They can be annoying but I’m not as bothered by the pirate attacks as I am with sentinel fighters warping into the atmosphere. I use to just hop in my ship and scoot if the sentinel density got too much, but now I’m immediately swarmed by sentinel fighters once I dust off. It also makes it harder to cheese sentinel…

Oh yeah definitely agree, I won’t be surprised if one of the next updates is actually defensive measures for your bases/colonies

It would definitely be nice if you could get some sort of AA turrets built so that you don’t have to personally do everything yourself in order to fend off a raid.

I will say all the pirate attacks makes me want a AA turret for my colony. A few automated ones and one I could man would be fun.

Something else that happened at the same time is that they have made the combat more involving (and fun) and weirdly with a easy mode thing builtin.  I am having more fun with the combat now ...but yea, is way too much. 

Nah, not really. Space combat is even more annoying since you need to break shields before attacking enemy health and their shields regenerate fairly fast.

Where’s my shipyard update? I want to be able to use all the standard components to build custom ships.

300 would be plenty for me. I’ve just stopped playing til it’s fixed, got to the point where I can’t even explore in peace.

I assume they looked at the code and found that the developers meant to put 30 instead of 3 for frequency of attack (min).  

can’t even be blamed on not knowing how many zeros to use in the equation.

Aw damn! I love reading your stories of your own insanity but this is one where I could have helped! I live in frickin Stanwood and I have entirely furnished, 1,100 square foot unoccupied two bedroom apartment in my basement complete with kitchen, 75 inch TV, Xbox One, and a friendly dipshit dog where you could have…

“It’s not the American taxpayers responsibility to bail you out from a bad financial choice.”

How to say “I don’t understand the fundamentals of the US monetary system, but said with dumber words.”

It’s not the American taxpayers responsibility to bail you out from a bad financial choice.

If any Star Citizen weirdos come in here saying iT Is OuT, and you’re talking about the empty/broken modules that are currently playable, I will turn to dust. 

If I have learned anything, it is that people suck. I’m not saying that there is no truth to it, but innocent until proven guilty is a very important part of our society.

Or outed a gay person, or releases hit pieces on celebrities on the day of their death....... 

I don’t disagree Portnoy is a piece of shit, but I find it odd this is coming from the site that is part of the former remains of Gawker.  Gawker (and Deadspin) have an axe to grind with Portnoy, and are no better.  Like, remember that time Barstool released Hulk Hogan’s sex tape!?  Oh, wait...

The BI story is behind a paywall.

“It makes NASCAR look terrible.”

I mean, it does.  But also, LOLOLOL.  I’m SURE they care.

Counterpoint: all of what you said is true, and the speedrunners are still impressive.