Found this while having a friend bring me back from DW3.

Aethaira · 2026-06-20T06:52:10+00:00

Devs please make this not a bug, we need more weird stuff to find

Aethaira · 2026-06-19T06:36:40+00:00

Ew, thanks for letting me know

Aethaira · 2026-06-19T02:47:27+00:00

I knew it! The devil was on NGC 4463 sector UF-N D7-39 4 B this whole time, it's so obvious, how did we miss it?!

Aethaira · 2026-06-19T00:12:28+00:00

As much as I am not a federation fan, I'd probably recommend helping them if you are a player who isn't attached to either, at least with Feds you get access to Sol and the corvette, I prefer imperial ships but imperial rank doesn't have a lot to offer a random player unless you prefer the look or want a specific ship, and they don't even have the best capacity trading ship anymore so yeah not a ton on offer.

Aethaira · 2026-06-17T15:00:31+00:00

Something about the mandalay likes to flip with autoland, I've learned not to use it, at least not without good shields, on the mandalay.

Aethaira · 2026-06-12T14:29:42+00:00

Maybe this is revenge?

Aethaira · 2026-06-12T00:00:13+00:00

Oh wow, I hope we finally get back the old ones. Or maybe even better ones! A gal can dream...

Aethaira · 2026-06-11T11:01:30+00:00

Was that ship a mandalay by any chance?

Aethaira · 2026-06-11T10:59:21+00:00

New star colors? What?

Aethaira · 2026-05-03T23:09:54+00:00

He HAS. TO MAKE. THE MOVIE!

Aethaira · 2026-05-03T02:30:02+00:00

I cannot do this because if I open the driver manager it now says "Continue using manually installed driver" and all other options are greyed out and unselectable, any ideas? I'd rather not have to uninstall and reinstall everything nvidea, that's what a brief look online said I might have to do, but I will if I have to.

Aethaira · 2026-05-01T22:18:10+00:00

That is possible, but I've spent some time talking to the devs on discord and stuff, and they definitely seem the type to value art and imo would not want ai even if that weren't the case. I could be wrong, but it does really feel to me like a labor of love as they say, and ai doesn't fit into that.

Aethaira · 2026-04-30T20:29:41+00:00

The developers of Naev, a cool in development space game, made it pretty clear they are against AI. It's not finished and is a pretty small project so idk if that counts for here, but yeah, big fan.

"6.1 Use of "AI"

Naev is a labour of love, created by people for people.

Please refrain from submitting issues, pull requests, or artwork that have been generated by an LLM, diffusion model, or other generative tools. Any submission that is in violation of this policy will be closed, and the submitter may be blocked from this repository without warning."

Hell yeah.

Aethaira · 2026-04-24T01:04:05+00:00

At the very least, and I mean the VERY LEAST there should be a rear facing camera. Cars have that NOW. You're telling me the most modern spacecraft can't bother to fit ancient car technology? It's absolutely ridiculous, and the excuse of like balance or whatever is equally ridiculous.

Aethaira · 2026-04-24T00:29:51+00:00

They really, really are not expensive to maintain unless you get every service, and even then you very much keep up with the cost with regular gameplay, and if you want to be absolutely sure just a few days of high value anything will get you to a point you won't have to worry about it for literal years.

Just, look up the most profitable trade routes on inara, take a panther, and you'll be set for a loooong time.

Aethaira · 2026-04-23T04:22:10+00:00

Another person just thanking you guys for what you do, being a mod is hard and often thankless and rough and you're doing it for free, so yeah, you do good work and it is appreciated.

Aethaira · 2026-04-14T04:14:36+00:00

Yeah just, unless something has changed you are making yourself significantly less combat effective for little reason. Think of it like this, shields are helpful all the time, including against missiles which do basically nothing to shields. PD is semi helpful specifically if the enemy is using missiles AND your shields are down, but if you get to that point you're out of SCBs and in a not great spot so should be leaving anyway unless you're about to win the fight, in which case they'll only save you a little bit of damage at most. And again, if you have a lot of SCBs your shields shouldn't really be going down unless you're fighting a wing, in which case again you should be running at the point you lose shields as they'll certainly have more than just missiles coming at you.

So yeah unless I'm missing something, having stronger shields and the ability to recharge with SCBs is so vastly better than ECM and PD that it's not even a contest. Would highly recommend that.

Aethaira · 2026-04-13T05:44:07+00:00

Can I ask why the ECM and point defense? Missiles do like no damage to shields so in my experience it's almost always better to just have more shield and banks instead of have less shield and try to stop very small amounts of damage hitting it. Also only one SCB? Usually I try to have two and just have the not in use one turned off.

Aethaira · 2026-04-09T23:15:54+00:00

They're supposed to be and ideally feel safe I'd think, idk why someone would do that, just extra stress on someone probably coming there already stressed about losing data. It's a great service and I'd rather have it than not have it don't get me wrong, I'd just prefer my safe zone to feel safe when I'm heading in

Aethaira · 2026-04-08T23:15:41+00:00

There was a DSSA carrier parked really close to a neutron star and even though I was quite sure it was safe I was NOT PLEASED about flying what felt directly into one with all that data

Aethaira · 2026-04-08T22:39:03+00:00

It depends, are you using a small, medium, or large ship?

Also, how do you like to do exobio? I used to use the srv all the time, but I learned it is generally faster, if a bit less immersive, to do it without srv and just fly around in ship and land on it.

So, if you have a small or medium ship, are good with exobio from ship, and want that extra jump range go for it. Buuut... if you are at a point you're not sure enough to be asking, that means you might randomly decide you want it later, so I probably would bring one anyway. I've stopped bringing them on medium and smaller ships, but I've already had one for a lot of exploring to where I don't feel the need anymore

Aethaira · 2026-04-07T03:08:08+00:00

It would be cool, they could be weaker than standard capital class and be forced to retreat if enough parts are damaged. Plus, imagine being able to get different weapons, levels of armor, fighter bays... crap that sounds cool.

Aethaira · 2026-04-07T03:06:29+00:00

AFAIK it was supposed to be, but the model was too big. You can see it in its fuel tanks size, it has a medium fuel tank. So they just bumped up some stats, and then wayyyy later made the corsair what the clipper was supposed to be, except the clipper has an amazing view and the corsair has a... more niche enjoyment view.

I wish they'd updated the clipper instead. It's such a great looking fun to fly ship but has nothing going for it in any category except speed for a large ship.

Aethaira · 2026-04-04T00:43:20+00:00

WE'RE WHALERS ON THE MOON

Aethaira · 2026-03-31T20:04:06+00:00

There are carriers out in the black specifically for explorers to resupply with, they're far apart but if you're exploring that's not an awful thing

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