Podcast 168: 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 eight. Any articles or videos mentioned can be found on my website at intergalactic herald dot com. Just look for a weekly recap newsletter two sixteen.
So just a quick summary of things that happened this past week in Star Atlas. normal week, so just was the Star Atlas…
community brew. that was it. actually, no. I was just realizing first of month. Should have been economy form.
Maybe that one’s…stopped. Anyways, before I get talking about the Atlas Brew, just want to get mention my Star House projects. First is my website, intergalactic carol dot com. It’s a great resource for outdated guides, directories, recaps. Yeah.
I’ll just be upfront. they’re the old version or the current version, but very old. but I do have my, live, Discord news announcement feed. So if you subscribe to that, you’ll get an email each time a team member posts in the announcement channels. do have my Star Atlas merch store, at intergalactic gear dot com just to have a few Star Atlas mugs…never got around to building it out with more products, but the potential is there.
And then lastly, I have my community website for Star House gamers who want to get together.
of course, it’s just a survey right now, but you can check that out at intergalacticcoalition dot com. So as I mentioned, the only, Star House event this past week was the Atlas Brew on Wednesdays. They went over a few things. first was a claim stakes teaser video, that was posted on Twitter. so I just went over some of the…
I guess, operations on how claim stakes are gonna work in the c four version. It was noted, there are gonna be slots. so each claim stake has a certain number of slots. I’m not sure…
how that works, but, again, it was a teaser video. there’ll be some rent involved, so that’s also intriguing. And then different things get linked together and then there’s distances between those hubs. So, yeah, it was a great little, yeah, teaser video. I’ll kind of talk a little bit more about that in the next section…
the…
two people on the Atlas Brew were talking about a announcement of Google partnering with Eve online…
Unfortunately, I didn’t hear I guess I could have probably searched for the link, but, they kinda just mentioned something and then talked about how, yeah, we’ll see Star House is doing the same thing, and that’s cool. But, again, I’m not really sure. But more…what do you call it? not pessimism…
I don’t know. Google announcing a partnership with any company is kinda, you know, you wait till you see the real thing. So and then, I guess, about probably half of it was talking more about Halsim. it was the end of the, chapter. so the, what do you call it, snapshot was taken of the leaderboard, so they’ll be distributing the prizes.
Remember correctly, there was some confusion…
on, prize not fitting. But, anyways, there was an announcement made on those. And then they talked a little bit about, I think now the next chapters are developing that out, talk about some things they want to change or add related to combat and instancing and things like that. And then some, a little bit of discussion about drones in combat or I’m not really sure. But anyways, again, as anyone who falls along, I listen to these late on Friday night.
So at some point, I’m just tired. So anyways, but anyways, yeah. So Holostim’s, hollow sim is still continuing. So anyways, yeah, that was pretty much it…
Yeah. Anyways, that was the brew and didn’t write down anything else to talk about. So anyway, so I just move into my State of Star Atlas. wanted to talk a little more about that, claim stakes video. So, even though I follow the accounts on…Twitter, I didn’t catch that.
But then when I went looking for it, apparently I liked it. So I don’t know. Maybe I thought it was an earlier video or something. It was a what do you call it? Cinco…
oh, Cinco de Mayo post. So May fifth. Mary? Cinco? Yeah.
Five. Six? Five? Four? No.
That’s quite I don’t know. Sorry. I’m not gonna claim to understand. my high school Spanish is gone. So, anyways, but, anyway, so I watched it a little closer.
And the good thing, unlike watching on though I do appreciate Star House TV recording, can’t zoom in. But, fortunately, on the, Twitter post, you were able to, go full screen. So it was actually oh, I can read things. So, yeah, one ought to say it. Please post these on your YouTube channel.
You can find things. It’s just it’s a video platform even if I mean anyways. Sorry. Just please post it on YouTube…
but in review or watching it again, it was a minute or two tops. There is some serious depth of configuration. And, to the point where, I mean, I don’t know. If it was just blurry from blowing up, you know, some words are readable, some fonts weren’t. seems to be a standard thing of small fonts.
but, yeah, there is some serious…
configuration. and then we knew that was coming. Most of the, announcements over the past year or so have mentioned that claim stakes were gonna have a lot of things, and there’s a lot more materials and definitely, claim stakes seems to be one of the key components. Not that combat isn’t and not that crafting habs and council rank, but, you know, council rank just is a rank. And to be honest, crafting habs haven’t really gotten a lot of…
promotion. But I kinda vaguely remember somebody saying that crafting habs and coin stakes are pretty much the same thing. so, might be that yeah. I don’t quote me on that, but I thought they were similar but in a different place or something. But yeah.
