Thanks, that's quite a list. I'll pass it along, maybe there's some good stuff in there.

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Update!

• [BUG] Cloaking devices weren't showing up at stations. (@?)
• [ENC] Increase burn rates for CPUs and Industrial Motherboards.
• [ENC] Change recipe for ION torpedoes and CPUs.
• [ENC] Add second Repair Ray.
• [ENC] Add dirt-cheap used equipment.* (@Przemax)

This last one looks super-scary to me. It will probably mess up the economy big time. Please post your comments.

Filed, thank you. Ships not showing up on the 'All' tab, is kinda by design.

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Ugh, no. Too many rules interfering with each other... Don't think it could be easily fixed either. Thanks for your report!

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Small update.

• [BUG] Storage claim between stations works.* (@kakucis006)
• [BUG] Cloaking devices do not work. (@?)
• [ENC] Add ability to transfer things between storagerooms.* (@5leepyJoe)
• [ENC] Add Qlosseum.**

* So, as promised, market/storage claims are limited from now on. Current version of the feature is more forgiving. Still might revert it completely.

** That thing was basically invented by our players, people who are tracking our history will know exactly what it is.
Please report if it's buggy! I'll not tell you much else for now.

Tiny update.

Market-storage claims are not actually restricted to localities for now. Looks like there are some bugs to iron out.

So you can expect it to be in effect one day soon, and then maybe go off again... Sorry for all the confusion.

Also forgot to mention this little thing in my last post:

• [ENC] Make CPU points indicator point to ship#cpu page. (@onlinedigger)

Yup, feel free to play, also check your E-Mail, I've explained the situation a bit better.

In any case, let this be a lesson for everyone: toecutter is one stupid AND arrogant sob.

Could be, thanks for the report!

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Like I said, we don't have a lot of heart in this change, so it's probably not going to stick, and I definitely won't be defending it :)


Blockadz.com has bad days, it's true, but removing them is not really an option for us at this moment, sorry :(

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Dude (gal?), I'm so, so sorry! I was about to laugh in your face and/or ignore you, but then I went to pull off some stats, and it turned out I was completely wrong! Sorry, I mistook you for another guy.

PLEASE forgive me, it's entirely my own fault, human error and all that. I've reinstated your account and will throw some satoshi your way.

However, there is some kind of different problem with your acc., which I think we'll be able to resolve. I'll reply to one of your E-Mails.

Once again, terribly sorry for ignoring all your mails and PMs and posts here.

Hey guys, I completely forgot to mention we're tracking down the "ships not exploding on time" bug reported by zaiusz (and pretty much everybody else).

You might experience turn resolver shutting down completely, so lots of stuff (including energy regeneration) might not work at all.

There's a fail safe, that should kick everything back into place in 10 minutes after such critical failure.

While that might seem like a horrible approach (and it partly is), this is marginally better than getting shot by pirates AND NOT getting their loot at the same time. With the new system it's more of a "all or nothing" thing.

Hopefully, as we fix all bugs that surface this way, you will never have to experience this sad state, but today and tomorrow are going to be turbulent. Sorry for the inconvenience, I'll make sure we make up for it.

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Edit: hmm, looks like we're done. Please report if this keep happening and/or if pirates still do not explode as expected.

Hello, SharpCoiner!

We dislike XAPO for multiple reasons, mainly their devotion to collecting real-world, identifying information of their users.

So unless something very dramatic happens, XAPO is never going to be supported by SatoshiGalaxy.

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Thanks for the report!

Looks like only mint condition equipment could be used for module building. This will either be fixed, either a better error message will be added in the next update.

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The maximum is going to be our wallet balance. Minimum is 100k satoshi, with 20k fee on top. Payouts happen every 6hours, given that
the minimum is reached (among all interested parties).

We're planning to improve our send-to-many implementation, so both the minimum and the fee could be reduced. This way, rich players
will basically cover the fees for the newbies, and it will also PROBABLY allow newbies to withdraw very small amounts (1000 sat, or so?).
At least, that's the general idea.

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You have created 10 accounts. Then you promised me it will not happen again. Then you waited for a few days, and created 10 more accounts.

Sorry, but that's end of the line for you.

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Update!

