Add Harder Economic Difficulties

[shy quiver]

I’m playing on the hardest economic difficulty in career, but I’m still always flush with cash, giving me a huge cost advantage over my enemies. This removes a lot of the challenge for me, and encourages me to make huge laggy ships. I know I could artificially challenge myself by purposefully wasting a ton of money, but doing that is really unfun and demotivating for me.

I wish there were more economic difficulties, to force me to care about making ships cost-effective. Not sure what you would call the harder difficulties, but maybe architect and engineer?

[fleet meadow]

You can mod such difficulties into the game pretty easily

[lunar ermine]

Given that you can just mine asteroids and salvage more, a harder economy would just make the early game grind harder. The late game would be more or less the same.

[fallow apex]

fix: remove asteroids

[warm mason]

Soon we'll need another suggestion to add more career generation options such as asteroid generation, kiters, harder difficulties, starting faction repitation...

[shy quiver]

yes but sadly I suffer from chronic laziness lol

[shy quiver]

yeah, this would be for people like me, who like grinding. I don't think take game would be the same though, since you won't get a chance for your your profits to stack up.

[sinful elm]

Is cash even relevant after unlocking all blueprints

Or rather the game simply doesn’t have a good resource/cash sink

[shy quiver]

If I was suggested for a new setting to be added, I'd see where you're coming from. But I can't see how expanding a setting opens they door
to adding more settings, since that's a pretty huge leap.

[shy quiver]

yeah, but I think you'd also be forced to unlock blueprints slower if you made less money. So blueprints would be a cash sync for longer

[somber lynx]

make it so u can buy infinite alcohol to debuff ur own crew, double challenge

[sinful elm]

In a standard playthrough I fully expect to unlock everything at second system

So hardest is like what 4 systems ?

[shy quiver]

maybe 3

depnds on how many asteroids you mine

[meager crow]

I think a good economic hard mode would be to add upkeep costs, like your ship slowly taking damage that you need to to repair, or your crew having actual salaries

[sinful elm]

Wait, I have a hot stupid idea

Why not just make sun zone grow larger （Red Giant) if you don’t keep throwing ships into the sun as sacrifice

[sinful elm]

That’s a good point, maybe the game can introduce some kind of end game threat that the player has no means to defeat at start of the game and pressure player on time management (start slowly devouring systems / you can’t just sit and mine indefinitely / FTL red zone) and player will be able to defeat it after growing enough

Im definitely one of those that left no rock unturned if noone is pressuring me

Sun zone? Gotta catch em all

[fallow apex]

well uh that's what faction conflicts will be in a way I'd assume

decivilized systems from bombings/invasions/stuff
probably from economy too

[fallow apex]

go my starsector

ig debt background could also work

as in
you have to pay x in y time
like x credits every 'month' etc

not stealing ideas from starsector backgrounds trust

[sinful elm]

Doesn’t really mess up this game’s eco tho cuz once you’re done with blueprints you get everything from asteroids

The game also doesn’t stop you from just friending everyone

(Same with starsector)

Idk if its still like this but when I used to play SS befriending pirate makes them send un-disguised traders to your colony

[fallow apex]

go my nexelerin

[sinful elm]

I don’t play with nex

[fallow apex]

and I don't play vanilla :аnguish:

[sinful elm]

Unless you tell me befriending ludd allows me to perform jihad

Which then I’ll install whatever mod that is

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[fallow apex]

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[shy quiver]

guys this server is English only