Podcast 160: Star Atlas Weekly Review

Podcast Transcript

This is Matt with the Intergalactic Herald. Welcome to my Star Atlas Week in Review podcast. This is podcast number one hundred and sixty. Any articles or videos mentioned can be found on my website at intergalactic herald dot com. Just for look for weekly recap newsletter two zero eight.
So this past week in Star Atlas, pretty much, well, the only community event was the Atlas Brew. And, yeah, so we’ll talk about that and the release of the next chapter of Holosin. But before I get to that, let me just…briefly mention things that I’m working on in Star Atlas. Of course, you can check out my website, intergalactic herald dot com. It’s a great Star OS resource website for guides, directories, recap.
I have a Discord announcement news feed, so you can check all that out at intergalactic herald dot com. Do have a Star Atlas merch store at intergalactic gear dot com. I’ll admit, not a lot of selection, but, you know, it yeah. It was a project at the time. And then,
lastly, I would love to get together the other Star Atlas gamers who aren’t joining Guild, so you can check that out at intergalacticcoalition dot com. So anyways, as I mentioned this past week in Star Atlas, pretty much the main event was the Atlas Brew.
you know, I should again, I’ve been terrible with names. But, anyways, they basically, went over the results of the launch of Halcym, so it came out earlier in the week, tenth. It goes to the tenth. So today’s thirteenth. What is that?
I can’t do math. Tuesday. Yeah. So Tuesday came out, and then Wednesday, the Atlas Brew. And again, these are all my time, Pacific time.
So yeah. So they got some, they gave some initial feedback on how things were going, got some community feedback. so that was kinda cool. Noted a little thing they’re trying to put in a…
boss battle yeah. Boss fight boss battle. Yeah. I guess. Fight.
I don’t know. You know what I mean? With a titan ship. So that was kind of an interesting development, though it sounds like they haven’t actually built that yet. So, and then they…asked for some feedback on some ideas for the next chapter.
And, one thing they mentioned that they’re gonna hope to try to do is get it a little more mobile friendly, I guess. some parts of it are really…
better for mobile, but other parts really need a wider screen and things like that. So, yeah, so if you wanna hear the whole kind of discussion about that, plus they were kind of, demoing, ongoing live play gameplay that was going on. do check out Star House TV who has the recording, the Atlas Bruce. So, yeah. So that again pretty much was the only event this week.
one thing, I guess, as we migrate to the next section, which is kind of my thoughts on the state of Star OS this past week. Allison was a big deal. very glad that it went smoothly, get it from the…Atlas brew comments from the community members. they said there were a couple little bugs, but overall, all the infrastructure issues and things like that plague the last release, did not come up and, yeah, little bugs is to be the term I mean, to be expected. And, again,
given this is much more of a web friendly, I think, yeah, just different development cycle and different ways to make fixes because it is more of a web game. any of those bugs that came up can be…
yeah, fixed quite quickly. So, yeah, so I think that’s really, great news that, came out, and people are enjoying it. kinda do wish there was a little more promotion. I was just, you know, following my normal people on Twitter and, you know, sorry, I was account post about it, but, few retweets. But, yeah, it was kinda it.
But, you know, I guess, yeah, this is just the new reality of kind of the current, well, employee level, revenue level that Star Atlas is at right now. So, again, the product was there, but, yeah, I mean, getting a whole bunch of people. Yeah. There’s just no time, no resources to get that. So, yeah.
So, I mean, cool. As I’ve mentioned, unfortunately, in the past,
I don’t think I have the time commitment to play it, but I do admit getting a little bit of an itch as they talked about. There’s a tutorial, and they’re gonna keep improving that. and, yeah, I mean…
yeah…
Different point in my life, I think maybe I would be more interested. It’s just, yeah, I’m working on things for my business and, only so much…I still do family chores and things like that. So I don’t play the video games I have anyway…
so it’s not out of, character with how my life, lifestyle is right now. But, again, looking at objectively from the, you know, thirty thousand foot view, yeah, smooth launch, sounds like a good product. Definitely stickiness, keeping people involved in and things like that with the leaderboard and rewards and things like that. So, yeah, I think all good…Let’s see. The other gentleman, I think Jim, he wasn’t there at the at with Bruce, so he didn’t get any updates on c four or zinc, so it would be nice to know.
