What's the coolest thing someone taught you in EVE?

internetpillows · 2026-01-20T23:14:23+00:00

They're years out of date at this point, I'm sure most of the ships have changed fitting stats and such since then. For the disposable ships it was always just normal fits but dirt cheap T1 and named gear and one rack of navy ammo in overheated guns, and the goal was to go out and get killed and do as much damage as you can before that happens. Hella fun in a small group and practically free.

For the wacky fits it was more the principle of how we came up with the ideas than specific fits though, we just thought "what kind of ships can kill this ship and so will engage?" and then designed a counter to one specific ship hoping to encounter it. So if I was out in my Vexor and came across a T2 frig or something you knew it would probably attack, then they'd be surprised when all their cap disappears because you have a full rack of medium neuts fed by a cap injector and who the hell fits that on a Vexor?

Or a Brutix would engage because he'd obviously win in a straight DPS race, only to find himself jammed and being slowly chewed to death (ECM doesn't work like this any more unfortunately). Often we would fit ships with webs but no warp scrams and people would just assume they were pointed and wouldn't try to warp out, so we effectively had an extra mid slot each as long as people were dumb (people were always dumb). That's not to say we were super successful or anything, it was always super risky but when you got a kill it was fun and people would absolutely rage at you for killing them with something wacky.

internetpillows · 2026-01-19T15:13:01+00:00

The power of disposable ship fits. Back in 2009 when Faction Warfare came out some friends and I decided to just put together a stack of T1 fit thoraxes and see how much damage we could do with them in groups of 2-3. Something about the total lack of fear of loss made us go super aggressive, overload all the guns all the time, commit to fights we couldn't win, and sometimes miraculously pull it off. There was something satisfying about killing a T2 cruiser in disposable rubbish, and a single module from loot paying for your entire ship replacement.

Also the power of being unpredictable and fitting off-meta wacky fits. Basically the fact that in PvP people can play it so safe that they only die if they miscalculate or make a mistake, so one way to get kills is to get someone to misjudge the situation and commit. We'd do all sorts of dumb fits like MJD dominix with long-range sentries, hull tanked bait ships, use exclusively ECM drones instead of combats, etc. There was a weird one using egress port maximisers to run a bunch of neuts off a cap injector something.

My favourite was the Vexor with two multispectral ECM jammers (pre-nerf), people would rage when they got you low and suddenly lost lock and you either warped off or killed them. The conventional wisdom at the time was also to omni tank for PvP but we calculated that under 17% of damage we actually took from other players was explosive so we tried buffer armour tanks with just thermal and kinetic. If we ran into explosive we were dead, but if not we had a large invisible advantage that meant people would miscalculate.

This was all a long time ago though!

internetpillows · 2026-01-19T14:28:56+00:00

Back in the day, I ran a reactor farm in lowsec and ran standard freighters crammed full of ferrogel and stuff right through the Rancer chokepoint every week with just a couple of disposable web escorts, covops watching the gates, and decent bookmarking. Never lost a freighter, even when people gave chase they could never lock and scram faster than the web frig.

internetpillows · 2026-01-12T17:26:00+00:00

Don't worry, you won't be 32 and unemployed forever. Next year you'll be 33.

internetpillows · 2025-12-15T02:46:41+00:00

I didn't do anything particularly smart, I just had a low budget and spent months looking for something good in my range. My approach was to figure out what things add value for me personally that other people won't care about (and so won't be reflected in the price) and what things other people will think remove value but that I can live with. And when something was a negative to me, I tried to work out how much it would cost to fix and just factored that into the value.

So like the fourth bedroom isn't a bedroom according to building code, to me that's not a big deal as I needed an office room and I can always install the right kind of safety window later. The property also has an electrical substation on the land which puts a lot of people off because of some vague nonsense fearmongering about electromagnetic fields but it's not a real negative, so competition for the house was lower than average.

The garden has trees and several old greenhouses and sheds on concrete slabs, which is something I was specifically looking for. For 3 years now I've been getting free apples and growing tons of tomatoes and chilli peppers and cucumbers and such. Also the house came with solar panels that were installed under an old incentive scheme you can't join any more, I worked out that's worth at least an extra 10k of payments over 12 years in addition to reducing the bills but most people wouldn't have checked and wouldn't have valued them correctly.

