Talking about it in detail is 100% spoilers, and while I do believe there’s an interesting blog series to write about the overall strategy of narrative design in Starsector during a long development cycle, properly contextualizing it… well, that’d be spoilers. Spoilers ahead Sol System colonized Development of first. I was talking to Alex a while back and he viciously commanded kindly asked me to shed some light on the writing process. Design Principles. The rules are simple: Up to 5 concurrent contacts are “free”;. Posted May 16, 2014 by dgbaumgart in Art, Development. It’s deep and complicated, has a lot to offer, and may very well suck you in immediately. The core of the new system is, unsurprisingly, a range of reputation levels that describe a faction’s overall attitude towards you. For now you can adjust it yourself by going to data->config->sounds. The League’s core identity is going to be that of using midline ships. Guaranteed to impress your guests somehow, either with its ostentatious design and facilities, or with its massive gun. I'm a cheaty sod and I want perfect officers with all the right skills. Do I just need to search more or actively talk to a remnant nexus/ hypershunt?Writing Starsector 2: Westernesse Boondoggle. Shortened rear landing bays to give the center more mass. ticktockbent • 1 yr. json . ago. Spanning hundreds of thousands of worlds in the Milky Way, ruled by the Ecumenical Benevolent Council, with its seat at Old Earth…. Behold, I have returned to infest your nightmares once again. 5. Nexerelin adds a number of 4X gameplay features to Starsector, such as faction diplomacy and warfare, and enhances the game with several other features. You get the blueprints and everything. 7a is now out! We’ve also got a shiny trailer for you to watch while the new version is downloading. This latest update has been in the works for years as well, with the last major release upgrade being in 2021. Re: Looking at the Starsector fuel & supply economy. Disruptions in trade, like the loss of a merchant fleet carrying vital food or volatile chemicals, can cripple a planet’s output. Starsector is a game for lovers of the Sci-Fi genre. Dealing with the Auroran’s capital system will definitely end in failure unless u are in late game. The mod is updated for the current version of Starsector, 0. Very little else to do but run around and gun random stuff, where in Starsector possibilities are much, much wider, but entangled with some obscure game mechanics. 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. 1 / 2. Posted December 17, 2020 by dgbaumgart in Development, Lore. Editing the save file directly is highly discouraged. Posted October 12, 2022 by Alex in Development. Then the game will render incorrectly because it thinks the framebuffer is 2560x1440p when it's really something like 2560x1400p. any unidentified contact can be approached with caution (AKA Go dark). Fractal Softworks' Starsector (formerly Starfarer) is a top-down space combat game. Should be a text file. Swarming the remaining stage 1 Tesseract. - Easily. In some cases, it works well and you. From worst to best, they are: vengeful, hostile, inhospitable, suspicious, neutral, favorable, welcoming, friendly, and cooperative. This necessarily constrains your – the player’s – experience of the game-fantasy and the. Go to Lucifron, avoid or bait any fleets away from the planet. Alpha Cores were designed by humans, and remnant ships were most likely designed by Alpha Cores, which is why they have technologies that seem impossible for current and past shipmakers. Open campaign in your word editor of choice (I use notepad++) Do a find for either your planet name, or star system you want to nudge things in. This station mockup was built of 13 separate images; a few can fit into 256×256, but most are rather larger, and some exceed 1024×1024. 3. Starsector website: Starsector (formerly “Starfarer”) is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying,. Elusive, evasive, persistent. Mod Details This utility mod adds the ability to create customized star systems upon creating a new game. it would handle starting the game as an independent faction. Or maybe 2. Since a lot of. There's an example command to spawn planets here, and campaign entities here. Removed extra skill point scaling. From the website: Current Features Pilot your ship in top-down 2D combat Command your fleet in tactical battles Gain experience to. Lore Spotlight: Factions and Worlds. For the most part – for almost the entire part – I have been working on new game content since the last update. Coders can take advantage of its. You help support the development of Starsector; System requirements: OS: Windows, Mac (OS X 10. Develop new technology at the Research Facilities provided by the Galatian Academy!. But the will not travel to colonies who are in other systems. • 10 days ago. 