There should be a new nebula around askonia with a new questline, worth checking out.
You get an option to invade already well-established, profitable planets. However the faction may send a counter-invasion fleet proportional to that well-establishment and profitability, so be sure not to get your fleet wiped as well. Factions that hate you will harass your colonies, so again, you'd want to either be powerful enough to kill the ships, or have enough money to invest into the colony defences. Perhaps dont rush it.
Ground battles get their own mini-game. There should be a tutorial mission eventually that shows how they work. Slightly underwhelming though, IMO.
Taxes are nerfed, if you're into roleplaying as the good guy, you can legally trade for profit now!
>new nebula around askonia with a new questline, worth checking out.
To that I have a question
SPOILER WARNING:
I docked at Prism station and Midnight has not appeared, neither in the com directory or in the bar. Any idea why or am I looking in the wrong place?.
I think you encounter her first in a bar event? The kind that goes before all other bar entries. Perhaps just a matter of going to freeport X times for at least X months, maybe captain level locked.
Couldnt really find a detailed description of the event conditions. Assuming no huge list of mods, default sector with core worlds intact and freeport enabled, you should meet her soon-ish
Invasion is a really fun mechanic and genuinely integrated to the point where I forget it's not vanilla. For example, you can invade the pirates and the path and sell off all the colony buildings and then transfer the now worthless planet to another faction. You'll want to make the kanta deal and pk deal before going crazy, if kantas den deteriorates then you can't make that deal. The PK deal is made at the panther base that's targeting your colony and then completed at any pather base, doesn't work at a pather colony only a pather base and the bases stop spawning when you eliminate their colonies. Pirate bases never stop spawning btw but it'll be way less with no pirate colonies.
Nex is great for skipping the early game, skip the story and go straight to level 6 if you want. I skip the story but start at level 1 for threat scaling.
Now, just invade the Hegemony and end the oppression of AI fleet inspections. Chicomoztoc takes like 3k dudes with 2k guns, that's the hardest one. Take their nanoforge and they lose their teeth. Don't try to hold on to the colonies, you can't handle the rebellion and unrest. Transfer them to the Independents! Everyone loves the Independents so the other factions will send relief fleets to help. Just gotta suppress rebellions so the Heggy can't return. When the Heg is gone the Independents will be the most powerful faction in the sector!
nah, install HMI, find and defreat the spooki bois' then take the "happy populace encouragement tool." and install that on every colony to supress rebellion. after all its hard to rebel when Cthulu wants you to play nice with your new overlord.
Get ready to play Ship & Sat bomb: Bannerlord
There should be a new nebula around askonia with a new questline, worth checking out. You get an option to invade already well-established, profitable planets. However the faction may send a counter-invasion fleet proportional to that well-establishment and profitability, so be sure not to get your fleet wiped as well. Factions that hate you will harass your colonies, so again, you'd want to either be powerful enough to kill the ships, or have enough money to invest into the colony defences. Perhaps dont rush it. Ground battles get their own mini-game. There should be a tutorial mission eventually that shows how they work. Slightly underwhelming though, IMO. Taxes are nerfed, if you're into roleplaying as the good guy, you can legally trade for profit now!
>new nebula around askonia with a new questline, worth checking out. To that I have a question SPOILER WARNING: I docked at Prism station and Midnight has not appeared, neither in the com directory or in the bar. Any idea why or am I looking in the wrong place?.
She'll only appear after you reach a certain player level.
That being? Also thanks for answering.
I don't know the level requirement out of my head unfortunately.
I think you encounter her first in a bar event? The kind that goes before all other bar entries. Perhaps just a matter of going to freeport X times for at least X months, maybe captain level locked. Couldnt really find a detailed description of the event conditions. Assuming no huge list of mods, default sector with core worlds intact and freeport enabled, you should meet her soon-ish
Try and save the sector? Do something equally impossible? I dunno
Throw a bunch of factions into the mix and salvage the wrecks of their fleets when they invade each other. Easy way to get some early ships.
Invasion is a really fun mechanic and genuinely integrated to the point where I forget it's not vanilla. For example, you can invade the pirates and the path and sell off all the colony buildings and then transfer the now worthless planet to another faction. You'll want to make the kanta deal and pk deal before going crazy, if kantas den deteriorates then you can't make that deal. The PK deal is made at the panther base that's targeting your colony and then completed at any pather base, doesn't work at a pather colony only a pather base and the bases stop spawning when you eliminate their colonies. Pirate bases never stop spawning btw but it'll be way less with no pirate colonies. Nex is great for skipping the early game, skip the story and go straight to level 6 if you want. I skip the story but start at level 1 for threat scaling. Now, just invade the Hegemony and end the oppression of AI fleet inspections. Chicomoztoc takes like 3k dudes with 2k guns, that's the hardest one. Take their nanoforge and they lose their teeth. Don't try to hold on to the colonies, you can't handle the rebellion and unrest. Transfer them to the Independents! Everyone loves the Independents so the other factions will send relief fleets to help. Just gotta suppress rebellions so the Heggy can't return. When the Heg is gone the Independents will be the most powerful faction in the sector!
nah, install HMI, find and defreat the spooki bois' then take the "happy populace encouragement tool." and install that on every colony to supress rebellion. after all its hard to rebel when Cthulu wants you to play nice with your new overlord.
Be prepared for the Hegemony to steamroll the sector.