The loot from scavenging those core worlds can be insane, I misclicked on a planet with ruins and ended up looting an Alpha Core. Next to a Luddic Church planet to add to the hilarity.
I think when travelling between star systems you should just speed up the video instead of cutting it. It makes it less confusing for the viewers and maintains continuity.
Real life [especially family] is always a priority over youtube, we all are completely fine with you focusing on what really matters! I have a name for your ships list, the "Firefly" ;)
In the second game I've played (just got the game) The planet Garnir (pirate world in core systems) was decivilized after I raided it repeatedly with marines and lowered its stability to zero. It did have ruins to explore, but there wasn't a ton there. I'm guessing because it got raided into oblivion beforehand.
Probably. You can loot items from colonies when you raid them. (Like taking a nanoforge from a planet's heavy industry, for example) so it's possible everything of value was already gone.
little tip, transverse jump is faster for getting out of a system and can even be lighter on the suplies if you factor in the maintenance cost of flying to the warp point
About the transponder thing: It depends? Some systems with factions that have planets/stations set to "Free Ports" seem to indeed ignore transponders. However, their "stable" systems usually don't have "Free Port" on any planets and thus will require you to have the transponder on. So it really depends on which system we're talking about. Like for example Mayasura - neither the Tri-Tac nor the League will bother with you if you don't have your transponder on. Sorry if this was already mentioned.
Thanks to you, ive been playing this game a lot - lovin it. Something i noticed in my playthrough is that the Omen is completely OP. With unstable injector, safety overrides, and hardened subsystems for maximum OP. It only costs 14K, i have 13 of them built just like that. Nothing has been able to stop me, short of stations. Every now and then i loose one ship, but it's easy to replace. Also i used converted hangar on all my mules... which makes them insane. Compared to my odyssey which costs 45 pts to deploy with 2 wings, i can deploy a mule with 1 wing for 7 pts! This gives me serious fighter power, using the medium universal on the mule for missiles and the rest gets ballistic pd. Ive played for 2 days and made over 3M smuggling with TT. I also kicked the hegemony out of Vallhalla. Thanks for introducing me to this game, try a few omens in your next fleet, it's definitely the beast of the frigates!
This is the first video ive ever seen on you tube more then an hour old that doesn't have any down votes, i honestly started to think it was just an automatic system. Sadly pointing out this fact probably jinxed it sry. Loving these videos - know im late to the party but thanks.
After seeing the comment about core world ruins I restarted (bought the game after watching Sseths videos, instantly bought and started watching yours!)....I was struggling for money in the first run through, deliveries etc rarely netting more than 5k profit after replenishing fuel and supplies. On my first 4 ruins I found 3 alpha cores, 2 beta cores, and 2 gamma cores, 2 corrupted nanoforges, plus about 3 ship blueprint packs (the ones that have a load of ships/weapons etc) and a load of module blueprints. I had quite a bit of money after selling all that (I kept the blueprints to learn) and built a nice little fleet with a bit more security, a freighter, salvage rig, etc. I kind of wish I'd kept an alpha core or 2 but needs must as it was costly exploring all those locations.
Well, Try-Tachion planets allow you to dock without a transponder. However, their security fleets will still stop and search you if you're running without a transponder in Try-Tachion space; I learnt that the hard way today ;(
Now that you've made me learn that Pirates will use blueprints you sell to them. Do blueprints affect the pirates faction in its entirety or specific fleets or by sectors? Because that gave me the idea of fighting other factions in a indirect way by using Pirates against them. But that depends to what extent I could concentrate the pirates efforts on certain sectors/factions.
Be careful using the pirates as a weapon. They're one of two factions you cannot eradicate from the sector (the other being the Luddic Path). Even if you wipe every pirate planet and station from the sector, they will keep spawning.
About Gas Giant surveying, I've had a profitable Gas Giant survey at 150 supplies. The Gas Giant had the largest ruins possible and exploring those provided me with two alpha cores which gave a good profit once sold to Tri-Tachyon. So before deciding not to survey Gas Giants, at least see if they have satellites orbiting them, since ruins can very well be worth the extra supplies.
