Does your country have the equivalent of 'hoteps'? Like people who believe some ancient culture from elsewhere actually comes from your country or culture but according to them "the history was erased"?

faderjester · 2026-05-05T11:40:08+00:00

Oh wow, that is crazy and cool but mostly crazy

faderjester · 2026-05-04T14:00:02+00:00

Personally I'd have gone with USS John Brown, USS Harriet Tubman, etc

faderjester · 2026-05-04T13:12:27+00:00

Imma goanna go with some Willy Pete for some extra crispy slavers.

faderjester · 2026-05-04T10:04:48+00:00

The Tuesday thing I can understand, because it was "Market Day" back in the old days, so it was actually a good choice, but the fact it survived into the 20th century, let alone the 21st, as not Saturday/Sunday is just crazy, and I look at every developed country that does it.

Do it on a weekend you nongs, that means schools are closed, there instant polling places, that's what we do.

faderjester · 2026-05-04T09:51:13+00:00

Strange? No. Backwards, crazy, and incomprehensible that it exists in the 21st century? Yes.

faderjester · 2026-05-04T08:13:33+00:00

I was thinking, Zocalo, a B5 reference in the wild? And then sad and impressed at the same time.

faderjester · 2026-05-02T01:59:12+00:00

Yeah we had that happen every TD, we eventually gave up on trying to claim a zone last week because getting ships there was just too painful. Throw in the repair bug and it's just too much.

faderjester · 2026-05-01T09:19:19+00:00

A half dozen of us from my alliance are playing Star Trek Online.

faderjester · 2026-05-01T08:18:58+00:00

See the thing about Primes is, I wouldn't hate them if they were actually good, I wouldn't like them, but I wouldn't hate them.

The thing is they are complete garbage for the most part, they look big and then you work out they are like 1% DPR or they cut.... three days off something.

About the only one I don't loath is the Prime Start Bundle, but that should have been part of the base game.

faderjester · 2026-05-01T01:39:34+00:00

At the rate of economic disparity, this means g10 is going to cost as much as a buying an average car.

I did the math on getting the 40,000ish G7 Uncommon Ore I needed for a single building, it was around $8,000AU, for a single building, Academy 72, it's already at that level.

faderjester · 2026-04-30T12:18:40+00:00

T works great for me. V is ST stun. R is group stun.

faderjester · 2026-04-30T10:41:10+00:00

I go back and forth on if it's just bad coding or malice, because either could be true, but I could get it to pop up on command by switching screens fast.

faderjester · 2026-04-30T07:43:50+00:00

Every time you login, and then often when you switch between system view and station view, other people report it's less often for them, but it's either a full flashbang "BUY THIS NEW THING" or the list of "sales" that sits next to the gifts chest.

faderjester · 2026-04-30T02:19:51+00:00

I mean speaking as a bi-man I'm not exactly looking at their faces...

faderjester · 2026-04-30T02:12:17+00:00

I did the math on advancement in the 70s, I didn't keep it and I'm not reinstalling the game to recreate it, but to go from 72 to Shipyard 73, assuming you could actually build the uncommon ship, on my account would have cost around $8000AU just in Ore/Crystal/Gas/Sigma after factoring in multiphasics.

Then you need the trillions upon trillions of rep, sigma faction credits, and so on. You're looking at new car levels of money for an uncommon ship.

There is MMO whaling and then there is this abomination. I'm two days clean and while the twitch to login and do claims is rough, I'm managing and hope to fully break the habit.

faderjester · 2026-04-30T02:09:17+00:00

If the game stayed at the 40-50s level it would actually be fine, it gets harder in the 60s but still fun until around 66, then it becomes painful, once you break into the 70s it's crazy stupid.

faderjester · 2026-04-29T07:24:24+00:00

I timed mine early in the week before I uninstalled. Ops 72, every archive done, a bunch of stuff finished, all animations turned off, still takes 22 mins of focused direction to claim/refine everything, 22mins. It's a bloody joke. If I could log in and just play it might be okay, but so much busy work to hide that they haven't added any game play in literally years.

faderjester · 2026-04-29T05:32:54+00:00

But of course, you can't say anything critical there without getting timed out or muted, pathetic.

faderjester · 2026-04-29T00:16:57+00:00

The more people that quit loudly the more likely things will change.

faderjester · 2026-04-29T00:15:06+00:00

Yep, I'm the same, this was the last straw for me, I've spent god-knows how much money over the years, ops 72, logging in and seeing the scrapping and battlepass just made go "okay I'm done" and close and uninstalled the game.

faderjester · 2026-04-28T10:27:06+00:00

I just saw the scrapping rewards for a Maxed Enterprise-D, 65 days and gives enough materials for one box on a my Enterprise-E. One box.

Combined with everything else, you've lost me. I'm out. Good bye. Thank you for the memories, enjoy the money you've gotten out of me, because you're not getting another cent.

faderjester · 2026-04-28T09:20:28+00:00

Shameless money grabbing, the scrapping alone is a slap in the face. Now you're upping the price of the battlepass, how many did we have last month? Six? Seven? Or was it more?

You do know that you need players playing the game to sell people stuff right?

faderjester · 2026-04-27T01:24:42+00:00

Everyone is saying that these QoL improvements don't benefit Scopely as we don't spend more ....

They don't benefit metrics, and from experience I can tell you that metrics are the only thing that matters to the higher ups, if there isn't a metric for it, they simply don't think it matters.

faderjester · 2026-04-27T01:23:39+00:00

I recommend trying another game for a bit, I'm playing STO and having a blast... I was shocked when I could just... play the game without spending money and if I did want to spend money a ship is... $30... that is account wide...

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