It's also not full of faction mods that feature lots of weird ass stuff that not really fit in the game, more in a total conversion of the game. I personally run a dozen (necessary IMO) utility mods and two minor factions (Tiandong, Roiders) that are both visually and gameplay wise vanilla compliant.
Price comparison between the metals you had in storage and the luxury goods on the planet would've made an effortless decision to swap apparent. Loving your vids. Exceptionally well explained at all levels.
I'm a new viewer coming in and it's great to see some content for the game that shows decision making and why certain things are chosen, as well as ways to make money in the game. Thanks for the videos so far and keep up the good work.
Currently the best Starsector let's play. I do agree with some of the other comments, however, the audio is a little quite, even though you do sound great.
Just to give my two cents about the volume issue: I can hear you well with my headphones on, I don't really find it necessary to turn it up. Also, I think you forgot to set a cut at around 20:45 Keep up the good work, love the gameplay and explanations at the same time!
I have been playing Starsector for week now and i have a very good tip when you start a new game... 1. try to buy a fuel ship and Cargo Ship beacuse ruuning out of fuel in the middle of no where is a ticket to hell and at the beginning you will have to do quest like a direct Ship or abadon mining outpost etc having a cargo mean more more salvage form this abadon place (i have to dump a lot of thing because i ran out of space which is very suck) 2. You can click on intel an learn that every world in core world is already servey why is this useful? Because some world are not yet colonize and have ruin in them so running arould searh all the ruin in core world is very good for geting some money early on (i made 200,000 Credit by only serch ruin in core world) 3. Try to get some crew and heavy machinary is a good idea due to a lot of serach and explore like abadon place and ruin required a lot of this. 4 i have try a lot of ship type but the best ship i have is Owen and Tempest i have only this 2 ship type and manage to destroy a pirate carrier fleet that have 90,000 bounty reward tempest usually cost 42,500 and i think owen cost around 28,000 it is so worth the money having like 5 of each ship type. The independent faction usually sell them 5. Like in the vedio triverse jump is very good if you need to get out of system fast like in the case of smuggler 6. Speaking of smuggler it can be a lot of benefit if you try to sell drug or organ to black market NEVER DO BUSNIESS IN THE MARKET BECAUSE THE PRICE AND TAX WILL KILL YOU!!! so try to do busniess in black market but beaware of patrol because they will going after you 100% so try to get triverse jump first and my favourite thing to sell is drug because most of the faction need it but they ban it except the Tri-something so buy drug from them and sell it to other faction is good idea. 7.i forgot to mention this but NEVER!!! EVER!!!! SELL A SHIP BLUEPRINT AT THE BLACK MARKET beacause pirate can buy the blueprint and build the damn ship i have lost 1 of my game beacuse i have to fight pirate task force that have a goddamn paragon battleship. if you have blue print sell it in the market because it is good to lost some money than fighing a pirate paragon. I think that all i know if anything i say is wrong plz tell me i only play it for week so i am not that expert and willing to listen to other people tip.
An addon to tip 7 is you can actually make pirate fleets less powerful by selling Luddic Path blueprints on the black market. Luddic Path ships are roughly the same power level as Pirate ships, except they're designed to be flown by reckless officers. Pirates have less of those than the Pathers. Also, with the increased speed and use of burn drives in Luddic Path ships, they sometimes break off from the main pirate fleet in combat accidentally; during the early parts of combat this can make small handfuls of cruisers and destroyers charge headlong into your fleet unsupported, and when they're fighting they sometimes fling their support ships out into nowhere. Overall, selling the pirates Luddic path blueprints was a good investment for me.
I’m in the end game but really enjoy your relaxed videos. I’m even learning things I never paid much attention to during my gameplay experience prior, thanks!
I've used timid officers for my LRM carriers - they'll only stay within range of the pilum launchers, but their fighter wings do the work rather than the carrier itself
I love this game, but I suck so much at it I can't get past a few ingame weeks before I'm blown to pieces. Your LP and advice helped me last ENTIRE DAYS more before I'm blown to pieces. My only viable strategy by now is FFEB (Flee From Every Battle), so I buy cheap ships as suicide lightning rods that I sacrifice while the main fleet chickens away.
Hi, I got new into playing Starsector. Great Game and I was happy finding your videos. I'm really sorry, that you haven't managed to keep up making content. You have a great way to explain the game and a favorable voice to listen to. I started making TH-cam content myself 9 years ago, became father and gave it up because of new priorities. But I've been bad in doing it, you are not. Hopefully you will find time in future again to make new content, now as the game finally becomes a little bit more known in mainstream.
