Early Access Patch 0.2.0
Welcome to the Faction Update patch breakdown for In Search of a Home! We’re gonna go over the new features that launch on our November 12th patch. Summary Factions New Abilities: Apex Division “Field Marshals”: 1 Favor, Scan and exploit times are reduced by 50% in this system. T
Welcome to the Faction Update patch breakdown for In Search of a Home! We’re gonna go over the new features that launch on our November 12th patch.
Summary
Factions
- New Abilities:
- Apex Division “Field Marshals”: 1 Favor, Scan and exploit times are reduced by 50% in this system.
- Theia Corp “Air Dirty Laundry”: 2 Favors, Replace captain of chosen ship with a new, random one.
- Sodality “Build a Better Future”: 3 Favors, Select a ship - upgrade all installations on that ship without paying any costs.
- New Agendas for Theia Corp, Apex Division, and Sodality
- Removed Espial Society
- Removed Synod of Jotham
- Installations
- Added Foundry installation
- Smelt Metal action: 10 hours, -50 metal, +30 refined metal
- Change: upgrading installations now costs -30 refined metal and -10 gas.
Who are the Factions?
You might’ve noticed names like Sodality, Apex Division, and Theia Corp in your fleets. These represent political interest groups within your fleet. This means that they have motivations and agendas beyond your own interests, and you’ll need to work with them in order to find your people a new home.
We’re introducing three to start:
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Theia Corp needs to know. They care more about having the information than doing much with it. Upgrade your scanners and use them a lot, and they’ll help you keep the fleet in line. |
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[Apex Division prepares for threats within and without, and they do so by asking for better vehicles for their many training exercises. Get ready for harsh environments with few resources while expanding your fleet’s ability to get them planetside. |
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Sodality focuses on the needs of your fleet’s population. They want a higher quality of life, and the assurance that you’re satisfying the base needs of the fleet. Food, water, shelter, and morale will win the hearts and minds. Gameplay |
To represent the powerful influence Factions hold over the fleet, we’re introducing the Council Meeting:
Every fourth jump, the factions will call a Council Meeting and each give you an Agenda - a large, multi-jump goal that fits their motives. Successfully complete it and your relationship with them will go up; fail it, and it goes down. Maintaining a strong relationship with a Faction will give you access to powerful abilities, while allowing a relationship to decline may lead to that Faction sabotaging your efforts as they attempt to take power for themselves.
Requests
We’ve made some changes to the Quests. They are now Faction specific requests that, if successfully completed, will give you favor points to unlock the aforementioned Faction skills.
You’ll no longer receive a long list of tasks from each Faction. Instead, you’ll be able to decide who you’d like to support. After jumping but before entering a new system, each faction will provide you with their request. You’ll only be able to select one, and, if you fail the request, you’ll lower your relationship with that faction. Choose wisely.
Faction Skills
Once you’ve earned some favors by completing requests, you’ll be able to access Faction skills. Access these by opening the Faction board and selecting an ability like you would on a ship. Here are the three you’ll have access to:
Apex Division
Field Marshals
Cost: 2 Favor
Halve Scan and Exploit run times for this system.
Sodality
Building a Better Future
Cost: 2 Favor
Select a ship - upgrade all installations on that ship without paying any costs (24 second run time).
Theia Corp
Air Dirty Laundry
Cost: 1 Favor
Remove a captain from a ship and randomize a new captain (new name, persona power, and Faction).
Resource Changes
Refined Metals
This patch will also include a change to the way metal functions as a resource. We’re introducing refined metal, an uncommon, manufacturable form of metal that you must spend in order to upgrade your installations. Refined metal can be found on Asteroids and can otherwise be converted from normal metal using the Smelt Metal action on the new Foundry installation.
