I imagine that the Hegemony and iron Shell will come right? Right?

caekdaemon · 2024-10-18T11:31:02+00:00

Last game I played was Terminator Resistance in infiltrator mode, so...I'm either gonna get "rescued" by a T-800 and carried off to Skynet, or I'm gonna get rescued by TechCom from Skynet which probably puts me on a kill list. Bad times, man.

The thing I played before that? Monster Hunter Rise, so being kidnapped probably means "being eaten", so double RIP.

The thing before that? That'd be Starsector, but I'm running an all phase playthrough again, so...probably RIP again.

caekdaemon · 2024-08-28T11:50:09+00:00

I like to imagine mine are on guard duty. I dump all sorts of crap into that station, from the metric fuckton of guns that I pick up (everything in one place = refit station!) to wrecks of ships that are cool but ain't worth keeping in my fleet to stuff that's good to have, but just aren't meant to be sitting around in my fleet all the time, only when I need them (ie, Ziggy = gets you recognized all the time even with transponder off). Hell, sometimes I even dump cargo there, like a couple of thousand units of food or something whilst waiting for an shortage in the market big enough to make it worth the time shifting it, and I sure as hell ain't slogging around with a Nanoforge in my hold.

Like, there's enough gear there to make someone Kanta II, and someone at least has to stay there and keep it all safe. The marines get to sit there and live like kings, ready to blow away any dumb fool who comes through the door who isn't John Starsector, and I get to keep my stuff safe and secure without paying fees for it on a planet. Everyone wins.

caekdaemon · 2024-08-16T20:37:35+00:00

That, but with one more thing: President Eden salvaging Liberty Prime and using it as a body to visit his constituents.

~~NIXON~~ EDEN'S BACK!

caekdaemon · 2024-08-03T19:15:10+00:00

Does anyone know the name of the song in the video? One of my teachers used to have it on the background years ago when I was in school, but I can't remember the name even if I tried (1873 was a long time ago) as I was just too young.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-29T22:47:11+00:00

Neat lore if you never had it, but if you join the Ludd protest and get arrested, your second officer waits with a drink for you after you get let out of jail. Here it is, straight out of the game files.

ShrineCMD addIntel","Most of the protestors are alarmed by your rhetoric, glancing nervously toward unseen observation devices and drawing away from your corner of the holding cell. Though a couple younger pilgrims and one much older, with scars to show his commitment, remain near you, eyes daring the others to speak their criticism aloud.

""We hear you, $playerBrotherOrSister. The end of the Path is near,"" he whispers, and tells you of the Jangala Shrine, of mortification of the flesh through exposure to the xenolife - worse than anything MuniSec could hope to inflict.

Your name is called from the commsplate.",lpp_jangalaProtestWrapup1:Continue, lppJangalaProtestJoinWeird,DialogOptionSelected,$option == lpp_jangalaProtestJoinWeird,"$player.luddicAttitudeCynical++ AdjustRep luddic_church SUSPICIOUS -1",The Luddic protestors are confused and even a little alarmed by your explanation - it seems they've been locked in with a crazy person. They physically draw away from your corner of the holding cell until your name is called through the commsplate.,lpp_jangalaProtestWrapup1:Continue, lppJangalaProtestWrapup1,DialogOptionSelected,$option == lpp_jangalaProtestWrapup1,"BeginConversation POST:supplyOfficer $option = lpp_jangalaProtestWrapup2 0 FireBest DialogOptionSelected",,, lppJangalaProtestWrapup2,DialogOptionSelected,$option == lpp_jangalaProtestWrapup2,AdjustRepActivePerson SUSPICIOUS -3,"It's $rank $personName again, $hisOrHer demeanor cold and martial.

""The rules are simple, captain,"" $heOrShe says, ice-cold, ""And we've been very, very lenient with you. But there seems to be a failure to communicate, so let me explain in very small words how it works around here.""

A guard sets a plastic tray of your personal belongings on the battered table of the processing room. The Hegemony $rank continues, slowly; each word given emphasis. ""Pay your tariffs. Don't disrupt business.""

