We're getting closer! He used music from Brigador in his Neo review and the Star Sector and Brigador devs are both buddies. And for another connection, sseth is Mandalore's evil twin. Mandalore is friends with Tex, of the Black Pants Legion, who himself did a few LPs of Brigador. Which in addition to being liked by Star Sector devs also has a few shout outs to Brigador in it. Any month now!
@@Soridan Just a matter of knowing where to start your colony. With a habitable planet below 100% hazard rating, just farming alone would provide a steady income so long the colony is stable enough to do so. Then find a planet rich in metals and volatiles, and pretty the rest is no worries on credits and on the next phase: fleet building and blueprint hunting.
@@Aereto Yeah, anything up to 175% is easy money. Beyond that you need to think a bit. Quite frankly I enjoy the early and midgame way more, once you establish a good colony the challenge drastically drops. Besides at the current state of the game they provide limited ways of interaction with other factions. Once/if Alex fleshes that part out a bit more I'll most likely grow more fond of colonies.
Important note: you can only do this for a very limited time! After a while the colony dies and you cannot complete the tutorial. Many game features are locked behind the tutorial. So you can’t actually finish the game until you finish the tutorial. Best suggestion. Exploit this opportunity for all its worth and then finish the tutorial before the colony dies. Get a bunch of colossus transports. Keep your transponder off and ship goods from the independents. Save up 20mil. Then finish the tutorial and start colony building.
Interesting. Halfway through the video, I assumed killing the colony and founding his own was his eventual goal, and... Not at all something I considered trying this afternoon...
Hmm, i tried twice now, both times the colony died despite me selling them pretty much everything they could ever need. Sadly didn't note the date the colony died the first time. The second time it was on 25.August 207. From my understanding the colony dying is linked to it being on 0 stability for long times, tho all i can say for sure is that there is no outside fleet interference. I wonder if selling on the open market would help ^^ or there is some other way to keep doing it potentially indefinitely, like installing a sensor array or something ? Not sure if there is a hardcap or if the 0 stability thing is hardcoded to force the player to do the mission, as you would normally run out of supplies otherwise. Also, how would you ramp to 20 million ? The best i did was ~ 6-7million minus the Colossi fleet to ship stuff back and forth.
SpaceMonkeyEntertainment I already check it and well if you sell stuff on open market it will stabilize the colony but you will no longer be able to sell good for a high price because they will no longer desperate for it
But take heart - with mods that allow planetary conquest you can turn the entire core worlds into Galatia - by creating border gore and constant conflict between factions, so that import prices skyrocket all across the sector.
@@TherealTenmanI As far as I understand 40k lore, mechanicus think that AIs are an abomination that shoulden't exist and be destroyed asap. Spirits in guns are okay tho
I recently watched one of Sseth's videos, got addicted, watched 'em all, got withdraw symptoms, got better, and am being socially integrated back into normal life
"this game is like someone extracted the leaves of a 1000 Yorkshire teabags compressed it down to the size of one and added some beautiful boiled water to it and just serve it to me on a silver platter" that's heart attack level of caffeine for a mere mortal but for a Yorkshire tea god refreshing
@@TransMiqote Alternating Mandalore and Sseth videos of course. It is a unique journey into a mind divided against itself, a psychological rollercoaster such as R.L.Stevenson could only dream!
@@FatBunny168 eh, no direct correlation. First, the large size subs in most shops are ~$9, so delivery of 3 would be around $30, so this isn't some gourmet rich person order. Secondly, he could have had 2 buddies giving him cash for their sandwiches, or this was his monthly splurge, or worst possibility of all, it's yet another transaction on his debt card (that's really all "credit" is, after all). But yeah, you can't draw conclusions from a single data point; that's called assuming, and we all know what happens when you assume...
I demand more of this. I must see the British Empire V2 expand, dominate the galaxy, and then be ultimately dismantled by building their trading capitol on Borg ruins and putting it in charge of infrastructure.
20:42 They didn't take anything, they just feel the amount of stuff you're carrying plus your black market history is a little suspicious, but not enough to act on.
@@KimSunoo2403 u naughty homan, you can try the real cheats if u wanna test stuff ingame, bur only in normal mode in case you dont know. Iron mode dosent allow it and neither multiplayer
For anyone who can afford it: Paragon + Tachyon lances + accelerated shields + hardened shields is invincible. 4 lances will essentially one shot any ship below a cruiser. It will also essentially disable any ship in 4 shots. Tachyon lances even have a small amount of EMP damage go through shields, which is insane.
I think my cat has been watching your videos while I sleep. Many things have been convincing me of this. One I keep waking up to your one charity stream where you played that train game with some other tubers. Two I keep finding videos I swear I haven't watched before, yet has already been liked. This video an example of that. Three I found your mug in the cats corner, I have no idea where it came from and have never seen it before in my life. Four The other day I went to make myself a cup of Red Rose but was greeted by a box of Yorkshire gold.
20:51 They actually didn't. They just noticed that you had more stuff leaving than when you arrived, while not doing any legitimate dealings, so they deduced that you were on the black market. There wasn't any items taken, they just told you that you are a jerk, and reduced your standing with the faction. 28:13 It's not xD. You want an Atlas for that.
@@invaderHUNK In some ways, though, they can also be quite dumb. If there's a patrol fleet guarding something and you can't sneak past it, you can kite them to chase you, break off with some fancy maneuvering, and then rush to your objective before the patrol fleet can go back to guarding it. There's a certain point where they DO stop chasing you and return to guard duty, but it doesn't seem to be very consistent and usually gives you a decent window of opportunity to get there first. Funnily enough, the devs actually had to make the AI less smart by forbidding orbiting fleets from randomly spamming Active Sensor Burst and instantly spotting anyone trying to sneak in. Apparently, they thought this wasn't very fun and felt a little like cheating, since the AI always seemed to hit that sensor burst when you were in range. Another thing the AI seems to struggle with is object permanence. If you turn off your transponder and then try to do some dirty deed, sometimes you're told that because you were recently seen with your transponder on, everyone still knows who you are. However, this, too, doesn't seem very consistent, and it seems like everyone forgets rather quickly what your fleet looks like (unless you have a unique one-of-a-kind [REDACTED] ship in tow, then everyone recognizes you at glance because nobody else has anything like it, props to the devs for factoring that in)
The Hegemony Patrol didn't find any contraband and so it didn't take anything. Your relationship suffered because of the circumstantial evidence of all of the black market activity that occurred when you docked at the planet. They can't prove it, but they know it was you. Also please do your supplies a favor and use sustained burn.
