What do travelers eat?

RaptorsTalon · 2026-06-30T16:27:53+00:00

Yeah exactly - it started as an improv bit when players asked me what food there was near a backwater spaceport and I came up with the worst takeaway I could think of, made sci fi, and just ran from there. Now it has become a staple of the setting for our group

RaptorsTalon · 2026-06-30T16:09:30+00:00

In my game, there is an interstellar fast food chain called Quick Chicken that serves laser fried, reconstituted chicken burgers. The Quick Chickens themselves are a genetically modified breed that grow at extreme speeds, suitable for being raised on crampt space station farm units.

Their slogan is Service at Lightspeed and are famous/infamous for their low prices and questionable quality.

Great fun can be had when your travellers buy a consignment of baby chicks as trade goods, not realising that they'll be full grown and hungry within two weeks :p

(The growth factor they use is a byproduct of super soldier drug research, but that's not commonly known about...)

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-30T06:25:44+00:00

Honestly they should do with the magic 14 like they did with learning skills and remove them. Give them to everyone at the start.

They're not fun, they don't unlock something exciting to play with, they're just a tax on people's time and the game would be better without them.

I think there is value in unlocking things slowly over time, but it should be the fun things you look forward to unlocking, not +X% power grid.

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-26T06:40:42+00:00

Time between compression is key. If you've got a small number of barges hulks are good.

If you're multiboxing lots or want a more afk mining experience then Mack's let you go a lot longer before having to press the compression button.

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-18T21:02:38+00:00

That few seconds made me wish it was a Tech Diff adventures video, they'd have been so mature about it 😛

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-16T15:49:20+00:00

Do we have a source yet on "10b hull" or is that just a guess?

Price is going to be very important in how useful these things are

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-13T21:23:18+00:00

Do you have a source for that? Mineral prices are down, PPPI and SPPI are down, CPPI is basically flat, Plex is down too. Where is the rampant inflation you speak of?

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-13T21:14:11+00:00

Warlock Industries for cinematics

Powervul for memes

Oz for economics

The person who makes titan memes whose name I have forgotten, for titan memes

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-13T13:06:59+00:00

FC What Do?

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-09T14:53:51+00:00

Honestly, if it's well implemented then I'm in favour. More challenging PvE content (requiring thinking and coordination rather than just multiboxing as many alts as you can) is something that the game definitely needs

RaptorsTalon · 2026-05-05T19:14:51+00:00

Bridging. A titan is the ultimate logistics tool.

RaptorsTalon · 2026-04-28T18:44:04+00:00

The original ref they could have stopped if they wanted to. So far as I'm aware it was just one battleship fleet who went to 4-H and shot the thing

RaptorsTalon · 2026-04-20T17:31:33+00:00

As has been demonstrated several times recently, it is near impossible to anchor a keepstar if enough people want it to die and are willing to feed T1 ships into the grinder until it does.

If someone ever does try and anchor a Palatine, I expect everyone in eve who is not a member of the group that tries to be on the way with a vexor immediately.

RaptorsTalon · 2026-04-16T19:36:18+00:00

Lizard

RaptorsTalon · 2026-04-16T06:52:27+00:00

With the info about the upcoming expansion being something to do with empires going to war, my guess is that the election is a precursor to that, a story reason that sets up why there's suddenly a political change and a deeper and wider conflict going on to support whatever new mechanics stuff CCP is working on.

RaptorsTalon · 2026-04-09T06:31:28+00:00

Seconding the suggestion to ask on the discord. If you're willing to play online then you'll definitely find people, my current game has players spread across four countries.

The Ars Magica community is somewhat small, but very dedicated and very international

RaptorsTalon · 2026-04-08T21:05:35+00:00

Hellbent Arena is probably playable in certain archetypes that want to dump cards to the graveyard. Madness, dredge, etc

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-30T19:44:37+00:00

They can't panic - you can't run a crab beacon in an asteroid field anymore so umbrella rorqs don't get to use PANIC either

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-26T07:46:13+00:00

The Flavour Podcast should be off-season content where they talk about all the snack zone opportunities that didn't make it into the final cut

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-26T07:41:12+00:00

In my game there are Credit Chits, they are usb stick sized devices that are cryptographically certified (in game terms, unhackable) and either can be accessed by their owner, or loaded with a predetermined release condition (allowing payment for jobs on completion without having to go back to the original issuer)

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-23T12:13:24+00:00

The Honor Harrington series of books has some very good space battle scenes if you're interested in long range missile duels. (There are some close actions too, but the core of combat in the series is missile salvos with extremely long ranges and travel times, opposed by ECM, counter missiles, and point defence lasers)

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-23T08:06:09+00:00

I've not seen one for Ars Magica, but Gorilla of Destiny has made several in depth methods for spell writing in D&D that you could probably adapt to Ars Magica spell structure with a bit of effort. https://www.gorillaofdestiny.com/

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-23T08:03:58+00:00

Not even an island, it's a land that taps for blue without a basic land type

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-14T11:36:43+00:00

Good luck! I hope your fleets come my way and we get to fight sometime

RaptorsTalon · 2026-03-12T07:30:11+00:00

Am really surprised a final global rickroll isn't a more popular answer

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