An extra half second of cooldown might mean a ship gets completely obliterated, or it might mean nothing at all. Making that work, surely therell be some compromises involved. +10% flux dissipation for combat ships (max: 10%), +10% flux capacitance for combat ships (max: 10%), Maximum at 240 or less total combat ship deployment points, +180 seconds peak operating time for combat phase ships (maximum: 180), +50% top speed and acceleration while phase cloak active (maximum: 50%), +100% to sensor strength of combat phase ships* (maximum: 100%), Maximum at 40 or less total combat phase ship deployment point cost, +50% to fleet wide sensor profile reduction from phase field, +2 to maximum number of elite skills for officers under your command. This involves two main changes. The atmosphere of (market) is exceptionally toxic and corrosive, abrading unprotected surfaces and requiring the hermetic sealing of any inhabited spaces. You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you choose. An AI core is incapable of affecting the outside world on its own. Here's a familiar selection of characters from the Hegemony portrait roster: On the left, we have characters done in the Hegemony style: gray/tan base uniform, white and orange secondary colour, and an overall militaristic aesthetic rather than spacepunk. Itll reduce the volatility of phase ships, while not significantly affecting the ability of other ships to pressure them. Mercenary officers can also be hired on markets for 1SP100%XP, with a two-cycle term of service. Since they move 3x more quickly due to their time dilation, their relatively faster movement is cancelled out by that point. Elite skills Right now thats too restrictive and you sometimes end up with Radiant variants that are all point-defense or have medium weapons in large slots because nothing better was available. The other is more of a brawler utilizing the phase cloak to both avoid damage, and using the time dilation effect to let burst weapons recharge more quickly, at least from the perspective of the target. Let's take a look at Starsector's Virtual Memory Parameters (vmparams) and go over how to fix some nasty RAM errors that can show up once you start modding t. Tags: AI cores, automated ships, campaign, game design, neural link, skills, the mercurial scythe strikes. The light of (market)'s primary only provides feeble illumination and energy to this world. Installing an alpha core in an industry reduces its demand for all commodities by one, reduces its upkeep cost by 25%, and has a bonus effect depending on the industry type (typically increasing production of all commodities by one). That can no longer be installed on automated ships instead, theres a new Neural Integrator hullmod which is functionally identical and just costs a pile more ordnance points, especially for capital ships. Removed Colony Mangement, Space Operations, Planetary Operations. An AI core is incapable of affecting the outside world on its own. The surface of (market) is shrouded in a thick atmosphere, turbulent vortices at its crown and cloying soup at its lowest foothold. Alpha cores can also be appointed as colony administrators. Even with that, its probably a somewhat-too-powerful combination or at least, an easier-to-use one. The biosphere of (market) is deadly to unprotected human beings. For example, a more responsible approach might be to look at replacing the phase skimmer with something thats not quite so impactful. Since the top-tier skills are mostly combat-focused (with the sort-of exception of Hull Restoration, which is still combat-focused, but mitigates losses rather than boosting power), the testing was going to involve lots of fighting. *A slow-moving fleet is harder to detect in some types of terrain, and can avoid some hazards. You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you choose. Just basing the cooldown on it doesnt work, though; thats still too volatile. But once you add in another fleets sensor strength which could easily be 1000 the actual reduction is nowhere near that. Just basing the cooldown on it doesnt work, though; thats still too volatile. I do think its worth the effort, though even if its not something that actually gets used a lot, the psychological effect it has in letting the player feel more free to experiment with the various skills is a big deal. StarSector Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. AI Cores are rare loot items found during salvage. A robust terran-compatible bioshpere allows agricultural cultivation to take place on (market). This may cause other factions to view this colony with distrust. Starsector, especially with mods involved, can use a lot of System RAM when saving or loading games. Checking the orbit of a planet for some stations, that are