Easily get extra scrap (video)

[connormcwood]

In this thread I show you guys how to get extra scrap by using a application called poke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47_aAQ0J4M4

[Elhazzared]

a vid about how to cheat at the game and make it uninteresting... Really now...

[5thHorseman]

That's far too hard. Could you use poke to put me right at the final sector with 4 charged burst laser 2s, fighting the final boss with all red systems and 1 hull?

[The Captain]

Aw, 5thHorseman, that's no fun. Surely it would be better to start with 4 Mantises, a 4-man Teleporter and a 4-man Medbay.

[5thHorseman]

Aw, 5thHorseman, that's no fun. Surely it would be better to start with 4 Mantises, a 4-man Teleporter and a 4-man Medbay.

See, I hear that and start wondering if you could make a ship like that and have it still be balanced.

Take the Basilisk, remove the station in the medbay, add 2 mantises, and take away EVERYTHING ELSE. Shields. Doors. Scanners. Weapons (yes, the room too). Drones. Leave nothing but the pilot room and oxygen (and the medbay and teleporter). Would it still be overpowered?

Only one way to find out!

EDIT: And engines, obviously

EDIT #2: Okay I tried it. I need to think of some augments that won't help too much (like long range scanners, or maybe letting you have doors so you can put out fires) but it's possibly doable.

[Elhazzared]

Funny as that would be you wouldn't survive with no shields, every single combat would mean damage and how much would depend. Automated drones need weapons to be destroyed or you'll lose crew to destroy it. Zoltan ships need weapons to take down the zoltan shield. The mothership can't be destroyed by simply killing the crew... but, the idea is funny none the less... could sorta make a competition to see how far anyone would make it by not using any shields, weapons, drones of any kind, even defensive ones... Actually to be fair the contest would only be fair not by how far, but by how much banked scrap you had by the time you died. This would even lead to a situation where you'd have to think. Do I repair to keep going and possibly get more scrap or do I just keep on going and accept fate?

[The Captain]

Wow, no weapons, no shields? How about a cloak? Shouldn't the ship have some protection? And maybe L2 Piloting? Or an Engi?

[5thHorseman]

Wow, no weapons, no shields? How about a cloak? Shouldn't the ship have some protection? And maybe L2 Piloting? Or an Engi?

I'm testing to see just how OP teleporting 4 mantises from the start is. It's not quite so OP that a ship with nothing else can win. One fire and you're toast, which is why I'm thinking of giving you door control.

The idea is, in this ship all that extra scrap you get for boarding can be put into repairs

Mostly I'm doing it for fun just to see. I don't really see this being a viable mod.

[Elhazzared]

I still say no nothing, no cloak even. Just make a contest with a wonderful prize of bragging rights of how much scrap you can earn on a ship with nothing but an engine, medbay and teleporters. Heck make it be the basilisk so you start with mantis, but only 2 crew members.

[5thHorseman]

I found very quickly that you need doors to vent air. You also need something to fix stuff, I chose a repair drone. I'm trying to figure out a way to mitigate the hull damage without also giving you a hull repair drone.

I also put the rooms back, but left them all (including shields) at 1 power. It's hard enough to get them usable without having to buy them as well.

It's a fun ship. I made it to sector 3 once and died soon after. That was the run where I got a hull drone which made me think maybe you should get one to start.