TurielD
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Please let us build backward facing engines for breaking >.<
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Yup, my current (long and thin) ship physically fits through a jumpgate... but it just goes to the other side of it, no jump happens.
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I didn't realise you had to go in to *empty* systems to find Swoks/AI... that explains why I only encountered Swoks, and him just once, before I had much jump range. I almost always try to hit a yellow system, or at least a green to get the lay of the... space.
With how the NPC ships describe it 'ships in different regions may know different things' I'd actually thought that 'regions' meant the big 100x100 zones the galaxy is divided in to on the map. I hadn't thought of a 'distance to the core' thing, especially as you can start the Bottan mission way in to the Xanion space.
The band in which you can find these guys seems way too narrow at ~60 systems.
*Edit: Also, the mobile merchant who has the Xsotan artifact appears to be exceedingly rare. Is there a trick to finding this guy, or should I just sit AFK in a system and check if something has appeared every 15 minutes?
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I just noticed this - guessed it was because of my ship size. Same thing with a few Wormholes... rather annoying frankly. The game could use a few feedback messages for why it's not working!
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Ah, during the fight those wormholes are generated, so you probably jumped through one of the jumpholes someone else caused
If that was a reply to me then no, I was playing single-player. The wormhole I'm talking about generated an exit inside the actual 'great barrier' itself, which let me explore the center without 'unlocking' whatever is supposed to unlock that... so I now assume it to be a bug :D
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Confirming this, founded a ship and added a few blocks, insured it, then un-built the blocks and got the insurance payout.
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Salvage turrets don't seem to do enough 'damage' to be worthwhile. They really should have a damage bonus to 'wreck' type blocks.
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Huh interesting, I only encountered one of these, then just visited that Wormhole Guardian at the center after flying to the core through a wormhole that dropped me into the circle-rift thing, which let me hyperspace jump into the core. I thought I must have missed out on some stuff, because none of the Xsotan story seemed to be revealed.
The one I've seen is that Smuggler, who stiffed me out of 500k!
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Not that I mind the money, but really claimable roids should probably not show up in populated systems belonging to a faction, leat least not within a ~20 kilometer radius of stations.
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It is one of our goals to make factions being able to be wiped out. Destroy all stations of a faction in a sector and the faction will be wiped from that sector. Right now there are still some limitations to that (for example transporters would still spawn), but more on that below.
So first off: We have several technical limitations due to the server structure. The galaxy is generated on the fly, meaning sectors that haven't yet been visited by players don't actually exist in the database. This makes it difficult (not impossible!) to predict the actual influence areas of factions. So we have to make estimates, which leads to several inaccuracies.
Also, sectors are unloaded from memory once they no longer have to stay in memory. This isn't ideal and we're currently planning a middle ground where sectors with player crafts stay in memory so factories and miners actually do something while you're not around. BTW: This impacts the server performance, and less players will be able to be online on a single server, since more sectors will be kept in memory and more memory is being used.
Sectors being unloaded from memory also means that the server has no access to a sector once it's unloaded, so, again, it has to make assumptions on what is happening in the general area.
As you've already stated correctly, we can only spawn enough ships so the performance of the server doesn't drop (which is already hard enough). From a technical view point, a faction may have infinite ships. But we actually don't spawn that many ships. The occasions where we spawn ships are faction war battles and when stations are attacked and they call for help. Factions are by far not unbeatable. They are hard to beat, by design, and they can recover to some point (the station's call for help has a cooldown, for example), but they're far from invincible. The only nitpick there is, is the estimates for their territory, which is the basis on how we spawn things like freighters, battles or head hunters.
I understand where you're coming from, but it's a lot more complicated than a strategy game approach where you have fixed units and stations. We have to balance immersion and technical limitations at the same time. Avorion is not an MMO.
Considering the AI cheating with their hangars: We want to make hangars available earlier soon. Hangars should be available earlier (thinking Titanium) since fighters already are anyways.
I hope that clears some things up.
Thanks for the insight in to the development thought-process!
This is off-topic for the thread, but I actually hope you don't make hangars available with titanium. One of the things I've found a little disappointing is that new game mechanics seem to kind of stop at blue material. At that point you have hangars, shields, processor core and hyperspace range... the rest of the materials just seem to be plain upgrades which is mechanically uninteresting. At that point its just kind of a grind for higher-level materials.
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Is there a way to tell the AI-captained ship to move to another system?
At high crew count auto-assign does not properly assign crew.
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As shown in the included screenshot, even with over 300 spare crew available, the auto-assign system has not assigned them to the mechanic job.
And let me tell you, having to manually click on the assign button over 200 times is very little fun.