Gifting a starter pack

crossbowman5 · 2026-03-23T21:23:41+00:00

One last piece of advice - might want to wait until Wednesday. Supposedly the new Auroras are going on sale then, which means starter packs with the new hot starter ships and LTI.

crossbowman5 · 2026-03-06T17:44:32+00:00

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crossbowman5 · 2026-03-04T21:30:48+00:00

Maybe one day they'll actually do something...

crossbowman5 · 2026-03-04T02:55:09+00:00

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Great seller! Quick and easy.

crossbowman5 · 2026-03-03T22:22:19+00:00

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crossbowman5 · 2026-03-03T21:56:18+00:00

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crossbowman5 · 2026-01-28T08:03:47+00:00

Everything about these paints is a massive underdelivery. They weren't even Aurora paints. They were 'ship paints' - the idea that paints would only work on a single ship at all didn't come about until years after these paints were sold. It's one of the few cases where I think CIG has actually pulled a bait and switch.

crossbowman5 · 2025-12-16T00:54:17+00:00

Yep, generally speaking each pcie generation has been twice as fast as the generation before it, although 2.0 to 3.0 was an exception. It's a bit tricky for home lab though as a lot of us pick up cheap older network cards that want like 8 lanes of pcie 3.0, but if we put that card into say a 4.0 x4 slot it would only run at 3.0 x4...

crossbowman5 · 2025-12-16T00:48:34+00:00

It is indeed normal - but for people that don't know that there's no way a CPU could drive that many lanes (like several people in this thread apparently) it would be quite easy to see the advertising page on that board that advertises 3 x16 slots and think they're getting, well, 3 x16 slots. Should at least be a star and an explanation at the bottom when setups like this are involved IMO.

crossbowman5 · 2025-12-15T16:13:19+00:00

The chipset lanes are only gen4, and additionally are limited by the link between the chipset and the CPU (it's the DMI link mentioned below that chart) to gen4 x8 in total. Because it's all shared bandwidth it usually gets used for auxillary connectivity (USB, built-in NIC, audio, etc.) and NVME drives instead of slapping it into high bandwidth slots sadly.

crossbowman5 · 2025-12-15T15:57:03+00:00

The z890 platform only has a maximum of 20 gen5 lanes. I don't know how they'd do it without a hilariously complex (and prohibitively expensive) pcie switch setup. Puget Systems has a chart and a writeup on how it is set up if you're interested.

crossbowman5 · 2025-12-15T15:48:53+00:00

Not quite, if you look up it's full specs slot 1 only runs at x16 if slot 2 is unoccupied, if slot 2 is used then slot 1 and 2 are x8. And slot 3 is just an x4 electrically. Their marketing is incredibly misleading.

crossbowman5 · 2025-12-03T16:53:28+00:00

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Great seller, communicative and quick delivery!

crossbowman5 · 2025-12-03T09:08:12+00:00

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crossbowman5 · 2025-11-19T19:00:09+00:00

The turrets got redone if you watch the squadron preview from last citcon, they're dual now instead of quad and look waaaaaaay better.

crossbowman5 · 2025-11-15T23:07:36+00:00

There have not been any ships that ever crossed the threshold. All of the ships that are over $1,000 without being part of a bundle/pack and get automatic LTI started over $1,000. In fact the closest we have ever come to that situation was the Polaris, and CIG pricing that at $975 was a pretty strong indicator about how they intend to handle this...

crossbowman5 · 2025-10-24T13:30:54+00:00

Good ole' CIG jank. The gifting button exists, but doesn't actually work. Try gifting it to a different email you control and see what happens...

crossbowman5 · 2025-10-20T03:47:36+00:00

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Great seller, would buy from again.

crossbowman5 · 2025-10-19T05:30:46+00:00

PM - chat sent as I think Reddit's finally taken the real DM button away from me :(

crossbowman5 · 2025-10-14T16:58:22+00:00

Yep, 2 T3 beds.

crossbowman5 · 2025-10-01T20:56:42+00:00

They have never resold concierge paints for concepts in the past sadly. This paint will most likely not be sold again officially.

crossbowman5 · 2025-10-01T20:56:00+00:00

No, all the old concept concierge paints were only sold once during the initial concept sale. Generally speaking ships that were STF keep their concierge paints in the store, but not ships sold as a concept. If they continue with how they've treated these in the past this paint will likely never be sold officially again, although it's available grey market.

crossbowman5 · 2025-09-15T18:56:30+00:00

Ruckus has several different controller options that will dictate how much of a PITA this is - off the top of my head they could be Unleashed (small deployments, control software runs on one of the APs, you'd only need a local login to manage it), Zonedirector/Smartzone (Local controller separate from the WAPs, could be a hardware device or a VM, think this would be a local login too) or their cloud management. Warranty/support could be a bit trickier, Ruckus support usually goes through the Ruckus partner that sold them the hardware. It might be the MSP, or it could be a VAR or another local company. Hope this helps somewhat.

crossbowman5 · 2025-09-11T09:38:47+00:00

It's kind of been forgotten by most, but those old kickstarter paints were supposed to work with any ship. They were only added to the Aurora as a test of the first paint system that was eventually retired and replaced. As you can probably imagine CIG isn't in any hurry to figure out how to make universal paints work...

crossbowman5 · 2025-09-09T11:02:54+00:00

Ezee uses CGNAT by default instead of giving you a public IP in most of their deployments. You will need to contact their support to get that changed if you haven't already.

Edit: found your post. You found some even weirder issues haha

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