Podcast 176: Star Atlas Weekly Review

Podcast Transcript

Hi, this is Matt with the Intergalactic Herald. Welcome to my Star OS Week in Review podcast. This is podcast number one hundred and seventy six. Any articles or events yeah any articles or videos mentioned can be found on my website at intergalactichero dot com. Just look for a weekly recap newsletter two twenty four. So just a quick summary of things that happened this past week in Star Atlas. there was the community Atlas brew. There was also a quarterly econ report…
released and then one of the community members, I think, yeah, I think a Dowelcaster, did a, explainer video of getting ready for c four. before I get to those items, I just wanna mention again things I’m working on within StarOS. Of course, check out my website intergalacticcarol dot com. Great, Star Atlas resource website with guides, directories, recaps, and a Star Atlas Discord news feed. Also, check out my Star Atlas merch store at intergalactic gear dot com. And definitely want to start a new community, kind of a non guild for Star Atlas players who aren’t joining guilds but nevertheless want to hang out. So you can check that out at intergalacticcoalition dot com…
So, big one, that came out this past week as is typical is a Star Atlas. many topics were, went over, and so I’ll kinda go over some of those. One of the first things that was mentioned was the Star Atlas PIP for the, was it reimbursement money to the Star Atlas team. they did note there’s a very large abstain vote, and that is actually the Star Atlas team’s wallet. So they wanted to be very clear that due to conflict of interest, they’re not gonna be voting on the pip. So makes a lot of sense. So appreciate the transparency there. they did mention, the econ quarterly report and, did just a little quick summary of that, mentioning that they unfortunately had to turn off some of the data pipelines for reporting, so they’re kinda rebuilding those. oh, and if I haven’t mentioned, you can get the, tire, recording at, well, what used to be Stryos TV. Apparently,
this is the last recording they’re gonna do, but the Dowcasters apparently are gonna pick up and continue that. So, I do wanna really thank, Starhouse TV’s YouTube channel for many years of recording these. As I’ve mentioned, anyone who listened to my podcast for a while, I can’t watch it live, and I don’t have time during the week too. So, it’s the only way I’ve been able to keep up with Star Atlas over the years. So, don’t know the background of that, but…appreciate all the work that has been done on that channel. So, anyways, moving on…they, in the Alice booth then talked about the c four, how the test is going. one new information they did provide was they’re gonna actually build a c or single player campaign as a tutorial. So this will be something that’s not on chain, and you can just get into it. one,
side issue if they or as they’re going with it, they’re actually thinking of maybe getting rid of Holosum, which, as was mentioned, had been a very great product, intro point. But, they did mention some reasons why this, makes a lot of sense going forward. single player campaign, obviously, with not being on chain. Don’t really need to wholesale. the other reason they mentioned is the, UI is different between the two products, so it kinda just wouldn’t make sense to keep going. So, again, we’ll see how this all kinda…comes out. But yeah. No. That makes a lot of sense to put something in there. next, they talked about the, again, phase two of the PTR for c four. And again, the idea is to have combat in it, the NPCs, cultivation claims. they did also want to get, going forward, if you’re testing in the PTR, you’ll actually earn the Zinc experience points. And they’re also mentioning for this phase two, they’re gonna get rid of the,
God mode where everything’s kind of available partly just to test the council rank feature. And definitely, this will be a wipe of everything. So, that was a great update of, things that were going on. And then they spent the, kinda remaining parts talking about the phase three, which is where they said the single player, campaign might show up. And, again, major part of this phase three would be, the crew mechanism. but, again, if not sure if they changed. According to what I thought the last one, this would be after the release. But again, we’ll see where this all goes. But information or things they’re trying to work on for the crew mechanism that, everything will be impacted by the crew. all of the crew members will have attributes…
