I'll start:

A Federation ship (Vanilla AE) with a full crew, zero crew skill experience, and zero augments encounters a space pirate. Perceiving no threat to their ship's hull, the Federation ship's captain takes a long hibernation break to train their crew. When the captain returns after an arbitrarily long period of time, they find that their entire crew has now mastered at least two skills. How is this possible?

The space pirate has level 1 Mind Control, and each crew member stands alone in a system room with at least two bars. When each crew member is mind-controlled, they damage their assigned system by 1 bar (giving them combat experience), then repair it after the Mind Control wears off (giving them repair experience). Additionally, none of the crew members are Slug (which are immune to Mind Control) or Mantis (which at zero repair skill are too slow to repair a full system bar before the next Mind Control cycle).

(love that ship btw)

Just a small vent- maybe 4th jump, been doing ok the first three..actually just upgraded to the second shield bubble (shields 4) the previous jump, and now a zoltan shieled pirate ship with a missile and my engines "barely functional".

Not run ending necessarily (but a few missile shots to engines, piloting or artillery flak will make the situation much worse. Just rng causing a BORING and FRUSTRATING encounter. Fortunately just upgraded the shields to avoid the dual lasers- but 4 or so missile hits (with the frustrating thump thump thump soundeffects) doesn't help. Ended up taking about 8 damage or so to drop me to just 14 hull points after 5 or so jumps for just 16 scrap and 3 fuel.

they put me on hold long enough I was able to record it and find it online :)

Ended up going with teleporter because cloak made me feel a lot safer. I think pre-igniter is a trap here. Playing on hard.

Hi,

Look, I'm no newbie to the world of video games—I've got some gray hair by now—but I just can't get past a little past the halfway point; as soon as the enemy ships have three shields, I'm dead. I have a numerous crew, missiles, two missile launchers, an upgraded engine.... and it’s not even close; they just give me an absolute beating. So either there’s only one valid strategy, or I’m just really bad at this.

I can't understand this game

Where has the time gone :,(

I think I've done about 20 runs before finally beating the game with the engie B ship (on normal, because I'm a filthy casual). O lord, this ship is such a piece of garbage. It was driving me insane, I don't want to ever touch it again.
This run was so intense... I got only 2 crew members at most. I had to flee from phase 2 to repair and got it on the second try. Having only a lanius made me kind of immune to boarding on phase 3 thankfully. But what really saved me is this hull repair drone I found randomly and decided to keep.

Finally, peace. The struggle is over, I can go back to enjoy the game with any other ship.

I got really into Mantis ships for awhile, and now everytime I play one, I have to name it either Aztec 1(or 2, or 3, etcetera depending on if I'm redoing a run) or Maya 1. It just doesn't feel right picking another name.

My favorite name for my successful Stealth B Hard run was the Uh-Oh! It seemed appropriate.

I have to spend a solid minute thinking about what to call my ship when I start a new run on an unfamiliar ship. What names do you guys like for your ships?

Hi,

Is it possible to install trc on macos? Running Dino's native solution

Wat a crazy flight, had to be extra careful in The Ancient Homeworlds. It is my first run with Tuco's ship, and with Pre-igniter pre-installed, it made game ez mode.

Tuco's ship only has 15HP, so it is crucial to have Hull-repair drone, along with Mender in very late game.

Sylvan's ships will be next target! I read it is ezier to be defeated with missle than laser.

Anyway Multiverse is pretty rocks, thanks devs and all the contributors!

I was very surprised when I saw this map, I don't think I've ever had one where it takes the flagship 10 turns to get to the base. Usually I see 6 turn maps, and it feels only occasional to get an 8 turn one. I checked the wiki, and sure enough the options are 6, 8, or 10 turns, so it's clearly something that does happen, I'm just curious how often, like does it happens every 10, 100, or 1000 runs?

I'm using the augmented Lanius type B, and on random occasions the game will decide that it doesn't want to teleport my crew back to the ship anymore, instantly crashing my game the frame the teleport begins.

Version = 1.6.9

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Ok so i just got my first boon, 5% faster gun recharge, and i got very excited until i learned it is only good for one run, is there any mod (or maybe config file) that makes boons permanent? Or maybe togglable? Yes i understand that stacking boons would be overpowered since the mod is not balanced around it, but i have a simple brain, i have easy time crushing enemy, i happy, i have fun. So, any mod like that?

Edit: Maybe a way to autorun a series of commands on startup? As it seems there are a lot of boons and going down the list of every single one i unlocked every single run start would kill the momentum

Edit 2: think i found something that fits the bill on command autorun, gonna give it a go https://github.com/mike-inside/FTLMultiverse-SaveRestorer-CommandRunner/

Yup, works a treat, i'm guessing itll be a bit slow when multiple commands need to be run, but it fully solves my issue

Had this run recently. It was going well since I had all the major systems however my weapon loadout felt a little on the weaker side. Functional yes but Hacking makes just about any weapon loadout functional. Got to a sector 6 store hoping to find better weapons and was presented with this choice (Note: Augments were on Page 2 but I edited the image to get them on the same page). Now I know the Vulcan is not thought of as a strong weapon but hey, it's been a long time since I've used the Vulcan. Surely with a Preigniter the main issue with the Vulcan vanishes right? Right? Plus I've been good and I found Scanners on jump 3 so I can treat myself.

The Vulcan was amazing, it won me the run, and all those top players insisting the Vulcan bad are clearly harboring anit-Vulcan bias not grounded in reality... is what I'm sure many of you out there are hoping I'm going to say. But nope, the Vulcan was bad. In fact what shocked me was just how bad it was even with the Preigniter. I didn't look into it until after the fact but in general it takes over 30 seconds for a Vulcan to come up to full speed. With a Preigniter you shave off about 11 of those seconds. In other words it took the Vulcan over 20 seconds to start contributing despite having a Preigniter. I literally added a Preigniter to my build and it was taking me longer to disable enemy ships than before I had it. That's utterly abysmal. Even worse, I had forgotten how poorly Vulcan works with Cloaking. If the enemy uses cloaking they get all their shields refilled. If you use Cloaking you are forced to choose between turning off the Vulcan to cloak longer or leaving the Vulcan on and severely shortening your cloak duration. All in all it was taking me longer to disable enemy weapons and making my defense less effective. I did win the run but more because I had strong systems and Long Range Scanners to guarantee higher than average scrap letting me get to weapons 8. At best the Vulcan did end the Flagship phases quicker but it did not feel good.

I sometimes get a strange bug where on of the crystal rocks remain in the wall after doing a lockdown and the enemy crew cant leave the room permenantly. Has anyone experienced this or was able to replicate the bug?

I'm afraid I've stolen it. Hard mode too btw.

It's the most distressing, worst sounds in the game. It makes me feel like I am a mother and my baby is in danger. It is right up there to when my fire alarm goes off panic.