Cheaters never prosper
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:03 pm
So having become frustrated with trying to unlock the crystal ship, but not yet ready to download a save file, I decided to make things a bit easier on myself.
Downloaded bitslicer and started poking around, things began innocently enough with just a little scrap infusion, enough to buy me some nice engines right off the bat on each run... but of course I couldn't stop there.
The next step down my dark path began when I amassed a lovely collection of weapons (easy when you're paying with fairy gold!), but couldn't upgrade enough to charge them all at once. Hmm, I wondered, is there a way around this?
Indeed there was, by careful memory tweaking I found I could equip a weapon, reduce the weapons system load, then equip the next! A ship with 4x4 power weapon systems is a lovely thing, especially with the pre-igniter. But while this was exciting, it required a lot of tweaking whenever an ion hit or nebula disabled one of my weapons - almost more trouble than it was worth.
Suddenly inspiration struck - perhaps I could tweak the upgrade level itself!
Now the universe was truly mine for the taking - teleporter lvl.4 (instant recharge!), medbay lvl.5 healing my crew in under 5 seconds, stealth so long i got bored timing it and lvl.6 shields, basically impenetrable. Drunk with power, I was altering memory left and right.
And then - disaster.
Warped into an asteroid field, paused and prepared to unleash the fury of my glaive beam on the unsuspecting enemy. Imagine my surprise as before the beam even finished, the enemy ship exploded under the near-simultaneous impact of a dozen asteroids. Then my horror as I realized my shields were down and my hull was at 75%. Even my maxed-out engines weren't up to dodging this, and a few seconds later I had joined the enemy in destruction, a victim of my own wanton manipulation of reality.
Downloaded bitslicer and started poking around, things began innocently enough with just a little scrap infusion, enough to buy me some nice engines right off the bat on each run... but of course I couldn't stop there.
The next step down my dark path began when I amassed a lovely collection of weapons (easy when you're paying with fairy gold!), but couldn't upgrade enough to charge them all at once. Hmm, I wondered, is there a way around this?
Indeed there was, by careful memory tweaking I found I could equip a weapon, reduce the weapons system load, then equip the next! A ship with 4x4 power weapon systems is a lovely thing, especially with the pre-igniter. But while this was exciting, it required a lot of tweaking whenever an ion hit or nebula disabled one of my weapons - almost more trouble than it was worth.
Suddenly inspiration struck - perhaps I could tweak the upgrade level itself!
Now the universe was truly mine for the taking - teleporter lvl.4 (instant recharge!), medbay lvl.5 healing my crew in under 5 seconds, stealth so long i got bored timing it and lvl.6 shields, basically impenetrable. Drunk with power, I was altering memory left and right.
And then - disaster.
Warped into an asteroid field, paused and prepared to unleash the fury of my glaive beam on the unsuspecting enemy. Imagine my surprise as before the beam even finished, the enemy ship exploded under the near-simultaneous impact of a dozen asteroids. Then my horror as I realized my shields were down and my hull was at 75%. Even my maxed-out engines weren't up to dodging this, and a few seconds later I had joined the enemy in destruction, a victim of my own wanton manipulation of reality.
