Why do suns do such massive ass damage? If I go afk only for a minute, and I skid over a damn sun, it screws a lot of my bank. Is it really necessary? Why was sun damage even introduced? At least the damage done by it could be at least lower that what it is now.

The admins continue to assert that between C1 and C2, no code has changed. According to them, they did this much back in C1.

Then the changed it to a degen aura, which now fucks over anyone doing Anaconda with an unblockable minus 50,000 aura.

Which is pure BS in C1 they did % of shield damage. Now they just do damage with total disregard for shields.

The whole suns doing damage is another of SS's idiotic features.

Agreed i like the idea of suns giving shield gen or degen auras but the numbers are way to high overall, especially in snake hole. No other area in game is a guaranteed death like that sun does when entering or leaving.

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It was a damned joke, Enk. Hal is a code dev. This is a code problem. Hal is the most well known code dev.

The joke goes "I blame <insert random name of person related to the subject>"


Would the joke go better if I said "I blame Wex"?


Or do I need to use the Big Smile or Raz Smiley each and every time I use a joke because someone is pretending this is the '80s when these jokes did not exist.

I have no idea what the point of everyone dieing as soon as they go searching for Anni is. Fair enuff if they weaken sheilds and you need to run away using sheild tweaks to survive, but even ShMs dieing as soon as they warp in is pathetic.

Jeff Bobbo needs a good slapping over that one.

We know about the anni problem, and have been looking at different solutions. As for sun damage in general, I agree it seems like a lot of damage, but I think it's working as intended (except in anni). I will however bring it up and see what people have to say about it.

I think most suns are fine, the only exceptions are suns so big that its near impossible to avoid them (the red giants) that do a lot of dps over a prolonged period and the 'clusters' of dark suns, you find em in packs of four. One on its own is damaging enough, but when you fly over four you dead in a second.

The bulk of the problems seem to be the red giants in DG's, where large or larger ships such as Camsy's Warship take lots of damage over time as they fly across it (Unacceptable to tell the capship to go around because of its speed)

Thats one. The next is that the cluster suns, the ones specifically called Class A in game, replaced the most numerous sun in C1, and because of that, a lot of them sit on AP routes. You may be going through team space, or aping through w0, and run over one or two in the NON PVP EARTHFORCE SPACE LAYER and then die to a flyswatter because your shields plummeted.

It is understandable that the pink suns in dungeons are now Class A's, but that sun they all replaced actually did NOT do damage to your shields. It went from 0 damage one universe to 5000 damage or 5000 degen in the next, per second, and now they're unblockable.

I don't think it's realistic enough, suns should do more damage, so much so that just flying near them causes parts of your ship to vaporiZe. Or in this case, to stay in line with SS mechanics, rapidly reduce your items durability down to 0.