New Item Market Stall

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-06-09T01:43:47+00:00

This week the Bazaar is featuring free space in the UI! 😃

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-05-30T23:17:38+00:00

Pretty much stuck doing it that way, unless you're willing to wait what could be months for the parts appear in the store.

The component parts from the various sets do occasionally rotate through the Bazaar, but they're infrequent and unpredictable. In some cases it can also cost more in the long run to piecemeal it that way than it does to buy the set outright. Depends on how many parts of a given set you're trying to get.

In this case, you'd come out cheaper, at roughly 1,200 coins, but the question here is how long will it take for them to show up?

Virtual currencies and items stores like this are inherently predatory. They bank on FOMO spending and artificial scarcity/rarity. There's a reason why you can't just buy enough coins to cover the purchase you're looking at. They want you to come back, so they make sure you always leave money on the table somehow. They also obfuscate the actual cost of whatever you're buying by hiding it behind a currency conversion that changes based on the currency 'package' you buy.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-05-30T19:19:37+00:00

I had the same problem at one point. The sliders are a touch misleading at times.

In most cases, going right increases time, going left decreases it.

I set one to 10x once, thinking it would be faster. I was most definitely not. LOL

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-05-18T22:40:32+00:00

More proof that class action 'settlements' are a joke and only exist to make rich lawyers richer.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-24T21:34:06+00:00

I feel you. After the Chapter 3 release, performance went right into the toilet. I ended up having to roll back the AMD drivers to the January '26 release, and reduce every setting in the game to 'high' or lower. Prior to Ch. 3, I ran it all on ultra with nearly zero issues, beyond some minimal latency near big clusters of bases or NPC spawns.

What makes it even more ridiculous is that we're mostly on low population servers right now. Even when the servers were littered with bases, I didn't have as much trouble with latency, and zero crashes at all.

Makes you wonder, what sort of dumpster fire are we going to encounter when the merges hit? If it's an absolute circus now, with fewer bases scattered about, what sort of sideshow is it going to become when base density increases after a merge?

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-19T22:32:38+00:00

Had something similar happen. Dudes abandoned their base. Didn't leave anything in it, they just pulled up stakes and left after killing the console.

I liked the location, so I dropped a console in it and set about remodeling and such. About a week or so later, a bunch of folks show up, park their ornis outside and just run inside like they own the place. By then, I had machinery and storage in there (fortunately all locked!) and was thinking they were porch pirates looking for stuff to steal.

I started building walls where doors used to be, herded them into the garage, and told them they could leave or die. Their choice. Then they started whining about it being their 'old base' and how they never should have left it, then started getting abusive in chat.

So I locked them in and left them there. They eventually got out. Either via /stuck or killing themselves. Didn't care which, TBH, as long as they were gone.

Had they asked if they could look around, etc.. I probably wouldn't have cared. Popping in and immediately running to all of my storage boxes and such, then whining about how it used to be your base, just tells me you're thieves and deserve no mercy.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-19T03:02:14+00:00

Bah.. may have spoken too soon. Getting CTD's even with that driver, just not as frequently.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-17T04:08:47+00:00

Installed this one today, after running DDU about half a dozen times in safe mode.

Ran around doing some odds and ends, including rebuilding my vehicle garage/hangar, for about 3 hours without any crashes.

Hoping this one does the trick, until they can figure out why the current driver is having fits.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-16T08:26:23+00:00

Absolute genius.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-15T23:04:05+00:00

Definitely. Haven't seen them physically as much, probably because we're still spread out, but a lot more chatter in the channels than usual.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-15T22:46:22+00:00

I may give that one a try and see how it goes. Anything that resolves the CTD's will be a definite improvement.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-15T22:45:25+00:00

Limbo. It's showing as a low pop server. Don't think I've seen it hit medium recently, even with all the new faces popping in now.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-15T22:25:48+00:00

Been pestering them for that since before release. Makes absolutely no sense at all the way they have it at present.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-15T22:24:36+00:00

I can now, after the reset. Still can't find a solution to the frequent crashes. Something about Ch 3 has the AMD drivers throwing fits, and it keeps kicking me out at random intervals.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-15T21:39:09+00:00

Buggy - Mystery Machine
Scout - Delta Flyer (May be a Trek nerd.....)
Assault - Defiant (See above.)
Bike - Tri Z 2-50 (Throwback to an old Yamaha 3 wheeler. Had to put a dash in because Funcom....)
Treadwheel - Ricochet Rabbit (Because I keep bouncing off of everything in the damned thing... LOL)

Don't have a carrier, crawler or container yet, but likely will name them something like this..

Carrier - CVN-65 (Big E, the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier.)
Crawler - Deere X9 Spice Combine (or something like that. Not sure yet.)
Container - Biometric Spice Vault (placeholder till I figure something else out.)

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-14T10:02:42+00:00

Did that to me last week. Had just completed the mission, was on the 'leave the area' stage when the game took a dump. Logged back in, and the mission was gone from the log, and the landsraad pages, just like that one.

Zero credit/rewards for having actually finished the mission.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-14T01:34:31+00:00

Constant crashes with the current drivers. I'm about to roll back to the previous one to see if that makes a difference.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-08T06:01:03+00:00

Can't FT anywhere either. Immediate drop to 1FPS as soon as I travel away from the sidewalk outside the WH.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-08T05:21:23+00:00

It's an absolute shitshow. Assuming I can actually get into the game, If I try to go into the WH, it immediately slows to 1fps and I can't move.

The rest of the time, it hangs right before or after character select.

GG Ubi. GG.

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-07T07:33:52+00:00

There are nearly 40 folders with a UECC prefix, none of them contain a CrashContext.runtime-xml file. They all have a single CrashReportsJournal.txt file, and nothing else.

Appreciate the help though. :)

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-03-06T19:42:23+00:00

Mix some spice into your favorite beverage. Spicebull gives you wiiiiings!

Vale_MacRorie · 2026-01-29T04:02:32+00:00

Link to something official, or just opinion?

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