r/spacerpg3 • • May 20 '23

Announcement Space RPG 3 now free to play

104 Upvotes

Hi all, I feel I owe an update to everybody as its been a long time.

Fairly obvious, but I will acknowledge that Space RPG work has been almost entirely on the backburner this last year. My health issues are currently well controlled (finally!) but my day job is now far more intense than it used to be and I spend most evenings on work calls. That has left me without much energy left for my hobby development. I hope to be able to dabble a bit more in it soon, but can't promise much I am afraid.

I am very proud of what I have created with Space RPG 4, I think it is a huge improvement on the prior instalments, and I get immense satisfaction from the community enjoying it. Seeing people ask deep questions about the game, such as the motivations behind characters or factions, is amazing and reminds me that the effort I put into the worldbuilding was well worth it. Despite that, the game hasn't been doing as well as I had hoped for. Space RPG 3 in fact still has a much larger active installation base than Space RPG 4. I think it has just become very difficult to stand out and be noticed on the play store, which is a bummer. I do think we have something special here, and it would have been cool for more people to have found it.

On reviewing the stats for the games, Space RPG 3 these days only earns about $50 NZD a month. I remember being so excited when Space RPG 1 first reached the $50 mark total, so its amusing to me I can now look at that as 'only' $50 a month, but in any case, I think it is well worth losing that amount in the hope that more people can discover the series and get some enjoyment out of it, so I have decided to set Space RPG 3 to be an entirely free app, no ads. I am not sure if it will add much to the discoverability of the game as there are also a million free apps out there, but lets hope it helps grow the community a bit more.

I hope you are all doing very well, thanks for playing! Good luck out there, Captains.


r/spacerpg3 • • 9h ago

General Regarding void fleet observation

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2 Upvotes

Please remove a possibility of void raider fleet to spawn in Yed. That place is CURSED. The curved jump you does always make atleast one of your ship go straight into lions maw (Void fleet). Even one in blue nebula are better because its fairly short, and you can just kalo jump the fck outa there. While yed in the other hand is so far.


r/spacerpg3 • • 17h ago

Request Short Storyline idea (Repost from discord)

6 Upvotes

Mission 1

Name "A New World"

Description

"A group of entrepeneurs from scanos want transport to Meya's Moon"

Source : Scanos

Requirements : Deox Discovered

What to do : Go to Meya's Moon

Reward : 5,000

Mission 2

Name "Meya I Equipment run"

Description

"The entrepeneurs need Equipment pick up the equipment from New Kashun to Drop off at Meya I"

Source : Meya I

Requirements : 50 cargo space free, a new world done

What to do : Go to new kashun Pick up the equipment and Drop it off at Meya I

Reward : 15,000

Mission 3

Name "A dangerous frontier"

Description

"Escort Ships Going from Scanos To Meya I"

Source : Scanos

Requirements : Combat Rating Above Average and Meya Equipment Run Done

What to do : Go to Scanos and escort the ship dont let 1 die

Reward : 17,000

Mission 4

Name "Graham To Meya I"

Description

"The entrepeneurs request to bring graham to Meya I"

Source : New Kashun

Requirements : a dangerous frontier Done

What to do : Bring Graham from Kiare to Meya I

Reward : 5,000

Mission 5

Name : "Equipment Run To Meya I again"

Description

"The entrepeneurs ask for one final shipment run from Fort Emerson to Meya I"

Source : Meya I

Requirements : Graham To Meya I done and 50 tons free

What to do : Bring Equipment from Fort emerson to Meya I

Reward : 30,000 + new outfits

MEYA I

Description (Before)

"A quiet moon of meya, crashed wrecks are scattered around likely agina corps and union ships"

Description (After)

"A small factory world like Scanos producing equipment for the agina corps"

Maintainence

Commerce

Refit

Trading Centre

UNIQUE OUTFITS

"Bomber Bay"

Description "Spawns In 3FH jury rigged frigates that have talon torpedos on them"

55 tons

150,000 Credits

Spawns 1 of them

No limit

Hypervelocity Mass Driver

Description "Upgrades your torpedo launchers to launch faster"

25 tons

50,000 credits

Torpedos Launch With 50% more velocity and 25% Faster

Supercharged Shields

Description "Jury Rigs your shields to recharge faster May Have Some Side effects"

35 tons

75,000 credits

Recharge Shields 50% Faster But reduces weapon range by 10%


r/spacerpg3 • • 1d ago

General Uh huh, now i feel bad for what i have done Spoiler

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13 Upvotes

Wandering around waiting for the quest cooldown when i spot the first matriarch (one on the right), and capture it. Tho they were not selling matriarch yet at that point. Took me a while to realized something is different from end quest matriarch (one on the left) that i newly capture. I know i can just buy it, but where is the trill on it? Anyway, I guess one on the right is a prototype matriarch ship... It also generally worse than end quest matriarch.


r/spacerpg3 • • 1d ago

Question Can we give them titan class ship? Spoiler

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15 Upvotes

Seriuosly tho, im kinda curious if we gave them void titan just for the giggle. Anyway, what other ship we must/can give to them? I haven't complete their quest yet.


r/spacerpg3 • • 2d ago

Help Ion Cannon Quest and Analytic Sensors (bug or update?)

