736

As to monthly costs, to see what is causing them look under the “command” menu and then “income” (hotkeys: D, 3).

I just realized yesterday that storage costs money. I had been hoarding cheap things that I was receiving in abundance like metal and fuel so I could later take them somewhere the prices were higher. I didn’t realize until recently I’ve been paying ~5k a month in storage fees for all the stuff I’ve been leaving around.

Also if the income you get at the start has run out, a far easier way to get an income than starting a colony is to get a faction to commission. I haven’t done so yet, but the text says it pays 20k a month.

737

Does the abandoned station at Corvus where I’ve been stuffing things also charge I wonder? I thought it was a freebie storage location?! Gonna have to take a look now.

And yes, I’d considered a commission, but I’m sort of playing this one as an explorer and wondered whether the risk of pissing off all the other factions by taking a side was worth it.

What I’m also wondering right is if the officers I’ve got are worth their cost since I don’t tend to get into that many fights.

738

I read that once you resign a commission you are standing is restored to what it was before -20 for any faction there were hostilities with. So you don’t end up permanently pissing off any faction.

739

Same. Is that how text looks in game? Man, I so want to play this game.

740

This video is much more legible. If this is how this baby looks I can squint and play. At only $15 bucks what can I lose?

741

Yeah, I have no problem with the text size myself.

742

Does anyone really play this ironman? I die a lot. Often because I accidentally hit right-click at a critical moment (I really need to re-map that). Sometimes because this is a true QT3 game and I decide to play one last battle before bed and I’m too tired to know what I’m doing, and of course because sometimes I overestimate my fleet’s abilities.

743

I’m far too incompetent at battles to play this ironman. Maybe some day, but right now that would be suicidal given my high degree of incompetence.

I signed with hegemony, need the steady income to defray monthly costs.

I’m hesitant to start playing this most nights because I know I’ll have a hard time stopping.

744

I am trying to make it as a scavenger right from the start. There are vast area In the solar systems and only the middle have things of interest. Can you find things on the edges of the solar systems or am I wasting my time trying to find things.

745

Can you find things on the edges of the solar systems

From my experience, not really. Unless you are on a mission to find something on the fringes of a system it doesn’t seem worth randomly searching the whole system map.

You can get a skill which gives you the “neutrino detector” which seems like it’s for finding hidden things, but I haven’t been able to make much use of it yet.

As a scavenger searching randomly isn’t where it’s at. You want to look for conflicts and pirate or path raids so you can come in after battles and salvage things.

746

That’s me + I try to squeeze in play time before I leave for work.

747

Thanks, that’s great to know.

748

Bought it and played it for a few minutes and some of the fonts are just too damn small. 1920 x 1080. Which is a shame as this game looks amazing. No regrets, maybe when 1.0 releases the tiny fonts will be legible.
magoo

749

I hope so too. Some of the text is fine, but some others is really hard to see. Like the names of your weapon groups in the bottom of the screen. Part of the problem is I often play on a large display from the couch, so the small text becomes much more of an issue.

Hope their UI scaling experiments work out well.

750

This helped my old eyes. I moved it down to 1366x768, full screen, with these settings on the .exe properties.

751

Thanks, I’ll give this a try @tylertoo

752

The one who does so is one brave person. =)

753

Hmm I tried doing that, but there does not seem to be a resolution for Ultra-Wide screens that is low res.

Does this work for non-full screen?

Edit: Dont seem to work for non-full screen. Back to squinting!

754

Not that I want to encourage feature creep, but this game desperately needs a battle recording mode like the Total War games.

756

I did and stabilized to the point that I stopped playing since there wasn’t much else to really do.