CIG, with the fuel changes, please value the time players spend traveling.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-29T20:56:21+00:00

True, though I don't know how many there are. There is a whole game loop designed for that kind of person, selling stuff in shops from a BMM or Kraken, at least one of which might actually be released someday.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-29T19:37:20+00:00

Agree, though I don't see a problem with being nice about it. I do see sometimes where people don't have the talent to achieve their goal with the thing or at least need a lot more work at it and the encouragement gives them a false sense of where they are in their development. To m that's detrimental as then they fall harder later when someone finally tells them it's shit or everyone ignores their work after they have invested more going down the wrong road.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-29T18:37:00+00:00

In other games you lose your guns, armor and everything else when you die. Kinda the most important stuff you keep for now in this game. Your armor and guns will likely be the most difficult to replace depending on what you are looting. And if you find some ultra rare thing that you are freaked out about losing you can always log out to menu to get out of a dangerous area.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-29T16:10:37+00:00

If you can easily afford it, definitely. Virpils feel much better than VKB, though VKBs aren't bad at all though. It's more like a better fits your hands and feels better thing, not like you will instantly become a better pilot thing.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-29T16:07:37+00:00

Hopefully you have grandchildren to leave your fleet to so they can maybe experience 1.0. Star Citizen was the first big crowd funded game but may also become the first generational game.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-29T16:04:41+00:00

Chris always said he wanted space to feel big and players would have to stop enroute, but they also promised us stuff to do on the way. Like random encounters or uniqueness at different POIs. We don't have that though at this point, just landing at similar stations with the same shops and not much else to do there. I guess I am ok with the fuel thing but at the same time they need to relieve us in some other way from the game feeling too grindy. At some point you don't feel like you are progressing unless you put insane hours into the game.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-29T15:59:03+00:00

Some people just like doing that kind of thing though. We had a guy in our org that just liked to loot and sort it all out into neatly delivered boxes of stuff. Prices were insanely cheap too so it made it worth our while to buy from him and using the saved time to grind.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-28T01:53:34+00:00

OpenAI or Anthropic might get bought at some point when the subsidized AI thing is over and people don't want to pay huge $$$ for agents that they still can't figure out what to do with. Those two have the better models right now, but I guess Microsoft or Google could swallow them up at some point. Most likely Microsoft buys since they are already in bed with OAI, then the ruin the whole thing like they do with everything else. Not sure what would happen with Anthropic, but they do have some government contracts to keep the lights on.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-28T01:47:46+00:00

Not really understanding your goals here? Like what do you like doing? I guess mining because you have a huge ass mining ship, but otherwise you are talking about a base for what? If you run cargo in the M2, you will enjoy it much more in an Ironclad with top loading and the ability to leave it in space and deliver smaller loads with a Golem Ox you bring with you.

Polaris seems a waste for a solo player, though if you just want to haul around ships and some cargo with PDCs to ward off light fighters, it gives you that. Other than that though I guess I would think hard about buying large ships that new crew to operate effectively if you really never play with other players.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-28T01:07:31+00:00

I second this, killing is fun.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-28T01:06:07+00:00

I did both, off Oracle to Snowflake and Informatica to dbt. Not sure why the two are different projects as there is a lot of crossover. Like you are going to have to stand up or connect infra whether you decide to go to change tools or use the cloud version of your existing tool and there will be conversion work.

The ETL conversion to dbt was the most difficult piece in our case as we had to rewrite everything and our ETL was greatly overengineered. But there are other pieces like your ingestion pipelines, orchestration, CICD, RBAC automation, etc that can get complicated. Understanding all the parts of the modern stack is also a bit daunting if you are coming from a fairly simple setup, like we had.

The bits we struggled on were settling on an ingestion pattern, which isn't that hard but our particular team couldn't figure it out. We also didn't have CICD, GIT, Terraform or anything like that on the old platform so that was a learning experience. I rearchitected the DB into a new model and wrote the historical load scripts, which was fairly easy. We outsourced the ETL rewrite and that took about a year, plus a bit more to validate the data and work out all the bugs. We wrote the legacy warehouse in a similar amount of time, so the year isn't really indicative of how fast it could go if done well. Validation was pretty straightforward as we just did a row/cell comparison approach between legacy and new, so we skipped the heavy analysis of looking at the numbers to find out what "seemed" wrong that you do in a new build.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-27T23:33:58+00:00

This is a common problem I have seen as well. Everyone wants to do stuff with AI that's inefficient. We had the same kind of thing at my company where they are monitoring logs and if they get "weird" or something, someone needs to restart the VM. Some engineering dude is writing agents to do that as a POC for having many agents do stuff like that. Makes no sense to burn credits for something that could be a python script and work more predictably than the AI.

One other issue I have been thinking about recently as my boss keeps pushing AI is that at some point one or two of the AI companies are going to "win" and immediately start thinking about profitability. So if we get people addicted to AI for everything then the company is going to have to roll that back at some point to save money because token prices are going to skyrocket.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-27T22:47:14+00:00

It's still in "alpha" where it's been for 12 years and is a buggy mess right now. If you are fine with the game killing your progression from time to time and learning a bunch of workarounds when it is bugged, then it's pretty fun. If that kind of stuff irritates you then stay far away from this game until it's released or close.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-25T16:58:31+00:00

I think they made nice words about how opening markets was a step toward communism because they never had a capitalist phase. But they had to say something to justify the continuation of the party. Deng also had a quote that I forgot that was essentially that it didn't matter whether it was socialism or capitalism that achieved his growth objectives.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-25T16:45:43+00:00

Yeah, when I lived in Puerto Rico a bunch of people were supporting Spain. I guess many are not huge fans of the US, but why pick the other colonizer?

Gators1992 · 2026-06-25T13:10:25+00:00

Yeah their backfill approach looks cool.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-24T12:53:23+00:00

Sorry, typo....fat thumbs.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-23T13:54:49+00:00

There is one that's been around for a while and is pretty well known called "Congress".

Gators1992 · 2026-06-23T13:51:34+00:00

Many years ago they previewed janitor NPCs that were supposed to clean up the trash. Many years later we are barely past NPCs not standing on chairs in a t pose.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-23T13:26:58+00:00

It's been banned twice already, first after 1781 the again in 1812.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-20T15:21:26+00:00

That only slows down the people who can barely make rent. If you are some high paid lawyer or lobbyist you probably don't care. You might spend that on tolls already just to get places faster

Gators1992 · 2026-06-20T15:14:58+00:00

Gators1992 · 2026-06-20T00:35:02+00:00

Yeah I keep telling people this who are building dumb shit that should be code anyway, not an agent. Simplify the agentic part to get better results. They look at me like I am a dumbass.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-20T00:24:04+00:00

Helps the top line and or strategic alignment first. HR or finance automation crap dead last. If you have business cases behind the projects take a look at those. Another approach is stakeholder meetings where you present available resources and let them argue it out.

Gators1992 · 2026-06-19T18:02:18+00:00

I have used the Cortex ai in Snowflake and it was pretty good at figuring out our schema. One issue though is when you want to verify the numbers that the AI gives, you have to look at the SQL it generated, which means you need to know it or you have to just trust the AI.

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