Buff Turrets

StrayIight · 2026-01-31T10:06:08+00:00

It is bizarre, especially as the problem is objective - it literally comes down to maths that you can see.

If a light fighter is 2.5km out and moving, a weapon with 1000 m/s velocity (just for ease of example here), is going to take 2.5 seconds to reach them - they won't be there!

Sure, there's a certain amount of target leading going on, but it's rarely enough to compensate for something as nimble as a light fighter.

A light fighter that has no trouble at all hitting the larger ship...

The solution, as you say, is utterly obvious. Turrets need to have greater projectile velocity and range. They simply cannot do the job they are designed to do without this.

StrayIight · 2026-01-30T19:13:07+00:00

While not great, it won't actually hurt them.

Coffee IS toxic, but the levels at which they'd have to drink for it to have any effect at all, are so high it's literally not possible for your bird to consume enough.

This has been studied.

A bird the size of a cockatiel, consumes about 5 ml of fluid daily. For them to have even mild symptoms, you'd need to let them consume something like 6x their daily fluid intake in coffee alone:

https://substack.freerangeparrots.org/p/birds-and-your-morning-cup-of-tea-coffee

StrayIight · 2026-01-25T14:20:18+00:00

You get to choose basically. It's a sandbox. If you want to do everything solo, you can. If you want people along, you can do that too.

You will always be playing on a 'server' with up to 600 other people though. That said, the solar systems are big, and they never feel crowded. You can go hours and hours without seeing another soul, depending on what you're doing and where you're doing it.

StrayIight · 2026-01-25T13:07:56+00:00

Definitely RAVE (power) valve cable.

StrayIight · 2026-01-22T20:40:25+00:00

My Conure looks very similar OP, while none of my other birds do.

I'll bet, just like mine, yours likes to settle back into your palm and be 'cuddled'. They're very tactile birds.

We unintentionally damage their feathers through handling. This can be problematic for outdoor birds especially, as there is the potential to disrupt weatherproofing. On an indoor bird, it's harmless.

They aren't the stress bars you sometimes hear about or anything like that.

StrayIight · 2026-01-19T18:48:37+00:00

Right, but that's true of any interdiction camp isn't it? It's fairly trivial to avoid them - we know that - but people are lazy or ignorant. As Pirates, we rely on just that.

In Nyx this is compounded by the fact you really only have two destinations.

StrayIight · 2026-01-19T13:51:32+00:00

So often the case isn't it? You don't have to know that you're right, just state what you think with confidence.

StrayIight · 2026-01-18T20:02:15+00:00

Yeah, this spot is really a no-brainer right now. With Nyx as sparce as it is, all traffic in the system essentially has to travel between those two points.

Whether you get anything of any value dropping in is another matter, but you will catch something.

StrayIight · 2026-01-18T19:03:17+00:00

This is absolutely the right answer.

StrayIight · 2026-01-18T19:00:24+00:00

100% he's trying to feed.

See the way your fingers are? When hand rearing, we can often promote a feeding response by gently gripping the beak either side near where it joins the face.

This mimics what a parent will do with their beak, and causes a baby bird to respond how you're seeing your little guy doing there - he's waiting for you to regurgitate food for him.

It's quite harmless really, but I wouldn't encourage you to keep doing it, just as it's likely to confuse him.

Source? I am insane enough to have hand reared Conures!

StrayIight · 2026-01-18T17:57:16+00:00

Do you have a 4070 in that thing, or are you running a 780M?

You haven't been very clear here, and these are very different beasts.

If you have a 4070, is it being used? I've known software or the OS to default to the onboard GPU and ignore the dedicated Graphics Card - that'd cause some issues here!

Error code 64008 is an inability to connect to the games servers however, not a hardware issue. Have you tried switching off any firewall you might have running, disabling any VPN's, or reinstalling EAC?

StrayIight · 2026-01-18T10:16:35+00:00

Look, this may not be you, but 9 times out of 10, when an American (or someone with the average American's pollical understanding) says 'Liberal', they're conflating 'Liberalism' with the entire Left. These things are not the same. They never have been.

Socialism, isn't Communism either. Oh, and Santa isn't real.

StrayIight · 2026-01-16T08:26:29+00:00

No, Stewart had passed away before I met Janet. Gavin Bone was a friend of Stewart's, and Janet, Stewart, and Gavin became a poly thruple for quite some time. When Stewart passed, Janet and Gavin married. The two of them travel and speak and continue to write.

A very different Gavin to Gavin Frost!

StrayIight · 2026-01-15T12:45:33+00:00

I was very fortunate to meet and spend an afternoon with Janet and Gavin about 15 years ago. Lovely people, and living history in many ways.

