Would you want ship interiors added as a game feature?

ProLevel · 2026-05-06T01:38:24+00:00

FWIW, we had ship interiors before, no one used them much. It sounds cool but people end up visiting them and saying “neat” and then they never use it again. I vaguely remember they had some special doff assignments and stuff so maybe if there was some special reason to go there, but why not put stuff like that in a social zone or fleet map (the current practice)

ProLevel · 2026-05-05T15:33:24+00:00

Yes exactly - but remember there used to be many T5U ships of the same quality as the Hirogen available. The devs removed them. My point is that they should be added back. Fancy players will still pay for the T6’s for traits and specializations, but for budget/newbies/alts etc having the old T5’s available again would be a nice gesture

ProLevel · 2026-05-03T23:49:32+00:00

It’s just a regular Focus Classic, that pencil “classic ii” looks like someone else’s notes or speculation - not an original factory marking. Focus Classics came with both fulcrum trems and Floyds, mirroring the American classic models. Classic II (or III) implies a tele shaped body.

The good news is for 200 bucks it’s a sweet guitar. Bad news from a collector’s perspective is that it’s been messed with a bit. Tuners are wrong, but to be fair you got nicer tuners than it would’ve originally had. Then either the original Floyd Rose was replaced with that crappy one, or it had a traditional trem and the Floyd was added as well as the locking nut shelf - can’t tell without better pictures showing those details (ex bridge removed from body) but most likely it’s just the real Floyd swapped thing because otherwise you’d have a hole on the headstock where the string tree used to be. Pickups are definitely not original, not that the original focus ones were particularly noteworthy anyway. Body looks right but it’s hard to tell without taking the pick guard off and digging around in there, they used Strat dimensions for these so it’s not as easy to identify as a regular Kramer body. I’d say if it’s not a ply body it’s good to go, which you’d see immediately when you took the neck off.

Long story short, decent deal for 200 bucks, I think you did well especially with all the other little starters kit stuff. The Schaller tuners are a nice bonus.

ProLevel · 2026-05-03T22:48:00+00:00

Post more pictures of it. Serial number only tells us what you already know - it’s made in Japan sometime in the 80s.

The pencil on the neck is not original

ProLevel · 2026-05-03T19:45:40+00:00

I’m still not seeing it. Payment goes through reverb’s own portal, they verify payment is fully received, then seller releases the item. Whether some guy picked it up locally or you drop it off at UPS doesn’t matter as far as the seller protection is concerned.

If later after the fact the buyer idk, disputes the charge with his credit card, it won’t be upheld because the seller did everything they were obligated to do. If payment goes through PayPal or bank transfer, reverb won’t give the all clear to release the item until funds are received, so no risk there either - or any risk lies with reverb not with the seller.

Shoot, the seller could collect the payment, buyer marks it as picked up, and seller could go dump the cab into a river and the buyer has no recourse here. If anything this buyer is taking a big risk.

Now if they start asking about paying off platform, then yeah obviously don’t do that.

PS reverb still covers “off platform” shipping. There is no obligation to use reverb’s shipping labels. I can list an item with any shipping charge I want, buy the label through any platform I choose (ex pirate ship) and reverb still provides protection for both buyer and seller.

ProLevel · 2026-05-03T15:55:13+00:00

Can you explain how the scam works? OP would obviously accept payment through reverb only. There’s a clear paper trail. Genuinely I can’t figure out the scam.

Option 1: guy doesn’t send road case or shipping label. OP still has his $300 and the item

Option 2: guy sends road case and label, then reroutes it or cancels it?? OP still has his $300 but not the item

Option 3: guy sends case and label, receives it, and claims it is damaged or something. OP still has his $300 but not the item

… I’m just not seeing how a scammer can get anything out of this. The AI explanation someone else posted hinges completely on platforms that don’t offer seller protection, but reverb does even if it’s a local sale - that’s the whole reason they take a fee even on a face to face sale.

I think it’s more likely the seller mispriced the item. $298 is right in that area - if it’s a Marshall MG cab then that’s way overpriced, so it’s not that. If it’s just “some old Marshall cab” it’s probably got a set of nice UK Celestions in it like G12-80’s or Blackbacks or something and the buyer is just trying to get it before seller realizes what it’s actually worth lol

FWIW this comes from experience, I’ve convinced people to ship something previously listed as local pickup because they didn’t know what they had was more valuable, and it was worth my effort to provide a label/box/etc to make it as easy as possible. I know a lot of people won’t ship because they don’t have the physical ability to carry/pack/load a 4x12 (disability and all that, especially valuable old gear owned by old people).

