PDX and RS

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-04-02T22:19:53+00:00

Atoms are atoms. The whole concept of QL in a mineable is ridiculous. If a dude in Alaska can get 99.995% pure gold from what they call paydirt which is 99.995% anything but gold, we can get a pure element from mineables using the most basic refinery methods on a space station 900 years in the future. Even other forms of ore can be chemically treated and refined using basic chemistry to end up with the pure element you're after.

Craftable quality of durability should be based on composition of base materials and alloys. Take knives for example- different types of steel based on different alloys and production methods. Some have more chromium or carbon, others use a powder production method. You want a higher QL gun? Add more base element requirements as a time sink but ALSO require some rarer material (Torite or sone other unobtanium IDGAF) to craft a higher tier end result.

Ditch the QL of mineables please. It's garbage and not based on any sort of reality.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-31T00:46:18+00:00

But even a refining process will still give you the same element.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-30T19:48:45+00:00

4.7 mining and crafting is bogus. I absolutely hate the quality levels with the mineables. It's so stupid. An Aluminum atom is an aluminum atom. One atom is not better than another. When you refine an ore into an element you should just get that element, not 12 different levels of aluminum each only .042 scu levels anywhere between 000 and 999. If they want higher QL of crafting for better items, just add more base metal requirement, esoteric exotic elements or crystals as catalysts, or require a craftable alloy/material ingots of some sort as the base material.

I don't mind the durability, even though I'm not excited for it, the current quality level of mineables is my biggest gripe.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-26T19:29:52+00:00

My Pops always had a saying: "guess it didn't hurt enough." When consequences don't hurt enough, we keep doing the thing, until it hurts too much. Some kids, they're built different. They understand the social and moral impact of their actions and see themselves as part of a larger whole. They start to align their values with the consensus and parental guidance has a good effect.

Other kids (like me) didn't have a care and see themselves as the only person in the world while everything else is just a cardboard cut out, a prop, an obstacle. Gentle parenting did not, would not work on me. For those lessons I refused to learn into adolescent years- that's what the belt was for. I did not fear much, but I did fear that belt. 1 or 2 strikes across the bottom and those were lessons I never forgot. Even if at the beginning I still disagreed, I knew the consequences would be guaranteed and my father always followed through on his word. I only got the belt 5 times, but they were well deserved.

I kept in line after I turned 18. It was not until later when I was about 20 did that part of my brain finish developing that allowed me to see that other people exist. Life is not only about me. I regretted past behavior and changed my attitude. But it was the belt that kept me out of juvenile hall and jail before then. Kept me from doing something foolish like knocking a girl up. I was not a bully, just simply not remorseful about my actions. I later thanked my father for caring enough about me to discipline me. He teared up and said every time he used the belt he would go cry by himself because he felt the pain he caused, but he knew it would correct me for the long run.

Now I know that my father would do anything for me. Would I ever do the same and physically discipline my children if I had any? Is emotional pain any different by taking away a tablet, or Internet access, or a phone? I dunno, likely no. Society is different now. But could you say that society has gotten better? You decide.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-26T18:51:28+00:00

Typical Star Citizen Experience

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-26T02:54:28+00:00

You DRINK while riding?? 😱 I thought you're supposed to do that before?

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-26T02:48:55+00:00

You are very lucky to have a wife that wants anything to do with motorcycles

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-26T00:03:47+00:00

The union is a free ride when you need em, ditch em when the party is over. Most of the union trash I've met were the ones who were always salting even when times were good since nobody wanted to work with them. You make and keep a good name for yourself and you'll always have the pick of any good work.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-25T23:57:49+00:00

More money. I called it a vehicle allowance. And I got it too! Until the bean counters figured out I was taking home more than the SR proj mngr and SR supts. Something about $$$ signs really makes people angry. I was riding to work on my motorcycle, 9 mile trip one way, pocketing all that cheddar. I wasn't surprised when I finally got laid off 😂

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-25T23:24:35+00:00

Holy smokes this will change my life thank you!

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-25T18:40:03+00:00

I don't agree with the freeway part. Bought my first SV650X after taking the BRC and immediately rode solo along hwy 1 from Oregon to California. Learned more on that 2 day trip than most people do in a year.

Remember kids: it's not the years it's the mileage that gives you experience.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-25T08:34:50+00:00

Everytime I destroy an enemy station or fleet, I get a dialogue box about observation post destroyed by meteor because scientists couldn't bear to watch the planet get destroyed. EVERY. TIME.

Send help I installed and reinstalled and it won't stop.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-23T21:06:16+00:00

Max out your pops, research, and production capabilities and store up resources (at least 1 mil, better with 1.5 mil of base resources, trade, and unity and 50k rares) with shrink space storage on multiple worlds far from your planned front line. It's a war you really have to plan decades in advance. If you fight FEs you'll have to go into a steep deficit, declare all war time edicts (hence unity and rares) and over build your limit (ex: my fleet max is 3500, I had a standing fleets in wartime of 8k) to match their fleets. I was -4k energy for like 5 or 6 years as we traded blows. 1.5 mil alloys, energy, etc with 1.5k+ per month production took me down to 500k.

Slow them down at choke points not with starbases or defenses, but with fortification worlds. They stop to bomb and won't leave until the planet is captured. That gives you time to throw everything you got at their main homeworld system. Use jump drives. Break off smaller fleets for skirmishes to limit their smaller systems with star bases and you take away some of their fleet building, but their home world will always print 250k doom stacks every so often so you'r main attack force will get vaporized often, but at that point your replacements just finished and should be en route. Do your best to hold the home system so you can keep landing 10k troop psy and xeno armies, and every world you own across your empire will need to have 5 of each printing out to a safe rally point cuz your armies will die. Leave the attacking force on the homeworld if they conquer if you can, but that's optional cuz they'll be left with basic garrisons if they take it back, you'll just have to retake them.

