All reactors should be non-military

[Atarlost]

That would actually indicate a balance error. You should require level 9 gear for station saving in Heretic. Possibly the Veil should be bumped to level 10 or its resistances to ion/thermo straight up increased, or possibly the power consumption of the thermo howitzers is too low.

Or maybe the sentinels should just defend themselves if you fire on them instead of completely ignoring all ships until the stations are eliminated.

[kay.py]

OK, now I *officially* have superhuman piloting skillz:

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KAYPY

Black Market rank Civilian
Commonwealth Fleet rank Master sergeant
Commonwealth militia rank Colonel
Domina relationship Adept
Fate Left Human Space on a journey to the Galactic Core
Genome Human male
Korolov rank Legend
Score 605,830
Ship class Sapphire-class yacht
Time played 19 hours and 14 minutes
Version 1.03

ACHIEVEMENTS & REGRETS

Allowed Rama to meet his destiny
Allowed Volkov to find his wife
Became Legendary Hero of the Arena
Destroyed the Fortress in the Charon system
Liberated Raisu station
Lost Jenna
Rescued Mr. Katami from the Black Market

COMBAT

Enemy ships destroyed 1443
Enemy stations destroyed 163
Friendly ships destroyed 40
Friendly stations destroyed 1

COMMERCE

Profit on arms 475,380
Profit on goods and materials 175,938
Profit on illegal items 150
Profit on luxury goods 87,619
Profit on ship's equipment 328,065

CONDUCTS

Honored permadeath

ENEMY SHIPS DESTROYED

Iocrym command ship 1
Iocrym sentinel 14
Gaian processor 3
Chasm-class heavy gunship 3
Ventari destroyer 6
The Slicer 1
Tundra-class heavy gunship 17
Ranx dreadnought 2
Centurion/X-class heavy gunship 9
Tripoli-class destroyer 5
Polar-class freighter 5
Hurin-class destroyer 31
Luminous drone 37
Xenophobe defender 1
Earth Slaver 3
Kobol gunship 9
Sandstorm-class gunship 190
Ares sentry 47
Dwarg master 1
Centurion-class heavy gunship 19
pirate ship Kronosaurus 1
Atonement-class heavy gunship 5
Wolfen-class gunship 3
Charon frigate 5
EI500-class freighter 3
Steel slaver 13
Ranx gunship 65
Barbary-class gunship 22
Xenophobe fighter 25
Drake-class missileship 24
EI200-class freighter 2
Repentant-class gunship 10
Heliotrope destroyer 3
Meth enforcer 6
Marauder raid platform 3
Ronin/C-class gunship 6
200A defender auton 1
Viking II-class gunship 77
Zoanthrope raider 65
Wind slaver 86
Heliotrope gunship 4
Revelations-class missileship 7
Sapphire-class yacht 1
Plague-class gunship 26
Sotho-class gunship 2
Hammerhead II-class gunship 37
Arco Vaughn 1
Ronin/B-class gunship 6
Urak sentinel 25
T31-class armed transport 11
Corsair II-class gunship 30
Oromo-class gunship 10
EI100-class freighter 8
Viking-class gunship 57
Centauri heavy raider 2
Borer II-class gunship 51
Ronin/A-class gunship 4
Earthzone-class armed shuttle 6
Zulu II-class gunship 7
Himal interceptor 7
Zulu-class gunship 25
Hornet-class battlepod 48
Hammerhead-class gunship 13
light IAV 1
Borer-class gunship 36
Corsair-class gunship 144
Tenhove-class sentinel 14
Centauri raider 31

ENEMY STATIONS DESTROYED

Ares commune 5
Ares shipyard 1
Kobol Warlords camp 3
Rogue Fleet settlement 1
Ares outpost 5
Penitent sanctum 3
Ranx outpost 5
Rogue Fleet cache 3
Ventari colony 3
outlaw pteracnium mine 10
Sung citadel 2
Sung fortress 7
Heliotrope colony 2
Marauder stronghold 3
outlaw duranium mine 7
Penitent shrine 5
Death Drug Cartel outpost 5
Marauder compound 4
outlaw ceralloy mine 6
Sapiens compound 6
Sung slave camp 5
Anarchist settlement 1
Charon Pirates stronghold 7
Fortress of the Charon Pirates 1
outlaw haven 3
outlaw palladium mine 1
Sapiens camp 3
Urak mine 4
Abbasid outpost 3
Anarchist gathering 2
Charon Pirates outpost 1
Himal refuge 3
outlaw base 5
outlaw camp 4
outlaw titanium mine 3
Urak outpost 4
Centauri Warlords camp 5
Charon Pirates cache 4
Arco Vaughn's container habitat 1
Dwarg colony 17

