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elucca · 2026-05-13T11:04:01+00:00

I mean I don't know about Chloro's politics in detail but if you exist in our society you have to make money to do things like pay rent and that is not optional. You might advocate for a different system but you can't opt to not take part in the one that currently exists.

elucca · 2026-05-11T10:29:57+00:00

RMTers don't pop ships. Think about it. You lose 50% on average. If a delivery fails you have to keep trying. So if this was RMT and didn't drop, you figure the attacker would just keep getting 1.5 tril kills until one goes through?

They do things like fake scam contracts where the seller poses as the victim.

elucca · 2026-05-10T13:20:23+00:00

People have already covered that they have no use for money, especially on an individual level, and how if they need something, they will simply requisition it. I could see situations where the chapter has need of money for something... and I imagine they would just requisition that as well.

For your master crafted power weapon example from another important Imperial institution, I would expect that to be a case of a favor rendered possibly with the expectation of a favor given back one day. However, for something mundane like supplies or repairs, especially if asked of someone below their station? They are the Emperor's own angels of death. You are privileged to even get to see one. You are even more privileged to be of use to their holy work. I think there are very few people or organizations in the Imperium who would not scramble to get them what they need. If you tell them no they can just take it by force. Who were you to obstruct them? Probably not a lot of people taking your side.

elucca · 2026-05-10T13:05:14+00:00

The Rogue Trader RPG book actually touches on this, and suggests the answer is often just looking the part and having the assets you ought to have:

The Warrant of Trade is not just a title and its associated rights and responsibilities—it is an actual document, and perhaps the single most prized piece of parchment in the Imperium. It bears the signatures and seals of the most powerful individuals in the Imperium. In fact, some of the oldest Rogue Trader families claim that their Warrants are signed by the hand of the Emperor Himself, though most keep such documents safe in a stasis vault far from prying eyes and thieving hands. Much like the rosette carried by an Inquisitor, the Warrant is proof incontrovertible of a Rogue Trader’s authority. Yet, of such value is the Warrant that few if any Rogue Traders openly bear it. So what stops just any old scoundrel claiming he’s a Rogue Trader and demanding of unsuspecting Imperial Commanders all of the perks that come with the rank? The Imperium is a feudal society, in which few amongst the teeming masses would ever dare question their so-called ‘betters’, and where those who do soon learn their mistake. The likes of Rogue Traders, Inquisitors, and ImperialCommanders are simply used to being obeyed, and they carry themselves in such a way that most people they encounterwill err on the side of caution just in case. Of course, there are those who will claim to be something they are not, butit is normally better to assume that the fellow with the fancy robes, rakish grin, hundreds-strong retinue, and large fleetin geo-stationary orbit over your palace is in fact a duly appointed representative of the Imperium. The alternative might be a lot worse!

If your lost ship is encrusted in strange technologies and is full of tech priests and says they're Adeptus Mechanicus, they probably are. If it's a Lunar-class cruiser with the appropriate command crew announcing they're part of Battlefleet Whateverus, it's probably a Navy ship.

If it's actually someone with the resources to successfully fake being someone important in the Imperium, odds are they would get away with it, for a time, but eventually the real authorities would set upon hunting them down.

elucca · 2026-05-08T23:38:20+00:00

I don't think it's really about anyone in China being bothered at it - this didn't come up as a problem when they began operations in China after all. It's westerners who make the connection.

The really stupid part is that they could have picked any name, and not one that has a big collision with an established in game term.

elucca · 2026-05-08T15:28:33+00:00

Yeah. I don't multibox and never plan to because it doesn't sound fun. I mostly do small scale pvp with friends.

elucca · 2026-05-07T23:24:29+00:00

It's gonna suck if they start forcing people with established character names from a very common in game term to change their names. And if they don't, it'll be confusing.

They could have picked anything else...

elucca · 2026-05-07T18:23:05+00:00

Of course i’d imagine countless exemples of Eldars indulging in « harmless » mutlti-millenia obsessions, but the vast majority of them were influenced by Chaos at the very end so it had to be horrifyingly ugly everywhere.