• [BUG] Crafting attempt should always spend CPU points and energy. (@onlinedigger)
• [BUG] Rocket hits do not increase aiming skill. (@mrrkuchc)
• [BUG] Orbital Cannon damage is not reported. (@Przemax+@kakucis006)
• [BUG] When def.grid attacks a ship, it wipes said ship's loot table. (@zaiusz+@kakucis006)
• [ENC] Def.grid damage now counts in loot distribution.* (@kakucis006)
• [ENC] AJAX'ify market-storage claims. ** (@5leepyJoe)
• [ENC] Market storage is now local! **
• [ENC] Improve ship sorting in the scanner.
• [ENC] Add wandering NPC truckers. (@Quellzar)
• [ENC] Add cloaking devices.***
• [ENC] Re-introduce Slithers.***

* You still have to be around to get the loot, and you still need to deal at least some damage using your ship.

** The AJAX'ification makes marketplace storage about 15% more efficient, but the nerf makes it about 200% less efficient, so honestly, it's a net loss for players. Market storage was not really abused/overpowered before, but we really want people to travel around with their materials on-board for more piracy! If this turns out to be too ugly, we will revert this change.  

*** Both those things will be re-balanced in the future, including their blueprint recipes, costs, all stats, etc. Purchase at your own peril. And we would really like your feedback on the stats, because cloaking is a whole new concept, and we haven't finished analyzing it's impact (and it's value) on the gameplay.

Most of those updates have a common theme: Piracy!

What a sad day.

Your support was always excellent. Sorry for not generating more income for you.

Good luck in all future endeavors!

Excellent!

30 days would be more than enough, even 1 week is pretty great.

As for DOGE, our own volume is definitely not enough to make it worthwhile, but hopefully enough DOGE faucet owners would turn up and sway you.

Staying tuned.

Your account is banned and will remain banned. I've already explained it.

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Update!

So, it turns out Paytoshi is closing too!

Woah.

That means that even if FaucetHUB becomes a thing, it will be a monopoly and we don't like to depend on a single entity.

We're not going to implement our own faucetbox clone, but we have added on-chain withdrawal support today.


The rules for it are pretty damning, as we require minimum 100000 withdrawal amount and take 20000 satoshi fee on top of that. Sorry, but it's pretty impossible to work around this. (Maybe the fees can be reduced if the grouping thing works nicely).

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Here's the migration plan:

Referral payments are going to keep coming to FaucetBOX for now.

On December 7th, we will automatically move everyone to new Referral withdrawal method, and using FaucetBOX.com for that is not going to be an option anymore. (New method will be either FaucetHUB, if it is ready by that point or Direct, if not).

We will no longer refill Paytoshi balance, ever.

We will no longer refill FaucetBOX/DOGE balance, ever.

We will keep refilling FaucetBOX/BTC balance until December 10th.

On December 14th, we will disable Paytoshi payouts completely.

On December 19th, we will disable FaucetBOX payouts completely.

People will be able to (and already can) update their preferred referral withdrawal method. (Take a look at your account page).

If you are a referral mogul, you might want to change it.

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Please, do ask questions if something is unclear.

Absolutely. People think micro-wallets are only good for faucets, but they actually solve the dust transactions (and fees) issues rather nicely. The whole bitcoin community should be interested, not just faucet people.

Great to know, thank you.

I'll throw some additional ideas, feel free to discard them completely, but it's something that could be useful to keep in mind.

1. FaucetBOX had a flag for referral payouts, which is a nice thing. Hopefully yours will have this too.

2. If you're going to release an SDK/library to do the talking to the API, please include the HTTP timeout from the get go. FB refused to patch their lib that way, and it's the reason you see a blank white page instead of withdrawal status on many of the faucets. (the max_execution_time or whatever it's called in PHP is running out cutting script mid-way).

3. It would be very nice to have a "bulk payment" API. FB told us it doesn't matter, as it would be the same thing as doing multiple transactions (bar the HTTP overhead), but we still disagree on that. With some clever coding, you can return a response status immediately, and process the actual thing later/async. No need to explain it to you in more detail, as you are a capable dev.

4. FB (and Paytoshi) clean up their logs, so it's hard for end-users to collect stats. We suggested having an RSS feed, so people could accumulate those logs locally on their machines. Could be quite nice! (But it's the lowest priority request ever, you can do it after a year or so, not much people would care). Also, no idea if you're planning on wiping the logs too, so the point might be very moot.

Kazuldur, thanks for the great service and support.

It was quite a ride. Good luck in your future endeavors.

Hey, just wanted to chime in and say it's really great you are doing this.