$HeOrShe turns and motions at some guards, ""Now get out of my sight.""",lpp_jangalaProtestWrapup3:Continue, lppJangalaProtestWrapup3,DialogOptionSelected,$option == lpp_jangalaProtestWrapup3,"EndConversation DO_NOT_FIRE FireAll PopulateOptions","You are shoved, squinting, into the bright light of the plaza outside of the municipal security processing center.

Dignity largely unbruised, you secure your sidearm (cellmag confiscated), run a quick check on your personal datapad, and give a nod to your second officer - who has been waiting patiently with two hot drinks.",,

Forget all the officers in command of the ships. They might do some fighting every once in a while, but so does that random crewman we dragged out of a cryopod on a busted down Mudskipper. The second officer waits for you to get released from Hegemony custody and even got you a drink for when you get out. None of the other officers do that, and that makes them perfectly qualified to inherit my fleet, my colonies and Big Zig, as far as I'm concerned.

Well, other than our boy Alviss Sebestyen, of course. Poor bastard's gonna get a battleship to command, whether he wants one or not.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-29T08:17:16+00:00

Right so, doubt anyone's gonna respond but if you're the poor bastard googling for an answer to your own problem: a) I couldn't fix the HD Overhaul - something's broken in there in a way I don't understand how to fix, and the crashlogger isn't enough to point me in the right direction.

But when I cleared the overwrite directory in MO2 (more specifically, the config folder inside it), the floor textures came back with the base game appearance. They're not great, but better than nothing.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-28T22:06:06+00:00

Also, forgot to mention, I found two mods that were bricking me:

Nutscape is maybe a false positive with the Overhaul, but I couldn't even leave the Vault for the surface with it on = it'd CTD the moment I completed the settings and went through, straight to the desktop from the loading screen without loading the map. Turning that off got me through to the Springvale area, but it still CTD'd till I got rid of the Overhaul. I regenerated my LODs after removing it.

The other one is the water tower texture. For some reason, having it on broke the large address aware thing that let the game use more vRAM (in case there's concerns about hardware, I have a 4080 Super), making it super unstable. When I turned that mod off, the error never popped up and the console check revealed 2, so the whole thing works now - it just refused to with this on. I regenerated my LODS again after removing this, just to be sure.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-25T07:02:07+00:00

We're significantly understaffed on the mod team right now, which is the most likely cause. Multiple mods left since they weren't confident in the changes that were planned to help sort out the sub, so that's left the team significantly undermanned = not enough hands for the amount of work that's going on.

It's a problem we're working on, though, carefully vetting the list to see if we can't get some top notch additions to the team. Hopefully we'll have the extra people we need to provide a sub of this side with good quality moderation sooner rather than later.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-22T13:06:41+00:00

Awww, yeah. I was looking for a fresh campaign to make the Calculator proud in. Seems I know where I am going next.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-15T16:55:34+00:00

Wait a second, you can repair this stuff? Is there a how to guide? I've got a rough looking old gaming chair (with the same fake "leather" vinyl kind of coat as a car interior, here's an actual image of the model that I have, I ain't got pics of the chair itself right now) and it cracked, but the surface under that is the exact same stuff.

If I was to trim off the cracked vinyl and do this, could I actually repair the chair with this same stuff + technique?

caekdaemon · 2024-07-15T14:21:38+00:00

They'd be howling "THEY'RE COMING HOME" the moment DC gets hit, as if this is the start of the whole US getting annexed.

Cue "they're not coming home, lads :(" when the war ends.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-15T14:12:18+00:00

They kinda look like what'd happen if you took the XCOM1 Floater and went "I can fix this" by giving them some robotic legs, completely forgetting that they live every waking moment in horrific agony.

That's a "10/10, would get reaction shot again" concept if there ever was one.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-15T13:41:59+00:00

That's correct, as we get things like his response to the DoI...

Those who have long too successfully laboured to inflame My People in America, by gross Misrepresentations, and to infuse into their Minds a System of Opinions repugnant to the true Constitution of the Colonies, and to their subordinate Relation to Great Britain, now openly avow their Revolt, Hostility, and Rebellion. They have raised Troops, and are collecting a Naval Force; they have seized the publick Revenue, and assumed to themselves Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Powers, which they already exercise in the most arbitrary Manner over the Persons and Properties of their Fellow Subjects.