Of course, which is why I generally glance at them before moving on. Still, having a gas giant be profitable to survey is *incredibly* rare, to the point where the average player simply isn't going to lose out much by ignoring them.
I can confirm that overlapping fleets are strong. I managed to.... Somehow.... Take over the Askonia system, colonizing 5 of the planets there. The resulting defense force repels everything that looks at me funny.
Do you know what the -Weapon recoil skill does? I believe it's the left-most technology skill. I haven't really noticed that my weapons slow down my speed or anything, and I've seen no mention of weapon recoil otherwise. On another note, will you be doing colonization in this series? I've started to consider it lately since I'm hitting the 1-1.5 milion credits number, only to get it constantly lowered by my ever increasing upkeep costs. Aparently colonies help with income, but I'm fairly clueless on the matter. I hope the baby is doing well. My sister's baby boy also had a prolonged time in hospital due to him being much tinier than usual upon his birth, but he's doing great now, at over a year old. I hope your son will as well!
Recoil is the dispersion effect you see when firing weapon over a long period of time. The "V" of the weapon arc will get wider the longer you fire, to a point anyway. It's not on all weapons, but a lot of ballistic weapons have it. Colonization is definitely on it's way. I just need to find a system worth colonizing, have a fleet capable of defending the territory once I get started. Both are probably a little bit off (though that system I found in this episode is certainly promising) Thanks for the well wishes! My son is doing pretty well, all things considered, gaining weight and such very well. It's mostly just that new baby crunch going on right now.
lol. yup. i think i still have a few videos i've uploaded - muted. i'll probably eventually weed them out (i try to test before i upload but...well, you know) it's that darned shadowplay from nvidia...the settings isn't the most user friendly
I don't really know what I'm doing in my game, just smuggling illegal things, selling space marines to terrorists and constantly figuring out of how I can make more money, I have like 2M of credits, blueprints valued in more than 3M that I don't wanna sell, and almost every faction is suspecting about me 😂 I just want my own colony, but I'm too scared about launching myself to the monetary end game 😅
get like 6 collossus with +2 burn and shielded engines for 50% less sensor profile (with better go dark ability my SP is like 200 or something) and smuggle until you have 10-20 million credits at least, doing a lot of exploration so you don't get too bored. Finding a proper starsystem to colonize (low hr, farmland/organic- ore/rare ore- voletiles with at least one stable location, all in close proximity to each other) is a rare find in the galaxy. And you need like 20-25 mil credits if you want max defense as soon as possible with cash to spare for hegemony penis inspection or whatever. Also as many Alpha cores as you can find (with at least few pristine nanoforges and fuel ones too). All that should make you ready for a proper first colony starsystem. Also smuggle with id off (with proper fleet many terrorists/pirates will just run away from you anyway so the only hard part is buying stuff) mate.
Hey JDCollie! Loving the walkthrough! Just a question, what other games interest you? any games coming out in the future you want to play? or some that are already out?
There is I think just one type of domain era probe which has a shield. Its a destroyer sized hull I think, and doesnt appear very often. Or it might be a cruiser, not sure. Either way, quite rare, and even so I imagine their shield stats are all around trash, though I havent checked.
The survey data mechanic is very unintuitive, when I was playing I didn't want to sell any of my high-class survey results because the tooltip suggests that it would mean the good planets you've found wouldn't be private anymore (i.e. they'd be developed by whoever you sold the data to). In the end it turns out that's not true at all.
It's also impossible to find planets which you've surveyed previously by looking at the survey data in your cargo. Instead you have to remember, note it down, or scour the map.
Corona isn't nearly as damaging as you think it is. It's not like you should park your ship inside of it and take a nap, but the majority of the cr degredation you entered that fight with was caused by activating emergency burn. Dipping into corona to salvage something is perfectly safe.
