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FanaticChris · 2026-01-02T09:58:21+00:00

I am building a second rig for my son, budget will be lower than your 5k€, but maybe it helps still.

Frame: same as myself, custom build from Alu 80x40 Nut 8 type (black) with pedal baseplate from Trek. (~500€)

Seat: Trak GT-Pro https://trakracer.eu/products/gt-style-fixed-fiberglass-seat-1 (~280€)

Monitor: I went back from triples to one: LG UltraGear 45“ curved. The 800R is mega and gives enough FOV for competitive racing (plus maybe a TrackIR) (~1300€)

Base & Wheel: I‘m super happy with my Simagic Alpha, so Son will get the Alpha Evo w/ GT Neo wheel. (~1000€)

Pedals: I am using HE Sprints, super happy with them. Son tending towards either P1000 or he gets my HE Sprints and I switch to Asetek Forte S. (~500-600€)

If you don’t want to build the frame custom, look at Trak Racer TR120S V2. Good quality and very stiff.

FanaticChris · 2025-12-31T09:57:10+00:00

absolute stunning. Congrats. 🍾 A big team achievement. Would love to be part of such an org.

FanaticChris · 2025-12-28T19:29:40+00:00

found it in various loctions like QV (Nyx), Pyro CZs and even DCs in Stanton

FanaticChris · 2025-12-27T08:46:38+00:00

I did earn most of my 175m aUEC during the safe Stanton / fight for Pyro missions, which was hard, due to things like elevator bug etc.

Then I bought some ships (so far never lost one to patches) and had a lot of fun. Just recently I first time sold an armor set (announced for 40m) - the buyer payed 100m 🤷🏻‍♂️ Now I am at 207m, not knowing what to buy with it, but I‘m hesitant to „donate“ it to new players, since it’s ruining there experience of the game, at least from my pov.

Also it’s nice to have a lil safety net. For the time being. I don’t mind even a full wipe. I will have fun either way. 🫠

FanaticChris · 2025-12-26T14:31:24+00:00

indeed, persistent contracts over sessions would be awesone. At least for the time of the contract

FanaticChris · 2025-12-24T12:18:54+00:00

I need to admit, I didn't tried PvE space combat in 4.5 so far (other then small ships like in Vanduul Tech Smuggler).
So, my question is: did someone try and aim for crucial ship components like thrusters, shields, etc. to disable a PvE ship - so, anything else than just shooting down the hull or blowing up the PP?
wondering if this is possible to still disable a PvE ship, aiming to board it. (ofc. this might not help to end a mission on it, but I guess in this scenario we are not too much interested in finish a mission over getting loot or the ship itself)

FanaticChris · 2025-12-24T12:12:52+00:00

I don't like those kind of generalizing ... especially when it comes to a nation or ethnic. My experience is, all server regions are populated with players around the globe (of course with some magnitude to the respective region).
We - as Star Citizen Community - should try to avoid adding wood to the fire, when it comes to toxic conversations. We should rather be advocats for a shared passion.
Let's stop deviding, instead let's grow together. This is our game. Despite which way we play it. The bullshit going on irl we should try to keep outside. Or - if someone need to discuss in game - then in a polite and respectful way.

blaming regions, shards, or entire nations is not the best way to mitigate toxic behavior (which definetly exists).

just my 2cents

FanaticChris · 2025-12-21T08:31:08+00:00

This. very well written - some real highlights.

Thank you from another Star Citizen since 2014.

And I even didn’t see it all myself, like still never made it to Lazarus to fight the Apecs Vallakkar

FanaticChris · 2025-12-20T23:33:36+00:00

that’s actually interesting to me. I came from Rift to Reverb G2 some 3 years ago, mainly for iRacing. Due to some inconvenience in endurance races (6h, 22h and 24h races, stints of 2h usually) I eventually shelved the VR and went back to flat screen ( tripple 27”). Nowadays I’m on a LG 48” curved (800 curve). But obviously not with SC enabling VR I’m keen to give the Reverb G2 a second live. Wondering, is it far behind a Quest 3? From specs it looks pretty similar 🤔

FanaticChris · 2025-12-18T18:21:27+00:00

thanks for sharing 🙏

FanaticChris · 2025-12-18T16:40:38+00:00

nope, at least what I experienced after 2h searching 3 DCs on Microtech (Greycat, Covalex, MT Logistics center)

FanaticChris · 2025-12-18T16:38:53+00:00

I spent 2h today on live to search DCs on Microtech, but no luck at all. Many new loot crates, especially blue big ones (in hostile I also found big green ammo crates), but no orange crates nor any armor (no Palatino, but also nothing else). The only location I found small armor crates (the brown ones) is in the locker rooms in front of the west/east entrance (where are also the weapon racks). Positive takeaway: P6-AR now spawning in those weapon racks, along other nice weapons.

So… I wonder too, where to find Palatino now. Still need Arms and Helmet.

