Comments like these make tim think he should lock Starcaster, a series I enjoy almost equally to the DND and A&D, behind a paywall. I understand you might only come here to read one series and that’s fine but we don’t need to hear about it, and frankly neither does the web author.
Tim has the stats – such runs does reflect lower web traffic. Whether you like it or not this is not as popular as others.
I’m saying this as someone that actually like Starcasters better than analog + d pad.
I get why you’re upset that Tim might want to put it behind paywall but now gate keeping other people’s opinion is just next level bullshit from you. This comment section doesn’t belong to you.
Starcaster doesn’t necessarily draw lower traffic, but there can be lower engagement because a lot of the people most invested in the story have already read these issues a year prior. So these six weeks of updates here are basically reruns for them. Also, Starcaster patrons get a steady drip of pages, keeping the story fresh in their mind, whereas the website waits six months between issues, so when one drops there’s a period of “where were we again?” for many people that probably contributes to a slower ramp-up of engagement (less discussion at the start of an issue compared… Read more »
Tim, I have been following your content since year 1, you have done a fantastic job trying to create the best and most interesting content. I really love how you DO take the feedback from the community. It shows you are still driving yourself to make the best. You know not everyone likes it all, so you do what is best for you. Keep being you.
So why elected you the king of the comments? You see this is YOUR opinion just like OP voiced their opinion. Get off your high horse. YOU dont like it YOU can leave just as easily or not read comments you dont like.If you dont have people giving their feedback the creators have no clue how the public is taking to the content. Tim knows people have different tastes and tries to get the content the most people want. THIS is how that happens. Gatekeeping and crap like this is never good. Do better.
There is no need to denigrate or try to suppress ideas that conflict with your own. All that achieves is to imply you don’t have the confidence in your own opinions, they they could hold up to contention. It gives strong ‘brittle spirit’…
Nope! I happily read whatever he posts. All of his comics are well written and drawn. One of the only webcomics I still read actually, as all the others have moved on or met natural deaths.
Guess that depends on how ‘extreme’ the healing is. I mean, you age out of your physical prime and into ‘old age’ because your cells are replicating and eventually the original dna that guides what the new cell is supposed to be and do break down more and more over all the replications. If the healing is just providing energy to speed up the cells replicating themselves and heal, then if anything he’s functionally aging faster with injuries. I mean, it’d take a lot to be meaningful but he’ll… probably heal that much. On the other hand if the healing… Read more »
Hoenstly, I think firmly on the science end, it is not so far advanced as to think it is magic. We already as a species know how to undo the DNA strand shortening, telemorase. what we don’t know how to do is to do that without giving us cancer. One of the first mutations needed for cancer to be more then a short term annoyance, is reactivating telemorase. So just giving that to a human body, makes the cells younger again, but any proto-cancers become full cancers instantly. so if you combine it with a type of healing that can… Read more »
I’ve been working up some sort of theory here. Cort, Nayra, Speck, have been using normal periods of time most of the comic. Days, months, years, etc. This new unit of time, however, is something that we only started seeing when we were hip-deep in the Federation. Rather than assume this was a mid-series shift, I’m going to assume there’s a difference. Obviously our length of time (day, month, year) is based on the movement of the Earth. I suggest that those terms are simply the colloquial, inexact measurement of time, as it’s clearly translated from Galactic Common (or whatever… Read more »
Just FYI, the pages on the website are outdated. When I put together the first Starcaster book (what I consider the definitive versions), all of the dialogue was updated to reflect the Federation time standard; I just don’t feel like reuploading 120 pages.
Lune would be 13 if based on earth. There are 13 lunar months in an earth year. Centivale lends to being 100years but I kinda think decade can fit too.
> Its like measuring by the yard, or measuring by the meter. the other is carefully created to be as universal as possible.
That’s funny.
