GasBandit
Staff member
Here's an invite URL to the Renntech discord server that should be good for 24 hours.
https://discord.gg/qREyAC
https://discord.gg/qREyAC
It works decently, but you have to have either a whole LOT of concrete blocks available and no stone dust in your factory if you want to speed up a long build, or you can use it to speed up one or two hour constructions with four or five stacks of concrete blocks.So, in that discord, somebody had a good tip - subscribe to a blueprint like this -
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843905921&searchtext=concrete
Then just use concrete blocks to fill it up, then switch to whatever you really wanna build and insert ingots. Save ya a lot of time on blueprints. And if your factory ever gets too full of concrete... just spawn it and start over![]()
Hrm, the way he described it, a stack of concrete blocks should shave off 72 minutes from a build.It works decently, but you have to have either a whole LOT of concrete blocks available and no stone dust in your factory if you want to speed up a long build, or you can use it to speed up one or two hour constructions with four or five stacks of concrete blocks.
Hrm. It's worth exploring.It's taking 15 to 20 minutes off for me. Maybe they're using armored concrete? I was just using standard.
Aislynn managed to get herself in a real pickle last night. She started digging at about a 30 degree angle, to get at a promethium deposit, but as she got closer she angled down more and more, then lost track of which way was up, and then started digging back the other way, resulting in a large vertical "C" shaped cavern. It was kinda tricky even for me to get the thing out of, and I consider myself a bit of an HV piloting proWhen I've gotten my HV lost in a hole, I just dig, see which way the rocks fall, and point the opposite direction
Think you could check out the other two servers I listed, and see if they're any better? I'm seeing some things going on behind the scenes of Renntech that are making me think the launch of 8.0 might be a good time for GBI to make a clean break and start over on a new server, since we're going to have to start over anyway no matter what.So, pretty much exactly what I figured from my first exposure to the admins on that server.
I'm done with Renntech. Come to Skillon and take whatever you want from it. Everything I've seen says "You live here at the admin's whim, and whenever they decide to fuck you, well, tough titty." And, hey, it's their world. They can do what they want. But I don't gotta play in it.
You're exactly right, it has nothing to do with resources. It's about Noodle wanting to attack PvE players, because stomping kittens is what noodle loves, and noodle is insanely bored.If you're really that fed up with PvE players, don't allow PvE on your server. But don't allow PvE, try to draw in players by posting on the official server description that there's no PvP Admins, and then set everything up to screw over PvE players because you're bored and/or want their resources. Besides, how many pristine PvP planets have we come across, so far? Surely Noodle can't have run out of all of the resources she needs to build whatever she wants, since Kiki is almost never touched, Mars was only looted by one other faction for its Pentaxid deposits (Pentaxid!), and Genesis was just ours. Dave hasn't found anyone else on Unsullied except for AI aliens, and I haven't even seen another faction aside from the base on Mars. It does sound like someone who's just bored and looking for a fight to relieve the boredom. If she wanted to do that as a server wipe event, that would be one thing. To want to do it a month out, and then be pushing hard for the most important resources for mid- to late-game play available in PvP only areas is a really shitty attitude, and I like PvP.
That being said, I'm still having fun, so unless Gas leaves Renntech before the wipe, I'm fine to stick around as well.
That's where I got the data for the other two servers I posted as possible alternatives.
Before Alpha 8 hit the experimental branch, it got up past 50 users most nights.Even on Renntech, I usually don't see more than 20 users on at a time. All that would be moot if someone set a server up themselves.
You know I always suspected you didn't.I don't know if I have the knowledge necessary to be an admin.