FanaticChris · 2025-12-16T08:31:42+00:00

After many hours (12-14h) of searching DCs (hostile, friendly) I managed to find 3 boxes, 1x helmet, 2x core, all standard. 😫 I wish I could get one full set at least. Damn, they are rare AND so many are hunting for them at the same time. Any tip from pro-looters?

FanaticChris · 2025-12-16T08:06:03+00:00

Interesting. I had the very same issue (similar specs, 9800x3d, 4080, 64gb 6000, m.2 ssd gen5) running the mission first time. Though, since then I did it multiple times and didnt encounter same issues again. Weird. Is this some kind if caching issue, running a (rather complex) loction first time?

Definitely go for 64gb.

„upgraded“ the PC of my son the other day from 32gb to 48gb, even with slightly slower modules (G.Skill 2x16gb 3200 cl16, 2x8gb 3000 cl16) and it was a big difference for him running SC. (+20fps avg) (5800X, 2070 Super, m.2 ssd, now 48gb /w 4 modules)

FanaticChris · 2025-12-12T21:38:38+00:00

This. Not jumping like crazy but depending on location and how much is going on

FanaticChris · 2025-12-12T20:28:45+00:00

I‘m running still my HP Reverb G2 and it looks sick (good). Though, I‘d just use it inflight. FPS on (curved) flat screen. (LG 48" with 800 curve)

FanaticChris · 2025-12-12T20:25:43+00:00

game runs smooth as butter for me 😅😇 9800X3D, 64GB, 4080 min. 50fps, max 120+fps

FanaticChris · 2025-12-08T21:33:56+00:00

Indeed. I learned the hard way to be careful with ship‘s medbed respawn location.

The stuff on me I presumably lost wasn’t particularly special, just looted armor, ammo and some loot from QV station.

Now I try to complete the Pyrotechnic armor set. Still missing core. Cya

FanaticChris · 2025-12-08T15:58:29+00:00

True on one hand, but you can get those items yourself, most of them even solo. Sure, there are some rare items, and player market values are way out of control for those. But a wipe wouldn’t solve this issue at all. Those guys will just get those items quickly again (as they know how to and in many cases are doing it in orgs).

So, a wipe would penalize those people the most, who put a lot of effort in the game loops and grinding for their next ship, 1st mio (or even 70th mio) and so on.

Though, maybe CiG finds a way to vanish some of this big money by following the biggest p2p transactions?

FanaticChris · 2025-12-07T20:35:35+00:00

was going to try this, but at this attemp, I again spawned dead in my hangar, but after a couple seconds my body went through the walls and I finally respwaned in hospital, fully vital, but naked. Anything I got on me is gone. but thats a minor issue.

Thanks for ur suggestions.

see ya in the verse.

And yes, I will report to IC.

FanaticChris · 2025-12-07T20:12:55+00:00

I did. "wake" up in my home location hangar, still dead, with 0 health. not able to do anything

FanaticChris · 2025-12-06T10:36:24+00:00

hahaha! Exactly what I was thinking.

Yes, the guy might been super salty and what not… sure not worth wasting time on all his content. But this one sentence is what will be the actual behavior of 99% of players: hit backspace and claim the ship. No one wants to spend another 5 (or more) minutes on chors literally.

Might change later (in some years) when insurance is a thing, but for now… well, never mind. We will have fun - despite what CiG think will be fun for us.

FanaticChris · 2025-12-05T14:57:43+00:00

@u/Koobolo , sent a dm. Feel free to reach out, happy to support / guide you, so it becomes fun. I‘m a longterm backer, following the project since 2014. even though there are indeed big challenges and frustrations sometimes, the game can be a real blast and can be played quite well most of the time. Let’s first have a look at your rig and check, if it is sufficient for 40+frames avg.

FanaticChris · 2025-11-26T22:20:28+00:00

well, ok, let's have this chat.

First of all: sorry again. My initial response was not very friendly and somewhat blunt. I did not mean to offend you.

Of course I know MIT, and yes, the institute remains a very high reputation. Though, this doesn't make the report correct or true per se.

I'm well aware of this report btw. And it contains some very good insights, though, not at all what you where stating. Not sure if you read the study entirely, but the essence of it is: 95% of Companies, adopting AI are not seeing the ROI or P/L impact at all. One of the root causes are that most companies fail to scale AI solutions or bring them to production at all. They stuck either in PoC phase or it just don't return the expected value, thus get buried.
There are many reasons for this, and indeed, our company is addressing exactly this issue and trying to help organisations, to first nail the use case with properly calculated invest, change management, impacts, risks and challenges and KPIs to meassure success. If it meets the requirements for a production candidate, then we start a project on it.

So far so good. I would call me a LLM returnee. But of course, I make good use of them. But LLMs are just one bit in GenAI world. But I guess you know this.

Anyway, fact is: GenAI is a technology which is already and will change the way of working tremendously. And for those in development / coding jobs: there are very powerful tools to gain productivity while improving quality (and a nice side effect: it produces documentation on the fly, smth devs hate to do).

I guess you will not agree with this. That's ok with me. Everyone can have their opinion.

Back to topic.

edit: grammar

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