Kenju
1 month ago
….Tim, we love your work, but can we please have an idiots guide to time and distance translation one of these days lol
A centivale could mean either a hundred years, or one hundredth of a year, though I am inclined to believe it is the hundred years measure.
Though what I would really like to see is the Lance Major and Nyrah meet, as it seems highly likely Nyrah could still teach her a few things about how to use her Starcaster.
Heck, I’d just prefer to use standard units. I get that this is an alien organization, but encountering these mystery units with no frame of reference distracts me from the excellent story. I think we can assume that the characters aren’t speaking English, so having translated ranks (“Lance major” as opposed to “Quar Silek” or whatever) and objects (“Cruiser”, “Starcaster”) seem just as reasonable as translated units. It might be a bit jarring to switch tacks in the middle of the work, but perhaps for a 2nd edition, I’d recommend just using standard units, or else perhaps have an asterisk… Read more »
A year, for example, is a distinctly Earth-based construct whose value is directly related to the rotational period of our planet around its sun. So to then say “year” when living in a society that includes dozens of habitable worlds of various sizes, all of which will have their own unique rotations around their suns, doesn’t work because the definition of the word changes based on where you’re standing when you say it, or who you’re talking to. So it makes sense to me that the Federation would implement a time standard to make it easier to conduct communication and… Read more »
I am pretty sure a centivale is a century, as centi means 100.
However, we dont know if it refers to the calender of the earth as we know it, or of some other constant to measure time by.
If it is different, then age is measured differently and thus you can be called 100 years old, but probably are only 42 in earth years?
Centimeters are a quite young mis-translation by the French when defining the Metric system. Hecto (greek origin) and Centi (latinized origin, originally also greek) used to mean the same thing (group of 100), but the French messed up and used it as “one-hundreth” instead. It’s a really weird naming scheme, where the numeric terms from the latin language got switched into their corresponding antonym (e.g. milli and centi got flipped) while in return the not commonly used, yet still latinized greek sounding terms (hekto, kilo) were kept in their original meaning. Meanwhile other prefixes like “nano”, “micro” etc. are essentially… Read more »
For better or worse, centi prefix means 1/100th while centu seems to have kept meaning of 100. Still, centivale might be equivalent to 100 years if we assume that a vale is 10000 years, especially considering that if chryon is a year, centivale would be equal to centuchryons 😂
cmasta1992
1 month ago
You can just say century. It’s okay, it won’t ruin the immersion.
Personally I think it’s easy from context. Sounds like century. In space you have different measurements, probably based on more galactic constants, like the flicker of a pulsar or the time it takes from a certain distance from the supermassive black hole in the center to make a full round. That’s why it can be centi as well. A 100th of something instead of 100 times. It is simply a boatload of it regardless.
BeanJuiceBenny
1 month ago
I’m loving this run honestly. The lore and the character development is really grabbing me.
foducool
1 month ago
the joys of not being an extremely long lived species (80 years or so is still pretty long if you ask me)
PhobosRising
1 month ago
Apply marvel protagonist yeast, aaaannd should be mastered in a week. By tomorrow if you have something cute to sacrifice.
Context? I don’t fully agree with Dark, he just is pointing out a side-effect of bloated hero sagas subject to the “Hold My Beer” policy. Gamemasters recognize it as trying to inject newer characters in settings at either existing group power levels or campaign end power level goal for relevancy purposes.
Last edited 1 month ago by PhobosRising
Ash Ketchup
1 month ago
Figures the Lance Major lady has a long lifespan. Us humans always get the short end of the stick in high-fantasy and sci-fi universes.
wolph
1 month ago
I’ve got to say that those time values really annoy me… the language is obviously translated from some alien language to English, but the time units are not. The way they’re used feels really forced to me… but that’s just my opinion.
ChibiAcer
1 month ago
A centivale is like, 100 Earth minutes. Surely. 🫤
Edit: Read Tim’s post below. RIP
Last edited 1 month ago by ChibiAcer
Crestlinger
1 month ago
Was there a chart of the time units made up by author or anyone else on the other Patapatapatapon (couldn’t resist) side? Seems like it would be relevant particularly for the amount of time terms thrown around in this chapter.
