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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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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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My flag ship has been medusa since SO's out. I usually don't invest on combat skill since 9.0, I'd rather leave the larger ships to my officers when I focus on attacking the enemy' engines with dual Ion Pulser and dual Needler. SO basically makes any ship a berserker with it.

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I get the most fun out of piloting ships and you make such a huge impact compared to the AI that I'm all in on maxing out my personal ship. I find saving at least one good ship in reserve and cycling to that one is much higher impact than giving an additional one to the AI.

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I usually use a Doom for the opener. SO Aurora was fun but it's very weak to fighters. Ended up having to painfully kite them around, inefficiently killing them, wasting a ton of time. AI also handles it really badly. It doesn't really try to shoot fighters with non-PD weapons.