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:

• AdjustedApex Division “Field Marshals”1 Favor, Scan and exploit times are reduced by 50% in this system.
• AddedTheia 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:

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.