Will Morosoff Yeah, also, if you do this for too long, the starter planet will die and you’ll be stuck in the beginning with no access to most of the game lol
"Also please do your supplies a favor and use sustained burn." - jumping into system right next to the star instead using other points - also not very economical, but the smell of fresh combat readiness being burned off by star corona is too hard to resist, I guess.
“Making more money than most late-game missions have to offer” Looks on screen at the multiple 500k~ bounty missions that provide loot worth an additional 100-250k in ships and supplies. “Laughs manically”
Looks at over 1 mil production monthly of colonies alone, plus all the destroyed hegemony planets "You'll be safe with me Ai, don't worry Ai, just keep making guns Ai"
>be me >lvl 21 >be watching Spiff for a long time >never actually enjoy drinking tea >host a party >after some time one girl feels sick >she asks if I have something non alcoholic >give her green tea my mom made earlier >she likes it and asks if I can make more >make her some green tea, it has some other shit, including bananas >she likes it >another girl comes in, she's cold >offer her some banana tea >after some time more people come to the kitchen >they like the banana tea >I'm offering tea to everyone who comes >ffw a few hours >most of the people are sitting in the kitchen drinking tea >me including >mfw green tea is almost over >mfw they have drunk more tea than alcohol >tomorrow's another party at friend's house >I'm not taking alcohol, I'm taking only tea
Ngl I find the gameplay loop so good in this game; and you can make so much money by selling mercs to terrorist cells, that I actually wouldn’t wanna do smth like this
this is barely an exploit. this is just the simulated economy reacting to the intended tutorial, no glitch or bugs were exploited to do this. I love Starsector
The reason it's an exploit is because they didn't 'complete' the tutorial, they transversed out of the sector, meaning no NPC's will go into there to trade. Only he can.
@@shuheihisagi6689 Immoral? The shitheads in charge(politicians) are immoral in trying to fix the "problem" by creating new ones. Do you know how this would be fixed without intervention? Naturally, by the market. Other suppliers will try to take advantage of the high prices and, in competing with the original seller, they will drive down the price. Morality doesn't apply to the market, it's a force of nature. The asshole politician offering solutions to the problem and seizing a bit more power for himself is immoral.
Well sir Spiff, I’ve been playing RPGs since I was technically (by which I mean really) too young to understand what I was even doing, and that kinda stuck with me. Enjoying the channel in general though, the videos make my house smell like tea, which made my cat speak English for a few moments, and has been generally wonderful.
Always knew about the pirate drug route in the tutorial, banking roughly your first million, but... Tranverse Jumping out to the wider galaxy is absolute genius.
@FATEd Pondera Heh! I can attest the dev in this case is good peoples and will likely enjoy this video. They were also kind enough to help me re-access the game after I'd lost the key a number of years ago (purchased back when the game had a different name)
This is an amazing game that's I've sunk hours into. Seriously its worth a go. Side-tip: Each map is "randomly generated" but it also has a code called a 'seed' which you can copy and paste to recreate the same map. Online you can find really good seeds being shared, saves you the time of exploring and not finding anything good when you are just trying to learn the game. Extra tip: I restarted way too many times, now having played far into a single save I realize that there's really no problem that can't be fixed by some item you find later on.
To be fair, this is a perfectly legitimate strategy even without any exploits. The Pirates have precisely ONE planet that produces food, and that's Qaras in the Yma system. If you disrupt its spaceport or farming (or just completely decivilize it), all Pirate colonies are now permanently starving because they have no in-faction food supplier anymore and nobody else will do business with them since Pirates are hostile to everyone, and everyone is hostile to Pirates. Perfectly balanced, as Ludd intended.
0:10 i just finished watching that video and immediately rushed to see what other video-stories of that game I could find, so then I find out you made a video about it too. I can only eat so much popcorn.
I might as well comment while my tea water boils. Some pointers for the fine folk interested in Starsector mechanics. First of all, it is almost never worth jumping to planet's sun/black hole(duh)/neutron star(yikes)- Observe supply consumption at 27:10 when he jumps to sun, observe the consumption lower as he gets away from the sun. See, suns have coronas that damage your ships massively so it cuts into your profits and your supply stash. Jumping to black hole or neutron star is somewhat more hazardous as you might guess. Second, you can transverse jump into systems while running dark, allowing you to literally drop on top of a station or a planet and trade instantly. Without becoming suspect because of open black market trade. Also, if you're getting into market trickery, you can install expanded cargoholds to your freighters (and any other ship) to get almost third of extra cargo space for basically free. Likewise expanded fuel tanks are an option, and if you're getting into more... uh, morally gray market, like illegal weapons, harvested organs, AI or drugs, you can get a mod from pirates called shielded cargo hold, which means random stop-searches have massively reduced chances of finding anything. Although you should have some regular supplies or steel with you to fill your cargo holds, lest the patrols fine you for 'suspicious behaviour' as trader with 'empty' cargo is quite unusual.
i tried the exploit, still works, dont even need the skill since you can fast travel using the fast travel point you restore and the prices will remain high until you turn the quest in, and they will all die of starvation and infighting if you stop supplying them yourself through that fantastical exploit. found that out while taking a break from the money glitch to explore the neighboring starsystems for a bit, came back 2 months later to a dead planet i could scavenge for some measly resources. would love a new video on this game tbh :D
I fell asleep while UA-cam was auto-playing and I ended up dreaming through this video. I had the craziest dream playing out this entire mission being guided by the narration.
