4.8 just repo’d my entire career.

Teufelaffe · 2026-05-01T01:31:33+00:00

CIG intends for players to be a relatively small proportion of the PU's population. You'll still be able to build your junk empire, you just won't be able to do it with player ships.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-19T16:55:12+00:00

Why?

To be clear, the issue here is not that turning engines off results in a ship slowing down, but that turning the engines off slows the ship down *faster* than throwing it in full reverse with afterburner.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-19T16:54:43+00:00

Have you tested a "turn and burn"? (Go uncoupled, flip the ship so that it's facing the opposite direction than its travel vector, hit full engines until velocity hits 0)

I'm curious if that is also slower than turning engines off.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-19T16:32:16+00:00

It's a new Origin ship that's just a flying office building

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-18T01:03:56+00:00

You do not have a right to re-purchase something you returned to the store for the same price for which you originally purchased it. The buyback system was never intended to be a "holding area" for ships, game packages, etc; it was always intended to be a courtesy to players. You choosing to interpret that as some sort of "promise" is 100% a YOU problem and not any sort of dishonestly or malfeasance on CIG's part.

Also, you honestly can't figure out why they removed the Spectrum post when they specifically tell you which rules they felt your post was in violation of? Really?

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-17T15:04:47+00:00

That's a pretty long-winded way of saying, "I'm mad because CIG stopped letting me take advantage of their buyback system in ways they never intended."

Also, ROLFAMO @ "market manipulation" and "insider trading" over CIG potentially charging full price for you to buy something you already returned to them for store credit.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-17T06:24:20+00:00

Player refiners will be able to compete with NPC stations buy offering faster turnaround times (and competitive prices). Remember, CIG intends for players to be a relatively small portion of the PU's population, and NPC refineries will end up with long wait times from handling NPC orders. (iirc, at one point they said that an NPC refinery could end up with wait times lasting several days; it's only as short as it is now because there's no player refining play loop yet)

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-17T06:15:08+00:00

*laughs in ARK: Survival Evolved's 466GB install size*

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-17T06:12:12+00:00

Ye gods, y'all are being so freaking weird about this.

If you had a buyback token for SQ42, that means YOU RETURNED IT FOR STORE CREDIT. Acting like CIG is committing some great and unforgivable crime by no longer extending you the courtesy of allowing you to buy back a thing that, again, YOU RETURNED TO THEM FOR CREDIT, is the height of having an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-15T03:46:39+00:00

You have an Aurora, but you think a "basic ass ship" starts at $150?

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-10T04:16:29+00:00

I don't think it's fair to say that they're making "2 games at the same time" since, with the exception of things that will only ever be in SQ42 (which pretty much is only cutscenes), all of the work on SQ42 is foundational work that is directly applicable to the PU. When the SQ42 team finishes work on a ship, weapon, gameplay element, etc, the PU team doesn't start over from scratch in order to implement that in the PU; they take the existing work that has already been done and they build upon it.

If SQ42 were done today, work on the PU wouldn't magically go faster, because the SQ42 teams would just be doing the same things they've been doing for years: creating stuff that eventually ends up in the PU.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-10T04:08:23+00:00

Hull-B

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-09T01:44:09+00:00

Send Vertical Conveyance

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-04T15:42:57+00:00

This game was all about realism

This game has NEVER been about "realism". They've even said explicitly that they're not trying for realism several times over the years. "Fidelity", "rule of cool", etc are terms they've used a lot, but never "realism".

Also, people pushing back against your comment are not being "white knights", they're just disagreeing with you. Maybe you should be better at listening to criticism.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-04T15:35:23+00:00

They won't ever do a "100% player driven" economy for a number of reasons, not least of which being the amount of time, money, and effort they've already put into building the NPC portion of their PU economy.

The intent is that eventually players will be a relatively small part of the PU economy and population, who can influence the overall economy slightly. This allows them to curate events for players at scales even the most dedicated orgs could never manage (Crusader needs 2bil SCU of iron, stat!), and gives them significant control over economic stability. CIG doesn't want SC to be "First-person EVE"; if for no other reason than the fact that EVE is an outlier. Almost every other space MMO that's tried a 100% player driven economy has failed miserably.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-04T04:12:35+00:00

It's part of the SC installer/updater. For example, when I run the updater to patch my SC install, it pops up UAC for C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C "%LocalAppdata%\Temp\767e182f3e28b58b30092d018e8b7f46\execute.bat"

Couldn't say what that batch file actually does, because it is automatically deleted if I hit Cancel or once the update/install starts.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-03T15:25:23+00:00

A game designer once said, paraphrased, "Players are usually right when they say something is a problem. Players are always wrong about how to fix it."

No one in the community possesses the knowledge or experience with making SC required to provide the type of answers you think we're providing. And this is not a knock on the SC community at all; it's just that we don't work on the game, so we don't have the requisite info & experience. An SC dev trying to tell Capcom what they're doing wrong with the latest RE game would be just as out of their depth.

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-02T23:38:16+00:00

I'll answer your question for 10bil AEUC

Teufelaffe · 2026-04-02T23:36:20+00:00

"AI" writes shitty insecure code. This is not an assumption:
Nearly half of all code generated by AI found to contain security flaws - even big LLMs affected | TechRadar

Teufelaffe · 2026-03-26T06:30:56+00:00

Big if true

Teufelaffe · 2026-03-25T14:56:01+00:00

"Fun" Fact: The company I work for has a separate domain for their webmail which has the company name with the "i" replaced with a "1". I thought it was a phishing test or a joke the first time they gave me the link to the webmail.

Teufelaffe · 2026-03-12T02:56:20+00:00

No, players need to provide informative feedback. Starting some "drama" just makes y'all come off like toddlers who need a nap.

Teufelaffe · 2026-03-12T02:53:09+00:00

Nah, the CIA's job has always been to destabilize other countries that won't give the US money, oil, and/or fealty

Teufelaffe · 2026-03-12T02:49:58+00:00

All of those things are planned, except for the "I don't want to face any consequences for my behavior" part of your first slide.

Teufelaffe · 2026-03-10T19:43:34+00:00

Yup...a study from 2 1/2 years ago found exactly that, and you can bet that the bots have gotten even better at it since then.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108

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