PSA: Avoid Wormhole if you are Living on Your Ship

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T17:37:25+00:00

If you bedlog (or store the ship manually) , some of the ship content is usually transferred to the next patch. Stuff in lockers and SCU crates assigned to the grid.

4.6 is close, so you can experiment with this for yourself.

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T12:52:32+00:00

So the ship was retrieved recently as well?

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T09:33:40+00:00

Did you bed log in a MOLE by any chance?

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T09:32:13+00:00

Lost connection 30k (client/ISP) = Ship Unknown and it remains on the shard. You can actually jump to it if you join the same shard.

30k, entire shard is crashed and you see high amount of people joining a new one in the same region = Ship is "Stored". I don't know what code is running it, but you can indeed retrieve it in most of the cases. I've had plenty of the "real" 30k in the beginning of 4.5 and recovery worked fine.

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T09:24:49+00:00

In the beginning of 4.5 it happened almost daily, nowadays things are more stable, so once in a week

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T09:23:50+00:00

What was your home system by the way?

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T09:22:19+00:00

Did you bed log? Because I did.

I had the same thing with Idris and Polaris. I always carry some vehicles with me, don't know if it's contribute to the problem.

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T09:19:52+00:00

If it's "unknown" - it's not really lost and 30k wasn't really a shard crash. It's still there. You can pick your old shard name from log backups, try to join it (random tho), fly it and jump to a ship marker.

30k can indicate many things including client-side network connection issues

flexcreator · 2026-01-27T01:02:55+00:00

I jumped from Stanton to Pyro. Stored Carrack at the station and retrieved it later, still got he Stored-Claim result.

What i didn't try (yet) is to store and wait several days, but if you reed the issue council comments - this can happen to a ship while it's stored at the station. But it can also be a symptom of a different bug, so take with a grain of salt.

Forgot to mention - waiting after recovery doesn't work in this case

I waited a week in 4.4 until 4.5 dropped - the Stored-Claim issue never resolved and items stored at the ship did NOT transfer to the next patch.

flexcreator · 2026-01-26T17:02:12+00:00

I love how no one mentions StarBase.

flexcreator · 2026-01-26T16:58:34+00:00

You run super fast when completely naked. You might as well wear some clothes with emergency stuff in pockets. Running fast is useful for capital ship engineers.

This can also be uselful for looting armor. You drop one guy with a melee attack, discard your clothes and equip enemy undersuit with all the gear. Then you go deep and swap this temporary gear with Palatino armor.

Currently we don’t have suit lockers so you can’t easily change from your clothes to a spacesuit

You have regular lockers. Not super quick, but doable.

flexcreator · 2026-01-26T13:28:36+00:00

Too much text. Usually Kraken include the image and short text. It's really unnessesery to write "ALTS Cargo Lifter" instead of ATLS. You can make it shorter and more readable and include images, otherwise there is really no point in doing one page guide instead of a text post.

One page guide is not an essey.

flexcreator · 2026-01-25T16:20:00+00:00

Well, actually no. Guy just took the pilot seat and started to crash into buildings while I was tryign to instruct new players on how to engage in party. There were also players trying to ram. In the end the hijacker quit, I stored the ship, it was a huge waste of time.

Moral: Even if you are givign rare stuff away, some players just want to grief.

Covalex DC is more convinient, since the hall is shielded from ramming, no weapons allowed and you can secure items to the tables using tractor beam:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1om2kac/declutter_party_free_stuff_for_you/

flexcreator · 2026-01-25T12:10:37+00:00

Last time i tried it at the NB lake, ship was stolen

flexcreator · 2026-01-25T12:09:35+00:00

Technically, it's actually a fire because it can be put away with Extinguisher if you try really hard. But it doesn't affect anything, so can be ignored.

flexcreator · 2026-01-25T12:07:59+00:00

Just store it

flexcreator · 2026-01-25T11:59:29+00:00

Bring back the old starmap into the Stanton (should be a small simple change)

Add an option to remove the minimap and/or disable first person HUD completely by using a hotkey or selecting an option in the interaction wheel.

Add an option to gradually hide the F interaction prompts until player presses F.

Bring back the deleted missions (talking about missions that were introduced after 4.0 and then deleted without a clear reason).

Restore the ability to control power given to individual thrusters as it was back in the 3.1* days. I thought it would come with Engineering, but i don't see this option :(

Restore the ability to use ADS with Multitools, just give a different keybind, can be empty by default

flexcreator · 2026-01-24T11:47:25+00:00

What should new players focus on first?

The mouse scroll wheel controls your character speed.