You mention scuttling ships that you salvage; I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that selecting to not salvage available ships automatically scuttles them, so salvaging and then manually scuttling them isn't necessary. I think. It does mention somewhere in one of those screens that ships you don't salvage will result in additional supplies instead, so I just assume it means automatically scuttling them, since that makes sense.
I *believe* that you are correct, but I don't have the hard data to confirm it, which is why I mentioned them separately. I'll have to get around to testing it one of these days. (If you happen to have a link to the reference about additional supplies, that would be awesome)
@@jdcollie258 You can see in your own video here at 14:12 in the text: "Recovering ships instead of breaking them for salvage will greatly reduce the salvage gained from these ships."
@@firockfinion3326 I can see what you mean. I'll have to look into it more and confirm that it means you gain more salvage from breaking them immediately after the battle, rather than just meaning that recovering the ships will greatly reduce post-battle salvage, but not actually affect the total should you break them later.
loving your videos, totally new to the game such a steep learning curve! your videos are helping me greatly. one question, what are and where do I get those red laser drones you always deploy? they look well handy, take a ship out by themselves pretty much, or at least finish it off. want.
Thanks to videos like this I finally have profitable colonies making fancy battlecruisers and I'm not desperate for money smuggling goods pissing off every faction. :p
Hey! Thanks again for your nicely done videos! I have started out and concentrated on early salvaging and can confirm that allocation of skill points as explained helped me get to 1 Mio credits by exploring systems with the "low danger" warning beacons. Question: should I be holding on to the Alpha AI cores, pristine nanoforges etc... for colonies later in the game or do you recommend focussing first on the fleet converting everything into cash?
I think your point about Ludic Path Blueprints is valid, but it might sell LP Ships short (tho most of them are indeed barely better than pirate junk), imo especially LP Lashers in Vanilla are incredibly good in the early game, just stick some Chainguns on those puppies and melt through anything the game throws at you early. In fact doing a smuggling run to a LP Base and snatching a few of those is very viable imo.
Do you get more supplies by salvaging + scuttling a ship, rather than just skipping the salvage phase and go straight into the loot screen? Loving the series by the way.
@@Gilazel I've played with this a bit and from my results I would say salvage is only sacrificed if you repair the ship. You should make the same amount if you look at options and choose to leave them
just started playing again, too bad you don't post more vids. I don't really know what im doing but after seeing how you utilize the fast attack frigates im getting a better handle on combat. I still suck at it though.
Yeah I'm taking big notes myself. I struggle a lot with the combat, but seeing some things like this have helped me get better at it. Keep at it, you really do get better.
@@kream404 yes, a permanent debuff which needs a hull restoration to remove ships with many d-mods are used by pirates, luddic path and normal factions which don't have any planets with a pristine nanoforge
I always take more loot skill first, then 2 others salvaging skills then technologies later. Looting ruins in civilized worlds are quite easy way to get fast money early in the game. Especially when you get ai cores.
Noob question if your AI ships are in a battle should you have all your weapon groups on autofire. Also what is the difference between linked and alternating fire.
AI ships manage their own weapon groups, including your ship if you put it on autopilot. Linked weapons fire simultaneously, while alternating, well, alternate. You won't notice with fast firing weapons, but with things like antimatter blasters, you will see a noticeable difference. Generally alternating have more even flux generation, but lower spike damage than linked.
@@daveanthonyvillasista6987 Well in answer to my own question, I found 2 14th battlegroup Legion class carriers drifting around in systems. On recovery they both had D mods so I restored them and promptly left them sitting in storage on my homeworld because the Conquest class is my baby.
where to buy a better ship? i'm lvl 35 and my best ships available are something like light cruiser, i can't handle bounties because most of the time the enemies have like 30 ships, while i must rely onto my hammerheads or enforcers, which isn't enough. any tips?
Use wolf class frigates with point defense or overdrive autofits to take care of smaller envoys and 'some' light cruisers, this will really help when trying to fight other cruisers with hammer heads and overwhelming force from the wolfs and any other ship that uses kenetic, HE, or energy weapons.
Depends very much on how your fleet is built. I think it is probably easier to get profitable smuggling underway (since freighters are cheaper and more common than good combat ships), and you can combine it on occasion with legitimate procurement and delivery contracts. If you're talking about pure credits, I *believe* smuggling would probably be the winner. On the other hand, bounty hunting is quite profitable on it's own, and hinges nicely with exploration, which can be insanely profitable. (Not to mention helping you find colonizeable planets earlier) Additionally bounty hunting can give you access to rare hulls through salvage, and will also net you a great deal of experience via combat. You'll also gain a lot of rep from your bounties, and bounties scale upward, making the later ones worth hundreds of thousands of credits each. It probably isn't as directly profitable as smuggling, but it has a lot of 'soft' perks as well, making it a better option than it might seem on paper. Honestly I'd go with whatever you enjoy more. Both are completely legitimate ways to make a living in Starsector. (And it's not like you have to pick between them, you can do both!)
