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#1
GasBandit
GasBandit
Welp... Since the forum got rolled back... HERE WE GO AGAIN.
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Voting will get you 6000 credits, max vote once per day please.
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Teleporters are available to purchase from the admin (me) for 1 million credits/pair, suitable for any two bases you own, anywhere in the game.
MEGAS stands vigil over the Gas Bandit Industries' Yaral Orbital Branch.
#2
Gared
Gared
I finally found a good source of Sathium for my advanced construction needs, but it's on Skillon. Now both of my warp capable ships are on Skillon as well. I'm on Akua, for the time being. I'm thinking of arming myself to the teeth and crawling back through the abandoned mine to pick up the backpack full of exotic ores 23m beneath the surface. I was not prepared for alien parasites. Then I'll go comb the asteroid belt for more - didn't find any on my first pass, but I had to make it short because I forgot to put O2 in my ship.
Edit: Nope, no Sath asteroids for me. Time to arm myself to the teeth, crawl that base, and go conquer Skillon. Then base upgrades and CV construction may begin.
Edit: Nope, no Sath asteroids for me. Time to arm myself to the teeth, crawl that base, and go conquer Skillon. Then base upgrades and CV construction may begin.
#3
Dave
Dave
#4
GasBandit
GasBandit
Sighted on Akua Moon -
#5
PatrThom
PatrThom
#6
Gared
Gared
#7
GasBandit
BEEP BOOP WHY DO I FEEL PAIN BEEP BOOP
I recommend you buy a good T2 pulse rifle from an npc, and try for headshots
GasBandit
Is that a comment on the mooninite picture, or did you just invade your first PoI and come into contact with what I like to call the "painbots?"
BEEP BOOP WHY DO I FEEL PAIN BEEP BOOP
I recommend you buy a good T2 pulse rifle from an npc, and try for headshots
#8
Gared
Gared
I invaded a com center with my T2 Assault Rifle and my Railgun. I was able to kill the first two mechs, but the base was full of those and armed opponents, so I took the better part of valor and ran.Is that a comment on the mooninite picture, or did you just invade your first PoI and come into contact with what I like to call the "painbots?"
BEEP BOOP WHY DO I FEEL PAIN BEEP BOOP
I recommend you buy a good T2 pulse rifle from an npc, and try for headshots
#9
GasBandit
Those glowing pads on the ground will continuously spawn aliens and painbots until they are destroyed (or the base's core is destroyed). They don't take much to blow up, but sometimes they're easy to miss.
GasBandit
Little tip - they'll keep coming, forever, until you destroy all of these:
Those glowing pads on the ground will continuously spawn aliens and painbots until they are destroyed (or the base's core is destroyed). They don't take much to blow up, but sometimes they're easy to miss.
#10
Gared
Gared
#11
PatrThom
PatrThom
#12
GasBandit
GasBandit
#13
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
#14
GasBandit
GasBandit
I like to tack on a few small rifle turrets near the bottoms of my capital ships to deal with predators. Rifle ammo is a lot cheaper than pulse laser CV ammo
#15
GasBandit
GasBandit
Screenshot of the new repair system -
#16
GasBandit
GasBandit
I'm excited, my Fenrir blueprint will be done when I get home to play tonight! It's beastly. I'm gonna have to spend some time around Yaral and Defiant getting together the ingredients for all the ammo it's going to need.
I've already decided I'll be naming her the "Legion."
I've already decided I'll be naming her the "Legion."
#17
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
more flight reports:
Planet Nullium:
Combat: PVE
O2: yes/breathable
Common minerals: promethium, Cobalt, Copper
Hostiles: hostile alien bases.
description: about 50% oceaneous world, with icy mountainous regions. 1/3G gravity. Most resources appear to still be intact. Min/max temps: 14/59F
Planet Ziranas
Combat: PVE
O2: yes/breathable
Common minerals: promethium, Cobalt, Copper
Hostiles: none encountered
description: 40%G gravity. Temperate (44/52 min/max temps) mostly land-covered. Lush world with lots of trees. Minerals all appear tapped out. Saw some bases, but none of them shot at me. Ziranas has two moons: Ziran Moon and Ziras moon
Ziras moon
Combat: PVE
O2: non-breathable
description: Dense atmosphere snow planet. The atmosphere on this moon was extremely dense--my 96 minutes of power dropped to 7 minutes almost immediately due to atmospheric density, and I only stayed in the upper atmosphere. I turned around and left before I found myself stranded. I gathered very little data from this moon.
Ziran Moon
Combat: PVE
O2: non-breathable
common minerals: none found
hostiles: none found
description: Mostly lava world, with very little land. Temperatures range from 1300f to 1500F. 1.6G gravity. No mineral deposits found. This moon had no redeeming qualities.
Planet Freya
Combat: PVE
O2: Forgot to check (heh)
common minerals: Iron, Magnesium
hostiles: none encountered.
description: lava world, but mostly land, little lava. Temps from 144 to 199. 1.2g gravity. Terrible weather (irradiated rain, radiation fog, heat waves, etc). 18.3 rads. Resources appear to be mostly intact, but it would be a challenge to extract from here. Lots of pretty floating bases.
Planet Nullium:
Combat: PVE
O2: yes/breathable
Common minerals: promethium, Cobalt, Copper
Hostiles: hostile alien bases.
description: about 50% oceaneous world, with icy mountainous regions. 1/3G gravity. Most resources appear to still be intact. Min/max temps: 14/59F
Planet Ziranas
Shown: Ziranas and Ziran moon
O2: yes/breathable
Common minerals: promethium, Cobalt, Copper
Hostiles: none encountered
description: 40%G gravity. Temperate (44/52 min/max temps) mostly land-covered. Lush world with lots of trees. Minerals all appear tapped out. Saw some bases, but none of them shot at me. Ziranas has two moons: Ziran Moon and Ziras moon
Ziras moon
Combat: PVE
O2: non-breathable
description: Dense atmosphere snow planet. The atmosphere on this moon was extremely dense--my 96 minutes of power dropped to 7 minutes almost immediately due to atmospheric density, and I only stayed in the upper atmosphere. I turned around and left before I found myself stranded. I gathered very little data from this moon.
Ziran Moon
Combat: PVE
O2: non-breathable
common minerals: none found
hostiles: none found
description: Mostly lava world, with very little land. Temperatures range from 1300f to 1500F. 1.6G gravity. No mineral deposits found. This moon had no redeeming qualities.
Planet Freya
Combat: PVE
O2: Forgot to check (heh)
common minerals: Iron, Magnesium
hostiles: none encountered.
description: lava world, but mostly land, little lava. Temps from 144 to 199. 1.2g gravity. Terrible weather (irradiated rain, radiation fog, heat waves, etc). 18.3 rads. Resources appear to be mostly intact, but it would be a challenge to extract from here. Lots of pretty floating bases.
#18
GasBandit
GasBandit
#19
GasBandit
GasBandit
#20
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
#21
GasBandit
GasBandit
The Legion is complete.
Getting her ready to get underway, however, took about 4 hours. She didn't come with any constructors, and had atrocious levels of deco gobbling up her limited fuel supplies (at full thrust, she burns through a 30 idle hours of fuel in FIVE minutes, so a whole lot of gliding is the order of the day, piloting the Legion). I also had to rejigger the life support systems, and add an armored baffle to the front prongs to make it so that an enemy can't shoot head on through the HV hangar all the way back to the engineering room where the generators and warp drive are.
She's a mighty big bruiser, she is, but even she is only exactly as long as the Tantive IV, a stark reminder of perspective, and that one game's battleship is another universe's corvette.
And inside, her flight deck is IMMENSE. There's more room in her hangars than many bases I've lived in.
Here's the HV/constructor deck, looking from the front ramp toward the aft, where the fighter bays are:
And here's the view of the fighter bays. The HV hangar is on the left, and there are immense doors both above and below for easy launch and collection of fighters.
That door on the right goes to engineering. For some reason, the original blueprint had just another hangar door there, which made so sense as there was no parking space in there, so I removed the hangar door and replaced it with a bulkhead with a shielded, armored normal door. The elevators on either side of the engineering bulkhead go up to the conning tower, which has another small hangar in it for a personal transport craft, and above that, the main bridge.
She's a mighty big bruiser, she is, but even she is only exactly as long as the Tantive IV, a stark reminder of perspective, and that one game's battleship is another universe's corvette.
And inside, her flight deck is IMMENSE. There's more room in her hangars than many bases I've lived in.
Here's the HV/constructor deck, looking from the front ramp toward the aft, where the fighter bays are:
And here's the view of the fighter bays. The HV hangar is on the left, and there are immense doors both above and below for easy launch and collection of fighters.