"One source of everything" to an entire system- aww Spiff is being nice. "And no one shall know the war-crimes we are committing within" And back to normal.
I may be a Coffee Drinking American, but you sir never cease to entertain me with your war crimes and abuse of perfectly balanced mechanics within a game. More War crimes and 100 stat man please good sir.
Spiffing you just proved that people who want to be successful don't even finish the tutorial and instead exploit "The Game" for everything it's got using a basic necessity they really don't need. Perfect absolutely wonderful.
I just hope my life is just a really long nightmare and one day i suddenly wake up inside a sleeper pod and one dude in spacesuit salutes me "¡Welcome to British Empire V2, Drifter!"
In the video the Spiffing Brit fulfils his dreams of ow ing millions of slaves by creating a monopoly on food for an entire planet. But at least we know he believes in AI rights. After all, he handed an entire colony over to one.
I had such a bruh moment when he sold all of his heavy machinery, you need that to scrap more stuff from things and to survey planets and you tend to do that a lot
This video is late in presenting to my feed; last year, before you published this, I was checking this title out and found the generating mechanic highlighted. It was phenomenal, glutting a planet with a single item, creating an artificial surplus, and then buying the entire stack back, creating an artificial deficit again. Being able to buy and sell fleets at a whim...
We love you, Spiff. On the one hand, I feel like “taking advantage of the protections and limits of Tutorial Mode” isn’t much different than “starting the game in god mode” as far as “exploits” go, but on the other, considering you have access to the full game by climbing one skill tree during the tutorial probably counts. And the idea of an isolated system relying on some unknown ship captain to reconnect them and finding out that he’s fixed his own transverse warp drive and is their only connection with any outside systems and in spite of his villainy they must now rely on him is hilarious.
This is amazing work, and I'm very glad for it as I have been intrigued over this game for some time, amazing synchronicity! I would love to see a loner video of you conquering the stars in this very cool game sometime, would be an epic sci-fi journey of Britain-Quality proportions!
In case there are people here who legitimately want to play this game, *DO NOT DO THIS EXPLOIT*. Doing this exploit and letting it happen over a prolonged game play section will SOFTLOCK your campaign and will make it impossible for the player to do about 90% of the rest of the game (as you will be perpetually stuck in a tutorial-esque state). I am tired of scrolling through the Starsector reddit of people complaining about Spiff's video and his inattention to warn players about this result.
@@user-lp7tx1fe6t No, eventually the planet will run out of supplies and will die out. Which in essence breaks the quest (there is no way to fix this).
And there are means to make much more money by trading with similar amounts of cargo and crew space without this exploit *cough* drugs *cough* marines *cough* .
Uhh... I might be dumb but what does this game even have in terms of a campaign? I got the game, I did the tutorial missions and then nobody had any other missions for me so I've just been blowing up AI and pirates with my massive fleet of dubiously converted cargo ships.
Funnily enough, I tried giving an AI ruler in ck2 100 stats and good traits. They died within 10 years from depression. Another one commuted suicide. And another died in battle. Man, give the AI in ck2 so many advantages and they flop like anything still.
Imagine how good Spiffy's videos are going to be when he discovers how fantastic and glorious a thesaurus is! He might learn a third word to describe things!
Being a new viewer, and coming back to see some of these older videos, it's definitely strange to see the original stock images before you had the drawn ones done up
I like how you ended the video before the inevitable Hegemony invasion fleet arrived to bulldoze your colony because it's a free port and uses illegal AI cores. You should probably save that sort of stuff for later, once your colony actually has the means to defend itself.
I've planted colony way away from the core worlds (initial conoly adjacency stat like 14%) So it took them over a month to get to me. So far Hegemony and Tri-guys only sent tiny fleets once after me. Its mostly pirates and Luddic path who are being poopoo guys, messing with merchant fleets
In the old days they put the milk in first because the cups at the time where not as heat resistant as they are now and could break when hot tea was put in them. To avoid this they put the milk in first to lower the temperature a bit. At least that's what I heard.
It's definitely incorrect. For one, cups were heat-resistant for boiling water for thousands of years. Second, cooling a cup before pouring hot water into it might cause it to crack due to the change in temperature being more radical.
I'm a little late only ('3 year late) but i need to clarify at 20:32 they didn't take anything. The AI in Starsector is quite impressive and if you sell a lot on the black market whit your transponder on (which is basically the ID of your ships so what ships you have what's in your cargo, that you transmit to everybody around you) the gard will get suspicious of you. If they control you (because they know you are a bad boy that don't pay tax) and see that your last transponder ID check was not the same (wich means that you have a smaller cargo because you just sell a ship or anything and they don't receive that infos on the planet) they will get angry because they know you just sold ressouces whitout paying tax and can declare you outlaw if you do it too much. In the same way they are happy if you sell them a lot of ressources and pay the taxes Btw you cannot just drop any illegal contreband in the space while they try to control you because they will see it and take it away anyway the only good thing is if they see it in space you don't loose rep. Then again you can hide some contreband in a asteroid belt if nobody see you put them here (but there is ALWAYS a risk of somebody finding you secret stash especially in the core world This game is so good i love it
I started playing this game after the seth video and oh my god its fantastic. It's has all the freedom of mount and blade but even more advanced. It's like mount and blade got put in space, and then made the main map only a tiny portion in the center of the full map surrounded my unexplored territory.
I can already hear it in the distance: "Hey hey pepole"
"Seth here"
Spiffing and Sseth is the best crossover: "You'll exploit before you can walk!"
@Kaboom Baby HARVESTING INTESIFIES
pepsi man here
We're getting closer! He used music from Brigador in his Neo review and the Star Sector and Brigador devs are both buddies. And for another connection, sseth is Mandalore's evil twin. Mandalore is friends with Tex, of the Black Pants Legion, who himself did a few LPs of Brigador. Which in addition to being liked by Star Sector devs also has a few shout outs to Brigador in it.
