Been trying to unlock crystal cruiser on FTL for a few days now. This game is hurting me, it is taking who I am and slowly tearing piece after piece of it away while grinning at me. I'm not sure I even know who I am anymore. All the other ships were hard to unlock, but at least they weren't entirely based on some tiny probability of finding the right beacon, which may or may not even be in a sector which may or may not exist that play through. Even if it does exist on your play through, you won't be able to check all the sections and you won't be able to check all the beacons in that section. I'm thinking of just trying for the alternative unlock but that would require something like 13 victorious games and I really doubt that I can win with the slug cruiser B since I struggled for ages trying to even get it to the 8th sector.
If I don't manage to get it tomorrow I am going to get the infinite space mod to increase my chances of bumping into the right event.
Does anybody know what I am talking about?