That door on the right goes to engineering. For some reason, the original blueprint had just another hangar door there, which made so sense as there was no parking space in there, so I removed the hangar door and replaced it with a bulkhead with a shielded, armored normal door. The elevators on either side of the engineering bulkhead go up to the conning tower, which has another small hangar in it for a personal transport craft, and above that, the main bridge.
#22
Gared
Gared
#23
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
#24
PatrThom
PatrThom
#25
GasBandit
GasBandit
#26
Gared
Gared
#27
GasBandit
GasBandit
#28
GasBandit
GasBandit
#29
Gared
Gared
#30
PatrThom
PatrThom
#31
GasBandit
GasBandit
#32
GasBandit
GasBandit
#33
Gared
Gared
The first CV to have its keel laid down at my new dock has left the yard... and will now head right back in, because she's not airtight. She held her own in combat against an alien aggressor CV armed with laser turrets (to my shell-firing turrets), but lost 5 of 8 guns in the process, and had a hole blown right through the bridge (need to add some armored baffling). I also really, really need to redo the hanger design. Right now it's a little... boxy. No - that's not true, I can't even type that with a straight face, it's very boxy.
If you look real close you can see that half the glass is missing from the bridge - front and back, looks like we took a through and through shot down the throat. It's a good thing that's not the pilot's side of the bridge. It's also good that there's a backup flight deck down in DCC, packed away in the much more armored core of the ship.
Here you can clearly see the boxiest hanger in the world, just hangin' out under my CV. I have a backup from just before I left atmo, so I may actually remove the hangar from this one, since it isn't meant as a carrier anyway.
If you look real close you can see that half the glass is missing from the bridge - front and back, looks like we took a through and through shot down the throat. It's a good thing that's not the pilot's side of the bridge. It's also good that there's a backup flight deck down in DCC, packed away in the much more armored core of the ship.
Here you can clearly see the boxiest hanger in the world, just hangin' out under my CV. I have a backup from just before I left atmo, so I may actually remove the hangar from this one, since it isn't meant as a carrier anyway.
#34
GasBandit
GasBandit
Shhh... it's a secret.
At the foot of an otherwise unremarkable mountain on Titan, there's a small tunnel drilled deep into the bedrock.
A few hundred meters of twists and turns, and careful piloting of your hover vessel will bring you to the gates of Tartarus.
Or rather, the [GBI] Tartarus complex. Deep underground, it is unapproachable (and virtually unassailable) by air. In fact, it's doubtful it'd even be detected unless someone knew what to look for. Sentry turrets watch the tunnel entrance, ready to kill any curious spelunkers that get too close.
Inside is a state of the art GBI staging facility. No blueprint work here, this cavern was personally hewn from the rock by yours truly, and then built, painted, and wired up one block at a time, the old fashioned way. Though, I did take a design cue from the container colorations on the Yaral Orbital Base.
While its accommodations are spartan, it has everything you could need in a base - five furnaces and constructors for mass production, and 18-growplot biotics room (that is currently loaded up for plastic production, hope you like eating corn), automated repair facilities, and even an offline protection shield, just in case anybody comes snooping around after hours.
It's the perfect hidey-hole base to lay low in PvP territory, and it's just one warpjump away from Kiki - which is the server's best kept secret. It's a carbon copy of Yaral, but being so deep in PvP territory, it is MUCH less frequented.
At the foot of an otherwise unremarkable mountain on Titan, there's a small tunnel drilled deep into the bedrock.
A few hundred meters of twists and turns, and careful piloting of your hover vessel will bring you to the gates of Tartarus.
Or rather, the [GBI] Tartarus complex. Deep underground, it is unapproachable (and virtually unassailable) by air. In fact, it's doubtful it'd even be detected unless someone knew what to look for. Sentry turrets watch the tunnel entrance, ready to kill any curious spelunkers that get too close.
Inside is a state of the art GBI staging facility. No blueprint work here, this cavern was personally hewn from the rock by yours truly, and then built, painted, and wired up one block at a time, the old fashioned way. Though, I did take a design cue from the container colorations on the Yaral Orbital Base.
While its accommodations are spartan, it has everything you could need in a base - five furnaces and constructors for mass production, and 18-growplot biotics room (that is currently loaded up for plastic production, hope you like eating corn), automated repair facilities, and even an offline protection shield, just in case anybody comes snooping around after hours.
It's the perfect hidey-hole base to lay low in PvP territory, and it's just one warpjump away from Kiki - which is the server's best kept secret. It's a carbon copy of Yaral, but being so deep in PvP territory, it is MUCH less frequented.
#35
PatrThom
PatrThom
#36
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
This reminds me of that time on Klendathu when the Mobile Infantry nuked a bug hole.Shhh... it's a secret.
Or rather, the [GBI] Tartarus complex. Deep underground, it is unapproachable (and virtually unassailable) by air. In fact, it's doubtful it'd even be detected unless someone knew what to look for. Sentry turrets watch the tunnel entrance, ready to kill any curious spelunkers that get too close.
#37
Gared
Gared
#38
GasBandit
GasBandit
#39
GasBandit
GasBandit
GBI has exciting news!
First, and less importantly, a habitation wing has been added to the Tartarus complex. Two executive suites now provide leisure and comfort for high ranking GBI personnel, and there are also Junior Accommodations available for the working stiffs. Additionally, its supplies have been brought up to acceptable levels.
But the big news is: GBI proudly (but quietly) opens its latest branch office: the Kiki Orbital Branch!
A very similar design to the Yaral Orbital Branch, the KOB is your one stop shop for all your ore processing and fabrication needs, conveniently in EXTREMELY DISTANT orbit around Kiki, the abundant (and reset-nightly) resource world deep in PVP space! The long distance location is an unfortunate necessity, to keep the exact location of the KOB station away from greedy, dangerous eyes. It IS PvP space, after all.
Unfortunately, the black thumb curse I seem to have been struck with persists here, and the KOB can't seem to keep plants alive to save, well, MY life. I've had to repurpose the two side-hangars on the Legion into growing facilities to mass produce the corn I need for plastic to make the pulse laser and plasma ammunition the turrets need. Also, water is a challenge, though there are two ice worlds within convenient jumping distance where I've secreted caches of water generators, and I plan to check them daily.
Furthermore, Kiki is so much further from the sun that solar collectors are almost completely useless. Despite being turned directly to the sun, the solar array barely collects 50 kw. Fortunately, Kiki is a ready and lush supplier of promethium, so the generators will turn for a good 50 hours even under full production load.
The KOB is not fully supplied yet, unfortunately, and not all of its turrets are online - only the flak cannons and 15mm miniguns. So, for the next 20 hours or so, I'm keeping the fully armed and battle-ready Legion stationed next to her for defense, and I've switched both the Legion and the KOB to my personal private ownership temporarily. This is an unfortunate necessity until the station defenses are fully operational. Any GBI facility flagged as "GBI" property will drop its offline protection shields whenever any GBI staff are online, no matter where they are in the solar system. So be it Tinwhistler fanning the breeze on Skillon, Aislynn sunbathing on Yaral, or anyone else doing literally anything, the station 200au away would be bereft of its strongest defense. Unfortunately, this also means that nobody but me can approach the KOB or the Legion until I get back on tomorrow, as the shields will instantly vaporize anyone who comes close - even GBI affiliates and their allies. So, for now, keep back!
But the big news is: GBI proudly (but quietly) opens its latest branch office: the Kiki Orbital Branch!
A very similar design to the Yaral Orbital Branch, the KOB is your one stop shop for all your ore processing and fabrication needs, conveniently in EXTREMELY DISTANT orbit around Kiki, the abundant (and reset-nightly) resource world deep in PVP space! The long distance location is an unfortunate necessity, to keep the exact location of the KOB station away from greedy, dangerous eyes. It IS PvP space, after all.
Unfortunately, the black thumb curse I seem to have been struck with persists here, and the KOB can't seem to keep plants alive to save, well, MY life. I've had to repurpose the two side-hangars on the Legion into growing facilities to mass produce the corn I need for plastic to make the pulse laser and plasma ammunition the turrets need. Also, water is a challenge, though there are two ice worlds within convenient jumping distance where I've secreted caches of water generators, and I plan to check them daily.
Furthermore, Kiki is so much further from the sun that solar collectors are almost completely useless. Despite being turned directly to the sun, the solar array barely collects 50 kw. Fortunately, Kiki is a ready and lush supplier of promethium, so the generators will turn for a good 50 hours even under full production load.
