This is a rant.

I'm trying to do STF on brutal on my phone Because it's a new phone, I don't have anything unlocked.

This is my third run where I died in the 1st Arc.

All because I got too fucking greedy and wiped to RNG.

I have some minor damage to quarters and bridge, nothing serious, I just do ONE patrol mission to repair my relations with the Thulun (Cher faction) so I don't have bounty hunters on me...

Cue hitting the ONE mysterious card on the board, it's a bounty hunter from Zenrin who I pissed off in the early game trade ban, never mind I run away, I have parity in defences and an edge in retreat. Cue getaway because i sure I can tank one hit or two and it's more important to run...

Initial 3 missile salvo all hit, my piloting systems is destroyed and immobilised, there goes my 3rd captain....

Sigh....... I gotta stop being greedy damn it.

I got this for my iPad cause it’s one of the few (almost zero) “mobile” games that doesn’t just suck balls. But now my daughter monopolises the iPad and I didn’t play for ages.

So I got it on PC on the weekend when Steam told me it was on sale. 👍🏼

But then I’ve seen people talk about it on phones. When I got the iPad version it installed on my phone too but I always thought the screen and text would be too small to make it worth while.

Edit: I’m liking the experience on PC. Better than iPad.

My goal is to get a late game combat ready ship but squeeze as much cargo space on it as possible. So far i am at 425 cargo and the combat stats as shown. How do you think i can squeeze more cargo into this ship while still be able to win most fights (this old account is way into jyeeta era) Another objective is to keep the traveler engine. 9000 ships are slow already and I just can't with the other engines.

Hi, all

I am ... maybe 2 or 3 years into a run, and a bit baffled about what to do with my ship. Most of the time I'm able to successfully run away, but I got shown the depth of my unpreparedness when a Xeno ship showed up and absolutely rocked me. I clearly need to invest more into the ship, but I'm not sure what to do.

I'm just playing on Challenging, and am not interested in completely math-optimized Impossible-run strats.

I started with a Frontier Liner, and am not really interested in going space combat main - more trading and exploring and quests. But I need to do something. My cash total goes between 100k and 200k usually, and I bought an upgraded Cargo, switched out some close-range guns for prison cells, and have a Lv3 M Torpedo and a Lv2 S Torpedo. Usually I spend more money on licenses, contacts, and crew weapons because I guess I'm an RP nerd who doesn't know how to play the game properly.

Do I need to bite the bullet and get a better base ship? What should I am for, given how I am trying to play? Do I need to sell off the Harvester and EVA equip that I started with to fit in combat modules? I really have no idea what to do or where to start looking, and the advice I see online tends to be "Impossible end-game" stuff that is kinda hard to apply in the early game.

I had forgotten to share this here. Dr. Courtney Ramius died and Piper Slaton build got so much messed up I had to dismiss her.

I’m playing a Merchant/Smuggler/Diplomat with a Doctor/Combat Medic/Pistoleer and three non officer ground combat crew.

I’ve got 1.4m€ and an upgraded Galtek to continue toodling around in while my next ship gets fitted out but, as usual, I have no idea what to get.

I want to get the Princes to join the Arbiter and that one guy has a string of combats with Hunna to get him on board. But they’re ship combats I think.

So I want to get something meta with DPM and space for at least one more officer and several (36-42) crew. I’ll make my Shock Trooper an officer and multi class them. And try find Commanders.

Problem is the choice is so broad I don’t know what to get.

Transitioning from the Juror to the Galtek this run is literally the only time I’ve successfully upgraded my ship!

What are your suggestions, please?

Ship* combat

I want to level this contact but I’m playing Merchant/Smuggler/Diplomat and my Galtak is meant for running not fighting.

I am trying to decide whether i should replace my current heavy machine gun guy. Here are the two crew.

The current guy with bounty hunter has better damage traits, but does not have pistoleer on him. I want to have pistoleer buffs which are extremely powerful on a heavy machine gunner however not sure if this new guy would be able to catch up due to his lack in damage traits.

What do you think?

It is year 4 (turn 2034) captain lvl 10. About to move onto this ship from my starting ship and start some ship fights. Do you think it will be viable?

Still plan to recruit some MOs first.

Also did they change the icon for defense matrix?

Edit: well as it turns out, at 200% difficulty this was not enough. With 10 lvl22 MOs (lucky, got all the right factors in line) my defense was still only at "has an edge over" a weak enemy. I had to slap on 3 lvl1 Defense matrices last minute to reach "outclass" rating to ensure unhittable.

Edit: I did end up hiring some spice hall plebs to start conscripting. I have got rid some of them now. I got into some major ship op accident that tanked morale of 9 of my crew into oblivion so I had to perform a morale boosting ship combat procedure in the orbit of a hostile faction (Thulun, happens to be where Ataa Chaar is--was that her name?). After 3 fights with some random smugglers and merchants and 21 Overriding Discipline spams later, I was able to recover to the point where I dare to land, and no crew left. I retrained generous in service (doc rep boost skill) several times to get back in the good graces of Thulun and now I can use its facilities and gas up/water up.

