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[The Darkling Wolf]

Nah.
Each person fights through to the last stand separately. When they're both at the Last Stand, they do battle with each other.

[Sirus]

Well, my first run with the Red-Tail (renamed USS Orange Juice) is a mixed bag. Sector 3 now, not a single shop so far, and I got exactly 15 scrap in the entirety of Sector 2 thanks to a string of empty beacons, which were also a dead end, forcing me to turn around and fight four(!) rebel ships before I made it to the Long-Range Beacon.

ETA: GODDAMMIT. Found a crew transporter, a heavy laser, and a second Mantis crewman. Send Mantises onto Engi scout after wrecking their weapons. Mantises proceed to make mincemeat of Engi crew. I forgot to turn off auto-fire 

[GlyphGryph]

lolface

[Kilroy the Grand]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I get a Tele in the first sector nearly 80% of the time. Second 90%. The only thing that would stop me would be a Store in the first beacon or simply no stores in the sector at all. Getting the Tele can net you around 3 Instant Crew Members from the small chance of success missions. Station on Fire and the Nebular Damaged Vessel are two that I can think of atm...

Also making use of weaker units in boarding actions takes a little more effort then sending in a couple of Mantis or Rockmen. For things such as Slug and Engi a second level tele will allow you to harass the other crew to around half their health and give you time to tele them back for healing before going back in for the kill, that is if you don't hammer the station which the crew members are manning at the time. In fact the BEST moment to hammer a room with a good bit of damage is when they are retreating to the medbay. Hit that for 2 or more points of damage and you will not only knock around 1/3 of their health but also kill most to all foe medbays (never seen a lv3 Medbay in any enemy ship) This leaves you not only a weakened crew member to face but if you also had pulled them back to heal you now have a fully healed group and they have been damaged by Boarders and Weapon Fire making them really easy to take down. Even better if you can drag out a few more seconds of waiting and hit the medbay again the second after they have it repaired. As this will have dragged most of the crew to the room and away from the other annoying rooms (weapons and bridge for the most annoying). AND the AI will abandon even a nearly repaired weapons room to repair a damaged Medbay nearly all the time...

Another trick is to learn how to door dance. This can delay combat while waiting for the tele to cooldown and even allow for free hits against the crew if you get it right. Door dancing is generally simple after knowing a few things...

1: Crew members will fill a room in a certain pattern, it is mostly like this,
1 2
3 4
And will continue filling the number they were assigned when the group was selected, for example if there are two crew heading to a room but the member that was assigned 1 was redirected elsewhere, 2 will continue to fill in at slot 2...
2: Crew members that are working at a station that is not in slot 1 will remain in that slot even when under attack, the attackers will still head to 1, 2, 3, 4 respectively.
3: Handgun fire is slower then that of Hand to Hand combat, but can alternate between multiple targets, it also allows for first and last hits on crew members entering or leaving a room.
4: There is a free hit on a crew member teleporting into an already filled room.
5: There is a free hit when two or more crew members pass through the same door at the same time.
6: Handguns will not be used UNLESS the crew member is standing in a room slot. It is never used in motion (except for 5)...

Fake Edit/Ninja'd ::
The best thing to do against Slavers is to board and kill them, there is a High chance of getting Scrap AND a new Crew Member. They also normally surrender a "slave" when they take around 1/3 of damage...

Huh, maybe I'll be able to unlock that damn ship now.

[Sirus]

Aaaaand now I lost the max-level Zolton running my weapons. I think this game is punishing me for picking a goofy name T_T

[Tarran]

The game punished me naming my ship "Blazing Glory" by setting my ship half on fire then killing me (not with fire, with weapons), so I wouldn't be surprised.

[Leafsnail]

In terms of multiplayer I think an "Arena mode" where you both control crew on the same ship and repairing a downed system makes it your own could be fun.  Both teams would start with a medbay and then there'd be surveillance systems and bombs to capture.

[The Darkling Wolf]

And then FTL was SS13

[Kagus]

Has anybody else noticed that the scrap symbol is essentially the same as the one for monetary units of DF?

[Neyvn]

2 rock crewmembers, along with standard crew on kestrel

teleporter
meet zoltan ship with 2 missiles and 1 burst laser MK. III

FML

Whats wrong with that. You have rockmen that keep any fires in check, the missiles would fire maybe 2 times each before you can get some men over there or something into their weapons room to shut them down. Oh wait, MK. III yeah... F'YOUR'L

[GlyphGryph]

So, would people be interested in some sort of FTL Tournament? I've been trying to think of a couple different subgames we could play. If there's some interest, I'll make the thread.

---Possible Ideas---
For setup:
Everyone uses the same ship/layout, which we agree on before hand. We might have different tiers - for example, the Engi A would be "Easy" and the Engi B would be "Hard".
Everyone uses the ship of their choice
Combination - we divide the ships into classes, and you can choose any ship from the class you're playing in.
You submit your best of 3 attempts.

For victory: (things we could compete on)
Score, obviously
Fewest sectors to beat the boss
Shortest play time to beat the boss.
A special set of "achievements" or "metrics" we come up with, and whoever achieves the most/does the best is the winner.

What do y'all think?

[Sirus]

I'm not good enough to participate, but I'd probably watch

[GlyphGryph]

'course you are! Don't be silly. Just don't put yourself in the Hardcore class.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Sounds fun, but I've realised I'm nothing but terrible at the game. Think I'd be way too shy to "show off" just how bad I am. Would enjoy watching it however.

[Sirus]

'course you are! Don't be silly. Just don't put yourself in the Hardcore class.

I've only won twice. On Easy difficulty