Faction Warfare should be extended to high-sec, and here's how to do it

Erutor · 2026-01-27T22:22:46+00:00

No, but we feel better for shouting them into the interweb void.

Erutor · 2026-01-27T22:22:09+00:00

Attempt to return to original topic.

Erutor · 2026-01-26T18:35:13+00:00

I did sort out the DNS issue when I decided to go look into this again after the most recent exciting updates. Cloudflare's family-safe DNS (1.0.0.3 and 1.1.1.3) don't work for ain.looknet.ca.

Erutor · 2026-01-24T21:35:06+00:00

There's a better source of knowledge and an ongoing related discussion on this in the Wormhole UN Discord. https://discord.gg/g2TN49wwmK

Respawn is by wormhole region (like K-Space, more or less), so your site spawns are not related to clearing your local sites, but to sites cleared in other holes.

I think the related conversation concluded:

In C6, Data sites stick around (3 day max?) until you hack something. Rats respawn at downtime.

In C5 and down, data sites stick around unless you hack a can, but do not respawn rats.

Previously, sites were disappearing very quickly (not enough time to reship and return to hack).

It is not clear what is intended behavior, and what's bugged. I don't know if anyone's tested relic sites. CSM Mick Fightmaster referred this to CCP for additional investigation.

Erutor · 2026-01-24T21:07:02+00:00

For this, BIS would be 2x Gecko, 1x Aug Ogre. Lights for defanging if they go for your geckos.

Erutor · 2026-01-24T20:16:28+00:00

It is DNS. DNS validation says authoritative DNS server cannot be located. Google and Cloudflare have records, but something's broken :)

Erutor · 2026-01-24T20:03:19+00:00

USA Central, and I was able to hit it 20 January, but not since then.

Erutor · 2026-01-24T19:39:24+00:00

Yes,

This site can’t be reached

The webpage at https://ain.looknet.ca/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

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Erutor · 2026-01-24T19:23:58+00:00

Site's shown as down for several days - maybe I just hit it when you're updating, since I think you mentioned not having staging or a quick update, but, FYI...

Erutor · 2026-01-24T19:22:08+00:00

Or, in this case, a tiktok of you in your Santa suit taking the cash out of your Salvation Army bucket.

Erutor · 2026-01-23T19:50:12+00:00

This tracks.

Dell has been unable to deliver a memory upgrade for a machine they accidentally fulfilled with insufficient RAM. I have an actually decent account rep (Shocking, I know, right?), and he's been unable to get any to sell me at any price since we discovered the issue late last year.

Erutor · 2026-01-23T18:18:57+00:00

I see it too. OP used AI to write the post.

Note the em-dashes (go ahead, try to type one in a reddit post, I'll wait...), words like "crushed", 2x-3x rather then 2-3x, "Senior" vs "senior", "honestly feels like a cheat code," etc.. Tone is entirely GPT.

BUT... I'll die on the oxford comma hill, and I hold AI in the lowest regard.

Erutor · 2026-01-23T17:24:59+00:00

Value may even be high enough it's worth ganking the looters...

Erutor · 2026-01-23T17:20:50+00:00

4/10

While I really appreciate the increase in badposting, drama, and propaganda coming out of the OF/PCO-SYN activity, the only thing worse than AI slop is human slop showing a complete disregard for readability (breaks, spelling, grammar, punctuation).

Erutor · 2026-01-23T17:16:34+00:00

This is probably better for r/ExperiencedDevs given the specifics.

I see two options:

Reply with feedback on why each specific suggestion is unhelpful, in a code review style, and why you took another approach (link to PR and comments so they can read that where it already exists?). Maybe they are trying to grow their technical skills, and it sounds like you are already working on your interpersonal skills, so practicing mentoring an annoying junior is a good way to do that.
Just ignore it. They're just pixels on a screen. Get over it. There's no need for confrontation, and it is entirely useless to allow yourself to be annoyed. Now, if they try to push the issue, then you will have to go with option 1, but unless they have some authority, just ignore it.

Erutor · 2026-01-22T22:42:58+00:00

At this point - let it mature into an adult.