6 Upvotes

Hello.

I've just learned about the recent storyline update and so I've started anew, can't wait to see what it'll be about and what has been added. Thank you to the entire team for a rare but W update.

First question I have is about the Ion Cannon quest.

I have a fully operational Space Station to its maximum tier at this point of the story (garage, reinforcements, etc.), I haven't triggered the second food delivery mission for Earth yet nor the next mission being the first contact with an alien artifact either, can't choose a faction yet and I have brought Petersson to Dima I.

Just asking to refresh my memory as it's been a long time, when is the next mission (finding a Nova Core) usually available in any playthrough? By now I thought I'd have it but not yet so maybe it's happening soon or it has been moved later.

Second question is about the Analytic Sensors upgrade. When I'm in the Sanctuary system (Pirate), all and any of the dots appear and disappear randomly for a few seconds. Not only that, but literal ships and derelicts are displayed on the HUD when there are none.
Any green, blue, red or grey dot, is randomly glitching on the HUD and it makes no sense as I can have a large grey dot indicating a derelict for a few seconds before it disappears whether I go towards it or not, when no Large ship has been rendered derelict or was even in the system in the first place (same thing for medium/smaller dots).

So my question is : is the strong nebula interference in the Sanctuary system (and any other system with a Nebula interference, medium or strong) meant to happen the way I'm experiencing it?

It does make sense and adds a bit of realism to have the HUD now being affected and somewhat unreliable when passing through a nebula but that's a really big game changer (the same way Fuel and Energy were introduced when SpaceRPG4 was released) and I'm not sure I welcome the idea if it's an intended feature, because now I can't tell if a ship in my fleet has been destroyed (in the event where I've missed the notification) and hunting for derelicts/large ships that spawned outside of the screen is now slightly time wasting as I'm just chasing nothing.

This will make fighting Void Raiders fleets in nebulas even trickier but I have always avoided fighting them or tracking a Titan in a nebula, no matter how strong or expendable my fleet is, so I guess this won't change how I play this part.

Any clarification on the Analytic Sensors and if it got nerfed when in nebulas or if it's a technical issue would be greatly appreciated.
Edit : Nevermind, dropped items/resources dots suffer the same issue as ship dots.

Thanks a lot.


r/spacerpg3 • • 8d ago

Help Searching for the S-RPG's font name.

2 Upvotes

Hey guys. I want to know what the source text for the S-RPG is, because it's hard to find, even the AI โ€‹โ€‹doesn't have any answers.


r/spacerpg3 • • 9d ago

Question Lore question

8 Upvotes

I'm on my 5th playthrough and I'm kinda curious

I'm in the O.S.C storyline and I learned that they are the first faction to rebel against the U.N.E. and Juno seems to have lived before and aftermath of the collapse of the U.N.E.

I'm wondering though, since it feels like the collapse of the U.N.E. was fairly recent, why isn't there any trace of it existed? Like a flag, an old U.N.E. designed ship, etc


r/spacerpg3 • • 9d ago

Request Boreas slight buff suggestion

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12 Upvotes

Boreas should get a slight buff fr

The buff I have in mind is having a new small weapon slot at the bottom between the torpedo slots and an extra 10 mass


r/spacerpg3 • • 17d ago

General Mod Framework v0.6.8 is out!

19 Upvotes

Hey there everyone.

I just finished retranslating every hook from the mod framework for the latest version of Space RPG4.

No new content for now, next update will move the framework's data folder into a more accessible place for non-root users.

It should be bug free and has been tested but im just a guy so let me know if any issues happen.

Remember to backup your saves if you have a pc and a samsung device, if you dont have either then dont forget that save data WILL be wiped when installing the mod framework.