True, though by the time I was able to exit the corona after the fight, the CR degradation from the corona was roughly equal to that caused by the emergency burn.
Hey, I'm glad you can unite with your newborn son! I have a question. I've established a compact little colony web with 350k custom production budget in Penelope's Star(and I must say it's quite pleasant there) and I think I'm ready to dip my toes into some capitals. I've got Paragon and Onslaught blueprints and I've been wondering if you could suggest some capitals that are good for me. I have a mostly midline fleet and I don't know shit about capitals.
4 paragons should be more than enough for the end game battles, but they're costly to use and pretty slow, you will have quite a problem with catching up with faster enemy fleets. For skirmishes I actually recommend using fast cruisers and destroyers.
For your defense fleets, paragons are the ultimate answer. They steamroll the autoresolve formula. For your own fleet, the paragon is still a fantastic option due to it's incredible survivability and massive fire projection power. The Onslaught is similarly powerful in the right hands, but is a lot less forgiving of pilot error. The plus side is you can field three onslaughts for the cost of two paragons.
See? 13mins of the 37 minute video is you talking about what you did off camera. I mean WTH? If you have mike issues, delete the footage, reload the save at the end of the previous video, and record again from there like nothing happened.
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the salvaging skill does affect planets the salvaging ships do not. do not sell fuel cores and Nano forges on the black market Pirates use them do not sell them to a faction you don't want to make stronger it's best to keep them in someplace safe for yourself and hoard them. your strategy is flawed on finding ruins on planets I found ruins on planets that do not have any floating debris around them.
If you could provide some evidence that the salvaging skill affects planets, I would be interested to see it. Neither the wiki nor the ingame tooltip say anything about it affecting planetary salvage. However, the way the ruins are coded though certainly make it a possibility. I'm just going with what the tooltips say due to lack of definite conflicting evidence. I'm aware of this of the nanoforge/core mechanic, but I didn't really address it in the episode, I'll bring it up next time. If you could provide evidence of planets without debris having ruins, that would be great to see. A sector seed with the system and planet in question would be enough for me to check out.
fuel cores and nanoforges are safe to sell on the black market. They'll only ever be used if sold on the open market and if the market in question has an industry to put them on. There isnt really a reason to hoard synchotrons or corrupted forges either, you get enough pristine forges where you dont really need corrupted forges (not really enough pristine ones to just casually sell them though) and you get way more synchotrons than you'll ever be able to use.
Jesus christ. 2 seconds in the video, and you suddenly have 370k+ credits. The interesting part is seeing how you get there, not the part where you spend it for fucks sake.
2020 - Looking back on all this talk about the terrible effects of Corona, we should have listened to JDCollie.
"Things tend to spawn near stuff"
-JDCollie, 2019 AD
Definitely words to live by.
That Corona really does a number on your CR.
Prophetic.
The loot from scavenging those core worlds can be insane, I misclicked on a planet with ruins and ended up looting an Alpha Core. Next to a Luddic Church planet to add to the hilarity.
Are those the peaceful guys or the terrorist guys?
@@Thalanox The peaceful ones. The distinction doesn't matter in this context though, planetary loot is random.
@@Thalanox space Jihadists aka the Luddic path
I think when travelling between star systems you should just speed up the video instead of cutting it. It makes it less confusing for the viewers and maintains continuity.
I disagree. I'm rather for skipping (Like right now) or uncut
Real life [especially family] is always a priority over youtube, we all are completely fine with you focusing on what really matters!
I have a name for your ships list, the "Firefly"
;)
Yeah. Congratulations JD. I'm expecting my first in about a month and a half.
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@@imperialus1 Thanks! And congratulations to you too, it's a crazy ride, but a heck of a lot of fun :D
I hope you and your child are doing fine, it's great to hear you've got your priorities straight
In the second game I've played (just got the game) The planet Garnir (pirate world in core systems) was decivilized after I raided it repeatedly with marines and lowered its stability to zero. It did have ruins to explore, but there wasn't a ton there. I'm guessing because it got raided into oblivion beforehand.
