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[sambojin]

Well, my Engi A run is at sector 8. It *should* be a walk in the park. C'mon breach bombs......

[mosshadow]

Got the Kestrel C. Its a decent ship I guess. Unfortunately i Killed my own boarders with a burst III.  Do you guys Have a habit of Killing your own crew?

[tryrar]

don't all c layouts have the clonebay instead of the medbay? Shouldn't be a problem then

[EnigmaticHat]

Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I'll shoot a system with both side's crew in it.  Only time its killed my guys that I can remember involved an extremely accurate Flak 2 hit.

[sambojin]

The whole boarding thing is generally pretty easy, so I've never felt the need to shoot my own ship. Maybe if I specifically wanted to breach a section, but door control (and the schmo running it) is always the most important man on the ship. Maybe it gets harder, but on easy/normal, boarders aren't a problem (it's like they killed their own repairmen. Thanks).

Won with that Engi A. Then won with the Fed A straight afterwards and got 2/3 achievements. Even fell for the artillery beam upgrade (I'll never waste scrap or power on it again). Time to crank it up to normal or hard methinks. 3/7 victories on easy so far, normal content. Advanced should wipe the smile off though...... So will hard.

What are people's thoughts on "early training" their crew? I only noticed how many dodges and how much shield work was being done on the Fed A's artillery laser achievement. If you can find the scrap for lvl 2 shields early, is it worthwhile tanking a few hits for a boost later? Or wasting scrap on a crappy weapon in an early sector when victory is certain? It never occurred to me to grind crew before I tried that achievement (a quick kill is a good kill). But does it help in the long run? I tend to end up with pretty multi-roled crew anyway (or more than one that are good at the main jobs. Except my door-man. He's special, it just doesn't look like it).

Is it worth grinding crew (esp on normal/hard in the advanced patch)?

[Leafsnail]

If you don't mind wasting time then sure it's worth it, there's no cost other than tedium and you get a benefit.  I'd say the benefit is pretty marginal for how much time it takes though, you can usually get your gold star crew pretty quickly if you upgrade engines early.

[mosshadow]

don't all c layouts have the clonebay instead of the medbay? Shouldn't be a problem then

Yeah, I realized that after rage quiting.....

[forsaken1111]

So just had my first good game of this since AE hit. Started with the engi cruiser and ended up unlocking:

Rock Cruiser
Zoltan Cruiser
Slug Cruiser
Lanius Cruiser
Fed Cruiser

all in one go!

[USEC_OFFICER]

After killing it the first time, killing the flagship becomes a LOT easier.

A lot easier, apparently. It was literally one run after another.

[forsaken1111]

Just did the first part of the mantis unlock quest (I already have the cruiser, but I needed an extra mantis for boarding).

Did kazaak start with maxed out all skills in the old version? Because he has maxed skills in my game.

I think that is an AE thing because when I did the zoltan cruiser unlock I got Envoy with maxxed skills but before I just got some scrap

[GlyphGryph]

After killing it the first time, killing the flagship becomes a LOT easier.

A lot easier, apparently. It was literally one run after another.

Really goes to show just how much "skill" there is involved in the game (most of the time, for most ships), really, as opposed to the "chance" dominating people seem to see until they have that flash of understanding and it just clicks.

Did kazaak start with maxed out all skills in the old version? Because he has maxed skills in my game.

Recruits having skills is new. It was clear they wanted him to in the old game but they didn't have the mechanic in place to do it - now they do, and he's been suitable upgraded.

[Mageziya]

So just had my first good game of this since AE hit. Started with the engi cruiser and ended up unlocking:

Rock Cruiser
Zoltan Cruiser
Slug Cruiser
Lanius Cruiser
Fed Cruiser

all in one go!

Christ.

I'm trying to think about what you need to do for this.

The Zoltan and Lanius cruiser are easy, while the others require luck.

If I remember correctly doesn't the Fed Cruiser have a new unlock method now? (Outside of the new victory chains.) You need defeat an unfinished rebel flagship in the new rebel stronghold sector, right? Didn't it used to be you simply needed to beat the game for it?

Also, Super ninja'd.

[GlyphGryph]

Zoltan cruiser requires Zoltan Homeworld, meeting the Zoltan and then going to a second quest point.
Rock cruiser requires Rock homeworld, meeting the rock, going to the sun, and then meeting up with the rock again - all marked quest points.
Slug cruiser requires Slug homeworld, meeting the Slug, and then has a completely random chance of whether that might possible lead to the slug quest. If it does, you will need two of a variety of upgrades and need to make several choices correct in order to complete the quest, but best case scenario it's still somewhere around a 66% chance of not unlocking the ship each encounter (though there is sometimes more than one encounter)
Lanius cruiser is an auto-unlock
Fed Cruiser just requires hitting the right zone in a Rebel Stronghold and beating the ship there.

All-in-all, only the slug is particularly luck-based, but holy hell do you have to be lucky to get that many homeworlds/strongholds on a single run!

[forsaken1111]

It was an amazingly lucky run. For the slugs I had the required upgraded sensors. The rest... well I was just amazed I kept hitting the events.

[Sirus]

Considering how I haven't seen the Rock Homeworlds even once since the update...
Haven't had a chance to nab that crystal pod either, so I think the crystal ship will be forever locked to me.