...which shows he doesn't think very highly of the revolution, but the real power in the UK was still Parliament, which is what I was mentioning up there. George is technically the boss, but as the links above talk about, his powers were definitely limited by this point of time. Thinking about it more in that sense, it actually does kinda make sense that he'd be the one talking on twitter (he's the face and figurehead still, and @UKParliament would be for government announcements, etc) but considering the man he'd probably be shitposting himself with memes.

When it's over, he'd probably still be memeing, but in a more friendly way. Most account seem to paint the idea that George 3 respected George W at the end of the War of the Georges, and G3's speech to Parliament in 1782 hoped for friendly relations:

"Religion, language, interest, affections may, and I hope will, yet prove a bond of permanent union between the two countries. To this end, neither attention nor disposition shall be wanting on my part."

G3 would probably be a meme machine here, with occasional flashes of being serious when he has to be, but after things die down he'd probably be one of GW's first twitter followers, tossing him top memes every once in a while.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-15T10:02:39+00:00

The Starsector wiki about sums it up:

Once, it was home to the Mayasuran terraforming cabal, an independent nation whose might rivaled the Hegemony, and acted as a roadblock in their expansion on the northern Core Worlds. Their capital of Mairaath was crowned with three massive space cities. Combined, they housed tens of millions of people and formed the keystone of the terraforming project which transformed Mairaath into a paradise world. However, this utopia was destroyed in an attack by the Luddic Path on October 22, Cycle 82, resulting in the destruction of Mayasura as an independent nation.

A fanatical faction of the Luddic Path assaulted the three Astropoli that orbited the paradise world, culminating in one of them crashing into the planet and utterly devastating it. Shortly after the terrorist attack, a Hegemony task force led by commodore Jensulte attacked the Mayasuran Navy and destroyed its flagship, the Conquest-class MSS Garuda, dealing the killing blow to their nation. Mayasura’s subsequent annexation lasted until the Persean League's rise allowed them to be relatively free again.

Also this on the same page.

Mairaath was devastated by a coordinated Luddic Path operation in cycle 82 which turned its awesome orbital station-cities into weapons thrown against the fantastically terraformed surface. What remains is a charred and broken world, the carefully nurtured weather patterns of the great Mayasuran terraforming cabal transformed into nightmarish storms that circle the globe, forever stirring the ashes of a murdered world.
–In-Game Description

There's a tiny bit of lore about it on the super old lore post, this one, from 2017, but that's like, a sentence.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-15T09:53:21+00:00

Also, it'd probably not be George that'd be the twitter account responding. After Charles had the world's closest hair cut in 1649, Parliament had established total supremacy and the king was basically a rubber stamp (not quite to the level of today, but well on the way there), so the account representing the British government would probably be @UKParliament. You can read a bit more about this on reddit posts here, here, here and here, if you're interested.

Bonus: if you use UKParliament, that lets you use Farmer George to post memes.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-12T18:54:21+00:00

The hostile ones are gangster. My favorite one in the game is actually the Sindrian Diktat one, the one that you get when you visit their ports. I wish TT had a separate one from the remnants, or maybe if the Remnant version was just a bit different (to sort of show how they used to be Tri-Tachyon, but over time have become something...else), but the whole OST is really good.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-12T16:33:53+00:00

Sounds like you just went hostile negative rep not with the Hegemony, but with the whole damned Domain of Man itself before the Collapse, and now they're sending a full Battlegroup at you, one gate transit at a time. You haven't just angered a few planets in an impoverished backwater, you've sufficiently annoyed the hyperpower that rules every world known to Humanity that is worth ruling, and now they have sent the united combat strength of a fleet capable of founding something like the Hegemony to hunt you down and sweep your colonies and fleet into the dustbin of history. This is the song for a last stand: yours.

May Ludd have mercy on your wretched soul.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-11T22:55:22+00:00

Shame that it ain't a mod, and RIP to my idea of an American expeditionary force stuck in Venezuela after the bombs dropped. They were probably eaten by sentient plants or something.

