Make sure you get your votes in today!

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/ship-showdown2023/live-showdown

If you're looking to sign up for an account at Citizens Gaming, we'd love to have you here!

To avoid any confusion around the process, here are a few things to be aware of:

• We require email verification. This is to make sure we don't end up getting mass spammed with bot account requests.
• Lemmy can be finicky when it comes to the account verification process. You will receive an email that you must check before we see your application. If you mess up that step of the process, I have to go into the database and manually fix your account.
• If you have any issues with this process please email us at [email protected] and we'll look into it.

CitizensGaming is already federated with most of the major Lemmy instances. However, it's important to understand how the federation process works:

• Before our instance knows anything about another instance, a user registered here must interact with that other instance in some way (liking a post, replying to a thread, subscribing to a community, etc).

• If you find an instance that we aren't syncing too, let us know and we'll check it out.

This week's sneak peak is a look at a new outpost.

While the VPS Citizens Gaming runs on has plenty of storage space, we've been working towards implementing migrating to object storage. Since SC content is generally image and video heavy, this will give us the expandability as the community grows.

If you see any odd behavior around image content, this is why. Hopefully it will be a seamless migration.

I went to a random ship meetup in my server last week and won 1st place!

This streamer is doing ship meetup contests weekly on Fridays if you want to try your luck, with prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd best ships:

https://www.youtube.com/@Space_Bub

https://www.twitch.tv/space_bub

There weren't too many ships at this one, so chances were stacked in my favor :D

You are the Difference – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

I want to keep a list of all starcitizen communities here on Lemmy that people might want to subscribe too. Also make sure you subscribe to all of the communities here on Citizens Gaming so they will show up in your subscribed feed even if you are hosted on another instance:

Citizens Gaming SC communities

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SC communities on other instances

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If you find any new SC communities elsewhere, let us know where so we can add them!

LX usually denotes a luxury model right? I'm not sure how you add luxury to a Fury 😀

From inside the weekly update today, this is a really good fan-made production.

Here's the text of the letter at the end of the video:

Port Olisar - The space station above Crusader with majestic views.

Over the years you have become more than just a space station. You have become a beacon of Hope, Dreams, and aspirations of what is to come. A launching point for our adventures and the beginning of an era. We will miss you and all the memories you bring every time we see you.

But fear not for us for we are moving towards the future on the path that you paved for us. And there will be a new angel in the sky watching over us - Seraphim

This is not a farewell, my old friend, for I will search pyro and beyond till we meet again.

When we do, I will be flooded with the memories of where this adventure began.

-The Community

Go give Ezper a sub on YouTube and bump the post on the community hub. This content is worth it!

Let us know why you're still a fan of starcitizen and/or CIG!

One thing of note from the announcement:

With Turbulent as part of the CIG group of companies, our headcount will be over 1,100, making us one of the largest independent game developers in the world!

It's pretty insane to think how large CIG has gotten over the years. It makes sense to bring in Turbulent now. If everyone remembers correctly, they had spun up a team to make PU content last year, and many of us didn't really understand why that work would happen "out-of-house".

I know that opinions have always been varied about the CIG website and Spectrum, but personally I think Turbulent has a lot of good talent. Whether they are just contracted out or owned by CIG doesn't make a lot of difference, but at least now we know their talent will be dedicated to the project and not split working on other things.

I get a much better Blade Runner feel from Lorville now and I'm here for it!

The following cards have been added to Release View in the Alpha 3.20 column:

Seraphim Station A new fully-operational station positioned in the skies above Orison. This station houses multiple shops, cargo services, refuel and repair, and more.

New Crusader Platforms Adding three new points of interest in Crusader's atmosphere, providing new locations for missions and loot.

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The following features have passed their final review, therefore we are toggling their status to Committed.

Arena Commander: Experimental Game Modes These limited-time game modes range from simple twists on current modes to entirely new modes. This initiative will not only allow rapid iteration of game modes to be put in players' hands faster, but also allow all teams to gather vital analytic data for specific activities, equipment, vehicles, and in-development features.

New Missions - Salvage Contracts: Coverup Players will be contracted to strip the gang markings and paint off a ship that was used in a crime that the gang doesn't want to get caught for. Security forces will also be searching for the ship to confirm and prosecute whoever had committed the crime.

MISC Hull C Encompasses all tasks, including design, art, audio, and tech, required for the implementation of the MISC Hull-C heavy cargo hauler into the PU.

Wheeled Vehicle Handling Improvements Updates and improvements to current ground vehicle movement parameters and simulation, allowing for more robust tuning and identity between various ground vehicles.

Lemmy's initial implementation of 2FA is not that straightforward and users can easily lock themselves out of their accounts. Please be careful if you decide to enable 2FA.

I personally suggest avoiding 2FA for now until it's working more consistently. There are several feature requests to force 2FA code confirmation is working before it is enabled and those are a bare minimum before this feature is functional.

If your account is locked out due to 2FA issues, please email [email protected] and include 2FA Lockout in your email subject.

2FA Setup Process

DO NO LOG OUT AT ANY POINT DURING THIS PROCESS UNTIL AFTER YOU'VE VERIFIED THAT YOUR 2FA KEYS WORK VIA STEP #8!