only there for looks, can verify ruins even before surveying the planet itself. (What happens if they go offline while phased? Hypercognition. Skills that improve salvaging, colonization, and the overall resilience of your fleet in and out of combat. Part one of this two-part blog post is here. Neural Link + Automated Ships The vaugness in warhammer is necessary because there are so many authors and stories in such a large universe that definite stats are more likely to make plot holes. On the other hand, once colonies have a more active role in the game right now theyre kind of a stub a bunch of mechanics that work together but dont have a larger point. No bonuses or penalties to ore production (Mining). They were first on the chopping block, by a long way. A few sparse transplutonic ore deposits exist here, but they are more of academic than industrial interest for their extraction is barely economical. Hullmod: Neural Integrator - specialized Neural Interface for automated ships. Its too difficult to pressure and punish them once their flux is high, they can just move away and vent. Installed in mining. -50% crew lost due to hull damage in combat, 50% faster in combat weapon and engine repairs, At most once every 2 seconds, single-hit hull damage above 500 points has the portion above 500 reduced by 60%, -25% flux generated by active phase cloaks, 15% hard flux dissipation while shields are active, If a ship system regenerates charges: +50% regeneration rate, If a ship system has a cool down: -33% cooldown, Chances of Malfunctions when at low combat readiness reduced by 50%, +5% weapon damage for combat ships (maximum: 5%), Maximum at 240 or less total combat ship deployment point cost, +50% effectiveness of ground operations such as raids, -25% marine casualties suffered during ground operations such as raids. Now, humanity is scattered in pockets throughout the galaxy, trying to recover from the great Collapse. But there are complications some ships might not be in the players fleet, or, indeed, anywhere that we might be able to find with code, but they could still exist. The climate of (market) is welcoming and docile; a light mist greets each sunrise before retreating into soft clouds that glow appealingly at every sunset. Unhardened circuits and nanoscale materials or machinery will also rapidly fail in these harsh conditions. Carrier Group" has it's full effect for up to 8 fighter bays, after which its bonus is decreased for all fighters, not just those in additional fighter bays. That one is not too bad just remove the excess from ships in your fleet. increase the hard flux level at which speed bottoms out to 75%. Since the changes are pretty extensive, Im sure the question of whether the skill changes are save-compatible with 0.95a saves will come up. This planet has an array of solar shades or mirrors in orbit, judiciously positioned to bring its surface conditions closer to terran norms. So time to get dirty and get this worked out in a way thats, frankly, not much fun at all on the dev side of things. Unfortunately, that doesnt work out. but that doesnt mean that you should be able to sink skill points into colony-boosting skills. Its effect is a bit different, though instead of reducing phase cloak cooldown, it increases the speed of phase ships, while phased, by up to 50%. This could actually be the best tool a DM could ask for, given a mature player. You make lightning-fast deductions based on only the slightest clue, pattern, or scrap of memory resident in your mind. But vs what? Where does this leave freelance administrators you can hire? Rather, its theres a bunch of new top-tier skills in the game and I really need to make sure theyre in a decent spot playtesting. While whatever event caused the unrest is over, its effects still linger. No bonuses or penalties to volatiles production (Mining). For example, Helmsmanships elite effect now in addition to its original 0-flux boost at any level effect grants a flat +5 to top speed, making it a consideration for slower ships. Starsector (formerly Starfarer) is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. Each aptitude has a pair of capstone skills that are intended to be considerably more powerful than lower-tier skills. Now that theres a mechanic holding them back a bit, theres something to work with. This makes the solution scalable, privacy-friendly and real-time. If you can spec out of those, youd just take them, get the permanent benefits, and then take those skill points and spend them elsewhere. One of the goals was to do a pass over the elite effects of the combat skills and make them more interesting/powerful/appealing. Making you a pile of credits isnt a point rather, thats just another question its asking what are all those credits ultimately