Sure, larger businesses have more developers to get more work done. But there comes a time when throwing new developers at a problem convolutes the process and actually slows things down more than it helps.

Something that seems simple to you like a flashlight attachment may not be so simple under the hood.

Solo indie devs have an advantage because they’re familiar with all of the code. They’re the ones that wrote it.

They don’t need to learn a new part of the code when making fixes or changes. They don’t need to explain to another dev that “you don’t change how this information is passed in here because you’ll need it to look just like that in some other section that you’ll never touch”.

Additionally any decisions/changes/etc. are all decided by one person, no need for meetings to get everyone on board and explain exactly what you want to do. No need to try to get everyone to understand your vision for what you want to happen.

A famous comic might explain this process a little better:

To quote one of my favorite authors:

“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Maybe some people just don’t like grinding for hours and hours to replace stuff they already acquired in a video game.

Personally, I would rather that we have a variety of different game types and options. There aren’t very many MMOs that make death feel meaningful. If it’s not your type of game, then don’t play it.

Here’s another win for Steam:

Subnautica has a multiplayer mod, but it only works with an older version of the game. Steam lets you downgrade the version, Epic games does not.

What’s their current approach?

I’m not a fan of just setting up a banned word list and setting it loose, namely because of the Scunthorpe problem.

If there is a banned word list, it should be for complete words and not try to find matches within longer words.

Also, it’s generally trivial to get around those lists by substituting letters for numbers.

The best way to handle it would be to give players an in-game reporting mechanic.

If they wanted some automation, they could use an LLM to flag any suspicious names for human review (but they definitely shouldn’t just automate the whole process in the way that Reddit does).

Well, that spectrum thread is definitely blowing up with people upset about flight blades being locked behind a paywall for the first few months. It would be awesome if they actually reversed course on this. Currently sitting at 1376 downvotes:

Jared’s disclaimer midway through was great. I definitely got a laugh out of that one.

Since they’re focusing on bug fixes and stability this year, I would expect that they don’t have as much to show off especially considering everything they’ve already revealed in the past and all the work they still have ahead of them.

Well, apperently I’ve been misusing the term “Deckbuilder” for a while. TIL. Thanks!

When did “deckbuilder” stop applying to TCGs? Isn’t that the original definition of a deckbuilder game?

I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but a quick search leads to some titles like:

Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder https://steamcommunity.com/app/1924010

Actual card battle games like Magic the Gathering.

Or deckbuilding like those castle/turret defense games.

I’d have to agree with @iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works, I’ve never been a fan of roguelike games where your next move/ability is left up to what you draw from your deck next.

Complete Idris with actual gameplay for a full set of players.

You can currently tour one in-game at ArcCorp (top of one of the buildings in the Plaza).

Previously, we have only been able to hijack them from NPCs, but we were unable to customize them. You couldn’t get in any turrets, the medical bay wasn’t working, and the torpedo room was missing.

With this, there are no missing rooms, there’s a medical bay, we can customize the ship (choose between a massive railgun or a beam laser, a few different paint options, and a few different torpedo options that are larger than any others that were previously in-game). I’m assuming we’ll be able to swap out components as well, I don’t think we’ve seen all the variations yet for a ship of this size.

We’ll know more tomorrow.

There could definitely be a bug (as always in this game).

I know for equipping the ammo I always have to use the “Customize” option on the multi-tool. One time I tried equipping the ammo to my armor and then “reloading” the multi-tool. However, in a previous version, the animation would play out but the medical canister would never actually load into the tool. I’ve just stuck with the customize option ever since (out of habit).

They have also changed the keybind for healing yourself from the “B” key to the right mouse button.

Yeah, it definitely works. Most people don’t realize that you need to have the attachment and also equip the ammo for the multi tool.

The only attachment broken right now is the oxytorch cutter attachment (well, if you get one that was equipped to an NPC then it will work).

Yeah, the best way to handle it right now is to use the medical attachment for your multitool and have a medgun in your backpack (in case you need to treat any major injuries).

I really wish they had made the choice between the multi-tool and the medgun instead of the pistol and the medgun.

Thanks for commenting!

I apologize for jumping to any conclusions and thank you for the clarification.

No worries, I had only heard of StarLTI once before, but I hadn’t looked into it too much. Initially there were a few suspicious things about the site which caused me concern. However, after finding out that Sck had undergone some sort of “rebranding” it makes a lot more sense now.

We do have a rule against grey market trading, but it’s more to prevent direct trades within the community and to avoid any scams that can occur because of that. I don’t want to stifle discussions about grey market sites since that can definitely be an important topic, so linking to grey market sites is okay. Edit: But just don’t link to them in every post.

Anyone else getting vibes that this account is just here to promote starlti? I was already feeling that way a bit with the previous post, but a second post like this seems to be confirming that feeling.

Brand new account. No comments. Only 2 posts are basically promoting a particular ship with a link at the end that it can be purchased on the grey market at a particular website.

TL/DR: The website has a number of issues that make me think its a scam site.

Update 2: @shivammsinghh@lemmy.world has commented below.

Update: Might not necessarily be a scam site, but still risky. I did a bit more digging and it looks like the main user/owner has been selling ships for a while, they did start up a new website, the old website is SckShips and the support email is the same as the one for the StarLti website.

I found their Reddit account and they have listed ships for sale before on r/starcitizen_trades which date back over 10 years.

They’re not blacklisted which is a good sign.

Here’s a direct example. Just view your comment on something like an mbin instance (the upvotes are “favorites” and the downvotes are “reduces”). Most mbin instances no longer display downvote information.

https://fedia.io/m/support@lemmy.world/t/2154000/Vote-manipulation-by-a-single-lemmy-world-account/comment/10633015/favourites