Probably. You can loot items from colonies when you raid them. (Like taking a nanoforge from a planet's heavy industry, for example) so it's possible everything of value was already gone.
little tip, transverse jump is faster for getting out of a system and can even be lighter on the suplies if you factor in the maintenance cost of flying to the warp point
Hope your son is ok dude. Great videos, really enjoying them.
About the transponder thing: It depends? Some systems with factions that have planets/stations set to "Free Ports" seem to indeed ignore transponders. However, their "stable" systems usually don't have "Free Port" on any planets and thus will require you to have the transponder on. So it really depends on which system we're talking about. Like for example Mayasura - neither the Tri-Tac nor the League will bother with you if you don't have your transponder on.
Sorry if this was already mentioned.
Thanks to you, ive been playing this game a lot - lovin it. Something i noticed in my playthrough is that the Omen is completely OP. With unstable injector, safety overrides, and hardened subsystems for maximum OP. It only costs 14K, i have 13 of them built just like that. Nothing has been able to stop me, short of stations. Every now and then i loose one ship, but it's easy to replace. Also i used converted hangar on all my mules... which makes them insane. Compared to my odyssey which costs 45 pts to deploy with 2 wings, i can deploy a mule with 1 wing for 7 pts! This gives me serious fighter power, using the medium universal on the mule for missiles and the rest gets ballistic pd. Ive played for 2 days and made over 3M smuggling with TT. I also kicked the hegemony out of Vallhalla. Thanks for introducing me to this game, try a few omens in your next fleet, it's definitely the beast of the frigates!
Indeed it is. The omen is a monster for it's size and OP cost. I may give the converted hanger a shot on the mules, it sounds fun!
This is the first video ive ever seen on you tube more then an hour old that doesn't have any down votes, i honestly started to think it was just an automatic system.
Sadly pointing out this fact probably jinxed it sry.
Loving these videos - know im late to the party but thanks.
After seeing the comment about core world ruins I restarted (bought the game after watching Sseths videos, instantly bought and started watching yours!)....I was struggling for money in the first run through, deliveries etc rarely netting more than 5k profit after replenishing fuel and supplies. On my first 4 ruins I found 3 alpha cores, 2 beta cores, and 2 gamma cores, 2 corrupted nanoforges, plus about 3 ship blueprint packs (the ones that have a load of ships/weapons etc) and a load of module blueprints. I had quite a bit of money after selling all that (I kept the blueprints to learn) and built a nice little fleet with a bit more security, a freighter, salvage rig, etc. I kind of wish I'd kept an alpha core or 2 but needs must as it was costly exploring all those locations.
Well, Try-Tachion planets allow you to dock without a transponder. However, their security fleets will still stop and search you if you're running without a transponder in Try-Tachion space; I learnt that the hard way today ;(
well yhea evry station lets you dock without an transponder on
Big ups man
Great video, I've been enjoying and learning from your lets play, I wish you good luck with you and your son!
Thank you for your great series and enjoy peaceful nights until you still can. ;-)
Now that you've made me learn that Pirates will use blueprints you sell to them. Do blueprints affect the pirates faction in its entirety or specific fleets or by sectors? Because that gave me the idea of fighting other factions in a indirect way by using Pirates against them. But that depends to what extent I could concentrate the pirates efforts on certain sectors/factions.
It affects all pirate fleets across the sector, no matter the source point, within normal production patterns.
if you sell blueprints to pirates and makes Pirates overall stronger in the whole entire universe
Be careful using the pirates as a weapon. They're one of two factions you cannot eradicate from the sector (the other being the Luddic Path). Even if you wipe every pirate planet and station from the sector, they will keep spawning.
Nice, a new video. Feel free to name a ship Fogelklou next time you find a new one.