I cover this a bit in the New Player's Guide: Refitting. Like moosig says, the information card for a ship won't have any information about "shield upkeep", "shield arc", or "shield damage/flux" if it does not have a shield. In practice, there are only a few ships that don't have shields, and you'll learn to recognize them fairly quickly.
Dude you're literally making best starsector let's play at this moment
facts
It's encouraging to hear that, thanks! :D
It's also not full of faction mods that feature lots of weird ass stuff that not really fit in the game, more in a total conversion of the game.
I personally run a dozen (necessary IMO) utility mods and two minor factions (Tiandong, Roiders) that are both visually and gameplay wise vanilla compliant.
says hes going to cut more often then proceeds to not cut and we can hear everything hes doing ;P
0:42 dude what. your beautiful soothing voice makes these videos great
Aw, thanks! I just tend to stutter a bit on video, which I don't do in person oddly enough.
Kinda like the starsector Bob Ross imo
In future videos can you up your audio. I have to turn my volume way up to hear your voice. Other than that I am loving the starsector videos
This please
Price comparison between the metals you had in storage and the luxury goods on the planet would've made an effortless decision to swap apparent. Loving your vids. Exceptionally well explained at all levels.
I'm a new viewer coming in and it's great to see some content for the game that shows decision making and why certain things are chosen, as well as ways to make money in the game. Thanks for the videos so far and keep up the good work.
Glad I could help!
Second this
Currently the best Starsector let's play.
I do agree with some of the other comments, however, the audio is a little quite, even though you do sound great.
I still haven't quite worked out a good default for the audio settings. It's a work in progress, unfortunately.
Just to give my two cents about the volume issue: I can hear you well with my headphones on, I don't really find it necessary to turn it up.
Also, I think you forgot to set a cut at around 20:45
Keep up the good work, love the gameplay and explanations at the same time!
I have been playing Starsector for week now and i have a very good tip when you start a new game...
1. try to buy a fuel ship and Cargo Ship beacuse ruuning out of fuel in the middle of no where is a ticket to hell and at the beginning you will have to do quest like a direct Ship or abadon mining outpost etc having a cargo mean more more salvage form this abadon place (i have to dump a lot of thing because i ran out of space which is very suck)
2. You can click on intel an learn that every world in core world is already servey why is this useful? Because some world are not yet colonize and have ruin in them so running arould searh all the ruin in core world is very good for geting some money early on (i made 200,000 Credit by only serch ruin in core world)
3. Try to get some crew and heavy machinary is a good idea due to a lot of serach and explore like abadon place and ruin required a lot of this.
4 i have try a lot of ship type but the best ship i have is Owen and Tempest i have only this 2 ship type and manage to destroy a pirate carrier fleet that have 90,000 bounty reward tempest usually cost 42,500 and i think owen cost around 28,000 it is so worth the money having like 5 of each ship type. The independent faction usually sell them
5. Like in the vedio triverse jump is very good if you need to get out of system fast like in the case of smuggler
6. Speaking of smuggler it can be a lot of benefit if you try to sell drug or organ to black market NEVER DO BUSNIESS IN THE MARKET BECAUSE THE PRICE AND TAX WILL KILL YOU!!! so try to do busniess in black market but beaware of patrol because they will going after you 100% so try to get triverse jump first and my favourite thing to sell is drug because most of the faction need it but they ban it except the Tri-something so buy drug from them and sell it to other faction is good idea.
7.i forgot to mention this but NEVER!!! EVER!!!! SELL A SHIP BLUEPRINT AT THE BLACK MARKET beacause pirate can buy the blueprint and build the damn ship i have lost 1 of my game beacuse i have to fight pirate task force that have a goddamn paragon battleship. if you have blue print sell it in the market because it is good to lost some money than fighing a pirate paragon.
I think that all i know if anything i say is wrong plz tell me i only play it for week so i am not that expert and willing to listen to other people tip.
Colonel Ohm Great tips!
@@kazimierz3000 Thank You!!!
These are some great tips! Never fear, I'll be covering a lot of this on my Guide to Exploration and Discovery video.
@@jdcollie258 Wow!!! Thank You!!!
An addon to tip 7 is you can actually make pirate fleets less powerful by selling Luddic Path blueprints on the black market. Luddic Path ships are roughly the same power level as Pirate ships, except they're designed to be flown by reckless officers. Pirates have less of those than the Pathers.
