactly the freighters work. Warehouses allow goods to remain there longer... but what does that mean?
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