Everyone's got opinions, and here I am dispensing mine like it's 1999 and reading blogs is a thing again.
Two days of performance work on Hangarworks, almost all of it deletion: an icon font that was 97% unused, a login system booting on pages nobody had signed in to, and an avatar served at 459 KB to be drawn at 34 pixels. Public pages went from 56 to 100.
Destiny 2, Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft and EVE Online all concluded that the right place to manage a complicated inventory is outside the game, and each shipped an API to prove it. Star Citizen already has the data. Here is what the community would build with it, and what Hangarworks would do on day one.
The Perseus took the crown and all eight USC brackets called it. One industrial upset in the first round, however, quietly demolished a quarter of mine.
Since Alpha 4.7, Star Citizen's ship armor checks every incoming bullet against a threshold and returns either full damage or absolutely nothing. No ramp, no falloff, just a cliff. Here's how that one choice turned alpha damage into a bouncer at a door and every other weapon stat into upholstery.
If your org uses ranks, they now appear on every member list and on your own profile. Giving someone a rank also no longer hides the controls for managing them.