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. Huh, that's the first complaint I've heard about the takedown sound, I'll make slightly quieter I guess. People who enjoy sandbox games and do not want to have their hand held through a game. Writing Starsector. You can get the same amount of bays with two Colossus Mk. Sunrider was founded in 1982 by Drs. So if you want your escort protecting the front (e. Bar missions can get you contacts. Increases local fleet size depending on. This is a game where there's no publisher to take a 20% cut and no platform to take another 30% cut. I would think that it will be blocked in future releases of starsector. I'm sure the bounty hunter or scavenger options work better for newbies and the faster starts are doubtless nice for those as just want to get past the grind of the early game. * Dice wagers depend on the importance of the contact. Do you count yourself among the Faithful, or has a sense of spiritual longing brought you to this shrine? Perhaps you’ve visited Beholder Station before? Have you contemplated the clouds of. 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. Logged. •. Bar missions can get you contacts. A single colony producing 8 can feed every other colony requiring 8 or less but if you have 7+7 then neither of them will be able to provide 8 - meaning you will have shortages. About. Make sure you can fend off the defense fleets as you do your raids. Hordes of enemies that increase in difficulty over time. 7a (In Development) Patch Notes « Reply #13 on: April 06, 2015, 05:38:02 AM » Maybe they should just get incapacitated for a (random/dependent on the ship size) while if their ship is disabled, but do get killed if. Completing a mission or accepting the deal will sometimes generate a potential contact. just grab a bunch of Volatiles and farm up. Additionally I found in the settings that you can change the maximum and minimum size of the "Battle Size" slider. These portraits are distributed as follows: 26 new HEGEMONY portraits. Pretty much different games at this stage of development. Next, we wanted a counterbalance to this feel, and we came up with the small, intelligent, vicious and astute corporation – Tri-Tachyon. Starsector (formerly . ARandomDouche. Check out the full update log for Starsector on the development blog and pre-order Starsector on Windows, Mac and Linux for $15. The Domain's capital world isn't stated, but it wasn't Earth either (by the time that the Collapse happened, Earth was a backwater that no one cared about). Going higher res allowed me to use a more painterly technique and otherwise focus more on just making the image rather than. 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. Omega_DarkPotato • 1 yr. Is that a mod? For the most part – for almost the entire part – I have been working on new game content since the last update. Yes, the game is still in development. 4. With that money I would love it if Alex funded. Switching to Java 8 seems to solve the issue, Thank you kind sir. While Starsector doesn't rely on hotkeys as much as many other games, it's a huge factor. Tesseracts attacking each other. Unpack it and put the content into the "mod" folder in your game 2. •. There are others, and it gets blurry in places, but for this post, these two are what’s important. Removed one of the front landing bays to pull ship together better & increase ratio of construction hold to landing bays. just grab a bunch of Volatiles and farm up. 8, the midline standard (was: 0. any unidentified contact can be approached with caution (AKA Go dark). Mobile just isn't the place for it. It used to be called Starfarer. You can also spawn other things if you change "inactive_gate". csv, I Was Born Into It. Removed one of the front landing bays to pull ship together better & increase ratio of construction hold to landing bays. NET developer to help us build the next iteration of our mod management application. What you get: Early access to the game, starting with alpha builds – available now! Discounted price. One thing to keep in mind, Starsector doesn't keep track of the window resolution correctly. I would recommend you to use the slightly better tech mining mod. ASTEROID_BELT, "Genesis") Why? Is it for an asteroid station for some. Talking about it in detail is 100% spoilers, and while I do believe there’s an interesting blog series to write about the overall strategy of narrative design in Starsector during a long development cycle, properly contextualizing it… well,. While Starsector doesn't rely on hotkeys as much as many other games, it's a huge factor. The. getStarSystem ("Kerchekwari"); system. 5. Colonies don't spread to other planets on their own if that's what you're asking. 