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[jester]

Is there any way to cheat to get the crystal ship?

  Ive got more than 40 hours logged but have never even had a chance to get it.

[PanH]

I think I have 10 hours on FTL, and I have the engi, the stealth and the crystal. None of the other 

[BigD145]

Is there any way to cheat to get the crystal ship?

  Ive got more than 40 hours logged but have never even had a chance to get it.

There's a file running around with full unlock.

[BigD145]

Is there any way to cheat to get the crystal ship?

  Ive got more than 40 hours logged but have never even had a chance to get it.

There's a file running around with full unlock.

[Sirus]

I've got the Federation Cruiser, Engi, Slug, and Zolton ships. Nothing else, despite trying multiple times.

[Tarran]

Wow, the amount of possible generic events is shockingly lacking for non-aligned systems or I'm just incredibly unlucky.

I think I've run into the same pirate-chasing-civilian 2 choice event 4-5 times now in the first sector in the same game. Not even a change of text for the most part or at all.

[EnigmaticHat]

Wow, the amount of possible generic events is shockingly lacking for non-aligned systems or I'm just incredibly unlucky.

I think I've run into the same pirate-chasing-civilian 2 choice event 4-5 times now in the first sector in the same game. Not even a change of text for the most part or at all.

The number of generic events isn't staggeringly large, but its not nearly that bad.  There's probably like 20-30 events just for encountering pirates in civilian sectors, although a lot of them are obvious choices (I'm not handing a crew member over to slavers, thank you very much) or a rewording of "a pirate attacks you".  So I'd say you're unlucky.

[Sirus]

Keep in mind that many events have multiple, randomly-chosen outcomes. So even if you get identical events, you might get radically different results.

In unrelated-but-awesome news, I beat the rebel flagship last night with the Bulwark (rock cruiser) and unlocked the mantis cruiser in the same run. Now I just need the Crystal cruiser...

[gimlet]

Ooh I just noticed there's a new (for me anyway) patch as of about Dec 19, looks like some small fixes + hotkeys ahhhhh nice.  But I got it through gog and their version of the patch is screwy so I have to uninstall and reinstall or some crap, bleh I'll get to it in a couple of days :p 

Thanks for nothing gog, you already take your good sweet time on patches and now you make the experience MUCH worse than just buying direct or through Steam - I'll make sure I check those first when I want a game
/gogrant off

[jaxy15]

I've got almost everything except the Federation Cruiser and the B layouts for most ships.

[GreatJustice]

Likewise, though I have the Mantis B, Kestrel B, and Zoltran B but not the Slug or Crystal ships.

Have to say the Mantis B is comically overpowered if you get a full raiding crew + a pilot early on, since you can completely overrun anything so long as you bring a bomb and decent defense equipment.

[kcwong]

Ooh I just noticed there's a new (for me anyway) patch as of about Dec 19, looks like some small fixes + hotkeys ahhhhh nice.  But I got it through gog and their version of the patch is screwy so I have to uninstall and reinstall or some crap, bleh I'll get to it in a couple of days :p 

Thanks for nothing gog, you already take your good sweet time on patches and now you make the experience MUCH worse than just buying direct or through Steam - I'll make sure I check those first when I want a game
/gogrant off

It's just you. I downloaded the version 2.0.0.7 installer, uninstall old one, install new version, done.

Whenever it's available on GoG, I go there. GoG's no DRM policy wins my money.

[GlyphGryph]

Err... at least in this case, the normal version had no DRM either. o_O

[Rolan7]

It's still a nice policy, though.
I'm surprised they even have a system for patches.  I thought it was only for, you know, old games.  They seemed to do a great job at making sure ancient games would run on modern windows (I had much better results than with Steam for that).

On topic... I haven't played in a while, but I was stuck searching for the crystal ship.  Any hints on what I have to do?  I was using the Rock missile-ship just in case but I hope that's not required.  Acquiring energy weapons can be hit-or-miss.

[AlStar]

It's still a nice policy, though.
I'm surprised they even have a system for patches.  I thought it was only for, you know, old games.  They seemed to do a great job at making sure ancient games would run on modern windows (I had much better results than with Steam for that).

On topic... I haven't played in a while, but I was stuck searching for the crystal ship.  Any hints on what I have to do?  I was using the Rock missile-ship just in case but I hope that's not required.  Acquiring energy weapons can be hit-or-miss.

Rock ship isn't needed, but they've got an achievement for getting the Crystal ship, and they've also got a slightly easier time of it - with their rock armor, you're garanteed to be able to retrive the Crystal stasis pod when you get the event.

I don't know how spoilery you want to go, but the path of actions you need is:
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Stasis Pod (random, pretty much anywhere at a distress beacon) -> Cryo Lab (Zolton or sometimes Engi space) -> Crystal Beacon (Rock Homeworld)

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Go to distress beacons -> Pick a path that has a bunch of green early on, then a bunch of red systems later.

You'll want to search the systems as much as possible to get what you want. On the run I got the Crystal ship, I ended up having to fight through the Rebel fleet in two different systems, since I had to fly past the exit before I found what I needed.