Any month now!
*Spiff goes to look at the distress beacon*
Sseth: "While exploring deep space you might hear....
...we ignore those. Just. Ignore them."
No, really. The reason why the signal is being sent is often lurking nearby.
And with some speedy boi ships, 3rd level navigation, and a lot of emergency burning, you can make a fortune
@@pingun96 Or just ignore them still because printing infinite money is piss easy in the game.
@@Soridan
Just a matter of knowing where to start your colony.
With a habitable planet below 100% hazard rating, just farming alone would provide a steady income so long the colony is stable enough to do so.
Then find a planet rich in metals and volatiles, and pretty the rest is no worries on credits and on the next phase: fleet building and blueprint hunting.
@@Aereto Yeah, anything up to 175% is easy money. Beyond that you need to think a bit.
Quite frankly I enjoy the early and midgame way more, once you establish a good colony the challenge drastically drops. Besides at the current state of the game they provide limited ways of interaction with other factions. Once/if Alex fleshes that part out a bit more I'll most likely grow more fond of colonies.
Starsector: The best game with "arse" in its name available today.
I really shouldn’t be as amused by this as I am. But I’d nominate this for an entry in “Sensible Chuckle”
This was funny, would laugh again
:0
There are several words with the phrase "meow"
Meowed, meowing, meows, homeowner
Yos
Important note: you can only do this for a very limited time!
After a while the colony dies and you cannot complete the tutorial. Many game features are locked behind the tutorial. So you can’t actually finish the game until you finish the tutorial.
Best suggestion. Exploit this opportunity for all its worth and then finish the tutorial before the colony dies. Get a bunch of colossus transports. Keep your transponder off and ship goods from the independents. Save up 20mil. Then finish the tutorial and start colony building.
lol just learned this the hard way
Interesting. Halfway through the video, I assumed killing the colony and founding his own was his eventual goal, and... Not at all something I considered trying this afternoon...
if you keep selling them organics and food, they will not collapse
Hmm, i tried twice now, both times the colony died despite me selling them pretty much everything they could ever need. Sadly didn't note the date the colony died the first time. The second time it was on 25.August 207. From my understanding the colony dying is linked to it being on 0 stability for long times, tho all i can say for sure is that there is no outside fleet interference. I wonder if selling on the open market would help ^^ or there is some other way to keep doing it potentially indefinitely, like installing a sensor array or something ? Not sure if there is a hardcap or if the 0 stability thing is hardcoded to force the player to do the mission, as you would normally run out of supplies otherwise.
Also, how would you ramp to 20 million ? The best i did was ~ 6-7million minus the Colossi fleet to ship stuff back and forth.
SpaceMonkeyEntertainment I already check it and well if you sell stuff on open market it will stabilize the colony but you will no longer be able to sell good for a high price because they will no longer desperate for it
FYI: This has been patched, you can no longer jump out of the tutorial sector before finishing the tutorial.
Edit: Thought it still worked, realized I was on an old version and that there’s no auto update
@@jacksonchastain7746 nope, just cheked and it is unavailable. Unmodded.
Confirmed, no longer works in vanilla game.
But take heart - with mods that allow planetary conquest you can turn the entire core worlds into Galatia - by creating border gore and constant conflict between factions, so that import prices skyrocket all across the sector.
@@Self-replicating_whatnot nexerelin Fan Detected
Find the AI
Install the AI
Destroy those who oppose AI
Praise the machine god
More or less adeptus mechanicus
Praise the omnisiah
mechanicus hate AIs
@@silver1340 tell that to the machine spirits
@@TherealTenmanI As far as I understand 40k lore, mechanicus think that AIs are an abomination that shoulden't exist and be destroyed asap.
Spirits in guns are okay tho
Someone's been watching Seth.
Also sitting with a cup of Yorkshire tea from a fresh box.
seth is top tier youtuber
seth is what we needed
we need spiffin brit also. liked his game and his cup of tea
Sseth is the shady supplier while spiff is the one who is in the street and selling the stuff.
Seth is a god... Literally...
I bought my first box of Yorkshire tea yesterday, I can now watch your videos properly 😄
so this is how Britain is going to take american back over... welp better start getting the tea plantations ready
now you need to watch again all the other videos you did without tea
I also started drinking Yorkshire tea... Dammit I'm too easily influenced.
Let’s ‘ave a proper view
Even this bean-barian can't help but like this comment. XD
I recently watched one of Sseth's videos, got addicted, watched 'em all, got withdraw symptoms, got better, and am being socially integrated back into normal life
Circle of life, you’ll be back rewatching all the videos in couple months
Welcome to the merchants guild, one of the last ressorts for quality content on yt
"this game is like someone extracted the leaves of a 1000 Yorkshire teabags compressed it down to the size of one and added some beautiful boiled water to it and just serve it to me on a silver platter" that's heart attack level of caffeine for a mere mortal but for a Yorkshire tea god refreshing
It's called чифирь
True tea is caffeine free
Hey hey people, you already know how Spiff found this game here.
Sseth
Hell, I binge watch Sseth's videos...over and over again. They never stop being funny.
@@shadowtheimpure
Are you saying there's another way to watch Sseth's videos?
@@TransMiqote Alternating Mandalore and Sseth videos of course. It is a unique journey into a mind divided against itself, a psychological rollercoaster such as R.L.Stevenson could only dream!
as always, big thanks to the merchants' guild
"You'd be surprised how much humans are willing to pay for a scrap of food"
*just paid 30 dollars for 3 sandwiches to be delivered to me*
Yep.
Setari M wtf...rich kid
And surprisingly that could be the low end of things at some restaurants...
Dude, you can make a month's worth of good sandwiches for 30 dollars :-( It doesn't even eat much of your time or take skill or effort.
This pretty much sums up everything wrong with society these days, decadence and unrestrained consumerism.
@@FatBunny168 eh, no direct correlation.
First, the large size subs in most shops are ~$9, so delivery of 3 would be around $30, so this isn't some gourmet rich person order.