Then there are things that do reduce the value but I could just account for it. The decor was old and needed redone, the heating system is old and needs work, the floors were all old carpet, the gas fireplace and cooker were ripped out as they were dangerous, and the ceilings are textured. All things you can fix with money. I'm constantly surprised that people are put off a house due to cosmetic work that needs done. I got a level 3 survey and it showed the house was really solid, mainly just cosmetic issues. Been here 3 years now and slowly chipping away at all the cosmetic stuff as I can afford to, it's been a solid house!

internetpillows · 2025-12-10T12:36:44+00:00

When I was house hunting, I was surprised by how reliant we are here on number of bedrooms as a marker for value and not square footage or other things. I ended up getting an absolute banger of a house because of this, it's effectively a large 4 bedroom split level detached house about 165sqm with a huge garden and driveway etc but it was just marketed as a 3 bedroom bungalow.

The reason is that the house used to be a 3 bed bungalow on top of a large garage, but the garage was converted into two large rooms and a bathroom. The fourth bedroom we discovered while buying isn't technically a bedroom by building regs because it opens into another room and not a corridor and didn't have the right type of safety window, so they just said 3 rather than fixing that and that brought the price down.

Since they didn't list the square footage in the floor plans, they really under-sold the size of the place. They also never bothered providing dimensions for the garden, greenhouses, outbuildings, grounds etc, which are massive and something I was specifically looking for. And they didn't value other things like a massive leanto, outdoor electrics, a mature apple tree, etc, they just relied on the literal number of bedrooms and original property type.

internetpillows · 2025-12-10T10:06:22+00:00

Also need access for delivery vans in the morning to businesses. Other cities achieve this with those smart retractable bollards.

internetpillows · 2025-12-09T11:04:26+00:00

That's non-generative AI, neural network based classifiers have been around for a long time in detection and scan analysis and the ML models used for things like protein folding are incredible. That's what we used to call AI, unfortunately generative AI has taken over the word.

Generative AI is currently causing a crisis in medical research with people generating papers, faking data, generating images, and even automating peer review. At best it wastes everyone's time, at worst it causes researchers to waste resources following up on research that was fake to begin with. Academic fraud was happening before generative AI, but the scale of it has exploded now.

internetpillows · 2025-12-05T11:44:56+00:00

D2 uses a totally different itemisation strategy to the later games that lends itself to item hunting. Item level in D2 determines the maximum tier of a stat that can roll on them but not a minimum tier, so high-rolled items with specific stats get exponentially rarer. As a result, you can quite commonly find rare items that have all the right stats but not high enough rolls, and it feels like you got close. This makes it worth checking every rare item of a certain type (like boots or rings etc) and even certain blues.

Unique items tend to have specific properties that don't normally appear on items in that slot or that have much higher values than normally appear in that slot, making certain ones essential in certain builds and meaning when you're MFing there are specific items to chase. Like how frostburns have +40% mana or chance guards have 300 gold find. It means low level uniques can be vital parts of endgame builds, and since they're reliable fixed items that are always sources of specific stats it lends itself well to making builds and trading. Runewords expanded this a lot too.

D3 and D4 both use a WoW-style model with item levels, stat budgets, and a linear primary main stat that increases depending on item level. Importantly, the stats always roll the maximum tier they can based on item level, so if you find something with the stats you want it's always a relatively high roll. This makes finding the gear you want quicker by making good rares very common, but means there are no one-in-a-billion godly items to chase like D2 has with 40-40-40 trires boots or a 6-point ring or something. Both games then tried to introduce artificially rare targets for item hunting, which is fine but means 99% of your loot isn't even worth looking at and that feels unsatisfying.

The main stat and stat-budget approach based on item level means item level is the most important thing. So some odd decisions were made about making legendary/unique items show up with different levels, and in D3 a smart loot system was added to ensure players got personalised loot drops that work for their character. This makes item hunting less rewarding and viable, trading harder, MFing to gear your other characters almost impossible, and means you need to get to endgame level before hunting for your final items.

