Posted August 13, 2020 by Alex in Development, Modding. Pretty much different games at this stage of development. r/starsector. Re: [0. Oh, yes, Drawing A Starsector Ship Part 2 ( read part 1 here ). Hull deconstructor - appears as a weapon array that's aimed at itself. Yes. Log In Sign Up. Starsector is something quite special, originally called Starfarer it's been in development for quite a few years now and a big new release is now available. The next update will add strong narrative RPG elements to Starsector, among other things. Drop the flux distributor and reinforced bulkheads. (Brinshore) are pleased to announce that the State of Indiana Housing Community. however you can edit a txt file to turn on actual autosave with some options. Using the Industrial Evolution mod, I found an automated shipyard while exploring that needed 10k metals, 4k ship components, and 1k heavy machinery. Starsector is an open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration and economic game. Starsector is a combat/war game, but without. at the launch menu, enable the mods. 30 paragons are going to deploy more DP of ships than 30 kites, correct me if I'm wrong on this though. 7 or higher), or Linux; Memory: 3GB system RAM; Graphics: Minimum 1280×768 resolution, 512 MB video memory; Processor: Hard to. Morthra • XIV Onslaught. Shortened rear landing bays to give the center more mass. Stat wise, it looks very akin to a Hammerhead at first glance. i made the Starsector factions in stellaris. This is a game where there's no publisher to take a 20% cut and no platform to take another 30% cut. I feel no small amount of trepidation because this is both a change and it is a particular story about particular characters in a way the pure sandbox certainly isn’t. 96a] Industrial. It’s a delicate balance – the orders you give should shape the battle, but spending too much time looking at the map and giving orders detracts from the experience of flying your flagship. I feel no small amount of trepidation because this is both a change and it is a particular story about particular characters in a way the pure sandbox certainly isn’t. Do I just need to search more or actively talk to a remnant nexus/ hypershunt? Writing Starsector 2: Westernesse Boondoggle. So yeah, your side at default will get 150 points shared between your fleet and any allied fleets + stations. Plurpo • 1 yr. A short rundown of some of the content: - An entire new "dungeon" of systems to explore and its own enemy faction. I can’t believe I just randomly found it lol. For the most part – for almost the entire part – I have been working on new game content since the last update. Open the game directory, got to starsector-core, data, config. Due to popular demand I’m going to give a go at documenting the process of drawing a ship sprite for Starsector. This is my Mk 1 for a Manticore loadout. 18 MIN READ Blogs Starsector: A Story of Indie Development Done Right - Interview with Alex Mosolov In this article i interview Alex Mosolov, an indie developer. Starsector: 2D RPG/Trade/Fleet Combat Game Starsector is an old school, turn-based space strategy game set in the future. Left unsupervised they will eat the entire sector, but they make an excellent opponent if you. Nexerelin adds a number of 4X gameplay features to Starsector, such as faction diplomacy and warfare, and enhances the game with several other features. Stations do very well in live combat against pirates. Basically you keeping going through bars and do the "move this cargo" or "this planet needs X resource" requests. Tutorials chevron_right. GameMaker Studio is designed to make developing games fun and easy. That’s quite a mouthful, though, so here’s what it boils down to – fly around with your highly customizable fleet, explore, build stuff, blow stuff up, advance your character. This is only the first release of procedural generation, so I'm expecting it will be lacking in interesting How do I activate interdiction pulse?. Oh, yes, Drawing A Starsector Ship Part 2 ( read part 1 here ). ticktockbent •. Contacts beyond 5 require a story point to develop. • 10 days ago. This 1) requires a bunch of Volatiles, 2) gives you progress points for the event, and 3) reveals nearby slipstreams. 6) Reduced max speed to 35 (was: 50) Reclassed as "Missile Battleship". (AFAIK it also depends on the size of ship. He is a Tech contact that provides a special Submarket that exclusively sells special items, such as AI Cores, Colony Items. Feeling that they absolutely must either spend time trading or find, colonize, and develop colonies in order to have a. The action can’t be quickly repeated in the same area, so it’s not something you can e. Also, the developer's twitter is very active, and they post updates almost daily. g. Escort means that they protect the rear and flanks of ships. 