Secondly, he could have had 2 buddies giving him cash for their sandwiches, or this was his monthly splurge, or worst possibility of all, it's yet another transaction on his debt card (that's really all "credit" is, after all).
But yeah, you can't draw conclusions from a single data point; that's called assuming, and we all know what happens when you assume...
Hey Hey people!
I have waited for this, spiffing Brit + Starsector... Such a great combo xD
Fuck you stole my line
hey hey fellow merchant
hey-hey people, you are in the wrong video
I demand more of this. I must see the British Empire V2 expand, dominate the galaxy, and then be ultimately dismantled by building their trading capitol on Borg ruins and putting it in charge of infrastructure.
that sounds like a plan
I support this demand!
The interstellar british Empire must rule them all!
@@D3g0nGirl YES, we need spiff to play this again
Yaaas
The moment he mentioned the 3rd level of the ability and what it unlocks, I understood.
111 👍,
20:42 They didn't take anything, they just feel the amount of stuff you're carrying plus your black market history is a little suspicious, but not enough to act on.
I think they took the ai core he was supposed to fix the jump point with.
@@sea0fgreen33 They played themselves.
@@sea0fgreen33 no, watch it again. He gave the core to them as part of the quest.
@@TheSolitaryEye You've doomed us all!
Hmmm, do I smell a new UA-cam exploit incoming?
This video got me into starsector years ago 10/10, good stuff
Does the exploit still work?
no
@@KimSunoo2403 u naughty homan, you can try the real cheats if u wanna test stuff ingame, bur only in normal mode in case you dont know. Iron mode dosent allow it and neither multiplayer
@@KimSunoo2403 Why you need exploits when you can literally MAKE them yourselves. With the right mod combo, you can make your own lol.
@@wu1ming9shi enlighten us lol
Of course, the colony was established on a planet with some aboriginals there already. Fabulously typical.
Pax Britannia
Well they didn't have a flag so...
For anyone who can afford it: Paragon + Tachyon lances + accelerated shields + hardened shields is invincible.
4 lances will essentially one shot any ship below a cruiser. It will also essentially disable any ship in 4 shots.
Tachyon lances even have a small amount of EMP damage go through shields, which is insane.
Not really, cruisers could disable that quite nicely
Maybe if you aren't taking sustained fire from multiple ships, which, considering the nature of the paragon, is likely to be happening all the time.
As an Australian I can confirm, putting the milk in last is all that has kept me alive in this wasteland of monsters
I feel your pain.
Gotta watch out for those animals too.
I think my cat has been watching your videos while I sleep. Many things have been convincing me of this. One I keep waking up to your one charity stream where you played that train game with some other tubers. Two I keep finding videos I swear I haven't watched before, yet has already been liked. This video an example of that. Three I found your mug in the cats corner, I have no idea where it came from and have never seen it before in my life. Four The other day I went to make myself a cup of Red Rose but was greeted by a box of Yorkshire gold.
I think you might just have another personality, a brit one. You probably have a british accent 50% of the time and no one understands why
please contact me, i am experiencing the same things.
"War and Conflict is just business after all"
-Seth
Game: Do you want to skip the tutorial ?
Spiff: I WILL NEVER LEAVE THE TUTORIAL !
20:51 They actually didn't. They just noticed that you had more stuff leaving than when you arrived, while not doing any legitimate dealings, so they deduced that you were on the black market.
There wasn't any items taken, they just told you that you are a jerk, and reduced your standing with the faction.
28:13 It's not xD. You want an Atlas for that.
Sseth wasn’t lying, this AI is fukken smart
Sir, this is a UA-cam comments section, don’t bring logic here. It goes over everyone’s heads.
@@invaderHUNK In some ways, though, they can also be quite dumb. If there's a patrol fleet guarding something and you can't sneak past it, you can kite them to chase you, break off with some fancy maneuvering, and then rush to your objective before the patrol fleet can go back to guarding it. There's a certain point where they DO stop chasing you and return to guard duty, but it doesn't seem to be very consistent and usually gives you a decent window of opportunity to get there first.
Funnily enough, the devs actually had to make the AI less smart by forbidding orbiting fleets from randomly spamming Active Sensor Burst and instantly spotting anyone trying to sneak in. Apparently, they thought this wasn't very fun and felt a little like cheating, since the AI always seemed to hit that sensor burst when you were in range.
Another thing the AI seems to struggle with is object permanence. If you turn off your transponder and then try to do some dirty deed, sometimes you're told that because you were recently seen with your transponder on, everyone still knows who you are. However, this, too, doesn't seem very consistent, and it seems like everyone forgets rather quickly what your fleet looks like (unless you have a unique one-of-a-kind [REDACTED] ship in tow, then everyone recognizes you at glance because nobody else has anything like it, props to the devs for factoring that in)
I have a feeling the queen is just gonna come back to haunt us in just about any video about immortality or tea
Someone saw Ssethtzeentach’s video on starsector
It has escaped containment.
@Paulo Jorge Cruz Pereira Rodrigues Melo e Almeida really, spiff is generously bankrolling these beautiful works of art?
"don't ask why the organics still scream..." :D
must be some unstable chemicals
That just shows they're fresh.
The Hegemony Patrol didn't find any contraband and so it didn't take anything. Your relationship suffered because of the circumstantial evidence of all of the black market activity that occurred when you docked at the planet. They can't prove it, but they know it was you. Also please do your supplies a favor and use sustained burn.
Will Morosoff Yeah, also, if you do this for too long, the starter planet will die and you’ll be stuck in the beginning with no access to most of the game lol
They took the first gamma core he found
@@Randomness65535 Yeah.
"Also please do your supplies a favor and use sustained burn." - jumping into system right next to the star instead using other points - also not very economical, but the smell of fresh combat readiness being burned off by star corona is too hard to resist, I guess.
@@AceRasputin It won't die if he sells on the open market. Black market doesn't fulfill demand.