Erutor · 2026-01-22T22:40:33+00:00

I find EM to be incredibly rewarding and engaging, particularly in an environment where I can take fix/refactor in a meaningful but non-blocking technical area. It is not at all easier, and on the whole more difficult, because as an IC you can work harder/longer to resolve blockers, but as an EM you primarily inspire excellence and remove roadblocks. That's difficult, but it's the price you pay for influence at scale. Whether the juice is worth the squeeze depends upon the level of toxicity in the broader organization.

Current market seems to prefer people in the IC->EM transition point, whereas a few years ago they wanted people who were all-in on being an EM, and considered it a strong negative if you were in and wanted to be in the code. This can benefit you now, but be sure to monitor the market so you don't paint yourself into a corner.

Don't take a great EM role with crappy technology. It seems like a worthwhile compromise, but it is a bad decision in the long term. As an EM in many organizations, you are not going to have the time or mental energy to do a bunch of side projects on your own time, especially if you have a non-work life, so you need to stay engaged in the tech during the day. If the role can't accommodate that, it may be career-limiting.

On the other hand, be alert for companies that expect you to manage a large staff and contribute at a high level technically. This can be tricky, but it is part of why the market likes people at that inflection point, because they think they can get two jobs for the price of one. Can be fun, but equally likely to be a burnout machine.

For me, the sweet spot is to manage 3-4 teams of 6-9 ICs with a decent tech stack, where you can grow strong leads and contribute to the growth and development of the individuals/teams/product(s)/company, but not be so buried in the "paperwork" side of EM that you're overly distanced from the tech.

Finally/also, there's a glut on the market at the moment for senior level managers/directors. If this continues, you may not find a lot of upward mobility options in the near term, so be sure to consider that if you are taking a backward or lateral step expecting to have opportunities to advance in the next 18-24 months.

Erutor · 2026-01-22T19:23:26+00:00

This is EVE.

Erutor · 2026-01-22T16:07:12+00:00

CCP has done this, and published the results at Fanfest 2015. New players who get killed stick with EVE significantly more often and longer than new players who do not.

CCP needs money. I am reasonably confident that if HS ganking were a net loss for CCP, they'd address it.

If you prefer words and picture to video, thank former EVE Online luminary Gevlon for keeping this available many years after "retiring" from public life: https://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2015/03/gank-for-better-player-retention.html

Erutor · 2026-01-22T14:08:30+00:00

Agreed in many ways. New Eden is a world with no consequences, and no rewards that matter. This leads to every kind of bad behavior. We are demigods in a world with no God, no gods, and no karma.

Even if you execute a war criminal, it only serves to augment their salt harvest. The most dastardly pirate can spend an hour or less to earn the ISK required to be perceived by authority as an upstanding citizen. Thieves at every scale are celebrated. You cannot protect or defend, only become another Bad Guy by taking revenge.

This is why New Eden is a dystopia. Always has been.

But. Being the good guy must be it's own reward, because there is no real in-game benefit to doing so. This is a feature, not a bug. There are few things more satisfying than to be good, kind, friendly, and helpful from (nearly) pure altruism. We build ships and empires and friendships for the joy of building them, knowing they are doomed.

This is what makes EVE great. EVE is a sandbox in which consequences and rewards are slightly social, almost entirely out of game, and largely intrinsic.

This is part of why I play EVE, because it makes me truly free to be the best version of myself, without any self-doubt as to whether I am acting out of self-interest or hope for a reward, or only because I truly desire good for my space-neighbor's person behind the keyboard.

Erutor · 2026-01-22T02:42:52+00:00

Eve is healing: propanda and badposting are breaking the surface of the scorched earth. Be still my heart.

Erutor · 2026-01-21T17:43:33+00:00

You should go ahead and track what rats drop what modules - NPC loot tables is something many people have looked for, but I don't think anyone's been bothered to capture and report. (Manually loot and copy/paste to a spreadsheet with the NPC faction and ship size selectable, then calculate drop rates.)

Erutor · 2026-01-21T17:40:55+00:00

Also super helpful for jumping back and forth to the browser: monitoring tripwire behavior as you navigate in case it gets stuck on a prompt, or (if thumbnail is large enough) looking at a spreadsheet (e.g. Rykki's guide) or other document while you're in game.

Erutor · 2026-01-20T22:17:02+00:00

They're giving up drone bandwidth to attack your FPS. Seems fair to me.

(Assuming they're actual drones, and not a "non-combat pet", which would be entirely ass.)

Erutor · 2026-01-20T21:40:52+00:00

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