@5leepyJoe, thanks for your attempts, but I fully expect 17 more pages of the same question repeated over and over. ;)

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Thank you. Like I suspected, you are not selecting an other ship to switch to, but the ship you are already in.

On both your screenshots you are piloting a non-wrecked Privateer (like, I assume, you wanted).

The "◎" symbol shows which one you're piloting currently. The error message is correct.


When you die, your active ship (the one you are currently piloting, the one that just got wrecked) is transported to a safe station. This does not affect any of your other ships at all. They stay as they were.

So I think what you describe is expected behavior. But please elaborate if I misunderstood you.

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Hello, matek1234.

This is more of a bug than a feature, which was already reported and the fix is impending. Thanks for bringing it up!

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Wait, what, really? There were going to be some changes regarding this in the next update, but now I'm not sure they are actually any good. Oh, well.

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Update!

• [BUG] Industrial Motherboard blueprint missing from stations. (@kakucis006)
• [BUG] Mineral composition on planets not displayed correctly in some cases. (@kakucis006)
• [ENC] Wharf repair price has been slightly lowered. (@ ?)
• [BUG] Rockets following ships to stations or planets. (@ ?)
• [BUG] New skills do not show up at leaderboard. (@ ?)
• [BUG] Rockets can become aimless after target ship is destroyed.
• [ENC] Lapidary is a little bit easier now.
• [ENC] Some adjustments to crafting skill gain.*
• [ENC] Adjust sector cleansing rates.
• [ENC] Ion disruption no longer affects equipment cooldown directly.

There is also some pirate chatter (Arrr!) regarding sector cleansing that should give you some feedback on your progress. This is temporary.

* When crafting materials below your skill level (in other words, when there is a zero chance to burn ingredients) you now receive ZERO points. On the other hand, if you're doing materials way above your skill level, you receive X2 points.

As far as rockets go, here's the run-down of the current rules:

- If you are docked to station when rocket hits, you get +10000 evade bonus.
- However, stations will not allow you to dock if any rockets are following you.
- If you are on a planet when rocket hits, you get smallish evade bonus.
- Planets allow you to land per their laws, as usual; don't care about rockets following you.
(In the future, the planet thing will probably be re-worked to be more intricate.)

Industrial Motherboard should be in. But this is worth checking, thanks for the report.

And, woah, that screenshot sure is confusing! My answer: I can't tell! It's obviously a bug, and an intriguing one at that. Thanks for the report.

Sorry, someone will have to bite the bullet and be the first to figure out the whole Orbital Cannon thing. But just to re-iterate my point, it does not deal "Hull Damage" it deals a whole different type of damage, and whatever precise number I throw at you won't help much.

Regarding the switching bug, I think I've got everything needed. Are you 100% sure you are selecting an other ship to switch to? Sorry for this mildly insulting question, but this needs to be established.

I believe I already addressed the rest of your inquiries, but if you have more - shoot.

You are supposed to able to switch ships at will, like you describe. If you can't, it's most likely a bug.

I just tried it, though, and can't reproduce this easily -- seems to me switching is working fine, and having 2 ships of the same type does not trigger any additional problems.

Could you please double-check things on your end?

Well, don't be too fast to dismiss player input, for example the above answer by 5leepyJoe was near damn perfect, literally not a word to add.

Anyways,

1. I believe you can check out the stats for the Slicing Laser when it's on sale. Generally, there's no such thing as "unlimited damage", every item has a pretty specific stat.

2. GPD cruisers can definitely be destroyed. I'm a bit unclear about the loot, you'll probably have to find out yourself. As far as HP goes, you can easily determine it the regular way, by poking it :)

(1+2 Ask around, I believe those things are pretty well-known to the community at this point.)

3. Yup, they respawn pretty quickly. It gives you a small window of opportunity, but it really is small.

4. Orbital Canons deal what we call "Planetary" or "Orbital" damage. It is really devastating, but it won't destroy a planet in one hit. Note: this is a measure of last resort / WMD kind of thing, hopefully only to be used as a negotiation tactic and not as a real weapon.

Also, please expect re-balancing/nerfs in all those areas. This is pretty high-end stuff with rather shocking effects... The Slicing Laser was not supposed to be on sale at all, this is a bug-turned-feature kind of situation, that might still change.