Mikko
1 month ago
It seems that new special forces do not require full publicity, the knightly honesty, from their members.
You know, federation could fabricate a look-alike for front lines purposes. Nobody really knows about cort yet. The PR bullet shield could help morale, while real starcasters do cloak and dagger work. Just make the PR one have a larger fleet presence to encourage lack of direct conflicts. That or test that starcaster fabrication theory.
pookysgirl
1 month ago
Next comic: “Well, I’m a terrible person, as Nyrah used to keep reminding me. Speck thinks I’ve got some redeeming value, though. You can guess which one of them I prefer to hang out with.”
Nightdagger
1 month ago
That brings up a point that I’m not sure has been addressed yet…the regenerative effect of the Starcaster, does that also account for normal wear and tear and genetic degradation?
In other words, are Starcasters effectively immortal outside of unnatural deaths?
Vukodlak
1 month ago
I think Cort is going to unlock the true secret of the Starcaster, how to use it to create rather then destroy.
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Looking forward to the conclusion of this run, and the return of the DnD group.
Comments like these make tim think he should lock Starcaster, a series I enjoy almost equally to the DND and A&D, behind a paywall. I understand you might only come here to read one series and that’s fine but we don’t need to hear about it, and frankly neither does the web author.
Tim has the stats – such runs does reflect lower web traffic. Whether you like it or not this is not as popular as others.
I’m saying this as someone that actually like Starcasters better than analog + d pad.
I get why you’re upset that Tim might want to put it behind paywall but now gate keeping other people’s opinion is just next level bullshit from you. This comment section doesn’t belong to you.
Starcaster doesn’t necessarily draw lower traffic, but there can be lower engagement because a lot of the people most invested in the story have already read these issues a year prior. So these six weeks of updates here are basically reruns for them. Also, Starcaster patrons get a steady drip of pages, keeping the story fresh in their mind, whereas the website waits six months between issues, so when one drops there’s a period of “where were we again?” for many people that probably contributes to a slower ramp-up of engagement (less discussion at the start of an issue compared… Read more »
For what it’s worth as a fan since CAD 1.0 who is not in a good financial position to Patreon, Starcaster is my favorite, followed by Analog and D-Pad
Tim, I have been following your content since year 1, you have done a fantastic job trying to create the best and most interesting content. I really love how you DO take the feedback from the community. It shows you are still driving yourself to make the best. You know not everyone likes it all, so you do what is best for you. Keep being you.
Been reading your stuff for almost 20 years, and will until you stop or i die, keep it up!
Personally I will take anything over Analog and D-pad. That is my least favorite series here which I often skip when is being posted.
So why elected you the king of the comments? You see this is YOUR opinion just like OP voiced their opinion. Get off your high horse. YOU dont like it YOU can leave just as easily or not read comments you dont like.If you dont have people giving their feedback the creators have no clue how the public is taking to the content. Tim knows people have different tastes and tries to get the content the most people want. THIS is how that happens. Gatekeeping and crap like this is never good. Do better.
You don’t elect kings. You let watery tarts through swords at you. Same with being an emperor. But with a scimitar.
There is no need to denigrate or try to suppress ideas that conflict with your own. All that achieves is to imply you don’t have the confidence in your own opinions, they they could hold up to contention. It gives strong ‘brittle spirit’…
um… disagreeing is suppression?
Am I the only one that come here to read whatever Tim delights us? 😢
Nope, you are not.
Most certainly not.
I like all the stories here, and I’m quite sure most of Tim’s visitors would see it like that as well.
no you’re not i love all of tim’s work. been here since just a week or two after he started all of this back in the early 2ks!
Nope! I happily read whatever he posts. All of his comics are well written and drawn. One of the only webcomics I still read actually, as all the others have moved on or met natural deaths.
