FTL: Limited Information (Federation Victory!)

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/in

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I'll take rock

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it's possible we die first jump to zotlan shield double flak pirate so theres that

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Hype

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I'm easy

tee hee

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I'm fine with taking weaponry, seeing as to vent weapons it needs to go through piloting and another room.

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Prehaps Engi can start begin on Doors for jumps then switch to Shields if there's no threat of boarding

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tw illiterate

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yep

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Arty beam is same as vanilla I think

We've got a Burst laser II to start, which is also pretty close/identical to vanilla stats

There's also an EMP Ion which charges slightly faster than the laser, deals system and ion damage (but not hull damage), possible stun and good chance of fires.

Current weapon system can only power one weapon at a time (laser or ion), and both weapons are pretty energy intensive.

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assuming we have 1 shield now we should pool our scraps into shields 2 asap

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Let us move.

I'm against the idea of Doors upgrades early, depending on how easy it is to counter boarding vs a normal game. With an Engi on Doors, Mantis, Rock, Slug and good vent positions, those scraps may be better spent elsewhere.

You can always turn oxygen off if something else needs powering

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I can't aim for shit

this feels familiar

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It's only an asteroid, relax.

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There are soon to be dead pirates

Tech, status report after this encounter.

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Tell them they said a good joke and keep firing

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make rebel go boom

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mercenary go boom

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btw to what extend can we tell about the enemy's weaponry/systems before fights?

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Nice work Varsoon

I'm giving my scraps to Tech, another fight should be enough for us to get another layer of shields up

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We should probably stay around the sector for a little while longer, there's more opportunities for us to utlize.

Also the ship has 50 scraps right now

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It's all good, usually we want to maximise the amount of jumps we make in a sector; with the rebel fleet only a jump or two behind us. Encounters gets tougher by the sector (so does scrap reward and price for repairs), but jumping sectors early doesn't make the rebels take longer to catch us.

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Weapons are down, paging Tech to Weapon station.

If the enemy's using Ion, the Engi isn't gonna do much manning shields anyway (Ion takes away shields manning bonus on hit)

What are the enemy weaponry? Just ion?

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Chill Slug, we got this

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If we get Shields 2 we should be able to get quite a few safe crew culls in early sectors (wiping enemy crew instead of blowing them up gets us more stuff)

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the red wave of DANGER sweeping from left to right on sector map are the fleet

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btw there's like a way to auto-refresh pages in settings somewhere

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find a different one. Also suggesting to pool our scraps to Tech.

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We don't have enough to spare for your slave fetishes, slug.

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There's no good weaponry augment.

Weaponry/Artilery upgrade is a non-priority.

There's a Burst laser II and Chain Laser in the shop (chain laser got changed to similar stats to the Vulcan), but they'll take our entire inventory of scraps to purchase one of, and isn't gonna be powered until atleast another sector and a half worth of scraps.

Still wanting Shields upgrade unless there's something else we'd agree on.

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Weaponry don't have spare power or system buffer.

If we've got 2 shields and the enemy can't pierce that, we can just take power from engines until we can afford reactor upgrades. We can use the power from the oxygen, but I'm not sure how much micro is allowed there.

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Fortune favours the bald.

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I like demons

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rip juicy sector 2 lanius

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The enemy will suffocate

this pleases Urist

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Engi on doors, everyone goes west side of ship while venting the entirety of east. When the enemies drop to 10-20 hp open the doors and let the Mantis have the kills.

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We can do reactor and engine upgrades.

Urist would not call this ship "falling apart" or "dead meat". A light touch up on the hull would do.

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So hull is worse than I imagined. I'm down for full repairs.

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We are in red hull right now. If we go boom, no scrap for any of us. We can worry about secondaries later, once we make it there.

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Engines still aren't fully powered

Oxygen

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Lanius Battle

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Emu War

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Nothing special on the weapons side

Not do top us of, lest waste is made of free repairs.

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VOTE: food sector

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This bad we retreat

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need another 25 scraps for weapons upgrade, this'll get a Burst or Ion up and the new Bomb at the same time.

Subsystem upgrades are luxuries we can't afford right now.

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is this hard difficulty

cfj too cruel

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k

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shoot enemy

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There's good weapons here (Halberd beam, Flak I, Preignighter) but unfortunately they're too expensive for our budget. I'd suggest getting weapon system upgrades over TW's augment suggestion, but that's up to what the rest of the crew feels the best. Just know that we're starting to have issues reliably getting through enemy defenses.

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I understand the reasoning on the Door upgrades. But I must remark on the fact that Doors can't fly.

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Doors can't fly.

