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I just researched the tech and send the spaceship going to Aquilo to the outer edge of the system to see how hard it is.

It's this hard:
The bigger asteroids just laugh at rockets. It's 6 rocket turrets firing at that one chunk and barely making a dent. My guess it that it is impossible to win the game without railguns.

You were probably going too fast relative to the ship's armament/replenishment speed.

Neutronium wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 6:04 pm You were probably going too fast relative to the ship's armament/replenishment speed.

I'm still speeding up. Haven't even reach cruising speed and already destroyed. The ship as is reaches Aquilo undamaged on maybe 3 out of 4 trips. Sometimes asteroids clump up and do some damage. But so far it's always survived. And here I just left and BOOM.

I knew this would happen. But it's another level of damage you need. I was expecting I would need more turrets and maybe explosive rockets. But I don't think even at the 10km/s drifting speed you can take down the big asteroids with rockets. You run out of rockets if nothing else.

PS: It might work better shooting the big rocks with yellow ammo. I think the rockets damage is completely resisted so you get the minimum 1 damage point you always get. And turrets have a much higher rate of fire and lower resource cost for bullets.

You need railguns to get to the edge of the solar system. I don't really know any other way.

Pretty sure railguns are a hard requirement for reaching the edge. Other weapons then semi-optional. I made it to the 60k shattered planet range with just railguns and laserturrets. Yes, laserturrets are quite awful at asteroids, BUT, they only need power, which means you can focus all production on rail ammo and just put on a bigger fusion generator for powering the lasers.

My ship didn't make it back: So laserturret+railgun combination isn't perfect... (or I just needed more guns...)

I believe it's possible with nukes - I've tried them against huge asteroids and with a few levels of explosive damage research they can one shot them, despite huge asteroids having a ton of explosive resistance. But it would be very impractical, you would probably need legendary rocket turrets for the range so that you don't blow your own ship up and you would need to ship up a tooooon of U-235. I might try to see if I can get a ship to the solar system edge with only nukes for huge asteroids.

Get like 20 levels of repeatables and legendary uranium ammo turrets should destroy huge asteroids.

mouzy wrote: Fri Dec 06, 2024 3:00 pm I believe it's possible with nukes - I've tried them against huge asteroids and with a few levels of explosive damage research they can one shot them, despite huge asteroids having a ton of explosive resistance. But it would be very impractical, you would probably need legendary rocket turrets for the range so that you don't blow your own ship up and you would need to ship up a tooooon of U-235. I might try to see if I can get a ship to the solar system edge with only nukes for huge asteroids.

Legendary rocket turrets and nukes work. But boy do they kill your FPS/UPS. Just never fall behind with the nukes or the turret will target stuff near the spaceship and blow everything up. Railguns are plenty powerful though and you can produce the ammo from asteroid chunks.