Given how slow the forums are, I hope nobody minds if I necro this thread. :D I'm firmly a believer in the idea that the various "optimal" (most likely to succeed) ways to play the game should not have any tedious, repetitive, or boring-but-safe strategies. That flies in the face of both solar panel...

It's a balancing act. Shatter can completely shift the tide of a difficult battle that would otherwise require massive resource expenditure to win (such as the last 2-3 Corporate Command missions). If you tried to fight the battle without using Shatter, you might well find yourself having to use Des...

Ideally you shouldn't get into fuel emergencies. Carry at least a small supply of high-level (so it doesn't take much cargo space) fuel with you, and if you have to use it, use the time that it buys you to retreat to a friendly station to buy more fuel. As you get better at combat you should be able...

Possible bug: Positron Lancers use the old default gun image on dock screens. I guess they should use something like the positron cannon graphic instead?

I already gave this feedback in IRC, but for posterity: the endgame laser guys are mostly pretty decent, but I don't really enjoy fighting them. The capships in particular throw out such a massive weight of lightspeed projectiles that the only effective tactic I've found is to invoke Domina Defend a...

The day that the illegal miners decided to lay siege to the Black Market: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/91599992745412052/F732F1E40B7B3663CF33FAABC924A4BC5C38D042/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|1024:640&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C1024%3A64...

I think this one is pretty well-known -- all of your equipped items use 10% of their listed power even when not in use. However, you also have a constant "baseline draw" (presumably to power life support) of IIRC 3MW, so keep that in mind when calculating whether or not you can afford to run a new w...

I can't say as I've had trouble with base explosions, except for the one time I decided to destroy a Sung Citadel without shattering any of its "barricades" first. Turns out that sitting directly on top of a citadel when it explodes is hazardous to your health. :) Otherwise, you shouldn't need to be...

Having relatively recently learned to play the game, I have a few things to add to this. First, Shrike, you have a stray [ u ] in your post which caused most of the text to get underlined. Should probably fix that. :) Second, you need to upgrade weapons regularly . In my first playthrough I stuck to...

I don't think this is specific to the 1.7 beta because I'm pretty sure it happened to me in 1.6, but I'm on 1.7 now and the lamplighter prototype disappeared on me. Like, I retrieved it, identified it, went through a couple of gates to find a Ringer shipyard, and it wasn't in my hold any more. No mo...