I've sent you a PM regarding this. But don't you have all 3 already? (If you don't, there must be some other bug at play) Yeah, looks like you have all of them.

Sorry, didn't mean it like that. This looks like a bug indeed, my confusion rises from the fact storage space should have nothing to do with ancient research at all. We'll look into it.

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If that's a bug report, please provide some details. Just to be clear, all planet names should be unique.

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Guys with multiple accounts: you can stop writing those emails/PMs to me. We gave you all the tolerance we could, but you just keep registering new accounts. Hint: this is a very bad strategy, having one skilled up account would get you much more benefits.

Hey guys.

Sorry for the delay. We had an influx of new players/bots so I took my sweet time to sift through everything.

I think I've restored most legit players' CPU rates, but please ping me if I missed you.

@onlinedigger, thanks a lot for all those reports.

@przemax, we actually tried speeding up the game on our test server and it turned out pretty nice indeed. There are still problems that need to be dealt with, but something along those lines is probably going to happen at some point.

@5leepyJoe, no changes to the burn rates, swear it :)

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If you have sent an E-Mail or PM, please forgive me, but you'll have to wait a bit longer. I'll reply to everything, as usual, just being overflown with stuff right now.

Hey, that's odd. No changes there, using same rates as before.

Yup, that is correct.

Just to make sure we're on the same page, you waste energy even if you end up burning all the ingredients.


You should be getting 1 skill point for each successful rocket hit. Thanks for the report, filed.

That is a bit inconvenient, but that's how it works.


Ouch, this is horrible. I think you should PM me to tow you somewhere else if this happens. We'll think about a workaround. Try not to get into such situations in the meantime :)


Thanks for the report! Which item was that?


It is indeed normal.


Oh, hmm, I guess that means you can't. Only manual crafting for those dangerous materials.

Update.

• [BUG] Energy cost display does not always display correct value. (@?, @Quellzar)
• [BUG] Planetary crafting energy costs are skewed. (@onlinedigger, @Quellzar)
• [BUG] Slither Bp still available in several places. (@kakucis006)
• [ENC] Remove Enforcers and Slicing Lasers from players' reach.
• [ENC] Add 1 Ancient blueprint.

OK, so there were a few bugs and questions related to the crafting energy cost.
Now that the bugs are fixed, I can tell you with reasonable assurance, that:

- Different stations have different fees.
- Different planets have different fees.

So if you see those values varying, that's probably why.

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Thanks for the new bug reports, Quellzar, kakucis006, onlinedigger. Everything has been added to the list.


It doesn't really matter, as there are no NPC Maulers.

Did my reply gave off a "shut up" vibe? Sorry if that's the case, cause it definitely was not the intention. All ideas on both micro and macro scale are always appreciated.


Wait, let me make sure I understand you. So assuming we go with 1:100 rate for play-money to satoshi, 1 single asteroid becomes worth 100 times less?

I hope I'm just missing the point here.

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Your math and statements look correct, but I don't get what are you trying to say? Are you happy with the current system? Not happy? Help me out here :)

Typed out a 5-paragraph reply to this post but lost it all due to session lapse. :(

Please forgive me for not having the heart to type it all out again, I'll have to do bullet points

- Most new players leave as soon as they see there's "no game here, just some text".
- Remaining players do not understand game UI. They click random buttons and don't get any results. It's sad.*
- Remaining players leave after mining their first asteroid. "100 satoshi? Stupid faucet".

If you made it through the sign-up, can speak english, and mined at least TWO asteroids, you will stay in the game. That's what our stats show us.

It's either "1 asteroid and goodbye", either "2 asteroids and I'm staying".

*Translating the game into Indonesian, Russian, Chinese, etc, would help tremendously.

I think the 2/2 durability items is an excellent idea. Fully agreed on missions.

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I think enough has been said since that post, but if you need any other clarifications, I'm happy to oblige.

And it's nice to see some positive comment for a change :) Usually people ignore all the good stuff and jump straight into nerfs.

Nope, there is a hard cap of 80 energy points. No single item "costs" more than that. This is sub-optimal (because higher-end items all fall into that range, despite the wildly varying cost), but at least it doesn't break the game.

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Absolutely.


It won't change a thing. Instead of millions of satoshi, people would just acquire billions of satoshi.

Same with introducing more powerful items that cost more. There has to be a cap somewhere, or this will become either a ponzi, either a endless power-creep scenario. Both are unsustainable.

(I.e., let's say we introduce a Trucker II, that has twice as much cargo space. And it would cost 10 mil. satoshi to buy. In the very short time, people would regain those 10 mil., but now we're looking a much larger problem - they can generate twice as much satoshi per click. Do we now introduce Trucker III, to eat away their funds? We can play this game for a long time, but in the end, we will lose).

