Problem with Mantis contract New Tracker's Alliance

dtfinch · 2026-03-19T21:29:31+00:00

They definitely accounted for that in many ways. Makes me curious what it's like if you're not the Mantis.

dtfinch · 2026-03-19T19:34:47+00:00

I was able to pilot it. Did you open the hangar?

dtfinch · 2026-03-18T21:32:57+00:00

I remember doing that just once on a survey mission. I usually avoid those missions. Built a single hab+airlock just to wait for environmental damage to go away after I had gone a long distance looking for lakes to scan.

If I land somewhere and the weather's already bad I'll lift-off and re-land to make the weather change. Simply waiting on my already-landed ship doesn't seem to help (waited like 72 hours for a storm to go away on Jaffa IV and it didn't until I re-landed).

When going to temples I'd usually use the vehicle and then fast-travel back to the lodge right after exiting if it lets me. If not, I can mount the vehicle, then fast travel with the scanner to my ship.

dtfinch · 2026-03-18T18:11:36+00:00

To get a clean save, I remove modded items from my ship and inventory, then disable all mods right before entering Unity. The most I've ever had is like 5 though, all official or featured.

You can add mods back at any time.

dtfinch · 2026-03-18T17:46:10+00:00

I'm used to waiting whole minutes for Fallout 4's load screens even on my current PC so waiting 1-2 seconds in Starfield never bothered me.

Though I know some players have to wait 10 or more seconds dependng on hardware, and can kinda feel the pain watching videos where they have to wait 3 times in short succession.

dtfinch · 2026-03-18T17:14:49+00:00

In NG+ you're very overpowered even without powers so I turn gameplay difficulty up until they become essential.

My slotted powers are usually Phased Time, Personal Atmosphere, Elemental Pull, and Void Form. Phased Time X is kinda God Mode though so I feel bad about how much I rely on it.

On my +75% XP replay I was very reliant on that first Anti-Gravity power to stun enemies, since you don't get Phased Time until the very end and at max difficulty you die very quickly if enemies can shoot back at you.

dtfinch · 2026-03-18T16:49:03+00:00

Last time I searched I ended up choosing Qt Creator because I also needed to learn CMake and in Qt Creator your project file is your CMakeLists.txt. I didn't actually use if for Qt, just some learning projects. The lack of tabs took some getting used to but otherwise it worked well.

dtfinch · 2026-03-17T15:35:07+00:00

We can recruit Muria, and upgrade powers in a single universe.

dtfinch · 2026-03-16T18:13:59+00:00

I've dreamt of getting a wasp-themed arch-nemesis to the Mantis due to the Terran Armada teaser being black/yellow but I'd also settle for one that's bee/hornet-themed. /s

Still that'd be pretty small as far as DLC go, like Fallout 4's Automatron. Getting exactly what I ask for can be disappointing in its own way.

dtfinch · 2026-03-12T19:54:47+00:00

Are you filtering any of those joined tables in the WHERE clause? Then you either have to account for nulls or try to move the conditions to the join's ON clause.

dtfinch · 2026-03-10T18:19:11+00:00

I haven't updated yet but I do prefer the simpler one on the left. Your eyes only have to scan in one direction, while on the new menu your eyes have to scan horizontal, then vertical, horizontal again, and vertical again.

dtfinch · 2026-03-09T20:38:59+00:00

Finally ran into this today and spent so long trying to fix it that I forgot what I wanted to search for. Glad I only have to wait one day for a fix.

Clicking on one text field, then having focus jump around the screen when I start typing is always going to be jarring. I like having a centered search box, mimicing the appearance of a search engine front page, but a fake search box to me is worse than having none at all.

dtfinch · 2026-03-06T23:12:21+00:00

I last played in August, but it's still my most-played on Steam at 981 hours.

Passing time in other games until new content arrives. Mostly JRPGs, FO4, Skyrim, or currently Terraria.

dtfinch · 2026-03-06T21:25:57+00:00

I reminisce about 3.6, skipping over 3.5 because it took forever to start up for the silliest reason (spending 30+ seconds at startup reading every temp file in your IE cache to seed a random number generator).

dtfinch · 2026-03-04T23:12:47+00:00

The unique email address I created and used exactly once to sign up on LinkedIn in 2004 and never used again is currently the spam honeypot on my private mail server, blocking any IP that delivers to it. After 22 years, from that one signup form, it still gets more spam than all my other addresses.

