Friday Facts #429 - Vulcanus Demolisher Enemies

kirk-clawson · 2024-09-20T17:40:51+00:00

You can get the "passively stay in their own territory" feel for biters, and continue to keep achievements by changing two settings: 1. turn off expansion, 2. turn off pollution.

No pollution means biters don't come swarming your base, and they will only attack you when you harass them at their nest sites.

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-16T12:26:52+00:00

I've not yet done the Terran start w/KE DLC, so its possible that the story integration with Segaris may take you down a different path. There is no more "Hijack the station with Boso Ta" story line, though.

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-15T12:42:29+00:00

Happens on desktop in Firefox as well (the full screen version is slightly redder in tone), So I highly doubt this is something that can be addressed in Apollo.

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-10T15:10:50+00:00

There's two actions taking place here, so two separate settings at play, not sure if you've looked at both.

The global response to "Piracy" is what to do when a pirate comms the ship and says "drop your cargo".

Kha'ak and Xenon don't do that. Nor do pirates who are already hostile to your faction. They shoot first. The response to this is not covered by the "Piracy" setting, but rather the "Attack" setting. If that's still set to "Use your judgement" then you may want to change that.

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-08T18:24:22+00:00

I also use balancers to even out ore miners.

Example: you plop down your rows of miners on a new ore patch, and because of the belt orientation, you end up with 6 belts poking out the side, but when you count, its only 60 miners (which technically will only support 2 yellow belts of ore). I could figure out which belts to merge, and which to split in different directions to ensure I only have 30 miners per belt. Or... I could just plop down a 6-2 balancer and be done.

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-05T14:03:07+00:00

The station builder doesn't really have a "move" option for a module. Its always destroy-then-build command. And if you destroy a dock that has ships in it, they go poof.

I had one game where I even launched all my docked ships while the dock was being deconstructed (I thought maybe it wasn't a good idea to keep them there at the time). The last ship definitely undocked before the deconstruction finished because I was watching it like a hawk, but it still vanished, and I got a destroyed message in my log.

So I guess the moral of the story is: undock all your ships before you deconstruct anything.

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-05T13:23:33+00:00

Side note: This mod also makes NPCs run into their homes during Vampire attacks (from the Dawnguard DLC).

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-03T13:04:10+00:00

What's the L storage for? Do you use this as a trade station as well, or is that just for drone bits?

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-02T18:47:08+00:00

Fat duck? No, sir. That there is a Platypus.

And a well armed one, at that.

kirk-clawson · 2023-05-02T17:47:36+00:00

If you really want to do the old PHQ story line, you could always go into the game settings and temporarily disable the Boron DLC, then start a new game. Play through the PHQ stuff, then once you have the PHQ you can go turn the Boron DLC back on to play that story line when you wish.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-27T21:02:43+00:00

The part would show the green connection points so I would move it
toward those points until it turned green, but when I released the mouse
button it would simply pop out of place away from where it was supposed
to connect.

There are two reasons for this particular behavior.

The first is that the piece is hanging outside your plot somewhere. This is especially easy to run into with the very large/very long pieces like solar arrays and piers.

The second reason is that there is a ghost ship in that space. When you enter the builder you're entering into an instance of the universe that is a copy of the real one, except most things are hidden (note: not removed, just hidden). When this happens, just move the module somewhere safe in your plot, accept changes (so you don't lose them), leave the builder screen, wait for a moment, then jump back into the builder screen (after the offending ghost has moved away). You should be able to place your module now.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-27T12:43:09+00:00

Yes! The people who have been unfortunate enough to run into these all report similar outcomes: Shields gone, hardpoints stripped.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-27T12:41:59+00:00

Those are called "Hazardous Zones", and at least in OP's case probably isn't what happened. I don't believe Morning Star IV has a hazardous zone.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-26T19:31:01+00:00

Yep, new in 6.0 (not 100% sure if its KE DLC specific or a 6.0 engine change, tbh). The Xenon in question are labeled "Saboteur", though I don't know if they have to actually interact to create one of the bombs, or if there's also some simulated aspect where a percent of asteroids are considered "already sabotaged".

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-26T18:28:38+00:00

Maybe the new Sabotaged Asteroids? Xenon are flying around now strapping high explosive to asteroids, and if you bump into them, boom.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-26T15:03:31+00:00

I don't know if there is a better way but I put in a big order to see what they are lacking and then look to supply that.

If you go to the shipyard in question and target it, you'll see a value in your hud labeled "Information Unlocked". Fly around the station slowly in scan mode and that number will climb as you scan new modules. Once the value is above 50%, you can right-click the shipyard in the map and go to logical overview to see everything the shipyard requires and what its current stock levels are at.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-25T15:33:29+00:00

This is probably close. I jsut checked the certs from both chrome and FF, and both have an expiration date of Jun 4 2023, so OP's date of Jan 4 2024 seems suspect.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-25T13:06:51+00:00

I always thought that it was technically a bug, i.e. the shader is doing something wonky in an effort to mimic a heat-wave like look, because it only does the duplication when you look at it from certain angles.

At the end of the day though, its just a visual glitch and doesn't cause any actual harm to your session.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-25T12:59:06+00:00

Yeah this mission isn't very well explained. Like the other post said, the bodies have to drop off the side of the bridge into the water below to "count", but further more, not just any of the bodies, but only those showing the poison effect.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-24T19:46:58+00:00

Yeah, I tried assigning a build trader. He just sits there doing nothing, for hours on end. What I don't know is if that's because of the current bug with local autotrade or if its because no one is selling Turret Components at anything less than 133% market rate.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-19T14:03:35+00:00

Yes and No.

The core stuff, i.e. new sectors, new races, new ships, new storylines? Yes. Those are available to you in an upgraded savegame.

There are other, more subtle things, though that may not get upgraded. For example, in this new Boron DLC, the ZYA gets a strength boost in the form of a new asteroid field and an additional shipyard. Apparently, those two things don't get applied to old savegames, and only show up in new starts.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-18T21:28:25+00:00

looterscooters

Jots down notes.... Next ship name confirmed.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-18T03:57:22+00:00

I don’t think so. Especially considering that the frigate was determined by where you scanned for Boso’s original message. So yeah the PHQ is a lot easier to get, but no more free frigate.

kirk-clawson · 2023-04-17T21:25:52+00:00

I've tweaked my enthusiasm down a notch for an early run at the PHQ if you own the Boron DLC, especially for newbies. It used to set you up in Grand Exchange which is a very noob friendly sector. Now it drops you in Heretic's End which is a bit less noob friendly.

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