Here's what really works great for MMORPGS in general: having no link at all between in-game currency and the real-world money.

Take World of Warcraft, for example. People pay the subscription fees. Those fees are what sustain the company. The in-game gold is completely untethered from this, and all prices can be fine-tuned to make the game as fun as possible. The rate of gold income can be fine-tuned too.

I don't know about any other real-cash games, that do not actually allow you to deposit. Those games are usually casino games (beneath the layers), and the house has the edge, plain and simple. Casino games are of-course easily sustainable because of this (they generate steady income, and players steadily lose money).

In SG, players always have the edge. Even if you cut gems, you will come out on top, if you repeat it enough times. Every single thing in the game works for your advantage.

So as you can see, there are a lot of conflicting interests tangled here. We could probably fix the game "once-and-for-all", by either:

a) Removing withdrawals completely
b) Allowing people to deposit
c) Adjusting the edge so you lose in the end

But that would go strongly against the founding principles of the game.

It's more fun to try to do it our way, even if it's not the most popular approach. Headache-inducing, yes, but as long as at least one person on this planet appreciates our efforts, it's all good.

Yeah, you weren't the only one. Don't worry, nothing is going to happen to your account, but those 2 slicing lasers are going to be removed.

Thanks for the reports!

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Thank you! Fixed.

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There is no fee. Where are you getting that info from? And the minimum is 1 satoshi, not 100 :)

Update.

• [BUG] Ships built in wharfs come with equipment.*
• [BUG] Defense Grids do not shoot back at NPCs.

* This is the first serious exploit that WAS NOT reported in time, or at all. Not cool.

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Crafting was always too good. Compared to everything else in the game. No cooldowns, no energy costs,
unlimited supply of source ingredients. It's just not fair to miners and hunters who actually have to spend
all those AND risk being killed at the same time, only to generate 1000 times less satoshi per minute.

It will not affect newbies at all, unless you consider 1 energy per copper plate a horrible price to pay.

Sorry for short reply, I'll add more comments as soon as I regain some brain power.

Update!

• [BUG] Selling ships doesn't take durability into account.
• [BUG] Equipment still stacks when it shouldn't. (@onlinedigger)
• [ENC] Crafting costs energy now.*
• [ENC] Doomsday is activated.**

* Crafters are still way over-powered. Expect more nerfs in that area.

** Because you guys can totally deal with it now.

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@Przemax, that's some excellent feedback! I'll add some comments soon.

Hello, hexiuss.

Thanks for your feedback. It's "one account per one human being" in theory, but yeah, 1 per IP in practice.

Thanks for all the feedback.

I understand that nerfing NPC trade would be very inconvenient by itself, but the question was more about making the Player trade more lucrative.

Maybe you guys have any other ideas?

As for technical difficulties I really don't want to give out false info, as I don't fully understand it myself. I know that it is similar with "craft multiple things at once" issue we had earlier. I've been told it's "impossible to do", because that would require "putting the whole thing in a loop and that is bad for performance". The whole thing was then re-written to still allow it without loops, by pre-calculating some stuff that needed to be done, and then "doing it" in one pass. However, I've been told it's "impossible to do" with storage space now. I'm not sure if some re-writing would help here too or what not.

Please don't quote me on any of that, I feel out of my depth with the whole issue.

OK, quick question: would limiting buying from NPCs (to 10 items per turn) make things better?

There really are tech.difficulties in our codebase that make "claim all" hard to implement.

Done!


I see, thank you.

Hey, could you please provide more info regarding this? Essentially, which exact action leads to eq. stacking?

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Please put your support structures on the market. I'll deal with the Slither BP too.

Everyone, please DO NOT buy Slither blueprints if you see them. Instead please report it here as a bug.

Yup, you were right. Fixed, thank you!

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The Rogue AI event is over.

In-universe.

Some unknown entity has tampered with the supply of CPUs, deliberately sabotaging the captcha modules.
That lead to "Slither uprising" event. The ships locked out their own pilots and started attacking humans.
It was revealed that CONS had some kind of backdoor into the heating systems of the Slithers.
Which was activated and led to all those ships slowly being destroyed.

However, it's now unclear if CONS has backdoors into all ship designs. In any case, Slithers are off the market.

Out-of-universe.

We just wanted to replace all Slithers with Enforcers :)
And to remove Slithers from the game (for the time being). They'll get re-introduced at later date, but with
completely different stats.

Old Slither = Enforcer (same ship, except for name/design)
New Slither (doesn't exist yet) = something completely different (except for name/design)