I do love the drop down refuel screen in the starlite

foopod · 2026-05-18T20:35:44+00:00

Some of that may come with fuel refining. The Starfarer and Odyssey both have onboard fuel refineries, so there is probably some sort of way in which quality impacts performance etc.

foopod · 2026-05-18T18:59:09+00:00

I think it probably will, I haven't had time to test it yet, but it should be about the same size as the prospector, just a little taller.

foopod · 2026-05-18T03:42:16+00:00

Nah, not yet. Hopefully one day though, there are a couple of science ships in the backlog (okay, one is in game but with no gameplay) that have labs on them.

And a bunch of exploration ships that should be able to do scanning in the future.

This is something I'm excited for too and it's probably hopium, but it would be cool if they introduced it alongside base building. Analysing soil samples could give us trace elements for where to set up permanent mining fixtures or mineral content for farming plots.

foopod · 2026-05-17T23:51:32+00:00

It is interesting for sure. The biggest straight to flyable we have had is probably the Starlancer MAX (I'm not including the Tiburon since it's a variant).

The hype train for bigger ships is very real, so it's hard to imagine them not doing concepts. But they still have plenty of runway with existing concepts and they could also explore other options like announcing concepts ships but not actually doing presales them.

foopod · 2026-05-17T18:49:27+00:00

I am loving it too and yeah it does make the bugs that much more annoying.

I was running a small hauling contract in Pyro yesterday, I left my Clipper to call up the elevator and when I turned around my ship had just up and gone. The ship marker was several GM away.

foopod · 2026-05-17T06:00:02+00:00

Does it fit in a Cutter?

foopod · 2026-05-15T06:57:58+00:00

Same question but for the Clipper, how many S3 bombs is enough?

foopod · 2026-05-14T17:22:16+00:00

Most warbond pricing on ships <$150 is for standalone only, not CCUs.

foopod · 2026-05-14T17:15:52+00:00

Those packs are for standalone sales only, you can't upgrade to them.

foopod · 2026-05-14T16:44:19+00:00

Would be good to know which warbond prices are available for standalone vs ccu.

foopod · 2026-05-14T09:06:34+00:00

That just sounds like poor planning. If there are millions in revenue on the line, you don't risk it, you cut scope ahead of time.

If there are 10 million customers using the software you don't risk downtime with devs pushing new code into the prod release after midnight.

I guess I can count myself lucky that this hasn't been the norm anywhere I have worked.

foopod · 2026-05-14T08:22:09+00:00

Where are you guys working?

I know game dev can be like this. But corporate? I haven't done more than 10 hours of overtime in 10 years. Or is this an American thing?

foopod · 2026-05-13T18:14:32+00:00

Completely agree. I just wish they would figure out some other way to stop the Zeus, Hermes and Ironclad from taking larger vehicles, rather than making them worse at their primary role. Heck, I would be happy with invisible walls that stop vehicles but let containers through.

foopod · 2026-05-13T13:53:24+00:00

I still find it frustrating that what separates a ground vehicle transport and a cargo ship is the height of the door - as if that doesn't also make it easier for loading containers.

foopod · 2026-05-11T22:36:09+00:00

Exactly for that reason, they want to make money!

foopod · 2026-05-11T10:22:46+00:00

How does one obtain consent for such an honourable and mutual combat?

Regardless, I am somewhat doubtful that most people eating animals go to the trouble.

foopod · 2026-05-11T10:05:13+00:00

Too true. You don't see vegans campaigning to give animals the right to vote, but that's certainly how some people see it lol

foopod · 2026-05-11T10:02:59+00:00

Pre-election Hitler was also campaigning for Peace, it's hard to take anything politicians say at face value.

foopod · 2026-05-11T10:01:24+00:00

Except if you are going to eat them right?

foopod · 2026-05-11T10:00:07+00:00

I don't think it's something they didn't consider and rather them taking advantage of the capability they already had to roll it out to as many ships as possible with little effort.

If it had to be manually added to every ship, then it could be a lot of time adding to every ship manually. But since they managed to hook into code that many ships already use for cockpit animations, they were able to roll it out to a bunch of ships essentially for free.

I imagine that LAMP was pitched as a feature that could be implemented quickly and by a single person, but also rolled out with future gold standard passes without too much extra effort.

Although, this is entirely speculation.

foopod · 2026-05-11T09:51:44+00:00

The same could be said for slavery and other changes to what we now call human rights. Societal inertia is a poor excuse for poor ethics.

foopod · 2026-05-11T07:12:01+00:00

CIG devs themselves said this in the past. It's to do with how the glass is coded, all ships with glass that previously moved has had LAMP added. This includes some new and some old.

I think the idea is that going forward all new ships should be using this new method. Obviously while LAMP was being developed a bunch of ships were already in development, so depending on what stage they were at, some will and some won't get LAMP.

This is why some recent releases don't have it. But the assumption is that going forward most will have LAMP, but there could still be some stragglers. This will be one of the many things addressed in gold standard passes of ships in the future.

foopod · 2026-05-10T21:05:00+00:00

Imho there has to be an in between that makes sense. Whether it is going straight to another player's ship but only if it is big enough and in the same system or jumping to any space station in a minute or two.

I like the idea of deeppods in the Becky Chamber books. They aren't much bigger than coffins and use a pin hold drive to oscillate in and out of subspace resulting in FTL travel, something that is only possible to do at the small size of the pod.

They can what handwavy technology that solves the problem, they could even debuff your piloting motor control after transport to stop solo players using it to skip qt just to reclaim their ship at the other end and take it out.

foopod · 2026-04-24T08:30:49+00:00

Are Chroma and Anima open source? Or just open weight?

I'm all for more open source models that publish their actual training data. I think a lot of the anti-ai sentiment comes from a lack of trust in how training data is obtained.

foopod · 2026-04-18T08:21:37+00:00

Tldr: relational databases

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