Choose your weapon(s)

itg · Post by **itg** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:27 am

Yep, that was on my Fregatidae run. I'm kind of surprised I only got 22 masteries, considering how many suicide missions I sent that mantis on.

project_mercy · Post by **project_mercy** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:30 am

shadowcrust wrote: 2) It would kill everyone watching of boredom, and I feel bad enough already for slaughtering my way through the galaxy...

I would totally watch it. I think I'm closer to like 1 in 10 for the Kestrel on Hard. Most of the playthroughs I find now a days are just some guy who got redonculously lucky on finding random items and a shops where your hardest decision is Vulcan Chain or Flak II.

stvip · Post by **stvip** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:00 am

shadowcrust wrote:1) I'm too lazy to (do the research to) set up recording, and I have no idea how to do that on Linux with a dual monitor setup on deprecated hardware to boot.

apt-get install (or whatever) recordmydesktop
Either run it on the screen you intend to record (if fullscreen), or use xwininfo to get the Window ID running FTL, and run
recordmydesktop --windowid $ID

Run a sound recorder (such as gnome-sound-recorder, if relevant) in the background.

Bloody_Lemon · Post by **Bloody_Lemon** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:41 am

2500 scrap on Hard? What magic is this?

EDIT: seriously, I must clearly be doing something wrong as all my top Hard scores are below 6k points :/

itg · Post by **itg** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:36 pm

Bloody_Lemon wrote:2500 scrap on Hard? What magic is this?

EDIT: seriously, I must clearly be doing something wrong as all my top Hard scores are below 6k points :/

The vast majority of my hard mode wins were under 6k for a while (the Fregatidae win was the only early outlier). I attribute my high scores to hanging out in nebulae and intelligently choosing when to pass the exit and fight my way back (and how far to go past it). I used to favor red sectors, but now it's green and purple all the way, for me. If the end beacon is in a nebula, there's never an event there (bad), but if the rebels take it over, there's no ASB there (good), so in that case always (well, if your ship can handle it) try to go past the exit to hit a couple more beacons, then fight the rebels at the exit.

2,500 scrap is not something you can do consistently on hard, but over 2,000? Probably.

shadowcrust · Post by **shadowcrust** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:33 pm

stvip wrote:
shadowcrust wrote:1) I'm too lazy to (do the research to) set up recording, and I have no idea how to do that on Linux with a dual monitor setup on deprecated hardware to boot.
apt-get install (or whatever) recordmydesktop
Either run it on the screen you intend to record (if fullscreen), or use xwininfo to get the Window ID running FTL, and run
recordmydesktop --windowid $ID

Run a sound recorder (such as gnome-sound-recorder, if relevant) in the background.

Thanks, never thought it'd be so easy! Half a minute test recording (no sound) gave a ca. 1 MB ogv file, so for an expected 5-6 hour run (told you I'll kill you all with boredom) I expect a file below 1 GB, let's see how it turns out.

Bloody_Lemon · Post by **Bloody_Lemon** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:28 pm

itg wrote:
Bloody_Lemon wrote:2500 scrap on Hard? What magic is this?

EDIT: seriously, I must clearly be doing something wrong as all my top Hard scores are below 6k points :/
The vast majority of my hard mode wins were under 6k for a while (the Fregatidae win was the only early outlier). I attribute my high scores to hanging out in nebulae and intelligently choosing when to pass the exit and fight my way back (and how far to go past it). I used to favor red sectors, but now it's green and purple all the way, for me. If the end beacon is in a nebula, there's never an event there (bad), but if the rebels take it over, there's no ASB there (good), so in that case always (well, if your ship can handle it) try to go past the exit to hit a couple more beacons, then fight the rebels at the exit.

2,500 scrap is not something you can do consistently on hard, but over 2,000? Probably.

I'm not sure how exactly you are doing it because I have 7 wins on ipad, one of them with 2xScrap Recovery and my most collected scrap is 1870

shadowcrust · Post by **shadowcrust** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:32 pm

I recorded the flight of the Torus, and at the end of sector 1 I saved and quit to see how the video turned out. After about an hour of calculations (compression and what not), I got a nice ca. 200 MB video file, which looks ok. Resumed the game with recording and got carried away a little and cleared two sectors of all life forms, before saving and quitting again. This time the calculations took more than two hours, and while the recording program (recordmydesktop) finished with a success note, the desktop environment threw hundreds of errors and mostly crashed (video compression still updated and finished successfully, though). Hard restart, the new video file is now 32 KB big and when I start FTL, *once again* my profile is completely wiped. I'm getting a bit fed up with super buggy FTL AE.

So sorry, no video of my super runs, and I have a feeling building the Lego Kestrel was my last great FTL achievement.

stvip · Post by **stvip** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:08 pm

Hard restart, the new video file is now 32 KB big and when I start FTL, *once again* my profile is completely wiped. I'm getting a bit fed up with super buggy FTL AE.

Agh. Did you run out of disk space? (it's bad behaviour from the OS if the whole system crashed due to one application requesting excessive cycles)
It's a good idea to use an automatic backup application, one that creates both local and remote (encrypted) copies, and include (beyond other files which are probably much more important) your FTL profile. Probably every major Linux distribution comes with one pre-installed.

shadowcrust · Post by **shadowcrust** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:15 pm

Yes, I most likely ran out of disk space, about 16 GB (of 80 GB total) were available for the temporary movie file(s), which was apparently not enough for the two sector streak. So I understand why the movie didn't work out (although it's strange that it messaged that it completed the compression successfully, when it really didn't), but I think it's not the best reaction of FTL to wipe the profile due to low disk space and/or a hard restart. Happened twice now, and I agree it would be the best option to backup the profile regularly, but I can't help but feel that's somehow cheating, so I probably will take my chances that it won't happen again - gives an extra layer of suspension, if the hardest opponent is not the flagship, but random software and hardware crashes

Thanks for your help, very much appreciated!

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