The KOB is not fully supplied yet, unfortunately, and not all of its turrets are online - only the flak cannons and 15mm miniguns. So, for the next 20 hours or so, I'm keeping the fully armed and battle-ready Legion stationed next to her for defense, and I've switched both the Legion and the KOB to my personal private ownership temporarily. This is an unfortunate necessity until the station defenses are fully operational. Any GBI facility flagged as "GBI" property will drop its offline protection shields whenever any GBI staff are online, no matter where they are in the solar system. So be it Tinwhistler fanning the breeze on Skillon, Aislynn sunbathing on Yaral, or anyone else doing literally anything, the station 200au away would be bereft of its strongest defense. Unfortunately, this also means that nobody but me can approach the KOB or the Legion until I get back on tomorrow, as the shields will instantly vaporize anyone who comes close - even GBI affiliates and their allies. So, for now, keep back!
#40
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#41
GasBandit
GasBandit
#42
GasBandit
GasBandit
#43
Gared
Gared
I spent yesterday in Creative space, designing and building ships - mostly just to get used to doing it. The initial idea was to build a hover tank capable of delivering smaller, more agile hover tanks to the front lines. The initial build went well except for the lack of hangar door blocks for HVs and the fact that I picked 3x3 shutter doors instead, which are just too small to realistically get a tank in and out of. So, it became an APC. Each APC has passenger capacity for 30 heavily armed Marines and is armed to the teeth in order to get them to the front line.
Here's one now, hovering lazily above the sea on Akua. I keep hearing these things don't do well on water, but I suppose it's a bit like BttF2 - it's fine as long as you have POWAH. We'll get to some of that power later on in the belly shot.
Side view - there's a couple belly mounted rocket turrets to dissuade would-be kamikazes from suiciding under the belly doors.
Here's the belly shot. Shutter doors top and bottom for easy recovery and deployment of marines. Full line of hover boosters and some massive feet with plenty of hover engines provide a truly impressive amount of lift.
So, now I had a way to get a lot of marines to the front lines very quickly and efficiently, but only if the battle was on the same planet as my shipyard. And who wants to take the time to set up a full shipyard, with appropriate support facilities, on a hostile planet, with potentially limited support? Not me. And not my marines, neither. A carrier was in order. Not knowing any better, I started with an SV that can carry one APC per trip, to be used to transport the APCs from a CV in orbit to the surface. This is the result.
This SV can carry one APC per trip. Or it could. If you could dock HVs to SVs. That may change at some point in the future, or their may be some other, smaller, class of vehicle (ground vehicles, perhaps?), so it will stay in the blueprint folder for now.
It also isn't symmetrical, but I discovered the HV issue before I finished fixing it.
Well - that was an interesting way to spend four hours, but it doesn't get me any closer to getting my APCs onto a hostile planet without building them in situ. Aislynn assured me that I could dock an HV to a CV, though - so after testing what happens when you drop an HV from a huge height in atmo (so far, in creative space, it bounces around a bit and then floats off just fine), I set to work again. This time, I would need a bigger space to work. I spent at least two hours building a planetary shipyard, in the middle of a lake, with full refinery support. It was 49 x 49 square. We'll see a shot of it later. But first, the CV. It's labelled a carrier, but it's really closer to being a Marine Expeditionary Ship - those big Ro/Ros that the Navy uses.
Here she is now. With exterior space for up to four Mk III APCs and interior rack space (and passenger seats) for 120 marines, plus APC crew and ship's crew, with wardrooms at the back for officers (though they have an exterior door so it's a little bit like taking the extra leg room for the exit row), a full med bay, kitchens - the works.
Here's a shot of her down on the planetary shipyard I built on Akua. She really is a beast.
Here she is on the approach to Ningues. They have no idea what's coming.
Here's one now, hovering lazily above the sea on Akua. I keep hearing these things don't do well on water, but I suppose it's a bit like BttF2 - it's fine as long as you have POWAH. We'll get to some of that power later on in the belly shot.
Side view - there's a couple belly mounted rocket turrets to dissuade would-be kamikazes from suiciding under the belly doors.
Here's the belly shot. Shutter doors top and bottom for easy recovery and deployment of marines. Full line of hover boosters and some massive feet with plenty of hover engines provide a truly impressive amount of lift.
So, now I had a way to get a lot of marines to the front lines very quickly and efficiently, but only if the battle was on the same planet as my shipyard. And who wants to take the time to set up a full shipyard, with appropriate support facilities, on a hostile planet, with potentially limited support? Not me. And not my marines, neither. A carrier was in order. Not knowing any better, I started with an SV that can carry one APC per trip, to be used to transport the APCs from a CV in orbit to the surface. This is the result.
This SV can carry one APC per trip. Or it could. If you could dock HVs to SVs. That may change at some point in the future, or their may be some other, smaller, class of vehicle (ground vehicles, perhaps?), so it will stay in the blueprint folder for now.
It also isn't symmetrical, but I discovered the HV issue before I finished fixing it.
Well - that was an interesting way to spend four hours, but it doesn't get me any closer to getting my APCs onto a hostile planet without building them in situ. Aislynn assured me that I could dock an HV to a CV, though - so after testing what happens when you drop an HV from a huge height in atmo (so far, in creative space, it bounces around a bit and then floats off just fine), I set to work again. This time, I would need a bigger space to work. I spent at least two hours building a planetary shipyard, in the middle of a lake, with full refinery support. It was 49 x 49 square. We'll see a shot of it later. But first, the CV. It's labelled a carrier, but it's really closer to being a Marine Expeditionary Ship - those big Ro/Ros that the Navy uses.
Here she is now. With exterior space for up to four Mk III APCs and interior rack space (and passenger seats) for 120 marines, plus APC crew and ship's crew, with wardrooms at the back for officers (though they have an exterior door so it's a little bit like taking the extra leg room for the exit row), a full med bay, kitchens - the works.
Here's a shot of her down on the planetary shipyard I built on Akua. She really is a beast.
Here she is on the approach to Ningues. They have no idea what's coming.
#44
GasBandit
GasBandit
#45
Gared
Gared
#46
GasBandit
GasBandit
#47
Gared
Gared
Heh. It was related to that issue... the exterior doors were airtight, but so were the interior doors. Once I swapped all of the interior doors for the glass/transparent types, the whole ship became oxygenated, instead of just the compartments with ventilators.
Anyway, fresh off of my success with a RoRo and APC, I headed back into creative Akuan space, spawned a shipyard out in orbit, and set to work on an SV fighter and CV carrier to go with it. Designed for escort duty, this medium(?) sized CV has space for six tiny fighters and limited life support facilities. All fighters will have to be recovered before jumping out of system, however, as they are too small to be warp capable on their own.
Escort out in front, where she belongs.
Side by side, for comparison. The escort is the same length as the RoRo, but a third the width.
One of the fighters in question. Good for harassing enemy bases, taking out drones, and shooting the turrets off of CVs - just don't get shot, you won't survive.
Now all I need are some medium and large SVs to act as Destroyers and Battlecruisers, and a massive CV to act as a gunship - with two broadsides full of turrets. Oh, and actual hover tanks to support the ground ops.
Escort out in front, where she belongs.
Side by side, for comparison. The escort is the same length as the RoRo, but a third the width.
One of the fighters in question. Good for harassing enemy bases, taking out drones, and shooting the turrets off of CVs - just don't get shot, you won't survive.
Now all I need are some medium and large SVs to act as Destroyers and Battlecruisers, and a massive CV to act as a gunship - with two broadsides full of turrets. Oh, and actual hover tanks to support the ground ops.
#48
GasBandit
But in all seriousness, I know the whole "broadsides" thing is romantic and everything, but the truth of the matter is most CV combat is just fighter combat writ large. This is because CVs can still mount fixed direct fire weapons (most people use 6 pulse lasers and 4 homing rocket launchers), and those are pretty much limited to pointing forward, because that's where your targeting reticle will be even in a CV.
So, for any battleship type CV you want to be a front line bruiser, adjust your design philosophy accordingly - you want ALL your turrets to be able to come to bear on a target directly ahead at the same time. That they can traverse is just an added bonus.
GasBandit
And all the resources to build them in survival mode
But in all seriousness, I know the whole "broadsides" thing is romantic and everything, but the truth of the matter is most CV combat is just fighter combat writ large. This is because CVs can still mount fixed direct fire weapons (most people use 6 pulse lasers and 4 homing rocket launchers), and those are pretty much limited to pointing forward, because that's where your targeting reticle will be even in a CV.
So, for any battleship type CV you want to be a front line bruiser, adjust your design philosophy accordingly - you want ALL your turrets to be able to come to bear on a target directly ahead at the same time. That they can traverse is just an added bonus.
