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 ...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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 ...