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- Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:16 am
- Forum: Tips, Strategy & Guides
- Topic: Did you know? List little tips and tricks here!
- Replies: 304
- Views: 442135
Re: Did you know? List little tips and tricks here!
With the crystal lockdown ability, you can stealthily assassinate enemy crew without taking out the medbay first. Locate a room with only 1 enemy and use the lockdown ability either a second before another enemy enters the room or when your victim is about 50% hp. This works incredibly well against ...
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:27 am
- Forum: Technical Support and Bugs
- Topic: Ummm, excuse me FTL...I started over...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2406
Re: Ummm, excuse me FTL...I started over...
You just got screwed over by the random number god. 1 Beam drone is not special. Any AI ship, rebel rigger or in your case zoltan ships can have a dronebay. 2 weapons is also not special for sector 1. Matching weapons is of course bad luck, as those will naturally fire simultaneously. That this comb...
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:12 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Any one else find the rock cruiser boring?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5986
Re: Any one else find the rock cruiser boring?
I agree that the Rock A is certainly only useful to get the Rock B. Its layout and loadout are deeply flawed. You start with only missile launchers and a medium stockpile of missiles, but you don't get more missiles back than other ships; you just use them up faster. While missiles are reliable dama...
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:00 am
- Forum: Tips, Strategy & Guides
- Topic: Skill farming
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16328
Re: Skill farming
The only downside is, that mastering skills is incredibly trivial. Manning the weapons gets you 10% recharge. Fully mastering it gives you 19%. Likewise, the shield nets you 10% and goes to 30%. The shield recharges so fast by defaut, that I actually find it useless. The AI doesn't sync its weapons,...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:20 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Crystal Bravais WTF - Question for developers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6436
Re: Crystal Bravais WTF - Question for developers
It's best to try to get the Rock B when trying to get the crystal sector. Unlike the Rock A it doesn't suck and it has the guarantee to get the crystal pod from the asteroid field. Couple of pointers: The asteroid field can happen in rock and engie sectors, the research center in engie and zoltan an...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:04 am
- Forum: Tips, Strategy & Guides
- Topic: Scrap Yield Algorithm
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3941
Re: Scrap Yield Algorithm
As far as I can tell, no. It just coutns whether you killed the ship or the crew, then randomizes.
Source: looking at the event list in one of the games data files.
Source: looking at the event list in one of the games data files.
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:57 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Hire mercenary or fight them for scrap?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14306
Re: Hire mercenary or fight them for scrap?
I never choose delay. Sometimes at the start of a sector I choose scouting the map though. Mostly when I'm hunting for certain events or hurting bad for a shop. Both of which are kinda rare, so it's still 90% kill the mercs.
- Wed Dec 26, 2012 11:42 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Store balanced to give you what you can't use?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5197
Re: Store balanced to give you what you can't use?
I dislike the notion of a ship being "designed for weapons" or "designed for drones" With that logic the fed cruiser would be designed for using the artillery beam, the rock cruiser would be designed to use missiles, the slug cruiser would be designed to kill crew and the stealth...
- Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:50 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Endarire's List of Requests and Suggestions!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6438
Re: Endarire's List of Requests and Suggestions!
Mataza's List of Rebuttals and Rejections: -Making Fuel/Missiles/Drones sellable would make enemy surrender always worthwhile, i.e removing the decision. Also it would make the selling events obsolete. -Leveling your crew actually does very little if you think about it. Guns get 10% speed for being ...
- Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:14 pm
- Forum: Tips, Strategy & Guides
- Topic: Getting effective weapon loadouts via die roll.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11717
Re: Getting effective weapon loadouts via die roll.
The ion weapons are not bad, I never said that. But the Ion Mark 2 is the only one that works as *sole* ion weapon. If you already have an ion weapon by any means get a second one. Ion is a good setup. You just need more than 1 weapon to actually whittle down shields. And getting a second one after ...