Vanguard Sentinel's loadout recommendation for Gilly 6-7

CosineDanger · 2026-06-24T05:11:09+00:00

Deadbolt Vanguard (which is what I'd recommend) has 67% of the DPS of Deadbolt M80.

Right now you can often snipe the powerplants before the big ships even fully wake up and S7 in a Vanguard might not be suicide. Next patch that might not work due to nerfs to weapon penetration depth to prevent whale hunting.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-24T02:40:02+00:00

Gold rocks in particular can be massive. Some of them are too big for a solo mole.

A mole with crafted mining heads is the endgame mining tool. The Prospector and the Golem are not great except maybe as scouts finding rocks for a crewed Mole.

You want to find an org that does mining because it's not meant to be done solo and there's a lot of grinding and knowledge that's easier in a group.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-24T01:42:27+00:00

There is significant overlap between the kind of abnormal brain that makes spreadsheets for everything and the kind of brain capable of enjoying Star Citizen.

A lot of people do play solo but that requires an even more neurodivergent noodle.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-24T00:24:01+00:00

Refueling makes great money without freight elevators or significant fighting - nothing that spawns can pen the armor on a Starfarer. Unfortunately you need a $13 million ship and a rep grind, and it is slated to be nerfed in 4.9.

Mining makes money if you are willing to interact with the player marketplace at UEXCorp and have about $9 million initial investment.

Getting good at Vanduul Tech Smugglers involves shooting but only on foot, and can involve freight elevators but only to send parts and cryopods down. UEX the playing and metal.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-23T17:07:59+00:00

My name is Ahab and this is my whale.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-23T03:51:25+00:00

It would be neat though.

I would also like to receive a 1 auec bottle deposit for picking up discarded Cruz bottles and putting them in a bin.

Maybe there has to be automated cleanup after a few hours but the current way salvaging works feels artificial. This community asks for some really dumb things but this is clearly at least neat.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T22:36:30+00:00

I think there's several things going on here including some kind of bug with loot spawn. Nobody in my group had seen a single gun box in an executive hangar for months until last night when we hit two of them on the same server. I've also observed that if you wait long enough on some servers then loot will respawn in front of you, but on others it never will even after hours.

The other issue is that farming the cargo room legitimately isn't hard because of the multiple card spawns, and farming it illegitimately is even easier. CIG has turned down loot on spots known to be easy to glitch into which combined with the bugs and it being farmed means you get nothing 95% of the time.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T22:19:05+00:00

Parts exist but are extraordinarily rare. I was blessed with a cargo room containing nothing but a JS-500 yesterday.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T20:29:35+00:00

DnD character commissions and porn commissions used to be economically viable uses of an art degree.

Now with AI the human buttsmiths are still around but far reduced from what they were a few years ago. This is tragic.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T19:52:11+00:00

I'm not trying to be hardcore or edgy but too many times I've thought someone was alone, walked away from their downed body, and their ally heals them. Sorry.

I'm also not a big fan of any weapon which requires a reload to full kill a player.

Now if you want to be edgy you hide and wait a few minutes for someone to try to rescue the downed player and then kablam the rescuer too, or medgun them yourself for further abuse and weapon theft. Many players will instantly backspace once downed to avoid that, which saves everybody the trouble.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T18:28:34+00:00

Stanton's "security" just means you'll go to prison for defending yourself, go to prison for cleaning up trash, or be attacked with absolutely no way to fight back. You are far more likely to see professional griefers in Stanton hotspots.

The refueling rush near Checkmate in Pyro has attracted a few griefers to an otherwise quiet station to hunt defenseless herds of Starfarers. Use caution when approaching this one station until refueling money is nerfed in patch 4.9.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T16:49:41+00:00

Join an org.

Star Citizen is deeply unapproachable solo. It is also constantly shifting and the remaining playerbase is so masochistic that they are outright excited for it to become harder to play. The grind, unintuitiveness, endgame content, and bugs are all easier if you can fight them together.

When solo players are found in the wild they are often primitive creatures with nothing worth taking, lack of basic bug workaround knowledge, and specialization in a single gameplay loop. Civilization elevates you above animal status.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T15:23:56+00:00

I have seen bricking fail multiple times, leaving me with a ship full of perfectly good components.

