Hey Toecutter, I don't know when you're online in the game or how to message you really, but I have an offer to make to you guys that you might be interested in. Give me a PM sometime and I'll explain.
Will do, thank you.
Well, I have the Premium Account now, but it's still says i should send the btc to the adress.
Right, sorry about that! Please ignore it for now (and obviously, don't send any more BTC), we'll fix it at a later day. Does Stealth really give me a Evading bonus?
It don't feel like it changed anything on evading.
It does. HOWEVER, while we investigated it, we have found some other related problems, which were fixed in today's update.
Update. - [BUG] Aim skill bonus did not apply when attacking planets.
- [BUG] Evade skill bonus did not apply when evading defense grids.
- [BUG] Stealth modifier did not apply when evading defense grids. (@black_wulf)
- [ENC] Increase Orbital Cannon overheat.* (@zaiusz)
- [ENC] Decrease Orbital Cannon max.durability.* (@zaiusz)
I hope you guys remember Orbital Cannon nerf. was promised a long time ago. We actually really considered removing it from the game completely, but that would've been extremely unfair to players who invested in it. However, our logs show it's being used very actively these days, so we were prompted to hurry up with the nerf, before the whole galaxy is "reformatted" back to void state. |
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Couple thoughts Toe, as to the marketplace being a big driver of trade I would think that rather than galaxy-wide shortages of things, it might be wiser to simply have different things available at different stations at different times. That way, maybe a station has what you need, maybe it doesn't, maybe it's worth jumping around to find it, or maybe it's easier to go the marketplace.
But also, I think there needs to be more players in the game before the marketplace really "fills out" so to speak.
The game would've played much differently and much better with, say, 1000 players... To that end, I think focusing on features that make the game more fun to play will drive more players to the game. I mean sure some people just see this as a means to an end (satoshi) but I think the game has real potential for players who are looking just to have some fun.
I don't know what you have in the pipeline development wise but there's a lot of room to grow on the fun end, I think.
We have about 400 tickets in the database, ranging from small bugs, to minor to major gameplay features... Right now, we're concentrating on bug fixes the most, but hopefully time will come to bring other stuff too.
Why not to change NPC market resource availability:
Green planets: Copper-Argentum
Yellow planets: Gold-Timonium
Red planets: Sapphire-Dilithium
Similar with plates etc.
Yeah, I kinda like this too. We have a similar ticket on the list, I'll add this bit.
[...]Arr! Pirate chatter[...]
We actually had something similar in the past. But not quite. That's a lovely idea, thank you.
Meh, our bitcoin node was disconnected from the network for some reason :( Everything should be fine now. Same drill as before, everyone, if you are having any troubles with this, just PM me/post here, and I'll fix this ASAP. Thank you for your donation!
FUCK YOU ALL TOECUTTER AND ALL WITH YOU!
??? I've just checked, and we actually don't have a rule about offending staff members and whatnot, and I don't really care either, but, what the hell? Also, I see you've decided to fully drain the faucet balances again, which I guess is the second part of the "FUCK YOU" message. Given it takes several days to confirm the transactions rights now, it's especially hurtful. Nonplussed.
Small update. - [BUG] Demolishing Warehouses left some broken items scattered around. (@?)
- [BUG] Cloaked ships were still targetable by defense grid. (@?)
- [ENC] Premium-powered ship repair speedup no longer works for criminals.* (@?)
*Sorry about the last one, but this should put people fighting each other (and each other's planets) to more equal terms. |
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Bugs?
Ads in the top advertising block in SG1 lead straight to coinzilla not to the actual advertisers site. I don't know if this is effecting your earnings or not.
Additionally ads in the second (middle bottom) block states (SG1 again) "advertise in this spot" lead me to a blockadz site which displays a 404 error for site not found.
Thanks for the report! It appears blockadz has died as a service, expect it to be removed soonish. The were supposed to send us some satoshi, oh well.
