u/YourElectricityBill

Hey guys, hopefully you aren't tired of me. I recently spoke with some members of the community, and decided to gather a feedback on Project SIrius by asking a simple question.

What do you personally want/need to see in Freelancer Remaster, to consider it a success/make you wanna play it? What mechanics and things you would like to see? I am currently on refining the graphics stage, so have not touched base mechanics and such.

I don't promise I will have capability to implement everything, but gathering ideas from the people would be good!

One thing - interactive bases/ability to walk on planets and stations are out of question, as I definitely don't have capabilities or skill to do so, and it would be hell of a task.

Additional question.Would you prefer

1. Vanilla-only remaster
2. Discovery 4.86 content remaster
3. Both.

I already messaged disco devs regarding me using Disco 4.86 as a base, but in the later stage I will get rid of disco assets by having my own, or just hire a freelance 3D artist for that purpose once I have saved enough.

https://reddit.com/link/1u4ymbp/video/e8k34fujg37h1/player

I am currently working on a volumetric nebulas for Project Sirius, so wanted to share a rendition of what a typical nebula in Omicron systems might look like. The actual first footage will not and actual product may not be like that of course, but that's more of a vision that Project Sirius is aiming for.

WARNING: NOT AN ACTUAL GAME FOOTAGE YET, JUST A VIDEO ART-REFERENCE

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https://preview.redd.it/uucft8191u6h1.png?width=2553&format=png&auto=webp&s=f344ad14f8a8c6ebb590ffaf3a9eebf6d17b3b36

Planetary limb glow on Planet Manhattan.
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Volumetric 3D nebulas, GI, upscaling/Frame Generation, refraction, experimental RT-reflection of the sound, cities glowing at night and dynamic shadows incoming.

For those unfamiliar, Project Sirius is an attempt to remaster Freelancer using Librelancer Engine, Freelancer Discovery 4.86 and Vulkan modern graphics, much like what Black Mesa was for Half-Life.

I have been working on my computation network, and wanted to make some minor changes to how one coordinator distributes workload to different GPUs, I asked Claude to specifically correct and then restart this module after correction, instead it destroyed and reloaded the entire pipeline (luckily I had backups), is it just me and my skill issue or I am the only feeling that something happening? Moreover, a weak GPU joined the network, and instead of scaling it with the performance of the GPU, it capped performance for EVERY GPU in the ENTIRE network. I have been using Claude before, I felt like Opus 4.5 and 4.6 were coding monsters. I seriously think of cancelling my max 20x and rather pay for API to chinese open-source models on Openrouter.

Did you experience anything similar or not?

Man I genuinely feel like I am using some obscure cheap 8B model or first release of Nemotron, not Opus 4.8

Built a preprint server that will be a middle ground between a crank-heaven viXra and arXiv, with moderation for those who are genuinely trying to do science with LLMs. The thing I built, openxiv.net lets you actually declare what the LLM did and not getting banned (hopefully, if you don't lie). Moreover, you can get a paper explained to you in a simple manner via the platform.

Four tiers in the paper metadata:

none = no LLM involvement

assistant = polishing, translation, latex cleanup, no original content

coauthor = drafted sections or derivations you then verified (again, hopefully)

primary = the LLM drove the physics, which means the theory is slop (may be)

It's a single-instance MVP, just me running it. Recently acquired ISSN 3120-9556, applied to be indexed in BASE / CORE / OpenAIRE, the OAI-PMH endpoint validates cleanly. Source on github, AGPL licence.

Crossref DOIs registration pending. Once I become a member, I will issue DOIs to all the papers posted there.

Ready to review your AI slop.

arXiv: year-long ban for a single AI mistake, after which submissions only through peer-reviewed journals.

viXra: prints everything. Zenodo - the same.

Where does serious AI-assisted research go in 2026?

Real cases I keep encountering:

— ESL author uses LLM to translate their own derivations to English.

— Computational physicist uses Copilot for plotting boilerplate.

— Independent researcher can't get endorsed despite rigorous work.

— Theorist publishes Lean 4 / Coq verified proofs — does the verifier count as "AI-generated"?

None are crank. None fit current policies cleanly.

I have been exploring whether a third path makes sense:

— more lenient AI-use rules, that asks for a revision, instead of outright ban, or refuses outright AI slop

— search filters: "human-written only" or "AI-assisted, sorted by transparency"

— no endorsement gating, but layered quality signals (formal proofs, replicable code, ORCID-verified identity)

— standard infrastructure: DOI, ISSN, OAI-PMH, immutable versions

Three questions:

(1) Real need, or do arXiv + viXra cover this adequately for you?

(2) If such a platform existed, what would you require before submitting?

(3) Anyone sanctioned by arXiv or who left voluntarily — what did you actually want?

Honest critique welcome.

arXiv: year-long ban for a single AI mistake, after which submissions only through peer-reviewed journals.

viXra: prints everything. Zenodo - the same.

Where does serious AI-assisted research go in 2026?

Real cases I keep encountering:

— ESL author uses LLM to translate their own derivations to English.

— Computational physicist uses Copilot for plotting boilerplate.

— Independent researcher can't get endorsed despite rigorous work.

— Theorist publishes Lean 4 / Coq verified proofs — does the verifier count as "AI-generated"?

None are crank. None fit current policies cleanly.

I have been exploring whether a third path makes sense:

— more lenient AI-use rules, that asks for a revision, instead of outright ban, or refuses outright AI slop

— search filters: "human-written only" or "AI-assisted, sorted by transparency"

— no endorsement gating, but layered quality signals (formal proofs, replicable code, ORCID-verified identity)

— standard infrastructure: DOI, ISSN, OAI-PMH, immutable versions

Three questions:

(1) Real need, or do arXiv + viXra cover this adequately for you?

(2) If such a platform existed, what would you require before submitting?

(3) Anyone sanctioned by arXiv or who left voluntarily — what did you actually want?

Honest critique welcome.