Q: How should I balance favor and artifacts?
Dora
A: Generally you should save up for the enlightenment spell before obtaining artifacts, and should keep reserve favor for emergencies and artifact maintnence. If you can accomplish that, you can have as many artifacts as you want. This is fairly simple with science and medical, more complicated with weaponry (since you tend to spend weaponry favor more), and very hard with engineering (since you don't know how favor is earned).
Chris
Doug
Dora
Q: Ok, since when did artifacts break, and which officer would repair
them??!!
Adrian Cooper
A: Artifacts break when you don't have the favor (5 per artifact) to maintain them. They reactivate once you have sufficient favor.
Doug
Q: Do broken artifacts drain favor?
Adrian
A: No, as they are broken because there is insufficient favor to begin with.
Bill
Doug
Q: Do artifacts gain curses when they break?
A: No.
Doug
Andy
Marcus
Q: Do artifacts have mass?
A: Yes and no. They are tallied in your total ship mass, but have no effect on your percentages.
Dora/Bill
Doug
Q: Why does my new artifact have a curse?
A: An artifact gains another curse any time it changes ships. As well as when it is knocked off in combat.
Bill
Q: When is the maintanance cost of my artifact taken from my total?
A: Your new favor each turn is added before the maintenance for artifacts is taken out. As long as your favor income is greater than the cost of your artifacts, you can run your favor down to zero.
Chris
Q: I have multiple blesses and curses of the same type, how do I know what is going on?
A: Note that although a single artifact won't bless and curse the same items, a ship with multiple artifacts may have multiple blesses and curses on the same items. Duplicates produce no additional benefit or penalty, and the combination of bless and curse leads to a penalty down to 75% efficiency as the curse applies before the blessing.
Artifact cursing and blessing is the same process as spell cursing and blessing, so there is no additional benefit to using both an artifact and a spell to bless the same type of item.
Finally, removing a curse will remove that curse on all artifacts that are carrying it.
Dora/Bill
Doug
Q: How much damage does it take to knock an artifact off a ship?
Walker
A: 200. 300 with a shield blessing and 100 with cursed shields.
Dora
Q: Is kamazazi damage modified by weaponry blesses or curses?
Dora
A: Artifacts do not currently modify the damage aliens do when they explode, either from blessings or curses.
Galaxion
Q: Can I prevent the loss of an artifact bless in battle by manually blessing that factor before the battle?
Roz
A: Yes, the blessing will still be in effect after the artifact is shot off.
Dora
Q: Does curing a plauge get you favor = to the % of plauge reduced?
Doug
A: No
Chris
Adrian
Q: What is the limit on the amount of favour you can gain per turn?
Captain H'roo'roo, _True_Blue_ Doug
A: The limit is equal to your total officer skill. Favor gained from adventures and combat are not included in this limit.
Walker
Q: How is engineering favor is gained?
Dave, Tin Bucket
A: It's the most highly guarded game secret. In design list discussions, however, it has come out that cash has a role in engineering favor as well as the ship criteria mentioned in the rules. It is also rumored that unusable mods may lower your engineering favor income.
Chris
Jeremy
boi
Q: Does attacking player ships yield favour?
nevermind
A: The Fierce One doesn't distinguish between the winner and the loser in the battle, but rewards favor proportional to the damage points they score whether against a human or alien opponent.
Chris
Q: What is a denouce campaign?
A: Read Denounce Campaign by Galaxion
Q: If I cast remove trace, will it remove all traces on me or just one?
Doug
A: The "Remove any traces" spell removes all traces on a ship.
Chris
Jim
Q: I got my Engineering Enlightenment skill-spell, and the Mighty one showed
up and told me he would protect me, WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN???
Ace of Texas
A: After you cast the enlightenment spell, a new spell costing 200 favor will protect you from part of an attack of the dybuk of evil. If you have cast enlightenment in at least science and weaponry, you can predict his movement and banish him.
Free Will
Repulse
Dora
Q: What are the favor costs of each spell?
A: Anticipate Micro-jump: 25 (W)
Become Prophet: 100
Bless: 45
Bless Away Team: 20 (M)
Bless Ground Combat: 50 (W)
Charm Recruit: 20
Denounce Prophet: -15
Deploy Probe: 50 (S)
Destroy Probes: 40 (S)
Discover Adventure: 10 (S)
Enlightenment: 100
Hide System: 40 (S)
Improvise Key: 60 (E)
Lucky Module: 10
Micro-jump Flee: 25 (E)
Pacify: 75 (M)
Power-Down: 50 (E)
Power-Up: 35 (E)
Praise Prophet: 15
Purge Rivals: 25 (S)
Remove Trace: 50 (S)
Report from all Terminals: 30 (S)
Report new Terminal: 30 (S)
Retire as Prophet: Free
Trace: 75 (S)
Uncurse: 70
View Probe: ?
View Trace: 25 (S)
Banish Evil: 200 (W)
Predict Evil's Movement: 200 (S)
Protect Ship from evil: 200 (E)
Protect Crew from evil: 200 (M)
Harry Leshko of the Spelljammer
CthulpiS, HMS UtopiA II
Paul Case
Doug
Q: What turn is terminal report information from?
Doug
A: The results of "report all terminals" are for the same turn as the rest of your results. It is labeled at the top of the report.
Chris
Q: Does anyone know if torpedo damage is also affected by blesses, curses and
favouring?
Boi
A: No
Steve
Wolverine
Walker
Q:
Does blessing shields also increase the defence points of each individual module?
Say you had a mediocre warp drive, it would normally have 25x3= 75
defence points. So if you bless shields, would it have 112 defence
pts. by itself?
Roz
A: Yes. A blessing increases both 'tactical' and 'structural' shielding. I believe that favoring increases both as well.
Dora
Galaxion
Q: Can I pacify an enemy alien to prevent an attack?
Koji
A: Remember from the turn sequence that spells are the first things that happen, before combat. If you cast the pacify spell, the alien will not be your enemy when it comes time for ship interactions. However, if the alien is hostile, you will still have to gift a mod or face combat if it outguns you at any range.
Walker
Boi
A: Do aliens hunt?
-True Blue
Q: The rules suggest they do, but no one has ever witnessed this behavior.
Andy, Constitution