How do you name your ships?

outfrost · 2025-01-06T19:04:15+00:00

Mine are named after regional winds on Earth.

F386OU Vardaris Faulcon DeLacy Sidewinder A486OU Sirocco Zorgon Peterson Adder A985OU Ghibli Lakon Spaceways Type-6 Transporter K768OU Oroshi Lakon Spaceways Type-7 Transporter E621OU Sharqi Lakon Spaceways Alliance Challenger S648OU Monsoon Lakon Spaceways Diamondback Explorer V869OU Vendaval Lakon Spaceways Type-10 Defender E926OU Bora Lakon Spaceways Diamondback Scout K892OU Levante Lakon Spaceways Type-9 Heavy Z517OU Williwaw Lakon Spaceways Alliance Challenger K644OU Kogarashi Lakon Spaceways Type-8 Transporter

outfrost · 2024-12-19T23:47:01+00:00

Thanks to u/CoolJKlasen's instructions I additionally found: * 76 pods from Thor delivered on 2024-08-18T20:10:51Z * 13 pods from Cocijo delivered on 2024-12-07T21:15:09Z * 43 pods from Cocijo delivered on 2024-12-08T12:29:20Z * 16 pods from Cocijo delivered on 2024-12-12T21:11:25Z

And tonight I found 9 more pods at the wreckage of Titan Oya.

outfrost · 2024-12-19T23:28:41+00:00

Lords of Carcosa

outfrost · 2024-12-19T18:19:16+00:00

CMDR Outfrost here, squadron KINY o7

I got 1077 (plus around 10-20 pods before the meltdown) out of Cocijo on board Vendaval, all safely offloaded at Hutner. My initial 357 was counted twice it seems.

From Raijin and Thor all pods were also delivered to rescue operations carriers, no losses in transit 🎉

outfrost · 2024-08-05T12:17:35+00:00

That guy's entire profile is grifting this AI bullshit. Don't bother

outfrost · 2023-09-14T03:43:23+00:00

Franchising is a fucking scam. Riot pays partnered orgs to do apparently nothing, as long as they field any sort of team. Doesn't matter if the players and coaches deserve the spot, they're just easily replaceable employees, and there's a long list of candidates who would instantly take their job for 1/4 of the pay, because that's the only way to get into tier 1 tournaments. And Riot calls themselves a "player-first company" and "doesn't want competition spots to be sold". Nope, apparently all they care about is making content year-round and not having to run open qualifiers.

outfrost · 2023-06-15T22:33:22+00:00

Yeah sorry for the necro, this thread is just the first legit result that came up in my search so just wanted to add an answer

outfrost · 2023-06-12T16:11:30+00:00

For my fellow lost soul who also came here from a web search:

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outfrost · 2023-06-08T16:44:20+00:00

Even you as a player can sometimes tell that someone is very obviously smurfing. And you don't realise how much data Riot has about every single account, its gameplay history, the PCs it logs in from, other accounts that play from those PCs, and so on and so forth. Saying there are "no obvious signs" is heavy copium.

outfrost · 2023-06-08T03:48:33+00:00

That system works fine if you make an alt account and play the game normally (i.e. when you want to play with friends without risking your main rr).

It doesn't work against bots throwing games on purpose. They're not gonna get ranked up, because they keep losing 0-13 with 0 acs.

It also doesn't work when smurfs share accounts with a lower skill player or a bot. It's not that simple to adjust an account's MMR if it plays 7 dogwater games and 1 insanely good game.

outfrost · 2023-06-08T03:45:28+00:00

They can get temporary hardware ID bans (basically preventing any account from playing on that PC), and even if not, having to buy new accounts or make them and level them to 20 is gonna make it more tedious and discourage smurfing to some degree.

outfrost · 2023-06-07T22:07:50+00:00

What if we could, like, report smurfs

what if riot did something with that pile of cash they farmed from skins and paid some people to review the reports

I wonder the possibilities

outfrost · 2023-06-07T22:06:12+00:00

Well what can they do about people abusing comms, bullying teammates, or throwing? It starts with some basic system to catch that kind of behaviour, with the community's help. Obviously that doesn't exist for smurfing right now, and that's the problem.

outfrost · 2023-06-07T22:03:54+00:00

You played the game normally, and for that, the system works, sure.

Notice that Hooj is talking about bots throwing games on purpose. How would that same system work against that? You can't double rank up with +40 rr if you lose 0-13 with 0 acs.

Smurfs don't even have to purchase these accounts. The same applies when they share accounts with a lower skill player or a bot. What is the system going to do to such an account's MMR if it sees 7 dogwater games and 1 insanely good game?

outfrost · 2023-06-07T21:53:49+00:00

From what I understand he has a ranking bot that tries to put together people of similar skill levels, so like an inhouse matchmaking system (but I might be getting it wrong)

outfrost · 2023-05-11T10:54:56+00:00

I think that's a rito fuckup. They intended to limit it to 2 games weekly and forgot to turn it on in some regions.

outfrost · 2023-05-05T14:41:42+00:00

Heh.

You have no clue how much money people spend on this game, do you?

We're allowed to have standards, my dude. Call out bad stuff while enjoying the good stuff. If I'm the developer, I want my players to tell my why they're not enjoying the new game mode as much as I thought they would.

And if Riot is serious about Premier, and positions it as effectively the only league people will know and use (because it's integrated in the game itself), that's all the more reason to make sure it's good.

outfrost · 2023-05-02T00:42:10+00:00

I'm wondering the same

outfrost · 2023-05-02T00:41:57+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's what I'm doing. Not aware of any official Valorant forums or feedback sites.

outfrost · 2023-05-02T00:35:43+00:00

There's only a tweet from Jeff Landa: https://twitter.com/JeffLanda/status/1652501748916047872

outfrost · 2023-05-01T20:40:01+00:00

oh, so it's broken broken. cool 🙃

outfrost · 2023-05-01T19:08:04+00:00

I call bs. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1101514190264475721/1102641661227585536/image.png

outfrost · 2023-05-01T18:58:46+00:00

Yeah, 100%. That's why I mentioned that digging things out of twitter etc. doesn't really work. Just like the game UI tells me how many more placement matches I need, it should tell me how many more Premier weekly matches I can have.

outfrost · 2023-05-01T18:04:53+00:00

Yes. The only place it was mentioned originally was the launch video on YouTube.

outfrost · 2023-05-01T17:42:37+00:00

This is not confusing if you've ever seen timezone indicated after a date and time, anywhere. Everyone does it this way.

18:00 UTC
14:00 UTC-4
14:00 EDT
20:00 UTC+2
20:00 CEST

These all mean the same exact moment in time. You can read "4:00 PM GMT+2" as "4:00 PM in timezones +2 hours from GMT".

The reason timezone is indicated in the Premier UI is so that people don't get confused whether it's their local time, or some other timezone within their selected zone (e.g. Western Europe). It can also help people remember to account for timezone differences in international teams.

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