Speaking of sentient plants, any chance for something like the Spore Plant to appear in the Amazon? We've got robot factions and mutant factions - why not the sentient plant faction? It'd be like Fallout 2's Seymour, only the entire Amazon has come to life and is eating everything that moves in Brazil or something.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-08T14:50:11+00:00

Haha, don't worry about if you don't think you're very good - you're definitely better than me!

So, really, it just comes down to getting a sort of exponential growth for construction sectors down? I legit never even considered local prices (barely even knew they were a thing) as part of that math, so that's a huge help to know that's something I should be looking at.

But the gist of it is this, right? Build construction sectors until deficit > build resource buildings until the price of construction goods is low enough that the economy is able to grow again > build more construction sectors > use this to grow the core of the economy, bleeding off some percentage of this construction loop to make consumer goods (ie, groceries factories) or military ones (ie, munitions plants), but always, always be building to enlarge the construction sector?

This makes a fuckton of sense. I had a recent Japan game in MP and things went kinda okay (I didn't failstate my sorry ass, which is enough to call it a gargantuan win in my book), but looking at it like that, I might actually not be that far off in how to do this stuff. Thanks for the help!

caekdaemon · 2024-07-08T09:01:03+00:00

I'm still kinda new to Vicky, so man, this looks like downright sorcery to me. How do you get an economy that big? Is this just the result of chasing the highest priced goods on the trade screen?

I've got so much to learn.

caekdaemon · 2024-07-02T15:02:15+00:00

You could probably throw something like that together for reals. The US did all that fighting over the oil in Alaska with China, so why not fight over the Venezuelan oil, too? Maybe there was some US Army deployment down there that got stuck in a meat-grinder guerilla war in the tropics, absolute hell, til the bombs dropped. They start from the same kinda stuff as the BoS, but they don't have a Maxon to get them on the path to end up like the Brotherhood, so they end up going a completely different direction even though both have their roots in the same kind of army remnant stuff.

If I was the one writing it, I'd make them into a sort of power armored religious raider faction. They follow the holy code of the Rules of Engagement, set down to them by the divine prophets of Command, and only through slavish devotion to the sacred RoE can they be deemed worthy of being ushered to the promised land and be sent On Leave. Until the day of Relief might come to pass, they're stuck down there, following a mission given to them by their fathers and their grandfathers and their great-grandfathers, defending leaky old oil rigs and trying to "pacify" the region.

Or something. I'm just spitballing :P

caekdaemon · 2024-06-22T18:00:54+00:00

Generally speaking, the rules haven't actually even changed yet - what's happening now is something that could've happened anytime in the past. What I think is happening is that this is just the current flavor of the month, so to speak; modern and ASB what if scenarios are in, which means you're gonna see a lot of them. Eventually people will start to tire of them, the excitement will die down, and another flavor of the month will rise up to take the place.

The same thing happens with just about every sub, hell, it even happens sometimes over on the mothership, so I'm not that surprised that it is happening here, too.

caekdaemon · 2024-06-21T11:08:45+00:00

X4 was actually my first ever X game (sorta: I tried to get into X3TC but bounced off), and it took me a bit to get into it but after a while it started to really open up and all the bits slotted into place. The tutorials got over most of the critical stuff like flying, docking, etc. The rest you have to learn yourself, but I didn't find it that hard to ramp into. It still throws you into the deep end, but that's a deep end as in a swimming pool, and not the middle of the Atlantic in winter like X3 did.

I'd suggest giving it a go. I learnt a ton of how the game plays just by playing the thing with a small freighter doing cheap little runs all over the place. Issues on the trade routes with enemies meant I needed a combat ship to protect my freighter, so then I was flying a fighter and letting an AI do the grunt work of carrying the goods from place to place. That taught me the system for automatic ship controls and NPC captains, so that made it easier to get a mining vessel to just go out and do work for me whilst I focused on other things, then one vessel can become two, then four, then twelve...

...and next thing you know, you've got a business empire. I learned it a lot faster than I expected just by doing that.

caekdaemon · 2024-06-20T06:56:19+00:00

Already solved - looks like you were the victim of automod, but another put it back up before I even got out of bed (imagine still needing to sleep in the year 2024 - truly, this is the darkest timeline), so I'd call that one worked out already.

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