General Empyrion Thread
- Thread starter GasBandit
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I feel ya. I've had to stop going to bed at 4:30 am and now try to be in bed by 2.
--Patrick
This is rule number one under the PvE subsection of the server rules. You cannot do this in PvE, but can in PvP all you want.
GasBandit
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Well, unless you remembered to log back in every night before 2am to pick them up, then RE-log in again after the 2am reset to set them back down.
Well, I've experienced a planet-bound plant killing bug, but I'm still not sure if it's the same thing that was necessitating Cornucopias back on Renntech. In my case, there were big patches of ground that weren't rendering as I flew along in my CV, and then when I got to the base, half of it was missing (including a bunch of the walls of the garden). I couldn't see most of the plants (they didn't render), but the ones I could see were dead. When I relogged, all of the building was back, all of the plants were back, but the ones that had been dead before I relogged were still dead.
Dave
Staff member
Awesome. So it'll actually be worth it to find gold in the asteroids since they will be the only sources that respawn.
Same thing happened to me last night. So I replanted all the plants.
The ones that had died during the glitch died again overnight.
So, since I'm using the HMS Titan base, I'm going to dig that entire garden room off of the side of it, and park a garden CV right up in that same space to use as a grow room.
GasBandit
Staff member
I hate to say it, but I wouldn't trust it. Cornucopias all the way TFN.
I have done some research and have read that adding blocks to a base may be a/the root cause. When you add a block, it re-calculates structural integrity which may leave your plants without o2/temp/etc for a microsecond, killing them.
I didn't have any problems with my base plants until yesterday. But I also did a whole lot of adding to my base.
I plan on doing some experimentation around the problem over the next couple of days.
I didn't have any problems with my base plants until yesterday. But I also did a whole lot of adding to my base.
I plan on doing some experimentation around the problem over the next couple of days.
GasBandit
Staff member
I can definitely attest that I had plants repeatedly die on Renntech in the Yaral Orbital Branch when absolutely no block changes were made. But maybe it's different in Alpha 8.
It's also guys blue sky-ing on the internet. Which is why experimentation is in order
I never had either until yesterday. But I also hadn't ever been heavily configuring/modifying a base that had active plants on it. So, in my mind, there's a kernel of possibility in the theory.
This turned out to be sound advice. The second time I RtB with a CV, half my base didn't render, and all my non-alien/non-aloe plants in that building died. I'm in Creative Mode right now building the world's most ridiculous Garden of Hades CV I can build (I already have upwards of 400+ steel grow plots in live play, so a Cornucopia just doesn't cut it).
My elegant solution to the Titan base gardening problem:
That green bit on the left is the agrostar cv.
- Dig out the entire garden room.
- Build an Agrostar CV (basically 144 grow plots on a CV without much else).
- Multitool some of the back end blocks off so I can back it up to the base.
- Build a door and a short hallway, so for all intents and purposes, the gardening CV appears to be just another base room when you're actually inside the base. Because blocks are a standard size, and I backed up the CV to be flush with the base, you can barely tell where the base ends and the CV begins from the inside.
That green bit on the left is the agrostar cv.
GasBandit
Staff member
Oh, and I forgot I wanted to post this, too...
I expanded my rudimentary Akua base somewhat... it is the GASzebo, and as people have taken to asking to buy ingots from me, it's sort of become my place of business, I've made it more.. businesslike.
First, I made a large accomodation pavilion, with tables, plants, complimentary snacks, and even a heater to keep people warm as they observe the scenic grandeur of the north fucking pole (where I built my base).
Second, I set up a sign, advertising the GASzebo and the services it offers! The video feed on the spokesbabe is a little rudimentary, but that's the best that can be done with the tech as it stands....
But when you're trying to turn a ramshackle hut at the north pole into an intergalactic Stuckey's, you need a gimmick, something to draw attention and get people to pull over and look at you. So, I've rebuilt MEGAS and put him back to work. He stands proudly atop the accomodation pavilion, proudly flipping the bird to all points south. And, given the location, that's pretty much the rest of the world.
So come on down to the GASZEBO, for all your ingot and teleporter needs. There's plenty of parking, and we have a buy-none-get-some-free sale on bags of ice because WE'RE AT THE FUCKING NORTH POLE.
I expanded my rudimentary Akua base somewhat... it is the GASzebo, and as people have taken to asking to buy ingots from me, it's sort of become my place of business, I've made it more.. businesslike.
First, I made a large accomodation pavilion, with tables, plants, complimentary snacks, and even a heater to keep people warm as they observe the scenic grandeur of the north fucking pole (where I built my base).
Second, I set up a sign, advertising the GASzebo and the services it offers! The video feed on the spokesbabe is a little rudimentary, but that's the best that can be done with the tech as it stands....
But when you're trying to turn a ramshackle hut at the north pole into an intergalactic Stuckey's, you need a gimmick, something to draw attention and get people to pull over and look at you. So, I've rebuilt MEGAS and put him back to work. He stands proudly atop the accomodation pavilion, proudly flipping the bird to all points south. And, given the location, that's pretty much the rest of the world.
So come on down to the GASZEBO, for all your ingot and teleporter needs. There's plenty of parking, and we have a buy-none-get-some-free sale on bags of ice because WE'RE AT THE FUCKING NORTH POLE.
GasBandit
Staff member
Neither of us have gone low enough, though, apparently, because nobody's buying that from me either. So far 90% of my sales have been Sathium.
I don't codify it because it's at my discretion from moment to moment. Mostly to keep Shadows from buying me dry at discount prices
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, I also don't want to spend all my play time travelling back to Akua to sell 10 ingots of unobtanium. So if I price myself out of some sales, I'm ok with that.
Really, I wish there was a way for me to customize the built-in player trade functions. Lower the ridiculously high 10% consignment fee, and make it so you can complete all transactions from any trade station anywhere in the game instead of having to go to the specific structure where the deal is made.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, I am not sure about 90%, and it depends on whether you're measuring by transaction or by volume... after all I've had multiple purchases (via the trade station, granted, instead of me having to show up in person) from Bowman, Lord of the Dwarves, and Eisenwulf.