#49
Gared
Gared
#50
GasBandit
GasBandit
#51
GasBandit
GasBandit
Horrors and Disaster!
The Titan Branch was discovered by aliens (Evasong and Shadows, specifically)! As luck would have it, I was in the area... but only in the SkyHarpy. Not exactly a formidable warship. Nevertheless, I tried to rush to the defense of the GBI Titan Branch... buuuuuut...
Well, I'll let my pictures of the aftermath speak for themselves.
Incidentally, Tartarus survived just fine, and still has quite a bit of resources in it, I just didn't want to reveal its presence or sit around on titan waiting for a CV to finish in the blueprint factory.
When Noodle got on afterwards and heard about all the fun she'd missed, she decided to go alien full time... which means giving up all your non-alien buildings and ships and possessions and starting over. So she hosted a "giveaway" to try to have a contest to see who would win all her stockpiled resources, but having just heard the blow-by-blow of the destuction of the Titan Branch in global chat, all the players online at the time clamored for her to give them to me, to help me "bounce back" from my crushing loss (I didn't tell them that I had many times over what I'd lost already stockpiled in other bases such as KOB, Tartarus, YOB, and of course, Oscutune (and whatever you guys have squirreled away on Ningues and Skillon).
So, anyway, I became the proud owner of a cargo sled with about 2 double-sized containers each of every kind of resource ingot, plus 9000 fusion cells and at least 50,000 raw pentaxid.
I dragged it back to the Yaral Orbital branch, and set every constructor that wasn't already otherwise engaged to start churning out Combat Steel armor blocks.
GBI will be goin' to war, soon.
The Titan Branch was discovered by aliens (Evasong and Shadows, specifically)! As luck would have it, I was in the area... but only in the SkyHarpy. Not exactly a formidable warship. Nevertheless, I tried to rush to the defense of the GBI Titan Branch... buuuuuut...
Well, I'll let my pictures of the aftermath speak for themselves.
The Alien CV leaving the smoldering ruin of the Titan Branch and heading out to find more carnage -
Hey, the damage doesn't look so bad from this side....
Oh. But this side... uh...
Yikes.
RIP, [GBI] SkyHarpy. You fought bravely and died quickly.
Our new alliance is already paying dividends, though, as once the alien menace departed, our allies from the Galactic Republic came to rescue me and give me a ride, along with what I managed to salvage from Titan.
Leaving the wreckage behind...
Hey, the damage doesn't look so bad from this side....
Oh. But this side... uh...
Yikes.
RIP, [GBI] SkyHarpy. You fought bravely and died quickly.
Our new alliance is already paying dividends, though, as once the alien menace departed, our allies from the Galactic Republic came to rescue me and give me a ride, along with what I managed to salvage from Titan.
Leaving the wreckage behind...
Incidentally, Tartarus survived just fine, and still has quite a bit of resources in it, I just didn't want to reveal its presence or sit around on titan waiting for a CV to finish in the blueprint factory.
When Noodle got on afterwards and heard about all the fun she'd missed, she decided to go alien full time... which means giving up all your non-alien buildings and ships and possessions and starting over. So she hosted a "giveaway" to try to have a contest to see who would win all her stockpiled resources, but having just heard the blow-by-blow of the destuction of the Titan Branch in global chat, all the players online at the time clamored for her to give them to me, to help me "bounce back" from my crushing loss (I didn't tell them that I had many times over what I'd lost already stockpiled in other bases such as KOB, Tartarus, YOB, and of course, Oscutune (and whatever you guys have squirreled away on Ningues and Skillon).
So, anyway, I became the proud owner of a cargo sled with about 2 double-sized containers each of every kind of resource ingot, plus 9000 fusion cells and at least 50,000 raw pentaxid.
I dragged it back to the Yaral Orbital branch, and set every constructor that wasn't already otherwise engaged to start churning out Combat Steel armor blocks.
GBI will be goin' to war, soon.
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PatrThom
PatrThom
#53
Gared
Gared
Well, have I got the fleet for you. It needs to be painted, of course, but that can be done later.
The double hammerhead design of this Battleship allows all of the forward facing turrets to come to bear at once, including those two massive artillery cannons on the back hammerhead. What you don't see here (and what your opponents will never know) is that it doesn't matter which hammerhead they blow off first - the twin cockpits are in the middle, completely surrounded by battle steel. Good luck killing her.
And here's the fleet in battle formation off of Akua, with the previously unseen Destroyer class ships along for the ride. As they're SVs, they can belimpited limpetted frelling docked to the hulls of the CVs. The escorts can carry four each, in addition to their regular detachment of either fighters or tanks (anti-personnel or artillery).
Of course, some of those ships will really need to be scaled down for use on RennTech. Just one of those heavy lift RoRos can move the entire server population - or double if they ride in the APCs (which are all airtight in their own right).
The double hammerhead design of this Battleship allows all of the forward facing turrets to come to bear at once, including those two massive artillery cannons on the back hammerhead. What you don't see here (and what your opponents will never know) is that it doesn't matter which hammerhead they blow off first - the twin cockpits are in the middle, completely surrounded by battle steel. Good luck killing her.
And here's the fleet in battle formation off of Akua, with the previously unseen Destroyer class ships along for the ride. As they're SVs, they can be
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gruebeard
Gruebeard
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Gared has joined the ranks of the GBI crew!
Aaand tonight, while we were minding our own business, a bored admin (Evasong, the same one who led the attack on the Titan Branch) had the "great" idea to stage an impromptu mini-event... alien infestation. The site? Where I was, of course! The Yaral Orbital Branch.
It went on like this for another hour at least. Rooms and ships we thought we'd cleared out would spawn more aliens. Much ammo was spent, much healing was done, many parasites were contracted and cured, and so on and so forth.
I griped at Evasong and convinced him that next time he wants to stage an "infestation event" he should spawn in a derelict space station or capital ship to stage it in, and users would come running. Several other factions expressed interest in helping eradicate the infestation, but I wasn't about to open the doors of our most rich facility to their greedy eyes and hands!
Aaand tonight, while we were minding our own business, a bored admin (Evasong, the same one who led the attack on the Titan Branch) had the "great" idea to stage an impromptu mini-event... alien infestation. The site? Where I was, of course! The Yaral Orbital Branch.
It went on like this for another hour at least. Rooms and ships we thought we'd cleared out would spawn more aliens. Much ammo was spent, much healing was done, many parasites were contracted and cured, and so on and so forth.
I griped at Evasong and convinced him that next time he wants to stage an "infestation event" he should spawn in a derelict space station or capital ship to stage it in, and users would come running. Several other factions expressed interest in helping eradicate the infestation, but I wasn't about to open the doors of our most rich facility to their greedy eyes and hands!
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Gared
Gared
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
But the practical upshot is you don't need to worry about things like center of mass or where the thrusters are. You could put them in a tight little ball all pointed at each other deep insides 3 layers of armor, and it'd work. RCS can go anywhere, and 1 T2 RCS is as good as 300 T1 (I think).
A lot of people just end up making solid combat steel cubes with all the guts on the insides and all the turrets on the outside. And that makes the admins of this server cranky But if they keep spawning "alien infestations" on me when I'm trying to build things, I might just start doing it to spite them.
GasBandit
Heh, even SE didn't approach KSP's level of physics simulation.
But the practical upshot is you don't need to worry about things like center of mass or where the thrusters are. You could put them in a tight little ball all pointed at each other deep insides 3 layers of armor, and it'd work. RCS can go anywhere, and 1 T2 RCS is as good as 300 T1 (I think).
A lot of people just end up making solid combat steel cubes with all the guts on the insides and all the turrets on the outside. And that makes the admins of this server cranky
But if they keep spawning "alien infestations" on me when I'm trying to build things, I might just start doing it to spite them.
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
You really can't blame players for taking the most efficient route when nothing but failure waits for them if they don't. And it CAN be fun to fail, but only if you felt like you actually had a chance to begin with.Heh, even SE didn't approach KSP's level of physics simulation.
But the practical upshot is you don't need to worry about things like center of mass or where the thrusters are. You could put them in a tight little ball all pointed at each other deep insides 3 layers of armor, and it'd work. RCS can go anywhere, and 1 T2 RCS is as good as 300 T1 (I think).
A lot of people just end up making solid combat steel cubes with all the guts on the insides and all the turrets on the outside. And that makes the admins of this server cranky
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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Gared
Gared
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Gared
Gared
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Our fleet grows, as does our strength.
From left to right: The Legion, The Belial and the Azrael, the Yaral Orbital Branch (with Megas standing atop and the Cornucopia II slightly below that), The Basilisk, The Tantive IV (refit to be a full warship), the Phoenix, and the Lilith.
