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[Leafsnail]

Just leave your guys in their shield room.

[Rolan7]

Sounds like the problem isn't the regular shields (he hasn't killed all the crew, so the AI hasn't taken over), but the super shield.  I never use the hull laser but sounds like it's really bad at wearing down the shield.  Though it should take quite a while for it to go up again...

[Leafsnail]

Oh right.  But between the stun bomb and the hull laser that shouldn't take too long?

[sambojin]

If he's more or less safe from everything else, it's just a matter of grinding down that shield with what he has, or damaging hull-points through boarders (depending on if there's few enough left compared to rooms to damage). It sounds like a win, just a slow, laborious one.

[Rolan7]

Yeah he could kill the last crewmember just to let the boarders do hull damage as the systems repair, if he wants to risk it.
I'm sure the fight's long over now of course 

[sambojin]

Yeah, I'd kill that last crew member, have a boarder in each dangerous weapon (2) and one/two in the shields. Then wait and hull laser when you can. Just because (assumedly) he finished the battle hours ago doesn't mean we can't theory-craft our own victories

[RedWarrior0]

So I'm having a run, and here's the sector map:



Dat purple.

[sambojin]

But as long as you overstock fuel, it's great. More jumps without squat, but more potential jumps in total. On harder levels, more encounters as well. Which means more scrap. As well as a nice green run to spend it on, well before the last sectors.

Looks like a great shopping run actually, depending on the ship.

Zoltan, purple, green, green, purple, red. Yayyyy!!!!"

[EnigmaticHat]

I've found running out of fuel to be far deadlier in the AE.  First of all with hard mode you can't afford to let the fleet advance without getting something in return.  Secondly, before you could just kill the elite fighters for 1 fuel each if you were badass enough, which made your build more important than your fuel.  Now with the ASB, extended fights with the rebel fleet are suicide.

So now I have a policy that no matter how much fuel I have, I always go for more.  Prior to sector 7 you can never have enough fuel.

[sambojin]

Yeah. On normal or hard, overstock a bit. It's worth having 10-15 at all times, just to make sure, even with the scrap costs. The additional events in AE means there's a slightly smaller percentage of "easy fuel" events, and rebels/randoms have a greater chance of being horribly damaging to your underfunded "niche" ship. Even outpacing the fleet and putting on your beacon will, on average, have a bigger chance of being bad for you.

Normal or Hard on Normal Content isn't half as challenging as with Advanced Content, just due to the lack of variety in the former.

edit: And.... Arrrgggghhhh. I'm just going to have to start using my backup PC. I'll be fixing my normal box on Tuesday. Tried watching Northernlion's let's plays, but it just makes me want to slap him. How can someone NOT know how to vent oxygen properly after making 21 videos of this game? Fuck I hate pretend-dumb youTubers, even more if he is that dumb. Why make a that many videos if you can't fucking learn a basic part of a game? Whatever. It's because it earns him money. I need a new job......

[BurnedToast]

I almost never bought fuel before AE, and I think I ran out of fuel less then 10 times total (probably less then 5). It was just not ever a major concern.

Now I buy fuel all the time, and try to keep at least 20 stockpiled if possible... but I still think something like 20% - 25% of my runs are ended due to running out of fuel and getting picked apart by the ASB.

It's not just the ASB, Fuel is definitely a lot more rare. it's very frustrating because it's just one more RNG thing totally out of your control. No shops? better hope you win the fuel lotto.

(I play on normal, not hard, so it's not that either)

[Arcvasti]

Yeah, I'd kill that last crew member, have a boarder in each dangerous weapon (2) and one/two in the shields. Then wait and hull laser when you can. Just because (assumedly) he finished the battle hours ago doesn't mean we can't theory-craft our own victories

I didn't. I saved & quit and did something else. I'll probably just spam hull laser untill I win tommorow. Except sometimes the boss's power surge gets a laser through my shields because my cloak wasn't up in time. If he gets me too wounded, I'll do the "kill the last crewmember and then keep destroying the Flagship's systems over and over again thing". It doesn't help that the stun bomb just goes right through the Zoltan shield because Zoltan Shield Bypass.

[EnigmaticHat]

I almost never bought fuel before AE, and I think I ran out of fuel less then 10 times total (probably less then 5). It was just not ever a major concern.

Now I buy fuel all the time, and try to keep at least 20 stockpiled if possible... but I still think something like 20% - 25% of my runs are ended due to running out of fuel and getting picked apart by the ASB.

It's not just the ASB, Fuel is definitely a lot more rare. it's very frustrating because it's just one more RNG thing totally out of your control. No shops? better hope you win the fuel lotto.

(I play on normal, not hard, so it's not that either)

One thing I would recommend is to go to green sectors.  All of them spawn more shops.  I think there's at least 1 or 2 guaranteed in each, although guaranteed could still mean spawning in the lower left corner when you spawn upper left.

Another thing I would recommend is to go with a boarding focus and seek out non-rebel non-abandoned red sectors.  A good boarding ship that gets in enough fights should never run out of fuel.

[LoSboccacc]

So much randomness!

Is there a mod to change event outcomes allowing a skill based check? Not just with blie being better, but, i.e. having a strong mantis shift the outcome of giant spiders a bit toward good results

[Leafsnail]

I don't think it's really possible to be screwed by fuel purely due to bad luck, even on hard.  Remember that you can accept surrenders, and they often give a lot of fuel.