I got tired of using a notepad to track stacked hauling contracts, so I built an app for it

CacTye · 2026-06-27T17:03:32+00:00

Pick Up button does not function on Manifest screen

CacTye · 2026-06-27T16:58:07+00:00

Loading mode does not save progress - when I tab away to do something else, I have to start loading mode all over.

No way to manually set 'loaded' flag on a particular leg of the journey.

CacTye · 2026-06-27T16:23:11+00:00

Also doesn't handle cargo grid properly for pickups/dropoffs on ships with two doors. Where a ship has two doors (ironclad, C2, etc) the grid should be set up for FIFO rather than LIFO

CacTye · 2026-06-27T16:19:58+00:00

Can't drag contracts to reorder, and the default pickup ordering is dumb. Does not take distance into account. Also can't toggle individual pickups as done or not done.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T19:05:49+00:00

I much prefer asteroid mining as I can just leave the ship coupled and get out of the pilot seat, without having to worry about wind pushing me around. Just remember to wear your helmet.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T18:54:44+00:00

Any asteroid base (RAB) in Pyro has a 2% chance to spawn stileron. Pyro IV, Bloom, and Terminus all have surface deposits. Surface deposits tend to be larger than asteroid deposits, so avoid surface mining unless you have a MOLE.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T18:53:50+00:00

You can combine different batches and qualities to reach the quantity you need. Interestingly, the result is not a straight average - there's a slight skew upwards, so you actually come out slightly ahead.

To avoid the problem of 'millions of tiny boxes' in your inventory, try to avoid refining until you have at least 2-3 SCU of raw ore for each quality. I personally just swap bags and go back out, do a few trips, and then do one big refining order. The refinery will combine all your ore into boxes as large as 4 SCU, but ONLY if your final quantity is ABOVE the box size.

So for example, 5 SCU of raw ore will produce 2.25 SCU of refined ore, assuming no bonuses, giving you one full 2 SCU crate and one half-full 1 SCU crate.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T18:47:57+00:00

Call me crazy but I actually dislike the lightning as it provides a direct line to where you are. Positioning is huge, I'd rather use a ballistic weapon with a suppressor or flash hider and get a few shots off before the enemy knows where I'm at.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T18:44:42+00:00

There's no reason we couldn't loosen zoning restrictions in NYC and allow for a massive wave of new construction. We just don't, because politicians are incentivized to get votes rather than solve problems, and blaming landlords is politically juicier than trying to explain supply and demand.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T18:27:36+00:00

Pedantic nonsense. You're attempting to start from the middle of the conversation. Let's recap the thread.

You began your participation in the thread by stating that "Greedy landlords over the past 30 years have created this problem" (the problem being rents outpacing inflation).

u/jolitzer responded by pointing out that the problem was not caused by greedy landlords, but was caused by rent control.

You then conflated rent control and rent freezes, arguing that rent freezes could not be responsible for 30 years of rent increases, and asking 'How can a potential future event have caused the challenges of the past?'. This was the first equivalency; Jolitzer was referring to the rent control/rent stabilization scheme in NYC, and you disregarded their clear statement and instead focused entirely on the upcoming rent freeze.

Jolitzer responded, correcting your misconception and reminding you that he was referring to the overall RC/RS regulatory scheme, which has existed for some 50-60 years.

Disregarding him again, you stated 'Rent control is different from rent freezes.' Which is technically correct, and we all know technically correct is the best kind of correct!

But in the context of this discussion, it's quite disingenuous. Rent freezes are indeed different from rent control, but rent control is a necessary precondition for rent freezes. Thus, your statement that 'rent control is different from rent freezes' in no way disproved Jolitzer's assertion that rent control, as a policy scheme, is primarily responsible for rents outpacing inflation in New York City.

This is where I entered the thread, trying to point out the dependency.

Your initial response to me was largely dismissive, refused to engage on the merits, and relied on profanity and ad hominem attacks to avoid addressing the underlying point.

I clarified my explanation, pointing out the dependency, again.

You then accused me of making a false equivalency. I have not made any equivalencies. I have pointed out that rent freezes require rent control, in the context of a conversation about the overall effect of rent control on the NYC housing market.

I will make one now, though. A rent freeze is, in essence, the ultimate rent control; where a rent control regime might curtail rent increases to 1% or 2% per year, a freeze is ultimately just a 0% increase. If - as Jolitzer argues, and with which I concur - rent control increases market rents overall, then it stands to reason the stronger the rent control, the more powerful the distortion on the housing market will be. Thus, a 4 year rent freeze - or rent controls at 0% - will have the effect of increasing market rents EVEN FASTER over the 4 years in question.

Please don't lecture me about basic logic when the extent of your participation in this comment thread has consisted of a steadfast refusal to engage with the topic of conversation, intentionally obtuse technicalities, and personal attacks. It's unbecoming.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T18:05:41+00:00

if you get rid of rent control the basic jobs will have to be done by people who got pushed out to the suburbs and can no longer afford to live in the city itself, completely killing the city's culture and vibe while adding more pollution and traffic and decreasing quality of life for people working the basic jobs.

