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[Neyvn]

Heres my general upgrade pattern...

1: Save for Tele - 75
2: Upgrade Sensors - 25
3: Upgrade Doors - 20
4: Save for Cloak - 150
5: Upgrade Engines + Power - Varies on Ship
6: Upgrade Shields + Power - x2 - Varies on Ship
7: Upgrade Weapons + Power - Varies on Ship
8: Upgrade Cloak + Power - May shift higher sometimes
9: Repeat 5-8

[Tarran]

Well, for some reason, Deon managed to unintentionally move me to recolor the ships myself. If anyone is interested, here are my efforts, keeping the simple vanilla style as best I can (what the fudge is the lighting angle on that thing?!), but changing the looks of several things. If you want to use it, I'd suggest asking me, as I already redid the gibs and cloak too.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Changes from right to left:
Cockpit actually has glass now.
New dividing line right behind the glass, paint shifted slightly.
Side bolted plates and the plates beneath them have been given a sense of elevation.
Weird small bolted plates on the sides have been completely repainted and bolts removed.
Side door arrows are now yellow.
Plating on the top center now, vent removed (it looked ugly and exposed).
New connectors to the engines: Simpler, big-bolt style connection.
The back of the engines are now much more solid, and now there's a paint line going underneath the engine.
Two new stabilizers for the engines, which go underneath the ship and bolt to the sides.
Back arrows are now yellow.

Enemy ship stole my boarders again. I hate it when that happens.

Maybe your boarders just decided to quit their mission and instead take a joyride through space in a different ship.

I go shields, then engines, doors, then what's cheap and useful.

I go weapons or shields, then the one I missed, then droids if any, then cockpit. It depends on how many guns the ship has.

[Levi]

Anybody have tips on what to upgrade first and when?  I never have any idea how to focus my spending.

I usually try to get my shields up to 2 (4 power) first, and try to put a point or two into engines.  Sometimes I put a point into autopiloting as well, as its kind of handy at the start when you don't have a lot of crew.  After that it depends on if I find nice weapons or not. 

I don't usually start thinking of upgrading doors, sensors, oxygen or medbays until sector 6ish.


By the end of the game, I generally hope to have 3 (6 power) shields, 5 engines, 2 of all the secondary stuff and a drone bay with one defense drone.  My weapons seem to vary a lot, I usually just take whatever I can find and try to power it as much as I can +1 power.

[Mephansteras]

I generally hold off on upgrading until at least the 2nd sector, since you don't generally need to do much to get through the 1st. After that it depends on what I've managed to acquire. Generally ends up being reactor, shields, and weapons/droids. Sometimes scanners, if I've gotten an anti-personnel weapon or Transporters.

[GlyphGryph]

Since I've finally had a somewhat successful run, (could have beat the last boss if I wasn't herp derp stupid and not realized I could go back to the same heal point between fights), this is what I've found is my most successful strategy:

First, take out enemy cockpit. Either with borders or missile or even just standard weapons, but taking it out means ever following shot is going to hit. For enemies with heavy shields, that's important!

Then I generally go for weapons/drones, depending on which seems to be the biggest threat. Usually weapons, but not always, and usually just enough damage to work around them.

My boarders will try to keep their cockpit tied up, if possible, to insure my concentrated fire gets where I'm aiming it, and after threat neutralization, I take it shields to maximize damage.

Then I usually go for keeping all of those and the med bays disabled (with a primary focus on the medbays) to allow boarders to do their work.

Another side benefit of the cockpit destruction is that from then on I can only do exactly as much damage as I need to so as to disable stuff, so my weapon fire can be spread around to keep everything suppressed without having to deal with luck.

Of course, I am by no means one of the better players here, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

[Mephansteras]

Is there any reason to hit controls vs engine or vise versa?

[Neyvn]

Cockpit dead means no dodge + No FTL Gen
Engine dead means less dodge + No FTL Gen
So not really sure...

Can I also say... FUCKING MISSILES!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT:: Wow, Red Tail is great at shutting down Sector 1 and most of Sector 2 shit. For weapons shooting differently can help in shutting it down.
1 Hit anywhere for Shields. 2 Hit Cockpit. 3/4 hit weapons...

[Tarran]

Argh! Damn RNG, I was having such a good run, and then you decide to stop spawning shops to repair at right when I start getting wrecked!

For reference, I had 123 scrap to repair my ship with. This was after I had paid at least a hundred or so on shields, and at least a hundred and fifty on weapons and the stuff needed to support them. I also had at least 3 drones in my cargo hold to sell. And I had a scrap arm.

[Criptfeind]

Control has a max level (and thus health) of three. Dead engines will take away all dodge though. (Just like dead control)

[GlyphGryph]

Engines tend to have more health and are thus more difficult to take down. Also they tend to be in 4square rooms which are more dangerous for boarders.

One 2 power missile is usually more than enough to take down almost any cockpit in the game, and at worst you just need to deal a single point more of damage.

[Mephansteras]

Argh! Damn RNG, I was having such a good run, and then you decide to stop spawning shops to repair at right when I start getting wrecked!

For reference, I had 123 scrap to repair my ship with. This was after I had paid at least a hundred or so on shields, and at least a hundred and fifty on weapons and the stuff needed to support them. I also had at least 3 drones in my cargo hold to sell. And I had a scrap arm.

That's pretty much exactly what happened to me. I really like the runs where I get a Repair Arm or Hull Repair Droids. So much more reliable!

I hadn't thought about the engine health issue. Good point!

[Neyvn]

Sigh....
Asteroids + Beam Drone + Zoltan Shield FOE = DEATH!!!

[Sirus]

The RNG in this game loves to screw me over, it seems. I got to the final sector, and noticed that the repair points were all relatively close by. Within two jumps however, all of them had been taken over by the rebels. I couldn't reach any of them even if I had tried!

[Tarran]

The RNG is trying to troll me. Remember how I complained about the lack of shops?

Well, this game, there are three shops very close to another in a line. Likely so close that they all connect. Two are right next to the entrance to the sector.

RNG, where was this crap last game?!

[Haspen]

Do Engi ships get some hidden bonus to weapon blindess or something?

Honestly how you can miss with 3 different weapons 10 times in a row?

And it was 1-shield auto-scout (with the 4dmg missile launcher). Just, arrrrgh!