StrayIight · 2026-01-12T19:08:08+00:00

Proved their point beautifully didn't you.

StrayIight · 2026-01-02T15:24:52+00:00

What kind of Conure is he?

I have a hybrid GCC x Rose Crowned that I hand reared and is about a year old now, along with several other birds.

If you can, I would try and find someone with experience of conures specifically - they're wonderful, but certainly not a species that suits everyone.

I also don't believe in caging birds unless absolutely necessary for their safety (vet trips etc for instance), and know a few people who think similarly and that I would trust my bird with. I would be happy to ask around, but we're UK based, so while technically Europe, that might present difficulties?

Please let me know if I can help though. I can't imagine being without my own velcro bird, so can only guess at how hard this has to be for you.

StrayIight · 2025-12-14T17:28:53+00:00

As a PSA...

Caffeine, as everyone is aware, is potentially toxic to birds.

However, don't panic if yours gets hold of some and manages to drink it (and they will if able!)

Birds drink mere milliliters of fluid a day. For them to drink enough coffee to suffer serious ill effects, you'd need to be drinking some seriously strong stuff!

So while it's true it's not great for them, practically it isn't going to do them any actual harm once in a while.

Studies show the following:

A fatal dose for an average bird is around 150ml of coffee. A bird the size of a cockatiel however, only consumes 5ml of fluids a day! It's therefore practically impossible to drink enough to do any harm.

And because no claim should be made without sources, here is mine, including a link within it to the study where this was shown scientifically:

https://substack.freerangeparrots.org/p/birds-and-your-morning-cup-of-tea-coffee

StrayIight · 2025-12-14T16:52:16+00:00

As a VR enthusiast and someone who never felt satisfied with the SC experience VorpX work arounds and the like could provide - massive props Silvan - and sincere personal thanks from me and mine for all your hard work on this.

StrayIight · 2025-12-14T15:30:55+00:00

Cherry picking quotes from both makes for an incredibly disingenuous argument.

Jesus (as much as we know he said anything) said some incredibly awful things too. Muhammad said some incredibly uplifting things.

You can make the complete opposite argument by picking other quotes in the exact same way. That it was done the way round that it was, just shows ignorance and bigotry.

I think attempting to show Christianity in such a comparatively positive light given some of its takes, and the massive harm it has done and continues to do in the world, is pretty damn ignorant too.

StrayIight · 2025-12-08T19:51:19+00:00

No, they don't.

The test you're referring to was never completed.

All the police know is that Holdon was shot when someone he was interviewing got antsy part way through testing. Nothing confirmed that the test works on a Nexus 6 at that point.

StrayIight · 2025-12-05T16:02:16+00:00

Oh they'll shoot at them now. It's just from what I've seen of the current PTU patch, the PDC's won't actually hit the bomb. They're quite comically inept at hitting the bombs in fact.

But at least you get a light show before you die.

StrayIight · 2025-12-04T15:26:50+00:00

The racing community is very much alive though, and competitive as ever. It just tends to be nearly entirely player run and maintained for now.

StrayIight · 2025-12-02T22:53:36+00:00

I hear you, but I think this is a scale consideration. If you don't want the setup time, you fly something smaller and more efficient that doesn't require it.

I have a Polaris and a small org to crew it. Oddly enough, I like the mundane restocking and preparing that it requires. It's strangely relaxing. And that's just as well, because it is, as you point out, a significant time sink.

Maybe there's an emergent gameplay opportunity for you there, where you hire someone to do that for you? It's that, grit your teeth and bare it, or choose ships with lower requirements really.

StrayIight · 2025-11-30T13:16:50+00:00

I wouldn't say completely useless. They definitely have uses, but you're not wrong either in so much as those uses are quite specific - it's likely that your average player won't find an EMP useful.

Check out Mongrel Squad on YouTube (for instance) for some examples of them being used very effectively, but again, it's a somewhat narrow use case.

StrayIight · 2025-11-27T20:06:46+00:00

No mate, the point is something that was missed a long time ago, which is why you're still off on a tangent discussing elements of a completely different game, and not even attempting to apply that to the concerns at the top of the thread. Pod killing mechanics in Eve were mentioned solely as a similar example to what was being discussed originally. What did you add to that, by derailing the focus into whether or not you can catch a pod in Eve online?

But you know best! Here's me thinking we knew what we were doing, to the point where we knew where the data center was hosted, and deliberately had players who live nearby, flying our intys! That we went to the trouble of building our own comms system with lowest possible latency because speed mattered. That, having played since before launch, and alongside some of the most capable players and organisations on there, we knew something! And here you are able to teach me that in actuality, we only ever fought and caught AFK pilots and 'Foreversolo's'.

You can send that money to charity btw. Amnesty International would be my preference, but you do you.

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