good for? Different factions will modify the amount of credits and reputation received per core. 40 skills are available, divided into four "aptitude" trees (Combat, Leadership, Technology and Industry), with two or more tiers within each tree. Nexerelin adds a number of 4X gameplay features to Starsector, such as faction diplomacy and warfare, and enhances the game with several other features. ", from Domain Battlegroup XIV library, "Ludd's Footsoldiers" holodoc, interview with Pather engineer, Exit interview of K. Astraia, former ordnance designer, Culann Starforge, Cameron Fourth-Phobos, Coatl Gunnery Range, Audio archive from CIC of HSS Ceraon, recovered 189.09.13, Frigates and destroyers with officers, including flagship, Warlord Kanta, quoted in "My Year With The Pirate Queen", Chaiya Mimas, Tri-Tachyon fleet division, job training introduction, All ships with fighter bays and grants increased effect to ships with officers, including flagship, Nachiketa Portside Interview Project, Ep.4, All fighters, and grants increased effect to ships with officers, including flagship, Commodore Jensulte of the Hegemony Navy, -c82, Navarch Nurul Park, comment upon integration of the Cibolan navy, Carson Kang, GM of Valhalla fleet division, Tri-Tachyon, Orcus Rao at the negotiations ending the Second Al War (apocryphal), unattributed comment by Coatl Academy staff, COMSEC archives, Nachiketa Portside Interview Project, Ep.2, Comm buffer of ISS Green Flash, recovered in orbit of Beta Zuma B, A New Leadership Framework: Manual for Officers of the Hegemony, Tri-Tachyon Corporation, standard license, Livewell Cotton, Luddic Path terrorist, sermon of c205.2.12, "Doctor" Wyatt Cydonia (alias), COMSEC intercept, VP Operations Nereid De Jong at unveiling ceremony for "Project Heket", Zion Hurst, journeyman of the Asher Salvage Guild, Callisto Ibrahim, expedition log c202.10.15, engineering chief Kasi Thea-Radiative, hidden holocam interview, audio backup transcription, Jericho Wheeler, leader of expedition "H"-team, Tri-Tachyon strategic development memo, pre-Collapse, anonymous pirate agitator, HEGINT surveillance feed, 0-flux speed bonus applies as long as your ship is not generating flux, -25% combat readiness degradation rate after peak performance time runs out, When below 50% hull, repair 0.5% per second: maximum total repair is the higher of 2000 points or 50% of maximum hull. We review research on the implications of hypocognition for cognition and behavior. The vast Empire of humanity is split across sectors that have been cut off from each other. A flat reduction applies to this combined value, but for example say you have 500 profile, and a reduction of 100 that feels like the range youre detected at should be reduced by 20%. These mods are MY personal favorites, but which mods are YOURS?-----0:00 - Intro0:5. Records on the subject are patchy and contradictory; a popular theory is that a beta will model a new personality for each human it comes into contact with. Diffuse volatiles can be found here, and may be sufficient for industrial extraction. (market) is a world-sized wellspring of volatiles - rich, deep, and potent. Phase ships Population is nominally 10market size, although commodity supply/demand does not follow this scale. (market) is nearly barren of organics reserves, though some extraction is possible. The elite effect increases projectile speed I think thats maybe a deceptively good bonus, since on paper it doesnt do very much, but it can increase the hit rate, especially vs smaller/faster targets, by quite a bit. Assigning a gamma to aid human overseers in administering a colony-wide industry brings significant benefits. Abundant transplutonic deposits lay within the crust of (market), enough to fuel the ambitions of any worthwhile warlord or magnate. It being a good skill for any kind of ship is important it helps with players with different goals find a useful path up to the top Industry tier. Any operations will require exceptional care and use of many-times redundant warning systems so that the worst dangers can be avoided. This actually just went pretty well. What've we got that they have not? Immigration controls are likewise relaxed, resulting in a greater in-flow of people, albeit sometimes of a more questionable character. This favors ships with lower flux dissipation values just because its a flat rather than a percentage bonus, so they receive comparatively more benefit. Basically it decides which subset of the weapons a faction nominally has access to are actually available for a given fleet. The problem is, right, its really fun, and I dont want to balance the fun out. *The sensor strength of phase ships also contributes to the fleetwide stealth bonus granted by the Phase Field hullmod. This kind of vulnerability