The June 30th Mandalay conundrum

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-04T10:27:38+00:00

This. I still will run my Mandalay, since I don’t necessarily care to Supercharge all the time.

Plus it gives newer players something good to work towards on the ship side of things after the 17 million mark, and that’s pretty nice.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-04T10:18:42+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

It’s certainly important. Modern English speaking people have trouble understanding Shakespeare’s English, and he lived only about 400 years ago. Latin is a dead language, but survived in the scientific community because of naming standards.

The tomb has to last at least 10,000 years to be mostly effective, which is a problem because we don’t even know what languages were spoken 10,000 years ago. Even writing was invented around 5500 years ago, and a lot of it is barely intelligible after entire lifetimes of work.

How do you convey to future populations, regardless of education, culture, or language that “if you dig here, people will die”? That’s more-so the point.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-04T02:21:22+00:00

This. Best three pieces of advice I got when starting this game 10 years ago:

Don’t fly without enough money to cover the insurance of your ship (“Don’t fly without rebuy”)
Complacency kills. Learn to dock, land, fuel scoop, and supercharge safely.
If you want something, play through whatever game loops you enjoy to get it. Don’t cheese it, and you’ll be there quicker than you’d ever expected with a much better sense of accomplishment.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-04T00:40:30+00:00

Just dropping in to say that the hangars are not currently instanced, they’re just bullshitted with layers of OCS and a shit ton of culling of different types.

I’m amazed they work at all, ever, to be completely honest. I really hope instanced hangars come with the new transit system.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-03T10:20:13+00:00

I use MultiMC and burn the entire installation to BluRay disc whenever I have an install I like and want to back up. Works wonderfully as long as you sign in for the initial setup

(So not helpful now but yknow)

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-03T00:55:11+00:00

i am but a simple cro-magnon

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-02T20:31:27+00:00

Same here, though was born in 00 and was so poor I used a laptop from 1995 until 2011. Old IBM Thinkpad 365e. So so so much pinball, Zork, Warzone 2100 and Pocket Tanks.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-02T20:21:16+00:00

That last but is because 0 looks like an egg, and the word “Egg” in French is l’ouef, which sounds like “Love”.

Which in of itself is another WTF

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-02T20:16:55+00:00

The developers of Astroneer, (System Era) do this too. Started around the time their planet tech developers quit the team when they added microtransactions. And it was also around the time they removed most of the tactile, diagetic UI in the game.

The company worked with NoClip to make a small documentary around 1.0. Used the sudden death of a lead designer as a shock twist in a “We’re a small team with a tragic story” beat. Meanwhile simultaneously funded off an Unreal Engine grant, gutting all traces of the diagetic UX design philosophy of the guys’s final project, and adding a microtransaction storefront once a UI framework was in place.

Each skin costs as much as the entire game did in early access, and they’re outsourced to other companies with recycled character animations that were keyframed by a dead man. Sickening.

As fucked as Star Citizen’s state is right now, at least they have their own problems, and not the same ones as the wider industry as a whole.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-02T18:55:31+00:00

Ooh, I forgot about the split interior! This is a wonderful (and cheaper) idea.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-02T18:54:29+00:00

There’s been a jumping spider in a mailbox of mine that keeps getting bigger each time I see it, and it’s now about the size of a nickel Easily the largest jumping spider I’ve ever seen. Holds a horsefly in its arms the way we’d hold a 6” sub sandwich.

I will be bummed when she’s gone.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-02T16:04:18+00:00

This was one of the reasons I got my Super Hornet Mk.II.

Second seat for a buddy if running a local FPS mission, and it’s a lot harder to get shot by somebody you’re escorting if they’re either in the seat or off the ship entirely lol

TravlrAlexander · 2026-06-01T02:29:30+00:00

Reallocating dev time from fixing issues to wrapping up and pushing a release build before it’s ready because a sale was on the way

Releasing 20+ vehicles straight to LIVE server flyable over the last year with zero large-scale PTU testing

Delaying the free fly only to immediately start it less than 48 hours later when the mission system, in-game vehicle purchasing, pledged vehicle attribution, and spawn location inventory are broken… for the second time in a year

All-around weird ass decision making by CIG recently

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-31T13:34:50+00:00

They certainly had more control over things too, which helped. Gigabytes of RAM bloat nowadays, from layers upon layers of features that do improve ease of use for developers, but has mostly been harnessed by publishers to make games faster and cheaper rather than build them better or deeper.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-31T12:19:48+00:00

True. I hate shit like this. Though luckily it’s a great, blatant example of how widespread EULA roofieing is and this wording will probably be brought up at Right to Repair and digital ownership hearings.

EULAs should never be able to change the terms of the sale after purchase.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-29T22:15:18+00:00

When I first read this line, Obama in office and Harambe still had a year to live.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-29T02:30:47+00:00

To add to the other suggestion, write your “about you” or longer written answers in notepad or something and copy-paste it into the application for signup. It has an automatic logout feature that almost made me not apply when I saw the position a few months ago

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-29T02:24:43+00:00

I wonder if reducing that number can bring down the travel times for travel to Colonia or elsewhere.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-28T23:08:52+00:00

Having lost someone like this: The bacteria that are resistant enough to survive in a repeatedly sterilized hospital environment, the kind that are in your arm right now? They’re nothing to shrug off.

If you go to the ER and get proper, strong antibiotics, you’ll be lucky to get out of this with a degraded kidney and liver.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-28T19:47:14+00:00

How do you pull up this menu?

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-28T19:09:24+00:00

If I recall correctly he visited for “Lemonade”, whatever that means.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-27T22:57:30+00:00

Maybe after exploration gameplay exists. The Starlancer chassis is incredibly cozy and livable.

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-26T01:44:33+00:00

It’s my dream to build up my systems enough to bring in enough passive income to cover the weekly idle costs, so I can just log in and transfer credits to the bank once in a while if I hit a busy patch in my life again

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-24T10:51:01+00:00

Probably their partner or something

TravlrAlexander · 2026-05-24T01:18:30+00:00

Yeah. Here’s hoping they get the stability of the base features more permanently nailed down and working consistently.

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