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. Stat wise, it looks very akin to a Hammerhead at first glance. If you run Oxes, you can outrun anything. c - Campaign content expansion. AI in Starsector has some kind of greater goal. EMP can help you disable guns on an enemy capital ship or fully disable destroyers/cruisers (engines and all). C. Starsector is a single-player sandbox style space role-playing game with strategic elements. Your second system is best -- several habitable worlds, barren world for Industry, etc. 8x patch we’ve added at least one* new faction and expanded the number of hand-scripted star systems in the Sector by a significant though not quite finalized number. 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. Otherwise you would fight the ambush battle then slowly repair before the main battle. 1a] Seeker - Unknown Contact 0. Just give the government plenty of supplies and the rebellion will eventually end. I was wondering where I can find him. This mod is not opted-in to receive Donation Points. There are others, and it gets blurry in places, but for this post, these two are what’s important. 0 have not been discussed. Placing an Operator on a planet with an ongoing rebellion will show you the strength of government and rebel forces. Can't find any more contacts to develop?. Start off by colonizing a habitable world in the system with farmland, then a world with rare/normal metals, one with volatiles; often the one with farmland will also have organics. The hullmod is available and unlocked from the start. Elaborate on the last paragraph. The New System. If you preorder now, you pay $15 – 25% off the final price. The goal is to give you lots of meaningful choices in a malleable world. If you enter the command „devmode“ all industries currently being built on all of your colonies get built in one day. I've only surveyed about a quarter of the sector yet. In Starsector, fleets will often orbit a planet for some time – trade fleets offloading cargo, patrols preparing for duty, and so on. This is advice from an older gamer (36). You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you choose. 1. Face new endgame enemies and acquire their technology, including new weapons and a unique capital-class ship. Starsector (formerly “Starfarer”) is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. I should note: this is a process post, not a lore-dump. Since the saga of Troy, men have quite the tendency to go to war for pretty women. 8, the midline standard (was: 0. 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. . Each faction in the game has a tech level they prefer. ago. 2a is turning out to be about “paying off” technical and design debt – things that are “good enough for now”, but do have to be. Install Console commands and just kill every fleet before you fight them with the kill command. Development: Dark. While starsector ones can be Tiny in comprasion and still be able to go FTL. The actual size of the ships you have counts towards this (ie. Seems kinda strange how it face tanks so much damage instead of flicking shields, the polar opposite of the AI's usual flux building tendencies. He is a Tech contact that provides a special Submarket that exclusively sells special items, such as AI Cores, Colony Items. Zero747 • 1 yr. Current state is better than most early access games on Steam and it's close to 1. However, I think there's more room for more unique ability given the more interactive world of Starsector. 96a] LOST_SECTOR - Exploration and quest content. It does not look like the game activates the key online in any way, the authenticator seems like its built into the game itself, so there's no way to disable it without a new release of the game. Planet Umbra Has an interesting quest for the pirates. Features - Mod Browser to view and install mods from the Forums and Discord's #mod_updates without leaving SMOL. Anyways, unfortunately Starsector is not on any platform for unclear to me reasons but it's getting there. The player is a space captain who can seek out fortune and glory however they choose. 3. It can be fun when you use it with a backed-up config, crank faction fleet spawns and sizes on notepad to fuckhueg numbers, and then have basically a 40k in starsector for a few hours. Inside of Starsector/starsector-core/data there will be a file called settings. Oh, yes, Drawing A Starsector Ship Part 2 ( read part 1 here ). You can also reduce their defense fleets now using hit and run attacks. Starsector is a combat/war game, but without. Members Online. 1. They're fairly infrequent because the game has a very small dev team but they're generally high quality. 1a and no specified release date for the final version. This 1) requires a bunch of Volatiles, 2) gives you progress points for the event, and 3) reveals nearby slipstreams. Damper Fields were meant for Battlecarriers. Appears to be the main way atm to acess the ultra late game quests. I remember early-game I found some, which I sold, but. I would love to see a steam release. I feel you've done a fine job, well considered. jpg" are considered to have the same file name; on Linux they are considered different. ago. 