🚀 New Feature – Afterburner! The Afterburner is a new System device, it’s a system device and turned on in the systems Section. It sits on your toolbar in combat, beside the shield booster. Press it and the Afterburner drives activate, your ship picks up a quarter of its speed again, and a trail of […]
Category: Combat
New Unified Combat
🚀 New Unified Combat Today is the biggest change Forged Space has had, and it touches almost everything you do outside a station. Combat and mining have moved into a new unified system. Instead of operating in a small combat area, you now fly your ship in real time in a large ongoing combat zone. […]
Drones (Unified Combat)
Drones Explained (New Unified Combat) Drones do the jobs you cannot do yourself. You have one pair of hands and one ship, and a drone is how you get a second gun firing, a shield rebuilt or a wreck stripped while you are busy with something else. A well stocked drone bay is worth more […]
Salvage Derelicts Structures
Salvage Derelict Structures — When a Pirate Hideout is destroyed, it now converts into a Derelict structure that can be salvaged using your Salvage Laser. Derelicts contain valuable loot and materials from the destroyed hideout. Use your Salvage Laser to extract components before the opportunity is lost. Note: Salvage Drones will not Salvage Derelicts. Their […]
Pirate Intelligence Panel
Pirate Intelligence Panel Forged Space’s primary combat is done when visiting Pirate Hideouts. Generally, you should find a minimum of three Hideouts per system. These are generated at random, but the content of the hideout will reflect the average law level of the system. The panel, as shown below, is located on the right-hand side […]
Combat Loot
Combat Loot Combat can be costly both in time and in repair costs. To offset this, we give you XP, combat Skill Experience and ALSO Combat Loot. Loot takes a few different forms; you can get Minable resources ranging from common, uncommon, to rare. The same goes for refined resources. We also hand out ‘commodity’ […]
Combat Overview
Combat Overview Let’s start with Pirate Hideout combat. When you have arrived at a Pirate Hideout and hit the BIG RED ‘Clear Hideout’ button, you are placed in the local vicinity of the hideout, and your quest is to destroy as many of the Pirates as you can. There is a finite number of them, […]
Pirate Hideouts
In Forged Space you will find that EACH system has its own Pirate Hideouts. These are combat locations where the Pirates ‘Hang out’ causing mischief. You can receive missions from Combat Recruiters to kill the occupants of these hideouts. The Pirate Intelligence Panel on the far right of your screen details WHERE the current Pirate […]