“Making more money than most late-game missions have to offer”
Looks on screen at the multiple 500k~ bounty missions that provide loot worth an additional 100-250k in ships and supplies.
“Laughs manically”
Looks on the screen at the multiple 1-2mil heavy armaments trade missions, that you can provide from your base cost colony production.
@@kovi567
*Atlas fleets loom from the colony*
Looks at over 1 mil production monthly of colonies alone, plus all the destroyed hegemony planets
"You'll be safe with me Ai, don't worry Ai, just keep making guns Ai"
I think you have the relationship with your AI backwards lmao
important to know, game has changed a bit since this video was released but you can still exploit the tutorial.
how ?
If u deal drugs to the pirate planet doesnt quite exponential due to lack of drugs but stilll enough to get sorted
>be me
>lvl 21
>be watching Spiff for a long time
>never actually enjoy drinking tea
>host a party
>after some time one girl feels sick
>she asks if I have something non alcoholic
>give her green tea my mom made earlier
>she likes it and asks if I can make more
>make her some green tea, it has some other shit, including bananas
>she likes it
>another girl comes in, she's cold
>offer her some banana tea
>after some time more people come to the kitchen
>they like the banana tea
>I'm offering tea to everyone who comes
>ffw a few hours
>most of the people are sitting in the kitchen drinking tea
>me including
>mfw green tea is almost over
>mfw they have drunk more tea than alcohol
>tomorrow's another party at friend's house
>I'm not taking alcohol, I'm taking only tea
I used to only drink not real tea, but now i drink 4 cups of tea a day (breakfast, spiff, spiff, dinner) and as an american. I feel better now
Green tea isn't tea. Spiff will confirm
@@mediocre-motorcycle-modifi6818 is English breakfast tea classified as tea? Its black tea
couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing. i too drink tea
I just finished my second cup of coffee... My stomach seems to dislike it alot. I will be drinking thee next.
Ngl I find the gameplay loop so good in this game; and you can make so much money by selling mercs to terrorist cells, that I actually wouldn’t wanna do smth like this
It's missing the crucial feedback loop where Hegemony gets wind of you selling weapons to pirates and pathers and sticks you to prison for life..
This monster jumps straight into the gravity well of a star.
Send him to australia
HOW DARE YOU MATE, EVEN WE CONVICTS HAVE THE DECENCY TO POUR THE MILK IN LAST.
I'm American, and what monsters put milk in tea?
What monsters throws tea into the sea.
@@technoblode4604 because the fish wanted a cuppa.
@@technoblode4604 Probably the type of monster that adds salt to their tea
Wait. Waaaait a minute. I *JUST* got it.
Seymore Clevarge
See More Cleavage. Damn, I feel dumb.
Well, I didn´t even get it without your comment xD
I noticed literally 3 minutes ago.
I watched this video when it was released....
You fellas aren’t dumb just somewhat innocent minded
I'm a disreputable old sort and noticed it in the previous video as soon as he created the character.
But the r.
I'm always drinking coffee when a new video comes out. Makes me feel bad, but I'm not gonna stop.
Stay strong my bean-brother.
"Black market is great", cuts all the times he gets stopped for cargo searches, goes on to buy on the open market, i love it !
Hey, don't send the crazy milk-firsters down to Australia!
We don't need any more crazy here.
We can use them as magpie offerings. That should cut it way down.
I almost read this as milk fister.
I read this as milk-fasters, and thought it was some cunning ploy to "perfectly balance" the diary industry.
this is barely an exploit. this is just the simulated economy reacting to the intended tutorial, no glitch or bugs were exploited to do this. I love Starsector
The reason it's an exploit is because they didn't 'complete' the tutorial, they transversed out of the sector, meaning no NPC's will go into there to trade. Only he can.
Yes its an exploit in this game but in real life this happens all the time. Its called price gouging
@@shuheihisagi6689 high demand and low supply leads to high prices.
@@rutessian Yep, it happens naturally in the market. It doesn't mean the market is morally right in doing so.
@@shuheihisagi6689 Immoral? The shitheads in charge(politicians) are immoral in trying to fix the "problem" by creating new ones. Do you know how this would be fixed without intervention? Naturally, by the market. Other suppliers will try to take advantage of the high prices and, in competing with the original seller, they will drive down the price. Morality doesn't apply to the market, it's a force of nature. The asshole politician offering solutions to the problem and seizing a bit more power for himself is immoral.
Well sir Spiff, I’ve been playing RPGs since I was technically (by which I mean really) too young to understand what I was even doing, and that kinda stuck with me. Enjoying the channel in general though, the videos make my house smell like tea, which made my cat speak English for a few moments, and has been generally wonderful.
I like how the mass effect 3 picture was really just mass effect 2 with the logo changed to 3
Spiff you need to stop right now
*THIS GAME WILL CONSUME YOU*
I downloaded this last week. Probably have over 30 hours on it now.
Only 30
Fucking casual
Ran out of things to try doing in my first week
Now modding it
Always knew about the pirate drug route in the tutorial, banking roughly your first million, but... Tranverse Jumping out to the wider galaxy is absolute genius.
Wonder if this still works in the newer version, with the massively expanded galaxy and quest lines.
@FATEd Pondera Heh! I can attest the dev in this case is good peoples and will likely enjoy this video. They were also kind enough to help me re-access the game after I'd lost the key a number of years ago (purchased back when the game had a different name)
@FATEd Pondera Arguably a world-class counter-duo and the best thing that ever happens in gaming reviews.
Time to make a new product on the colony: Perfectly Balanced Yorkshire Tea - 1000 credits per ton.
This is an amazing game that's I've sunk hours into. Seriously its worth a go.
Side-tip:
Each map is "randomly generated" but it also has a code called a 'seed' which you can copy and paste to recreate the same map. Online you can find really good seeds being shared, saves you the time of exploring and not finding anything good when you are just trying to learn the game.
Extra tip: I restarted way too many times, now having played far into a single save I realize that there's really no problem that can't be fixed by some item you find later on.
