Gorbald
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Did you accidentally press "toggle engines" key when you were in the ship? Check energy tab in ship menu.
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Steps to reproduce:
Build a ship
Add a captain
Add an academy block
Hire some all-rounder crew (more than academy capacity)
Start training them to be some specialist crew (I was training boarders)
Send the ship on an operation (for me it happened during a scouting operation)
Recall the ship. If the bug was not reproduced, send it on an operation again and wait for it to finish (hopefully not needed).
Expected outcome:
Academy students stay in academy. Ideally, if some time passed, then the timer progresses or some of them finish training and become specialists
Observed outcome:
Academy students, including those in academy "queue", disappear.
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Was the steel factory upgraded? I found out that upgrading a factory/mine only increases production speed when you are in the same sector, and does nothing when you are in another sector (reported via in-game tool). Maybe this is the same bug?
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1. The fighters you created require pilots. Required crew that you don't have counts towards the number of sergeants you need. So when you have 10 fighters, you need 1 sergeant even if you don't have any pilots. That's why you have increasing requirements as you build fighters.
2a. Probably the infamous ship duplication bug. Ship was duplicated, then the game deleted the duplicate but fighters remained.
2b. You can only use the "transfer all" or arrow buttons to transfer fighters to the squad directly to the right/left, not to a squad that is above or below (not too user friendly, I know). You can drag fighters one by one to any squad.
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Did you scroll down?
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There is no use for them at all. If you want more slots, it's better to add 5*more of either thrusters or armour, as these will give you additional benefits (agility/hp) in addition to increasing computing power. It's probably not even more expensive than computer blocks.
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I heard rumours that the amount of goods those NPC trades will trade depends on the distance from centre, but someone should confirm that.
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Yes, they do "tick once in a while and give up some precision to save a ton of CPU/RAM". This loss of precision is sometimes actually quite bad for profits (see https://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,6537.0.html). "Simulated" sectors take up less resources then the ones with a player in them. But still, some kind of a limit is needed.
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Also you mentioned events. Where will those be announced? Do you have a discord server?
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Hello! Good to know someone wants to start a PvP server!
There are a few issues with PvP that you should know about and think about solutions to them on your server:
1. It's easy to get a lot of shield HP (and hull HP in case of stations), but very hard to get a lot of damage. So it can take very long to destroy player ships.
2. There is no reward for defeating player ships (maybe there is when you board them, I don't know)
3. It is very easy to escape from a fight
4. It is not possible to find other players'/alliances' ships, other than stumbling upon them by chance or mutually agreeing to fight in a certain sector.
5. Turrets are very random and unbalanced and often the player who got more lucky and found a better turret always wins. Looking for good turrets is an extremely time consuming, tedious process (some players have reported building tens of turret factories to find good turrets for PvP).
Please think about these if you want to have meaningful PvP. I'm sure you can find a way to solve these. You can also have a look at "The Void, Alliance Wars" server (https://discord.gg/vcsnV6q) and see the rules there, to compare with your ideas.
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yes. Every sector with a ship or a station that belongs to a player or alliance is simulated and counts towards the limit.
In single player you can increase the limit in server.ini in your galaxy folder if your hardware can handle it.
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SneakyTacts no. What I meant is that fighters that are NOT produced from turrets (cargo and crew shuttles) have their stats based on the material of the blueprint.
You can try it yourself. Make an iron design and an avorion design and try creating a crew shuttle from both, you will see the difference :)
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The seed is different in other sectors.
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I have a turret factory with level 50 blueprints, it's distance from the centre is 20. I think that the distance for a Research Station might be about the same.
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https://avorion.gamepedia.com/Roadmap I think it's the same as "ship to ship docking" that is listed here
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There is an ongoing effort to add this info to wiki. You can calculate it. Find good "level " and price in file scripts/lib/goodsindex.lua
For processors, level is 6, price is 7858. Processor factory produces 3 processors per cycle (info from wiki).
Production effort = level*price*amount produced per cycle.
So for processor factory, production effort is 141444.
Minimum cycle duration is 15 seconds, so you need 141444/15=9429 production capacity. I hope this is correct, please try it.
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I wrote some tips about quick progression, making loads of money and good turrets, all legit (no exploits).
Might help some people but also spoil fun for others, so tread carefully.
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Unfortunately, this is all true (but could have been said more politely).
I think the "structural damage" thing can be safely removed. Boarding will become more profitable, yes, but still less profitable than r-mining for example, so I believe it will not screw up game balance in any way.
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I don't like these ideas, you can already do all of this.
In single player, you can just pause the game and you will not pay crew cost, if it bothers you. But it should not, because if you have at least 1 r-miner or any factory, you already have more passive income than crew costs.
You don't "spend resources" when you build ships. If you don't like the changes you've made to your ship and you revert to the previous design, you get all resources and credits back.
If you want to create a component template, you can found a new ship for that (very cheap), or attach the component to your existing ship, then select it, ctrl+c and then press "save from clipboard" in save menu.
In multiplayer, you should not design ships, as it lags the game for everyone. Make your ship in creative mode and only make small changes in multiplayer.
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A nasty problem this causes: jump to sector no longer works on the sector where the hologram ship "half exists".
"Jump to craft in sector" still works, but only on stations. If I do "Jump to craft in sector" on a ship, it will still put me in the hologram ship, not the one I picked. Then it will say ship got destroyed and send me to home sector.
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Hello. I thought that maybe you are experiencing lag because you are using cargo shuttles to transport goods between stations. Do you do that?
If so, can you please try using transporters instead? Described here https://avorion.gamepedia.com/Transporter_Block
Fighters sometimes have a negative impact on performance.
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Unfortunately the main thing that needs to be done to make fleets fun is to improve combat AI, which is hard.
I will link the reports (the ones I know) of problems with combat AI behaviour here.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/445220/discussions/1/4698886342115197415/ (written in a bit impolite way but contains a lot of useful feedback)
https://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,5877.0.html
Probably others too.
This would probably require a lot of effort, but would be much appreciated!
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I made a test with my accelerator factory. It has 5 productions, so I measured the time it takes to produce 5 accelerators of one type.
In sector: 16-17 seconds (5 measurements)
Out of sector: 20-27 seconds (5 measurements)
In both cases I looked at the number of accelerators in the factory's cargo bay in the fleet menu. I measured the time it takes for it to increase by 5.
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Steps to reproduce:
1. Find an allied trading post
2. Sell 1 type of goods to it so that it has full stock
3. Buy all the goods of that type
4. Repeat
Expected result:
Player loses money
Actual results:
Player makes absurd amounts of money by just selling and buying at the same station.
This is caused by the price depending too much on the number of goods the trading post has.
I found this by accidentally bumping into this video
Turret Factory selling my materials.
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You don't have to put goods in your turret factory to build turrets, you can have them in your ship, dock to the turret factory and click build turrets.
The only advantages of building in your own turret factory over an allied one is that you get a discount and that you can build it closer to the core, which will probably result in better turrets then if it was farther from the core.