My Drunken Starcom Fixed

Players often use "drunken" to describe a ship that wobbles, spirals, or handles poorly due to off-center thruster placement unstable physics at high speeds

A: That’s alternator whine + bad filtering. Your capacitors aren't smoothing the DC power. Fix the caps, fix the whine. my drunken starcom fixed

StarCom units manufactured between 2010 and 2018 (and some later analog models) suffer from what the electronics world calls "capacitor plague." These small, cylindrical components regulate voltage to the audio processing chip. When they age or overheat, they dry out. When they dry out, they stop filtering DC ripple. Players often use "drunken" to describe a ship