As for RPC's advice for linking two turrets, do that only if your ship is not the two weapon slot wonder EI500. Getting stuck with only ion type damage will land you in trouble against some Luminous ships. Ares plasma archcannon looks impressive, but it is a disappointment for a level X weapon. It t...

Ares positron cannon is slightly underpowered for endgame, but it is reliable and has excellent range. No enemy has strong resistances to positron or plasma. Fusionfire is the most powerful howitzer you can find in the game. The only other howitzer that comes close is the (Ares') Hecates cannon, whi...

Comments about the missions: * Defend temple: This is the most rewarding but most difficult and overwhelming mission. You almost need to be endgame strong; and even then if you screw up, the temple goes up in smoke and you fail. Before the Sung fleet reaches the temple, shockwave weapons are most ef...

The Dragon Slaver's target is always the playership. Are the Huari buildings still intact? If so, Hurin destroyers should be swarming them. Have the playership sit inside the temple. (The other buildings can fire at hostiles.) While the Dragon Slaver orbits the playership, waiting for the playership...

Of course I realize the time it takes to re-render all of the ships, and make armor and shield HUD graphics for them. I did just that, with relatively few exceptions, for Playership Drones v3, and the work was tedious. I pity other mod makers who want forty facings for most ships in their mods. At t...

I noticed that and thought it was intentional (i.e., new feature). After all, if the player knows of a static target, why not let him select such known targets so he can bombard them with homing missiles from extremely long range.

Transcendence has no multiplayer support.

Mod? Try Playership Drones. Almost every stock ship is playable in v3, though most are only obtainable during the game. It still has an expanded roster of starter ships.

All stock ships (and other directional missiles) should have forty facings, except maybe ships with very fast turning (e.g., Hornet, Wind Slaver). This would let modders who want forty facings ships to use them without the need to upload ~15MB mods (currently) to mod repositories. I noticed that AI ...

Keep the +150% IM90 no matter what. Anything not immune to ion damage will die from the IM90; and as a bonus, you can fire at targets while you run away or dodge enemy fire.

NM900 external missile pod is slotless. All other launchers take a weapon slot.

Install IM90 first, then Lamplighter second.

+150% IM90 is one of the most powerful weapons in the game. This will be your all-purpose weapon. Your other weapon should probably be used either as a base/shipwreck buster or harm the few enemies immune to ion damage (namely Dwarg Behemoths and Luminous with anti-ion shields). Lamplighter is okay ...

My names for various factions: Target practice and chunks of loot and XP. For Ferians, bug people. For Ringers, Mary Sue race of elves IN SPACE!!!

Nice! That explains why the game crashes when AI controlled ships in Playership Drones remove and install patch spiders by themselves.

I missed this topic when I posted in the beta bug reports section about Juan Carlos locking my computer up anytime I try to change ships after that mission is assigned. Only mods I used at the time are Playership Drones and a godmod to give me items. Juan Carlos is bugged methinks.

If the Juan Carlos mission is given, all attempts to change ships henceforth causes my computer to lock up, and I need Ctrl+Alt+Del to shut Transcendence down. I am not sure if the Playership Drones mod (v2 or v3) causes this or Transcendence itself.

Gaians do not loot; they demolish wrecks instead. Storing loot in indestructible wrecks, such as an Ares outpost you just toasted, is safe from Gaian interference. If you are playing an earlier version of Transcendence, storing loot in Elysium is a bad idea because of possible device damage from Ven...