We and our allies are going to get together saturday to attack the aliens. We could use more pilots, though - we have the ships ready to go, but not as many bodies as ships.
From left to right: The Legion, The Belial and the Azrael, the Yaral Orbital Branch (with Megas standing atop and the Cornucopia II slightly below that), The Basilisk, The Tantive IV (refit to be a full warship), the Phoenix, and the Lilith.
We and our allies are going to get together saturday to attack the aliens. We could use more pilots, though - we have the ships ready to go, but not as many bodies as ships.
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Alpha 8 Experimental 4 has hit. They've added a portable heater/cooler, and included it in your starting gear, so that people will stop freezing to death on their first couple nights
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Cool. You gonna be around saturday? I could use some backup when I go picking fights
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Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
heh.. just make sure to queue up more. They're the easiest way to accelerate build times.
GasBandit
It's there to be used, man
heh.. just make sure to queue up more. They're the easiest way to accelerate build times.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dei
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Soooo the battle vs the enemy base was a complete mess with seconds-per-frame measurements instead of vice versa. Masperon-type planets (green fog) are shit. That aside, we actually managed to do alright. Tinwhistler especially was particularly effective in his heavy fighter at hammering out the alien battleship's armaments. Most of what we lost in the attack is already recovered and repaired.
Shortly after Aislynn logged off last night, the whole server went down. Apparently its hosting company is trying to deal with the windows 10 problem and didn't give anybody any notice. Some poor bastards got caught landed on defiant, and they're worried their ships might be gone when the server comes back up.
I spent the remainder of the night working with Iceman and Evasong, testing damage output on a hosted game on iceman's pc for some customized config files they're working on to try to rebalance the weapons and blocks such that they make more sense - for example, make hangar doors and thrusters harder to kill (they're tissue paper now, which is the problem), but also make artillery actually a threat to a stationary CV by being a near-guarantee of at least one combat steel block being destroyed on hit, to make up for the fact that artillery shells are slow moving. We ran into an amusing/infuriating bug that somehow made it so that if a hangar door was painted it took massively more damage. Oigh.
This coming week I plan to start patrolling PvP territory most every night looking for bozos to trash. If 2 or 3 of us can run in a pack, we stand an excellent chance of beating whoever we come across. I don't plan to go into any atmospheres, though
Shortly after Aislynn logged off last night, the whole server went down. Apparently its hosting company is trying to deal with the windows 10 problem and didn't give anybody any notice. Some poor bastards got caught landed on defiant, and they're worried their ships might be gone when the server comes back up.
I spent the remainder of the night working with Iceman and Evasong, testing damage output on a hosted game on iceman's pc for some customized config files they're working on to try to rebalance the weapons and blocks such that they make more sense - for example, make hangar doors and thrusters harder to kill (they're tissue paper now, which is the problem), but also make artillery actually a threat to a stationary CV by being a near-guarantee of at least one combat steel block being destroyed on hit, to make up for the fact that artillery shells are slow moving. We ran into an amusing/infuriating bug that somehow made it so that if a hangar door was painted it took massively more damage. Oigh.
This coming week I plan to start patrolling PvP territory most every night looking for bozos to trash. If 2 or 3 of us can run in a pack, we stand an excellent chance of beating whoever we come across. I don't plan to go into any atmospheres, though
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
All of those years playing dogfighting games in my youth has finally paid off.
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
Ordinarily I get a solid 60fps on max settings.
Though, definitely turn off SSAO and set shadows to medium or lower.
GasBandit
I wouldn't cut down your video settings, at least not until the next big 10-ship battle on a planet
Ordinarily I get a solid 60fps on max settings. Though, definitely turn off SSAO and set shadows to medium or lower.
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Gared
Gared
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PatrThom
--Patrick
PatrThom
"Nothing like a misspent youth to prepare you for misspending your adulthood."All of those years playing dogfighting games in my youth has finally paid off.
--Patrick
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Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
In which Evasong kicks the shit out of the Belial with his Satharial (the Alien Dreadnought from the alien invasion events of a few weeks ago.. you know, the one that about 13 capital ships couldn't kill? )
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
8 sentry (small antipersonnel rifle turrets)
6 15mm minigun
6 30mm cannon
6 Flak
6 Pulse Laser
4 150mm Homing missile
4 Plasma
2 Artillery
And in addition, each CV can mount 6 conventional pulse lasers and 4 150mm homing missle launchers that they aim and fire using the cockpit's targeting reticle.
Pulse Laser, Plasma, and Artillery turrets can't fire in atmosphere, and neither can any of the directly aimed CV weapons.
Most people don't bother with sentry turrets unless they plan for their CV to be a workhorse/mobile base and they want protection from predators (rifle ammo is WAY cheaper than any of the other turret ammo). I usually don't bother with plasma turrets because they flat out can't hit a moving target at all, and if I need to bombard a stationary target from range, that's what artillery turrets are for.
Evasong's "event" ships have all the usual turrets, plus he adds on 15-30 "alien" turrets (the kind you find on alien POIs). His justification is that he's "roleplaying" the aliens, and these ships are mostly just used for the scheduled events where 10+ players show up in full CVs, so the alien dreadnoughts/motherships have to be able to hold their own against multiple enemies.. Alien POI turrets can fire in atmosphere, but individually do less damage than normal "player" turrets - but still, more turrets means more damage.
Granted, it's still a bit lame that he expects admiration for his design/skill for basically soloing a player in a "raid boss" ship, but to be fair this was not a random encounter - I suggested he meet me in orion since he was itching to fight. I didn't expect him to bring one of the cheatships, but I had an ulterior motive... he was sounding restless because he hadn't found anybody to fight all night, and he knew from checking my stream I'd just built a new base on Genesis in PvP territory. So I figured if I gave him an easily-replaced sacrificial punching bag that could at least put up SOME struggle, it'd scratch his "I need to win everything" itch and he'd feel less tempted to go attack something I'd spent hours on
The thing about Evasong is, he does take his admin duties seriously - he does address problems and deals with server issues and goes around to make sure people are obeying the rules. But when he's in admin mode, he sees everything. He can instantly teleport to any playfield, and when he gets there, the entire map is revealed on his map (he doesn't have to "explore" to find things, they're just all on his map already). That's necessary for him to do his job. The problem then comes on separating what he knows as an admin from what he acts on as a player - and as I said before, the primary flaw in all the admins on this server is they want to have fun as players on the server in addition to being admins. So some days he's able to keep the two separate, and some days the temptation is too much. There's always a paper-thin RP rationalization, and he usually feels guilty enough to take conciliatory measures (like, when he attacked my base on Titan, he gave me advanced warning and gave me time to get there with a ship to defend it), and you have to kind of leverage/lean on those half-measures and work on his conscience and sense of fair play.
Truth be told, if it wasn't one of the more populated servers, I'd probably say it's not worth the hassle. But unless we just want to play by ourselves and sit around looking at our pretty ships that never get used to fight anybody, this is probably the best compromise for the time being. And I *have* run into actual player opponents out there who are on a level playing field
GasBandit
The normal player turret limits are:
8 sentry (small antipersonnel rifle turrets)
6 15mm minigun
6 30mm cannon
6 Flak
6 Pulse Laser
4 150mm Homing missile
4 Plasma
2 Artillery
And in addition, each CV can mount 6 conventional pulse lasers and 4 150mm homing missle launchers that they aim and fire using the cockpit's targeting reticle.
Pulse Laser, Plasma, and Artillery turrets can't fire in atmosphere, and neither can any of the directly aimed CV weapons.
Most people don't bother with sentry turrets unless they plan for their CV to be a workhorse/mobile base and they want protection from predators (rifle ammo is WAY cheaper than any of the other turret ammo). I usually don't bother with plasma turrets because they flat out can't hit a moving target at all, and if I need to bombard a stationary target from range, that's what artillery turrets are for.
Evasong's "event" ships have all the usual turrets, plus he adds on 15-30 "alien" turrets (the kind you find on alien POIs). His justification is that he's "roleplaying" the aliens, and these ships are mostly just used for the scheduled events where 10+ players show up in full CVs, so the alien dreadnoughts/motherships have to be able to hold their own against multiple enemies.. Alien POI turrets can fire in atmosphere, but individually do less damage than normal "player" turrets - but still, more turrets means more damage.