So there was…
yeah, there was a lot there. and, again, both from the depth of the configuration, you know, it was something like a that, again, a center hub thingy, and then there was these side or small thingies, and then they were linked. And yeah. I don’t know. I just I remember this…
RTS game years ago called, Supreme Commander. And I just remember that it had linking of different…
things on its economy, factory building and stuff. At least I think it did. And, yeah, you’d make links and, like, more power what was it? More power plants you put, like, on an aircraft factory. It did more factory or building.
Sorry. Anyways, again, the concept of linking, makes tons of sense. So yeah. I mean, there was just a lot. And, I have to admit for the longest time, this teaser actually got me interested now.
I have to say it’s because I kinda wanna use claim stakes. I purchased a few over the years. So, and again, I got always coming from the RTS thing, there’s always the economy side and there’s always the combat side. And, of course, you can’t have combat until you get your economy working and factories and things like that. And, I mean, again, I don’t…it’s not that direct correlation, I think, within typical RTSs where, you know, you’d…
get your economy. Again, thinking of age of empires, you gotta get harvester wood and your gold, your stone, and food, and then that’s enough of the resources, so then you can put down a barracks and other things like that. I mean, the claim stake is already the thing, and then you can put stuff around it to do things. And, again, I think they were showing extraction or processing or things like that. So, again, we have all these raw materials that could be mined wait.
Oh, yeah. Forget. We’re right now just harvesting all the raw materials from asteroids…
Yeah. Oh, man. It was a long time ago they talked about claim stakes. I can’t remember if the claim stake yeah. I think there was extractors where you put it down and then you would get stuff out of the ground.
man. I can’t remember. Anyways, definitely processing and yeah. That’s oh, man. Anyways, my whole point of all this is I want more information.
This is the first time, I guess, in a long time that, a teaser trailer actually made me want more. and again, I know I’m biased because I wanna learn more about its claim stakes. So again, I’m totally dismissing all the great development and fun people are having in HaulSim, but again, it’s fine. I mean, to each his own. There’s nothing wrong with that.
But, yeah, I definitely wanted more and, again, I’m kinda vaguely remembering a couple, that was bruised a couple years ago where they really went into in-depth on the c four and,
yeah, completely do not remember. And in fairness, doesn’t mean what they said two years ago is actually what’s being built. but one other aspect to bring up as I watch the video and, again, I’m not playing Holesome, so I can’t say. But, compared to what we currently have and what we had before in Sage, there is a definite new design theme…coming out, and it is slick. it is really slick and looks good and seems good.
Now we’ll see when we get actually playing it, if it’s too confusing or too complicated, but just again watching someone else move the mouse around. Again, complexity is not a problem. I’m not expecting…you know, a really simple well, I shouldn’t say simple, but a very…
well, I expect streamlined…
What kind of interface do I not expect? I guess we’ll just call it simple where there’s like four or five options and you figure it out. This looks really…
complex, but in a way that you would expect for all the things you can do. So, because they even showed when we do all the design, and you can just cancel. So it’s like, again, you could just kinda prep all of this. So, again, I’m a this has gotta be what’s coming. I mean, they’re they can’t be showing something that’s not coming in this public release…testing, whatever it’s called.
so, I mean, it looks good. It looks like what you would expect. And, again, being complex isn’t a downside. I again, I don’t think this needs to be simplified. Again, it can be complex.
You just don’t have to know everything or do everything. So, anyways, yeah, I have to admit, first time I’ve been kind of actually excited watching one of the teaser videos. So, anyways, yeah, so that’s pretty much it. My thoughts on the state of Star Atlas.
as far as my journey playing Star Atlas, again, I’m playing Sage right now. I’m trying to mine some resources to get a craft of Mamba x. and as I mentioned, I know I could just buy one, but that’s not the point anymore. Mining and moving gets me XP for zinc. So, again, it’s yeah.
It’s not…the goal is not to get a ship as the only goal. The goal is to get a ship by also getting zinc experience points. So, yeah. So I, finished, whatever the last resource is. So I moved to Copper Ore, and apparently, I need tens of millions of them.
So, yeah, no big deal. So, set up the mining loop for that. Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough, food and,
the other thing. Food. Little fuel. So, my big fleet was moving all the other material back, so I didn’t wanna interrupt that. So I forgot I had a few ships just kinda laying around in the fleet.
So I used that temp fleet to move out some food…and fuel out for the miner, and so that got it going. And then I stopped that because I was eating through Seoul too much. So and now I’ve, moved all the other stuff back so the big mine or transport fleets is sitting doing nothing too. So the miner’s just off doing stuff. I think it got up to a million or something.
So, yeah, everything’s going good there. slowly got, I think, one more level up in, zinc. I forget which…number. Six something. Six hundred something.
Yeah. I’m very low down on the leaderboard, but, hey. You know, that’s fine. yeah. So just keeping that mind loop going.
So, yeah, that’s pretty much what I’ve been working on the last week and start out with. So, again, thanks for listening. Hope you enjoyed my commentary and thoughts analysis.
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