Starfield

[Gusington]

^In-game or in real life?

[SirAndrewD]

^In-game or in real life?

Well in the game my character is a raging alcoholic, chugging wine and booze constantly to get a bonus to his speech and persuasion.

That's awfully darned close to real life.

[SirAndrewD]

Another tip, something I didn't notice till now..

When harvesting resources, use RMB to "Aim" your cutter before harvesting minerals.  It makes harvesting significantly quicker.

[DetCord]

Still very much a WIP, but I said I was working on it.

https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/1323

[Windigo]

^In-game or in real life?

In game, comes in a can....

Real life I make it about 1x month

[Windigo]

^In-game or in real life?

Well in the game my character is a raging alcoholic, chugging wine and booze constantly to get a bonus to his speech and persuasion.

That's awfully darned close to real life.

Life imitates art computer games.

[Windigo]

Another tip, something I didn't notice till now..

When harvesting resources, use RMB to "Aim" your cutter before harvesting minerals.  It makes harvesting significantly quicker.

Kind of makes sense... a great tip!

BTW killing pirates on the ground and taking their ships is a great way to boost your fleet. Too bad that in my first attempt I chickened out on switching ships in order to claim it. (thinking I would lose my other ship). Seems a weird mechanic to me.

Speaking of weird mechanics - base building. OK it makes sense to wire things up connectivity wise but damn the menu/commands to do it are borderline obscure/obtuse.

[SirAndrewD]

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BTW killing pirates on the ground and taking their ships is a great way to boost your fleet. Too bad that in my first attempt I chickened out on switching ships in order to claim it. (thinking I would lose my other ship). Seems a weird mechanic to me.

Yup, you don't lose your ship.   You can commandeer any ship in space or on the ground and if you fly it to a base it becomes "Home" and you can switch back at any Ship Services Agent.

But, some pointers.  On every Pirate you take, there's going to be contraband on board.  It's marked with a yellow marker.  Either jettison it out or make sure you have found a neutral port where you can go and sell it on the black market, or else you'll be stopped and fined/jailed at any controlled system. 

Also note that selling a captured ship isn't terribly profitable as to sell, you'll need to register it first which has a fee that's about 95% of the sell cost.   

Not sure if you can sell unregistered ships to black markets or pirates as they are kind of shoot on sight when my drunken space Lawman shows up.

[ArizonaTank]

Rather than build bases, can you take them over abandoned bases after you take them from pirates?

[SirAndrewD]

Another tip.

Do yourself a huge favor and download the neutral LUT's mod from Nexus.  It eliminates the horrible washed out dark colors and gets some true deep blacks.

Kind of important for a game that is set in space and has lots of dark places. 

[Windigo]

Rather than build bases, can you take them over abandoned bases after you take them from pirates?

Now that would be cool. Remove pirates, salvage base, bring back online, install faithful henchmen.... print money

[SirAndrewD]

Aha, figured out contraband and stolen items.

At the Den in the Wolf system, they won't scan you when you dock even though it's UC space. 

The Trade Authority there will buy anything, no questions asked. 

Sell the contraband there safely, better than dumping it out the airlock.  You can also sell them any goods marked stolen and then buy them back for same price.  Essentially the Trade Authority actively helps you launder your items.

[Windigo]

drunken space Lawman

that is just your cover for being the ringleader of an extensive smuggling operation

[al_infierno]

pirates [...] are kind of shoot on sight when my drunken space Lawman shows up.

Did you take some kind of lawman background trait to cause this reaction, or was it because you joined the UC Marines or whomever?

I really like how the game seems to react to your background traits.  I chose a drunken space gangster, and the first time I got arrested for shoplifting, I got shipped to Phobos where some big honcho in a suit made me an offer to become a rat and infiltrate the Crimson Fleet to gather evidence and get their leaders arrested.

My fine was only 50 credits, but naturally I jumped at a very interesting sounding storyline.  It's been great fun so far trying to balance my choices between doing bad-guy stuff to keep the Crimson Fleet happy, while trying to stay on the moral path so my handlers in UC don't haul me to prison.

Very compelling stuff, and all because of the "Wanted" trait I picked at character creation.  None of Bethesda's previous games have anything like this - it reminds me more of the first Mass Effect in a very good way.

[SirAndrewD]

Did you take some kind of lawman background trait to cause this reaction, or was it because you joined the UC Marines or whomever?

Yes, I took Bounty Hunter as a background and did the questline to join the Freestar Rangers and get my Ranger Badge and Star Eagle complete with space brig.

Pirates shoot on sight anyway but I'm pretty sure I'm locked out of the questline to join them.  Dunno though, I'm doing UC Vanguard missions even though I'm a Ranger so it might be like Elder Scrolls/Fallout 4 where you can do everything with no repercussions.