Achievement Star and Bars

[alteza54]

I've been through the game 3 times already and I've never received a second rank.

[alteza54]

To begin with, I'll tell you.1) 3 of my playthroughs, I tried not to fight if I didn't have to.2) I did not pass 6 events where there are no solutions for the survival of the crew.3) For all the time I lost 8 people to the crew.4) I had a bug with the Golden Octahedron quest in the history of uloquoo, she sent me to the star -1.59*4.44 in the other 2 playthroughs before that there was no such thing. I immediately apologize for the English it is from the translator.

[SiliconWolf6]

There are guides that talk about this. But the quick and dirty answer is:
1. Always play missions so that you don't lose crew (when you can), and are nice to aliens. For example, don't take the tritanium - leave the dead alien monument alone.
2. Find as many stars as you can, complete as many missions and side quests as you can, buy all the weird artifacts,
3. Reduce the number of times you save your game, even auto save pulls your morale score down.

I think these are in order of most important to least important. I managed to get the second rank the first time I played. I was on normal mode with auto save on and even manually saving fairly often. And I played the nice guy with every alien....well, not the tech thieves. I only traded a few pieces of tech with them until their trades started to suck.

In other words... it sounds like you're doing everything mostly right.

However, there are a few missions where you want to kill the crew. I think you have to lose a crew member when you sample the red goo from the phage home planet. Killing the phage is important.

I think you also get a bit of a boost if you find the planet that has the note from the developer. I can't remember exactly where it is, but It's a hidden star somewhere around the north megastructure and the Citadel.

Are you playing on normal mode? I don't know if higher difficulty levels give larger morale penalties, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Sorry, that's all I can think of.

[alteza54]

Thank you for responding to my call of despair.But unfortunately, I did everything you wrote. And I'm freaking out right now, I'm going through the game in three categories: simplest, complex, ultra+, and maybe I'll understand how this morality works in the game.

[Samalas]

Does morality matter in any way other than the achievement?

[alteza54]

No, just to achieve.

[alteza54]

I have already passed two levels of difficulty, the simplest and the most difficult, it remains only very difficult and I will post my result.