Community Events

Nice comic, though my experience with waterfall is more like this:

  • You want to go to mars
  • you propose a specification for plans for a rocket that can fly to mars
  • management says the specification is not precise enough
  • you iterate on the specification for the plans
  • managment approves the specification, but only after changing it so that the engine must use kerosene instead of liquid hydrogen as proposed, because they still have a couple of tons of it lying around in the basement.
  • You make the rockets plans according to the specification and determine manpower allocation, milestones and deadlines.
  • Management asks why the timetables in the plans are longer than the first estimates. You explain that it is because the kerosene engine is harder to integrate with the rest than the originally assumed engine, but they don’t want to hear it. They approve the plans, but cut your timetables in half.
  • you start building the rocket. Somebody hits a contradiction in the specifications that went unnoticed and were introduced by switching out the engine.
  • You change the specification and take it back to managment for re-approval. Management needs a month to get their head around what the problem is in the first place. Meanwhile, the whole team is on hold because there is zero compartmentalisation of individual parts of the specification.
  • This repeats a few times. You eventually finish some rocket that took double as long to produce than assumed, cost three times as much and can only fly to the moon.
  • Management launches the rocket to Mars anyways, patting each other on the back for a job well done and increasing their bonuses.
  • Before reaching Mars, the rocket explodes. Management blames you. Hopefully you still have all your email history where you explained time and time again that exactly this was going to happen.

:stuck_out_tongue:

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I remember watching a video that described something like this as the reason for the Challenger exploding 17 seconds after launch --killing the crew of seven people. Can’t find it now, though.

One person kept telling them about the problem but they went ahead anyway.

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What do you choose (when you’ve just finished hosing down 58 or so Monstrosities for Nada’s and Polo’s “Exterminate XX Monstrosities”-type Nexus quest)…?

Does anyone choose anything other than Toxic Extermination? (not that they aren’t back by the next cycle)

  • Audio Repellant
  • Olfactory Repellant
  • Toxic Extermination
  • Different Type Each Time
  • What’s a Monstrosity?

0 voters

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Next unlockable QS items …flora

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New unlockable retro backpack

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|:>donkey|carrot|stick|rinse|repeat<:|

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On the slow track - first item is now available (at least for PC).

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Nice. I have been looking forward to these.

(I am curious as to how they would look on my Extreme hot planet.)

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New unlockable atlas “bobblehead”

From NMS FB page

"We can’t legally call it a bobblehead, given that, well, it doesn’t have a head!

Anyhow, blueprints for this new unlockable, the Atlas Interface figurine is now available via community missions at the Nexus."

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The politically correct word is “Bobble Sentient Physical Phenotype” :wink:

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Hmmm…tried to work a daily mission and as I was just about to pick up the last pile of poo to finish the task, my whole mission vanished from my Log. The Nexus still shows the mission as active but I have no progression…what to do with the giant pile of … ? :smile:

So I decided to hunt pirates…mission vanished as soon as I exited the Anomaly. And I received this curious message
ready up
Something is afoot
Ok. I was able to kill biological horrors. I kept experiencing the earthquakes that rock an MP enabled weekend event, except this was not a weekend event and MP was disabled.

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I’m guilty of overconsumption.

I just moved to a different system because the daily Quicksilver missions continued to send me to the same places and the resources that I’d consumed over multiple weeks had not regrown. Now working close to the center of the galaxy.

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That absolutely drives me nuts with the Nexus missions. Specific missions types always send you to the same places to do them. One system of mine is constantly chosen for about 80% of the missions. In the past I could shake things up by summoning the Nexus from different systems, but this has not been particularly successful since Synthesis. An entire galaxy to choose from, and it keeps picking the same one system. :rage:

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So the community events are still a bit off. I was sent to kill monstrosities and this is what was waiting for me.


There were even underwater bubbles rising from the terminal. Needless to say, I had to abandon that mission.

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I did see that issue a few times. Seems to be rare, but has definitely been happening before.

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Fun with the new Atlas bobble. It bobbles the best! :smile:
I installed it in my Fighter.


It responds to banking

Boosting

and braking

It also responds to sudden steep climbs but I had a difficult time trying to capture that one.

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New unlockable ship trails

"
Cool new ship trails unlockable via community missions at the Nexus in the Anomaly.

Why not team up with friends on other platforms with all-new cross-play?

www nomanssky com"

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Not even needed, but maybe too cool to pass up. LOL.

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