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Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

It's kinda underwhelming, you kill the station, tac bomb the defenses, then you raid once every day for a while til you get a good hefty stability malus. Then you gently caress of and do other things while waiting for it to decivilize.

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Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I'm using 2 of the omega lances and as many cryoblasters I could stack on. It's an absolute murdermachine.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I love the Tyrant from Varyas ship pack, tooling around with Arkgenesis ships now and they are not broken OP but they look cool. The cap with all medium mounts is funny.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I don't know what mod added it but this pirate ship that has a big skull up front that shoots reapers out of the eyeholes is amazing and I love it.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

For QOL stuff I use the Level Cap increase mod, the Neutrino MK2 and the portraits packs. The portraits pack will make all your dudes into grizzly scared vets and all your ladies into anime waifus.

Current factions i like is Arkgneisis, Scalar and Mayasura.

Seeker, high tech expansion and Varya for extra ships.

Adjusted Sector, Beyond the Sector and Nex for making each game last longer.

DIY Planets so I can make my planets better.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Just wait til the rest of the mods from 9.1 gets updated to 9.5.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Heg first they have that pristine nanocore.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Mayasura has a capital sized Hammerhead, this is important information.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Sounds like you are a member of ARS.



:yarg:

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

The Tyrant is also very fun, to bad there isn't a XIV variant.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Go to the Galatia academy and do jobs for Sebastien for easy cash early on. Don't be afraid to take a commision around midgame. It will only set you back 10 rep when you cancel it, and it's very useful to be paid every month while you gently caress around exploring ect. I would recommend signing up with the League or Hegemony because they are the most spread out. Just be careful so you don't fly to a system your patron is currently at war with.

Don't be afraid to spend story points.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Edit settings.json to increase the officer max. 12-14 officers is the sweetspot so you can field a bigger fleet from the get go but still have to get clever if several fleets jump you.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Drone_Fragger posted:

I usually get a venture, usually from pirates, as a missle support ship and then replace it with a mora when I get one - the mora gets two medium missle slots for the harpoon barrages and has better small mounts and has fighters. Also tends to die much less since damper field is strong on a ship that already has 1250 armour.

Have you tried the Sunbird from Kadur?

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

WarpedLichen posted:

Anybody figure out a way to take out the new end game enemies consistently without abusing the new super ship or through a meatgrinder?

Inspect them and see what they have equipped. I jump in a Doom and distract the dangerous one, while my kill squad of Radiant/Paragon/Odyssey/anything reasonably tanky gangs up on the other one. They are super fast so ships that rely on high mobility to survive usually dies. When they are done with the first one I kite the second down to them and we kill it together. Don't pop them both at the same time unless you want to be swarmed.

As a bonus the Doom cleans up their pesky fighter real good.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Increase your Battle Size and your officer pool.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Scuttling a ship that you've built s-mods into grant bonus XP, so you eventually get the story points you've spent on it back. :wow:

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I like the ARS ships but the mod works really bad with Nex.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I just run a gown supported by regular high tech.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

And high tech accessories.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Scalar Bounties is a good way to get Odysseys.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

They act like pirates but they still do invasions and can still get invaded. If they succeed in invading a planet they just wipe out the entire market. In my game they invaded Oasis and killed everyone there. If they get successfully invaded their entire faction dies and then respawn, just wonky as poo poo.

I swapped them out with Shadowyards and the Roiders and it feels much better, but I end up linking up with my pals in Spindle like always.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

quote:

Mini-guide: Switching to Java 8 to prevent the post-battle slowdown
Not officially supported, may cause unrelated issues, do at your own risk and please report back if you do notice it causing problems.

1. Go to your starsector install and rename the jre folder to jre7.
2. Download https://drive.google.com/file/d/102bOuRGgQ6olVQhx9vG8UyVCRrH_48vY/view?usp=sharing (for Windows, sorry Mac/Linux users)
3. Extract that into your game folder so you have a folder named jre.
4. Make sure that your starsector/starsector-core/data/config/settings.json allowAnyJavaVersion is set to true. Then launch the game as normal.

Haven't had a fps drop since i did this

The Chad Jihad posted:

Oh no way, those ships are fine but they're all over the place and definitely nothing you should touch before you understand the game a least a bit

Apart from the Tyrant there aren't any ships in Varya that stand out in any meaningful way, in fact it adds a lot of flavor by adding more civilian style ships to scavengers and other non military fleets.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Kitfox88 posted:

The onslaught is the lamer version of the prophet that can’t converge all its large mounts forward right :confused:

It's actually the lamer version of the Dun Scaith

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

The Gaillard is just so much dakka all the time I love it.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Put that dual Flux hullmod on it.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

If they can't use it it will just stay in the store forever.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

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They also put Alex Jones, Joe Rogan and Elon in there so the person making this probably don't hang around the SA forums.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

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The Lion of Sindria will never be defeated!

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I put my admiral in the Gown and then press U to let the AI deal with lasering everything to death. I keep a Doom around in my fleet if i wanna get fancy.

Although I just found the Rosenritter flagship for the first time and it pretty great.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Have you tried the Onslaught (GH) from Tahlan?

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

It's pretty great.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Why not just use a Legion XIV or an Astral at that point.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.



capital sunderer exists in mod land

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

tracecomplete posted:

conqvelgr

quadquest

What mod is this? I don't recognize it.

The ship itself is from Tahlan Shipworks called the Skybreak.



Yes that's 2 large mounts in the center.

The one i posted previews is from the Mayasura Navy mod, as the mod author from that got permission from Nia to add the Skybreak as one of the Mayasura Prime Warships.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

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Shadowyards have really cool ships but their style does not match the rest of the sector.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

MShadowy posted:

I came up with it (and a lot of the other sounds for the mod) back when I knew what I was doing in audacity. I'm now quite out of practice, though, which has been annoying now that I've gotten back to adding new things.

(I did use some of the sounds from FreeSpace2, I think the terran green slash, as part of the mileau to help give it an appropriately FS2 gently caress you death beam feel)

Your faction is cool and the SAD mod you let that other modder make is cool to.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

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I have a soft spot for the Scarab myself.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

If you have the speed up mod you can press B to turn of the bullet time effects.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I found a LvL7 Phase specialist officer and put him in the Scalar Phase Boat, and boy does he clean up. Sometimes he does a wopsie and I have to pull him out with 30 hull left, but most of the time he kills the small frys and just completely fucks up the enemy fleet composition.

Also I got a new boat. Apogee for scale.

Sandweed fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jul 12, 2021

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Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

It's called a Jupiter, it's a unofficial diable addon.

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