As for the discussion. I've read all of it, but I just can't reply to everything with quotes, like I usually do, there's just too much stuff :) However, I'll comment on some points. 1. Planet ownership. It's not a problem for us, they are indeed not as profitable as newbies may think, and on top of that, the number of planets is limited. So, from financial standpoint, one player owning ALL THE PLANETS is the same thing as 1-planet-per-player situation or whatever permutation of those. 2. We will adjust the crafting / cooldown rates. For guys following the development process, it shouldn't be a surprise, we often first introduce the feature, then iron out the bugs in said feature, then finally fine-tune the actual numbers. So chances are, crafting will become easier again in the following updates. 3. Posting your earnings is not necessary, I mean, feel free to do it, but we're not upset about it in any way, this is the point of the game (to some) anyway. 4. There is a clear conflict of interests in regards to players who play just to play and players who play to withdraw. Former deserve faster earning rates, later deserve slower, and we're kinda stuck in-between those two realities. I believe I said it before: without the withdrawal feature, the game would've been balanced entirely differently, with things taking days and hours instead of months and days. Similarly, the equipment cooldowns would've been seconds, not minutes. 5. The main resource in the game is satoshi. Skills, time, gear, ships, planets, allies, information, etc -- are all important. However, your real progress is measured in satoshi, because you can simply buy lots of stuff you need. And that was a problem, even without the withdrawal aspect. You need something that costs 250k? No problem, click-click-click, 250k worth of stuff crafted. Need something that's worth a mil? No problem either. I'm exaggerating here, but this was bothering us for a long time. Side-note: for the same reason, shortage was met with some hostility. It was the only thing stopping people from buying stuff. Money was never a problem. Which is wrong. 6. Ability to buy everything is a two-edged sword. We can't turn it off, because the game is supposed to work even with one lone player online (he can't rely on marketplace in that case), but without the cooldown, people were just buying everything off NPCs and not giving the marketplace proper attention. By design, you were never supposed to be able to craft everything on your own, it was always supposed to be a team effort. Some people smelt stuff, some people make circuits out of that stuff, other people make components, etc.
Oh, one more thing worth mentioning. The bitcoin network is acting very slow this month, at least that's how we see it. The faucet balances were supposed to be refilled long time ago, the transactions are just not confirming :( So, just so you know, it's not a deliberate measure on our end. Everyone's CPU has been restored. |
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I know, I know. I'll just leave this here, make of it what you will.  I promise that I'll post an overtly detailed summary of our financial history one day.
@zaiusz, truly sorry to hear that, that's a very unlucky coincidence, indeed. Hopefully you can recover. |
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Thank you for the report!
how much can I earn in this site?
Can't really tell. Something like 12 satoshi per 5 minutes :) After you upgrade your ship, 500-1000 satoshi per hour? Veteran crafters were making around 500k-1mil per day, but today's update should make it harder for them.
I did the killing damage to doomsday, then a few moments later he hit me with an ancient laser wrecking my ship, even though I'd already done the last damage.
Relativity theory and speed of light: it shot laser beam out before yours reached it :D Hehe, I like this. Beats telling people "our server can and often does process events out of order" or "there's a known problem with race conditions" every time.
Either way I feel rightfully jipped out of Doomsday loot there.
Very sorry to hear that, but that's just how SG rolls. You can get shot while docking to a station or even jumping to another sector, can't really be helped without full server re-write.
Update! - [ENC] Introduce crafting masteries/item excellence.*
- [ENC] Add critical hits for some damage types.** (@Przemax)
- [ENC] Add crafting cooldowns.***
- [SG2] Make cargo/equipment item tooltips hide when necessary.
