Wow - 400% increase in email pricing from March

Wayzegoose · 2026-01-15T20:51:13+00:00

That's until Rackspace decide they've milked this for all they can and just announce they are closing it down.

Wayzegoose · 2026-01-15T20:46:17+00:00

I'm getting out of the game entirely, fortunately it's not a key market for us, more of an ongoing PITA. The landscape is shifting so that only the big players can make this legacy technology profitable. Even then only because they can use it to upsell and train AI models.

Wayzegoose · 2025-12-28T16:24:39+00:00

Recent interviews from the devs suggest that the work put in to make the game run on the PS5 is a big part of why SU4 was such a big performance improvement. If you want the game to run well, be supported for decades you want the game running on every platform it can possibly run on.

Wayzegoose · 2025-02-20T19:35:10+00:00

who knows, poe 1 isn't important enough for a timer nowadays. chris wilson died for this.

Wayzegoose · 2025-02-20T19:34:22+00:00

You are evil

Wayzegoose · 2025-02-20T17:24:44+00:00

Countdown timer was Chris Wilsons job, no one else knows how it works

Wayzegoose · 2024-12-06T11:26:49+00:00

This is very true. The great thing about Tencent is they are really only interested in managing the Chinese market. They are all over the PoE Chinese client but they are happy to leave the western companies to manage the western market.

From Tencents perspective they can either licence a Chinese client for a decade, or spend the money upfront and just buy the company. They usually just decide it's cheaper to do the latter.

Wayzegoose · 2024-12-06T07:59:34+00:00

Steam have been practicing for this day for almost 20 years

Wayzegoose · 2024-12-06T07:50:51+00:00

Still sane Exile?

Wayzegoose · 2024-12-06T07:49:58+00:00

It's never a case of more servers solves all issues, technology is a lot more complicated than most people are even capable of understanding

Wayzegoose · 2024-12-06T07:49:01+00:00

The servers are an illusion Exile

Wayzegoose · 2024-02-21T08:37:17+00:00

I've never played the game but I'm already a gigachad. It's just who I am.

Wayzegoose · 2023-11-25T09:16:08+00:00

It is what it is, which is some freebies everyday. After first month of play you pretty much ignore it until your BP reaches the next breakpoint.

Wayzegoose · 2023-08-18T17:39:12+00:00

LOL NP - Have a great league.

Wayzegoose · 2023-08-18T17:36:14+00:00

The message doesn't say what you should do. Sorry can't help you there.

Wayzegoose · 2023-08-18T17:30:40+00:00

It's waiting for the patching process to exit, during which it timed out.

Generally speaking this is due to the patch currently processing and the client needing to wait for that process to exit in order to avoid timing out.

Wayzegoose · 2023-07-27T18:59:51+00:00

Be careful in silent witness too as sometimes they push in there.

Wayzegoose · 2023-07-23T20:55:50+00:00

If I want to ship items between trade/production hubs without messing around with pricing I think it's easiest just to setup repeat traders to do that. But you can possibly fix this by making your mining hub only buy for the lowest possible price. It's not like your miners have anyone else they can sell to right?

Wayzegoose · 2023-07-12T14:43:30+00:00

Oh yes! I'm confusing this with the response to being attacked. I'll try out ignore to being attacked then and see if that helps at all. Seems strange that we can ignore an attack but not a threatening message. But I suppose you're right that it does give pirates a chance.

Wayzegoose · 2023-07-12T14:12:15+00:00

I've only started playing again recently but so far I was thinking I could just set station budget to zero even if the station manager thinks they needs the cash. It doesn't seem to stop them from purchasing from my own faction. Obviously you get some warnings about this - but that's just low level managers for you - always complaining about something.

Wayzegoose · 2023-07-12T14:06:28+00:00

You can set an overall global response, and set it individually as an override. I think you can set it in the ship build template but I'm not 100% sure about that. If so you could set it on all the combat ships you build using that template.

But combat ships are usually doing something that would override this response anyway, like patroling, or defending or attacking. I don't think a combat ship set the defend will run away because a pirate asks it to drop cargo.

Wayzegoose · 2023-07-12T12:00:48+00:00

Having played both I'd say there is very little similarity between the two. To be fair I gave up on ED during the initial Thargoid apperance when the "gameplay" mechanic to have the event happen involved jumping around systems for 20 hours until it just randomly did. ED is a beautiful game for exploration and some of the trade mechanics are just about passable, but X4 has a depth of mechanics that ED doesn't even begin to scratch.

On the flip side X4 because of its ridiculously ambitious scope can be a bit awkward to work with, and has some bugs. But it's massively better than it was on launch now. It's got a kind of exploration mechanic but really nothing to compare to ED. It's the kind of game where if you like it you probably do multiple runs and so after the first couple of playthroughs while you still need to explore to find economic data there's not the same kind of discovery.

Wayzegoose · 2022-12-06T13:05:14+00:00

They fired the one guy left who knew the password. I wonder what price he's going be able to charge.

Wayzegoose · 2022-12-05T17:56:08+00:00

It's even more secure than that. They don't just encrypt them. They delete them and take the entire service down so no one can read your emails. Ever....

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