FTL - Faster than Light

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Congrats on winning with the Vortex, I struggle to get past sector 3 with it.

I'm not by my FTL platform now, but I've maybe reached the boss 16-18 times and have never seen a 5 shield ship either.

It must be a rare sight.

In one of my game I had to run from a 5-shield Rebel fighter with Defense Drone Mk II in sector 8, because I couldn't damage them (didn't want to jeopardize my crew with a teleporter onslaught) just to effortlessly beat the boss.

[persy]

Congrats on winning with the Vortex, I struggle to get past sector 3 with it.

I've got a Vortex in my top5 highscore with almost 5k points. It sits there and mocks me for almost 3 months by now, I can't kick it out without rebel wave scumming))

AW GAWD, I've unlocked Crystal B it's so freaking OP, you're 100% invincible against anything you can meet in first 2-3 sectors

[KyoShinda]

In one of my game I had to run from a 5-shield Rebel fighter with Defense Drone Mk II in sector 8, because I couldn't damage them (didn't want to jeopardize my crew with a teleporter onslaught) just to effortlessly beat the boss.

Ships with 5 shields actually exist? That's nuts. I'll add bombs to my list of 'If X ever happens' just like I keep anything ion to get through zoltan shields.

Edit: I forgot someone already mentioned that, I have bad memory. lol

---I got bored in the break room, so I made up a drawing game loosely based on ftl. For a RNG you make a 7x7 number matrix, put in every number 1-0 5 times except 8 which you write in 4 times (I wanted to keep it a square closest to a count of 10, and the 0's represent 10's). To read it I do it first by columns (left to right) then rows (up to down) diagonals, and then repeat it. You could probably have some little piece of paper to keep track of which number you're on and which direction the next number is.

---You draw your ship and your enemy's ship, each 10 squares in any formation, pick 4 rooms to draw a dot as your systems (if your 4 system rooms are destroyed, you lose). At the end of every turn, you mark a line above the ship to show that that turn is complete.

---It's basically 1 shot each turn of each ship and the rng calculates hit/miss, what room, and chance of starting fire(a chain of 3 rng numbers used). To begin a turn you look at the next number you are on (1-7 is a hit), what room which is figured out by going left to right, top to bottom (topleft-most room would be 1, bottomleft would be 0), after those two are calculated, if the number is 9 or 0, that room is considered not only destroyed, but on fire. I used bowling notations to signify things, a room hit is a spare (slash), a room on fire is a strike (an X).

---At the beginning of every turn, before a shot, if there are rooms on fire, they will spread (to 4 non-diagonal squares if there's a room) if the rng is 9 or 0. Since the rng is slightly less likely to select an 8, it's good to pick the 8th room as one of your system rooms. So, to sum it up, you check which way the rng is going, calculate fire spread->hit->which room and fire chance. If someone misses, it goes straight to the next ship's turn. The strategy of the game is to pick which rooms you want your systems in and the structure of your ship (although, having most of the ship as hallways is kind of exploiting the fire spread). I thought this would only be useful for breaks at work but I also use it for breaks at school (cuz talking to ppl is less fun).

[GordonOverkill]

Sounds funny! Definitely a creative way to waste your time ;-)

I just won with the Bulwark, so I have now won at least once with every ship that I have unlocked (Kestrel, Red-Tail, Nesasio, Torus, Vortex, Osprey, Nisos, Man of War, Bulwark and Adjudicator). Now it's time to hunt for some new vessels once again!

[GordonOverkill]

Just in case anybody would like to follow my new space adventure, today I have started a new FTL run on my youtube channel. I've chosen the Kestrel as my vessel and the first episode is already online. I hope and got the feeling that I improved my performance alot since my last series with the Torus, but still your hints and feedback are very much appreciated!

Here's the link to the first episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4gatroN_o
During this episode the ship crossed the first sector, getting quite a beating by some nasty foes. My aim was to at least increase the shields and reactors.

And here you get to the second episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PPbH...ature=youtu.be
Luckily the fights were a little more relaxed this time. Therefore lack of fuel and close pursuers became a serious issue. My aim for this episode was to increase reactors and engines each by two.

Here you get to the third episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVGqUKcEMI0
Well, to make it short, in this episode both ship and crew got quite a heavy beating!

Well, and here's the link to the fourth and (sadly) last episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAmkcHtkQHg
I continued being too trusty on the one hand and too greedy on the other... could have survived if I had been a little smarter. However, so it's ADOM again tomorrow!

[Stingray1]

Have you been victorious with the Kestrel, I remember it took me quite a few runs to win with her.

Maybe wait for prerelease 19 before starting a new ADOM series. That bug that ended Rattatordon's adventure and others will be fixed in it. Just a thought.

Yes, there will be a public Prerelease 19 shortly.

[GordonOverkill]

Yes, the Kestrel was actually the first ship I won with. I like her quite alot and actually this was quite a stupid death... should just have gone to the store directly. I had about 50 scrap and a defense drone mk.II and a boarding drone to sell, so I could have easiely repaired the ship. Instead I tried to visit as many sectors as possible with my heavily damaged ship... in hindsight that was rather stupid x-) However, the whole run was far from perfect.
Good idea, if prerelease 19 is soon to come, I will wait for it. Untill then I might play something else... for example I definitely want to play a hardcore challange game of Jagged Alliance 2, maybe I will start that now.

[KyoShinda]

Omg, for the first time I decided to take out the entire crew the first round of the last boss and it makes the second round so much easier!! How come you guys didn't tell me about this. xD

Now I can just storm the entire ship without worry.

[Stingray1]

I did not tell you, because I wanted you to figure it out yourself. See, I knew you would succeed.

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Doesn't the flagship AI vent the ship as soon as it's enabled?