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Wait, what do you mean by factions - there are factions in the game already (Commonwealth, Centauri, Pirates, Corporations, etc).
Do you mean factional relationship with the player? Thats something that mostly isnt in the game and is sort of a trinary state rather than a scalar counter or other more complex representation. NAEV for example has that, but its still not a 4x either, because theres still no real empire building (Even if you combined EVNova's 'station conquest' endgame bonus challenge, its too shallow and primitive of an 'empire builder' to consider it a real empire building game/gamemode, as there is no dynamic reconquest of those systems, they remain permanently yours with 0 management required, and there is no interactivity with them beyond them being permanently friendly and paying you a weekly tax)

Anyways, as for the actual save game feature, like I mentioned, just go file a ticket on ministry and george can get to it when he does since theres plenty of other things on the priority list. Alternatively, file a ticket and then work on editing the engine code yourself and then leave george a pull request which you can link in the ticket for him to review. The game's source code is up on github.
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Wolfy wrote:
Sat Nov 02, 2019 2:51 pm
Wait, what do you mean by factions - there are factions in the game already (Commonwealth, Centauri, Pirates, Corporations, etc).
Do you mean factional relationship with the player? Thats something that mostly isnt in the game and is sort of a trinary state rather than a scalar counter or other more complex representation. NAEV for example has that, but its still not a 4x either, because theres still no real empire building (Even if you combined EVNova's 'station conquest' endgame bonus challenge, its too shallow and primitive of an 'empire builder' to consider it a real empire building game/gamemode, as there is no dynamic reconquest of those systems, they remain permanently yours with 0 management required, and there is no interactivity with them beyond them being permanently friendly and paying you a weekly tax)
I know that player factions are not used in the game at present, but they could be. When you get hung up on "empire building" as the 4th X, you first have to define the concept of empire. Growth of a defined entity in power, influence, space, etc, for that entity need not be hamstrung on how you precisely define empire. I've run game faction forums since the rise MMO's. Trust me, that is all about creating an empire entity to dominate gameplay. Building up a player faction in game can easily be compared to empire building. Just because you have a paradigm about what you think an empire is doesn't mandate it. Helping an entity that the player is part of increase its power and influence is empire building.
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Yes, at the moment there is no way a player with a single ship could do that...without mods. As far as I know, there is a mod called YourCORP that allows the player to builds its own stations, such as Fuel station, Tinker, and more. From there you could profit from your own stations, and also has many features, So it's literally like building your own faction or empire. It's still didn't have some features that usually exist in empire-building games such as set diplomacy, allying with your enemy, or creating new items/stuff, also it has few minor bugs and needs to be updated, but I'm pretty sure it's still working right now.

Maybe that thing is what you want or need, or if it doesn't, at least you can have more experience from playing this game. :)
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@NMS. Thanks for the bat file code. Much easier than changing the properties on a short-cut for every game folder. Nice one. Also I'll attach a bat file to the 'How to start debug mode' topic.

@ Zeke. Valid points there. Thanks for bringing them up. I used to copy saves when I was playing. The fact that the first two replies knew what you were talking about tells us something.
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relanat wrote:
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George has opened a Ministry topic about game changes to benefit new players. Feel free to add your input there.
I will once I've played it longer. I'm still seeing several things I question about, but might need to play through longer to see if it resolves or balances out. And maybe some issues are better left to mods instead of core code. IE: seeing 3 resmeister(sp) weapon shops in one system and one in the next, but basically no other useful vendors. Perhaps random generation needs a tweak or a matrix. But I'll hold off until I see it all play out before criticizing something that works out in the end.

But yeah, I do see a way at least one way to make the game appeal to other types of players and still leave the diehard permadeath types alone to play their style.
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wow folks, lots of text and miscommunication in this thread

he asks for:
1; a standard save / load system, (disregarding permadeath)
2; not making this THE standard, but rather the noob option ( a little box whit the V checked for new players / customers, in relation to a better beginner experience (something that has been suggested before i might at)) to avoid the ''tricks'' of not keeping to permadeath
3; an Ironman mode where permadeath actually means, permanent.
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Tiber wrote:
Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:57 pm
3; an Ironman mode where permadeath actually means, permanent.
I just stumbled on this recently. There is a force permadeath option in the Settings.xml. It is off by default, but when enabled, you cannot resurrect in the games you died in.
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 Something that might be really helpful would be a GUI in the game itself to access and change Settings.xml stuff, preferably with some kind of explanation of what those settings actually do. The current setting requires that you know what the settings are and that the file exists to change them in to begin with.
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Something that might be really helpful would be a GUI in the game itself to access and change Settings.xml stuff, preferably with some kind of explanation of what those settings actually do. The current setting requires that you know what the settings are and that the file exists to change them in to begin with.
I strongly support this! It would be simple to implement, and I think it would be an improvement for both gameplay and modding across the board.

(Activating debug mode would be another obvious use for a settings.xml GUI: https://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic. ... 411#p77411)
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AssumedPseudonym wrote:
Sat Nov 16, 2019 11:23 pm
 Something that might be really helpful would be a GUI in the game itself to access and change Settings.xml stuff, preferably with some kind of explanation of what those settings actually do. The current setting requires that you know what the settings are and that the file exists to change them in to begin with.
There is a ministry ticket on improvements for new players. I've already mentioned a settings GUI, but an extra vote would be useful!
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 …Oh right, that ticket does exist. I’d forgotten about it when I posted my own ticket… <.< >.> <.<;
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