SUGGESTIONS and ideas for improving FTL

[EdenNov]

I'm still not sure how the Teleporter gets you crew members though... Do they surrender at some point or what? Or do you refer to the blue events only?

There are the blue options, but also killing the crew gives you a higher chance of receiving crew members (I think like 10-20 percent or something)

[spacecadet13]

Autofire is available for each weapon? Explain, please. 'Cause in my FTL game, when autofire is on, it applies to all weapons, and when its off, no weapon autofires.

[SleepyMage]

Events where enemies board your ship are not supposed to be lucrative, just unlucky. They are easy enough to deal with most of the time, so having a potential surrender option turns this from a constant bad but relatively harmless thing into a almost always good event. If it happened like 10% of the time then that wouldn't be too unbalanced.

Yes of course that wouldn't happen all the time, perhaps having a Health Station level 2 at least would be required to have prisoners join the crew as well... It's just an idea. And I've had very bad times with boarders, especially when having a crew of only 3 Zoltans!


Anyway, the interface should be the devs' top priority I think. Hopefully they plan on working on FTL a little bit longer.

Okay yes, that seems fair and a little more reasonable. Blue events encourage people to actually upgrade systems as well.

Also, I find it hard to believe that anyone argues against improving the interface. More functionality = more happy players.

[UltraMantis]

I do not intend to be rude...

The way you shot down the suggestions was very dismisive. Please read more carefuly.

Autofire can be used for any weapon in the game, the suggestion was that it be possible to use autofire for each individual weapon on the ship, rather than just having it on or off for all weapons.

[Mr_Crac]

1. Auto fire IS available for each weapon.

No, it is not.

Out of curiosity, do the developers of this game actually implement (some of the) changes suggested by the players?

[boa13]

Yes it is, that's one of the changes in FTL 1.03.

[Mr_Crac]

Yes it is, that's one of the changes in FTL 1.03.

I was under the impression that people wanted to be able to switch autofire on/off for each weapon individually. That is seemingly not how it currently is.

[UltraMantis]

Autofire still works as before with one new feature. If you hold the Ctrl key while targeing enemy rooms, the targeting cursor will turn yellow, and autofire will be ON for that weapon. You can set any or all weapons to autofire. Usefull if you for example want to keep one weapon downing shields constantly but manually control beams or missiles.