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[Great Order]

I think they're just doing it because they want to. It's up on a public site.

I log the IP address, the geolocation information I get from a third party API based on that IP address, what version of TASC is running, the TASC settings configuration, the mod list, and a UUID which is stored in a text file in the starsector saves folder.

https://boggled-starsector.com/usage/

Site's down right now, apparently it's not built to deal with even small Reddit hugs-of-death

[Gabeux]

I think they're just doing it because they want to. It's up on a public site.

Once doing modding for a game, I met one modder that did stuff like this before GDPR. He also would compile his mods into DLLs and keep the code private. He didn't feel the need to tell anyone about his analytics until GDPR came along, adding to the weirdness.
He told me it just tracked users (like this one claims to do), so when he went into job interviews he could show both the amount of downloads and active users. GDPR came along and then you nearly had to sign a contract to download the thing.. other modders made a point to make replacement mods and his thing fell in obscurity. I may or may not have influenced this outcome.
Sometimes folks can be very weird. I never understood why stuff things like that in a mod.

[Great Order]

Apparently Alex has smacked the mod maker's bum and told him to remove the spyware, which he's doing in the next update.

[forsaken1111]

To be fair, it does mention the tracking on the mod's page and all it tracks is which options you enable.

[( Tchey )]

If there is any kind of tracker, it should always be OFF by default, and ask you with clear words if you want to be part of the tracking process, and how it will be used.

If it’s ON by default, then, in my opinion, it is a major blame.

[Great Order]

Or at least on startup say "This mod uses trackers, do you want to enable them?" or some such.

Now I've got a question for folks.

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What fleet builds do you use for defeating Ziggy and the Doritos? I'm playing without any modded ships or weapons, and I've yet to beat either of them.

[Sirus]

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I understand that cruisers armed with beams are pretty good against Ziggy, as they can be fired more or less continuously and it lacks shields to repel them. Eventually it will have to remain in normal space once its flux builds up and at that point it's defenseless. Just make sure to pack some good shields to fend off the motes, and maybe a few Monitors to try and tank.

As for the Doritos, uh I have yet to successfully destroy one and usually flee for my life if they're spotted. Maybe don't look to me for advice

[Mephansteras]

I don't think I've ever tried that fight unmodded.

[Il Palazzo]

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Ziggy and the Doritos

The what now?

[Great Order]

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Ziggy and the Doritos

The what now?

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Project Ziggurat, a unique semi-automated capital-class phase ship that can be found at Alpha Site with a unique ship system that makes damaging EMP motes that swarm around it and can be made to hit a specific target.

The Doritos are Omega, you find them at either coronal hypershunts or on a unique bounty where they have Remnant support. Triangular (Hence doritos) cruiser-class ships, stupidly fast with deep flux pools, unique weapons that do stupid amounts of damage and stuff like DoT, and when you kill them they split into smaller ships designed to counter whatever dealt the finishing blow. You kill those, they split again.

[Dostoevsky]

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I understand that cruisers armed with beams are pretty good against Ziggy, as they can be fired more or less continuously and it lacks shields to repel them. Eventually it will have to remain in normal space once its flux builds up and at that point it's defenseless. Just make sure to pack some good shields to fend off the motes, and maybe a few Monitors to try and tank.

As for the Doritos, uh I have yet to successfully destroy one and usually flee for my life if they're spotted. Maybe don't look to me for advice

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Agree with beam spam for Ziggy, beam spam being the normal counter to phase ships. Just be comfortable with 'acceptable casualties'.The Doom trivialized it the first time I tried, but I'm pretty sure that system got a significant nerf since then.

As to doritos, again agree - they're mainly meant for people who are at the top of the top, and the rewards you get for killing them are more for taking a victory lap than anything else.

[Great Order]

Well, I've turned on Nexerelin for the first time after sitting on it for two months. I was wanting to get the most out of the mostly-vanilla gameplay before doing the dirty deed of adding major mods, since my experience is once I start modding to hell I can't go back.

It's nice actually having stuff to do in the core worlds. Usually I'm just trading or chasing system bounties if I'm not doing the Galatia Academy quests. Also stuff actually changes.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, Nexerelin is pretty much mandatory for me. Vanilla is just much too static for my tastes.

[Sirus]

On the other hand, static can be nice sometimes. In my current run the Sindrian Diktat got wiped off the face of the sector very early on and now the Legio Infernalis (modded faction, basically Pirates++) is slowly taking over. Sindria's old home system is a warzone of competing and conflicting factions that frankly isn't worth visiting because there's always one hostile war fleet or another roaming around.

[Great Order]

Well, my first game with Nex ended within a year. Heg and Luddic Church formed an alliance and that was that.

Is there a way of turning off alliances or something?