* Equipment crafters now have a chance to create "excellent" items. In addition to improved durability, some of the stats might get a boost! NPCs will not pay you extras for such items, and marketplace is not really ready to correctly deal with them either, but they should work at least. ** Critical hits may occur when you get a perfect "natural" roll. This doubles the hull/def.grid damage. Ion, and other damage is not multiplied. *** Whelp, the time has finally come to nerf crafters once more. I know full-well, NOBODY is going to be happy with this change, but crafters drain our faucet balances too fast. Note: the cooldown time is not added linearly, the more you want to craft per one click, the longer it will take to cooldown. This is done to offset the "craft in batches to minimize burns" thing that appeared against our will after batch crafting became a thing. |
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The option only appears when you do have actual slots to upgrade, so I'm not filing this yet. |
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not its level but its capacity, from 1 square to maximum 10
Should be there too. Is it not? :( PA can't be ordered by account balance? :( So i should withdraw first :-[ Anyway, lets see what we get after time out :)
Yeah, sorry about that. Although inconvenient, it's better (for us) in terms of accounting. Thank you! |
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I am flying with 2 basic reactors, and energy restore is broken today. Ship stats say the rate is 15 (which is kind of not fair, should be 20, but this has been the case for a long time). However, the actual restore rate is 10, and this is new.
On reactors stacking: we actually went through multiple phases with this, going from "do not stack at all" (completely not fair) to "everything is just added together" (proved to be too over-powered) to the middle-ground we have now. As for your actual enquery, yeah, I'm betting you are using ones with low durability.
Unable upgrade warehouse in SG2, or can't find right button.
I think it's under "Build" button. |
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Thank you for sending.
Our deposit system must have skipped the status checking.
Check your deposit.
Yup, it's there. Thank you very much! |
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Are further "extras" planned for the PA? If so, when are they implemented in the game?
The answer is "maybe". We have some ideas, but please do not expect anything or you might end up disappointed. Thank you for your donation.
Full disclosure: there was a bug with his transaction, so we're still not 100% reliable in receiving BTC. Please report any problems to me, I'll try to resolve those ASAP.
@matek1234, I've checked your planet, and it looks like everything is fine. When it says "unknown", it could mean anything from 5 minutes to many hours, I believe you just have to wait for a little longer. If it still doesn't work after a day or two, please PM me.
We are aware that epay faucet has been dry for quite some time, we're working on it. |
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Hello, epay!
Have a weird problem with top up.
The transaction is listed and the status is "payment received" (yellow), which is different from "complete" (green), listed on previous transactions. And nothing is happening, the satoshis are not being added...
Is there something else to be done, or..?
Can you give me the txid? Sure, PM'ed you. Just so you (and other people reading this) are clear, the TX is registered within your system, it's just that it's status is weird.  |
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Dear toecutter, I think you did not understand me correctly at the last time. It is about the repair of a reactor. 1/1 durability. From screenshots I try to explain what I mean. I think this is a bug. Failure before repair. 0/1 durability. http://prntscr.com/eefs8c - http://prntscr.com/eefsyhDurability after successful repair. http://prntscr.com/eefu0s - http://prntscr.com/eefuoz According to my logic would now have to be read "durability 1/0". But there is now a durability of 0/0 and thus the reactor is broken and can no longer be used. Thus a repair would be nonsensical and useless. I'm expecting a repair that is successful that I can continue to use the repairs equipment until this drops from 1/0 to 0/0. This is a bug for my understanding. Since after a successful repair of 0/1 would have to change to 1/0 and thus still be functional. In this example, the value of durability changes from 0/1 to 0/0. This is confusing and I do not think it is logical. No, you can't have 1/0 durability, current durability is always less than or equal to maximum durability. Like I said before, you made a good point, with 0/1 equipment being unrepairable in principle, I've already added this to the list.
With the next mistake I am not sure whether it is a bug or whether it is so wanted. This is the "cloaking device". If I load another player with the "Cloaking Device" I get a skill point on "Stealth". If I load my own space
ship with it then I do not get a skill point on "stealth". Is this so wanted or is it a bug?
Yup, already reported before, and likely to be changed so that cloaking own ship gives skill points too.
hi two questions 1. I set miners to dilithium mining one month ago and still nothing (still unknown) then I try with 1000 miners for one day and still nothing.  ? 2. When I shoot npcs with rocket I dont get any aiming skill. thanks for the reply 1. This is very strange. Could you please tell me which planet is that? (You can PM me) 2. You should be getting skill points in aiming as rockets hit your enemies. Does that not work? Added to the list, then.