But, again, as of last week, still doing internal tests and things like that. the one thing I guess I’m not really clear about, and I guess it’s just hard to know from the outside, you know, they…
they definitely have different teams working on different things, though it was mentioned at the Atlas Brew that the team that started at HollowSim is not the same team they have now, but as far as size. So, you know, I mean, they’re I’m just speculating. There probably isn’t a lot of, what do you call it, cross pollination. You know, people working on Zynq who are maybe blockchain experts aren’t gonna be building a video game, and people working on UE five probably have a different skill set than…
web type development. So, yeah. So, I mean, it could just be that there’s a whole lot of…parallel things going on, and there isn’t a lot of crossover. So a launch of this doesn’t really change that much as far as the other products and things like that. So hopefully next week, at the Atlas Brew, we’ll learn a little more about that.
So, yeah, overall, great that it was announced, but also…that was it. There wasn’t much else. So, but, again, it’s fine. one hour to talk about that with the community is perfectly fine. So, so just quickly, kinda my journey playing Star Atlas.
So, again, I’m kinda still playing in the Sage, trying to gather resources, build that up to maybe get, one of the ships there. still mining my Luminite, getting closer. I think I need twenty million, and I think I might hit just seventeen million finally. So,
you know, again, definitely not moving fast. Just have my one little miner guy. decided to stop my transport fleet because it has too much capacity for the miner. I was kinda tempted to maybe just change the transport to a miner just to get over that hump, but then I’m like, I don’t know what the next step is yet. I haven’t I mean, I planned out a bunch of stuff, but I kinda didn’t really look that hard at it.
So, might need to change up that style to not…
have the miner or excuse me, the transport just sitting around. Maybe it could start mining or something like that. So, yeah, it’s still unfortunately, the biggest problem is the, Solana fees. yeah, it’s, to me, better to waste time and be take longer than eat up more Solana because things just yeah. It’s just it’s such a massive hit, to run more than one fleet simultaneously.
So, but anyways, but I think just before I started recording this or earlier today, I got the transport going again because it needed some extra food up there. So doing that. speaking of food, I haven’t checked to see if my local market…food order was filled or sold off, so we’ll check that. and then just on an unrelated note, obviously, this is all about Star Atlas, but not about Sage. a few months back, I was trying to claim some,
polis in my locker and got error messages, use a ledger, through Phantom. I was told try, Soulflare. didn’t work. So, had a ticket, but, you know, team’s busy on other things. I totally get it.
Randomly, I didn’t realize there was a firmware upgrade for my, Ledger, and I did that, and it worked. So I don’t know what was there. Maybe something in the firmware, the support ticket, mentioned that, yeah, the problem was Ledger. So, yeah, maybe it was truly Ledger’s fault, not start out as his fault. So, anyways, yeah, eventually finally got those tokens claims, so I guess that’s good.
Yeah. So that’s cool. just one less thing I have to worry about. So I was able to put that, stake that, Polis and hopefully gain a little more, Zinc experience point for having more staked…
tokens. So, yeah, so that’s pretty that’s what I’ve been working on. So, yeah, so that’s pretty much it this past week in Star Atlas. Again, just wanna remind you of things I’m working on. Do check out my website, intergalactic carol dot com.
Got a lot of guides. Hope to…
put some new content on there after c four comes out. I’m…debating how Sim, but probably won’t put one out, partly because it has its own tutorial. So it’s you’re supposed to not know anything and just get into it. So, also do check out my webs or my, merch store at intergalactic gear dot com. And, again, love if anybody wants to get together to hang out on the community, intergalactic coalition dot com.
Other than that, yep, this is the past week in Star Atlas. Matt with the Intergalactic Herald. Have a great week ahead…