Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander - Ep 2

[@MookChivalry]

That poor guy, left with a bit of salvage in the middle of space. What a Pirate Overlord origin story for the endgame of the run.

[@Vortyrion]

The is the Risk that every Red shirt has to accept!

[@nickdumas2495]

Poor redshirt's O2 runs out completely and the distress beacon dies... "EVA is done? Great!"

You can see Quill is a programmer, ignoring warnings. The guy left behind will be fine for sure, no need to wait for him. :D

[@rasaecnai]

Kerbals stay alive in space indefinitely. lol

[@MrRavenXavier]

Guy left behind? What guy? More of a...meat switch. A component, really. Just install another at the next station and keep going.

[@thElementalist]

Quill leaving that one guy in the middle of space. Didn't even notice... XD

[@jg4902]

RIP Stephan, you will be missed.

[@draeath]

​@@jg4902Apparently they were not missed!

[@Racketeerof89]

RIP to the one guy left behind during the first salvage.

[@Forien]

Quill - million times like it's some revelation: "this game IS PHYSICAL" Also Quill: leaves crew behind every time it's possible to do so

[@RobertGardnerEngineer]

I have a fleet of four ships. One of them is called The Zar Quassator - it's max build size, and it's all just factories and cargo bays. It sits by the jump point in a system until the system is safe, then it mines out every non-solar asteroid, and picks up every wreck. It's huge, and I love it. Then I have my combat vessel which I do most missions with. I have a scout that's all engines for scouting the entire map (and running away). Then finally I have a stellar asteroid miner.

[@banana_cabana]

Quill just casually ramming his ship into everything, lol

[@victorianvalkyri]

Rip 1 crewmate - lost during an EVA

[@althenakora]

FYI you can in fact make a refining/manufacturing station. I gave mine some small engines so I could still move it from system to system. It worked well. Oh and you can shift click enemy ship components to chain attack commands.

[@Onebadterran]

I love in this game taking the bodies of my enemies (i.e. destroyed ships), rebuilding them, and then adding them as part of my fleet as swarm tactics / junk ships to control space. Instead of deconstructing ships, rebuild them and send the small ships forward! Also, building a massive laser matrix to effectively have a death-star level laser is tons of fun (and requires the small ships to keep everyone occupied). Sometimes allies get caught in the crossfire but that is fine. Just patch a few broken ships smashed together and it is good as new! A zombie/frakenstein armada

[@anumeon]

Ahh yes,, nothing keeps you warm and safe quite like having your quarters exit via the reactor room.. :D

[@grimmlinn]

Yes, you can make a mother ship that houses all the factories and holds extra materials. Just park it near a friendly space station and only man it when you need to process materials or are warping it to a new area. The same can be done for a dedicated ship to mine the sun.

[@banana_cabana]

did you say "mine the sun"??

[@grimmlinn]

@@banana_cabana Yes, the sun’s corona contain’s asteroids with rare materials in higher percentages than found in other safer areas, but it constantly damages your ship and any EVA crew floating around. Thus, in order to mine the asteroids you have to tractor them out and drag them with you to safer areas outside the corona or mine it directly in the corona without using the crew to gather it, like a mining laser. You need a heavily shielded ship and to go straight in and backing out because the damage radiates out from the sun and it is hard to protect the ship on all sides but a properly configured ship can stay in the corona indefinitely. You can dedicate a small ship for the job and just park it till needed with no crew, or make a mix use ship that can do 2 jobs at once. If you want to see how others do it, there are videos on KZbin of it. One is called “the sun diver” by Aron Zavala.

[@grimmlinn]

@@banana_cabana Yes, you can mine the asteroids just outside the sun but it damages your ship.

[@Colinus2]

I would love to see more of this, don't just end with 5 make it fun

[@purussanguis9885]

for the first upgrade, you were short on steel, it cost credit for that and you got 18 coils back.. fuller storage doesn't slow you down.. you don't need doors on storage unless you need to move thru

[@Onebadterran]

13:40 yes you can build a refinery+cargo ship and have it slowly follow a mining fleet, processing resources, and then have a high-speed trading ship moving between your refinery ship and trade stations.

[@mrboutsky]

I'm gonna need some more episodes of this

[@Malroc5793]

RIP crewman

[@SmackyD-fj9eq]

Actually loving this game! I think if I had to choose out of your recent space rpg games I think im enjoying this one much more! Would love to see a longer lets play

[@squarebie]

Oh no! That poor Redshirt! :o

[@Emile50]

I quite loved building the massive refinery ship that was also quite good at killing stuff and mining

[@General12th]

Hi Martin! What a lovely game! I think I'll buy it when it goes on sale!

