Official Forum for FTL: Faster Than Light and Into the Breach
https://www.subsetgames.com/forum/
Mr. Mister wrote: It could solve the long balance problem with the Mantis B.
This. Or do it like me - visit every nebula in the galaxy and just use teleport 2 to breach lvl 1 engines (or piloting) of auto-satellites, and teleport my mantises back before they suffocate. If they managed to repair, rinse and repeat. I don't get what problems people have with this. Adapt!ikeelyou300 wrote:
I really don't get what everyone's problem is with the Mantis B. You get a heck of a ton of scrap from boarding and if you come across an AI ship you can just run away. AI ships generally appear in nebulas so I just avoid nebulas like the plague and everything's fine.
Don't quote me on this, but wasn't it working the way, that if you pause between each shot from the burst, and choose different target, next projectile flies to new target? Cumbersome to use, but works. Or worked, as I haven't tried that for ages - maybe it was before n patch? I'll test it as soon as i get my hands on some burst.Mr. Mister wrote:Mmm, all the burst weapons would be so much more versatile if AE could implement individual targeting for each salvo's shot. For instance, light anti-crew burst lasers could be used as downgraded breach clusterbombs.
Same apply for any other ship with any other weapon - you could have your weapons system hacked, bombed, missiles, torn to pieces and disintegratedMr. Mister wrote:Clearly you haven't had your teleporter effectored, bombed or sawrm-missiled while doing so.
This is one of the first things people learn when using this shipEstel wrote:This. Or do it like me - visit every nebula in the galaxy and just use teleport 2 to breach lvl 1 engines (or piloting) of auto-satellites, and teleport my mantises back before they suffocate. If they managed to repair, rinse and repeat. I don't get what problems people have with this. Adapt!
There is nothing in the lore indicating that Slugs are directly into slavery. Unless you acknowledge the oppression that capitalism subjects people to, which they are obviously very much into. To me, it feels like "Slug culture"(if something like that that actually could be defined, they are all induviduals, you know?Estel wrote:1. Is it intentional, that treacherous slugs don't accept slavery? I can imagine that this may be part of characterizing factions (rocks - piracy only, mantises - piracy and slavery, slugs - piracy and breaking truces), but such caring it sounded quite strange for our slimy pals. (Severity: Medium or "It's a feature")
) would rather shackle people in contracts and loan pay than in, well, actual shackles.This is to provide some kind of narrative coherency and also for balance reasons. Again there are plenty of moments in the game when not all options you could think of are available. CE does no try to give you all options you could think of.Estel wrote:2. No matter if point #1 is a bug or not, you can't break truce, after accepting slave as tribute. Letting those slaving bastards go freely, made me a sad snail's captain.
Here is list of other situations, where breaking truces wasn't possible, despite that it should:
a) After accepting trading cargo as surrender tribute from "pirated" merchant.
b) After fight with pirate trap-shop and accepting their surrender, there isn't option to break truce and finish them. Well, currently, due to bug #3 the truce is automatically broken no matter which ship we command (after accepting surrender, fights continue), but I guess it isn't how it meant to be.
(Severity: Medium)
Well right, that ship should not be there from the start. Apart from that the event kind of explains that you are already in the store, at which you are informed about the ship and asked to return to your command. So you get a chance to look at the store and then fight the ship. The event obviously does not transport that well yet. This is kind of as close as we will get to a real shop ambush though. At last if you want to have the shop tag on the map, that requires the shop being spawned in the first event lvl as far as I remember.Estel wrote:3. Shop-trap in pirate sector - as someone reported earlier - is a little broken, now. After climatic event text - and catching a glimpse of enemy ship on "Target" section of screen, already - ship window *still* opens, with normal shop content (contrary to what event text says, about useless derelict parts). Then, after closing shop window, we can fight pirate. His surrender is broken as per part b) of bug #2. (Severity: Major)
Wow, you noticed that? Yeah, it's possible for surrender to be called with one hull less now. The chance of breaking truce being impossible is indeed small. Pirate authorities will be disposed of.Estel wrote:4.Have you changed anything about when enemy surrenders, or was it always at 2 hull left, and I just haven't noticed it before Slug surrender-forcing run?
BTW, I've noticed that you've introduced small chance, that breaking truce won't be possible (for various event-text reasons). Frankly, after looong fight, during which I've been very carefully planning and executing tactic to force surrender (then accepting and finishing them off), it felt quite penalizing. Still, if chances for it happening are relatively small (it seemed so during my run), it's OK - especially, that flavor texts are nice and it *almost* never felt out of place.
