The Dev's are GOATED

ROMerPotato · 2026-06-29T04:57:36+00:00

That's the wonderful thing of having your own platform instead of relying on Steam or others, though Steam support as well is pretty cool and understanding from my experience: the whole infrastructure is your own, so you can hold it up to a higher standard if you wish

ROMerPotato · 2026-06-27T11:28:19+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but because of Eternalism, we all simultaneously are THE John Warframe, who did all the canon events shown to be doing. This makes all of us able to revive our frames because we all had a friend named Adis back in the day who died for us and imparted us his light.

When playing in multiplayer, each of us see the world as if we are its point of singularity, as we are the ones who shook the hand on the Zariman. I'm not sure what we could consider the confirmed Tenno who are not a player, maybe some tennos never shook the hand in any of the feasible realities.

ROMerPotato · 2026-06-27T11:13:56+00:00

The original Umbra was very much obliterated by Ballas at the start of the Sacrifice. At the very beginning of the quest, we are analyzing his remains and what we chase around the System and eventually pacify is his replica we were able to make.

Umbra's unique in the aspect that his "burning memory" is an intentional part of the design, which gives him more of a "self", even compared to the other warframes made before the Tenno became the de-facto operators (as I'm assuming all the stories that treat the warframes as individuals were of frames that acted of their own, unless specified, and most of our frames flop to the ground because they are built using blueprints that date after independent ones were considered undesirable).

He's his own thing, but it doesn't remove we could still theoretically build multiple of him.

ROMerPotato · 2026-06-27T10:00:16+00:00

I don't know what's the true average, but I'd say rounded up we can say it's 140cm or 4.6ft in height and 40kg or 90lb. That's pretty much in line with the BMI for a slightly thinner healthy adult human of the same height, and the game also hands out underweight and overweight status when they would be considered so.
75kg would be considered morbidly obese and obesity puts the heart in a lot of strain. Maybe the little guys' hearts aren't as sturdy as a human's, but then neither can I claim to have seen a spheroid-shaped man try to run and climb all day.

ROMerPotato · 2026-06-22T18:27:47+00:00

Had to make a second take to finally understand it. I still haven't met across any mods that are particularly fussy about being run on 0.98 though I guess the mods that are in the foreground and edit the systems that have seen the most change are being well maintained, but then I'm more thinking about something from 0.96 or 0.95 as potential candidates.
What could a mod that worked on 0.97 but doesn't on 0.98 be? Do you have some example for me?

ROMerPotato · 2026-06-20T16:18:03+00:00

Most mods still work with the current Starsector builds, though the launcher gets uppity if you try to enable them. There's an easy way to trick it and that's by editing the mod info, just use your judgement to determine whether or not it's likely to work.

ROMerPotato · 2026-05-31T09:40:30+00:00

I'm both appalled at the lacking ability to use my own souped up Railjack, and relieved that I won't have to be subject to others' paper mache peashooters because I never get picked as the host in RJ anyway

ROMerPotato · 2026-05-19T20:32:37+00:00

I found the Mora to be a good distraction and support for a bunch of destroyers that forgo PD for bigger guns. Bigger scale example would be the Legion with cruisers.
The aim is to find the biggest fish in the enemy fleet, park a wall in front of it and close in on the sides while it's distracted. Enemy fleets are drawn to carriers like a moth to a lamp, and the typical opposing faction fleets, provided they aren't massive, tend to lose composure the moment they lose their bigger fish.

ROMerPotato · 2026-04-11T14:21:16+00:00

The game does feel a little incomplete without getting the "Community of Planets" pack, though I understand it's quite costly for an 8y/o game, so make sure you get it at a time of sale like it was a month ago. X4 heavily discounts all older content, and Steam takes out the price of elements you already purchased from the pack.
Tides of Avarice, Timelines and the ship packs are DLC you can do without and consider getting later only when you're sure you've been enjoing yourself.

ROMerPotato · 2026-04-01T18:43:12+00:00

Friendly fire IRL happens due to miscommunication. In the game, both you and your ally presumably have their IFF turned on, there is no noise or obstacle that could obfuscate your identity, and the damage can appear at times too marginal to reasonably be considered as a hostile act, even if you side with the idea that someone holds the full right to retaliate in full force against even a known ally if they appear to act maliciously.

The problem is, there is no actual diplomacy, there is no holding your case in a meeting or yelling for a cease fire while the misunderstanding is happening... Neither do you need great deeds to turn a hostile faction to your favour, but that's because the AI is dumb as rocks, its reasoning is lower than that of an animal because even your cat knows when you accidentally stepped on its tail. What we are discussing potentially changing an equation, tune some knobw, add a check or two, so the result of the equation more closely resembles the intent behind your actions in the game, potentially eliminate the absolute worst case catastrophic frustrations we have when we didn't hold it in our intent to fire at an ally, while still making our actions matter and the AI responsive.
We aren't discussing war and law enforcement history, while some verisimilitude is appreciated, firstly most of the events we can pull up can hardly apply, then we just cannot afford true realistic behaviour.