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“See that corona - it does a number on your CR”. True now more than ever…
About Gas Giant surveying, I've had a profitable Gas Giant survey at 150 supplies. The Gas Giant had the largest ruins possible and exploring those provided me with two alpha cores which gave a good profit once sold to Tri-Tachyon.
So before deciding not to survey Gas Giants, at least see if they have satellites orbiting them, since ruins can very well be worth the extra supplies.
Of course, which is why I generally glance at them before moving on. Still, having a gas giant be profitable to survey is *incredibly* rare, to the point where the average player simply isn't going to lose out much by ignoring them.
I can confirm that overlapping fleets are strong. I managed to.... Somehow.... Take over the Askonia system, colonizing 5 of the planets there. The resulting defense force repels everything that looks at me funny.
Do you know what the -Weapon recoil skill does? I believe it's the left-most technology skill. I haven't really noticed that my weapons slow down my speed or anything, and I've seen no mention of weapon recoil otherwise.
On another note, will you be doing colonization in this series? I've started to consider it lately since I'm hitting the 1-1.5 milion credits number, only to get it constantly lowered by my ever increasing upkeep costs. Aparently colonies help with income, but I'm fairly clueless on the matter.
I hope the baby is doing well. My sister's baby boy also had a prolonged time in hospital due to him being much tinier than usual upon his birth, but he's doing great now, at over a year old. I hope your son will as well!
Recoil is the dispersion effect you see when firing weapon over a long period of time. The "V" of the weapon arc will get wider the longer you fire, to a point anyway. It's not on all weapons, but a lot of ballistic weapons have it.
Colonization is definitely on it's way. I just need to find a system worth colonizing, have a fleet capable of defending the territory once I get started. Both are probably a little bit off (though that system I found in this episode is certainly promising)
Thanks for the well wishes! My son is doing pretty well, all things considered, gaining weight and such very well. It's mostly just that new baby crunch going on right now.
Fully half of the recommended videos in my feed right now are Sseth's, and none of them are his Starsector video. That's wild.
If I can request a specific ship to be named? I'd like the Salvage Rig to be named 'Rip and Tear!'
I have no problem with requests, though I do operate on a first-come-first-serve basis. (Luckily, you're first!)
lol. yup. i think i still have a few videos i've uploaded - muted. i'll probably eventually weed them out (i try to test before i upload but...well, you know)
it's that darned shadowplay from nvidia...the settings isn't the most user friendly
I don't really know what I'm doing in my game, just smuggling illegal things, selling space marines to terrorists and constantly figuring out of how I can make more money, I have like 2M of credits, blueprints valued in more than 3M that I don't wanna sell, and almost every faction is suspecting about me 😂
I just want my own colony, but I'm too scared about launching myself to the monetary end game 😅
Don't. The worst that could happen is you get wiped. Since you cannot die and keep all your talents, you can rebuild incredibly quickly.
get like 6 collossus with +2 burn and shielded engines for 50% less sensor profile (with better go dark ability my SP is like 200 or something) and smuggle until you have 10-20 million credits at least, doing a lot of exploration so you don't get too bored. Finding a proper starsystem to colonize (low hr, farmland/organic- ore/rare ore- voletiles with at least one stable location, all in close proximity to each other) is a rare find in the galaxy. And you need like 20-25 mil credits if you want max defense as soon as possible with cash to spare for hegemony penis inspection or whatever. Also as many Alpha cores as you can find (with at least few pristine nanoforges and fuel ones too). All that should make you ready for a proper first colony starsystem. Also smuggle with id off (with proper fleet many terrorists/pirates will just run away from you anyway so the only hard part is buying stuff) mate.
Hey JDCollie! Loving the walkthrough! Just a question, what other games interest you? any games coming out in the future you want to play? or some that are already out?
There is I think just one type of domain era probe which has a shield. Its a destroyer sized hull I think, and doesnt appear very often. Or it might be a cruiser, not sure. Either way, quite rare, and even so I imagine their shield stats are all around trash, though I havent checked.
