Played a game recently. Few comments: After figuring out how new Pilgrim's Aid works, while it is much easier to use, it seems more abusive than before. With the old way, I needs to give fuel, slaves, or other magic item that raises disposition each time I want free fuel. Now, I donate a token amoun...

After playing my last game, I think the nanofac may be overpowered for effectively printing unlimited money. Nevermind DPS and what not. If player finds one early enough (say, before Jiang's Star) or even order one from Corporate Trading Post for about 70k credits, player can install it and sell sta...

Reuploaded Drake Technologies to Xelerus. Notable changes: * Added two launcher-mounted beamers that use ammo. I added this as an energy damage option for the launcher slot. While they get the job done, I may not be totally satisfied with them. It is an experiment of sorts. * The Brik spikers now ta...

Reuploaded Drake Technologies and Drakian Legacy to Xelerus. This is mainly a weapon rebalance. Beamers gain WMD to make them useful. Drake loses some ammo weapons and gains some new matter weapons. Also, added new manufacturer Dartz, who have taken the multiturrets and zapsats based on them away fr...

Similarly, the damage threshold table is still there, but it does not seem to be used as a requirement to mine at all. (A level 10 positron weapon that does 1 damage will still mine something, unlike during 1.5+.) During the releases with 1.5 mining rules, you needed at least 11 damage (I think) per...

Mining in 1.9b1 is yet another overhaul from the last overhaul in 1.5. Overall, it is an improvement because with mining computer (from hold), you know if the asteroids have been explored or not, and you get feedback soon after you shoot a rock with a mining weapon. Before, you had no such feedback,...

The game does not show resistance as resistance, but as additional hit points percentage instead. For example, particle at 40 would appear as +150% (because 100 / 0.4 = 250, and 250 - 100 = 150). Also, the rare vulnerabilities like -25% or -50% are a much bigger deal than they appear. That tripped m...

Yes. The only (minor) change since then is level 10 armor takes slight damage from laser and kinetic instead of being outright immune.

For what it is worth, I mine Heretic if I get jumpdrive and plasma torch early enough because Heretic is safe enough and it is easy money. That said, I also abused Pilgrim's Aid when I mined Heretic (before 1.9b1), and that has been redone (no more donate two or three fuel rods for free refuel of 50...

Check out the ANHI launcher from Corporate Command.

With the 'Proposed Auton Changes' ticket at Ministry, I may consider removing the Oracle autons and their derivatives (or simply disable them) because ZapSats are one of the more processor-intensive items in the game.

The mining launcher is weak against metallic asteroids regardless of ammo used because they are all missiles. If you want to mine with the launcher, all you need to mine everything are thermo missiles. Blast missiles will not mine level 8 or higher ore. Thermo and plasma will mine everything in part...

I do not use weapon enhancers unless I have a spare slot. They are the first devices to get dumped when I run out of device slots. I view cargo, mobility items (engine and jumpdrive), and armor repair more important than weapon enhancers. (Armor repair gets dumped once I get Restore.)

A quick note about playing Playership Drones: It does not add any new starter ships or more ships to the ship broker. You can buy ships from the ship broker as wingmen instead of trading your ship in. Also, you can repair most wrecks for a hefty fee. For exotic ships you cannot pilot in an unmodded ...

I am working on another update for Drake Technologies (and maybe Drakian Legacy). Some rambling thoughts below. Main reason for the update is to add some WMD capability for Drake. Problem with energy weapons in Transcendence is nearly all of them have no WMD whatsoever, which means those energy weap...