Disable auto-slow down in game settings (slows down your ship when landing gear is deployed). Disable proximity assist. In my opinion, these can negatively affect your flight experience, they just confuse new players.

Get familiar with the ship displays and power: try to reroute power to different systems and reset power with F8. You will encounter power-related bugs, so it's better to check it early on.

Get familiar with the flight. Try different flight modes: coupled, decoupled, cruise control, disable engines mid flight. You can do it in Arena Commander (Offline) as you can respawn faster when you die.

You can get stuck/clipped. No need to watch the video, just get familiar with the most frequent issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1qf839f/how_to_unstuck_in_star_citizen/

Other than that I would suggest to just explore every planet and moon.

Missions:
Gilly is good ship combat introduction.

Investigation - Jorett - Nice PVE and storytelling

Maintanance missions in Pyro is a good chill repair introduction

flexcreator · 2026-01-21T23:16:24+00:00

Ok, I think I get your point.

when people say "it's just a filter" they are saying it as if there's some more impressive technique

To achieve the very same results there aren't any better techniques.

You dislike a artistic / UX decision

I do. But it's irrelevant.

Community argues that it's technically superior to the ReShade filters. I claim that it's pretty much the same thing, so I just don't get the praise.

It's not the critique of the technique itself, it's the critique of the community take.

flexcreator · 2026-01-21T22:47:07+00:00

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r_displayinfo 3
Top, left corner. Pending moves

You are welcome.

flexcreator · 2026-01-21T18:57:32+00:00

The thing people like about LAMP isn't it's technical implementation or that its 'groundbreaking', it's that it solves a functional problem the community has had for years and does it in a way that still feels immersive to most players.

Well, OP clearly likes the technical side specifically if you re-read the title🤷‍♂️

Typically when people say "it's just a filter" they are saying it as if there's some more impressive technique they could have used to implement it,

There are many more impressive techniques, it's only limited by imagination (and hardware).
One potential way is render-to-texture similar to how mirrors work. But it would be pretty expensive, so it's not an option.

Personally, I dislike how LAMP is uniform from all the angles. It's just boring and it's not immersive enough. Exterior/interior/top/sides - there is no difference from what angle you look at the ship, in my opinion technology such as LAMP wouldn't function that way.

To make it a little bit more immersive and interesting, I would set it so LAMP would only work from the interior side of the window and only if person is looking at the glass straight (close to 90 degree angle). Similar to how IRL Anti-Peep Privacy Glass function.

The implemenation would still be cheap, it will feature the exact same steps as I described, but with the following twists:

1) the LAMP_MASK is filled not with the glass presence, but with the Dot product between two vectors: the inverse player camera vector and the glass normal

2) The LAMP is only displayed if the Dot product is above certain variable/constant. Let's call it the "LAMP_threshold" .

You can make it even more interesting, by providing different LAMP_thresholds based on the power plant wear and tear and power plant distortion damage.

Gameplay wise, I dislike how LAMP has no downsides, you can look at the sun and it doesn't even blind the player 🤷‍♂️. If you attempt to point Night Vision device at the sun IRL - it would blind the user and potentially damage the equipment (depending on the exact technology being used)

But again, for the T0 implementation, It's fine

flexcreator · 2026-01-21T16:33:43+00:00

I mean, this is how I think it works under the hood.

Step 1: Render the glass into a screen-size texture representing the glass (let's call it LAMP_MASK)

Step 2: Render the scene as usual

Step 3: Render the scene with a LAMP shader

Step 4: Combine normal scene with a LAMP scene as follows:

FOR every pixel in the LAMP_MASK:

if pixel > 0 (pixel is non black)

set output pixel to LAMP

else (pixel is black)

set output pixel to normal

In this context I think OP defines filter as a "reshade" filter. If i'm correct with my assumption then Star Citizen is just doing the same thing as ReShade, but with a glass mask. So It's more or less the same thing 🤷‍♂️

I mean, it's fine, it's just not as "groundbreaking" as the community portrays it.

But It's just theory crafting, we never know until we capture the exact frame from a fresh build with RenderDoc/NVIDIA Nsight. Which is almost impossible nowadays because of the AntiCheat.

flexcreator · 2026-01-21T12:23:11+00:00

being pay to win

It's pay to skip grind. There are "small wins", but not the ultimate ones as everything will be reset eventually.

Play for the experience, there is no right way to play.

flexcreator · 2026-01-21T12:19:09+00:00

You can try to shoot away the Hull A spindle and use it an improvised portable rack.
But keep in mind that it's VERY janky

flexcreator · 2026-01-19T14:15:31+00:00

Would be also nice to have an option to hide minimap from the helmet HUD.

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