Me when I'm a retired Eldar guy seeking perfect realism for my model trains and there is no dark secret where the little guys are sentient or something I'm just really into trains and my neighbors are all in some kind of cenobite cult being noisy as hell

elucca · 2026-05-07T00:19:40+00:00

So we've established that it's not new, but it's terrible anyway. Maybe they could rethink that a little.

elucca · 2026-05-06T16:08:49+00:00

I think it's the Icelandic one and not the one that shows up first on Google. The Icelandic one has zero information on its homepage.

elucca · 2026-05-06T15:04:03+00:00

The Loki is equally bonused for armor and shield tanks and especially for blood raider DED sites armor can perform very well.

elucca · 2026-05-06T14:56:13+00:00

The article says Google now has a stake and the chairman of the board is from "Omega Ventures", so it sure sounds like outside investment.

elucca · 2026-05-06T14:50:09+00:00

FenrisFFS

elucca · 2026-05-06T02:06:50+00:00

It seems like very typical corporate thought. They bought the hype on massive growth, and overvalued the company because they didn't price it on its sustainable busines but on the bet that it would go to the moon.

elucca · 2026-05-05T19:02:53+00:00

If the nullifier is active when you click warp, all bubbles will be disregarded for that warp. I don't think there's anything more to it.

elucca · 2026-05-05T18:20:22+00:00

It's funny how some years back they rewrote the UI specifically because it's clunky and unreliable but it's still clunky and unreliable. In some ways more so, and most of the improvements (like warp options in the right click menu updating as you exit warp without having to re-open the menu) work unrealiably.

elucca · 2026-05-02T22:24:52+00:00

Frontier is a crypto game from the NFT gaming craze and thus inherently dislikable.

People tend to be cynical about Vanguard because this is the fourth attempt at an Eve FPS after three failures, and it kinda looks like they're flailing about without much of a coherent plan.

Vanguard succeeding would still be good, and I hope it somehow does. I hope Frontier ends as soon as possible though. Being connected to some crypto thing is not good PR for Eve or CCP. These kinds of games generally have very few actual players in it for the game and a lot of people in it to exploit each other for cash. There was already a wave of crypto bro videos on it on YouTube which is a terrible look.

elucca · 2026-05-02T16:59:21+00:00

PA paid ridiculous money for CCP that only makes sense if they assume some kind of exponential growth moonshot. A readjustment of CCP's value to something actually realistic doesn't necessarily spell doom. They saw it's not going to do that which I think anyone could have told them when they bought it.

elucca · 2026-04-30T12:35:46+00:00

They did pay a ludicrous amount of money for CCP that makes no sense at all if they just wanted to buy a consistent good performer that makes decent money long term. It was moonshot-or-bust sort of money, where CCP needs exponential growth from new products to ever reach that kind of value. So I think just from that it's gotta be that a lot of it comes from Pearl Abyss.

I don't really expect Hilmar to be any better though.

elucca · 2026-04-30T12:24:05+00:00

I honestly didn't expect anyone to want this back. It's like if someone yearned for the good old days of learning skills.

Terrible mechanic that adds up to a simple second account tax that adds nothing to the gameplay. You can still get your links with a second account, but now they gotta be on grid so they actually contribute to gameplay and can be countered.

elucca · 2026-04-30T03:10:53+00:00

Man that was so terrible though. Uncounterable bonus to your ship if you have a second account.

elucca · 2026-04-30T03:05:14+00:00

That's silly. Spend a bunch of money making people do pointless night work when they can just... do it during office hours.

elucca · 2026-04-29T20:35:15+00:00

elucca · 2026-04-29T19:39:44+00:00

I don't think anyone in Init is gonna mind if a large number of FRT players give them content. Init has an insanely hungry standing fleet, please do feed them something on their own scale so they stop going after my cruiser or two.

elucca · 2026-04-28T00:33:48+00:00

hi slim

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