2D RPG/Trade/Fleet Combat Game Business, Economics, and Finance. This is advice from an older gamer (36). As things are, most ship packs and factions should at the very least be functionnal. The Domain fleet doctrine and ship design timeline makes no fucking sense. Can't find any more contacts to develop?. The sort of contacts the player develops, then, is the way the player tells the game what they’re interested in, which the game can then deliver. Scores major victory by catching Hegemony taskforce unaware in Penelope’s Star. Reder Low Tech ships are slow and are happier to drop shields or vent in the middle of combat. Adding good administrators, Nanoforges , AI cores and Synchrotron cores will also help out a lot but once again doesn't influence which planets you want. Problem is its pointless. They are a fairly common drop from Motherships. It is 80dp to field instead of the normal 40dp because its keeping its autoforge and will be WAY stronger in the players hands, also its 1. getStarSystem ("Kerchekwari"); system. 53-rc1. There, you now have Starsector completely cracked, it won't prompt the Starsector Activation Code. I feel contacts. Elusive, evasive, persistent. While no date has been announced for launch, access to the game is available by pre-ordering Starsector, which will players access to all builds going forward until release. The development team consists of a large global collective of expert engineers and researchers. Kind of. Removed one of the front landing bays to pull ship together better & increase ratio of construction hold to landing bays. Description. g. zeonlight78. The first argument of addAsteroidBelt (), not the name of that token. Crashes are also sometimes caused by degrading performance over time, switching to java 8 fixes this problem (there are apparently some risks but i haven't had any problems with it), the performance increase is well worth it anyhow. . In this article i interview Alex Mosolov, an indie developer and lead of Fractal Softworks, lead dev of one of the most well-designed and properly-managed indie games that you most likely don't know about, Starsector. II or an Atlas Mk. Starsector's releases have always been long waits. In Starsector in particular 2x5 =/= 10. Arthur_The_Ok • All hail the [SPACE DORITOS] • 1 yr. Used widely by the Domain for a long-ass time, never actually decommissioned. These can be done without needing anything but enough fuel and supplies to reach the objective and find it. Starsector (formerly “Starfarer”) is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. Removed extra crew bonus. Factions without the blueprints can't make your ships anyways. Just remember to leave devmode after the action, it clutters up many interaction menus with „dev“ stuff. Most runs heavy industry, fuel production, farming, and mining are the best money generators. You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you choose. 18 new SINDRIAN DIKTAT portraits. - Mod Profiles allow swapping between different groups of mods/versions easily. I feel contacts could serve a lot more uses, such as averting inspection fleets/expeditions from their own faction. A potential contact is not yet active, and needs to be developed by clicking a button in the intel menu. Starsector (formerly “Starfarer”) is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. Besides that - certain fleets carry Alpha cores (hint - look for High danger beacons) so if you have a sizeable fleet you can pretty much farm 5-6 of these per hour (on top of lots of Gammas and Betas). Coming back to Starsector – now, instead of being a solution in search of a problem, story points solve the design problems we’ve got, and open up a lot of design doors besides. In every corner of the sector, dedicated sensor repair technicians toil relentlessly. This new feature will show adult. More Character Portr ai ts adds 202 thematically-appropriate portraits to the game for both the player and the various game factions to select from. Fun times. Timeline of the events in Starsector, made from A True and Accurate History of the Persean Sector and dates in-game. Your first colony should be on a good planet. 3. AdvancedGunneryControl - Allows you to customize how your weapon groups behave on auto-fire, with various modes. Posted August 31, 2023 by Alex in Development. A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I was happy to answer random questions about my game dev practice (offer still stands!), and in the following discussion I said something about having cut a bunch of text from “the anarchist art collective” portion of the Starsector missions. Zero747 • 1 yr. Hey, I've been playing a Nexerelin run for a while and heard there was a remnant contact that would allow you to do missions and get friendly with them. Colonies don't spread to other planets on their own if that's what you're asking. This. Posted October 12, 2022 by Alex in Development. Re: Starsector as a mobile app yes? or no? I remember its said that it would be almost impossible, similar to adding multiplayer. As usual, after a major release there’s some time to polish up some things that there just hasn’t been time for up to that point. Planet Umbra Has an interesting quest for the pirates. This mod is not opted-in to receive Donation Points. 