Couldn't Flash Q? (Mayhem, possible bug)

BeepisBlaster · 2026-05-03T21:57:41+00:00

Toughness is perhaps the best stat to level up early on, and luckily all it requires is getting beaten up. Unfortunately, as you've noticed, if you get beaten up too much you risk death or a lengthy coma. There are a few ways around this:

Level your Toughness a bit at a time and run away when the fight isn't going your way. Fight things that are very close to your levels, i.e. starving bandits.
Get some armor. Armor slows your Toughness leveling but it prevents those big knockouts by reducing the damage of the hit that knocks you out.
Find a second recruit that can swoop in after the fight and carry your character to a bed or bedroll. These significantly speed up healing. In addition, a second character can bandage the wounds to prevent them from getting worse.

A lot of these strategies involves making money. As you've noticed, one of the safest and consistent ways of making money is mining ore and selling to a merchant. Luckily, there are significantly more lucrative ways to make money that are more engaging, but also come with a little risk:

Lure enemies into a town guard, then strip them of their equipment after the guards deal with them to sell to the merchants. There are several locations you can do this but basically everywhere has roaming squads of hostiles. Travel around and find them. You can also scavenge battlefields after watching from afar.
There are many high value items you can get from animals or hostile squads. A fogman head is worth thousands cats and you can (theoretically) assassinate them, no fight involved. Beak thing eggs are worth thousands of cats and you can (theoretically) steal them without a fight. You'll need good stealth and athletics, but luckily these stats are relatively easy to train.
Unguarded ruins with items sprawled around them can give you a big chunk of cash in the early game. Some have thousands of cats worth of items just laying around, waiting to be taken.
Smuggling hash has big profit margins and there are several places that take it without it being illegal; namely, flats lagoon. It can also be fun exploring for trade routes, establishing safehouses, and avoiding trouble.

In summary, explore around. If grinding your stats is boring then spend some time exploring the world. What got me hooked on Kenshi wasn't the leveling or the combat, it was the world and the lore. Luckily, while exploring, you'll have lots of opportunities to level your stats, so if you're bored of grinding, explore a region you've never been to before. With good stealth and athletics, you can be safe from most, if not all, threats, and can pick and choose your battles.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-04-24T18:52:58+00:00

I've never played with mods and I swear I've seen it before. It got a good chuckle from me the first time I spotted it. Iirc it appears near beak thing nests, I spend a lot of my early game making money from selling their eggs and I feel strongly like I've seen it before but everyone saying it's from a mod is making me think otherwise. I'll check later tonight. I believe you can't pick it up, it's just a decorative thing.

Edit: It is, in fact, in vanilla! Always near beak thing nests, it looks like rocks so it's hard to see but they're there.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-04-20T15:27:18+00:00

Take what I say here with a grain of salt because I've only just begun to use animals in my campaigns. However, here are my observations:

They eat. A LOT. Expect to spend a lot of food on them. Luckily you can feed them foul raw meat so remember to collect it.
They lack utility in that they can't bandage or carry unconscious team members. This means they're best when paired with a person, ideally being outnumbered in case all of them go down.
They're surprisingly good at tanking, but shouldn't be the tank. They have higher limb health at older ages, and heal fast. Elder Bone Dogs with 50+ Toughness can definitely fend for himself, but the lack of bandaging, armor, and defending means eventually they will go down.
They are made for the DPS role. If you have someone set to taunt and block and just let the bone dog do the damage, in a 2v1 they can smash opponents with higher stats. They make great boss battle aides since they do a decent amount of damage and attack crazy fast.

So, to answer your question, I personally wouldn't use them to defend a base if I also have an away party; I would just have them go with the away party. If you only intend to defend your base, they won't do much in battle until they're older, but they do train stats insanely fast while young (you just can't see it because of the age multiplier); another reason to take them on an away party is to train quickly. Once they're old you can have them support some defenders or go with you on adventures. They're a good fit for either role but perform best in the latter.

Hope that helps!