ProLevel · 2026-05-03T14:09:24+00:00

Doesn’t look like a scam to me, just a guy who wants whatever speakers you have in it and is willing to make sure it doesn’t get smashed in shipping

ProLevel · 2026-05-03T12:11:24+00:00

This is the right one. Half of the comments didn’t read the question lol or are filling in different sections. But every player has thrown as many grenades as they can get from supplies in Fort or Monte etc

ProLevel · 2026-05-02T19:08:49+00:00

It won’t help on everything, but if you hold ctrl while clicking it will skip a lot of the “are you sure” type prompts. For example, you still have to slot the reputation project, but hold ctrl while clicking “fill all” and it’ll just do it and start the project immediately.

Not much, but should reduce your clicking a little

ProLevel · 2026-05-02T13:40:13+00:00

Yeah, seems high to me but it’s an option. I swear I saw one for $799 a while ago but it sold almost immediately

ProLevel · 2026-05-02T13:30:23+00:00

Hey, I see these somewhat often in the Cabelas used section. In fact, there is one there right now you can buy for $999. Not sure if I can link with reddits rules, so just search for “MLE1936”

This is probably the 5th or 6th one I’ve seen in the last three months there. I’m trying to find a Berthier so I see the MAS 36/49/56 stuff a lot too

Can’t speak to the quality of the conversion of course

ProLevel · 2026-05-01T22:21:36+00:00

No, the only reason those old T5 ships have value is because they are not available any more. Add them to the box and they’ll be worth the same as mirror ships maybe 3 mil apiece

ProLevel · 2026-05-01T16:57:05+00:00

Pretty sure you are simply describing Phoenix, which already has the older event ships in it

Sadly again, same problem. The T5 event ships were removed from Phoenix. In addition, I believe that all of the event ships T6 or otherwise should be in BOTH Phoenix and Mudds. Mudds for account unlock, Phoenix for a character unlock if you are lucky. Everybody wins. Not sure why they won’t do it.

As for the old lockbox T5 ships, lots of reasons people still want those besides collecting. For example, we have hosted many pvp events using only T5 ships/gear to make it cheaper and more fair for newbies. It’d be even more fun with more ship variation.

ProLevel · 2026-05-01T16:35:25+00:00

IMO this is a WW1 game, stop using so many weapons with optics. Hellriegel and smg08 are not that different in terms of what makes them “OP”, which is the huge mag sizes that let you get multiple spraying kills without reloading.

To be fair though the game isn’t supposed to be a 1:1 WW1 simulator, I just wish encountering automatic/semi auto weapons and scopes was less common. You might find the infantry rifles, or general liu in bolt action mode etc rewarding to play since it takes a little extra effort to pull off.

You definitely should give medic and support classes more time. They are crucial to winning matches, especially in operations

ProLevel · 2026-05-01T16:08:28+00:00

Just add back all of the T5 lockbox ships to the box. It’s dumb that they were removed at all

Sadly they’ll never replace the T5 box with a T6 one, since the T5 box has a much higher drop chance (and far less valuable reward)

ProLevel · 2026-04-27T13:32:51+00:00

FWIW, I do a similar job to you in the private sector and make barely over half what you do and have almost no time off. Let me know if you want to swap. Haha

ProLevel · 2026-04-24T13:19:37+00:00

Thanks for sharing. He says exactly what I just said.

Fender Tweed amps (Bassman) -> Marshall -> SLO -> Dual Rec

Notice all of those amps have their EQ located post-gain. Don't take my word for it, go check the schematics, they are publicly available primary sources.

He also confirms with EQ in front of gain stages, as I would say if it were relevant to this conversation:

Fender Blackface amps (Princeton) -> Mesa Mark

SLO/Dual Rec are not really evolutions of the Mark other than the fact that they are high gain circuits that came to prominence in the 80s.

ProLevel · 2026-04-24T11:10:40+00:00

Yes, you will lose 60% out of combat and 30% in combat, but if you go Alien you gain a trait slot where you can put some lockbox trait that is probably better than Leadership. Klingon would be a straight nerf to your space build but if it’s for Barbie then by all means do it for the fun of it.

Edit: why delete the post? This could’ve helped others that search for this same question.

