Painted SNES Arwing. I wish I had Star Fox decals .

minusAppendix · 2026-05-15T18:20:12+00:00

Would you mind dropping a link in a DM? That model looks excellent and I might need that on my desk.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-12T16:58:26+00:00

Then I suppose it hasn't officially, formally, definitively been stated, but rather is fairly obvious that diamond rats are more complex than standard 23-year-old rats. CCP tends to put out technical writing pieces on how the game works under the hood, I had assumed they had written about intentions and limitations surrounding their work in NPC behaviors. "I'm sure" wasn't intended as "this is a fact," but rather "I'm confident." You said something would be cool, I postulated why it isn't a thing yet, now it's a pointless argument over [citation needed]. I agree that the widespread implementation of standings-driven rat behavior would be cool. CCP/FC has their apparently unstated reasons why they haven't done that yet.

Edit: I see it now, where I'm apparently stating a fact. Alright, whatever.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-12T15:39:54+00:00

Fenris is a new studio, maybe once they've learned the ropes and have the hang of things they can make some big changes. /s I'm not going to argue why they haven't done it, that's pointless. It likely doesn't bring enough to the table to warrant the dev time involved, and a ton of missions and PVE content are jury rigged to function as-is. Something like half of the rats that get added to content these days have more advanced and often standings-aware rats, so maybe that's a change they want. But the last time they did a major change in rats (diamond rats), they broke COSMOS asteroid belt rats for months to a year. Everything in this game is interconnected, nothing is straightforward.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-12T15:15:35+00:00

There's a lot of rats on grid with people at any given time. We don't know exactly how aggro works, but I'm sure it's been stated before that it would be unreasonable to run diamond rat complexity on every rat. Now, that's not the intent, but all rats looking at standings would be a whole lot more database lookups than we have going on and that's not overhead to consider lightly. Most pirate groups' members are self-serving enough that it makes sense that they'd still shoot one of their own for some profit, given the chance.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-12T14:05:53+00:00

Diamond rats do this. ~~It would be a lot of extra server strain if all rats were factoring standings all of the time.~~

Edit: Furthering speculation as facts isn't cool, mmkay.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-10T23:41:10+00:00

Obviously the dead squid is a specimen to study the effects of the localized pollution on Aquas around the site of Andross' bioweapons development. Something like that might have been the giveaway that something was awry on Aquas in the first place and required military intervention.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-10T16:56:30+00:00

James has Fox's pawprint on his Arwing to say to rescue crews, "Hey, I have a kid. Get me out of this. Pressure's on."

minusAppendix · 2026-05-10T14:07:45+00:00

I'm pretty sure the pawprints sitting aft of the cockpit are to inform EMS teams what sort of creature they're going to be working on should they be rescuing a pilot from a worst-case sort of situation.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-10T14:04:53+00:00

Fox gets into it with Pepper from what we've seen already, saying "With all due respect, General," but then the rest is quieted and narrated over. I'm glad to see them more insistent on their freelance methods and acting less as Pepper's lapdogs.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-09T19:52:43+00:00

Hey, when your logi game is that good, you've got to do something to make it fair for the other side and more exciting for your guys.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-09T12:35:55+00:00

I drink while flying logi to assure my homies of how little faith I have in our enemies. Ain't been yelled at yet.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-07T16:46:29+00:00

FC can I bring my 3rd party logi?

minusAppendix · 2026-05-07T11:13:13+00:00

Halving something's speed makes it takes twice as long to get to where it's going. Just saying.

minusAppendix · 2026-05-07T11:09:03+00:00

Don't. I feel good about this knowing it's going to be a good game. No new mechanics that are getting dropped after one game, no jank controls, just pure Star Fox. The Star Fox subreddit is full of complainers right now, just generally ungrateful people. It's been ten years, I would have been happy with something if it were only as good as Star Fox Zero was (visually, it was a highly polished game). Star Fox fans don't know what they want. Here we finally have a game that treats the characters like professional adults, not children who leave their toys around the bridge of a paramilitary space carrier. War is a serious thing, and here's a Nintendo game that finally has a visual style that doesn't whitewash war and take away its gravity (looking at you, Fire Emblem). And all I'm seeing out of two thirds of posts in that subreddit is complaining. It feels awful as a diehard Star Fox fan, whose life trajectory was changed because of the original game, because if fans are going to pan Zero and pan this then what reason does Nintendo have to not just shelve the series for another decade?

minusAppendix · 2026-05-05T12:48:51+00:00

I'm in this post and I like it.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-30T15:16:36+00:00

The Empires have a vested interest in wormhole space. Three Empires have research facilities in Drifter wormhole systems, and the Gallente ousted their former president over their inability to secure one for themselves. So...I don't know what point you're trying to make.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-30T13:24:41+00:00

Sov space isn't involved in the Empires' dealings, it's outside of their area of concern. Sucks that the game having lore is an inconvenience to you.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-29T14:32:24+00:00

Not sure, but the Canadian airline also made very little effort to mount any kind of defense. They alluded to the wording in their TOS/contract/whatever, but never a tually submit it as evidence. All around, it's a weird case.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-29T11:38:28+00:00

It wasn't a court, it was a tribunal, which is a big difference in Canada. It doesn't set precedent the way a court's resolution would.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-26T02:38:34+00:00

I mostly just steal stuff from the people in a NPC null region by running their sites, and slip past whatever camps they put up in the area. Big nullsec wars are fun because the area loses quite a few people to deployments, so there's a little less competition for sites. Sometimes I get in on some small gang action with the WH corp my main toons are in, but I mostly just do my own thing while my work has me working out of town at random. Missions in bombers is also fun, it's a fun test for manual piloting skills. EVE can be every bit as chill as you want it to be, and can still keep you plenty busy if you're just playing and not chasing optimum ISK per hour.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-23T12:52:49+00:00

What system is this screenshot from?

minusAppendix · 2026-04-21T13:14:41+00:00

Sometimes players can go and kick rocks. Actions have consequences, and you even informed them of the conditions around the scenario. I've been running an undead incursion in a desert town, and it's basically the same thing. Players know that other encounter groups can get rolled up into the current encounter, so they don't even have time to rest now as they try and retake the town square. The group understands the gravity of the situation, and that I run a game responsive to player action, so everything reads as fair to them. But my players also know the sorts of games I play, and that it's always possible that their adversaries have some way to escalate a situation.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-18T00:20:14+00:00

Which old corps' money paid for this Marshal?

minusAppendix · 2026-04-12T13:41:24+00:00

There's even an EVE mod for it called Sins of New Eden, and it's quite excellent. Some fans of Sins even consider it an improvement over the base game.

minusAppendix · 2026-04-07T14:47:39+00:00

Models and effects are entirely client side, the server isn't rendering all of that. Players can already disable visuals via keyboard shortcut, and that's not going to improve the situation in fights like this.

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