Also, with the increased speed and use of burn drives in Luddic Path ships, they sometimes break off from the main pirate fleet in combat accidentally; during the early parts of combat this can make small handfuls of cruisers and destroyers charge headlong into your fleet unsupported, and when they're fighting they sometimes fling their support ships out into nowhere.
Overall, selling the pirates Luddic path blueprints was a good investment for me.
I’m in the end game but really enjoy your relaxed videos. I’m even learning things I never paid much attention to during my gameplay experience prior, thanks!
Reckless!
Safety Override!
Best match!
Are you ready?
Space Jihad!
Rip-off Luddic Path: Electric Bangaroo
Yeah!.... wait oh SH-T!
I've used timid officers for my LRM carriers - they'll only stay within range of the pilum launchers, but their fighter wings do the work rather than the carrier itself
I love this game, but I suck so much at it I can't get past a few ingame weeks before I'm blown to pieces.
Your LP and advice helped me last ENTIRE DAYS more before I'm blown to pieces.
My only viable strategy by now is FFEB (Flee From Every Battle), so I buy cheap ships as suicide lightning rods that I sacrifice while the main fleet chickens away.
Just farm galatia demand with transverse jump rush
Truly, the Bob Ross of StarSector. ;)
I did not know half of this, thanks a lot.
Great videos my dude very informative looking forward to the rest of your playthrough 🐈
Hi, I got new into playing Starsector. Great Game and I was happy finding your videos. I'm really sorry, that you haven't managed to keep up making content. You have a great way to explain the game and a favorable voice to listen to. I started making TH-cam content myself 9 years ago, became father and gave it up because of new priorities. But I've been bad in doing it, you are not. Hopefully you will find time in future again to make new content, now as the game finally becomes a little bit more known in mainstream.
I like your videos! You have a relaxing voice
yes a video
You mention scuttling ships that you salvage; I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that selecting to not salvage available ships automatically scuttles them, so salvaging and then manually scuttling them isn't necessary. I think. It does mention somewhere in one of those screens that ships you don't salvage will result in additional supplies instead, so I just assume it means automatically scuttling them, since that makes sense.
I *believe* that you are correct, but I don't have the hard data to confirm it, which is why I mentioned them separately. I'll have to get around to testing it one of these days. (If you happen to have a link to the reference about additional supplies, that would be awesome)
@@jdcollie258 You can see in your own video here at 14:12 in the text: "Recovering ships instead of breaking them for salvage will greatly reduce the salvage gained from these ships."
@@firockfinion3326 I can see what you mean. I'll have to look into it more and confirm that it means you gain more salvage from breaking them immediately after the battle, rather than just meaning that recovering the ships will greatly reduce post-battle salvage, but not actually affect the total should you break them later.
I can just click on like before watching it.
Feels good :)
loving your videos, totally new to the game such a steep learning curve! your videos are helping me greatly. one question, what are and where do I get those red laser drones you always deploy? they look well handy, take a ship out by themselves pretty much, or at least finish it off. want.
Thanks to videos like this I finally have profitable colonies making fancy battlecruisers and I'm not desperate for money smuggling goods pissing off every faction. :p
The beginning of this was so cute haha
Hey! Thanks again for your nicely done videos! I have started out and concentrated on early salvaging and can confirm that allocation of skill points as explained helped me get to 1 Mio credits by exploring systems with the "low danger" warning beacons. Question: should I be holding on to the Alpha AI cores, pristine nanoforges etc... for colonies later in the game or do you recommend focussing first on the fleet converting everything into cash?
I think your point about Ludic Path Blueprints is valid, but it might sell LP Ships short (tho most of them are indeed barely better than pirate junk), imo especially LP Lashers in Vanilla are incredibly good in the early game, just stick some Chainguns on those puppies and melt through anything the game throws at you early. In fact doing a smuggling run to a LP Base and snatching a few of those is very viable imo.
Do you get more supplies by salvaging + scuttling a ship, rather than just skipping the salvage phase and go straight into the loot screen?
Loving the series by the way.
Im almost sure u loose a bit of supplies when checking the ship status instead of insta going to the loot screen
@@Gilazel I've played with this a bit and from my results I would say salvage is only sacrificed if you repair the ship. You should make the same amount if you look at options and choose to leave them
just started playing again, too bad you don't post more vids. I don't really know what im doing but after seeing how you utilize the fast attack frigates im getting a better handle on combat. I still suck at it though.
Yeah I'm taking big notes myself. I struggle a lot with the combat, but seeing some things like this have helped me get better at it. Keep at it, you really do get better.