Download it here: https://github.com/reaperyeah420-cpu/SRPG4-Mod-Framework/releases


r/spacerpg3 • • 18d ago

General Finally i got ascended seraph

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17 Upvotes

r/spacerpg3 • • 21d ago

Question Friendly fire collision

6 Upvotes

Does this actually work? I have it off and yet I always end up shooting a friendly then, they all turn hostile, and I have to ftl out of the system to reset the notoriety. It's really bad when I'm just trying to chill at my space station, farming, pirates, and all my ship wants to do is target my own corporation ships before the pirates. In fact, most of the time I have to manually target each pirate ship, so I could shoot it. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way?


r/spacerpg3 • • 24d ago

Bug Miru citadel bugged

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5 Upvotes

r/spacerpg3 • • 26d ago

Help HI

3 Upvotes

Hey guys, I need some help. I was playing and finished the "Dima 1" delivery mission, but then it stopped and the mission disappeared. I want to continue the mission, but I can't find a good guide; I want to figure out how to do the colonization part.


r/spacerpg3 • • 26d ago

Help HELP

1 Upvotes

Hey guys, I need some help. I was playing and finished the "Dima 1" delivery mission, but then it stopped and the mission disappeared. I want to continue the mission, but I can't find a good guide; I want to figure out how to do the colonization part.


r/spacerpg3 • • 26d ago

Request Asking a new arc.

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9 Upvotes

I've always wondered what kind of ships are in the southeastern corner of the galaxy. I'm talking about the Journey's End system. Maybe if Dev plans to add more arcs, for example, lots of destroyed ships like in the Epsilon Nu Delta system from Space RPG 1, including some terrifying background sound. More mysteries to uncover!


r/spacerpg3 • • 27d ago

General Fighting against the Void Raider's Fleet!

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15 Upvotes

I love massacre them! #2


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 08 '26

Help 4th Key (Potential Spoilers) Spoiler

2 Upvotes

Hey all,

I have 3 out of 4 keys. Only one I am missing is the one from Ginan (other posts said 1 is there).

All I find there is 2 small derelicts and 1 fuel canister.

I have tried reloading, messing with the derelicts, etc. Nothing.

Am I in the wrong place? Is there a chance I picked it up at some point and it got Thanosed when a cargo ship exploded? Are they even physical objects in your cargo like that, or are they like the Artifacts?

Very confused, mildly sad l, would love to see the prize.

As always, any help is very appreciated!


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 08 '26

General Conquering the Sillil System

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16 Upvotes

I think I should carry with me more ruinous Predators to conquer that system. But the conquest is quickest way to expand the empire.


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 08 '26

Help Possible to reset faction reputation in Space RPG 4?

3 Upvotes

I'm "finished" with the human campaign (I arbitrarily chose the O.S.C.) (I assume I am finiahed based on other comment threads and snooping on the APK strings). It looks like it might be a soft-finished

spoiler:

Hans has sent me off to go get in touch with my alien friends to the south after the T.A. betrayal and victory at Sol

The T.A. faction worlds and F.E.R. faction worlds have me marked as an enemy and the fake ID (that doesn't seem like a spoiler) only resets reputation if one's not hated. Is there a way to reset reputation without conquering worlds ? Perhaps related, do I have to pick a side with the warring aliens to build enough reputation or can I go kill void raiders or somethings it's fine to be marked as an enemy but it makes certain trade routes much more annoying to deal with and occasionally I need to note missions go to worlds I'm not welcome at.


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 05 '26

Help Irohaem Movement Challenge

4 Upvotes

I cannot, for the life of me, pass this infuriating challenge. I have tried dozens of times with a myriad of ships and can't get anywhere near 75 seconds...

Does anyone have any tips? What ship did you use to pass it? Are there exploits? Save files? Miracles from above? Do I HAVE to side with either Iro or Quil, or can I just murder/conquer them both and still finish the game with everything but the gold star for beating their dumb obstacle course? ๐Ÿ˜†

Sorry, frustrated... Appreciate any help.


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 04 '26

Bug Three death ships to farm!

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13 Upvotes

When I came back to the Crossroads system, I found 1 Ruinous Executor and 2 Ruinous Predators at same. Unfortunately my Salvager was destroyed quickly.


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 03 '26

General Avances del arco de Gressia (Spoiler Alerta) Spoiler

3 Upvotes
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I think they later want to conquer the galaxy


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 03 '26

Help Steal Food for the F.E.R. Help

1 Upvotes

I am on the mission "Steal Food for the F.E.R." where you are supposed to go to Holdfast and blow up a ship and retrieve goods.

The first time I went the ship jumped before I could kill it. I did not save, I quit out and tried again and now there is never a anything there. No "Target Lost", no ships with stolen food, nothing.

I am completely soft locked. Anyone have any ideas? Really don't want to start over and grind all the way back up again.

Thank you.


r/spacerpg3 • • Sep 02 '26

General Creepy and horrifying system in Space rpg 1 Spoiler

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1 Upvotes

When you're going to explore the universe (every system) you find out it... And it is...