The merchant's guild is pleased.
Starsector: "these people are starving and only you can save them by reconnecting tem to a food source"Spiff: "Its free real-estate"
To be fair, this is a perfectly legitimate strategy even without any exploits. The Pirates have precisely ONE planet that produces food, and that's Qaras in the Yma system. If you disrupt its spaceport or farming (or just completely decivilize it), all Pirate colonies are now permanently starving because they have no in-faction food supplier anymore and nobody else will do business with them since Pirates are hostile to everyone, and everyone is hostile to Pirates. Perfectly balanced, as Ludd intended.
More starsector please. I would love to see this colony expand and rule the universe as the British Empire should.
Why won’t you play HoI4 anymore? We could use some more exploits
0:10 i just finished watching that video and immediately rushed to see what other video-stories of that game I could find, so then I find out you made a video about it too. I can only eat so much popcorn.
I might as well comment while my tea water boils. Some pointers for the fine folk interested in Starsector mechanics.
First of all, it is almost never worth jumping to planet's sun/black hole(duh)/neutron star(yikes)- Observe supply consumption at 27:10 when he jumps to sun, observe the consumption lower as he gets away from the sun. See, suns have coronas that damage your ships massively so it cuts into your profits and your supply stash. Jumping to black hole or neutron star is somewhat more hazardous as you might guess.
Second, you can transverse jump into systems while running dark, allowing you to literally drop on top of a station or a planet and trade instantly. Without becoming suspect because of open black market trade.
Also, if you're getting into market trickery, you can install expanded cargoholds to your freighters (and any other ship) to get almost third of extra cargo space for basically free. Likewise expanded fuel tanks are an option, and if you're getting into more... uh, morally gray market, like illegal weapons, harvested organs, AI or drugs, you can get a mod from pirates called shielded cargo hold, which means random stop-searches have massively reduced chances of finding anything. Although you should have some regular supplies or steel with you to fill your cargo holds, lest the patrols fine you for 'suspicious behaviour' as trader with 'empty' cargo is quite unusual.
i tried the exploit, still works, dont even need the skill since you can fast travel using the fast travel point you restore and the prices will remain high until you turn the quest in, and they will all die of starvation and infighting if you stop supplying them yourself through that fantastical exploit. found that out while taking a break from the money glitch to explore the neighboring starsystems for a bit, came back 2 months later to a dead planet i could scavenge for some measly resources. would love a new video on this game tbh :D
"I'm not that fussed if the independents get upset" - The British Empire in one sentence.
I fell asleep while UA-cam was auto-playing and I ended up dreaming through this video. I had the craziest dream playing out this entire mission being guided by the narration.
"One source of everything" to an entire system- aww Spiff is being nice. "And no one shall know the war-crimes we are committing within" And back to normal.
Hey Hey people Spiffing here. Today we will be exploiting Starsector.
Starsector is awesome - so glad to see it getting some coverage!
“We are the brits!” Proceeds to pick the German eagle
Sees 31 supplies and Spiff calls it a LARGE amount. Switches tabs to look at my cargo with hundreds of supplies and harvested organs
"Monology!? No no no, god." - Dr. Se Clevarge likely
This is the fastest I have clicked on your video
I absolutely love this game
Do you know if there is rhyme or reason to class V planets, im yet to find one.
@@TherealTenmanI theres aga *vee*
@@sossololpipi9633 what?
@@TherealTenmanI agave but the -ve is pronounced *vee*
david hohnstein
I haven’t had this issue
But you download the game on the site
I may be a Coffee Drinking American, but you sir never cease to entertain me with your war crimes and abuse of perfectly balanced mechanics within a game. More War crimes and 100 stat man please good sir.
This looks a good deal like Star Control II, which I absolutely loved.
SC2, the best!
3:26 "Don't go to Australia, the wildlife will literally destroy you." Assuming there is any wildlife left...
Too soon
It's just well cooked.
Had a brown snake casually chilling on the footpath near my work today, it survived
-Sincerely Australia man
Spiffing you just proved that people who want to be successful don't even finish the tutorial and instead exploit "The Game" for everything it's got using a basic necessity they really don't need. Perfect absolutely wonderful.
I just hope my life is just a really long nightmare and one day i suddenly wake up inside a sleeper pod and one dude in spacesuit salutes me "¡Welcome to British Empire V2, Drifter!"
In the video the Spiffing Brit fulfils his dreams of ow ing millions of slaves by creating a monopoly on food for an entire planet.
But at least we know he believes in AI rights. After all, he handed an entire colony over to one.
Well he is English. They have a history of that behavior, I believe.
I had such a bruh moment when he sold all of his heavy machinery, you need that to scrap more stuff from things and to survey planets and you tend to do that a lot
Huge plus for putting milk last.
Sugar first, then boiling water so it instantly melts the sugar, then tea(if not teabags), then everything else.
This video is late in presenting to my feed; last year, before you published this, I was checking this title out and found the generating mechanic highlighted. It was phenomenal, glutting a planet with a single item, creating an artificial surplus, and then buying the entire stack back, creating an artificial deficit again. Being able to buy and sell fleets at a whim...
Coffee = tossed
Tea = steeping
I can not wait to ascend. Witness me now!
OOoooh, Starsector, I like this one! Not as much as tea, of course, but I like it.
Wonderful!, now that there's a new update perhaps the good Dr. should return for new adventures!
We love you, Spiff.
On the one hand, I feel like “taking advantage of the protections and limits of Tutorial Mode” isn’t much different than “starting the game in god mode” as far as “exploits” go, but on the other, considering you have access to the full game by climbing one skill tree during the tutorial probably counts.
And the idea of an isolated system relying on some unknown ship captain to reconnect them and finding out that he’s fixed his own transverse warp drive and is their only connection with any outside systems and in spite of his villainy they must now rely on him is hilarious.
This is amazing work, and I'm very glad for it as I have been intrigued over this game for some time, amazing synchronicity!