5 to Tri Tachyon, and +1 to the rest. This interest can be secular, religious, or even cynical (which may become important later). Writing Starsector. If you are almost to a destination and you get ambushed you can use the story point to skip the battle and get to the intended battle instead. I fully intend to buy the game, but I really want to take a look at it first and I heard activation keys are unlimited. So more niche games that sell for less than $50 have to sell far more titles than AAA devs do, to reach the same revenue deals. * Dice wagers depend on the importance of the contact. Ship systems – each ship gets an active ability – flares, burn drive, a combat teleporter – and many more. 96 aka Movie Night With David. ago. Administrator;. Maybe to kind of clarify the others points. Enjoy endless possibilities for customization with Starsector mods, expansions, and more. The most common way to make a contact is a bar encounter. In some cases, it works well and you. That is one of the most unique things in Starsector. And finally attack your intended target. The League’s core identity is going to be that of using midline ships. I feel no small amount of trepidation because this is both a change and it is a particular story about particular characters in a way the pure sandbox certainly isn’t. Ships: Pegasus: Back to 4 large missile slots, weee! Hull no longer has the exceptional property of letting missile hardpoint weapons rotate. Alex continues: “Ion Beam: Going back to the original idea for the pulser – a medium energy support weapon. I’m not sure where to start with this, exactly, because this is something that pulls together a bunch of different systems, using the “Event” infrastructure (introduced in the previous blog post) to tie it all together. As the game does not record that you've connected the system to the rest of the sector,. For example, I never bother with colonies, bleed 50k a month and still have millions banked. First, Starsector is not a game aimed to be played on top-end machines. But you can still increase your deployment by capturing objectives and/or with the "Best of the Best. So this is about how I went about coming up with these ideas and implementing them, not what Baikal Daud’s favorite. hey, I didn't see a lot of guides explaining how colonies work in conjunction, so I tried to make a straightforward guide that explains it. •. I should note: this is a process post, not a lore-dump. Additionally, the Diktat should be Fanatic. I would love to see a steam release. When you download the game normally it. Collections chevron_right. 1. Lore Spotlight: Factions and Worlds. The amount of deployment points you get is based on how many officers you have and how many objectives you have captured. Compared to Starsector, Cosmoteer is on Asteroids game level of functionality. Adding good administrators, Nanoforges , AI cores and Synchrotron cores will also help out a lot but once again doesn't influence which planets you want. An EMP beam isn’t very good at that, though, since its damage is nullified by shields and so it’s not going to contribute much until shields are down, at which point it’s more like “overkill” than “useful help”. Ship systems – each ship gets an active ability – flares, burn drive, a combat teleporter – and many more. cumgangster69. The next update might come out by April next year is my guess. These hidden communications antennae enable instant contact and data transfer with every aligned entity in the system. 96a] LOST_SECTOR - Exploration and quest content. This game is in no way similar to Elite Dangerous. Starts at 200 - 500 300 default. Importance influences how valuable missions are. A lot to remember, but that's, well, starsector. II. Give AI cores to station commanders. The updates are semiannually or annually, basically when its ready. Blog post/download links here. r/starsector. It is the first blockchain platform to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and a research-first driven approach. launch the game. AI in Starsector has some kind of greater goal. Completing a mission or accepting the deal will sometimes generate a potential contact. You want a system with all of the base materials, and you'll find a few if you keep looking. Cut deals Warlord Kanta’s pirates or Luddic Path fanatics to stop their attacks… though peace may come at a high price. Mod