Only pay scrap to recruit an 8th crewmember in sectors 7 or 8. You want that last slot open most of the time so that you can benefit from "gain a crew" events. Exception would be if it's going to make the difference in pulling off "kill the crew" combat wins that reward extra sc...

Only pay scrap to recruit an 8th crewmember in sectors 7 or 8. You want that last slot open most of the time so that you can benefit from "gain a crew" events. Exception would be if it's going to make the difference in pulling off "kill the crew" combat wins that reward extra scr...

While it's within the bounds of a roguelike, the emergence of strategies like this is often considered a game design flaw as it rewards boring behavior. For example the designers of Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl put a lot of effort into designing a training-based skill system that rewarded really playing...

It's not as elaborate as you envision above, but if you defeat a ship without destroying it, there is a chance to acquire a crewmember.

There was no call to be rude to this fellow. We have no insight into his circumstances.

Mindset is key. The game is meant to be lost -- a lot -- so that beating it is an accomplishment. Not even elite roguelike players win more than 50% of their chosen game. (And when they approach that, they typically make more challenging initial choices to make their game harder to win.) Skill reduc...

I paused a battle for lunch, came back to find it had unpaused somehow, killed my opponent on Autofire, and lost all but my non-breathing crew member due to 0% O2. Cat, or bug?

WTB Glaive-Guisarme-Glaive beam!