So I tried to salvage that x4 save and I made some progress.
I figured out roughly what the problem is regarding how the enemy station spawns and how you have to destroy it to stop the raids…
I battled with searching for it all day, but the sector is one of the largest sectors in the game and the variability on the spawn location “outside the sectors edge” just causes too much ground to cover for locating the hive…
So I have given up and installed a long range scanner booster mod…
I found a mod that doubles the base scan range, which feels decent enough that it’s not going to demolish any sense of exploration but also remove all my tedium finding this station
I also found another mod that lets you set scout vessels to permanently explore a sector in a proper pattern, so I can just leave a very fast ship running around in the future for if they build a second station.
Yes… I finally gave in and got mods for the game I refused to mod.
I started playing X4 again today.
My last save was almost three years ago…
I resumed it…
I am being demolished by three years worth of updates applying at once.
I have a massive trade empire but it’s in the middle of crumbling due to the changes to enemy spawns and trade route networks.
The hardest hitting part is the new enemy raid system which I have no active defenses against currently, the heart of my industrial production is being constantly attacked because the older version of the game favoured large static defenses instead of mobile reactive ones. I’ve lost so many mining vessels it will take me a long time to recover the losses, and I’m still losing more because I’m having to learn on the fly how to counter the ways the new systems are exploiting gaps in my setups.
NNS just announced they’re translating the visual novel Hacking the Moon to Find My Goddess
I’ve known about this one a little while, but I still can’t help but laugh every time I recall the basic plot setting.
It’s set in the near future where humanity has basically offloaded all management to AI, and one student manages to hack into the AI that governs all other AI.
Instead of using this unprecedented power to make himself wealthy, achieve world domination, or live life on cruise control…
He asks the AI which governs the entire world… to find him a girlfriend…
The AIs solution? To build him a custom made android with a full AI.
It’s now August, this month despite the years that have passed remains firmly entrenched in my mind as both the month that is used for summer holidays at school, but also the birthday of my childhood best friend. I do wonder what she is up to now.
I don’t actually remember the date at all, I just remember it’s in August.
How amusing.
I’m actually really bad at remembering numbers, it’s quite amusing in a different way.
Never bother telling me dates and stuff, I will forget.
Wordpress kept crashing again, but I managed to isolate the cause to chrome for some reason.
So here I am using my backup browser that literally only remains installed on my pc because it had a more functional Flash extension.
Wow, that really takes me back, I don’t even use it anymore because the internet has well and truly moved on from Flash…
Takes me back to the days of online games…
Especially here in the UK. Nothing takes me back more than stuff like the BBC online games such as Roar or Walking With Dinosaurs.
I used to spend hours playing the Ballad of Big Al dinosaur survival game.
I almost entirely forgot to edit and schedule this chapter until after I turned off my PC and was about to prepare to sleep…
Only to see the reminder on my phone!
LUCKY ME!
Except not, because wordpress keeps crashing!
So I can’t even schedule it properly!
It’s been really hot here the past couple of days.
At least not heat death levels.
But uncomfortably warm levels.
Like you might sweat but it’s possible to cool down as long as you’re aware it’s warm.
Sometimes I wish UK houses had AC.
Well, my house is 100 years old at least so… yeah that wasn’t a consideration.
Also my room has awful ventilation.
So our new internet got installed today!
It’s usually around eight times faster than it used to be! Which is great!
Or it would be if I could use it!
The house I live in was built like a hundred years ago so it obviously wasn’t built with internet in mind, there’s no proper internet cable that runs from the downstairs to the upstairs, and the one that does is from like the 1990’s… it can only handle about 50mbps… I am the only person upstairs who uses the cable so the amount of effort to change it is too much since it would mean tearing open walls…
So anyway, I have to think of a solution now. I also tried a powerline adapter but that only gained me about 10mbps more than the old cable.
I decided to finally finish the first season of Mashle so I could work through the second season.
It’s pretty good.
I’m not sure it’s as great as the impression everyone gave me when it started, but it’s been enjoyable.
I’m looking forward to seeing how it progresses at least, then I will move on to something else in my backlog.
It’s been a while since I watched anime properly like this… how nostalgic.
I got my artist friend to start work on redesigning my OC and they presented a scifi themed one and a fantasy themed one.
The scifi themed design was pure, pure, pure Phantasy Star vibes.
It was so on point for Phantasy Star I was shocked.
Naturally I chose it…
I mean… how couldn’t I?!
I love the magical tech aesthetic of Phantasy Star!
I will probably get a pure fantasy redesign done after… maybe…
I finally got round to playing the Talos DLC again, and managed to finish the second chapter of it.
That was a lot of fun, nice casual gameplay and rewarding to see the relaxed side of the main characters just having fun together too.
It was a really well done piece of epilogue content, as opposed to the first chapter which felt just oddly forced and out of place.
I’ll have to see how the third goes, because it’s the most lore heavy in context.
At the behest of a friend I started watching the latest season of Misfit Demon Lord… and…
Wow the quality of the writing has dropped immensely.
I wonder if this arc worked way better in the novels, because in the anime it’s just… soooo much lore, and none of the characters get any breathing room.
There was a random episode all about training, which probably made sense in novel format for adjusting the power levels of characters and stuff, but it felt weirdly out of place and specific.
Well, basically it’s botched the adaptation I think.
The Steam summer sale has started!
So many discounts!
I think I can safely avoid spending this time though…
The games I want are nearing the end of their production cycle and will have their final big patches soon, so I will probably pick them up after that just to ensure compatibility and getting the maximum experience.
In the meantime I have games I bought ages ago to keep playing, and the Talos DLC that I am slowly working through due to being occupied with gachas…
I finished the Steins;Gate and Neural Cloud crossover event.
It was great.
The story was basically the plot of Steins;Gate but lightened up (in terms of duration, it still had the heavy themes) ported over to the setting of Neural Cloud. They really did not shy away from going in dark directions with everything. Sadly due to being a collab they couldn’t make it integral to the main story of Neural Cloud, but they really pushed it as close as they could.
It’s a bit of a shame they didn’t include some more Steins;Gate 0 content though… Kurisu’s field of research is actually memory scanning and AI development, which is exactly the sort of content Neural Cloud is fundamentally based around! But that’s my only complaint.
I think it nailed being a crossover with “Steins;Gate” specifically, but as a crossover with Steins;Gate as a franchise it left out some parts and it left out everything from the Science Adventure Series as a whole.
The new Hololive girls debuts are soon.
I am looking forward to trying to figure out where Elizabeth is from in the UK.
I’ve seen an oddly high number of people hoping she’s southern specifically…
is there something about southern accents that are good?
I’m from the south so I don’t think I can understand that sentiment at all because everyone has that accent here…