21:10 you forgot your own editing note for cutting the video. made the whole minute of you talking about editing the video seem really comedical
lol, oh well, I get much more consistent about it as the series progresses :D
I have a question, at 10:27
The enemies ships at the bottom, what do the orange bars in the top right of their icons represent?
number of d-mods
each bar is a d-mod
@@spicreb by d mod do you mean like a debuff? hull integrity etc.
@@kream404 Yes, they are more or less permanent debuffs. You can remove them from the refit screen but that can cost more than the ship is worth.
Thank you, i didnt realize the more a ship had THE WORSE a ship was, i had the opposite impression lol
@@kream404 yes, a permanent debuff which needs a hull restoration to remove
ships with many d-mods are used by pirates, luddic path and normal factions which don't have any planets with a pristine nanoforge
I always take more loot skill first, then 2 others salvaging skills then technologies later. Looting ruins in civilized worlds are quite easy way to get fast money early in the game. Especially when you get ai cores.
Hyper spa , what? its called the Warp, son !
WoW!!
You say you are going to cut and then you don't. Listening to drink and blow your nose in complete silence...
What faction is good to buy carriers and fighters from if you like to go heavy into carriers
This game reminds me of Avorion.
Would love to have a ship named after me, I'm learning so much from your videos.
Noob question if your AI ships are in a battle should you have all your weapon groups on autofire. Also what is the difference between linked and alternating fire.
AI ships manage their own weapon groups, including your ship if you put it on autopilot.
Linked weapons fire simultaneously, while alternating, well, alternate. You won't notice with fast firing weapons, but with things like antimatter blasters, you will see a noticeable difference. Generally alternating have more even flux generation, but lower spike damage than linked.
@@jdcollie258 Cheers for the advice mate.
Are there any ships that are worth refitting to get rid of D mods? Or should you just hold out to buy a functional version of any ship?
Very rare ones that you can't buy or build (yet)...
Spoiler
Like Sierra...
@@daveanthonyvillasista6987 Well in answer to my own question, I found 2 14th battlegroup Legion class carriers drifting around in systems. On recovery they both had D mods so I restored them and promptly left them sitting in storage on my homeworld because the Conquest class is my baby.
can you take over and RUN a station upt staf in them ?
you should increase your sound post prod i can barely hear you without a headset
where to buy a better ship? i'm lvl 35 and my best ships available are something like light cruiser, i can't handle bounties because most of the time the enemies have like 30 ships, while i must rely onto my hammerheads or enforcers, which isn't enough. any tips?
Use wolf class frigates with point defense or overdrive autofits to take care of smaller envoys and 'some' light cruisers, this will really help when trying to fight other cruisers with hammer heads and overwhelming force from the wolfs and any other ship that uses kenetic, HE, or energy weapons.
@@Db_JarlVik-xbx i found a solution torpedoing those Onslaughts with Afflictor worked. now i have another problem - bounties with 10+ conquests)
Hey which one do you think is more profitable: smuggling or bounty hunting
Depends very much on how your fleet is built.
I think it is probably easier to get profitable smuggling underway (since freighters are cheaper and more common than good combat ships), and you can combine it on occasion with legitimate procurement and delivery contracts. If you're talking about pure credits, I *believe* smuggling would probably be the winner.
On the other hand, bounty hunting is quite profitable on it's own, and hinges nicely with exploration, which can be insanely profitable. (Not to mention helping you find colonizeable planets earlier) Additionally bounty hunting can give you access to rare hulls through salvage, and will also net you a great deal of experience via combat. You'll also gain a lot of rep from your bounties, and bounties scale upward, making the later ones worth hundreds of thousands of credits each. It probably isn't as directly profitable as smuggling, but it has a lot of 'soft' perks as well, making it a better option than it might seem on paper.
Honestly I'd go with whatever you enjoy more. Both are completely legitimate ways to make a living in Starsector. (And it's not like you have to pick between them, you can do both!)
@@jdcollie258 Thank you very much!
How do you know which ships are shielded and which are not?
it says in the ship info on the rigt side shield capacity or something. if there is nothing, there are no shields.
I cover this a bit in the New Player's Guide: Refitting. Like moosig says, the information card for a ship won't have any information about "shield upkeep", "shield arc", or "shield damage/flux" if it does not have a shield.
In practice, there are only a few ships that don't have shields, and you'll learn to recognize them fairly quickly.
Love it - any chance to increase upload frequency on this let's play?
Very nice but please make your mic louder
Can I be a carrier named the raging spider if not that’s ok
You've been added to the list!
Thanks! Look forward to the series
Speak louder cause audio is painful.
uwu yiff yiff
oh no