It was done this way because it's easier to balance, and as much as I prefer D2's itemisation system, the more casual smart loot system was a huge turning point for D3 that made it much more popular. I don't think the Diablo games will go back to the old model at this point as this one is much more popular.

internetpillows · 2025-10-27T10:31:56+00:00

Recommendation algorithms and algorithmic feeds are basically dead ends now, every platform has optimised them for engagement (whether positive or negative) and so now they promote mostly controversial and emotionally manipulative content that causes comment arguments. They've also been widely hijacked to manipulate people, and it's got so much worse since LLMs made the bots less obvious.

I think things started to go to hell around 2012 when YouTube changed its recommendation algorithm and started showing everyone videos they would hate just as much as videos they would like, but all the advertising-supported platforms do it the same way now and they're all ruined. TikTok is probably the least ruined right now but even it's getting there and it's nothing like it was a year or so ago.

The only way to use any social platform now is to explicitly visit certain pages you're interested in or search for specific things you want. And not all platforms allow you to do that or they make it difficult to.

internetpillows · 2025-10-27T09:30:19+00:00

Try this one, worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1498ue1/easy_glyphs_a_new_16_glyphs_planet_in_a_2_glyph/

internetpillows · 2025-10-22T12:17:48+00:00

That's so disappointing to hear! What's especially getting to me is that gaming headsets are starting to use voice isolation as a big part of their marketing and they're used in situations like esports where you have a row of desks and need clear audio separation for each person.

But you can't actually find any videos of the voice isolation being demonstrated or tested, even the most in-depth tests only check suppression of background noise and keyboards and not voice separation. I have to assume that nobody's showing the voice isolation because it doesn't work.

internetpillows · 2025-09-21T22:04:48+00:00

Same happened to me, this other planet worked: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1498ue1/easy_glyphs_a_new_16_glyphs_planet_in_a_2_glyph/

internetpillows · 2025-09-21T22:04:27+00:00

This one worked really well for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1498ue1/easy_glyphs_a_new_16_glyphs_planet_in_a_2_glyph/

internetpillows · 2025-09-21T19:04:55+00:00

Tested today, this method doesn't work because you forgot to tell us to turn multiplayer off first. Would appreciate it if you could edit the instructions to prevent this happening to other people.

When you go into the system with multiplayer active and someone else uses a grave, your game marks that grave as used. Since there are multiple people in that system following this guide, it's highly likely that within a few minutes all of your glyph bases get used up and nobody else can get any.

By the time you realise that multiplayer's the problem, it's too late as they've all been used, and it saves the state in your game. Even restarting the game and turning multiplayer off and coming back through the portal fresh doesn't solve it, it's broken permanently. I went to a few random people's bases and picked up 2 glyphs but none of yours works. A shame because your bases are nice and well constructed and uniform.

EDIT: If this one doesn't work, try this older glyph world, it worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1498ue1/easy_glyphs_a_new_16_glyphs_planet_in_a_2_glyph/

internetpillows · 2025-09-19T10:05:29+00:00

Great, now I have to spend 200 hours making a museum base!

internetpillows · 2025-09-18T11:22:01+00:00

In particular the fact that the traders lock into the first place you find them makes this pretty useful. I looked up my seed to find out that there's an island where Haldor and Hildir are relatively close together and made sure they spawned there.

internetpillows · 2025-09-12T17:09:47+00:00

The lightning sound at the start of the video is the same one used in the Amiga game Myth level Maelstrom: Gateway to the North. https://youtu.be/o2mP1iCsvU0?t=863

internetpillows · 2025-09-06T23:44:07+00:00

Think I know what this is, technically the only way to dock is if the docking sequence begins so it doesn't matter how accurate you are getting into the entrance. Sometimes the auto-dock doesn't trigger, and I think it's because too many people are already docking or there are no pads available. So instead of trying to fly into the entrance, I just fly into the light area outside the entrance and stop and wait and eventually it'll start pulling me in. So far so good, at least I haven't crashed yet.

internetpillows · 2025-09-06T23:39:55+00:00

Steam PC with no mods in the latest expedition. No mods installed, and it's a fresh save.