Granted, it's still a bit lame that he expects admiration for his design/skill for basically soloing a player in a "raid boss" ship, but to be fair this was not a random encounter - I suggested he meet me in orion since he was itching to fight. I didn't expect him to bring one of the cheatships, but I had an ulterior motive... he was sounding restless because he hadn't found anybody to fight all night, and he knew from checking my stream I'd just built a new base on Genesis in PvP territory. So I figured if I gave him an easily-replaced sacrificial punching bag that could at least put up SOME struggle, it'd scratch his "I need to win everything" itch and he'd feel less tempted to go attack something I'd spent hours on
The thing about Evasong is, he does take his admin duties seriously - he does address problems and deals with server issues and goes around to make sure people are obeying the rules. But when he's in admin mode, he sees everything. He can instantly teleport to any playfield, and when he gets there, the entire map is revealed on his map (he doesn't have to "explore" to find things, they're just all on his map already). That's necessary for him to do his job. The problem then comes on separating what he knows as an admin from what he acts on as a player - and as I said before, the primary flaw in all the admins on this server is they want to have fun as players on the server in addition to being admins. So some days he's able to keep the two separate, and some days the temptation is too much. There's always a paper-thin RP rationalization, and he usually feels guilty enough to take conciliatory measures (like, when he attacked my base on Titan, he gave me advanced warning and gave me time to get there with a ship to defend it), and you have to kind of leverage/lean on those half-measures and work on his conscience and sense of fair play.
Truth be told, if it wasn't one of the more populated servers, I'd probably say it's not worth the hassle. But unless we just want to play by ourselves and sit around looking at our pretty ships that never get used to fight anybody, this is probably the best compromise for the time being. And I *have* run into actual player opponents out there who are on a level playing field
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Gared
Gared
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
But hey, if you want a base to fortify, boy have I got a job for you on Genesis
As a result, actually, they don't have much in the way of population. Though, I think they might do a wipe with each major alpha revision, but I'm not sure of that. The few I tried playing on back in the day were... less fun.
Also, the vanilla maps are organized differently. Here, "PvE" territory is large and contiguous. In vanilla, pretty much EVERYTHING once you leave Akua is PvP territory - including Akua Orbit and Akua Moon.
GasBandit
Unfortunately, the "PvE" flag on PvE worlds applies to alien-cored ships, too. Or rather, it applies ONLY to them. Since they're player-controlled, they won't fire on players in PvE maps under any circumstances, but because they're "alien" flagged, player weapons CAN and WILL fire on them in PvE. The whole "players playing as aliens" thing is kind of kludged together by the admin staff on Renntech and isn't something you generally see on a vanilla server. So, that means that actual alien-player encounters/activity have to happen in PvP space.
But hey, if you want a base to fortify, boy have I got a job for you on Genesis
Technically, yes, but they're unplayable. The "wipe schedule" aspect of Renntech is custom-made - vanilla servers don't wipe anything or reset any worlds. That means when a base or ship is built, it's there until it is destroyed - and in a PvE map, that means it is there forever, even if the player hasn't been on in 3 years. That means there's no place to build and framerate issues galore. In addition, all the mineral deposits are LONG gone, and only meteors are there for resources, which is EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. Furthermore, there's no admin oversight at all. And the game is very alpha, and there are still cheaters/hackers despite the UAC requirement, so there's problems with people cheating rampantly.
As a result, actually, they don't have much in the way of population. Though, I think they might do a wipe with each major alpha revision, but I'm not sure of that. The few I tried playing on back in the day were... less fun.
Also, the vanilla maps are organized differently. Here, "PvE" territory is large and contiguous. In vanilla, pretty much EVERYTHING once you leave Akua is PvP territory - including Akua Orbit and Akua Moon.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
#121
GasBandit
).
We're only allowed 5 base cores per playfield, but that leaves us with 3 more "bases" we can build in the vicinity as platforms for more turrets, and then in addition to that we can park as many HVs around it as we want and leave the engines running so *their* turrets also attack anyone who comes near. And HV turrets ALL work in atmo, so they have quite an advantage on a planet's surface against CVs.
To get to Genesis, keep heading south until you see Xena, then jump to Xena, then you can jump to Genesis from there. It's about ~120ish pentaxid to get there from Yaral orbit, each way. The combat steel block you need to remove to get down to the lower levels is the one under the part of the main elevator shaft that ISN'T directly in front of the adjacent door to the outside. That elevator then continues down another 15 or so blocks.
GasBandit
I'd appreciate any help you can lend with Genesis. I've got it fortified a little, in that the base has the maximum number of atmo-friendly turrets, and I've put another base literally connected to it that ALSO has the max number of atmo-friendly turrets, but that's it. There's no grow plots, so you'll need a CV that can grow corn to get the plastic you'll need. I've got all the critical bits of the base (constructors, furnaces, storage, generator, fuel, etc) hidden underground in the main "Genesis Branch" base, and then I covered up the top of the elevator leading there with combat steel to keep it hidden (but I forgot to label the ingot cargo boxes on the control panel device list
).We're only allowed 5 base cores per playfield, but that leaves us with 3 more "bases" we can build in the vicinity as platforms for more turrets, and then in addition to that we can park as many HVs around it as we want and leave the engines running so *their* turrets also attack anyone who comes near. And HV turrets ALL work in atmo, so they have quite an advantage on a planet's surface against CVs.
To get to Genesis, keep heading south until you see Xena, then jump to Xena, then you can jump to Genesis from there. It's about ~120ish pentaxid to get there from Yaral orbit, each way. The combat steel block you need to remove to get down to the lower levels is the one under the part of the main elevator shaft that ISN'T directly in front of the adjacent door to the outside. That elevator then continues down another 15 or so blocks.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Basically, the base is set up like this -
The black is natural rock, the blue outline above is the base itself, grey is elevator, the orange dot is combat steel block that looks just like the rest of the floor, so that it shouldn't stand out as being out of place, then below, the F level is the furnaces, and the C level is constructors, cargo, and core. There's a few cargo boxes, a constructor, and a furnace all up in the main base area too just so it looks like it's inhabited and that way raiders might not go looking for the "missing" stuff, and the layer of rock between the surface and the underground levels SHOULD prevent turrets from targeting the underground stuff, as long as there isn't perfect LOS down the elevator shaft to something turrets shoot (and turrets don't bother shooting armor or elevator blocks, as long as something more important isn't on the other side). That way, there's a chance that even if the base gets flattened, whoever raided it might be content with what they found on the surface and not even know that the good stuff was left 60 meters below the surface.
But the game is alpha, and I've found sometimes the game doesn't render the ground perfectly, so shit happens. We'll just have to cross our fingers and hope for few glitches
The black is natural rock, the blue outline above is the base itself, grey is elevator, the orange dot is combat steel block that looks just like the rest of the floor, so that it shouldn't stand out as being out of place, then below, the F level is the furnaces, and the C level is constructors, cargo, and core. There's a few cargo boxes, a constructor, and a furnace all up in the main base area too just so it looks like it's inhabited and that way raiders might not go looking for the "missing" stuff, and the layer of rock between the surface and the underground levels SHOULD prevent turrets from targeting the underground stuff, as long as there isn't perfect LOS down the elevator shaft to something turrets shoot (and turrets don't bother shooting armor or elevator blocks, as long as something more important isn't on the other side). That way, there's a chance that even if the base gets flattened, whoever raided it might be content with what they found on the surface and not even know that the good stuff was left 60 meters below the surface.
But the game is alpha, and I've found sometimes the game doesn't render the ground perfectly, so shit happens. We'll just have to cross our fingers and hope for few glitches
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
So, if you can leave some rock-voxel between your enemy and your base blocks, it forms a barrier that will frustrate him, or perhaps even obfuscate you entirely. The game also doesn't allow you to use drills to reshape the voxel earth within 100m of another player/faction's base, so he can't dig his way down, unless he manually pounds his way down with missile launchers, ~1 meter at a time/shot. And most raiders don't have that kind of patience... they want to swoop in, blow up everything, then as soon as the turrets stop firing, jump out, scoop up any loot on the ground, jump back in their ship and fly away.
It already kind of worked on Titan - I had two bases there, the Titan Branch, which got annihilated and looted, and underground nearby, the Tartarus complex, which only took a little damage from a shot that glitched through the ground when it failed to render for Evasong. But once the ground started rendering properly, there was no way he had the patience to either rocket his way down through the ground to the base, nor to seek out the tunnel I drilled to lead to the entrance (and deal with any defenses I'd placed) on foot or in a small HV. Evasong doesn't believe in small HVs if it can't mount 30 turrets, he's not interested in driving it.
GasBandit
An important distinction here, though,is that in minecraft there's no difference between a "naturally generated" block and a player-placed block. In Empyrion, the ground is a much more finely detailed hollow voxel surface that gets "reshaped" as you drill, and prevents turrets from tracking/shooting at player-placed objects on the other side (IE, a turret won't shoot through a hill to hit a target on the other side of the hill, even if it is in range). In fact, turrets also ignore structural (armor/elevator/etc) blocks that don't have a "device" on the other side.