EXPLORATION

Systems visited 28
Never reached the Galactic Core

FRIENDLY SHIPS DESTROYED

Molotok bounty hunter 1
Scarab-class superfreighter 1
Ferian miner 2
Salvager Nomad 3
Zoanthrope raider 8
medium IAV 1
T31-class armed transport 6
Zulu-class gunship 18

FRIENDLY STATIONS DESTROYED

Teraton trading post 1

ITEMS INSTALLED

octocarbide armor
Ares positron cannon <- +150%
carbide carapace
Fusionfire howitzer
ion blaster
Ares lightning cannon
Katana star cannon
Longreach I autocannon
omnidirectional TeV 9 blaster
SN2500 reactor <- unenhanced, for the record
transpace jumpdrive
Xenophobe ion lancer
150NX reactor
heavy ceralloy armor
high-speed howitzer loader
Mammoth 25MW deflector
patch spider
Titan 440 fusion drive
dual Flenser cannon
heavy plasteel armor
lancer cannon
Moskva 33 repeater
MRAD experiment
Nova-100 reactor
omnidirectional particle cannon
superconducting shield generator <- and heres the secret - oh and thats tech level 5 btw
advanced reactive armor
Cyclotron S1200 deflector
dual turbolaser cannon
Nova-50 reactor
omnidirectional turbolaser cannon
polyceramic armor
Tevlar-composite armor
Cyclotron S55 deflector
DK10 Arbalest cannon
miners's cargo hold
Nova-25 reactor
tritium propulsion upgrade
cannon accelerator
mining laser
reactive armor
class I deflector
laser collimator
recoilless cannon

MISSIONS & ACTIVITIES

Commonwealth habitat missions 1
Commonwealth militia missions 4 (1 failed)
CSC missions 0
Korolov escort missions 7
Mining colony missions 1
Psionics offered to Domina 1
Slaves freed 23
Slaves offered to Domina 7

WEAPONS FIRED

Ares positron cannon 6,606
Fusionfire howitzer 2,295
ion blaster 69
Ares lightning cannon 59
Katana star cannon 378
omnidirectional TeV 9 blaster 8,615
Xenophobe ion lancer 321
dual Flenser cannon 218
lancer cannon 13,680
omnidirectional particle cannon 1,931
dual turbolaser cannon 2,000
Longreach I autocannon 1,340
omnidirectional turbolaser cannon 262
DK10 Arbalest cannon 517
mining laser 1,883
recoilless cannon 1,054

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Anyone wanna try for 180MW?

[Aury]

But you killed no phoboses.

[kay.py]

That would actually indicate a balance error. You should require level 9 gear for station saving in Heretic.

Hey I had some L9 gear, just not shields or reactors...

Or maybe the sentinels should just defend themselves if you fire on them instead of completely ignoring all ships until the stations are eliminated.

That would probably make the save-the-stations missions much nicer, although would likely make things easier rather than harder (its always easier and less obnoxious to defend yourself than others...)

If you know what you are doing, you can seriously reduce the difficulty in Heretic.

edit: spoilers removed

[kay.py]

But you killed no phoboses.

Kind of went "right, got enough longzhus now" and skipped over most of post-Point Juno.

But I rezzed my save and went and killed a Phobos. Happy now?

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CONDUCTS

Game resurrections 1

ENEMY SHIPS DESTROYED

Phobos-class dreadnought 1
Gaian processor 3
Chasm-class heavy gunship 6
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[Aury]

you can just set spoilers to a color of text close to the background color...

[Atarlost]

Spoileriffic (r13ed):

Please do not use ciphers no matter how simple. Like foreign languages they make it difficult for moderators to detect inappropriate content.

[kay.py]

OK. I was considering the spoilers themselves to be the closest to inappropriate content you would get from me...

I don't think we really need the spoilers for posterity, so they're gone now.

[Aury]

Spoileriffic (r13ed):

Please do not use ciphers no matter how simple. Like foreign languages they make it difficult for moderators to detect inappropriate content.

Yeah, especially lazy ones like me who are too lazy to decipher it themselves and too forgetful to mention it to another moderator later on.