No overpowered ships mode

[barren radish]

An interesting way to play career is to limit yourself to ship costing (approximately) as much as opponent's. It prevents grinding an overpowered ship and focuses on more interesting gameplay. My idea is to formalize that as a separate difficulty setting by limiting the total cost of player's ships to either:

1. cost of the most expensive non-station enemy defeated
2. cost based on the tier of the most difficult cleared sector (where "cleared" means ie. certain number of missions done)
3. something based on player's fame level

A constant modifier (ie. 1.5) can be introduced as means of making it slightly easier - the player has to build one ship/set of ships to defeat every enemy after all.

[torn whale]

Interesting idea, but this isn't what iron man mode is.

[barren radish]

The name is literally the least important part of the suggestion 😉 Also, something similar has been called "Iron Man" in another game I was playing - hence the name

[honest shadow]

coincidentally, iron man mode already exists as a "hardcore" version of cosmoteer meaning save scumming is removed

which is where the confusion stems from

also iron man mode hasn't been added yet

[barren radish]

lol. Definitely a different name then!

[honest shadow]

?roadmap

[wicked kayak]

Please check out the Early Access Roadmap! http://roadmap.cosmoteer.net/

[honest shadow]

its here i think

[granite nacelle]

u can already do this by just not grinding lol

[barren radish]

you can also not save scum 🙂

[honest shadow]

also i suggest renaming this thread (to avoid confusing people)

[barren radish]

I tried. I literally can't.

[honest shadow]

damn.

ah well

[barren radish]

No overpowered ships mode

Actually. Worked from my phone, didn't from desktop

[granite nacelle]

already planned

[honest shadow]

already mentioned >.>

talked about this just a few messages up

regardless its better to have an official setting for it

if only for bragging purposes

[granite nacelle]

effectively u already have a cap based of fame though since crew cap

[calm remnant]

sire that limit is called crew

[barren radish]

It doesn't work then. I can do a 2M fully crewed ship in a 400k sector.

[calm remnant]

Well you can set yourselves to harsher circumstances by tuning up the difficulty

[barren radish]

Maybe another thing to say is that I believe ship cost is a better metric than the amount of crew (and is consistent with what's used in competitive)

[noble adder]

uh... how?

[barren radish]

Grinding resources and buying out all crew

[noble adder]

yeah ofc but your crew is limited by fame? and fame gain within an area or enemy level is also limited?

so I dont see how you could get enough crew for a ship that much bigger than your current enemies

also, in the advanced game options you can change the crew/fame ratio, which would also limit the max crew of your ship (and thus size) if I understood everything correctly

[echo timber]

Good management and you barely need enough crew to fuel your weapons, which each railgun only requires two per loader

[barren radish]

I've already changed the name!

[echo timber]

Fair