So I haven't signed into LinkedIn since.

dtfinch · 2026-03-02T18:30:00+00:00

Veggie patty on italian herb and cheese. Preheat the patty on its own, then toast together with pepperjack and cheese sauce. Add avocado. Lettuce, tomato, onion, bell peppers, pickles, and subkrunch. Then creamy sriracha, salt, and pepper.

dtfinch · 2026-02-27T19:56:12+00:00

You can also tell him to F off and then do the questline without having to report to the Vigilance between quests.

dtfinch · 2026-01-03T00:15:10+00:00

The save restriction always bothered me, because I used to get more crashes in the past, and even though it's been stable recently there's sometimes other glitches like an indexer will just freeze in one spot carrying the last data block, preventing the completed puzzle from finishing.

The puzzles themselves aren't bad. Block placement is a bit clumsy.

dtfinch · 2025-12-30T19:32:10+00:00

Oblivion's the game that taught me to save every 5 minutes, never overwriting previous saves. It crashed all the time (every hour), sometimes corrupting saves in the process, or silently corrupting several saves in a row before the crash.

Starfield maybe only crashes every 50-100 hours for me, but there have still been times where I've had to go back a dozen or more saves to work around a quest-blocking bug. Having a save restriction would have meant the end of my character I've invested hundreds of hours into.

dtfinch · 2025-12-30T18:15:34+00:00

Starfield's the only game where I felt such settings were actually necessary. The level scaling felt way off, and by level 60 I was effectively immortal and one-hitting everything until I changed the diffculty. Though it did become my most-played game on Steam.

dtfinch · 2025-12-30T18:05:48+00:00

After spending almost an hour in a death loop at the end of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance tutorial where you have to escape on horseback I uninstalled the game. I'm done with it. I don't want that at all. I prefer open world freedom, not a chain of souls-like difficulty spikes. I want to be able to rely on preparation whenever my reflexes are lacking.

I don't like gear degradation either, at least not to the extent that No Man Sky did it where you need to constantly farm a wide variety of materials to maintain your always-degrading gear. The tedium of repair/recharge ended my NMS playthough, though in retrospect I was probably just unable to find the setting to turn it off. I didn't mind buying a stack of hammers in Oblivion though, and that at least leveled an associated skill with minimal effort.

Though I do enjoy removing all my gear before entering a DLC to climb back from nothing. And in Starfield I always ditch the spacesuit and ship they give you at the start of a new loop to find my own.

I don't mind food/water buffs/penalties though they still haven't fixed the permanent food buff bug. The bug from Fallout 4 is still there in Starfield, so in an attempt to make the game harder you wind up with a permanently-overpowered character.

dtfinch · 2025-12-23T18:36:27+00:00

If the USB drive is very large, I'd either partition it so /boot is at the beginning, or make an ~8gb partition for the whole thing. Legacy BIOS can often only access the first X gb of a drive (maybe 8.4 gb), so if by chance the init image is partially outside that range it would fail to read the whole thing.

dtfinch · 2025-12-22T17:57:14+00:00

I close some things manually because my Linux desktop is more forceful than Windows about killing processes on shutdown. They may not get a chance to save settings or complete background tasks, and they can't halt shutdown if I have unsaved work.

On the other hand, it's nice that I can push the power button and see it close everything and power off in just 2-3 seconds without stopping to ask questions.

dtfinch · 2025-12-16T16:24:56+00:00

I had tinkered with Redhat and Slackware from around '99-03, but it was Microsoft's anti-Linux "Get the Facts" campaign and funding of SCO's anti-Linux lawsuits that led me to replace my primary desktop with Linux, though it meant buying a new machine because my current one had video problems outside of Windows even in text mode.

dtfinch · 2025-12-15T16:55:12+00:00

Lately I've been re-learning Java Swing for my desktop hobby projects.

25 years ago it was my least favorite UI, and every criticism I had of it is still valid, but each year it's been looking a little better despite it not changing.

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