is too binary or, perhaps, too volatile is a better way to put it. Phase ship changes Phase ships are almost a tangential topic to skills, but since some of the skills were heavily intertwined with how phase ships work, it made sense to make some changes here, too. And if the bonus was phrased, as, say, reducing the weapons flux generation by 20%, thatd be considered amazing. While this change of course tones phase ships down, I think it will also make using them more engaging. (Can be achieved by Saturation Bombarding Size 3 Colonies), Widespread ruins, blips from radiation sources, and the distinctive burred radar-ping of foamed cerametal structures can be found across (market), evidence of a small but concerted colonization effort dating to the late expansion period of the Domain. Abundant, widespread, and profitably extractable ore deposits can be found on (market). +50% hazard rating. Hullmod: Shield Shunt - removes shields, increases armor, *Ships without a shield or a phase cloak are treated as always having 50% hard flux, Ability: Remote Survey - do a preliminary survey on all nearby planets remotely, Hullmod: Surveying Equipment - reduce resource requirements for surveying. Initially, you can only pick a skill from the first tier of each tree. Starsector is a YouTube series adapted from a Twitch stream where I play incorporating a lot of viewer suggestions, but I've also not played Starsector for o. Use lost and forbidden technologies to advance your cause can you afford to pay for the consequences of your hubris? Officers at max level can be retrained for 1SP100%XP to change their elite skills and their personality. This gets more complicated, because not all the officers you might have that exceed these parameters were actually trained by you for instance, those cryopod officers we talked about earlier; they have to be excluded. Assigning a beta to aid human overseers in administering a colony-wide industry brings significant benefits. This is an ocean world with no substantial solid surface to land, walk, or build upon. Entire worlds cut off from the Gate network starve, burn, and tear themselves apart. *Maximum effect reached at 5 d-mods. Other skills The fields of (market) promise a rich harvest to reward the farmers that work these fertile lands. They were survivable, useful, and well worth putting officers into but not requiring them. What will you discover in the ongoing development of the world of Starsector? We dont want the game hanging onto it forever. Extreme cold necessitates specialized equipment and protocol to perform operations safely on (market), complicating logistics, life support, and infrastructure. Please double check the Version History. The alpha-level AI core is the physical soul of a fearsome alien intelligence. Instead, the elite bonus of Field Modulation reduces phase cloak cooldown by half. Cannot be installed on gas giants or worlds with the "habitable" condition. Just as long as theyre not. With Combat Endurance being a skill thats great for small ships, the elite effect is, too, because of the potential to repair far more than 50% of the hull over the course of a battle. Starsector (formerly Starsector(formerly "Starfarer") is an in-developmentopen-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. To compensate for this change a bit and in keeping with the approach of reducing volatility many phase ships are now tougher, with either higher armor, hull points, or both. Hullmod: Ballistic Rangefinder - increases base range of small and medium weapons in ballistic slots, What was it ol' Ludd forgot? A simple, clean fighter-, and cruiser-centric high-tech/midline faction,focused around carrier combat, specialized weapons, and high mobility.Adds 40+ ships and 70+ weapons, new {REDACTED} enemies, generous campaign content,deeply inappropriate ship names, cheese-eating space magic, arcane in-jokes, and more. Skills the improve the combat performance of your fleet, and of other military assets under your command. For over 200 cycles, humanity has been losing its grip on civilization and struggling desperately to hang on to what is left. But until colonies settle into their real role, skills boosting them are mostly just taking up valuable space. Unless he starts abusing it (manifesting Hypercognition every time the party gets stuck without even trying first), use it to gently guide him back towards the party's destination. Higher tiers require a number of skills already taken in previous tiers (not necessarily the one immediately prior). Polarized Armor The flavor is said to be exceptional. That was until I saw this vid:https://bit.. (market) is a veritable Eden; flowering, riotous, lush, and luminous with plant life. *The total automated ship points are equal to the deployment points