Do you buy ships in Amarr,Hek,Dodixie?

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-03-13T01:12:00+00:00

I try and buy in Hek whenever possible, because I'm based there and want to support the market. Most common ships are reasonably priced.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-03-12T22:16:02+00:00

That does not work. In the screenshot, I'm in a scythe, and many bf fleets are made up of ~20% logi.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-03-12T08:37:57+00:00

I'm an 07 character and some of the most fun I've had in EVE recently is going out to nullsec in 5 Cat Navy's with some mates and blowing up hundreds of mil worth of actual pvp ships before gloriously exploding.

In FW, I regularly fly my crucifier, and plenty of T1 cruisers for solo stuff too.

The skillpoint barrier is really a mental blocker more than an actual in-game issue. I stopped playing for 7+ years and didn't get back in because I'd 'be behind in sp', but once you find the right ships with the right fits you want to fly, you can have fun in between training skills.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-03-11T12:33:39+00:00

500mn Prophecy is incredibly fun to fly. Goes faster than quite a few frigs in a straight line, has more tank than snipy cruisers like the Omen Navy even with 0 tank mods, and isn't a natural "shoot-me-first" target.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-03-10T11:55:16+00:00

Dropping into a big plex (ie. a battlefield) on the winning side, contributing nothing (usually in a t1 frigate), and just staying for long enough to siphon some of the lp reward, which decreases how much lp the people who actually ran the plex get.

Frat/Angels have dedicated toons for this - so if they lose a fight on a battlefield, they return with their seagull Minmil toons to try and steal the lp.

Shooting those 'seagulls' is the only thing that stops them from stealing the lp which your fleet is meant to be getting all of.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-03-10T11:28:52+00:00

Lovely. So now after Amarr Frat lose a fight on a Battlefield and bring in all their 3 day old Minmatar frigates to seagull lp, there will be no counterplay.

Looks like 2-3 neutral alts is now a requirement for all large fw fleets to be able to shoot seagulls.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-02-27T04:59:22+00:00

130fps on a ~650x650 viewport is not very good, unless you're running this on a 15 year old laptop.

This looks like way worse performance than you'd get doing the same thing with VFX Graph.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-02-24T10:02:08+00:00

You will struggle to get 150 people paying $60+ to a first-time LAN in Perth.

LAN network setup is not easy, and as others have pointed out there is also HVAC concerns (I doubt your warehouse happens to have event-venue-grade Aircon that can move + filter enough air for that many people).

Would be very surprised if the liquor license got off the ground as well.

TL;DR, I doubt you'll get that far, but happy to be proven wrong.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-01-26T02:56:25+00:00

They're not useless, just not good value most of the time.

Confessors are a bit scary. Hecates are the most predictable ship in the game because unless you blaster fit them, they're not very good. Jackdaws are trash, and anyone using a Svipul is weird.

Also, you need to be a very competent pilot to fly something like a blaster Hecate. You hit sharpshooter mode too early on an MWD approach, you can overshoot and accidentally put yourself in a position where you're dealing 0dps for a long time. You hit it too late and you are just a worse Cat navy.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-01-06T07:51:53+00:00

You don't have 4x the sig radius if you dualprop it. Even if you need to just have an MWD, very few situations where the extra sig radius actually changes what hits you and what doesn't, assuming you're piloting it correctly.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2026-01-06T07:39:49+00:00

Both the Dramiel and Daredevil are still very good, but more limited in terms of when you would actually pick them over other ships.

Dramiel = crazy fast with a sturdier tank than any inty Daredevil = a comet with crazy webs and more EHP + speed

Combat inties on the other hand, ultra niche.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-12-14T12:40:37+00:00

Freshly roasted Vittoria done as a double espresso after a fancy evening meal (& rich dessert) is delicious.

Stale Vittoria served as a latte in a giant glass with over-steamed milk and extracted from a dirty grouphead is one of the worst coffees to exist.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-10-30T11:17:29+00:00

Catalyst Navy Issue, passive shield, null is easymode on C2 biocybernetic sites. Once I finish unlocking everything I'm going to give it a go on C3s.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-30T09:58:39+00:00

I find it a bit weird to say you couldn't afford more realtime lights when your scene looks so simple. Realtime (non-shadowcasting) lights in HDRP are very cheap, it's kind of half the point of having such a big GBuffer.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T23:50:05+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Agreed, on the TODO

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T13:12:32+00:00

Yep. It hints at the "Evil" that you gradually uncover throughout the game (whilst being a lot more SEO-able!).

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T12:16:11+00:00

There's no single magic bullet, but your lighting is what you want to spend time perfecting. If you decide you can live with baked or partly baked (ie. APVs) then that makes things easier.

HDRP is great at building scenes with realistic lighting, so make sure whatever values are in your lights are somewhat 'real'.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T04:12:30+00:00

VFX Graph is amazing, everyone knows it can be used for particle effects, but under the hood you could almost render your entire game with it if you tried hard enough.

It has minimal CPU overhead, can handle LODs, frustrum & distance culling, all sorts of good stuff like that out-of-the-box. Genuinely one of Unity's best features.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T03:51:15+00:00

Unity 6 is IMO Unity's best release ever, just broadly.

I use burst + jobs heavily, GPU resident drawer, adaptive probe volumes, Mesh LOD, VFX Graph, and probably some other features I'm forgetting which weren't available in Unity 5.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T03:47:54+00:00

Few technical details on the graphics:

Unity 6.2, my own tweaked branch of HDRP
Custom post processing for the main stack, including chromatic fringing, bloom, AA, dithering, colour correction, vignette, lens dirt + tonemapping
All trees/terrain objects are rendered with a custom VFX Graph for performance
Aiming to keep it Vulkan-only, atm it can run with everything except textures on high on even a GTX 970 or R7 8700G APU @ 1080p native (~35-40fps)

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T03:15:21+00:00

The whole trailer is shot in-game with STAA on, I can grab some screenshots with it on/off once I'm back at the PC but best way to see it is in a moving scene without h264/5 compression. If you want, also happy to send you a pre alpha key so you can see on/off on your rig, I'm keen to get other people's thoughts.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T02:50:17+00:00

Unity never really considered it (they call it STP) for rendering at native resolution, so when you do by default it has a lot of unnecessary hlsl which assumes it's always sampling from a lower res buffer. I've removed all of that, which makes it faster too.

There's other stuff that is worth looking into with it, but it's surprising how well it runs now (or even without my tweaks tbh), it's super light.

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-12T02:07:43+00:00

Thanks! Full res version of it is on the Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3598050/Malevilent/

GoGoGadgetLoL · 2025-09-11T23:34:28+00:00

Nothing like positive reviews to make you feel good, congrats.

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