I would love to see a loner video of you conquering the stars in this very cool game sometime, would be an epic sci-fi journey of Britain-Quality proportions!
"Please do not go to australia, everything will literally will kill you." HEY I LIVE HERE SPIFF!! XD
Not for long
Don't fall for it, the native creatures have evolved to lure more victims!
Technically, you are a part of the everything there so I cannot trust you.
A message from beyond the grave! Hie thee hence thou strange upsidedown and barely-comprehensible spirit.
Hello there, murderous spider creature. Please get off the internet.
Yeah, nah, just joking. We all know "Australians" are paid actors.
In case there are people here who legitimately want to play this game, *DO NOT DO THIS EXPLOIT*. Doing this exploit and letting it happen over a prolonged game play section will SOFTLOCK your campaign and will make it impossible for the player to do about 90% of the rest of the game (as you will be perpetually stuck in a tutorial-esque state). I am tired of scrolling through the Starsector reddit of people complaining about Spiff's video and his inattention to warn players about this result.
Can't you just finish the tutorial when you want?
@@user-lp7tx1fe6t No, eventually the planet will run out of supplies and will die out. Which in essence breaks the quest (there is no way to fix this).
And there are means to make much more money by trading with similar amounts of cargo and crew space without this exploit *cough* drugs *cough* marines *cough* .
Uhh... I might be dumb but what does this game even have in terms of a campaign? I got the game, I did the tutorial missions and then nobody had any other missions for me so I've just been blowing up AI and pirates with my massive fleet of dubiously converted cargo ships.
@@DGneoseeker1 Later you can hear a story about the red planet in one of the bars.
But where is 100 stat man? I shall drink tea and glare at you disapprovingly.
More importantly, where is Susan Wojcicki
It is good to see other stat fans
That would be AI, and that would be. Very. Illegal.
Funnily enough, I tried giving an AI ruler in ck2 100 stats and good traits.
They died within 10 years from depression. Another one commuted suicide. And another died in battle.
Man, give the AI in ck2 so many advantages and they flop like anything still.
@@jeffreyhoon That's Amazing 😂😂
This channel has made me buy more games in the last few months than anything else.
I was drinking tea and playing this game the entire day. Perfect video to end the day.
Spiff, break KSP please, in honor of the second one gracing our existence.
Hello Spiff. I myself enjoy strategy games of any kind. Colony and rpg games too.
Imagine how good Spiffy's videos are going to be when he discovers how fantastic and glorious a thesaurus is! He might learn a third word to describe things!
No. Just no.
hm this was a lovely thing to watch with a nice cup a tea to relax before bed, i would love to see another one, to try out some other tea recipes.
Being a new viewer, and coming back to see some of these older videos, it's definitely strange to see the original stock images before you had the drawn ones done up
"Uhh, another organics shipment again. I guess it's soylent green day today too...."
Organics is closer to biodiesel
Even better
My favorite genre of games is Starsector.
What do you mean it's not a genre of games? Yes it is.
stARSEctor
"That is a very large amount of recreational drugs."
Spiff 2020.
Ah yes, the refreshing power of Yorkshire Tea Gold.
Downside: If you don't keep supplying Ancyra with food, it'll collapse and keep you stuck in the tutorial.
same thing happened to me
Hey as an Australian who drinks tea more then booze I know the law of the tea and I've never met anyone who adds milk first
I like how you ended the video before the inevitable Hegemony invasion fleet arrived to bulldoze your colony because it's a free port and uses illegal AI cores. You should probably save that sort of stuff for later, once your colony actually has the means to defend itself.
He has the power of money to defend himself. Hegemony interventions can be bribed off
I've planted colony way away from the core worlds (initial conoly adjacency stat like 14%) So it took them over a month to get to me. So far Hegemony and Tri-guys only sent tiny fleets once after me. Its mostly pirates and Luddic path who are being poopoo guys, messing with merchant fleets
In the old days they put the milk in first because the cups at the time where not as heat resistant as they are now and could break when hot tea was put in them. To avoid this they put the milk in first to lower the temperature a bit. At least that's what I heard.
It's definitely incorrect.
For one, cups were heat-resistant for boiling water for thousands of years.
Second, cooling a cup before pouring hot water into it might cause it to crack due to the change in temperature being more radical.
Nah it's because it automatically mixes
Putting the milk in first sours it slightly, so it's also a matter of taste.
re-visit this game plz, it deserves it
I'm a little late only ('3 year late) but i need to clarify at 20:32 they didn't take anything.
The AI in Starsector is quite impressive and if you sell a lot on the black market whit your transponder on (which is basically the ID of your ships so what ships you have what's in your cargo, that you transmit to everybody around you) the gard will get suspicious of you.
If they control you (because they know you are a bad boy that don't pay tax) and see that your last transponder ID check was not the same (wich means that you have a smaller cargo because you just sell a ship or anything and they don't receive that infos on the planet) they will get angry because they know you just sold ressouces whitout paying tax and can declare you outlaw if you do it too much.
In the same way they are happy if you sell them a lot of ressources and pay the taxes
Btw you cannot just drop any illegal contreband in the space while they try to control you because they will see it and take it away anyway the only good thing is if they see it in space you don't loose rep.
Then again you can hide some contreband in a asteroid belt if nobody see you put them here (but there is ALWAYS a risk of somebody finding you secret stash especially in the core world
This game is so good i love it
Thanks for the intro to this game, and the exploits. I bought it and tried it, was fun!
Id like seeing spiff in dwarf fortress, i wonder what he'd do
Powdered milk, then tea. Convert the water into milk! This is the superior method.
your opinion is wrong
I hope to see you one day play the old game Startopia.
I started playing this game after the seth video and oh my god its fantastic. It's has all the freedom of mount and blade but even more advanced. It's like mount and blade got put in space, and then made the main map only a tiny portion in the center of the full map surrounded my unexplored territory.
What the hell. This isn't the first time Sseth has shown me a game and then a favorite channel gives me some content on how to do so.