cost of all automated ships in the fleet, with a multiplier for installed Al cores - 4x for an Alpha Core, 3x for a Beta Core, and 2x for a Gamma Core. But if we cant handle this sort of case, thats a big problem all of a sudden, a mod like that, or anything of a similar nature, becomes an exploit. The elite effect speeds up venting; this is universally good but especially useful on ships with lower base dissipation rates. Colony skills Skills cannot be unlearned if they are required for another skill. This, naturally, facilitates an assassin type of build. Drawing on the expertise and cross-cultural literatures, we describe how hypocognition impoverishes one's mental world, leaving cognitive deficits in recognition, explanation, and memory while fueling social chauvinism and conflict in political and cultural spheres. Though a sublime beauty from orbit, this produces harsh surface conditions making transportation and habitation highly inconvenient. In addition, they also get a unique Hypercognition skill that confers some of the benefits of the previous colony skills. Just as long as theyre nottoo game-changing. Reservoirs of valuable organics burst through the surface of (market) in gouts over deep, dark pools that promise oceans of wealth to be found just below. Notably, the ship AI does most of its armor tanking when its at high flux, so this skill combines with the existing AI behavior nicely. If youve read part one of this post, you might be wondering where all the colony skills went. Taking the first capstone skill requires four skills in previous tiers, for a total of 5 points spent in the aptitude. Organics are boosted by this item, but I don't think I've ever seen a non-habitable world with organics production. They can influence the output and upkeep cost of industries in various ways. Due to safety interlocks, ships with Al cores do not contribute to the deployment point distribution. *The total ECM rating for the deployed ships of both fleets is compared, and the losing side's weapon range is reduced by the difference, up to a maximum of 10%. To increase the Heap beyond 1.5 GB, you must allocate more memory. This world is a tomb for the hubris of the Domain's project of galactic colonization and hegemony. The surface of (market) is ravaged by radiation. This was ok when phase ships were super fast while phased anyway it was almost (not quite, but. ) Enables rapid switching between two ships. I could easily see building s-mods into those kinds of ships in the campaign, even though for this testing I kept s-mods to officered ships only. The various other top-tier skills theres not too much to say, really, other than that they worked out fine. This skill is the renamed Phase Corps (which sounded a bit too much like it belonged in Leadership). Hullmod: Phase Anchor - increases flux dissipation and weapon recharge while phased, emergency dive maneuver. (This condition also removes the demand of Organics for Population & Infrastructure). This skill is the renamed Phase Corps (which sounded a bit too much like it belonged in Leadership). Some abilities also make the fleet move slowly when activated. It still increases peak time. Increased base number of admins the player can hire to 3 (was: 2) With alpha core you can have unlimited colonys. The elite effect speeds up venting; this is universally good but especially useful on ships with lower base dissipation rates. These modifiers are shown when you contact the commander and are choosing which cores to turn in. A gamma-level AI core is capable of supporting most human endeavors, making up for a lack of creativity and problem-solving ability with prodigous computational prowess. I primarily focused on testing with a low-tech fleet, and a different high tech one, with some fairly indifferent loadouts. Still very useful for ships with high flux dissipation, though! Once a ship unphases, its vulnerable for a couple of seconds before its phase coils cool down and it can phase again. Higher-level cores are worth more, have better effects, and attract more Hegemony and Pather attention. Any living being must be confined to a shielded habitat to live for long here. They start at level 4-6 with a fixed set of skills and cannot level up. Still, having permanent skills really puts a damper on things. Starsector (formerly Starfarer) is a top-down single-player indie role-playing game developed and published by Fractal Softworks for computers in 2011. Industrial Planning gets a pass because it can do some comparatively interesting things in enabling you to use some colony-related items found during exploration, and it also boosts custom ship production. A fleet is considered slow-moving at a burn level of half that of its slowest ship. 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