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. Although the Adze is more expensive and better armored than its mid-tech cousin. Starsector (formerly "Starfarer") is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, role-playing, exploration, and economic game. Completing a mission or accepting the deal will sometimes generate a potential contact. Collections chevron_right. Used widely by the Domain for a long-ass time, never actually decommissioned. Posted July 02, 2021 by Alex in Development. 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. 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. The Domain fleet doctrine and ship design timeline makes no fucking sense. Look for ways to increase income and reduce supply usage. r/starsector. Something has gone very wrong with regards to AI. Posted September 24, 2021 by Alex in Development. done. Sunrider will employ over 200 employees. So this is about how I went about coming up with these ideas and implementing them, not what Baikal Daud’s favorite. g. Replace the dedicated targeting core with an integrated targeting unit. The steam community for Starsector. Even if you don’t consider it one of the best, it’s still one complex game and a real hidden gem. If your military fleets stop being pickets, and become detachment they start to patrol the jump points of the system in hyperspace. 8a. Aside from this mechanical role, this also offers the player more roleplaying opportunities, and the feeling of developing a personal connection with someone in the game world. That's just my experience and there's not enough information on it. (First off: “uniquifying” is a real word! It doesn’t quite fit how I’m using it here, perhaps – more strictly, it’s about removing duplicates – but it’s close enough. 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. It used to be called Starfarer. I can only “1. Go to starsector r/starsector. It's nearly impossible to make more than the tiniest of changes without corrupting something. 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. A mature colony typically has around 300K+ income and ~60K upkeep. anytime you make a first colony you need to make the orbital station and have a fleet with 3 cruisers + destoyers / frigates and. k1llerk1ng. Here's a few reasons: Controlls: while a touch screen seems neat, you have to remember that they aren't always the most precise or even versatile. Its sort've like starsector's intended difficulty once you've taken the training wheels off. Pretty much different games at this stage of development. Full video and streaming schedule: (is an in-development open-world single-player space. You build your own wealth but there's no base building or owning a private army in Elite. Similar weapon layout, similar stats. Each nav buoy and sensor jammer you take adds 5%, and each comms relay adds 10%. If you click on the dates under "archive" on the right side of the screen on the website, it will show you the most recent development post. 4. 1a] Seeker - Unidentified Contact 0. Mobile just isn't the place for it. 34. You can build a 'commerce' building, that takes an industry slot. ago. It would be a massacre. « on: December 03, 2016, 10:36:56 AM ». Then you can just hold alt and move your mouse over items to automatically move them. thetalker101. THE SHRINE OF HESPERUS. This subreddit is dedicated to providing programmer support for the game development platform, GameMaker Studio. New features in this version: Expanded battles – come to the aid of beleaguered allies, or be swarmed by enemies. In general, I favor the Supplies & Fuel-mechanic. Posted November 13, 2023 by dgbaumgart in Development. Can't find any more contacts to develop? I am about 100 hours or more into a campaign, have developed *3* contacts (not the maximum!). Cut deals Warlord Kanta’s pirates or Luddic Path fanatics to stop their attacks… though peace may come at a high price. Since the saga of Troy, men have quite the tendency to go to war for pretty women. 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. Lack of contact with the rest of the empire combined with insufficient food resources resulted in. For example, I never bother with colonies, bleed 50k a month and still have millions banked. 6) Reduced max speed to 35 (was: 50) Reclassed as "Missile Battleship". Trading/refitting at market will stop your fleet. You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you. Allocating 8k x 8k or thereabouts of texture memory for a single station is getting into serious business territory for Starsector. 