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Some pirates with rocket launchers still deal direct hull damage. It's a bug, but not a serious one - they are just old-timers, who were generated before the related fix. Please just kill them all, so the galaxy can finally move on.

Hello, feeshes.

If this keeps happening, please send me an e-mail/PM with your IP address.

As far as pirates go, it depends. It's possible you just missed the looting window (e.g. by docking to a station). It's also possible you've encountered a buggy pirate from an older batch. It is also possible that particular pirate did not have any loot, for legitimate reasons. In any case, you can see your hunt rolls (rolls/hunt URL) to make sure.

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1. They are supposed to add notes to the "Your notes" section on the map. Might be broken, though, thanks for the report.

2. We do not indeed load it on other pages to reduce unnecessary bloat, but something probably could be done. Added to the list.

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Hey, thanks for pointing this out. As far as I know, they are fine as is, but we'll take another look at them.

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She is cybernetically augmented, of-course she is going to look scary. :)

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Tiny update: the implementation of DOGE bank broke satoshi withdrawals, so we're reverting this. (Meaning: BTC withdrawls now work fine, DOGE do not). We'll return DOGE withdrawals on the next big update.

Hey, welcome back!

GPD and CONS cruisers guard their respective sectors against any player-vs-player attacks (and that includes planets as well). So yeah, they would protect your planets too.

Good point, added to the list.

In the meantime, please use the "/rolls" and "/rolls/hunt" URLs.

Oh, woah, thanks for the report! Not sure at what point exactly this happened, but yeah, lots of equipment has gone missing from NPC market!

Hopefully fixed now, the effects will only become visible on the next price re-roll.

Ugh, looks like it's ~0.1%, which is weird. It can't be this low. I'm not entirely sure, but something is probably broken, so thanks for the report! I'll get back to you about it.


The loot pattern has not been changed in quite a while. The only thing changed in that area is the "strange items" category, which was incorrectly introduced, then hastily removed, and finally re-enabled again.

Maybe those were indeed the olden pirates? If you're seeing pirates without the "loot seed", those are definitely old-timers, spawned long long time ago. Please check your hunt rolls.

Really glad I could help, and I've learned my lesson too. Never skim on announcements when the change [might be perceived as/actually is] drastic.

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Hello, black_wulf!

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry for your misfortune :( The confirmation dialog is doable, I'll add it to the TODO list. But I'll be honest, the priority for this is going to be the lowest possible, as this is a mistake that is easy enough to avoid.

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Sorry, I'm not allowed to reveal blueprint recipes, so that question was a bit loaded for me. But I can confirm everything 5leepyJoe said is correct.


Nope, they weren't! The only thing coming to my mind is a tiny bonus that was added to Mining+Prospecting. I'm resorting to "probably your luck" reply for now, but I'll double-check if everything is in order.

Yeah, BUF100 was supposed to be a support item. This nerf discourages its use for tanking and encourages helping out. That being said, you can still get it back to full 25 by leveling up your Recharge skill, and not by much.

Little word of warning - the shielding mechanic is probably going to be fine-tuned some more, as it's very new.

Hello, mrrkuchc!

No, there are currently no items in the game that can be directly applied to your ship (for upgrades or other effects).

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Ugh, trust me, I would've made a much larger post on such an occasion :) In fact, thinking something like that is even possible shows a deep misunderstanding of our principles :( But I don't blame you, it's entirely my own fault, shows how good at communication I am. To make up for it, I'll try my best to explain this feature (without spoiling too much).

But to clear up,
NO, SatoshiGalaxy is not going to switch to DOGE (or LTC, or ETH or whatever). Not now, not ever.
You can quote me on that.

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It is a bit of a joke, even to us. "Blog post" follows, but TL;DR version for you is that if you absolutely and uncompromisingly hate dogecoin, could you please find it in your heart and ignore it?

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So the main point here is that we are always on a lookout for things that make in-game economy more dynamic. Our reliance on BTC is one such "fun" thing, because it adds real world as an entropy source. So we always toyed with an idea of adding other cryptocoins into the mix.

In the meantime we were developing (a bit of strong word, huh) a new item, that was supposed to fit in a very important niche in the ingredient hierarchy. By a happy(?) accident, this item and the newly introduced crypto are one and the same.

