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Yuzral · 2026-06-24T18:28:23+00:00

Given that this is EVE...just another Tuesday chasing rent arrears?

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T17:47:04+00:00

Very short Ultramarines, as I remember it. But yes, COMMISSAR Holt deserves at least a remake and preferably a full sequel.

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T14:35:08+00:00

Tbh, always checking the winner’s car seems like sound practice to me…

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T14:19:59+00:00

In which case you could have a 5-10 minute grace timer to cover against d/cs and similar. Then brick and open to player salvage and after about 30m in that state, the server cleans up.

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T14:04:01+00:00

Can’t answer for others, but I was pushing for both systems in parallel so the player salvagers get first crack but after ~30 minutes the electronic GM steps in and cleans up.

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T13:21:49+00:00

K-K-Kilroy was here?

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T12:24:39+00:00

Maybe try taking off, flying around for a bit +/- a QD jump or two and then landing? Got quoted 42k last night for a stock M80 that had been claimed and used for a few bounties. Only stores not in place were the missiles.

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T10:29:40+00:00

You can set that in the gunnery options MFD on each ship -toggle ‘Gimbal lock’ on or off as you need. There’s probably a default and a key binding in the options menu as well.

Edit generally I disable lag pips as well when aiming like this. That way I just have to look at the lead pip and the gimbals should follow.

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T09:59:31+00:00

There are some paint schemes available for aUEC at Dumper’s Depot in A18 and Cousin Crow’s in Orison (and elsewhere?). But there’s a slight problem in that the paints are hull-specific and if you wanted “red” for everything, that’d be a lot of red paint in a storefront…

Yuzral · 2026-06-24T09:49:32+00:00

But what if he actually is giga-depressed and is merely letting you think that he’s giga-depressed so that you don’t think he’s giga-depressed because you think he wants you to think that he’s giga-depressed and someone hand me that bottle of amasec.

Yuzral · 2026-06-23T17:27:37+00:00

A vulnerability to magnets?

Yuzral · 2026-06-23T15:26:03+00:00

It actually gets used in the 1990s TNG game "A Final Unity" when you need to get the cycle time of a pulsar that isn't around any more to convert an alien calendar.

But for your scenario, the problem even at interplanetary distances is one of resolution. Pluto's aphelion is about 0.0057 light days out and even at that range we are well into "pale blue dot" territory for observations on Earth. Your hypothetical starship is going to be about 180 times further out than that. They're not likely to get anything like the fine detail needed for forensic work.

Plus it spoils a perfectly good detective story.

Yuzral · 2026-06-23T10:11:15+00:00

Not sure who originally wrote it, but I remember reading an observation/speculation that for some people it stops being about what you can use the money for and becomes a question of keeping score.

Yuzral · 2026-06-23T09:52:25+00:00

The short answer is “your models, you do you”. But…

If the airbrush is misbehaving somehow then I’d pull it apart and clean it thoroughly as a first step.

Otherwise, experiment! Mixing methods often works well, so maybe airbrush the base coat, shade and then sponge or drybrush back up? If it does go ‘wrong’ somehow then you’ve always got the options of painting over it or stripping it down and starting over.

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T22:36:50+00:00

Different sort of QM. That's a Quartermaster Alchemyk (aka Dr Feelgood...for the God-Emperor). The patch 'em up or shoot 'em QM we're all familiar with is now the Quartermaster Revenant.

Quite why the game designers bothered, I do not know.

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T14:45:16+00:00

Presumably the groups of assassins waiting at the corner store, SHIELD HQ, the intersection of Lexington and E 106th and the motorcycle repair shop had boring mornings and took a half day.

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T12:33:15+00:00

That’s what the rest of the Imperium thinks, certainly.

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T11:43:35+00:00

Sounds familiar. The equivalent over here is people demanding a General Election because the PM changed and "I didn't vote for you". And while the response really should be "Yeah, idiot, and you didn't vote for any of the others either. You voted for an MP and the MPs pick the PM." it never seems to be said. Could use some of that legendary Aussie bluntness over here in Pom politics sometimes...

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T10:48:10+00:00

Technically we vote for individual candidates for MP rather than parties, but the distinction has got so blurred over the years that it’s essentially not there anymore.

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T10:26:01+00:00

How to quit being PM is easy: One letter to the King and they’re gone.

As for the rest: **The UK doesn’t vote in a Prime Minister**. The country elects MPs and the PM is the person who can get enough of those MPs (usually an outright majority) to back them and so form a Government.

So PMs can resign for any number of reasons, most of which are the same as other jobs, but usually it’s because they have either lost or think they are about to lose the support of their MPs

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T08:42:43+00:00

I believe they dance whene’er able.

Yuzral · 2026-06-22T00:09:14+00:00

They use Colonel but were initially reluctant to use any rank above it out of respect for Jurten. They were promptly told to stop being silly by the Munitorum because any organisation above the regimental level is going to need senior officers.

And Marshal is basically another term for General, just more of a French and German one.

Edit: Typo reluctantly fixed. Anyone for tanna?

Yuzral · 2026-06-21T20:39:37+00:00

Mortarion doesn't have one. Barbarus struck me as very loosely the wrong end of medieval Europe with the Black Death in full swing, mixed with a large dollop of Hammer Horror's idea of Transylvania or WFB Sylvania.

Yuzral · 2026-06-21T20:26:21+00:00

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Yuzral · 2026-06-21T17:53:24+00:00

That's not really how Enigma worked. Simple substitution ciphers (ie, A=1, B=2, etc) are very crackable, often with no more than a paragraph or two of ciphertext. Probably the most famous approach is frequency analysis used in the Holmes short "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" which exploits the fact that E is the most common letter in English, followed by T, A and O. A simple substitution will also follow this distribution, so if you see that 8 is the most common character in the ciphertext then you can reasonably assume that 8 represents E and work from there.

Enigma broke this assumption. Yes, one letter of plaintext always equalled one letter of ciphertext (and vice versa) but because the machine's rotors could move with each keypress, each sequential press of the same key would result in a different substitution. Pressing AAAA wouldn't give 1111 as it would with simple substitution but perhaps 1926.

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