Details This utility mod adds the ability to create customized star systems upon creating a new game. Long story short Tech priest, also known as Timid made statements that were taken as jokes when he was first drafting the concept of iron shell, that got out of hand and keep getting blown out of proportions, and he sort of just rolled with it. There are others, and it gets blurry in places, but for this post, these two are what’s important. Removed skills changes. It’ll get technical toward the end and I’ll do a tutorial on how to implement a new piece of character interaction. Tesseracts attacking each other. If the crew of rating requirements aren’t met, the player. Starsector gives us a basic explanation of how phase ships work, that being via phase coils and p-space, but I'm curious as to whatever else people have managed to glean on phase ships, be it theory or factual, particularly in regard to what it might actually be like to be on board. Of particular note: Reworked phase cloak mechanics (speeds up ship-time while phased, has cooldown) Several new ships, ship systems, and weapons. 2 (October 30, 2023): - Gala Parade fleet has better loot but takes longer to respawn, especially if you kill it. . just grab a bunch of Volatiles and farm up. About Starsector. If you don't run oxes, equip some High Resolution Sensors so you outreach other fleet's sensors. From the website: Current Features Pilot your ship in top-down 2D combat Command your fleet in tactical battles Gain experience to. You can grind out the rep with the Nexerelin contact but Remnants currently have no purpose other than to serve as AI core farm and challenging enemy. Lots of ways to make money and colonies as a means to make money is not required. Disruptions in trade, like the loss of a merchant fleet carrying vital food or volatile chemicals, can cripple a planet’s output. These can be done without needing anything but enough fuel and supplies to reach the objective and find it. A Beginners Guide on how Colonies Work. Should be a text file. I would recommend you to use the slightly better tech mining mod. If you run Oxes, you can outrun anything. Colonies were added in version 0. Reverted numerous weapon balance changes. So you will be running on stockpiles anyway and the only question is how large these stockpiles will have to be. 8. Hell, combat would be unplayable outside of the tactical view. Navarch Mars Kato of Kazeron, of the Persean League. the #1 mod for me is 'autosave'. Similar weapon layout, similar stats. Starsector is an open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. I tried to solve some odd deploying behaviors, added the missing limited descriptions when encountering them, repaired the bounties not showing up at all, as well as implementing a balance pass for their minions. And based on that, also a required amount of heavy machinery and crew to carry out the operation. I am having a problem with the mod, I randomly found the White Dwarf ship in the wild, however the moment the game is forced to load any information about the White Dwarf it crashes. For more information on a specific. It'll ask for a 2560x1440p window, then the OS will resize the window to fit the titlebar/PopOS top panel. First of all you should try to pick your fights, if you see multiple remnant fleets chasing you, the best way to respond is by running away and fighting each fleet individually. Essential when fighting bosses (very powerful unique ships) and perhaps [very redacted]. November 2023Go to your Starsector directory and then go through the following folders: starsector-core >>> data >>> config. inspired by the classic strategy wargame Master of Orion II, but. r/starsector. As we are aiming to accelerate our development capabilities for our desktop applications, we are looking to grow our team by hiring for a driven and enthusiastic . 96a Release - Alex - 2023/05/05 Update (5/20/23): a hotfix for a number of bugs, a few balance and QoL tweaks, and a return of the Pegasus to most. Contact us chevron_right. Just remember to leave devmode after the action, it clutters up many interaction menus with „dev“ stuff. Technically, the next release was meant to be a “bugfixing and polish” release. Nevermind fact that drive field bubles would give them much better mobility in real space inside systems before they meet in Battle. AI, story, endgame), but that can also be covered by mods and is probably less satisfying for a game-developing mastermind than looking for new challenges. Also put a beacon outside where you can find an entrance, not at the place itself (which can make the beacon harder to find - case in point, Koppa mining site). Fly new ships, including 5 new capital-class hulls and numerous smaller vessels. Plans for content beyond 1. Max out your fleet at 30 ships. Each nav buoy and sensor jammer you