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. Version 1. · 1 yr. Hotfix (RC19), April 21, 2017. Thanks a lot for this tip !Starsector has a lot of controls, and sometimes awkward UI. Even if you don’t consider it one of the best, it’s still one complex game and a real hidden gem. Starsector (formerly Starfarer) is a top-down 2D space sandbox/RPG/combat game by Fractal Softworks. Reverted ship changes. System Requirements: OS: Windows 7. Starsector: A Beginner's Guide & Tutorial. A fair amount of mod development happens on other sites from forums to 4chan, in discords such as Corvus Station, etc. You can see the full patch notes here. 95. I'm surprised that DP are a problem for you though, I basically never run. 96a-RC10. If you list an contact as ''important'' you get alot more quests every time you visit them and ask them for work. The most common way to make a contact is a bar encounter. 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. If the crew of rating requirements aren’t met, the player. However, listing multiple contacts as important will completely nullify. If you develop a contact, you can find them in the comms directory. Starsector version 0. It adds A LOT of infraestructure for you to build, makes salvaging more interesting by adding random events, and things like this rift generator. . TurklerRS • download stinger shipyards • 7 mo. Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in. Starsector Roadmap. After you’ve preordered and received your activation code, download Starsector for your OS of choice using one of the links below. The most common way to make a contact is a bar encounter. From there all you would need to do is write a script, or edit the Nex start, to give you a set of blueprints for your custom ships on selection of the independent faction start, or even just loading into game. Timeline of the events in Starsector, made from A True and Accurate History of the Persean Sector and dates in-game. Timeline of the events in Starsector, made from A True and Accurate History of the Persean Sector and dates in-game. Tools. Two tips: Once you find an Architects' artifact, switch it off on the beacon list, or change its color, so that you know you found it. 1. This is my Mk 1 for a Manticore loadout. Once in the game, you can summon the console with control+backspace and enter your commands. Those contacts could also have a lower maximum importance, too - after. Stasector is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration and economic game. Put it in the mods folder and make sure it's tagged in Starsector's launcher. To begin, some context: a planetary survey is something you do to figure out whether a planet is worth establishing an outpost on. Steams cut is progressive, which means the more total $ earned the less they take. It’s $15. 96a is now out! Take on new missions exploring the story of the Luddic Church and the Sindrian Diktat. What you get: Early access to the game, starting with alpha builds – available now! Discounted price. 0 would give you that. Imagine the reviews for a game 10 years in development. That is one of the most unique things in Starsector. Open it is, as this is an important file to handle the global settings of the game. The amount of deployment points you get is based on how many officers you have and how many objectives you have captured. Step by step on: How to use the Hull Deconstructor. Even still its a great game that feels significantly more complete than some Triple-A games. Starsector is using multiple methods to control fleet deployment some of which make it vastly unfair on the play when you have both. ) 175 upvotes · 23 comments. (Brinshore) are pleased to announce that the State of Indiana Housing Community. This post is about the process of implementing scripted dialog content into Starsector. They are good for twitch streamers to avoid distractions during a steam. Posted November 13, 2023 by dgbaumgart in Development This post is about the process of implementing scripted dialog content into Starsector. The Hermes has received an additional turret slot so it isn’t utterly useless and it’s been given an increase in size. json with notepad (make a backup first). ago. Step 1: Store a ship of you choice on the Hull Deconstructor. Alex and David are not talking, and probably not even seriously. r/starsector. 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. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. 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. json of a given mod to make it compatible with the current version. If you complete certain bar missions, you can get contact opportunities. Terraforming and Station Construction: 2 quests. Random Assortment of Things. Remember to acquire semibreves, they melt anything stationary. As things are, most ship packs and factions should at the very least be functionnal. Max out your fleet at 30 ships. First, a quick look at how it works now: Each derelict has a “salvage difficulty rating”, from 0 to 100%. Fortunately, we can leverage story points (talked about at length here) as a soft limiting mechanism. And based on that, also a required amount of heavy machinery and crew to carry out the operation. • 1.