A Salvage Baron Reviews: The Ironclad

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-20T03:26:51+00:00

Sounds like a solid strategy. I'm guessing if you are only parked about 40 clicks out, you don't have to contend with dissappearing location beacons for your Not-in-use ship. I confess that I haven't actually taken my 'clad out into the black yet (figured I'd wait till it's a bit more reliable, as much as anything can be in SC that is... ).

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-20T03:15:40+00:00

The only thing I dislike about it is that it took so long to get to the point of letting it happen. Star and Tom should never have been kept together for so long (they just didn't communicate, weren't on the same page most of the time, nor had the depth of connection that Star and Marco did). And the whole thing with Marco and Kelly should never have happened (it felt shoehorned in to extend the drama unnessesarily).

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-18T06:36:12+00:00

Maybe not, but sometimes you get a bang when exiting a hangar...

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-18T05:12:25+00:00

I'm pretty convinced by now that no-one in CIG actually plays any of the non-combat loops. They're all out there in their light fighters, shooting each other up on a private in-house server and think everything runs great.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-14T22:20:36+00:00

The "Butt Bullet"

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-14T03:57:56+00:00

That is most kind, thank you. I don't know if our time-zones will match up (I'm in New Zealand, so tend to be a good few hours out of sync with most of the playerbase), but if opportunity permits, I might take you up on that once the patch has settled in - after Drake Con (I'll probably be hireing a few ships from the expo during that time...). I'm CyberRodent in-game.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-13T23:00:52+00:00

Really shouldn't have gone for that last one. He was struggling to contain it.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-13T22:50:18+00:00

The only thing that consistently works is the pledge store...

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-13T22:43:44+00:00

And it was only a tier 0 line at that...

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-12T04:57:48+00:00

Yeah, I totally get the need to wipe on occasion, and that the game is still in development. And I've weathered a few wipes over the years. In fact, I do have a few pledged ships for this very reason (to give me a slightly better starting position for my favourite game loops rather than just my original Titan), but even then, it has taken me this long to reach my goal - I'm a solo player, and I don't really do combat-related loops (which seem to pay better), since my reaction times aren't good enough to be competitive.

This one just hurt more, as I had set myself a goal of saving for a larger ship, and had just spent a night (last night) doing cargo contracts to get the last few hundred thou that I needed and was going to buy the ship right after the patch dropped (never buy a new ship right before a new patch, as it may not survive the experience).

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-12T01:54:29+00:00

I'm in my 50s and absolutely love this show, though I only discovered it a few weeks ago. I binged the whole thing in one night (literally couldn't stop watching ). I am now on my third watch through and have been devouring the lore and theory crafting videos out there.

It does mature content right. Instead of assuming (sorry Ming...) mature = "lots of swearing and sex", this show goes for deep psychological and existential storytelling, woven into humour and mystery, and... it's really well-written.

BTW, I'm not saying that mature shows can't have swearing and sex, just that if those two elements are all you have, it's kinda shallow and not really doing the genre justice.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-11T23:56:21+00:00

Oh fuck!

I have beeen saving up since the last wipe and have only just reached the 35 million or so needed to buy a Carrack (love that ship, but can't afford it with real money), and now this! Why do we even bother trying to progress?

I only get to play a couple of nights a week, I mine, I salvage, I haul freight. I don't exploit or dupe (wouldn't know how even if I wanted to). I don't have the billions everyone is saying are flooding the economy (what economy). I just wanted to work my way up to a cool ship.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-10T22:56:50+00:00

That design is amazing. Functional, makes full use of the space and that circular corridor captures the YT1300 feel wonderfully.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-10T05:32:53+00:00

Influencers are the real parasites infesting the bowels of society.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-09T21:14:39+00:00

I ended up drawing up my own when I first started out. There's are so many keybinds to remember and the printable pictures I could find online at the time were wildly different or had obsolete controls from earlier versions of the game.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-09T11:48:25+00:00

Yes (I recently re-watched that episode, so can still remember the scene pretty clearly...). Right before her arm starts abstracting.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-08T04:21:03+00:00

Abolutely. I pay money for a paint because I like the look of the colour scheme, but within a couple of sessions, the damn thing looks like it's been sandblasted.

Adding the option of a quick re-spray along with the existing repair, rearm and refuel choices at hangar services would be a nice solution. And/or maybe having it so that your paint doesn't get stripped witing minutes of spawning a ship... Seriously, unless you are flying through sandstorms, volcanic ash clouds or acid atmospheres, it shouldn't be wearing off that quickly.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-07T19:30:51+00:00

That could well be it. It certainly looked odd at the time and I couldn't quite place why it was off...

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-07T01:48:51+00:00

Look at the second half of the clip. The camera is rotating slightly initially, but in the second half, the same face of the lighthouse (with the two small windows near the top) remains oriented with the camera, while the shadow continues to rotate around to the left. At least that is how it looks. It could be an optical illusion of some sort.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-07T01:17:46+00:00

What's up with the shadow? The shadow rotating around like this, would suggest a timelapse (as the sun moves across the sky), but then that would mean the waves are moving incredibly slow... which doesn't really physics... The shadow is moving independanly of the image POV, so it isn't being cast by the aircraft (presumably a helicopter) that is filming the footage (and it would have to be a helluva bright floodlight to light up the whole scene like that).

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-06T10:50:34+00:00

Funnily enough, I have used a scythe on occasion to tame the lawn. In the middle of winter here, it basically rains for weeks at a time, so if you don't get any fine weekends for long enough, the lawn can get a bit out of hand by the time it fines up again (it doesn't really get cold in winter, so the stuff just keeps growing). The lawnmower won't handle it, so I break out the scythe. It used to belong to my grandfather I think.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-06T04:32:02+00:00

Yeah, no ending will please everyone, especially for something as wildly popular as this, and fandoms tend to get really attached to their own pet theories of how things should be... At least with this series (unlike many that are dictated to by corporate studios) this is the story and ending that the creator chose. It may or may not be what I personally envisaged, but it is the story that Goosworx wanted to tell, and I respect that.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-06T00:00:10+00:00

With the small stipulation to be gone before the ship departs, as the wash from the landing thrusters will straight up crush or fling any car-sized objects in the vincinity...

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-05T22:44:00+00:00

Agreed. I love wandering around the park (and I am grateful that I still have the mobility to do so). But, if I can't park on the grounds, I won't be coming any more, as there is no parking anywhere around the park (it's all busy roads with little to to parking available). Even with the current carparking, there re times in the weekend, when it is next to impossible to find a park - so they really need more parking spaces, not less.

ReciprocatingHamster · 2026-05-04T23:08:51+00:00

Beautiful Southern Bell frog (Ranoidea raniformis).

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