The survey data mechanic is very unintuitive, when I was playing I didn't want to sell any of my high-class survey results because the tooltip suggests that it would mean the good planets you've found wouldn't be private anymore (i.e. they'd be developed by whoever you sold the data to). In the end it turns out that's not true at all.
It's also impossible to find planets which you've surveyed previously by looking at the survey data in your cargo. Instead you have to remember, note it down, or scour the map.
Every video I learn more, AMA sing I noob I am😄
Corona isn't nearly as damaging as you think it is. It's not like you should park your ship inside of it and take a nap, but the majority of the cr degredation you entered that fight with was caused by activating emergency burn. Dipping into corona to salvage something is perfectly safe.
True, though by the time I was able to exit the corona after the fight, the CR degradation from the corona was roughly equal to that caused by the emergency burn.
Aw fuck, I've literally been selling pirates most of my blueprints this whole time...
Pour voir les ruine dans le cœur du monde, tu peu utilisé la liste des planète trié par distance
Hey, I'm glad you can unite with your newborn son!
I have a question. I've established a compact little colony web with 350k custom production budget in Penelope's Star(and I must say it's quite pleasant there) and I think I'm ready to dip my toes into some capitals. I've got Paragon and Onslaught blueprints and I've been wondering if you could suggest some capitals that are good for me. I have a mostly midline fleet and I don't know shit about capitals.
4 paragons should be more than enough for the end game battles, but they're costly to use and pretty slow, you will have quite a problem with catching up with faster enemy fleets. For skirmishes I actually recommend using fast cruisers and destroyers.
For your defense fleets, paragons are the ultimate answer. They steamroll the autoresolve formula. For your own fleet, the paragon is still a fantastic option due to it's incredible survivability and massive fire projection power. The Onslaught is similarly powerful in the right hands, but is a lot less forgiving of pilot error. The plus side is you can field three onslaughts for the cost of two paragons.
What the fuck. I've been playing for weeks and had no idea about the tri-tach and transponder
See? 13mins of the 37 minute video is you talking about what you did off camera. I mean WTH? If you have mike issues, delete the footage, reload the save at the end of the previous video, and record again from there like nothing happened.
After watching your vids I can now say with 100% certainty you have weaponized my autism thank you, Sir
www.reddit.com/r/starsector/comments/cz9c3e/ramming_speed/
the salvaging skill does affect planets the salvaging ships do not.
do not sell fuel cores and Nano forges on the black market Pirates use them do not sell them to a faction you don't want to make stronger it's best to keep them in someplace safe for yourself and hoard them.
your strategy is flawed on finding ruins on planets I found ruins on planets that do not have any floating debris around them.
If you could provide some evidence that the salvaging skill affects planets, I would be interested to see it. Neither the wiki nor the ingame tooltip say anything about it affecting planetary salvage. However, the way the ruins are coded though certainly make it a possibility. I'm just going with what the tooltips say due to lack of definite conflicting evidence.
I'm aware of this of the nanoforge/core mechanic, but I didn't really address it in the episode, I'll bring it up next time.
If you could provide evidence of planets without debris having ruins, that would be great to see. A sector seed with the system and planet in question would be enough for me to check out.
Lol, nevermind. I was just salvaging a planet and it told me I had a 50% bonus to rare items. I'll definitely address this in the next video.
fuel cores and nanoforges are safe to sell on the black market. They'll only ever be used if sold on the open market and if the market in question has an industry to put them on. There isnt really a reason to hoard synchotrons or corrupted forges either, you get enough pristine forges where you dont really need corrupted forges (not really enough pristine ones to just casually sell them though) and you get way more synchotrons than you'll ever be able to use.
@@andrek6920 wrong Pirates will use them
@@savagefox3530 no they wont. Theyll only use BPs sold on the black market. Noone uses industry items sold on the black market.
Jesus christ. 2 seconds in the video, and you suddenly have 370k+ credits. The interesting part is seeing how you get there, not the part where you spend it for fucks sake.