Carto
919
How do you search ruins? Does this apply to the ruins you come across while surveying, as well?
Thrag
920
Just you go to the planet and it gives you the option to search the ruins. Just like when you survey a planet with ruins.
Note that there are a few world already surveyed worlds in the core systems that have ruins. You can search those as well. They are nice freebies early on.
I was just testing out of curiosity how robust their defenses are in a high threat sector, looks like it’s pretty stout. I mean you can handle what they throw at you, the problem appears to be they produce replacement fleets instantly unlike the player. I wanted to see how tough their star base was, but never got the chance.
It wasn’t for the purposes of settling up a colony, it was because I was curious what you get from one of their star bases in the way of goodies.
I did as as you mentioned pick up a bunch of cores from their ships, so there is in effect an infinite supply of cores available if you have the fleet to take them on.
Once you do a survey of a planet if there are ruins you’ll have the option to explore them. With a colony you can build an industry to harvest/mine them.
Carto
922
Here’s another question: do enemy fleets chase you from system to system? I know Remnants won’t follow you out of system, and it seems like fleets chasing you on hyperspace don’t follow you into systems.
But: I ran into a scavenger fleet that turned hostile in the far corner of the map. I can manage a sustained burn of 20 and dodged them while surveying planets and wrecks in system. After I left, I had a similar (can’t verify they were the same) scavenger fleet tail me in the next three or four systems. Eventually, I jumped into a system with multiple pirate fleets that all scanned as searching for my fleet and that was that. Sad to lose my progress, as I picked up some nice loot from vast ruins right after my first encounter with the scavenger.
I assume this was all just a coincidence, but it felt like a larger fleet got angry at me for stealing the good loot and chased me down.
This is a pretty sweet game. I’ve barely touched the combat side of things, instead playing it as a space stealth game. I’m also roleplaying my Captain, the scavenger Mr. Egypt, much more than I intended to at the start.
My bet is that was just a coincidence and not same fleet chasing across multiple sectors.
And agreed, this is one sweet game.
I’m in the end game myself and debating what I want to do, contemplating killing off remnant fleets over and over to harvest AIs and then using them to set up still more colonies, got a dozen all south of the core at this point and making right at a million a month. I’d love to be able to run multiple fleets at the same time, surround the core with colonies and then conduct a mass invasion!
Carto
924
I reloaded the save to double-check, and I can confirm there are two pirate corsair fleets that are following me between systems. Caught them jumping in and out of hyperspace and immediately going into search or pursuit mode.
I’m carrying a lucrative haul right now, with about a dozen AI cores, some corrupted nanoforges, and a synchrotron core, plus all sorts of ship designs. Easily over a million credits, if that has anything to do with it.
Interesting, I’ll have to keep that in mind when I go to harvest AI cores from the remnant. I suspect I’ve just not encountered this for awhile because my fleet is strong enough right now to scare them off. Back earlier in the campaign when I was just doing exploration/salvage I’m pretty sure I was running from everything including my own shadow pretty much non-stop.
Good luck getting the loot back to storage or selling it, whichever it is you’re planning.
Carto
926
Yeah, my fleet can only really take on automated drone defenses, and only then If they don’t have too many berserkers. It’s fast, though, and can carry enough fuel and supplies to make it to the edge of the galaxy.
I’m having a lot of fun exploring, but I think it’s time to look into combat and then colonizing so I can put some of these cores and forges to work. Better start re-reading some of the earlier posts in this thread for advice.
Been having a blast with this the past day. I have owned it for 3 years but never really got into it. The new “explorer fleet start” is perfect for me. Short version, with that start you can ignore manual starship control with the keyboard stuff entirely. So it becomes a point and click game rather than a wasd+qe+mouse click or whatever the hell the default controls are.
Anyways love it I am an exploring and salvaging fool :)
Yeah this is where the game tugs at me as well, and it’s GREAT for this.
Yeah its a lot of fun! When I figured out the game was a fleet game not a ship game then it all kind of clicked. Also its nice when a game really rewards exploration. I got Cr40K for one planet today. A big deal for my n00b level.
Dev is teasing new stuff on Twitter
Love this game, looks like next update it’s time to start a new one.
deanco
932
Grr, every time this thread gets bumped I keep hoping for a game update. I’ve played this game to death, but an update would make me hop right back in.
Tell me about it, any time I see the thread get active I get excited to have an excuse to play again. But hey, new info will just have to do I suppose.
Any more rumors on screen scaling? Darn font is too small.
I think he tweeted about it some time ago.
Made me click this thread, haha. I love this game.
Well, you weren’t the only one. This has to be one of my most ‘clicked’ links
The thirst is real.