I’ll miss the Starcaster series when it goes away. 🙁
I have no clue about time in this universe, but it sounds way out of his life expectancy.
Assuming mortality is even a concern for someone fused to a starcaster? It constantly heals them, after all. Will Cort even continue to age?
Guess that depends on how ‘extreme’ the healing is. I mean, you age out of your physical prime and into ‘old age’ because your cells are replicating and eventually the original dna that guides what the new cell is supposed to be and do break down more and more over all the replications. If the healing is just providing energy to speed up the cells replicating themselves and heal, then if anything he’s functionally aging faster with injuries. I mean, it’d take a lot to be meaningful but he’ll… probably heal that much. On the other hand if the healing… Read more »
The person that wore it before him starved to death. I dont think it can stop aging.
Hoenstly, I think firmly on the science end, it is not so far advanced as to think it is magic. We already as a species know how to undo the DNA strand shortening, telemorase. what we don’t know how to do is to do that without giving us cancer. One of the first mutations needed for cancer to be more then a short term annoyance, is reactivating telemorase. So just giving that to a human body, makes the cells younger again, but any proto-cancers become full cancers instantly. so if you combine it with a type of healing that can… Read more »
I’ve been working up some sort of theory here. Cort, Nayra, Speck, have been using normal periods of time most of the comic. Days, months, years, etc. This new unit of time, however, is something that we only started seeing when we were hip-deep in the Federation. Rather than assume this was a mid-series shift, I’m going to assume there’s a difference. Obviously our length of time (day, month, year) is based on the movement of the Earth. I suggest that those terms are simply the colloquial, inexact measurement of time, as it’s clearly translated from Galactic Common (or whatever… Read more »
Shit, I should’ve scrolled down.
Don’t click my wall of text. Not worth it.
Definitely worth it, you got it right.
Just FYI, the pages on the website are outdated. When I put together the first Starcaster book (what I consider the definitive versions), all of the dialogue was updated to reflect the Federation time standard; I just don’t feel like reuploading 120 pages.
Lune would be 13 if based on earth. There are 13 lunar months in an earth year. Centivale lends to being 100years but I kinda think decade can fit too.
About 12 7/19 lunar months per year according to the Hebrew calendar
> Its like measuring by the yard, or measuring by the meter. the other is carefully created to be as universal as possible.
That’s funny.
….Tim, we love your work, but can we please have an idiots guide to time and distance translation one of these days lol
A centivale could mean either a hundred years, or one hundredth of a year, though I am inclined to believe it is the hundred years measure.
Though what I would really like to see is the Lance Major and Nyrah meet, as it seems highly likely Nyrah could still teach her a few things about how to use her Starcaster.
Heck, I’d just prefer to use standard units. I get that this is an alien organization, but encountering these mystery units with no frame of reference distracts me from the excellent story. I think we can assume that the characters aren’t speaking English, so having translated ranks (“Lance major” as opposed to “Quar Silek” or whatever) and objects (“Cruiser”, “Starcaster”) seem just as reasonable as translated units. It might be a bit jarring to switch tacks in the middle of the work, but perhaps for a 2nd edition, I’d recommend just using standard units, or else perhaps have an asterisk… Read more »
A year, for example, is a distinctly Earth-based construct whose value is directly related to the rotational period of our planet around its sun. So to then say “year” when living in a society that includes dozens of habitable worlds of various sizes, all of which will have their own unique rotations around their suns, doesn’t work because the definition of the word changes based on where you’re standing when you say it, or who you’re talking to. So it makes sense to me that the Federation would implement a time standard to make it easier to conduct communication and… Read more »
The look on the face tells us all we need to know.
A Chryon is a Federation standard year. A Centivale is 100 years.
That’s what I assumed going by context, so I’d say you’re doing a good job.
Thanks! That makes sense.
I am pretty sure a centivale is a century, as centi means 100.
