In my current game I haven't found any patch spiders, so when I got desperate-escaped from a phobos with a 0HP plate of armor that I really didn't want to replace, I went looking for some barrels or patches. I had to backtrack all the way to 70 Ophiuchi, the system after St. K's, to find any at all....

Wait...so my refugee convoys aren't going to take potshots at ares sentries anymore? Awesome.

Kate Morgental getting stuck is potentially more serious, especially if it's before she waxes the BM station for you. I nearly had that happen this last game, but she managed to work her way free somehow.

I have to wonder, why are the ferians there, now? They don't do anything, and new players at least are going to assume they're as off limits as every other friendly ship.

I'd add in an exchange for them, and make them prize shiny things and nice foods.

Oh man. Pumping a Mark III up to +150% is pure poetry now. That thing'll last you through Heretic if you've got a speedloader. This game I'm planning on ordering tons of tritium injectors and boosting a fusionfire the same amount. Should be pretty cool. I have to agree on the x-ray laser. I might no...

A little confused by the terminology here; When you say 10% damage, do you mean ten percent of hitpoints removed, or remaining? If it's ten percent hit points removed, then Volkov's repair code, at least, is not working properly. He uses Advanced Reactive, so any of those stations I mentioned should...

So, I've been fiddling with this, and I can't figure it out. How do I get my wingmen in game to repair their armor? I've got a 93% damaged volkov and have paraded him past a commonwealth fortress, small commonwealth colony, large commonwealth colony, commonwealth drydock, black market shipyard, and ...

No kidding. I got one of those after me the other day. The explosion was sure pretty, but I was a little ticked off.

Yes, I'm certain it was the Kronosaurus.

I should clarify that it fired at me just fine before I gated out and back in. But after I gated back in it was passive, and headed for the gate itself.

Nope. There's a special dockscreen for that circumstance, even.

I seem to have broken something or other in the kronosaurus encounter. I killed my three frigates as usual, went back to Korolov, sending the big bad ship after me, yadda yadda. Well, I'm using a class II shield right now, and the next system is Rigel Aurelius. So I dodge past the kronosaurus to see...

This looks pretty shiny. Nice!

Agreed. As it stands the player either needs to be lucky enough to find a reactor floating around somewhere, or have a net worth that's greater by the worth of their current reactor to afford the next step up.

If you wait long enough, eventually another freighter will come along that's in your escort class. And if it's full, eventually one of the bigger ones will leave and be replaced. I kind of like this, as it discourages 'Korolov farming.' I know I always made an effort to go through all of the korolov...

Korolov has fleshed out beautifully in the last few versions. There's just one more thing I'd like to see at this point: Frigate-killer missions. Right now it seems you'll get frigates to kill if you have particularly valuable escort missions, and some systems just happen to have frigates (which see...