More contacts?

[Alex Fury]

One thing that I definitely miss about ST2 from ST:O (original)
Is that without palaces, it's damned hard to get trade permits or such for multiple factions.
I started off as DeValtos. I think I've now gotten a single Cadar contact... But he gives no missions of any type. And it's basically impossible to boost rep without missions right now.

[fallen]

Thanks for the feedback. You can get Contacts in a number of ways today, from Talents to Exploring, to Patrol, Blockade or Spy.

We're fixing some bugs in the Exploring, to Patrol, Blockade or Spy that should help out in a big way.

In the future, Contacts will be willing to introduce you to their network as one of their interactions.

More Talents are coming online soon that will help here as well.

The Palaces are there, and there are contacts in them. You just aren't invited

Contacts is part of Phase 2, so we look forward to getting past the super-basics we have in place today.

[Cory Trese]

But yes, definitely, ST2 is a different game. The setting is different. Hyperwarp has changed some things.

The Star Trader's charter is still recognized, but their are limits to that trust.

In the game of ST2, all players will face a greater degree of challenge developing strong relationships with all the Factions simultaneously.

It is darned hard to get trade permits with multiple Factions [if you don't build for it.] When you start off as De Valtos, you probably won't very many Cadar friends [unless you specifically work for it.] In fact, supporting Cadar friends enough to get Trade Permits may actually hurt your De Valtos friends, reputation, the Contact's influence and so on.

ST1 does a lot to discourage this "all Factions are friendly!" result with Trade Permits, Bans, Max Fun Rank rules, etc. ST2 really makes it part of the setting. Compared to ST1, in ST2, the expert player focuses more on their one or two Factions and builds a more meaningful relationships with them.

We've traded the ubiquitous Faction Palace for personalized, AI-driven, procedurally generated, game unique, dynamic characters who represent their allegiances relative to your character and who's actions will have real impacts on the game universe in which your character plays.

It was a trade we knew we should make, for the good of ST2.

[bookworm21]

I just think it's amazing that so much of what I see in game that's cool is like "oh yeah that's barely implemented and is part of later phases"

[MintDragon]

Feb 8, 2017 17:52:30 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

But yes, definitely, ST2 is a different game. The setting is different. Hyperwarp has changed some things.

The Star Trader's charter is still recognized, but their are limits to that trust.

In the game of ST2, all players will face a greater degree of challenge developing strong relationships with all the Factions simultaneously.

It is darned hard to get trade permits with multiple Factions [if you don't build for it.] When you start off as De Valtos, you probably won't very many Cadar friends [unless you specifically work for it.] In fact, supporting Cadar friends enough to get Trade Permits may actually hurt your De Valtos friends, reputation, the Contact's influence and so on.

ST1 does a lot to discourage this "all Factions are friendly!" result with Trade Permits, Bans, Max Fun Rank rules, etc. ST2 really makes it part of the setting. Compared to ST1, in ST2, the expert player focuses more on their one or two Factions and builds a more meaningful relationships with them.

We've traded the ubiquitous Faction Palace for personalized, AI-driven, procedurally generated, game unique, dynamic characters who represent their allegiances relative to your character and who's actions will have real impacts on the game universe in which your character plays.

It was a trade we knew we should make, for the good of ST2.

Noticed that my Cadar merchant has several Thulun contacts... loving it! My captains skill in discovering contacts while recruiting in smoky bars help, and I get how every contacts interpersonal relationships are gonna make a lot of tough decisions down the road for me. This is going to be a heck of a game...

[Cory Trese]

With your help, I think we really could make a heck of a game.