[@AceStrife]

Quill building that FTL final boss.

[@kplays_6000]

RIP to that one crew member that was left behind

[@Metaz]

Keep them coming Quill! 😁

[@meeperator]

This reminds me a ton of SPAZ and Captain Forever, both awesome indie top down space simlikes similar to this. Except with the depth of X2/X3 (and Quill mentioned X as I was writing this).

[@austinmontgomery117]

Ever since my first death in this game, I've been playing so slow that Quill feels like he's speedrunning. xD

[@Onebadterran]

As a ship building tip, hallways are inefficient, so if you can figure out a way to rearrange your airlocks in a way to make a 2x2 space (instead of an L shaped hallway) you can use storage as a functional hallway.

[@bigdog91paper]

No, crew move much faster in hallways.

[@geoffreyganoe5246]

@@bigdog91paper I think I remember conveyor people movers, too. Have to build those in hallways.

[@bigdog91paper]

@@geoffreyganoe5246 Those come a bit later because they only go one direction so they double the space needed for hallways but yes. Crew efficiency is one of the most important things on a ship in this because number of crew is usually the biggest constraint. Making sure they can get around the ship efficiently is very important.

[@screwylooygaming]

17:49 I hope Quill remembers this when he goes full pirate. LOL

[@koolkiop]

Is game is so cute and fun! Keep Them Coming!

[@dusk2308]

Quill18: this game is Physical where everything takes time also Quill18: oh the crew the crew just qutum teleport to your ship every time where you don't have to wait for them to come to your ship XD

[@ChainsWorld1]

Because of your Video i will buy the game

[@Jamestorn48]

I miss old school LPs. Peoples brains are too fried for anything longer than 60 seconds or a stream

[@thebosstodd]

F in chat for that crew mate o7

[@ScorpioPL]

More please :) Full LP HYPE!

[@shoes-r1x]

I'm on episode 2 because you caught yourself being too 'youtubey' and I respect that.

[@orcwordlaugh1360]

Looks like Starsector, combined with FTL.

[@Greymantle63]

Watching you makes me want to play again. I wonder how much has been added since launch on steam.

[@PamdaDev]

That ship editing, autobuy from the station and support drones to construct is freakin amazing dev work. Beautiful mechanics

[@cranberrysauce61]

what is interesting is the the 'support drones' from the station were actually the crew of the station. and if you hire crew from the station, they are actually the excess crew that was on the station. this does come with a bit of a draw back in the late game though. if you lose a ship with 100+ crew it can be a real big pain to hire the crew to run the ship again requiring several slow jumps to various systems. as most vanilla stations would only have around 10-20 crew, and most systems only have 3 friendly stations to hire crew at.

[@TENGILL]

Yay, more of this great game!

[@Ony_mods]

i should “refill my crew” 😅😱👍

[@Corkest]

Spaceship!

[@starvr]

Didn't that warning mean you left someone behind? LOL

[@duncanirvine4657]

Big drawback if you dont pause when making changes - if your crew are in an area you delete they will wait outside the ship ... and if you are going to replace the hatch too - they can sometime suffocate before you have everything set up again.... found that out the hard way.

[@Colinus2]

I wonder if you could build the Enterprise?

[@cptnoname]

There is another KZbinr who did do that, but he does it to try to lure young disaffected boys into his political livestream lectures. He's a real POS.

[@0nevadajim]

Fun

[@ilsahudson5911]

👍

[@MisterNatry]

When is episode 3 coming?

[@cptnoname]

This game would be better if Walt added life to the crew. As it is, they don't matter except for performance. I got bored with it and went back to RimWorld. Haven't played either game for over a year now, even though I love the new changes to Cosmoteer. Some of the most important RimWorld modders have dropped off the face of the earth, so I will probably never pick *it* up again.

[@fc1jedi]

comment for the algo.

[@megmucklebones7538]

Need a horror game with the se atmosphere as Outlast, but with satisfying combat. Can't stand walking running simulators.

[@zeocamo]

WOW, calling people from the space station drones, is that a youtube friendly way of saying slaves??

[@TheHHA13]

Where is civ 5

[@SmackyD-fj9eq]

At 7:17 the alert was because you left a guy behind in an EVA suit. Press "F" to pay respect in chat guys

[@frantisekvrana3902]

7:23 You just stranded one of your crew members. I had a strange idea. Would it be possible to have a large ship with all the engines in an internal cavity?

[@SleepyLazyPanda]

I was thinking the same thing