However, we dont know if it refers to the calender of the earth as we know it, or of some other constant to measure time by.
If it is different, then age is measured differently and thus you can be called 100 years old, but probably are only 42 in earth years?
Well, a centimeter is not 100m, but a 100th of a meter. By that logic, a centivale would be a hundredth of a vale, and 100 vales would be a hectovale.
By that logic, a centurion commanded 1/100th of a soldier, and a century is 100th of a year 😉
Centimeters are a quite young mis-translation by the French when defining the Metric system. Hecto (greek origin) and Centi (latinized origin, originally also greek) used to mean the same thing (group of 100), but the French messed up and used it as “one-hundreth” instead. It’s a really weird naming scheme, where the numeric terms from the latin language got switched into their corresponding antonym (e.g. milli and centi got flipped) while in return the not commonly used, yet still latinized greek sounding terms (hekto, kilo) were kept in their original meaning. Meanwhile other prefixes like “nano”, “micro” etc. are essentially… Read more »
For better or worse, centi prefix means 1/100th while centu seems to have kept meaning of 100. Still, centivale might be equivalent to 100 years if we assume that a vale is 10000 years, especially considering that if chryon is a year, centivale would be equal to centuchryons 😂
You can just say century. It’s okay, it won’t ruin the immersion.
Personally I think it’s easy from context. Sounds like century. In space you have different measurements, probably based on more galactic constants, like the flicker of a pulsar or the time it takes from a certain distance from the supermassive black hole in the center to make a full round. That’s why it can be centi as well. A 100th of something instead of 100 times. It is simply a boatload of it regardless.
I’m loving this run honestly. The lore and the character development is really grabbing me.
the joys of not being an extremely long lived species (80 years or so is still pretty long if you ask me)
Apply marvel protagonist yeast, aaaannd should be mastered in a week. By tomorrow if you have something cute to sacrifice.
If the protagonist is a woman, ignore recipe. They already are fully powered and at best just discover that they can already do whatever is required.
Do you two meed a ride in the Wambulance?
Besides that it is a joke, did you see the last so many movies/series of marvel?
Context? I don’t fully agree with Dark, he just is pointing out a side-effect of bloated hero sagas subject to the “Hold My Beer” policy. Gamemasters recognize it as trying to inject newer characters in settings at either existing group power levels or campaign end power level goal for relevancy purposes.
Figures the Lance Major lady has a long lifespan. Us humans always get the short end of the stick in high-fantasy and sci-fi universes.
I’ve got to say that those time values really annoy me… the language is obviously translated from some alien language to English, but the time units are not. The way they’re used feels really forced to me… but that’s just my opinion.
A centivale is like, 100 Earth minutes. Surely. 🫤
Edit: Read Tim’s post below. RIP
Was there a chart of the time units made up by author or anyone else on the other Patapatapatapon (couldn’t resist) side? Seems like it would be relevant particularly for the amount of time terms thrown around in this chapter.
It seems that new special forces do not require full publicity, the knightly honesty, from their members.
You know, federation could fabricate a look-alike for front lines purposes. Nobody really knows about cort yet. The PR bullet shield could help morale, while real starcasters do cloak and dagger work. Just make the PR one have a larger fleet presence to encourage lack of direct conflicts. That or test that starcaster fabrication theory.
Next comic: “Well, I’m a terrible person, as Nyrah used to keep reminding me. Speck thinks I’ve got some redeeming value, though. You can guess which one of them I prefer to hang out with.”
That brings up a point that I’m not sure has been addressed yet…the regenerative effect of the Starcaster, does that also account for normal wear and tear and genetic degradation?
In other words, are Starcasters effectively immortal outside of unnatural deaths?
I think Cort is going to unlock the true secret of the Starcaster, how to use it to create rather then destroy.
I think we all know that since the moment Checkow’s gun was hanged above the chimney
Am I the only one who noticed that he was about to say “merry band of pirates”? Perhaps Skippy will show up to save the day.