take adds 5%, and each comms relay adds 10%. Revenant Music: Psiyon, Cycerin, Kazi, and MesoTroniK Sound Effects: Cycerin Change Log Version 1. That’s quite a mouthful, though, so here’s what it boils down to – fly around with your highly customizable fleet, explore, build stuff, blow stuff up, advance your character. Reduced shield efficiency to 0. For the most part – for almost the entire part – I have been working on new game content since the last update. Also, to improve performance of Starsector on Steam Deck, highly recommend increase the UMA Frame Buffer allocation: 1. Each ship hull has its own unique ability which contributes to its playstyle and role. EMP can help you disable guns on an enemy capital ship or fully disable destroyers/cruisers (engines and all). 8. Elite Dangerous is all about the one man show (unless you join some online group) and flying is vastly different in the two games. The total is fixed for every battle, if the enemy has a bigger fleet it gets more and you get less. ticktockbent • 1 yr. For now you can adjust it yourself by going to data->config->sounds. Reviews and processes zoning requests, subdivision & platting issues, land use termination cases, development code amendments, notification for public hearings, annexations, official zoning maps, and street name. Use an Astral or an XIV Legion, not a base Legion. Obtaining and Developing Contacts. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. NET developer to help us build the next iteration of our mod management application. You will need to found each colony on each planet. Starsector is a game for lovers of the Sci-Fi genre. Allocating 8k x 8k or thereabouts of texture memory for a single station is getting into serious business territory for Starsector. Going higher res allowed me to use a more painterly technique and otherwise focus more on just making the. Reduced shield efficiency to 0. Yes. Haven’t made many new ships lately as there are very interesting larger-scale developments going on, but I find. Make playstyle-altering choices using a revamped skill. Elusive, evasive, persistent. 1a] Seeker - Unknown Contact 0. What you get: Early access to the game, starting with alpha builds – available now! Discounted price. Higher relationship with contacts (as well as contact importance) nets you higher quality missions. Join. Yes. The easiest way to go about fixing this would be to change all the names on the right-hand side to the left-hand side. Leave”. Starsector is a little more focused on the combat. It’s true that the skill system update already pushes the boundaries of that, but still, we’ve somehow ended up with some major new features, too, which will be discussed in. k1llerk1ng. 0 have not been discussed. 1 / 2. Which brings to mind that for some time now I’ve wanted to share a few of the science fiction novels I feel relate to how I approach the world of Starsector creatively. Salvage and surveying will not be prevented by nearby fleets that are fleeing, maintaining. ago. Everyone else isnt particularly likeable and the females are ugly. json with notepad (make a backup first). To begin, some context: a planetary survey is something you do to figure out whether a planet is worth establishing an outpost on. Found the internet! 8. Diplomacy events see faction relationships changing over time. Iron shell used to be a concept that adds some extra 14th Battlegroup content, notably special. W ith games launching every day, both triple-A full releases and early access concepts, with Kickstarters to keep track of and. In the latest update, depending on your choices, Kween can contact you to offer Yunifer for recruitment. ago. Hikurac • 4 yr. CommunityNow you can play a Starsectortm mod that is vaguely modeled after said popular franchise!In the Persean Arm…. The Bloomington Housing Authority (BHA) and Brinshore Development, L. That's as end game fleet as it gets, if you expected losses with that fleet, then any other fleet composition would be utterly useless and you'd be forced to have a very specific fleet. If you complete certain bar missions, you can get contact opportunities. Since a lot of. Look for ways to increase income and reduce supply usage. Bribing an official, something like that. No, they are still actively working on it. Though it is in-development, you can purchase Starsector now at a discount to gain access to ongoing builds. Failing a mission reduces your reputation with the contact and with the faction they belong to. With that money I would love it if Alex funded. json. If you're good on money then you won't be having supply issues. They're fairly infrequent because the game has a very small dev team but they're generally high quality. Posted July 02, 2021 by Alex in Development. Elaborate on the last paragraph. Imagine the reviews for a game 10 years in development. 