So, if you can leave some rock-voxel between your enemy and your base blocks, it forms a barrier that will frustrate him, or perhaps even obfuscate you entirely. The game also doesn't allow you to use drills to reshape the voxel earth within 100m of another player/faction's base, so he can't dig his way down, unless he manually pounds his way down with missile launchers, ~1 meter at a time/shot. And most raiders don't have that kind of patience... they want to swoop in, blow up everything, then as soon as the turrets stop firing, jump out, scoop up any loot on the ground, jump back in their ship and fly away.
It already kind of worked on Titan - I had two bases there, the Titan Branch, which got annihilated and looted, and underground nearby, the Tartarus complex, which only took a little damage from a shot that glitched through the ground when it failed to render for Evasong. But once the ground started rendering properly, there was no way he had the patience to either rocket his way down through the ground to the base, nor to seek out the tunnel I drilled to lead to the entrance (and deal with any defenses I'd placed) on foot or in a small HV. Evasong doesn't believe in small HVs
if it can't mount 30 turrets, he's not interested in driving it.
#125
GasBandit
GasBandit
#126
GasBandit
GasBandit
AND, I'd like to point out why I chose Genesis for my next GBI Branch office -
Like Titan, it is a snow world, so it is rich in wood, plant and animal life and the predators are slow and large and easily dealt with. Water is super easy to access (in fact, I was using Genesis as my water-source for the Kiki Orbital Branch even before I built a base on Genesis), since snow counts as water to water extractors. The weather is generally mild-to-cold, but not as cold as space. There's no radiation or anything, so as long as you've got an EVA booster, you're more than warm enough. Only occasionally do hailstorms come along that will injure anyone not under a roof/in a vehicle and even then, only at about 5 hp every 5 seconds.
Also like Titan, Genesis is just one jump from Kiki, which is basically another Yaral - a daily-wiped resource world. In fact, it's even closer - a mere 10 AU jump instead of the 20 from Titan to Kiki. The surface of Kiki is PvE (but the orbit is PvP) despite being deep in PvP territory, so you don't have to worry about players while you're mining - just when you're coming home.
And if push comes to shove, the Kiki Orbital Branch is nearby if things go sideways, though I'd like its location (20km out into space from Kiki, more or less straight "down" from the south pole) to remain just among us, so other players won't find and kill it. It's got a large compliment of turrets, naturally, but once a space station is found, it's just a matter of time for a determined attacker to deplete its ammo with evasive maneuvers/armored baffles and then move in for the plunder. When no GBI are on, all those bases have Offline Protection, but since I have set them to GBI ownership, whenever ANY GBI faction member is online, all offline protections go away.
Like Titan, it is a snow world, so it is rich in wood, plant and animal life and the predators are slow and large and easily dealt with. Water is super easy to access (in fact, I was using Genesis as my water-source for the Kiki Orbital Branch even before I built a base on Genesis), since snow counts as water to water extractors. The weather is generally mild-to-cold, but not as cold as space. There's no radiation or anything, so as long as you've got an EVA booster, you're more than warm enough. Only occasionally do hailstorms come along that will injure anyone not under a roof/in a vehicle
and even then, only at about 5 hp every 5 seconds.Also like Titan, Genesis is just one jump from Kiki, which is basically another Yaral - a daily-wiped resource world. In fact, it's even closer - a mere 10 AU jump instead of the 20 from Titan to Kiki. The surface of Kiki is PvE (but the orbit is PvP) despite being deep in PvP territory, so you don't have to worry about players while you're mining - just when you're coming home.
And if push comes to shove, the Kiki Orbital Branch is nearby if things go sideways, though I'd like its location (20km out into space from Kiki, more or less straight "down" from the south pole) to remain just among us, so other players won't find and kill it. It's got a large compliment of turrets, naturally, but once a space station is found, it's just a matter of time for a determined attacker to deplete its ammo with evasive maneuvers/armored baffles and then move in for the plunder. When no GBI are on, all those bases have Offline Protection, but since I have set them to GBI ownership, whenever ANY GBI faction member is online, all offline protections go away.
#127
Gared
Does the Kiki Orbital Branch have a smattering of CVs surrounding it, like the YOB? You want I should go park a couple of the little fighter carriers out there and leave their turrets on? I'll probably stage from KOB using Ye Olde Busses since Genesis is within SV warp range, and the Nests can handle at least four of those bolted to the hull (but that would be a waste of resources so I won't really move them that way). Also - if I have a bunch of HVs stuck to the open decks of the Ames, and their turrets are online, will they fire in orbit? I don't intend to leave carriers parked out where prying eyes can see and prying turrets can destroy, but it's nice to know.
Gared
Excellent. I will almost certainly wait until you're at least on-server, if not in-system, to head out there. In the meantime, I'll head over to Creative Space and reconfigure that big APC into a slightly-less-big siege tank like it should be, so it isn't so resource heavy just to be an empty hulk. The Alexandria and her APCs can live on in PvE or Creative space, and we'll send the Ames and her Siege Tanks to PvP space and test them out on challenging targets. In the meantime, I'm going to keep building on Dunara a little, so it's at least a functional shipyard, to use as a PvE testbed for things I design in Creative. And to occasionally do a little mining and get better at piloting nimble HVs as opposed to my big slow ones.AND, I'd like to point out why I chose Genesis for my next GBI Branch office -
Like Titan, it is a snow world, so it is rich in wood, plant and animal life and the predators are slow and large and easily dealt with. Water is super easy to access (in fact, I was using Genesis as my water-source for the Kiki Orbital Branch even before I built a base on Genesis), since snow counts as water to water extractors. The weather is generally mild-to-cold, but not as cold as space. There's no radiation or anything, so as long as you've got an EVA booster, you're more than warm enough. Only occasionally do hailstorms come along that will injure anyone not under a roof/in a vehicle
Also like Titan, Genesis is just one jump from Kiki, which is basically another Yaral - a daily-wiped resource world. In fact, it's even closer - a mere 10 AU jump instead of the 20 from Titan to Kiki. The surface of Kiki is PvE (but the orbit is PvP) despite being deep in PvP territory, so you don't have to worry about players while you're mining - just when you're coming home.
And if push comes to shove, the Kiki Orbital Branch is nearby if things go sideways, though I'd like its location (20km out into space from Kiki, more or less straight "down" from the south pole) to remain just among us, so other players won't find and kill it. It's got a large compliment of turrets, naturally, but once a space station is found, it's just a matter of time for a determined attacker to deplete its ammo with evasive maneuvers/armored baffles and then move in for the plunder. When no GBI are on, all those bases have Offline Protection, but since I have set them to GBI ownership, whenever ANY GBI faction member is online, all offline protections go away.
Does the Kiki Orbital Branch have a smattering of CVs surrounding it, like the YOB? You want I should go park a couple of the little fighter carriers out there and leave their turrets on? I'll probably stage from KOB using Ye Olde Busses since Genesis is within SV warp range, and the Nests can handle at least four of those bolted to the hull (but that would be a waste of resources so I won't really move them that way). Also - if I have a bunch of HVs stuck to the open decks of the Ames, and their turrets are online, will they fire in orbit? I don't intend to leave carriers parked out where prying eyes can see and prying turrets can destroy, but it's nice to know.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
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Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
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PatrThom
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Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
The new Genesis Branch is coming along nicely, especially now that Gared has deployed hovertanks all around it to aid in the defense. The Tantive IV will also be stationed here in case another quick defense is required.
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Dave
Dave
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Gared
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Dave
Dave
#143
GasBandit
In it, I would plant:
1x Tomatoes, Durians, Pumpkins, wheat, Kavae (coffee), fiber, aloe vera
8x corn
And that will get you lots of plastic plus everything you need to make sandwiches, canned meat, and canned vegetables, which I have found to be the three most useful food items. Sandwiches restore 150 hunger, and it's around that point I start to worry about eating something. Canned meat and canned vegetables restore about 250 hunger each, which means my "low battery" insecurity starts manifesting in my food bar, but if the power goes out or you need a sack lunch on a long trip away from the fridge, they go hours and hours without spoiling.
GasBandit
Yeah. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this several times, but the current version has a bug that randomly mass-kills all the crops in a base. The Cornucopia CV is my workaround for that problem. Your CV has 15 grow plots in it, though, so that should be more than enough to keep you fed and and in plastic.