1. Please don't skim on the API docs (unless you are cloning FB api 1:1), especially the error codes, fail states, etc.

2. Are you going to include altcoins, such as DOGE? Not a priority, but some heads up would be nice.

Good luck! Watching this very closely.

On FaucetBOX closing.

So you guys have heard the news.

FaucetBOX is closing down, as explained here https://faucetbox.com/en/closing

1. What does it mean for SatoshiGalaxy?

Nothing really. We have always supported Paytoshi as a our back-up microwallet and we're just going to keep using that.

We will also change the refilling rates for those two, starting today.

The ref. payouts will also move to Paytoshi during the next few days.

2. FaucetHUB?

mexicantarget, a well-known and respected player in faucet community is going to start his own micro-payment service,

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672870.0

As soon as it's up to our standards, we will add support for it.

3. DOGE withdrawals.

Out of all micro-payment services only FaucetBOX supported alts such as LTC and DOGE. Paytoshi does not support them.

That means that we will have to disable DOGE withdrawals.

If Paytoshi (or FaucetHUB) add support for DOGE, those will come back.

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FaucetBOX was always good to us in regards to support, and they provided a top notch service. Beside being a faucet hub, they also solve the problem
of dust transactions accumulating crazy fees for users (off-chain), which we believe is a very important service for all Bitcoin users in general.

Without FaucetBOX, SatoshiGalaxy wouldn't have even started as a project and we owe much of it to them.

In all honesty, Paytoshi were even better to us in terms of their support (they fixed the API bugs and even merged our patches to their library, FaucetBOX outright ignored those same patches). In our opinion they deserve a surge in traffic and use.

And we have great hopes for FaucetHUB, because mexicantarget has shown a great track record of being a crazy productive dev. In fact, we might see something new and cool.

Thanks to @pcjob for tipping us off.

Hey guys. No, that is absolutely not something that should be happening.

Doomsday is therefore disabled until we figure it out. Looks like the bug is over-reaching and probably involves pirates too. But people were probably ignoring it, thinking they were just unlucky. (And we were probably ignoring the rare reports for the same reasons).

I have the logs of the battle, and the list of the supposed looted (but no fairness proof to go with it :( ) I'll distribute it by hand :(

By the way, we had a pending article explaining the black box in detail, but it never got finished and/or published on the site. I'll probably post the abridged version here.


Meh, they told me this was fixed already. Thanks for the report!

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Update: OK, I've sent some somewhat similar stuff your way. I don't feel too good about it because I had to figure this out on my own, and looting is the kind of a process that should happen with as little human intervention as possible. I can't guarantee it would've been distributed the same way... Sorry about all the commotion.

This is excellent stuff. We don't want planet management to be fully automatic (ever), for obvious reasons. But we tossed around a few ideas of how to make something like this happen. Whichever direction we pick, it will HAVE to involve player activity. Maybe you would be able to hire newbies to haul materials for you. No promises here, but that's something we'd love to see.

(In the meantime, my advice would be to utilize social element and maybe make some deals to that effect).

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The "events happening at exactly the same moment" is not really a problem, that's how the game operates. You might have seen the "Last turn" printout on the main page.

But for the bug itself, yeah :( I've already bumped the priority on that one, but it's a tricky beast.

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As much as I would LOVE to take credit for that, I'm afraid it happened on it's own somehow. Must be that dynamic economy thing in play.

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@onlinedigger, got your explanations and suggestions, thanks. Very interesting stuff.

Yeah, this happens form time to time, but is extremely rare. We weren't able to ever reproduce this bug, so fixing it is kinda hard. It looks like it only happens when server is under serious duress.

I've bumped the priority on this one. Thanks for the report!

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Sure, shoot! I think things have been stable enough for a while to try something new. Usual disclaimer apply, though :)

Not bad, and at least 1 idea is already on the list. Thanks!

But could you please elaborate on station quests? We never heard of Space Rangers :( Looks like a great game, though, and man, Star Control 2 is a huge influence on us.

Off-topic: did you guys know you can play it for free, as "Ur-Quan Masters"? No need for DOSBox either!

Ahh, I see!

It's a remnant of the old problem we had closer to the start of the galaxy. For some reason 3 systems were named Terebellum, so I had to go in and rename them manually. But not the planets, so it's a bit screwed. My fault.

Please don't mind this, and just pick a different name or conquer and rename those other Terebellum planets. Hopefully that's not too much of an issue.