9. Since a lot of it is story content – think the “Red Planet” mission, but on a bigger scale with things tying together and building up – it’s not. 1 release, meaning it’s focused on polish, bugfixing, and quality-of-life improvements – but more than the normal share of new features and sweeping changes have found their way into this one, as well! Skill system changed for more flexible builds with more options. Nexerelin adds a number of 4X gameplay features to Starsector, such as faction diplomacy and warfare, and enhances the game with several other features. Idk how I got 7 of them, but I have somehow become the main producer of fleets and weapons in the sector ( not to mention 3 pristine nanoforges) 285. Flashy coat of paint, big gun that makes a big noise, daredevil attitude, badass in every way. So this is about how I went about coming up with these ideas and implementing them, not what Baikal Daud’s favorite. (AKA Why the Mora is a genius design. It is available as a starting ship with a Pulse Laser. If you develop a contact, you can find them in the comms directory. Give AI cores to station commanders. The steam community for Starsector. Instead, use the Console Commands mod to edit your save (this mod can be safely added to/removed from an active save). They awoke in their destination, analyzed the situation, and formed a new government to hold the system and keep the peace until the domain establishes contact. Add a Comment. Stay with your frontline, and once an enemy starts to get weakened, pulls back or gets seperated, jump in and destroy them, then pull back. It takes a bit of time to set up since you really want 5 D-mods on everyone, but once you get there it is shockingly effective - to the point where I am actually not deploying my flagship in most fights and instead just watch and direct. Titan AE. The. r/starsector • by redvyper. Colony Crises. Then open settings. 0 (May 10, 2023): - Updated for Starsector 0. Going higher res allowed me to use a more painterly technique and otherwise focus more on just making the image rather than. ago. Idk how I got 7 of them, but I have somehow become the main producer of fleets and weapons in the sector ( not to mention 3 pristine nanoforges) 285. Posted October 22, 2011 by Ivaylo in Development, Lore. This latest update has been in the works for years as well, with the last major release upgrade being in 2021. You get the blueprints and everything. Starsector (formerly . )The only way in general to increase difficulty in battles outside of your situational control that im aware (in vanilla starsector anyway), is to select starfarer mode at the beginning. Man, that’s a mouthful. ago. First, a quick look at how it works now: Each derelict has a “salvage difficulty rating”, from 0 to 100%. That’s not to say that combat won’t receive any more attention – but this release does wrap up all of the major planned combat features. « on: December 03, 2016, 10:36:56 AM ». - Cabal bar event can now occasionally generate Cabal contacts. One Tesseract killing the other. This was not the case in early releases of Starsector – then, I drew portraits at-res. FYI there's a Linux-specific bug: the mod won't get past the loading screen due to the case-sensitivity with file paths. Huh, that's the first complaint I've heard about the takedown sound, I'll make slightly quieter I guess. Starsector is a combat/war game, but without. done. · 1 yr. Starsector version 0. Starsector version 0. Some examples are: Originally posted by Avari3l: I totally agree with you on Starsector's combat system being extraordinary motivating and diverse. The payment processor looks a little janky but it is legit. Starsector Gameplay with Splat! Let's Play Starsector and check out a game that should be the golden standard for how Early Access operates and matching scal. The Hermes has received an additional turret slot so it isn’t utterly useless and it’s been given an increase in size. I should note: this is a process post, not a lore-dump. Writing Starsector. It was released in a baseline state where the only two factions involved in it were the Luddic Path and the pirates, but it was always. 95a is now out! Here are some of the new things you can do in this release: Complete story missions and uncover some of the mysteries of the Sector. 2 (October 30, 2023): - Gala Parade fleet has better loot but takes longer to respawn, especially if you kill it. Ships will get hit, have high flux, pull back and then push forward again. The hullmod is available and unlocked from the start. Step 2: Only actually move the folders towards the actual install location if the user told it to do so in the launcher. ) 175 upvotes · 23 comments. Use this link. So if you want your escort protecting the front (e. Open the game directory, got to starsector-core, data, config.