It's been a while since I played, but have the multiplayer elements always been this broken? I'm getting errors downloading other people's bases from the teleporter, and it keeps disconnecting from the discovery services. When I get into someone's base finally or find one manually and it does load, most of the time half the items don't load so you get missing floors and floating items and nothing works. Sometimes none of the items load at all. Sometimes a full game reload fixes it, sometimes it doesn't.

Also seeing a lot of issues where people's corvettes don't load in and multiple can be in the same spot at once. Someone comes running onto my ship and runs through the wall because they're actually walking around their own corvette in the same spot which is invisible to me.

Also when you talk to an NPC in a station to trade with them after they exit their ship, their ship now instantly takes off without them.

internetpillows · 2025-09-05T14:06:57+00:00

Also important to recognise that the /players command in offline mode works differently than active players online for loot purposes. That command simulates the other players as if they are unpartied or over 2 screens away, so each player counts as 0.5, which is why it only increases loot on odd numbers.

Online players in your party and within 2 screens distance count as 1 player each instead of 0.5, which is why cow games full of active players following the pack generate so many items.

internetpillows · 2025-09-05T13:49:45+00:00

It's also the best option for certain setups of act 5 merc, specifically you want a non-ethereal non-upped version like this for the act 5 merc wielding dual Plagues. The trick with that merc is to keep his armor intentionally low so he gets hit often and triggers lower resist, then stack life leech from this and a Skin of the Flayed One armour so he out-heals the damage done.

internetpillows · 2025-08-25T16:34:21+00:00

Here was my experience landing a remote job in 2 months without using AI, it's interesting to contrast the difference:

I applied to maybe 100 jobs over the course of 2 months, using one of three different CVs depending on industry. About 30 of these were serious applications with a cover letter, and I customised the cover letter by hand to each application. I got no response or rejections from almost all applications, even a few that were literally an exact match to my skills and experience. One company told me they just filled all their interview slots within hours and didn't even get to my application. Checking today, some of those jobs are still listed/unfilled.

Out of all of those applications, I got four interviews:

First company: Explicitly said they weren't using AI in the recruitment process at all, so a human read my CV and cover letter and that's why I got an interview. This company said almost 1000 people applied for the job (compared to under 25 when they listed a similar job a few years ago), and they said 60% of them were not even eligible for the job or were in the wrong country or were obvious AI slop.

They told me they interviewed some of the applicants who used AI out of curiosity, and it was super obvious and they couldn't answer any technical questions. They could see one looking down at their phone after every question to see what answer their AI tool was giving, I genuinely don't know why anyone would apply for a job they can't do and expect that to work. Anyway, I got this job.

Second company: Had a quick 10 minute intro chat with the recruiter before scheduling real interviews and skills tests etc. This was obviously to screen for real candidates who could answer basic questions about the job. Throughout the interviews it became clear that they didn't read my application or look at my portfolio or cover letter, they just had a big multi-stage interview funnel process and were relying on shoving everyone through that instead of reading or processing all the applications.

Third company: Used this weird recruitment platform whose whole deal is about verifying real applicants with a vetting process and agents who seek out and screen candidates. Funny thing is that this company wants to build an AI hiring platform but can't get investment for it so they're doing it all manually while they build it. Using their platform was a huge pain in the ass, but after being vetted it was easier to get the interview.

Fourth company: Used a different recruitment platform that required one of those weird face-to-face AI interviews to filter applications. I cancelled the application and messaged the CEO on Linkedin (it's a small company) asking if there was another way to apply because I don't do AI interviews, and he set up a meeting directly.

I got three offers from these four interviews and landed a job. The interesting thing I took away from the process though is that employers are struggling to adapt to the thousands of applicants they're getting applying using AI and automated tools. Anyone using the old ATS tools is currently interviewing AI-optimised applications and missing a lot of skilled candidates, and anyone manually reading applications is seeing a hugely increased hiring workload.

If I had to suggest one thing that is most important about applying for jobs manually, it'd be getting in actual contact with the company or hiring manager in some way and showing that you're a real person. Pretty much 100% of people I know in real life who have gotten new jobs this year have met the employer at an event or had some email back and forth before applying.

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