^ was a really obscure reference. I'm against Doors before Weapons/Shield/Engines upgrade (our trouble isn't boarders, but enemy ships. With this crew and ship layout, we don't need to put scraps into Doors until we can actually afford the luxury.)

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sorry, jump is fine

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we're up against a Halberd and Chain Ion with 2 layers and an Engi. Our weaponry are barely getting through their defenses, and we'll be taking too much damage waiting for the Artilery this fight.

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Here's our weaponry situation;

Weapon 1; Burst Laser II, high power requirement, medium charge time (slightly faster than vanilla I think), low system and hull damage, low crew damage, low? fire chance. Sells for ⛯32.

Weapon 2; Emp Ion, high power requirement, medium-fast charge time, deals low system and ion damage, low? chance to stun and medium? chance to start fires. Sells for ⛯35.

Weapon 3; Burst Bomb I. low power requirement, medium-fast charge time, deals low system and ion damage, high? breach chance, low/low-medium crew damage, requires missiles. Sells for ⛯22.

Artilery Beam (independent of weapon system); low power requirement, extremely slow charge time, deals low system and hull damage, pierces all shields (except Zoltan), no manual aim. Is a ship system and cannot be sold.

We can currently only power a weapon and the Artilery at a time.

⛯35 upgrade on weapon system means Burst laser/Ion + Bomb.

~⛯135 upgrade on weapon system means Burst laser + Ion. This setup should be able to reliably get through most enemy defenses.

⛯30 upgrade on artilery increases its power requirement and decreases its charge time.

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If someone gets mind controlled while they're in a room with only 1 buffer, go attack them.

If Urist gets MCed while on weapons, I'd appreciate if someone came and slapped me.

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If someone gets mind controlled while they're in a room with only 1 buffer, go attack them.

To clarify, if the Slug gets MCed, I'll attack them to stop the Piloting hull damage. Otherwise keep on weapons.

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If Rebel fleet not right behind, chase

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single weapons upgrade is ⛯45, this'll get the Laser or Ion and the bomb up at the same time.

lvl 2 artilery costs ⛯30, lvl 3 costs another ⛯50 (⛯80 in total).

Am leaning drone system, so giving teh wus ⛯85 (have ⛯8 left). I'll need another ⛯37 to get the weapons upgrade, and we should be saving scraps for 2 more weapon upgrades.

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will need 17 scraps for weapon upgrade (Laser/Ion + Bomb)

Alternatively, we could upgrade the artilery, but I dunno if that's worth.

Varsoon does bring up good points about repairs and reactor power, something to consider.

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sorry, the upgrade needs another 10 scraps (45 not 35) I can't read

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lets go

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Hacking's real nice but I'm not sure if we can get that and Drones up reliably.

I have ⛯59½

I Weapons upgrade is ⛯45

II weapons upgrade is ⛯100

III Weapons upgrade is ⛯165

Artilery upgrades are the same as before.

There's 2 weapons that cost ⛯70 (low power extremely fast charge mini beam, and Charge Las II) which is out of our budget.

There's a Pike beam that costs ⛯35, low power, slow charge time but good beam length.

A single weapon upgrade (⛯45) and the Pike beam (⛯35) should take care of our weapons situation for a while. I'll need ⛯20½ for this.

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How are we doing on fuel? I'd suggest a partial repair at the last store, as well as a single or double engine upgrade.

If we're going Pike, I'll but it but won't upgrade weapons yet until the last store.

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Here are our choices;

Shields; We

maybe

have the scraps for 3 layers of shield, but it probably won't leave much left for other purcharses.

Engines; Engines are nice, but not as much of a priority yet.

Hacking; Hacking is neat, but already with Drone control, I'm feeling mixed about that.

Weaponry; I'll need ⛯20½ for a single Weapon system upgrade + Pike beam, which is affordable, power-light, and should gives us enough firepower to reliably get through fights for a while.

I'm feelings Weaponry>Shields>Engines>Artilery?>Sub-systems (with repairs/resources/augment, drone and wep purchases/other system stuff somewhere inbetween.)

2. Repairs and fuel (up to Varsoon after the main course of the scraps are spent)

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tl;dr ⛯20½ to Urist, rest to Varsoon, unless there's better ways to spend our scraps.

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<3 teh wus

bought beam, will upgrade weapon system next shop

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we have medbay all g

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we can operate more than 1 weapon now

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we can 30 scraps artilery

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omg so tense

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This was a very pleasant game to read, thanks cfj

max melee Mantis is like 1.8x damage, right? pretty sure Mantises can deal like 30 damage per hit on Mind Control 3 or something