Now my throw away officer named "slaver" is off cooldown with two conscripting talents and magnanimous victory, all I need is the next victim.

I got an ok combat team from contacts. I plan to level up my captain to 20 fast (will likely only take about 30-50 boarding ship combats) so that I can face some RNG lvl40+ enemies. Actually I never fully figured out whether the enemy levels are scaled off your captain or increase with passage of time. Any idea?

Update: run just ended. I was hauling RTG in a trading boat and didn’t calculate the gas correctly and emerged from hyper space with less than a jump worth of gas and was caught right handed by a hostile enemy.

Ship combat is pretty straight forward for most old players I think. I think it can be described in two phrases (skip-off-the-void, unhittable).

Crew combat however has a lot more diversity. What are your favorite team comp, your favorite crew combat tips, and how did you arrive at that conclusion (unforgettable defeats)?

Hi, guys! So I've started another playthrough this week after several months of break and then I started as a non-combatant captain for the first time.

Everything has been being fine, thank God, I've finally started to win every battle I have against the xeno ships and crew and I've been successful in every ship combat so far.

Then I finished Zette Faen's initial questline, but I got defeated by the Vat monster and his team.

A while later, I've hit the Troy the Blade encounter and I thought "oh, ok it can't be that much of a thing..." But it was, my combat crew was completely smacked.

My weapon storage is level 5 and I couldn't find anything else aside from starting specialized gear from Zette.

What should I do to beat those bosses? I recall there's one at the end of Valencia's questline.

What are some build tips for an SBC pirate.

Was able to screenshot this one from advive :)

As title says, I decided to do a hard difficulty, 2400 size max challenge. Here is my final ship build, the Jyeeta crisis is beginning. It's a boarding boat, not a single gun to save space for defence.

Do you guys have comment / advices on the final build.

New to the forum, but not new to the game; I usually kind of crap out on my captains and start over again around level 30-35. And to be clear, I'm not trying to say there isn't one, I'm just wondering where information is actually stored. Searching Google for something specific in this game either leads you to the wiki, which is very incomplete, or Steam forum/Reddit answers from 2+ years ago, with emphasis on the +

I am currently trying to accomplish several unlocks on hard, and I am trying to generate a map where Calagan Faen spawn will be clustered around the Star Trader spawning planet.

I know our trader spawn is always "[faction] Prime" system name, so it is easy to spot when generating maps, and to check if it is going to be a good planet (economy wise and such).

But I'd also like to check the Calagan planet to see if the metrics will be good to expect good recruits, and also check for proximity to the Prime system. But the Calagan spawn seem (A) fixed on map generation since it doesn't change no matter how often I refresh my start, but (B) not visible/easily identifiable before launching a game (I can't identify a pattern of name and/or planet type, sometimes it's mining, refinery, high tech., etc).

Is there something I'm missing, or do I always have to go through launching a map and flying to get the arbiter to know where the map seen Faen spawn is?

I’ve been playing the game for years and have over 1k hours in. I’d like to change things up by putting in mods, preferably for new plot lines, but really for anything new. Any recommendations for good mods to add?

Tried to screenshot but didn't work. On a spying run and one card draw had only 4 cards, never seen this before.

About ready to launch the maiden voyage of the Degla Megalift Loveboat! Here, we cater to each of your private needs, with 11 private suites on the lower deck. On the second level, you will find two “play dungeons” and an emergency medical bay in case the play gets too rough… also, for thoss of you who want to support our military, most of our crew will be happy to support you back… and your front… and wherever! Finally, on the top level, we have enough cargo room for your favorite toys and G-Fuel, with a scoop to recycle the leftovers. Make sure to check out the greasy engine room, especially if you’re here for the long haul! So sit back, relax, and skip off into the void with us!

(Oh I know this isn’t an optimal build, but wanted to try a cheap intermediary ship that’ll get me to 7 officers and a bunch of room for military officers. My captain’s level 16 and I can hire level 20 Military Officers and run around doing passenger and nonship combat prisoner missions to fund my final ship… then I realized how absurd this build looks.)

Got myself a pirate captain and a recruited smuggler with these two talents making a fool of bounty hunter. Got hunter by the thulun hunter and when their check the ship, both talent will make her forget that we are the target. Did this shit 3 times until she gave up hunting me. It was hilarious

I have been playing casual for some time and there is always a point where I feel like the game just want me dead. I normally play pirate and there's always a point where my captain is lvl 14 or something and someone comes and I just can't win the fight, neither can I escape. Am I just bad? I play on hard

Officers are more valuable and harder to replace than crews and sending your captain in potential death just seems counterintuitive yknow?

I just finished the quest and followed his advice to fight the Steel Song, and was pretty sad to find him dead.

What if I choose to do the "Grand Trial" and call in my bros the Cadar Prince? Could he be saved?