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KnezBP

KnezBP
0threeleven said:
I have some great news for anybody looking for new video cards, EVGA has stock and sell at their original prices, their out of the LA area. I just bought a RTX 3080 12GB XC3 Ultra Hybrid for $1149.99 US. I've been buying their stuff for decades, super high quality. I hope this means the component shortage is over.
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Nice. I don't know about the chip situation but Jaguar definitely have a concern regarding car parts coming from Ukraine.
 

aRJay

aRJay
0threeleven said:
Found me one of those rare (only my second one) Herbig AE/BE Proto stars

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I also came across a wrecked Diamondback Scout with an occupied escape pod and a bunch of other canisters which I left alone. This thing was approximately 1000Ly from Colonia, I was mapping a moon and a distress signal popped up, I had to dump a repair limpet to bring it along. It's going back to the bubble with me, I hope they don't mind.
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You will need to be more alert as that will count as suitable cargo for an NPC pirate to attack you for, the limpets of course don't count for that.
 

Codger

Codger
0threeleven said:
This thing was approximately 1000Ly from Colonia,
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At one point they had fixed the issue (of POIs showing up on undiscovered planets all over the galaxy). The bug was introduced with one of the patches, then fixed, and now it's back.

And it's still listed as fixed. https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/32092

I attempted to submit a new report of it, but the issue tracker simply fails and says "You can't submit anything at this time, try later." lol.

So, I dunno. It annoys me a bit.
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
KnezBP said:
Nice. I don't know about the chip situation but Jaguar definitely have a concern regarding car parts coming from Ukraine.
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I was poking around after I bought my 3080 and saw a 3060 8GB card for $400, not bad really
aRJay said:
You will need to be more alert as that will count as suitable cargo for an NPC pirate to attack you for, the limpets of course don't count for that.
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Once bitten, twice shy, right? I'm in solo mode even deep in the black. I might take it to a DSS carrier.
Codger said:
At one point they had fixed the issue (of POIs showing up on undiscovered planets all over the galaxy). The bug was introduced with one of the patches, then fixed, and now it's back.

And it's still listed as fixed. https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/32092

I attempted to submit a new report of it, but the issue tracker simply fails and says "You can't submit anything at this time, try later." lol.

So, I dunno. It annoys me a bit.
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I did not know that, I thought it was some hapless explorer that could have been there for 100 years. I did try cutting the power regulator out of the ship but the corner was blocked and there was about an inch of it I couldn't cut.
 

aRJay

aRJay
0threeleven said:
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Once bitten, twice shy, right? I'm in solo mode even deep in the black. I might take it to a DSS carrier.

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I wasn’t thinking about players.

An NPC pirate will attack a ship for any cargo on board except limpets if you don’t have anything they want after they have scanned you to find that out they will leave. This is most likely to be an issue as you approach what passes for civilisation in 3308.
 

Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
KnezBP said:
Nice. I don't know about the chip situation but Jaguar definitely have a concern regarding car parts coming from Ukraine.
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With crypto crashing hard, most people are shutting down all their mining operations as they no longer pay off. Now all of a sudden the graphics card makers who were holding back cards to sell in bulk at ridiculous prices to miners are flush with cards they can't sell.

There never was a shortage. They were simply gouging and selectively selling to Bitcoin miners.
 

CMDR-NOBODY

CMDR-NOBODY
Man~ U can't be serious lulz??
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I think I should donate some bounty to his folks.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
CMDRQuainMarln said:
Did you say you have bought at least one of every ship, 37 of them?
And engineered them?
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All ships except the Cobra IV, yes.

I could probably engineer them all without too much of problem but I find it unnecessary - and it would be grindy to fly them all to the engineers for experimentals :D

The MIs are manufacturing instruction for personal weapons and I'd need an excrement ton of them to get all my guns upgraded :,D
 

Teiri

Teiri
But every ship can fit some niche, smaller or a bigger one. I've resently decided to repair my old mistake of selling my starter Sidewinder, bought one again in Colonia, and built it for salad hunting. It's smallest, so easiest ship to land, also rather speedy. Works nice. Idk, could be that an Eagle a Hauler would do, but Sidewinder is rly much smaller. 15*20m vs 28ish. Not done much testing yet, but landing is the mountains for Tussock was successful.
Codger said:
At one point they had fixed the issue (of POIs showing up on undiscovered planets all over the galaxy). The bug was introduced with one of the patches, then fixed, and now it's back.
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I've heard that, but while the bug was discussed, i was mostly around the Bubble, and didn't check. In the first half of June i've done a little exploration trip somewhere 1,5k ly away, and i did find some crashed landings. What's surprising, it felt like they're more juice there - bigger ships, more stuff around, like in the Bubble you often see Eagles, or even an SRV. I haven't remembered about the bug back then, and thought like right, ok, so at 1k ly crashed landings are reacher and that's explainable as they're rarer too.

Then, during my trip to Colonia, i've also mapped quite a number of planets, but already 10k ly or so away from civilization. No POIs there, i haven't found any. Not telling that the bug isn't there, the fact that i haven't found any doesn't mean there're no POIs in the unintended places, but in fact i wouldn't mind a certain 2k ly'ish area around inhabited systems where they still can spawn in fading closer to the edge numbers.
 

KnezBP

KnezBP
Marvin the Martian said:
With crypto crashing hard, most people are shutting down all their mining operations as they no longer pay off. Now all of a sudden the graphics card makers who were holding back cards to sell in bulk at ridiculous prices to miners are flush with cards they can't sell.

There never was a shortage. They were simply gouging and selectively selling to Bitcoin miners.
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I like Marvin Because he's he's a conspiracy theorist. I'm a big believer in Planet X myself because I find the idea so fascinating. Though I haven't listened to Coast To Coast for maybe a decade.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Marvin the Martian said:
I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all. I simply stated the facts. There is still a chip shortage. That has costs car companies a lot of money. But one month after Crypto loses half it's value and most of them lock down all of a sudden everybody has video cards back in stock.

That is not a coincidence.
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Well, I hope that with the huge increase in energy costs that will reduce the amount of mining, it must surely be close to being uneconomic in many countries by now. Of course this could result in lots of highly-stressed used GFX cards being dumped on ebay etc too.
 

Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
Para Handy said:
Well, I hope that with the huge increase in energy costs that will reduce the amount of mining, it must surely be close to being uneconomic in many countries by now.
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It is.

Three major mining operations here in Atlanta have already laid everybody off and shut down that I know of. They're all going bankrupt.

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Of course this could result in lots of highly-stressed used GFX cards being dumped on ebay etc too.
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Absolutely.

I wouldn't be caught dead buying a used card now no matter how cheap it is.
 

KnezBP

KnezBP
Marvin the Martian said:
I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all. I simply stated the facts. There is still a chip shortage. That has costs car companies a lot of money. But one month after Crypto loses half it's value and most of them lock down all of a sudden everybody has video cards back in stock.

That is not a coincidence.
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Hey, I'm willing to go with your theory. I don't know anything about crypto. My brain kinda shuts down when people get into it.

I've bought a little silver but I'm an old fogey. Gold is really where it's at but I just don't have the money. It's 1.5k per ounce coin.
 
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