Lastly (to answer "why DOGE"), people have repeatedly asked us for withdrawals in this coin. Apparently, some other game(s) accepts them as deposits, and people don't want to pay the exchange fees for dust, and such. A bit esoteric, and probably completely unneeded. But we want to be a part of larger crypto community (which includes DOGE, love it or hate it) and it was easy enough to implement, thanks to faucetbox. If this motivates people to withdraw more, the better.

Yes, you can withdraw those ridiculous coins directly to your wallets.
You don't have to, it's just an option.
No, it's not a good alternative to an exchange, you'll loose about 50% or even more.
You can hold on to them, maybe they'll go into orbit one day?

Some random notes, not to convince anyone, but just to make our line of thinking more clear:
- DOGE is associated with "fun and games"
- DOGE has a pretty good reputation (no black markets, etc)
- More memetic than LTC, probably the second most known coin

I really and honestly do appreciate the notion of our in-game copper ore being more valuable than doge coins (as one E-Mail eloquently put it).

One is only good as long as SG is good, the other will probably survive a bit longer, thanks to all the miners (but we'll see about that). I promise you, that
the day DOGE falls down to 0 satoshi we'll be removing it and changing to some other coin. But we do want some other coin to exist right inside the game world, as a game item, for reasons explained above.

Seriously, though, that level of trust and appreciation of the in-game world is something we're really happy to see. All the DOGE hate has been heard and will be evaluated. It's a bit of a shocker, really, we were hoping for a much more positive response, but, well, point taken.

Oh, and despite the recent bounty bug (yikes, our programmer got scolded), our policies regarding Players' satoshi balances are very strict. Unless the situation is absolutely critical, we would never touch someone's balance. There are several in-game mechanisms that prevent us from tampering with that number (for example, gifts are issued in form of items).

Silently going and converting all that into DOGE (or into whatever) would breach like 15 of our principles at the same time.

This is a BTC game, and BTC is life. Maybe I haven't expressed that enough (or ever), but we're all BTC fanatics. We don't hold any (serious) DOGE, nor have any stake in it, nor condone it's usage.

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Final question. Do you guys hate all altcoins equally? Would LTC been better than DOGE? Just collecting some data here.

Update!

• [BUG] Pulse weapons do not work at all. (@ ?)
• [ENC] Add filters to Factory/blueprint windows. (@ ?)
• [ENC] Add ability to specify destination slot when merging items. (@5leepyJoe)
• [ENC] Warehouse loading/unloading now respects destination slot.
• [ENC] Add "clear" button to Laboratory uplinking window. (@Przemax)
• [ENC] Make mining bonus more gradual over danger.
• [ENC] DOGE!
• [BUG] Hints do not respect user preferences.*
• [BUG] Bounty is rewarded per-hit instead of per-person.
• [BUG] UI is still wrapping incorrectly on some mobile/webkit devices. [?]

*You will probably see some hints you have already seen. Just close them, this is a one-time thing.

5leepyJoe, please send me an e-mail/PM if you keep experiencing CPU rate problems.

I think the problem here is that the planet itself is uplinked somewhere else and is researching something else. This probably should not be allowed. Please try to remove the "Alienos -> Somewhere" link, and see if that helps.

Update!

• [ENC] Strange items are back into loot circulation
• [BUG] Negative bounty leads to free satoshi

That latest bug was critical, but thanks to the prompt community response, no serious damage was done to the game. Thank you!

Great idea! I don't have powers to assist, like disabling GPD cruisers or pirates in a sector, but announcing this and giving out some bounties should be doable!

Edit: this actually happened.


Oh, hey, thanks for the report! Fixed.

Update!

• [ENC] Improve hull visibility when progress bar is low. (@captcher)
• [BUG] Failed jobs take too long to expire. (@captcher)
• [BUG] NPCs' rockets do not match player rockets. (@przemax)

We have also added a lot of new content. I was going to write all about it, but it's just too overwhelming. Please explore on your own, but feel free to ask questions.

And yeah, all this new stuff is going to be re-balanced/fine-tuned as usual.

Sounds fine, and not particularly exploitable, added to the TODO list.

Well, feel free to send me a PM or an e-mail, we're always on lookout for feedback.