“Improved Kiosk Interactions” sounds intriguing, any leaks on what’s that about?

_{Can’t have princess turn into a villainess after all…}

Oh yeah. Didn’t need to do it myself (I don’t have any ships with fuses) but I’ve seen people mention replacing them with water bottles, alien artefacts, medals (I think?) and some other stuff I can’t remember right now.

They also work regardless of location (ship or CZ or whatever places use them right now).

Professional reader, I see. Forgive me for underestimating your power your grace (シ_ _)シ

Yeah, it’s a nice detail. I just hope the cliffhanger ends with a surprise to Sato rather than dad going *poof*.

Still available on MD for now surprisingly enough.

As for the chapter… just using Miko’s design as her mom in school feels like cheating.

Ooof, my list is way shorter thankfully (only 47 titles left on MD) but that’s mostly because I tend to limit the number of things I read at once. Heck, even with all the bookmarked series not in Mihon I’m nowhere near these numbers - past me’s laziness in looking for new things finally paid off!

May I Ask for One Last Thing is in my top 10 (variable, lol) manga of all times, regardless of it being a villainess story.

She is a villainess for a few moments and from a specific point of view if you squint a bit. That’s good enough for me!

Yeah, I’ve seen it after writing this. Thankfully, half of these are for PC native games so I didn’t miss completely at least.

Beside the already mentioned Open Source Game Clones there’s also this list on GitHub.

As for specific titles, I’d like to add:

• Fallout Community Edition and Fallout 2 Community Edition
• VCMI (open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III)
• OpenGOAL (port of Jax and Daxter, second and third game in development)
• OpenGothic (officially only supports Gothic 2 but works with the first game as well)
• Perfect Dark port
• Super Mario 64 Port
• TRX – Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition

There’s also WipeOut Phantom Edition but this one isn’t open-source so I’ll just leave it here in case someone wants to check out the existing build.

I’ve split this thing into two parts to avoid a huge wall of text. Why did MD have to die right as I got into reading multiple new series and have stuff to post again? Mwheeeee…

Time to start creating local backups, I guess. Not like I lack the space at least.

I think this situation shouldn’t change much for the community itself as scanlation was and is piracy in the end. Since the vast majority of the submissions here linked to MD, all of those posts would break the piracy rule. That said, I won’t protest to any changes decided upon by the mods or instance owner.

Personally, I think we should start looking for safe (as in, malware free) alternatives that can be used in place of MD as it’s pretty obvious many series will not be updated there anymore and I doubt a community focused only on legal sources will survive in any meaningful capacity.

I dunno, maybe I’m just looking at it with too much pessimism but I can’t say I ever had a great experience with an official source. Decent? Sure, but nothing that would make me want to use them if there’s an alternative. And lets not forget about the loss of all the series that aren’t available legally.

So yeah, TL;DR: we all participated in piracy already, this situation doesn’t change that.

Unfortunate but completely understandable. Time to look for alternatives.

I’d rather them not sell new gameplay features and ship components in the first place but I’ll take what I can get. I do appreciate them making smaller additions available on day one in the future at least.

Eh, they didn’t really walk it back as much as pushed it forward by a month or two since the usual exclusivity period is around 3 months. I’m still more worried by the fact these are ship specific since this means a lot more work on keeping things updated on top of already huge workload they’re struggling with (I hope they find the time to bring all the existing ships to a gold standard before the end of the decade).

It’s something, I guess?

Also, is it me or does this post sound a bit passive-aggressive? I might be just oversensitive at the moment due to lack of sleep so disregard this question if I’m being dumb.

It’s great when they remove functionalities before implementing their replacements, isn’t it?

Showroom isn’t particularly surprising, it usually sucks in my experience. My problem right now is with performance tanking all over A18, regardless of location. I hope it’s just an ILW issue and normal gameplay away from the planet works properly, didn’t have time to test that yet.

I mean, it’s not like MD team stood up to DMCA claims before. They were always willing to oblige whenever a license holder requested them to remove series they’re responsible for or post the links to official releases.

This one is simply the biggest one yet.

Edit: It also doesn’t help that this will push people to sites that could not care less about DMCAs or linking to official sources. I feel like this will only work against the publishers in the long run.

Well, we were suppose to get the ability to tweak our ships/components back in the day, which later turned into crafting and tiered items so who knows what the plan is theses days. I still have the “engine tuning kit” milestone reward in my hangar, not sure what it’ll be used for now.

Not sure if this is related to ILW or one of many issues with the 4.1.1 patch but does anyone else have performance issues since the new update?

I popped in check the the Idris and ILW halls and my GPU utilisation oscillated between 30% (with everything maxed out and no shader compilation in progress). Had to run around in glorious average of 10FPS.

I updated my drivers and will do some more testing tomorrow - hopefully it’s just a temporary (or Area 18) issue.

At least blades take some heat of the bomb racks which are also available for real money.