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New Starsector build (hotfix? warmfix at this point?) is up! Lots of bugfixes and some assorted improvements and balance changes. Get it here: fractalsoftworks.com/2021/03/26/sta (Pictured: a brown dwarf representing this build's temperature on the main hotfix sequence.)

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F for free safety override, my hyperion will dearly miss it (had too many OP anyway)

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F indeed

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Once I got the first Aurora from a bar heist, I couldn't stop myself from farming a fleet of them. Built-in SO, hardened shields and hardened subsystems with 3x heavy blaster, front shields and solar shielding even with max vents and near max caps was maybe a bit overpowered. :P

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Maybe there should be a maximum amount of saved OP from building in a hull mod per hull size. Built-in SO would be fine if you only saved 15 OP on a cruiser rather than 45, etc. I think it would be better with a bit less temptation to min-max by building in expensive mods.

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Hmm - that feels like it'd be kind of fiddly, to be honest. And it'd affect things it doesn't really need to, like Operations Center.

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There's a problem with SO build all over the fleet, it usually gets too congested to fit more ships(more than 2 or 3) to attack the same target. I personally run a SO eagle fleet and found that it's better to have the other half of the fleet without SO and focus on ranged combat.

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Auroras are very high DP ships so you aren't going to have that many of them. They can attack a few ships at a time rather than all ganging up on them. I usually don't use SO at all beyond on my flagship in the early game. It was ridiculously OP as a built-in mod though.

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