Everyone's CPU will be restored in a moment. Update. - [SG2] Add referrals window.
- [SG2] Add premium window.
- [SG2] Add popups with item stats to cargo, equipment and warehouse panels.
- [SG2] Add ability to change timezone.
- [SG2] Show note about E-Mail verification near recaptcha, so the SG2-only-newbies realize they can increase their CPU rate.
The premium buying window is now visible in both SG1 and SG2. If you encounter any troubles with it, please let me know, we're not 100% sure all transactions will be registered, etc, so I might need to trigger some stuff manually. Thanks for your understanding! We're still writing a Premium FAQ/TOS, but short version is NO REFUNDS, and THIS IS A DONATION first and foremost. |
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What about my question?  Hello, epay!
Have a weird problem with top up.
The transaction is listed and the status is "payment received" (yellow), which is different from "complete" (green), listed on previous transactions. And nothing is happening, the satoshis are not being added...
Is there something else to be done, or..?
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Hello, epay!
Have a weird problem with top up.
The transaction is listed and the status is "payment received" (yellow), which is different from "complete" (green), listed on previous transactions. And nothing is happening, the satoshis are not being added...
Is there something else to be done, or..?
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2. Can we finaly just do something with font that is showing bp needed components? Realy making me crazy since I started playing game. Allwais zooming in to be able to see exact digits. Wished like 100 time to type it on paper just so I dont need to stare in screen like a goat. Background is nice, just that color of that font on it making evrything darn heavy to read.
Yeah, I think this was mentioned before. Adding to the list. Stealth - should give skill points when applyed on your own ship. I can understand for shield and hull since you wana push team play, but for stealth just dont make any sence. Kinda feel stupid having 0 skill after using it for a week. If anything, stealth is *lone wolf*/*sneeky pirate* skill.
Agreed 100%. I'll pester the devs.
SG1. Goods selling on planet not working. There is no Sell button, it is possible set but/sell items from cargo instead warehouse.
I think you can't see those buttons on your own planet. If you were on someone's else planet, please confirm this, and I'll it to the list. And people say DOGE are worthless :) Thanks. Get shot in Orange sector and my hull is burning 30 seconds, but when i jump into Green sector hull not burning and i can dock to station. Is it normal?
It's gameplay quirk, which doesn't make much sense, but we'll probably not going to fix this any time soon.
I have no quests in SG1. in couple of weeks :( In SG2. I do not know where search for them :(
I believe it's possible to "run out" of quests. I'll double-check this. If it bug about pop-up window when liftoff/undock, then it appears at least when undocking, not influence on anything except delay for actions.
There is "hopping" cargo: when i buy ore and craft plate, i can see that my ore in cargo hop from ore to plate, then back to ore! ;D and then again to plate.
Thank you for the report.
I think i found a bug, You can unmount equipment with cooldown, if you click on it and mount something on this spot (like my reactor this time) http://prnt.sc/ed6es2and if you relode the site the cooldown is away and you can use the Equipment again I think you can use it on every gear with Cooldown ( Weapons,Mining Gear,Support gear) Yikes!! This is horrible. Thank you for the report!
Dear toecutter,
I have an Advanced Reactor with 1/1 durability. Yesterday he did not produce any energy. Then I successfully repaired the reactor in the station and then the reactor had 0/0 durability. According to my understanding
would have to be read however: 1/0 durability.
Nope, you can't repair anything above the 0 value. I guess it's worth mentioning in some tooltip or maybe disabling such attempt completely. I've added it to the list. For other cases, see the tooltip on your screenshots. Maximum durability always goes down as you repair. Current durability might go up, if you are successful. But you might fail too, depending on your luck (and Engineering skill). Good idea. Keep in mind, however, that it's nearly impossible to predict complete failure with that much accuracy. Reactors don't waste durability while they are not charging your ship, and even when they do, it's semi-random.