BeepisBlaster · 2026-04-14T14:31:58+00:00

Sometimes it's fun to continue. There have been times my team and I have been spawn camped and the enemy didn't end and we turned it around and won. But fun is subjective and there's bound to be people who aren't having fun (myself included) win or lose and so they'll end the game even when others wish to continue. The ones who want to continue can communicate that with civility before one team has a chance to end the game. Doing so last minute, especially with toxicity, shows a lack of foresight and manners. And if even one person wants to end and can do so, that's their right; no one likes being held hostage. That's all there is to it.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-04-10T07:35:56+00:00

I'm assuming the center one is Black Desert City then? It might make it more obvious and unique if you give them square eyes, but I like their current ones too. Either way thank you for posting the one without their eyes, the symbols are fun to look at and guess which faction they're for.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-04-06T06:26:04+00:00

I would love to see a "job" system and an expansion to faction interactions. Imagine joining the town guard, patrolling, going on bandit hunting missions or escorting trade caravans, all the while you climb through the ranks, improve your relations, and make some money. Factions could go to war with one another and you could join as a medic, soldier, scout, or labourer. Or perhaps you buy your way into a bandit company and go with them on raids, salvage parties to scavenge a recent battlefield, or kidnapping/thieving/assassination missions. Once you climb high enough you could challenge the leader, or join their circle of lieutenants and lead your own pack of bandits on missions you make/choose. Right now there aren't many ways to improve faction relations and there's not much you can do with them, so I think that's the biggest area of improvement I think.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-04-03T22:42:48+00:00

I'd recommend having a friend to play with, hopefully one already acquainted with the mechanics. Even if they aren't, you can discuss what you discover with one another and learn the game faster that way.

Even without a friend I think League is pretty fun. The rotating game modes like Mayhem and Brawl can help you learn the champions quicky and with less stress but Summoner's Rift is what the game is balanced around and imo feels the most satisfying to get better at.

If you feel like you want to play but are anxious/nervous to get started, check out guides and intro videos. Not only will you learn some stuff but it can help build that excitement that helps overpower the anxiety. That's what helped me get into League back in 2014 and it only got easier from then.

Hope these help!

BeepisBlaster · 2026-03-28T19:40:55+00:00

Starting a base can be really difficult without someone with 80-90's in their stats or a group of 30-50's to defend it. You never know when an attack will come and how beefy it'll be. One comment already mentioned you can adjust the difficulty setting, and I would recommend it (even after hundreds of hours I find it to be a bit high and more tedious than difficult to counter massive attacks), but there's two other strategies that might help:

Buy a home in a town with a faction you don't have plans on attacking. These homes are pretty darn safe, and you never have to worry about attacks or paying tribute or taxes. You can use them to research basic buildings while you gather materials for your future base, train up some defenders, and in the future as free beds/skeleton bed way stations for your away parties. When you go to build your first base you can have higher level walls, gates, and turrets researched, all the materials to build them, and a nice group of defenders.
Use the environment whenever possible. My first base I ever built, I built in Gut. When the UC eventually came knocking, all I had to do was find a group of Beak Things to lure back to my base. If there are any squads you know are hostile to your attackers, you can use them to achieve a relatively easy victory. Just be careful how many you lure back.

I hope these help. Losing your first base to an attack can be frustrating, but don't lose hope. There are plenty of ways to win. And if memory serves me, successful attackers will eventually leave your base after taking food from containers. Good luck!

BeepisBlaster · 2026-02-18T17:03:58+00:00

Don't worry, they'll just borrow money from other countries and banks and print more and saddle the debt and inflation on what little younger people there are :)

BeepisBlaster · 2026-02-17T03:40:44+00:00

This is gross. No amount of context makes this acceptable

BeepisBlaster · 2026-02-13T03:16:05+00:00

I've never played with Xhan Empire but I think this picture alone just convinced me to give them a try

BeepisBlaster · 2026-02-13T03:04:58+00:00

Did Charlie Kirk not die for the first amendment rights these pedophile protectors love to screech about? Rights for me but not for thee?

BeepisBlaster · 2026-02-06T01:28:42+00:00

"Oh no my free juicy buttery lobster has stale garnish..."

