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That they exist? I have no interest in eating them, so they're welcome to continue their underwater lives undisturbed, as far as I care.

Also some of them are rather prettily coloured. Or do cool things, such as the pistol shrimp and their harmful snap.

Despite having many legs, they don't set off my 'ewwwwww it has too many legs!!!' squick. Perhaps because my brain knows I am highly unlikely to spot one scuttling around in my vicinity, given that I live on dry land (and very far inland). I guess they (and their multitude of appendages) fall more at the fascinatingly strange end of things rather than familiar and disturbing like, say, a house centipede.

The interceptors are very nice, especially once you have them fully levelled up to S class and with complete sets of S-class technology augments. Also the ability to hover at 0 airspeed is really nice when you're, for example, on a mission that only brings you to the 'approximate location' of a goal - you can come to a stop in mid air and do slow spins to try and spot your goal by eye instead of having to run around on the surface or making short surface hops to get to it. I tend to grab the first one I find, use it without levelling and with mainly augmenting the cannon and shields, at least until I find one I like the look of. At that point I can swap the technology to the new ship and salvage the old one.

Sounds like you probably need at least one more each of solar panel and battery. You want to have sufficient production to fill enough batteries to last through the dark, if you haven't built in range of a power hotspot. For a small base that only has a few powered lights and a portal hooked to a proximity switch (so it's only running when you're close to it), one solar panel and one battery is more than enough. For a mining base with a mineral and/or gas extractor, I generally aim for about 3 each of panels and batteries per extractor plus at least one more for the base's lighting/portal. For extensive bases, especially ones using powered base modules, always try to locate them near a power hotspot. or you will need so many panels and batteries.

The settlement's debt situation will improve over time as you make settlement/building decisions, but the extreme weather (especially if it storms frequently) combined with sentinel attacks can get very annoying for you as the player (why yes the first couple of times I claimed settlements they were on extreme planets, why do you ask...). I'd definitely recommend keeping an eye out for a planet with mild weather (and aesthetics you like) and starting over with a settlement there instead. You do have to pay to switch, iirc it's based on the race of the system and will be the rarer of the two racial collectibles (so geknip, convergence cubes, or daggers). I think it was two or three of them? It's been a while :)

Pretty sure it's pure RNG, the starships fall into the same variations over and over again from galaxy to galaxy, as do the multitools. About the only thing I've seen in the way of theme is that sometimes you hit a star system where a lot of the starships have similar colouration, though that's also likely to be just the way the RNG falls.

I like travelling away from Euclid overall (though I suspect the starship/mulitool pictures I take there are much more likely to be useful for other people to find specific ones they'd like). I think that the further you get from Euclid, the less likely you are to trip over evidence of other players having been there before you, which is kind of neat. Though even just in Euclid, as (comparatively) heavily used as it, you can go ages without seeing any sign of other players past or present. Just the sheer scale of the game is amazing - 255 galaxies, each with 4.2 billion regions, each containing 122 to 580 star systems, each containing 2-6 planets and/or moons (so somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1,470,000,000,000 star systems in Euclid alone, about 3-4 times that in planets). I can spend hours just going exploring on a single planet, or in one hour of exploring with my freighter find dozens of star systems and their planets.

I really love what the game has done using procedural generation and pseudo-random numbers. It's just amazing in the best way.

I think my one real wish for the game is that they'd had more alien-looking starship components - apart from the living ships and frigates, everything looks very human-designed. I know they wanted to keep it consistent enough in design that they could procedurally slap together pieces like lego and still end up with ships that looked reasonable, but imagine how cool it could have been if they did gek, vy'keen, and korvax pieces that mostly only got generated together within a set, based on the race of the star system in question (so a gek-based star system would lean toward but not be exclusively gek-design ships), but on occasion you'd also hit ships that got rarer RNG outcomes and had, say, a korvax hull with gek wing and tail structures.

I was inspired by your posts to start walking every day, and then we started getting actual snowfall, and I’ve been stuck inside on all the days I’ve wanted to go walking lol

Understandable! Most of my procrastination these last few weeks has been either “it’s overcast and snowing, and maybe a little windy, and I don’t feel like slogging through it” or “it’s sunny and therefore cold, dammit”. Plus a few days of just general “I don’t feel like it today” or “today is a pyjamas-all-day sort of day and no, I will not be changing to go outdoors”.

I use the Flight Rising Breeding Stat Cards generator at http://keelanrosa.com/fr/

By default it produces cards with headshots and colour ranges, like so:

But for my progeny testing posts here I leave out and white out a bunch of stuff and fake a pipe symbol to cut it down to a very minimalist text card: And obviously the tool is also fantastic for things like doing a quick check of the ratios of different gene combinations.

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looking good! You should make the psd for that public too, keep sharing the wealth ;)