General Empyrion Thread
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GasBandit
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BALEETED (or rather, renamed to .bak in case it was the wrong one)Sure
Dave
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And Dave is going to probably wipe and start on Akua. I put down just the absolute basics I needed for a base and was trying to get stuff together. Less than 10 minutes later my base was attacked by drones. I didn't have enough exp for an ammo box yet so I deconstructed what I could before they came. 2 of them. LARGE base attack drones. I ran back to the admin abandoned base and killed one of them with my pistol (!!) but ran out of ammo. The other one camped me. And I mean it fucking CAMPED ME!!
GasBandit
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Heh, want me to delete your file so you can start over on akua with full inventory?
Dave
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Yes, he was still there. But god DAMN did I have some fun.
I ran out of protection and placed a constructor, then I put in the materials needed to make ammo for my pistol. I died once in the process as he bombed me. When I respawned I dodged him, a spider, a couple bug creatures, and some raptors, got my ammo out of the constructor and blew that mother fucker out of the sky.
I ran out of protection and placed a constructor, then I put in the materials needed to make ammo for my pistol. I died once in the process as he bombed me. When I respawned I dodged him, a spider, a couple bug creatures, and some raptors, got my ammo out of the constructor and blew that mother fucker out of the sky.
GasBandit
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Ok, though I don't think it will be much of an issue - even on my server, all this goes away in 12 days.
I just figure it's a good habit to get into.
Autominers are on Akua Moon. I placed one on an iron deposit (100/hour) and one on a pentaxid deposit (30/hour).
Gouda fight!
GasBandit
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Ok, I got the chatbot working on the server, and even managed to link it up with its own channel in discord, so now all server global chat will show up in the empyrion-server-chat channel, and any discord user's entries there will be rebroadcast by the server into the game.
I can come pick you up.
We don't have any "resource planets" like renntech did, so things are progressing a bit slower than they were there.
I imagine GB will get into customizing once 8.0 drops
Yeah no point in learning 7 since it’s going away in a week and a half anyway.
—Patrick
GasBandit
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I'm actually learning how to customize now, so that I can do it better in a8.
Well, twice now we've struck out to colonize Ningues, and twice now we've limped home with our tails between our legs, more or less. To be fair, the massive frickin' alien ship that mowed down an AP tank and two ships before slowly being plinked to death by our (manned) base guns way out classed us.
GasBandit
Staff member
There is now a fully functioning resource world called Bonanza that can be farmed for materials like Yaral was on Renntech. With two differences -
One, it's a PVP playfield, so watch out for unfriendly players.
Two, the jump to get there is too far for an SV, so you'll need a CV to go.
Getting Erestrum and Zascosium is such a trial, my next step is gonna be to figure out how to create and edit traders, so I can create a trader on Akua and Tallodar that sells Erestrum, Zascosium, Sathium, and Neodymium, but at hyper-inflated prices.
One, it's a PVP playfield, so watch out for unfriendly players.
Two, the jump to get there is too far for an SV, so you'll need a CV to go.
Getting Erestrum and Zascosium is such a trial, my next step is gonna be to figure out how to create and edit traders, so I can create a trader on Akua and Tallodar that sells Erestrum, Zascosium, Sathium, and Neodymium, but at hyper-inflated prices.
We have achieved capital vessel technology! With a MK II Warpsled, to be used as a Warpsemi, primarily, to move resources back and forth from Bonanza. Then we'll colonize Bonanza Orbit, which is also PvP space. Which kind of leads to my next bit. Factions. If anyone wants to splinter off, now that we're at a survivable point, please feel free. Take some resources, we'll bring a bunch back from bonanza and bootstrap anyone who wants it up to endgame level for the last 9 days of the server. In fact, if you want, we'll happily leave a public box on a space station (not our main one, obviously) in Bonanza orbit full of resources for anyone who wants to come blow ships up with us. All I ask is that if you're going to splinter off, you do it before you waypoint our main PvP base in Bonanza Orbit. 
GasBandit
Staff member
I have learned how to create custom POIs and custom merchants. There is now an exotic materials merchant on Ningues that will sell Neodymium, Erestrum, Zascosium, and Pentaxid for exorbitant prices. This will serve both as a possible path for early players to get their hands on the mats (albeit with wheeling and dealing for credits first), and for later players to make money selling the ingots to the merchant.
I haven't figured out how to get the merchant to adjust his prices according to his stock, yet, though.
I haven't figured out how to get the merchant to adjust his prices according to his stock, yet, though.
So on Renntech, we have to worry about the admins shooting us out of the skies.
But on GBI, the admins just ruin you financially?
Also, I have some experience with game provisioning, so if I figure it out, I'll let you know.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
There are other ways to get the resources too, you don't have to buy them. This is just, probably, the least imaginative way to get them, now
GasBandit
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Welp, I waited to make sure everything went smoothly on the automatic restart/wipe at 2am... 5 min warning hit... then 3... then 2.. then 1... then the server process ended... aaaand then the gateway for my work's internet went offline. Tracing to my office gave destination net unreachable. The 4 machines I have at work with TeamViewer installed all show offline.
I'm not going in to work at 2am to figure out this problem. The timing, and the point in the trace at which it dies, makes me think the ISP is doing maintenance. But it is galling that I won't know until I wake up in 6 hours or so if the Empyrion Dedicated Server process successfully restarted.
I'm not going in to work at 2am to figure out this problem. The timing, and the point in the trace at which it dies, makes me think the ISP is doing maintenance. But it is galling that I won't know until I wake up in 6 hours or so if the Empyrion Dedicated Server process successfully restarted.