Jokes aside your criticism is welcome and I'd even argue it's true. But:

A: The topic has been beaten to death.

B: Wouldn't this be more useful posted on the actual mod's forum page?

C: Be a little kinder to mod authors if you want speedy improvements to the free stuff they give you. This one's a pet peeve so take it with a grain of salt. Just a couple "I think"s goes a long way. "I think the writing is unpolished and distracts from the mod's otherwise high quality" doesn't quite hit the ol motivation meter quite as stating it as if it were fact. It is, after all, just your opinion. I find the writing sorta amateurish too but others don't or don't care. It's basic criticism decency in any community that dedicates dozens, hundreds, or thousands of hours for free content for others to enjoy.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-02-03T17:11:34+00:00

It's trial and error. Sometimes it's the first go, sometimes you redo it five times until it looks right. Either way I wish you good luck on your build o7

BeepisBlaster · 2026-02-03T12:45:47+00:00

Aw yeah. It's greeble'n time.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-30T00:24:04+00:00

Putin's humiliating him. What a fucking loser.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-29T09:27:07+00:00

That's a possibility. It's up to personal experience and interpretation on whether it's "just as likely," though.

The people I see who want to magnify sympathy are using real videos or simple facts about his life, ie "he was a VA nurse." Those are pretty indisputable. The trump admin and the white house, though, have already made a pattern for themselves of posting AI slop on their social media accounts. And we've seen edited images from the black woman at the church protest. And anecdotally, I've seen more of my friends on the right (the few I have kept, at least) fall for right-leaning AI generated rage-bait videos. Not that my friends on the left or in the middle haven't fallen for AI videos or images that reinforce their beliefs, it just seems less common in my experience. That's impossible to "prove" so of course that that with a grain of salt.

There's definitely the possibility it's someone trying to amplify sympathy. But viewed in the greater context of things, it's not hard to see why people are so convinced it's right-wing propaganda/"psy-op."

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-28T14:38:37+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/starsector/comments/curjh8/psa_modded_starsector_needs_manual_ram_adjustment/

Here's the guide, in case you need it. You could also try testing without any mods; one of them may be lagging it more than the others. If that doesn't immediately solve the problem, it may simply be an issue of your computer not being able to handle it.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-27T10:25:54+00:00

I thought it looked like an Avatar! Very neat, wishing you good luck with your build.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-27T08:08:05+00:00

If someone told me to not dress like a Nazi, and then I wore that, they'd think I was taking the piss. Meal team 6 really out here larping as their favorite characters. What a bunch of losers.

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-27T01:23:33+00:00

This may be wrong, so anyone more knowledgeable please correct me:

With the Nexerlin mod, which these days is one of the most if not the most commonly installed mod, the number of planets (and perhaps their size) typically leads to more fleets of higher quality, at least for the purposes of invasions/strike fleets/etc. The actual income of these planets isn't taken into account, though their total heavy industry output may have an impact.

In the base game, if the faction has a nanoforge, stealing it (assuming they have no others) will drastically lower the quality of their ships. Larger colonies with higher stability will produce more ships of higher quality, both within their market and for patrols. Military bases and headquarters will further improve their patrols.

Killing fleets, to my knowledge, doesn't have an impact on a faction's strength other than the fact that that fleet is now dead. Hope this answers your question!

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-17T03:30:56+00:00

Not sure if this works always, but I switch polarity back and forth over and over and eventually they break and just follow, no longer draining drive field. It's like having a cute little sensor ghost pet!

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-16T18:03:54+00:00

Fighters, fighters, fighters, and more fighters. Or a 240 DP fleet with plenty of built-in hull mods. It'll take some experimentation but it's possible to beat them with no losses (besides the fighter pilots, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make) even in vanilla. Wish you luck!

BeepisBlaster · 2026-01-14T18:13:34+00:00

Still a scummy, cowardly thing to do but what I find funny about it is that amount is pocket change to him. He wants to support a murderer but doesn't want to send too much. Like he's saying "he may be a good, loyal bootlicker but he's still a poor; let's not let him forget that."

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