And but they also mentioned that there will be encounters for the crew, which are random things that will happen. That will be the mission system. so yeah. So…it seems like, again, a fully fleshed out kind of crew module in c four. So that’s really great. they did mention also because crew are objects or NFTs, they will have some Zinc rent. But, again, the hope is that Zinc will be cheaper, so it’ll all kinda work out. So, and then they mentioned a few quick things near the end. One, they are starting to work on the economy of c four, with…
Chris, the team economist. So, those elements are starting to come on. And then, briefly, they mentioned that they are soliciting, Zinc validators, and apparently, we’ll even be selling licenses starting at a hundred thousand dollars. So, that would be great, I’m sure, for the team’s revenue. And then quickly, they ended with, an update on UE five. They are working on trying to get some of the bugs fixed so they can, patch that because it’s, again, I guess, causing lots of problems there. So, anyway, so, yeah, that was pretty much the, Atlas brews. So I think that was a great thing. again, I’ve already mentioned the economy report that’s available and, again, there’ll be a link in the newsletter. if you go to my website, intergalactic harrow dot com and check out that newsletter, I think, again, that’ll be,
two two four. there may probably be, I think there’s a little announcement in the star house discord and perhaps on their…Twitter profile our Twitter account. I can’t remember. and then last, did see a community, video that was created by Winston, who I believe is one of the Dow casters. So that was really cool. eight minute video, and it was a great, explainer video on getting ready for c four. And, yeah, it was actually very helpful. So, do check that out. Again, I have a link to that in my newsletter, if you wanna check that out. So, anyway, so, yeah, that was pretty much the, what happened this past week in Star Atlas. So kinda just talk, briefly about kind of my thoughts on the state of Star Atlas. Yeah. I think there, was a great update on the PTR.
definitely feel like, yeah, they’re moving in the direction, getting these different features and things like that. they did mention that, they probably won’t do much internal testing because the whole point of the PTR is that. So I know I’ve been a little critical on the last one. It’s like, hey. Keep that. You got all these systems built. But, yeah, I mean, these are all feeling like not necessary, but definitely, yeah, this would be great to play a game and how everything works with the other parts of the c four they had talked about. So call these additions or extra things. So, definitely the player, single player campaign, I think, will be a wonderful addition. I mean, it just makes sense. again, Holosim served its purpose. Like it was mentioned, they learned some AI programming on that. And, you know, going forward, yeah, why not be in this exact same interface without having the blockchain thing? So,
crew, definitely starting to sound like, really gonna be a key component going forward, but even some of these kind of missions and what do they call them? Encounters? Was it encounters? Can’t remember. trying to find it. Yeah. Encounters. mentioned some of these could be, you know, you just sort of started and there’s a time, so you can basically start before you go to sleep and things like that. It won’t take more of a passive gameplay, and then you get a random thing based on your crew, things like that. So, yeah, I mean, that definitely sounds interesting. And overall, yeah, I think this is really sounding like the fully integrated game play that we’ve been always imagining. Sure. It’s not in the UE five. It’s not full AAA, but, you know, it’s blockchain. It’s a game. It’s got things, combat. I mean, yeah, sounds like a game. And, again, we’ll see the inter well, I mean, you can see the interface right now if you just go to the test. So I haven’t started in a while. So…
yeah. So, yeah, that’s my thoughts on kind of the state of Star Atlas. Real quick to end, again, my journey point. Again, I’m still just in the Sage browser game now. Just doing my mining loop. started transporting that back and, of course, doing those actions, eating up some soul, but am earning, the zinc, experience points. So, yeah, it’s my trade off in what I’m doing now. So, yeah, so, again, thanks for listening. Again, totally open if anybody wants to be a guest on the podcast. otherwise, check out my website, intergalactic carol dot com for Star House resources and things like that. intergalactic gear dot com is my merch store and intergalactic coalition dot com is my…hopeful someday community. So yep. That’s this past week in Star Atlas. I’m Matt with Intergalactic Herald. Have a great week ahead…