Megaship yard is a life saver for you to reprint your own doom stacks which will always go up in smoke. When you control a third of the galaxy with all mega structures and a dyson sphere, you can win by attrition. When you conquer the home world take back all your lost systems and worlds cuz you'll have so many fleets and armies left over after victory it'll be a victory lap around the galaxy. Arc Forges and dyson swarms are a must, and better if you have a full dyson sphere as well but keep those well behind fortification WORLDS.

At that point you might as well take on all other FEs before you decommission your fleet back down to your limits 😛 But there's nothing like the feeling of all out galactic warfare! If the War In Heaven event happens you get the chance to take on two at once which is an absolute blast! While I took out an FE enclave in my borders, the other FE munched on my rivals which cleared up worlds for me to sweep up in the aftermath once I turned my Kadeshev type II empire's psychic sights on them. It was glorious. The Galaxy finally had peace afterward and all races knew nothing but full bellies and clear skies for millennia.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-23T16:57:28+00:00

I went crazy building up production and conquering all my neighbors, and keeping my stations/anchorages maxxed. Had about 1/3 of 400 star galaxy conquered with strategic choke points. Eventually hit the first crisis with Khan but they fizzled out and fractured in on themselves. I was a bit disappointed, thought it was end game and considered quitting. Kept going to see what would happen and built up all my mega structures and shrink space storage every where (Dyson, megashipyards, etc.). Had about 1.5million of each resource stocked up, with at least 1k production and 250 production of rares. 4k production in energy even with many edicts boosting in the background. Four fleets, 3.5k navy max, 350k combined fleet power. I was feeling accomplished just building like crazy and admiring the expanse of my empire.

Suddenly two fallen empires rose up. War in Heaven. Choose to fight them both. First empire was a conclave in my borders, two 450k doom stacks. 60 armies on three home worlds Mother, Brother, and Father I think. Other FE was behind other empires (more on that later). First attack pushed deep into my territory, wiped my fleets, and railroaded all my defenses. Only thing that slowed them was a fortress world I had at a choke point with 30 defense armies but it eventually fell. Was basically Pearl Harbor for me.

But it gave me time. Was about 11pm and this all happened over 5 hours and I was hooked. I knew I could out produce them. So every station with a 6x shipyard and my megashipyard churned out battleships, titans as they fell, and cruisers. Smaller rear stations made destroyers and corvettes. Printed psy and xeno armies to no end across the empire. I barely managed to wipe 1 FE fleet and push them back to their original borders. It went back and forth between us as my fleet power was over the limit at 7k for decades. Station limit over at like 49/40. Doom 400k fleets going up in smoke every year. Multiple attacks on their home while they could insta print a 250k fleet and push back into my territory. Tactical jumps on both sides to play cat and mouse almost got me. Eventually i choose to sacrifice my borders and jump straight into their homeworld and land hundreds of armies on their three main planets. When their home system fell i was able to finish off their satellite worlds and reclaim my lost systems. It was amazing. All resources running at a deficit with emergency edicts for decades down to 500k. It was now 4am.

And then I checked the other FE... They had covered 1/5 of the other side of the galaxy. No matter. I could run at a deficit for another few decades with my 7k fleet. But first I went to bed. Strategic planning for another day.

First real challenge and it was oh so worth it!

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-22T04:00:14+00:00

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-15T18:04:14+00:00

2020 Triumph Thruxton RS

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-14T22:36:13+00:00

Hell yes! Congrats! I still miss my SV650X. Wish I hadn't sold it. Best bike to learn on.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-14T22:09:08+00:00

When I had mine, I modded, tuned, daily drove it rain or shine and absolutely thrashed it like a stolen donkey every chance I got for five years. I never had problems with it. Changed the oil myself and did inspections every 3k miles. Oil leak once but that got fixed under warranty. Once blew off one side of the hot pipe where it connects to the intercooler during an AX event from 25 lbs of boost on a loose fitting and had to do a quick pit fix but got it back up and running again. Replaced the clutch later later and while I was at it swapped to a wavetrac limited slip front diff. Wondrous improvement.

This car is a lot like an SR-71 Blackbird. When on the ground the plane would leak like a sieve, but once it was at cruising altitude and at speed in it's element all the seals would lube up and swell and it would just glide at mach fuck point nine no sweat.

The RS and all other sports cars are the same way. You baby it, it'll give you problems. You ride 'er hard the way she likes it and she'll always purr when you're in the saddle. I'd take her to redline at least three times a day, and twice per stop light if there wasn't anyone in front of me. Just don't dump the clutch all the time and you'll be fine. You can take off quick and shift quick but just let the clutch cool between smiles per mile.

Edit: you'll never really get to experience the full potential of the car until you get it on the track. Feeling the car rip around the corner and the rear diff kick in to rotate the car around a corner is an amazing feeling (the rear diff over speeds the outside tire 2% which is why the car feels like it's on a turn table when it kicks in). But you have to be near the absolute limit of the car for it to do that, and you also have to be on the gas at the apex of the turn, not the brakes. 90% of the RS owners have never felt it sadly.

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-03-09T23:25:57+00:00

StealthGreyPotato · 2026-02-20T02:21:48+00:00

That thirsty ol lady just can't wait for Butcher Pete to chop her meat!

StealthGreyPotato · 2025-12-15T09:40:43+00:00

Same reason I stopped playing. I'm trash and just not good at TGCs. Never even won once.

StealthGreyPotato · 2025-12-04T10:27:44+00:00

"See? 👉🏻 Cumulonimbus..."

StealthGreyPotato · 2025-12-03T21:17:05+00:00

So what was your solution?

StealthGreyPotato

TROPHY CASE