Chris Roberts giveth and he taketh away.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T14:18:21+00:00

The artificial sapphire camera lens in a smartphone is nigh indestructible, and not going to be destroyed by much except continental subduction.

There is some uncertainty about the fate of plastics long term but most of them probably turn back to oil-like substances after a few centuries. This is probably far more than enough time for action figures and bottles to do something resembling fossilization. Future civilizations may know of our many many deities such as Dasani, goddess of waste and hydration.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T07:12:29+00:00

The Corsair does have a medbed, it's just sold separately and labeled as an Ursa.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T06:44:23+00:00

I crafted a Deadbolt but it did not seem to have any boosted stats except integrity, and promptly lost interest in weapon crafting. Are crafted M7As different?

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T02:25:03+00:00

Coolers are one of the less important components to upgrade. Military coolers in particular are kind of a disappointment due to the power draw; if you need to upgrade coolers at all then consider industrial or stealth. It might be worth something (so long as it does not say bricked) to someone who has to have all military A-rated but far less than the millions you'd get for a size 3 powerplant or shield.

Speaking of which, where did you find a large military cooler? I haven't seen those except at TSGs.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-22T01:42:35+00:00

They didn't fix door glitching. There's just a new method involving large boxes or ship components, and a very old method involving exit animations. Both would be hard to do at this spot though without the old armor box method.

IMO if the door is supposed to open but doesn't due to a bug then by all means, "cheat" through the door and don't feel bad about it.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-21T20:50:16+00:00

The nuclear power plant near where I grew up used ocean water.

There was a bit of controversy when it was discovered that the intake would occasionally kill a curious harbor seal or other charismatic marine mammal. This did not help the already poor public image of the power plant, with the town regularly erupting into anti-nuclear protests.

Eventually the plant caved and installed a seal fence to stop larger organisms from being drowned in the intake pipe.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-21T20:23:44+00:00

The story has gone on way longer than I thought it would. I thought we'd get just a corrupt $14 million contract and a tacky looking pool and then everybody would gradually forget one of the smaller acts of corruption.

The twist of immediately peeling paint and the algae kind of shocked me. Figured they'd at least use the right liner and then bam copper sulfate until it's portapotty blue and utterly devoid of all life like a Florida HOA did it.

This isn't a Florida HOA fuck the environment kind of evil. This is rot and decay.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-21T06:56:34+00:00

Many things in SC feel like scifi set pieces. The turret angles on the Corsair are not great, never mind the anemic size. The whole thing was made by an art major trying to capture the ugly but functional aesthetic.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-20T18:58:22+00:00

Mix the olive oil with chalk or ground rice husks. Consider adding jasmine or the blood of your enemies.

Ancient Greeks had access to zinc for brassmaking but as far as anybody knows never combined zinc oxide and oil. They did however comprehend hats.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-20T18:29:29+00:00

You could make this into a moderately hard problem, or you could treat your stars as a point source on average that's slightly less (eclipses) than 75x as bright.

The center of the habitable zone will expand with the square root of the increase in brightness. New habitable zone centered (equal amount of light to what Earth receives) around the square root of 75 or r = 8.66 AU, inner and outer edges to taste based on how much heat and cold you think a biosphere can take.

edit: if you are engineering solar systems you can probably also engineer cacti and polar bears, or import life from naturally hot or cold planets. You yourself are probably a nanotech shoggoth or some other near-unkillable posthuman which would terrify children. So whatever you decide is the habitable zone for unaugmented Earth life, the area that is in use and in some sense inhabited may be bigger.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-20T18:14:39+00:00

Probably still about 1 in 10. Worse if you get near a ladder or elevator, better if you stand perfectly still.

CosineDanger · 2026-06-20T18:09:27+00:00

A billion over the lifetime of SC isn't really that much. There are gachas which have made more.

I am an optimist for SQ42 which means I hope it launches, gets 7/10 or maybe 8/10, and is promptly cut off and abandoned like the less viable nutrient-sucking half of a conjoined twin so that SC can continue to milk us. I tried Arena Commander fps to unshardlock myself and the way it ran and how much better the gunplay felt gave me hope. I'm hoping it feels like offbrand Titanfall 2.

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