General Empyrion Thread
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GasBandit
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Wing blocks are useful for being a cheap way to increase the front silhouette size of your fighter, so that you can put its weapons out on wingtips and such, thus making it less likely to get defanged in one AE homing missile salvo. They weigh less than steel blocks, but are larger in size, and because structural integrity isn't a thing for ships, they don't really matter if they get blown off - the weapons at their tips will remain functional as they hover at the same relative position.
But, that said, ain't a one of those example SVs I'd EVER take into PvP combat. Maybe not even POI attacks. Big bubble cockpits, unshielded and up front? Might as well slather myself in barbecue sauce and kick a lion in the balls.
But I guess the point was, those are all actually the exact same SV, just with different wing blocks attached, to demonstrate the aesthetic differences that are possible just with the different wings.
Yeah. Functionally, there’s nothing they do that it looks like I couldn’t do using wall blocks, except that I guess the wings look cooler doing it. Again, barring any measurable improvement in usefulness, they’re just like adding LEDs to fans/RAM/MLBs...pretty, but not much else.
—Patrick
GasBandit
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They weigh less and cost less in resources vs a comperable amount of steel/hardened steel blocks to cover the same area.
Weight is definitely a big factor in designing fighters, it governs how quickly you can dodge/change directions, which is the only way for a fighter to really survive.
Unless you're making a CV-sized SV with multiple layers of hardened steel, taking even one or two hits in the wrong area can be the end of the ship. With these, you can spread critical systems/targets out over a wider area without dramatically increasing the mass of the ship, keeping it agile.
This is what I hope will happen as well (modified by atmospheric density, of course), but I’m not putting any money on it.
—Patrick
GasBandit
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For the benefit of the studio audience: Lag issues specific to dedicated servers.
GasBandit
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I definitely feel ya on this, and 90% of Early Access games...
But on the other hand, if the Early Access/Kickstarter model wasn't a thing, we probably wouldn't have gotten the following games AT ALL - Don't Starve, Minecraft, Subnautica, Beseige, The Long Dark, Prison Architect, Kerbal Space Program, Darkest Dungeon, Rimworld, Factorio, Divinity: Original Sin, Path of Exile, Stardew Valley, or heck.. Space Engineers and Empyrion. Plus, a number of other indie games that were quite enjoyable.
Dave
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At one point I moved to General channel 2 because they were bothering me. It took like 10 minutes and EVERYONE was down in 2 with nobody left up in the main General chat. I almost went down to your chat but didn't want to have us both narrating what was going on in our respective streams.
GasBandit
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Well, you do have a chat only your faction can enter
Of course, that won't stop CD, but...
GasBandit
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On a different subject, I learned the real terms for the different kinds of deposits today. Voxel and SSOR.
Voxel = painted dirt textures, like mining an asteroid, gives resources in drips and drabs as terrain is deformed
SSOR = "Some Sort of Resource" Chunks/Berries that give resources all at once when destroyed by a drill
Voxel = painted dirt textures, like mining an asteroid, gives resources in drips and drabs as terrain is deformed
SSOR = "Some Sort of Resource" Chunks/Berries that give resources all at once when destroyed by a drill
Dave
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Also in "I learned something new today". Discord 3 days ago updated their OBS chat overlay.
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/223415707-Using-Discord-s-OBS-Streamkit-Overlay
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/223415707-Using-Discord-s-OBS-Streamkit-Overlay
GasBandit
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Heard a rumor from another admin that doing a "soft wipe" might be enough to kickstart the regeneration of POIs and asteroids.
There's several steps to that, but it would not result in losing any player structures. I'm trying the first step right now - I've manually set every single playfield to wipe POIs and reset them the next time that playfield is loaded. I'm crossing my fingers that will be enough.
If not, though, the next step is a ground wipe/reset, which would return all the voxels on a playfield back to their original state. SUPPOSEDLY a hotfix a few builds ago will prevent the ground from "regrowing" back into underground bases and whatnot, but I would rather not risk it if I don't have to. It'd be an inconvenience for many users to have to re-dig out their underground/mountainside bases, I know.
So, here's hoping.
If not, well, we can just keep hoping for a fix in a future patch, and I can just do a global POI reset myself every day or so.
There's several steps to that, but it would not result in losing any player structures. I'm trying the first step right now - I've manually set every single playfield to wipe POIs and reset them the next time that playfield is loaded. I'm crossing my fingers that will be enough.
If not, though, the next step is a ground wipe/reset, which would return all the voxels on a playfield back to their original state. SUPPOSEDLY a hotfix a few builds ago will prevent the ground from "regrowing" back into underground bases and whatnot, but I would rather not risk it if I don't have to. It'd be an inconvenience for many users to have to re-dig out their underground/mountainside bases, I know.
So, here's hoping.
If not, well, we can just keep hoping for a fix in a future patch, and I can just do a global POI reset myself every day or so.
See! I told you the dish was red!
Also, you should've been there later for Shadows' struggle to free his SV from where it had fallen deep within his base.
Heh. Told you.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Well, actually, I'd like the discord voice widget in it too, so it'd pop up on my twitch stream with who's talking... So that's useful. But like I told you before, getting twitch chat to show up in your stream is easy. You do the same process with a browser source, but instead you get the chatbox widget from streamlabs, it will give you a URL to put there, then you just resize it to where you want it to be.
But yeah, neither will actually make that stuff show up ON YOUR GAME SCREEN, which is what I think you're trying to go for.
GasBandit
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Well, there are ways that purport to be able to do it, but none of them are perfect. Even Discord's overlay system doesn't work with Empyrion (though that's more Empyrion's fault, it DOES work with L4D2, for example). I've been screwing around with Teamviewer/Ventrilo/Discord overlays for as long as I can remember and have, at best, gotten mixed results on getting them to work in-game.
However, you can also get chatty to pop up chat messages in a little notification box temporarily in the corner of your screen. Doesn't work so great for me because I keep chatty open on my second monitor, so the notification popup appears in the bottom corner of THAT screen instead of the one I'm playing on, but if you put it on the same monitor as the game, maybe that'll work for you.
Also, I think it's possible to tell Chatty to be "always on top," which would then make it show on top of whatever game you're playing (but then it'd also show up that way on your stream since you use screen capture instead of game capture).
GasBandit
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Nother day, nother update.
Update: July 26, 2018 - Alpha 8.2.3 Build 1791
Bug Fixes:
- Asteroid regen no longer working for 8.0 saves in MP
- other small bugs
Please note: This regeneration fix is working for most but not all cases. We're sorry for that and will release a better fix hopefully tomorrow.
Update: July 26, 2018 - Alpha 8.2.3 Build 1791
Bug Fixes:
- Asteroid regen no longer working for 8.0 saves in MP
- other small bugs
Please note: This regeneration fix is working for most but not all cases. We're sorry for that and will release a better fix hopefully tomorrow.
Dave
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I did exactly this last night and it worked like a damned charm! I put Chatty on my main screen, Bear gave me an idea which worked so I can game capture instead of display capture, and now everything works. Holy crap!
GasBandit
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Just so I know for future reference, what was Bear's idea that let you get Game Capture working? A lot of people have had problems getting game capture to work on windows 10, and so far the conventional wisdom on the subject is just "uninstall it and reinstall it and repeat until it magically starts working."