u/nickkrewson

I promise that I'm done buying ships for now... unless a MOLE Talus edition suddenly comes up for sale. 😆

...getting from there to here. 😁

I only started playing this year, starting with my pledged Titan and my pledged RAFT.

Despite the bugs and the glitches and the frustrations of this game, I honestly haven't lost myself in a video game like this since MYST first released.

Today I launched my Idris, "Victorious".

Yeah, it's complete overkill for me to use as a solo base, but this somehow felt like some degree of endgame achievement for me.

As amazing a ship as she is, my day to day will still largely be hauling cargo around in my Golem Ox or courier missions in my Pisces.

Nothing makes me appreciate the handling and gameplay in my small and medium ships quite like piloting an Idris does.

Thank you to this community for all of the advice and commiseration along the way.

See y'all out there. o7

Second picture is my brother testing if his M80 fits in the hangar bay alongside my Pisces.

Docking this monster is going to take some getting used to.

I really hope that CIG gets the interior lighting issues sorted soon.

On the Apollo Medivac, the inability to turn on the lights at all is particularly gameplay-limiting.

I really wish that I had more to do with this little ship.

I'm really growing fond of ship gameplay with my unarmed ships.

Click-bait title notwithstanding, I've honestly just not dug the aesthetic of Drake ships in general, but the Cutlass Red in BIS paint scheme isn't half bad.

Is anyone else using this ship as a daily driver?

But seriously, I'm glad that they're performing maintenance.

I'm just being selfishly impatient.

I know that CIG has much bigger problems to go after, but I miss my hangar-flair sofas.

I hope that CIG adds them back to the game.

For my purposes, as low latency as possible is ultimately more important than raw bandwidth.

I have had SQM enabled on my router (Flint 3) for a while now through LuCI, but after a recent firmware update I can now manage that through the stock firmware.

Without SQM, I typically get about 900Mbps down and about 110Mbps up, but latency is a mess and isn't ideal for online gaming.

With SQM optimally configured, I get about 200Mbps down and just show of 100Mbps up, but latency is much MUCH better.

For anyone having online gaming issues, consider putting a decent router between you and the T-Mobile modem so that you can implement SQM.

Enabling SQM will inevitably eat into your raw bandwidth, but it can help get your latency as low as possible.

I still made more than I lost today, but damn if that M80 doesn't feel fragile sometimes.

At least this one will survive a wipe.