Dave
Staff member
Great, now do the moon and asteroids of the starting planets. There's no cobalt left anywhere and without it you can't get out of the system.
General Empyrion Thread
- Thread starter GasBandit
- Start date
GasBandit
Staff member
If any resource type is truly depleted, it should be dropping meteors of them on the surface. That said, I know meteors suck to mine.
So yeah.
Also asteroids do regenerate themselves, that was a vanilla default setting.
Once I left atmo, I’ve exclusively been mining asteroids for just that reason. But as @Dave will confirm, it‘s hard to leave atmo without cobalt and with the Zirax blowing up anything bigger than two blocks stuck together.
—Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Did you put a detector on your ship? It works like the old /scan mod, without all the typing. Fire it like a weapon, and find asteroids with ease.
Dave
Staff member
Won't be on this planet long. Once I find the rare elements I'm warping out of this system. However long that might be.
If you call up the system map wile you’re in orbit, it will show you all the types of asteroids you can find in the system. If it shows iron, promethium, copper, and cobalt are present, but you’ve only found 2x iron and 2x copper, that means there’s at least two more out there you haven’t found yet.
—Patrick
—Patrick
Dave
Staff member
Yeah okay, spanky. I have stayed far away from other faction's stuff since the last time I got my ass shot off.
That Zirax dreadnought was a surprise to me, too. I’m not used to finding a big bundle of guns at the center of those things.
—Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Hrm.. I thought I destroyed the one that was in Sudrystelerit...
GasBandit
Staff member
I tacked a shield generator onto my old Gee Bee design, added one more generator, and it does pretty good.
Steam Workshop::GeeBee Space Superiority Fighter
Hah! Found 'em.
@Dave, what is keeping you from using the POI fighter you had before? Did you just not save the Workshop link?
--Patrick
Dave
Staff member
I removed all my workshop links as none of them were viable any longer. Either illegal blocks or too many of a certain block. That kind of thing.
I need to log on tonight after work just to make sure my base has power and ammo and hasn't been reduced to smoking rubble, which would pretty much make me just walk away.
I need to log on tonight after work just to make sure my base has power and ammo and hasn't been reduced to smoking rubble, which would pretty much make me just walk away.
So far as I know, the Zirax don't show up unless someone is nearby to force the area to load. Otherwise they show up a few minutes after you log in and trigger them.
If you time it right, I can zip in and be sitting nearby right about when you log in, just sayin'.
--Patrick
I've *finally* made it to where I don't feel like I'm in beginner mode. Level 13. I can get all the basic metals (but no neodymium or the other premium metals) on my starter planet and surrounding asteroids. I have a mining ship that lets me open a side door and asteroid mine with my drone. I have a base. I have both of those things also queued up in my factory.
I fought off a Zirax attack, only lost half my base walls and one constructor. I was able to get back up and running in short order.
And now, I'm planning on making an orbital base, and adding warp capability to my mining SV.
It's been a slog. But I was determined to do it, since last go 'round, Gas and everyone gave me a big leg up, and I missed the early game.
I fought off a Zirax attack, only lost half my base walls and one constructor. I was able to get back up and running in short order.
And now, I'm planning on making an orbital base, and adding warp capability to my mining SV.
It's been a slog. But I was determined to do it, since last go 'round, Gas and everyone gave me a big leg up, and I missed the early game.
Dave
Staff member
I fought off the Zirax attack, then ran a quick POI and found some cool stuff that I can sell once I'm welcome back at the trade station. But I had a long day and I need to go to bed.
I've been looking for you, off and on, and haven't found you yet. Not that it matters, but just figured I would've stumbled over you at some point. But I know how much fun it is to bootstrap yourself, so even if I do find you, I'll let you be.
I was just worried since your base was gone that you were going to hang it up, didn't know you'd already moved out.
--Patrick
Unfortunately, I still can't trade at Polaris. You can't get from "unfriendly" to "neutral" by waiting....the needle only moves if you're in "hostile"
Yeah, I picked a plant, like I used to be able to in the old days.
I haven't found Pol territory on the planet yet, but I'm working on it.
Post automatically merged:
Incidentally, if someone wanted to gift me a small stack of neodymium, I'd love to get a gravity generator set up on this freaking base
So after coming back and finding my base dead AGAIN, I'm adding a motion sensor to my teleporter to see if that makes any difference. 100500 in battery and 120000 in fuel with 300PU draw, we'll see how long I can go now between visits.
--Patrick