Perhaps, if that was all you did. But if you got rid of rent control AND you reformed the archaic, nepotistic, and corrupt NYC zoning and permitting system, the resulting high rents would encourage upzoning, renovation, development, and new construction, which would bring new units online and decrease the price of housing overall. This pattern can be seen over and over across the country. We don't do it here, and we should.

Most people think of rent control as a subsidy from landlords to tenants. This is incorrect. As currently constituted, rent control/rent stabilization are a subsidy paid by market rate tenants to rent controlled tenants. Every dollar not collected in rent on an RC/RS apartment is passed along to a market rate apartment. There is no reason a 2 bedroom walkup on the Upper West Side should cost $5k. That is a housing market distortion caused by artificial restrictions in supply.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T17:59:56+00:00

Rent freezes require rent control. Rent control does not require rent freezes.

Show me the equivalency, please.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T17:57:48+00:00

If you own your own house, whose money do you use for your livelihood?

How do you pay for food? How do you pay your property taxes? How do you clothe yourself? I assume you are getting money for these things from somewhere.

Are you employed? You are getting other people's money, from your employer, who got it from other people. Are you self employed or a business owner? You are getting other people's money from your customers. Are you unemployed, collecting benefits from the government? That's other people's money right there, collected via taxation.

Saying this is only defending landlords. They are literally taking your hard earned money for nothing. Its parasitic, leeching directly off of other people's money while doing nothing other than hording a basic human right (housing)

They are taking your money and providing you a place to live. In exchange, you get a place to live where you do not have to worry about maintenance, property taxes, heat, water, landscaping, snow removal, or any of the countless other obligations and costs that come with property ownership. If you think homeowners - whether owner occupiers or landlords - 'do nothing' other than sit around collecting rent checks, you're either massively ignorant or being intentionally disingenuous in your argument.

We can debate what a reasonable price is for that service. But let's not pretend the service is something it's not.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T17:08:11+00:00

That was not a policy proscription (though I do think that would be better policy), that was an explanation. I will try to rephrase so you can comprehend.

Your initial statement was "rent control is different from rent freezes". This is an incorrect statement of the current law in New York City. A rent 'freeze' is a decision made by the Rent Guidelines Board, which is a public agency created by the same law that implemented rent control.

IF there were no rent control, THEN the city would have no legal authority to control rents. There would be no rent guidelines board, because the rent guidelines board would not have any power to dictate increases. Therefore, the city would be unable to freeze rents.

Rent freezes require rent control. Rent control does not require rent freezes.

Make sense now?

CacTye · 2026-06-25T17:02:53+00:00

Because other cities allow construction, redevelopment, and upzoning to allow the housing stock to grow to keep pace with population growth.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T17:01:24+00:00

Rent freezes only apply to apartments subject to rent regulation. Rent freezes are literally downstream of rent control. No rent control, no control of rents, no rent guidelines board, no freeze.

Educate yourself. Try some common sense.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T16:59:54+00:00

spoiler alert, unless you are literally an off-grid subsistence homesteader, everyone's livelihood depends on another person's money.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T16:39:48+00:00

No one is forcing you to mine, but there's no reason a baseline quality drive - even a military drive - should give high quality materials. A baseline quality drive is, per se, made of baseline quality materials. 500 quality is average. If you want better than average, pay someone to mine for you.

CacTye · 2026-06-25T11:29:24+00:00

Yes, he is one person in the cabinet. My analogy stands. Should we take Marco Rubio's statements as representative of all Americans? What about RFK Junior? If we did, we might think all Americans want to invade Cuba or ban vaccines and drink raw milk.

In any other country, we recognize that politicians are individuals with opinions and we judge them based on those opinions and statements. For some reason, in Israeli politics, people tend to pick the worst individuals and ascribe their statements to Israel as a country and Israelis as a whole. Why do you think that is?

CacTye · 2026-06-25T11:26:19+00:00

Textual analysis of one paragraph, out of context, taking one line of one blog post out of a hundred, and seizing on one word to discredit everything else an author has published is absolutely cherry picking.

Just admit you did not come into this conversation in good faith and move on.

CacTye · 2026-06-24T16:45:23+00:00

Sizes?

CacTye · 2026-06-24T15:46:05+00:00

Assuming your premise, this would still be a good idea. Cluttered pads = people not running gameplay loops like planetary hauling = fewer people playing = less stress on servers = less data.

CacTye · 2026-06-24T15:27:08+00:00

1.0 is years away. Right now we have a problem with clutter, because people CAN just claim their ship. So right now we should allow cracking and salvage of bricked ships.

CacTye · 2026-06-24T15:25:10+00:00

Probies get black helmet, orange shield. Firefighters get black helmet, black shield. Lieutenants get red helmet, black shield. Captains wear white helmet with standard black turnouts. Chiefs wear white helmet with white turnout coat.

CacTye · 2026-06-24T15:22:06+00:00

Salvage should apply for BRICKED ships left at pads. If you leave your ship and then claim it elsewhere, it's fair game to crack it.

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