How to speed things up

[Leanora]

Okay so I enjoy the little story pieces but the exploring and traveling both in space and on a planet is just so boring. It's like me liking the story drops but the game itself not so much. Is there any way of speeding things up so I can get over the boring stuff ?

[Dbrn]

You can't and it doesn't sound like it's the right game for you based on what you said here. The reason I say that is because that 'boring stuff' is a major part of the game. This isn't meant to be an insult, but it seems like you were probably expecting something else a bit faster paced.

[Leanora]

None taken. I used to play the original but yeah it seems like my taste has changed over the years. I like the premesis, the story ( so far ) but yeah me playing the actual game...not so much, sucks. 20/25% engine boosts isn't helping either.

[badger vortex]

You will get much better engines and hyperdrive enhancers to increase the speed of play. Just buy them when you can afford, look out for starbases to get better modules and you should get some decent upgrades from main missions.

Must admit it is rather slow going from the start, as far as travel times/movement goes but it does get better.

[ShaneRR]

1. I bought new gear and my ship did NOT get any faster. I suppose its a bug. A pretty major one.
2. As to the boring resources stuff: I used Cheat Engine to get unlimited RUs and so could skip almost all of the grind. :)

[X-SR71]

Alas, I could only afford the last engine (100% solar system speed) very late game. It makes a heck of a difference though.

[Trance]

You can easily mod the game to make your engines faster, give yor ship and lander bigger cargo and fuel capacity, increase the range of the Lander ressource gatherer to pick up the whole ressources of a Planet in a second etc. etc. All easy to do. No programming knowledge necessary.


Most of the interesting things are in the Steam\steamapps\common\Star Control - Origins\Assets\Ships\ShipComponents.xml file. Just open it with Notepad, or better notepad++. Make a copy of the file first.

[X-SR71]

Originally posted by Trance:

You can easily mod the game to make your engines faster, give yor ship and lander bigger cargo and fuel capacity, increase the range of the Lander ressource gatherer to pick up the whole ressources of a Planet in a second etc. etc. All easy to do. No programming knowledge necessary.


Most of the interesting things are in the Steam\steamapps\common\Star Control - Origins\Assets\Ships\ShipComponents.xml file. Just open it with Notepad, or better notepad++. Make a copy of the file first.

Or you can just simply mod to win the game and see the credits roll!

[badger vortex]

Originally posted by X-SR71:

Or you can just simply mod to win the game and see the credits roll!

You know even with all those cheats, the skill based part of the game (ship combat) is still just as difficult. Honestly most of the stuff you can buy doesn't give you that much an advantage in that.

Most of the ships you can buy are really poor and you mostly rely on putting a good weapon on your main ship anyway.

[Dbrn]

Originally posted by Leanora:

None taken. I used to play the original but yeah it seems like my taste has changed over the years. I like the premesis, the story ( so far ) but yeah me playing the actual game...not so much, sucks. 20/25% engine boosts isn't helping either.

I know my tastes have changed a bit over the years too. I tried to play SC2 and didn't like it, but this one is working for me. Hard to explain why other than tastes.

Yea the engine and drive increases don't seem to be helping me much either since 25% of slow is still going to be slow. They do stack though, so who knows, maybe with enough money and stacking.

[Captrob2002]

I made change the asset/ship/shipomponent file but nothing changed in game what did I miiss

[Jho Low]

Originally posted by Captrob2002:

I made change the asset/ship/shipomponent file but nothing changed in game what did I miiss

Same here.. made changes to the file but the cost were still the same. Restarted the game a few times too and didn't work.

[Blackram67]

The regular spacetime engines are always a little tedious even if you get the fastest speed engines such as the Precursor Drive and the maneuverability upgrades. In hyperspace however, you will eventually be able to upgrade to become the fastest ship around. But mostly the best way to get around long distances is to use the Starbases for fast travel.

Also another approach to going around quickly within a solar system is to actually escape out to Hyperspace, and then maneuver around outside the solar system and then re-enter the solar system near a planet.