1. Click your Username in the top right of the site and select Settings.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and check the Set up 2-factor authentication box.

3. You should see the following alert pop up at the bottom of the screen:

4. The page will not automatically refresh. You will need to refresh it manually.

5. After a page fresh, you will see a new button at the bottom of Settings:

6. Clicking on this link does nothing. You need to right-click and copy the link to get your OTP secret key. Your clipboard should now have a URL in it that looks like this: otpauth://totp/Citizens%20Gaming:Test?secret=THISWILLBEWHEREYOURSECRETKEYWILLBE&algorithm=SHA256&issuer=Citizens%20Gaming

7. Depending on the app you use, you'll either need to paste the entire URL, or just the secret key, into the manual setup fields of that app.

8. Open an incognito browser and attempt to log into your account. You should be prompted for your 2FA code during login. If it works, you're good to go.

9. If 2FA is not allowing you to log in, go back to your main browser window and disable 2FA via the Settings page. Wait for updates and try again in a few months.

2FA Apps That Should Work

Android

• Oracle Mobile Authenticator
• Auth0 Guardian
• Sophos Authenticator
• FreeOTP Authenticator
• Google Authenticator
• 1Password

iOS

• Oracle Mobile Authenticator
• IBM Verify
• Sophos Authenticator
• FreeOTP Authenticator

Apps that appear to not support SHA-256

• Microsoft Authenticator
• LastPass Authenticator
• Duo Mobile
• Authy
• 2FAS Auth

It's always great to witness the Bengal in all it's glory, even if it's only at 10fps 😆

From July 6th through July 17th, all current, returning, and new citizens will be able to partake in the Foundation Festival. Full details can be seen on the RSI Support website.

The following ships will be available to all players during this event:

• 600i Touring
• Caterpillar
• Cutlass Black
• Cutlass Red
• Freelancer
• Gladius
• Mercury Star Runner
• Prospector
• Razor
• Starfarer
• Valkyrie
• Vulture

Additionally, for players that partake in the Guide System (until the end of July) will receive exclusive rewards (in-game hats and ship paint jobs). More details have been posted in Spectrum.

Last night, several Lemmy instances (including lemmy.world) were breached and defaced. More details can be found here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1901079

This breach only affected instances that had custom emoji configured. I hadn't gotten to setting those up yet here, so this instance should not be vulnerable.

A fix for this vulnerability has already been created (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1897) and as soon as 0.18.2 is released I will upgrade to it here.

This post will help keep the community up to speed on platform updates as they get rolled out. Feel free to create individual discussions in the Support channel if you are facing any issues with a particular build.

Current Lemmy version: 0.18.3

Version Changelog:

• 0.18.1 - Initial installation version.

• 0.18.2 - Upgrade performed on 7/12/2023 without any issues.

• • 2FA appears to be working fine on 0.18.2. If you want to use it please read this post about it.

• 0.18.3 - Upgrade performed on 7/29/2023 without issues.

• 0.18.4 - Upgrade performed on 8/11/2023 without issues.

Defederation is a hot topic in the fediverse, so I want to make sure cover it here appropriately.

I personally don't have a strong stance on this subject. I believe that instances with a large population of bot users and ones that don't moderate illegal content should be defederated to protect the rest of the fediverse. Beyond that I believe it should be up to the individual communities to decide who they wanted to be connected too. To that end, here is the current process for putting an instance up for defederation:

Submitting a defederation request

To suggest an instance for defederation, respond in this thread with the following information:

Instance domain name:

Reason why it should be defederated:

If the post receives a positive vote ratio, the admin and mod staff will have a discussion and decide on whether it should be defederated.

Suggestions and improvements for this process are welcome, but please keep them to a single thread on this post so that it's easier to find the new instance reports.

Current Defederation List

You may check the Instances page for a current list of federated and defederated instances, but I'll also keep a list here for more details.

The following instances are defederated for questionable (potentially illegal) content, an aggressive userbase or for being a large corporate entity:

• Exploding-heads com
• lemmygrad ml
• burggit moe
• lemmy burger rodeo
• threads net

The following instances are defederated due to inundated with bot accounts. These were detected with the Lemmy Overseer service, which I'll check weekly to see if instances need to be added or removed:

• ttrpg network
• lemmy shwizard chat
• lemmy fyi
• cubing social
• fedit io
• lemmy cloudsecurityofficehours com
• dot surf
• veenk help
• clatter eu
• lemmy easfrq live
• mindshare space
• news deghg org
• lemmy primboard de
• theotter social
• thediscussion site
• lemmy podycust co uk
• narod city
• wumbo buzz
• lemmy jtmn dev
• oceanbreeze earth
• bolha social
• bbs darkwitch net
• lemmyunchained net
• voyager lemmy ml
• demotheque com
• baomi tv
• lemmy fedi bub org
• granitestate social
• lemmy tedomum net

We'll have to have a community discussion around content reposting, but for now if someone isn't posting there own content to Lemmy as well then we consider it fair game.

That being said, if you do repost someones content, make sure you provide credit and a link back to the original content.