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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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tbh, I never saw the point of Operations Center. It feels too expensive and kicks ship's combat power by 30OP, which is more than a half on frigates usually.

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I think the scarcity of story points in the late game makes this a bit less bad, but also way worse the first time around, because if you're like me, you start off safety overriding everything and then get stuck with no story points in the late game

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The late-game story point gain is fairly quick, though? If you're running the latest version (or, well, anything from RC12 on) and didn't increase max level in settings.json. If you *did* increase max level, story point gain will get a lot slower since ...

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Honestly the way I would have done it is by making it so SO takes 2, or maybe even 3 s-mod slots to build in. That way, it doesn't get massively more OP per s-mod than other ones.