Dear Toecutter,
What are the purpose of equipment nodes and cargo modules now on the market? Do they add extra equipment/cargo slots? and if so can they be added to the newbie ship? Thanks!
Hello, mrrkuchc!
No, there are currently no items in the game that can be directly applied to your ship (for upgrades or other effects).
Could you please elaborate on this? Would it just be an addition to the type of withdrawals that can be made or is the game currency now entirely based on doge coin instead of BTC?
Ugh, trust me, I would've made a much larger post on such an occasion :) In fact, thinking something like that is even possible shows a deep misunderstanding of our principles :( But I don't blame you, it's entirely my own fault, shows how good at communication I am. To make up for it, I'll try my best to explain this feature (without spoiling too much).
But to clear up,
NO, SatoshiGalaxy is not going to switch to DOGE (or LTC, or ETH or whatever). Not now, not ever.You can quote me on that.
I personaly dont think that the game has anything to do with Dogecoin. It makes game more of a joke to some. The idea of a game is very bold and good and thats why it should refrain from things that are not so serious.
It is a bit of a joke, even to us. "Blog post" follows, but TL;DR version for you is that if you absolutely and uncompromisingly hate dogecoin, could you please find it in your heart and ignore it?
So the main point here is that we are always on a lookout for things that make in-game economy more dynamic. Our reliance on BTC is one such "fun" thing, because it adds
real world as an entropy source. So we always toyed with an idea of adding other cryptocoins into the mix.
In the meantime we were developing (a bit of strong word, huh) a new item, that was supposed to fit in a very important niche in the ingredient hierarchy. By a happy(?) accident, this item and the newly introduced crypto are one and the same.
Lastly (to answer "why DOGE"), people have repeatedly asked us for withdrawals in this coin. Apparently, some other game(s) accepts them as deposits, and people don't want to pay the exchange fees for dust, and such. A bit esoteric, and probably completely unneeded. But we want to be a part of larger crypto community (which includes DOGE, love it or hate it) and it was easy enough to implement, thanks to faucetbox. If this motivates people to withdraw more, the better.
Yes, you can withdraw those ridiculous coins directly to your wallets.
You don't have to, it's just an
option.
No, it's not a good alternative to an exchange, you'll loose about 50% or even more.
You can hold on to them, maybe they'll go into orbit one day?
Some random notes, not to convince anyone, but just to make our line of thinking more clear:
- DOGE is associated with "fun and games"
- DOGE has a pretty good reputation (no black markets, etc)
- More memetic than LTC, probably the second most known coin
I really and honestly do appreciate the notion of our in-game copper ore being more valuable than doge coins (as one E-Mail eloquently put it).
One is only good as long as SG is good, the other will probably survive a bit longer, thanks to all the miners (but we'll see about that). I promise you, that
the day DOGE falls down to 0 satoshi we'll be removing it and changing to some other coin. But we
do want some other coin to exist right inside the game world, as a game item, for reasons explained above.
Seriously, though, that level of trust and appreciation of the in-game world is something we're
really happy to see. All the DOGE hate has been heard and will be evaluated. It's a bit of a shocker, really, we were hoping for a much more positive response, but, well, point taken.
Oh, and despite the recent bounty bug (yikes, our programmer got scolded), our policies regarding Players' satoshi balances are very strict. Unless the situation is absolutely critical, we would never touch someone's balance. There are several in-game mechanisms that prevent us from tampering with that number (for example, gifts are issued in form of items).
Silently going and converting all that into DOGE (or into whatever) would breach like 15 of our principles at the same time.
This is a BTC game, and BTC is life. Maybe I haven't expressed that enough (or ever), but we're all BTC fanatics. We don't hold any (serious) DOGE, nor have any stake in it, nor condone it's usage.
Final question. Do you guys hate all altcoins equally? Would LTC been better than DOGE? Just collecting some data here.
Dont change it from like hero to zero, and zero to hero in few days 
