yes i am aware of the heliotrobe enhancment, not usfull for 1gw's tho, they cant use heliotrope's. as for the push button comment... I -> 7 domina power... Yep, I'm also not a fan of Inspiration. :) And Heliotrope fuel not being usable by the Hyperion is fine IMO, that reactor is already way more t...

Are you aware that Heliotrope fuel has a chance to make your reactor more efficient when used? It boosts output by 20% and increases efficiency by IIRC 50%. I have to say I'm not thrilled by the idea of being able to apply a generic enhancement to any kind of equipment. It feels less special to me t...

Rather than making a new auton, why not add rumors at Commonwealth stations that let the player learn more about the current or upcoming systems? There's a few rumors that grant knowledge about local stations; I don't see why they couldn't grant knowledge about stargates or systems further out as we...

To be clear, I don't think this kind of thing is necessarily a problem. The Weapon Labs mod is even more unbalanced but also a lot of fun to play with for similar reasons -- there's a lot of neat combos you can set up and weapons that the main game doesn't enable. I just wanted to make sure you were...

I don't know how much (if at all) you care about balance, but you can get some pretty silly results out of the DrakeTech mod. https://i.imgur.com/hOZZtevl.jpg (click for full size) Those listed stats should be doubled, because the Split module's extra projectiles don't show up in the stats page. And...

Wait, the high-speed howitzer loader works with the APC?

Nice run, in any case! I could never be bothered to do all of the missions, in particular I always skip Benedict's autons because it amuses me to irritate him by refusing his training.

Optimizers are still useful; they boost DPS by +40% while also improving your effective chance to hit and to get projectiles past your opponents' projectiles. If you have a weapon with a damage type where the +10% enhancers are rare (basically blast or particle), it's definitely worth using an optim...

Is this the mod that let you make guns that shoot rapidfire five-way thermo spreads or Shatter rings? If so, it's pretty cool, but balanced it ain't!

It should become less of an issue once you upgrade your armor. It won't go away altogether but it won't happen nearly as often. The Manticore can mount pretty heavy armor, so if you install heavy armor (possibly using a mod that adds more heavy armor to the game like SM&M / EP), that'll boost your H...

Not even with uranium fuel rods? It has no user-serviceable parts. :) I figure the Hephaestus corp has a bunch of solar panels somewhere and this is how they sell their energy. Imagine owning an electric car with a swappable battery pack. (That said, if that were the case then describing it as a fi...

Players generally spend a lot more time traveling and in dockscreens than fighting, so the standby power use is more important. That's much more heavily weighted towards shields' power use. In that case the Manticore should be pretty efficient: it doesn't consume power when armor does not need to b...

Awesome. Thanks. I figured there had to be an easy way. What does 'mod' do in the first example? The two examples in the source code don't help much. And does it matter if it is (mod 5 n) or (mod n 5)? I think that's what is meant. Mod is also known as % or the remainder operation. X % Y is "whatev...

To be honest that's always been the extent of my mining exploits. Shooting rocks is boring, but shooting ships that are shooting you is much more interesting, plus you can get fuel and the occasional mining laser as loot, which are more fun than rocks. Fuel is also more valuable by mass than all ear...

* Are the Domina powers in Stars of the Pilgrim balanced? Overpowered? Underpowered? Powers I think are interesting and fun to use: * Strengthen * Defend * Nebular Sight * Shatter (especially when combined with Strengthen, lets you win a lot of otherwise very difficult fights, like the Gunsan defen...

Generate a random number in [0..4]. That's your first index. Add 1d4 and mod 5 it; that's your second index. Damage those two devices. (This only works for damaging exactly 2 devices though. If you want to do more, recommend you shuffle [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], then pick a random number of indices off the f...