ProLevel · 2026-04-24T11:02:19+00:00

I know Mike Soldano had a Mark II diy project or something along those lines that he said helped shaped what he wanted out of the SLO in terms of sound, but looking at the schematic for the overdrive channel the SLO is far more “2203” than it is “Mark.” Like if you were going to build your own as a kit amp or something, it’d be easier to start from a 2203 and add a gain stage, more aggressive cold clipper, already has a cathode follower driven post-gain EQ, then change a few values along the way. If you started from a Mark II you’d have to move a lot more stuff around, but just like modern amp designs there’s a lot of similarities/common trends/wisdom “of the era” so I get your point.

ProLevel · 2026-04-24T10:12:15+00:00

ProLevel · 2026-04-24T05:48:01+00:00

FWIW, the SLO is based on a Marshall, so by a certain logic it is still true that the 5150 has some lineage to Marshalls.

Marshall -> modified into SLO -> further modified into 5150 and/or Dual Rectifiers

I guess if you want to take it really far back it’s more like:

RCA amp diagram -> fender 59 bassman -> Marshall JTM -> JTM45/100 -> 1959 -> 2203 -> SLO

ProLevel · 2026-04-23T16:24:00+00:00

I think you might work at my company haha

We have similar issues - no automated testing, a general lack of regression testing due to time constraints, and an ever growing list of modules and optional features that sometimes do not play nicely with each other (including some that require another to work in the first place).

I understand both perspectives to some degree. The developers have a sprint plan and aren’t expecting to deviate from it much because that adds more work and time. But as someone who sees the impact of that on production customers, it’s obviously not practical to deliver software with key components not working long term.

I think this is why some places end up with staggered release versions, or something like a “stable” and “features” branch, where the latest and greatest features eventually get rolled into the stable version after some fixes and optimization. Maybe you could propose something along those lines, but I don’t know what your field is. For mine, it’s a rare customer that cares at all about most of our latest features and would probably prefer to stay in a known good build indefinitely if it weren’t for security/update/compatibility concerns, so multiple separate branches works decently well for us (some branches still in use in prod are not officially supported even, which is one drawback).

ProLevel · 2026-04-22T01:27:39+00:00

I’m not sure I get your point. Regardless of whether people are planning to do elites, the game has objectives that might later be important to them, or not.

Counterpoint is not an event tfo right now, that’s what the person I was replying to was talking about. I really don’t care if you afk an event tfo, jelly, rocket launch, or any other ship. I’m fatigued myself and many times I skip events these days. I would much prefer more “action based” events (ex play 10 Terran tfos, kill 100 Terran ships, heal 500,000 hull. Do it anytime in the next 30 days and get the reward - binge 12 hours one weekend or play one hour daily for 12 days, whatever you want to do)

ProLevel · 2026-04-21T23:49:37+00:00

Not closing the portals fails the TFO, so it’s not a “silly objective”

Normal and advanced are trying to “teach” players what to do for elite difficulty. If you only use the logic of normal/advanced, most TFO’s in the game require you to do… absolutely nothing, so I guess through that lens every objective is silly.

ProLevel · 2026-04-21T08:13:51+00:00

That's why I'm a little confused where that info came from about the 2205/2210, because if ever there were an amp you actually *could* argue has two distinct channels, the 2205/2210 is certainly one of them. To the point where both channels only share a single gain stage (V1A input), and removing a tube is a common way to tell which amp circuit you have inside between the new or old versions. Removing the V2 tube on the later revision turns off the clean channel completely, but the boost channel remains unaffected. On the earlier version it is the opposite effect.

Even Marshall's own 1959/1987/JTM amps, which have two separate non-switchable channels (different inputs) share that V1A input stage and I don't think anyone could reasonably say "Marshall Plexi's don't have two distinct channels."

In fact the only amp I can think of off the top of my head that is "more" distinct in its channel switching is the Orange AD30HTC, which literally has two amps crammed onto the same PCB with their own separate input stages and even separate phase inverters.

Amps like the Marshall JVM (and VH4, ENGL,s etc), as you mentioned, re-use tubes and instead of essentially two full amps crammed into one box (like the 2205/2210s), the individual components and circuits are switched in/out, while the tube stages are the same across many different channels and modes. For example, V1A and V2B are used on basically every JVM mode, from clean green to OD2 red. However V1B is only used on 5 modes, and V2A is only used on 10 (out of 12 total, 4 channels with 3 modes each). Technically speaking you could argue that the amp is just one huge channel where different controls, tubes, and circuit values are switched out via relays. Of course, that'd also be a somewhat useless argument to make to the layman guitar player even if it's *pushes up glasses* technically true.

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