Hi all galaxiers
Amazing game! ;)
btw toecutter : my cpu is down to 3 ...
thx for your support
Thank you for your feedback. I believe your (and everyone's else) CPU has been properly restored. |
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Looks like the ad window that usually has that ad is just not loading any ads anymore
Yeah, but have we eliminated the evil one or an innocent one is the question. Things looks good from our end, but please confirm. |
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I'm afraid the unmissable action sports ad is still there, still holding things up.
Ugh :( How about now? |
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toecutter, I think the durability is not working properly. I have a mining laser with 0 / 99 and it is working perfectly fine.
As anything except reactors :) Hmm, thanks for the report!
There's a typo one of the flavor texts when you login to the game, it says "fist manned mission to the moon" when I assume it's supposed to be "first manned mission to the moon".
Thank you, fixed!
Everyone's CPU has been restored. Update! - [ENC] Disable direct payouts.*
- [SG2] Add confirmation dialog for ship-to-ship transfer. (@onlinedigger)
- [SG2] Fix "double-lading" bug. (@onlinedigger)
- [SG2] Add ledger controls and ability to sell/buy on planets.
- [SG2] Revamp Bank interface.
- [SG2] Add news, hints and bar to stations.
- [SG2] Add planetary quests interface.
- [SG2] Hide certain options on planets better.
- [SG2] Fix wrong text on map previews.
- [SG2] Add options to disable flash messages. (@shivasimha)
- [SG2] Add option to disable energy bar predictions. (@onlinedigger)
- [SG2] Add option to disable rendering. (@shivasimha)
- [SG2] Add ship status icons (criminal, etc) to target panel.
Direct withdrawals to BTC wallets were bugged and we decided to disable them completely, for the time being. Oh, and I think we have found the evil ad, please confirm :) |
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In SG2 energy bar ''regenerates'' energy and synchronizing with actual amount only once after you did something all other time it shows wrong amount until page refresh. Synchronizing energy bar with actual amount every minute will show more accurate amount of energy.
We'll try to address the energy bar issue(s) in the next SG2 update.
So, the last couple weeks i think it's time to complain about the ads. I know you've heard it all before but that damn extreme sports video is such a crippler.. and just now I had a redirect ad that took me right out of the game, and automatically opened a save file dialogue. I tried to hit the back button and noticed in the list of past sites it was just filled with this stupid redirect site endlessly. I had to relogin to the game because of this. Not sure what is more annoying, the redirects or the amount of time the extreme sports ad comes up and chokes my computer for 30 seconds.
Also I concur about the extreme sports ad. It completely locks you down, I wrecked twice in one night because I would jump to a system and not be able to act for 30 seconds. Really problematic.
Ugh, no, actually we were under the impression we fixed our ad problems (by removing "ubercpm" ad provider). I guess not :( Thanks guys, I'll look into it (probably with a bit of your help).
Toecutter, have the devs considered making withdrawal to Litecoin an option too? Just a thought.
Sure, and all kinds of fun coins too (given faucethub/epay supports them). However we haven't even integrated DOGE properly into the game yet... If we ever add more coins, Litecoin is definitely the first to go. |
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Sorry, missed your post :( Regarding the inventory fulfillment to planets by others, haven't tried this recently. Does it still allow players to land on your planet to fulfill orders? Because if it does, it does open up a door to espionage or malicious intents such as dropping off alien virus. I probably wouldn't use this feature unless there was a secure way of doing it, like a loading dock on the planet that wouldn't allow players to see any activities or tamper. :P
No, this change was reverted, as the rules were confusing enough. The "everyone can land" checkbox is your end-all setting, which is not overridden by anything (except squad and alliance laws).
I dont know hows that work. Can you give some insights? Does Qlosseum shows on some sector and there players can skirmish against eachother? That would be awesome for Qlosseum to have some sheudule or warning when it will be available. People need to plan their time to plane their PvP we all have different time zones, jobs and daily choirs that we need to plan out for such kind of events make any sense at all.
That's the thing, people are spread all over the globe to organize this properly. So we opted for Qlosseum appearing more often instead. Hopefully, one of those times enough people will be online/interested to participate. Schedule sounds interesting, though, I've added this to the list. |
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