The different available options should all be appealing and viable, but they don’t need to be precisely balanced. Interview: Starsector’s Alexander MosolovĪn open world single player space combat game, Starsector blends tactical 2D battles with trade, exploration, and fleet customization as a project with a lot going on under the hood, I chatted with dev Alexander Mosolov of Fractal Softworks regarding the variety of player experiences in his work and the design goals driving the title.Įrik Meyer: Starsector gives players a lot of choice regarding roles – hot-shot pilot, a smuggler, a stern admiral, an industrial magnate – in addition to different ships and overall play styles, so as you’ve added options and elements to the game, have you felt a need to keep things balanced, or do you focus more on options that would be interesting for different archetypes?Īlexander Mosolov: One of the things about it being a single-player game is that balance – while definitely still important – doesn’t have to walk the same razor’s edge as it does for a multiplayer game. Would be much better is it was more mount and blade like where sieges take time and admirals have persistent large fleets flying around that would converge on your ass if tried attacking a core world.īeyond that it seems the official forum dweller's favorite pastime is trying to min-max the most efficient fleet to hunt as many Remenant ordos at once as possible.
Scrounging up an armada of doom to go sack your colony is super easy, barely an inconvenience, but defending your capital world properly is beyond them apparently.
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Pretty soon you can easily beat any bounty (except some mod faction bounties which can be way harder than vanilla - like DME or Shadowyards with their crazy fighters) and then what? Once I tried to conquer the sector but it's pointless - the AI can't offer any meaningful resistance. Bounties just dump buckets of money on you and good ships are easy to buy and maintenance is relatively trivial.
And as for economics I would allow you to build industries in any planet like in mount and blade.Įven without the colonies the game becomes too easy too fast for my taste. That would be a real incentive to find and use blueprints. I would make it so that you can use the production system before you have colonies maybe by commissioning production at any friendly planet with a heavy industry for a fee. Usually when I reach the point I have fully established colonies I lose all interest in the game. There's nothing interesting about managing them besides surveying for nice planets, they're a pain in the ass to protect with constant raids that only increase in intensity and the reward for all that is trivializing the economy even further and letting you build some stuff, which by this point you don't need. And as far as I know only one mod adds a small story quest.Ĭolonies suck by the way.
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