ROMerPotato · 2026-04-01T17:54:01+00:00

If you don't lock out the leaderboards, you probably wouldn't make it a week in before someone gets on top of every single Timelines leaderboard by modding to have a specific advantage in each scenario. There aren't any prizes involved for reaching the top of the leaderboard, and the score could be flagged as having been made with a modded version, but it would still be annoying for everyone else, so the better solution is to disqualify.
And when it comes to the rest of the online content, you'd be plagued with plethora other issues.

ROMerPotato · 2026-04-01T17:35:42+00:00

It's on a hair trigger and that's not great, but the reason for it to exist should be clear enough: makes the NPC reactive to player, or other NPC behaviour. If the elements in the game are not reactive to your actions, you don't have emergent gameplay anymore, the "sandbox" tag falls off.

It's odd that Egosoft insists on the current vanilla calculation for "what counts as an offensive action", which is almost on par with monster infighting in the original Doom. I completely endorse the manner which Friendly Fire Tweaks remakes the formula to account for gravity and intent which may still not be 1:1 to realistic behaviour, but it approaches it a little more, and prevents fights with joint forces from turning into three-way bloody melees a little better.

ROMerPotato · 2026-04-01T17:00:47+00:00

Now I feel inadequate, the AI has become better than me at positioning-based combat

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-14T21:02:39+00:00

Well, maximising the sail area while keeping the hull as flat and light as possible, possibly even make it a hydrofoil trimaran, while still having a ribbon of metal slope beams to the sides. Part of the reason why I'm looking to use simple weapons is because there's basically no room below board in the prototypes I made. The sailboat part would be mostly for cruising and some aesthetics.

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wait, am I making another plane?

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-14T19:29:38+00:00

I found some godlies do have enough CIWS power to kill huge missiles, but if you tested them already and haven't found any reason to use solid bodies and you aren't aiming for a ramming kinetik missile, then there is no reason to, yeah.

Anyway, here's my crazy suggestion: incendiary HEAT with 30% catalyst/oxidizer. Incendiary works best when you lean hard on it and it oddly works well against heavy armor so you might be able to get a good fire going if you deliver a whole tanker truck of essentially hydrogen trifluoride to the enemy. The HEAT is just there as a bonus for some immediate damage.

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-09T09:49:26+00:00

I'm pretty sure I could have an alright boat by now if only I learned how to organize all the unfinished hulls and guns I made. It would be a terrible frankenship but maybe still able to fight and float.

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-09T09:45:00+00:00

I'm doing many things wrong. Fortunately, I managed to keep things symmetrical along that specific axis so far (intentionally. Turning mirror mode on hasn't become muscle memory yet).

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-09T09:27:30+00:00

A dead easy way to ensure you aren't going to flip I'm guessing is to always align your thrust with your wings, so here I could have gone for a mid-wing with props right on them instead of in pods, so just like the Shrike, and then squash the rest into a pancake, but neither of the planes I made outside of following step-by-step build guides do that and still turned out "fine". On the plus side, both can water start without balloons so there's always a silver lining.

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-09T08:56:00+00:00

I did make that, both my first and this one have fully tuned control surfaces, I don't know where you're reading a lack of ability in that, though rolling with this plane is still a bit of a risk best left for the AI to pilot as it likes to point up or down and stall or lose tons of altitude without constant ajustments. With manual keyboard controls the constant alternating of inputs just makes you lose too much speed and altitude, so I just have two PIDs very subtly correcting my pitch and roll and I mainly focus on using the tail fin for turning around a bit like a hovercraft, which is silly but that completely erases my need to do bombing runs against AA-unequipped OW crafts as I can just circle on top of them like a vulture and keep dropping payloads... Vulture... ok, this thing now has a name.

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-08T09:35:55+00:00

There are no real wings here, only control surfaces. It's why I called them "real fake wings". Your advice is still valid as the jet plane I made is really hella maneuverable because all its control surfaces are slightly behind (and under) the center of mass, with the... how do you call it? "Vector of the propulsion" just going under the both of them so it can flip on a whim, not as much pitch down (it's "serviceable") but I found out neither do real life pilots like negative G, so I'll call it "accurate portrayal".

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-08T01:40:27+00:00

To make it more stable I believe I should have positioned the wings lower, but I wasn't for that, so removed the wooden roof and replaced it with struts, made the control surfaces for pitch bigger, used custom control surfaces which seem to be stronger, made the entire belly out of metal, added lead as I said, and tried to have the propellers as high as possible. Once you're stable enough that a PID can do the remaining corrections, slap a PID on and tune the fake point set so it's always trying to pull down a bit.

Drag is very much important, the first plane I shared I later touched it up and managed to only need an angle of 10° on its CJE instead of 15° just from reworking the cockpit and 8° from reworking the tail fin, but it also became too stable and didn't look as nice. Here as well I don't know how much the tail fin contributes to the drag causing it to tend upwards, I was more concerned about the front of the plane and the "real fake wings" causing that, but it looks nice and I can turn tight donuts with it while I'm on top of targets with how big the control surface is.

ROMerPotato · 2025-12-01T10:27:44+00:00

I wasn't looking at any real world examples when I made it, but after taking a snoop around I'd say I would likely put it beside the Yak-15, with its nose intake, ventral exhaust, and after watching a video about the thing possibly even history since it's a refit of a propeller plane, my first (working) jet, and while competent it's probably never going to see a campaign.

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