Yep, severity: minor. Weapon marks seem often little determined by power effectiveness. Even Heavy II is less power efficient than it's MK I. (Maybe vanilla BL 3 should become BL 2 then...) Dual Lasers Mark I is not available to buy anyway and MK II is still as good as BL2 by DPS per power ratio. So IMO it deserves to be a MK II.Estel wrote:6. Dual laser Mark II is downgrade from Mark I. They do same damage and have same characteristics (unless description lies), the only difference is that Mark II shots every 8 seconds (as opposed to Mark I's 10 seconds) and it cost *two* energy bars instead of one. To be real upgrade, Mark II it should either cost still 1 bar (it would be, then, negligible upgrade of 8 sec vs 10 sec), or, at worst case, their names and prices should get swapped. That is, Mark II becoming Mark I and vice-versa - Mark I is plain better for all intents and purposes. (Severity: Minor)
These are text spawned drawn from the empty beacon textlist. I merely transferred them to the textlist for transport ships. Does not effect overall occurrence of empty beacons, but slightly decreases the variety of available texts for empty beacons.Estel wrote:7. There is this empty-beacon event, where you meet a small fleet of engi ships, threatening us because "piracy have negative impact on social" something, and "Can't be permitted". I think there should be option to, well, pirate them
I'm just thinking, hoever - last time, I've also reported empty-beacon type situation (engi ships that refuses hail), and changelog claims that you've introduced pirating option there. I'm wondering, if doing this won't result in making *less* empty beacons in galaxy, hindering player's possibility to socialize/engineer/etc? Or you have done something to keep chances for encountering empty beacons intact? (Severity: Minor)
But it seems that they are all "slimey" whereas people have diverse views so not everyone would agree with your actions. Besides balance reasons it just makes sense. Slugs don't seem to care about things like the interstellar rules of engagement treaty. They live in their nebulas isolated from everyone else.Sleeper Service wrote: There is nothing in the lore indicating that Slugs are directly into slavery. Unless you acknowledge the oppression that capitalism subjects people to, which they are obviously very much into. To me, it feels like "Slug culture"(if something like that that actually could be defined, they are all induviduals, you know?
Also its part of the balance.
Not that my opinion matters muchikeelyou300 wrote:I'm glad you made it so that Slugs can't enslave people without consequence. Slugs are the most human like creatures in my opinion.
but agreed and agreed (minus the "most human" parts, but it's subjective - for me, Slugs are quite an extreme, with rocks and zoltans presenting 2 opposite aspects of human nature). For some reason, I was very surprised by that (first thought: bug), but the more time passes, the more appropriate it seems. I really like how characterized factions become.Frankly, I fail to see the point here. Whats is coherent, when I can accept surrender and goods from almost everyone, but can't attack slaver after freeing/putting to work on my ship a slave that their offer as surrender? I can perfectly assume, that all factions (maybe except zoltans) would be quite happy to break truce here, board and kill all slavers on their ship (possibly freeing whole transport), or - a little less - with breaking them to pieces and ending slaving proceeder. Slavers seems to be lowest in the moral pyramid of FTL society, it seems from the lore.Sleeper Service wrote:This is to provide some kind of narrative coherency and also for balance reasons. Again there are plenty of moments in the game when not all options you could think of are available. CE does no try to give you all options you could think of.Estel wrote:2. No matter if point #1 is a bug or not, you can't break truce, after accepting slave as tribute. Letting those slaving bastards go freely, made me a sad snail's captain.
).I think I got misunderstood here - enemy's ship wasn't visible from the start, it spawned just after/during (can't say for sure) event text, when first mate tell us about detecting pirate ship and asking us to move our ass into position - that's why I've said that we "caught a glimpse" of it |(just when the store was about to open). So, everything is fine here. Unless you meant it to appear after we close store, but it may be hard to achieve and IMO not worth bothering.Sleeper Service wrote:Well right, that ship should not be there from the start. Apart from that the event kind of explains that you are already in the store, at which you are informed about the ship and asked to return to your command. So you get a chance to look at the store and then fight the ship. The event obviously does not transport that well yet. This is kind of as close as we will get to a real shop ambush though. At last if you want to have the shop tag on the map, that requires the shop being spawned in the first event lvl as far as I remember.
Yea, and I like it. Now, it really requires *very* careful planning, if one is aiming for most profitable (most of the times) scenario of forcing surrender + killing crew. It is risky for boarders, as ship may get torn apart by sneaky fires. It require constant awareness of what our guns are marked at, and exactly what enemy crew is doing. 2/3 of times, I ended such fights with exactly 1 hull for enemy ship, so my boarding party really lived "on the edge". So, summing up all those things, one need to be really at 100% combat awareness during whole fight, so even such details as reduced surrendero-hull (;) ) are grasped instantlySleeper Service wrote:Wow, you noticed that? Yeah, it's possible for surrender to be called with one hull less now. The chance of breaking truce being impossible is indeed small. Pirate authorities will be disposed of.
If civilian transport encounters may be empty beacons *and* pirating possibility at the same time, why not. But, it may hit the evasive border of "FTL isn't going to present you with every imaginable choice at every situation". I think that empty beacons may as well remain empty, and civilians as "wasted" or "to be pirated", depending on faction we're playing. Such things as putting engis/traders into "I'll pirate you" basket just adds to narrative coherency, thats why I'm reporting even such minor thingsSleeper Service wrote:These are text spawned drawn from the empty beacon textlist. I merely transferred them to the textlist for transport ships. Does not effect overall occurrence of empty beacons, but slightly decreases the variety of available texts for empty beacons.
This kind of leads to the question if the civilian transport encounters maybe should count as empty beacons as well...