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While I'm sure it's very frustrating to those that play and enjoy GSF I can't help but agree that this makes more sense than attempting to patch over the difficulties caused by the poor design decision. This is exactly the same as with Pierce / 4X during KotFE: people going into PVP with no intention of participating and just throwing the match - that caused a lot of problems at the time, so it's a pity to see it repeated.

I don't play GSF, but a few people from my guild have said exactly the same thing since GS started - getting some real unpleasant messages from people, reported for no reason etc etc. Strangely, these guildmembers are actually long-term GSF players and actually quite reasonable players of it... Others have reported the same for PvP too.

Yes, and it's really good to see. Cheers BW people

Yes, that is good news and thank-you for implementing it

We're a small and extremely friendly casual / social guild that does everything you'd expect - PVP, OPs (mostly SM so people can learn, but some Vet). We're open to all players, whatever their experience so long as they are nice - we are very patient with beginners and happy to take the time to run content with them. We tend to be quite chatty as we play too, so it's easy to get to know the members should you wish to. We also have a smaller, less active Rep guild that some of our members are part of too. So, if you fancy being part of a smaller casual guild and being more than just numbers for conquest then PM me.

That would be good :-) I've about a hundred of each crate sitting in my legacy bank as I'm too idle to go through the hassle of opening them all

Well, yes, that's certainly possible. However remote development was a thing way before Covid - it's not at all unusual for devs to WFH (*) - I've spent a fair bit of my worktime doing just that, particularly in recent years as this way of working gets ever-more popular. And, yes, I realise my team isn't BW's team, but I manage a team of entirely remote developers - some not even in the same continent - and we manage perfectly well producing quality software that is use by a hell of a lot of people. Covid makes for extra challenges, sure, but personally I believe they are manageable ones * Sometimes working from home is the only way you can actually get stuff done without distractions

It is quite baffling. Just for context here, rather than any kind of silly boast: I work as a lead software engineer at one of the biggest companies on the entire planet, and as-such, I really can't understand what's going on here at all. The overwhelming majority of developers / QAs that I've worked with have been really passionate about putting out high-quality work - it's a cultural thing - sure, sometimes business pressures get in the way and things aren't quite perfect, but on the whole people do strive for quality. I obviously have no insight to what's going on at BW these days, and whether it's lack of resources or apathy / incompetence I just don't know, but how things like the 'WIP' icon and the many other howlers / own-goals get through to live on a regular basis is, as I've said above, baffling. I know I or my team would never survive such a history of poor releases, not that we would ever get to that stage. I've been playing for a while now and I've put in more hours that I'd comfortably admit to, and I've always enjoyed the game - fundamentally it is a good game. However, as the months go by though I find that I get more and more irritated at myself for continuing to pay for a product which is deteriorating so rapidly through an apparent lack of care or interest.

Sort of. I'm not a massive fan of Star Wars either, I mean it's okay, nothing special. I think I'm more interested it the sci-fi part of, rather than specifically SW, it as I've never been a fan of fantasy stuff. I guess I was just looking for an absolutely huge game to play over an extended period of time that was mostly single-player but with the option to do multiplayer stuff as well. If a new sci-fi MMO appeared that was good I'd probably stop playing this game, at least regularly - would probably return every new content date, for the few hours that would take

Ah, it's non-malicious - just a (deliberate) example of terrible 90s websites with spinning gifs, guestbook, under construction notices etc etc - just your standard 90s GeoCities website. It's probably set off your AV's "OMG - kill this abomination with fire" filter There's only a little HTML and other than the usual Google nonsense js on there a script to play some 90s MIDI music. You can use it to turn modern pages into 1990s horrors. If it sets anyone else's off I'll replace the link with a static image

How the hell have I never noticed these?

I did one earlier and it was 400ish Also, should add that I'm very pleased this has been added

Yes, the whole revamp looks horribly amateurish, and a pointless use of resources.

Do you have any suggestions on how to create a preset? I've tried (without putting in a massive amount of effort) reshade in the past and while it does at first-glance improve a lot, it also on default settings breaks a lot too - i.e. SH hooks, mail indicators.