In it, I would plant:
1x Tomatoes, Durians, Pumpkins, wheat, Kavae (coffee), fiber, aloe vera
8x corn
And that will get you lots of plastic plus everything you need to make sandwiches, canned meat, and canned vegetables, which I have found to be the three most useful food items. Sandwiches restore 150 hunger, and it's around that point I start to worry about eating something. Canned meat and canned vegetables restore about 250 hunger each, which means my "low battery" insecurity starts manifesting in my food bar, but if the power goes out or you need a sack lunch on a long trip away from the fridge, they go hours and hours without spoiling.
(And the attached SV and mining HV)
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PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Dave
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Tinwhistler
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#150
GasBandit
And btw, you won't just be losing stuff on the server... Alpha 8 will invalidate all your single player saves, too. The game is changing to such a degree as to render the old files unusable.
Old blueprints should still work, though, so if you got anything you want to save, blueprint it with RightAlt-O.
GasBandit
Dear god do you listen to a single word I say ever?!
And btw, you won't just be losing stuff on the server... Alpha 8 will invalidate all your single player saves, too. The game is changing to such a degree as to render the old files unusable.
Old blueprints should still work, though, so if you got anything you want to save, blueprint it with RightAlt-O.
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PatrThom
—Patrick
PatrThom
Oh, he listens, but...you know how it can be with those of a certain, advanced age.Dear god do you listen to a single word I say ever?!
—Patrick
#152
Gared
Gared
#153
GasBandit
GasBandit
It's also a lot easier to be forgiving of such mistakes when we're well established, have resources to spare, and are gonna lose everything in ~3-4 weeks anyway
I mean, just a few days ago, I knowingly threw away a perfectly good ship (much more expensive than the Phoenix) by taking it to fight Evasong in a battle I knew I couldn't win.
I mean, just a few days ago, I knowingly threw away a perfectly good ship (much more expensive than the Phoenix) by taking it to fight Evasong in a battle I knew I couldn't win.
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
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Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
#162
PatrThom
—Patrick
PatrThom
If he does, the ships will all leave.Next thing you know @bhamv3 will be playing this game
—Patrick
#163
Dave
Dave
Playing today and the server admins sent out a message that they were going to restart so please log off. That's cool and all, but unfortunately it ejected me from my ship for some reason. I broke my leg and couldn't get back to the ship. It'll be interesting to see where it is when I log back in. I guess I can wait for it to run out of power and fall to the ground, but I like loading an overabundance of power into my stuff so it's going to be there a long, long time.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
#169
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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bhamv3
bhamv3
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
#178
GasBandit
GasBandit
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
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
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GasBandit
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GasBandit
The Mars Branch, however, is looking pretty good.
I think we're pretty well protected from any SV/HV incursions, and CVs can't enter Mars Atmo.
I think we're pretty well protected from any SV/HV incursions, and CVs can't enter Mars Atmo.
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Gared
Gared
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
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
In other news, it sounds like Iceman has started working on a new map layout for 8.0, and here's the loose mockup
Instead of Yaral-type planets, the endless resources will be in the asteroid zones (which will also be PvP) and will wipe twice daily (so that the morning crew doesn't bogart everything).
Here's hoping 8.0 improves asteroid mining a bit because it kinda sucks right now, but the good news is that means that CV mining turrets might be more useful. The rewards aren't as lucrative as an HV on Yaral but you can't fall in a hole and lose track of which way is up and never get out again...
GasBandit
Hrm. It's worth exploring.
In other news, it sounds like Iceman has started working on a new map layout for 8.0, and here's the loose mockup
Instead of Yaral-type planets, the endless resources will be in the asteroid zones (which will also be PvP) and will wipe twice daily (so that the morning crew doesn't bogart everything).
Here's hoping 8.0 improves asteroid mining a bit because it kinda sucks right now, but the good news is that means that CV mining turrets might be more useful. The rewards aren't as lucrative as an HV on Yaral but you can't fall in a hole and lose track of which way is up and never get out again...
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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 pro
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GasBandit
GasBandit
A conversation with Noodle2k1:
And here I thought Noodle might have actually been trying to do a compromise that made everyone happy... but no, it was just another scheme to let Noodle punish PvE players for playing the game the way they wanted to, and not the way Noodle wanted to.
The only thing that actually stopped it was it turns out that player-controlled alien core ship turrets still won't attack players in PvE zones unless manually controlled to do so. When Noodle discovered that, all interest in the alien faction was lost, and it was called off.
I've also noticed that all of Noodle's ideas basically are basically the desperate flailings of someone bored to death with the game trying everything they can think of to "spice it up" for themselves, the experience of the other players be damned.
And here I thought Noodle might have actually been trying to do a compromise that made everyone happy... but no, it was just another scheme to let Noodle punish PvE players for playing the game the way they wanted to, and not the way Noodle wanted to.
The only thing that actually stopped it was it turns out that player-controlled alien core ship turrets still won't attack players in PvE zones unless manually controlled to do so. When Noodle discovered that, all interest in the alien faction was lost, and it was called off.
I've also noticed that all of Noodle's ideas basically are basically the desperate flailings of someone bored to death with the game trying everything they can think of to "spice it up" for themselves, the experience of the other players be damned.
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
Remember this lovely bit of candid commentary that we lost in the wipe?
This second part is noodles alluding to the incident in which enough zirax NPCs and drones were spawned on one of Shadows' bases as to actually wreck it. But he's a sap. It DID nearly get Iceman to rescind Noodle's admin status, however.
But I think if Noodle2k1 was going to get booted out of the admin team, it would have happened years ago. Note that this is an old entry for Renntech in the Empyrion Servers website database that got deleted, and then a new entry was made for Renntech a few months ago, with comments disabled.
I don't know if I plan to jump ship before Alpha 8 though, that would just mean having to start over twice, once now, once when alpha 8 hits stable branch.
GasBandit
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.
Remember this lovely bit of candid commentary that we lost in the wipe?
This second part is noodles alluding to the incident in which enough zirax NPCs and drones were spawned on one of Shadows' bases as to actually wreck it. But he's a sap. It DID nearly get Iceman to rescind Noodle's admin status, however.
But I think if Noodle2k1 was going to get booted out of the admin team, it would have happened years ago. Note that this is an old entry for Renntech in the Empyrion Servers website database that got deleted, and then a new entry was made for Renntech a few months ago, with comments disabled.
I don't know if I plan to jump ship before Alpha 8 though, that would just mean having to start over twice, once now, once when alpha 8 hits stable branch.
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Dave
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Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
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Gared
Gared
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
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Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
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Tinwhistler
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Gared
I was in the green circled red panetary system. Sadly, I had a power outage (someone hit a pole, or something, hope they're OK), and lost all the notes I took about all of the planets out there.
Gared
I was in the green circled red panetary system. Sadly, I had a power outage (someone hit a pole, or something, hope they're OK), and lost all the notes I took about all of the planets out there.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Man, I said it before when I got the Tantive IV, and I'll say it again... One universe's battleship/dreadnaught is another universe's light destroyer.
The reliant is every bit as big as the Legion, which seemed friggin huge when I first got it.
The reliant is every bit as big as the Legion, which seemed friggin huge when I first got it.
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Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Planet Elites... or rather, the moon called Elites, that orbits a particularly nasty lava planet whose name escapes me. But it sure leaves an impression.
What the hell are we doing here again? Fighting aliens and claiming pentaxid nodes? Is it really worth dying for?
What the hell are we doing here again? Fighting aliens and claiming pentaxid nodes? Is it really worth dying for?
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Gared
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Dave
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PatrThom
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
There are LOTS more POIs to raid. We didn't even break this one down for parts, so it's probably already back again, complete with the 20-odd turrets we had to destroy.
Edit: Also, I need to design a new fighter that doesn't have the cockpit up front. Hrmmm... I got an idea. It'll probably end up looking like a Gee Bee, but that's also appropriate, considering MY initials
Edit: Also, I need to design a new fighter that doesn't have the cockpit up front. Hrmmm... I got an idea. It'll probably end up looking like a Gee Bee, but that's also appropriate, considering MY initials
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PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
Will it wind up as much of a death trap as the real thing? Stay tuned, folks!There are LOTS more POIs to raid. We didn't even break this one down for parts, so it's probably already back again, complete with the 20-odd turrets we had to destroy.
Edit: Also, I need to design a new fighter that doesn't have the cockpit up front. Hrmmm... I got an idea. It'll probably end up looking like a Gee Bee, but that's also appropriate, considering MY initials
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GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
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GasBandit
Edit: and in all seriousness, I don't know how this will work out. I'm a little worried the CPUs are too weak. We'll just have to see. If that turns out to be the case, I kinda plan to use it for something else.
GasBandit
No, this is my toy
Edit: and in all seriousness, I don't know how this will work out. I'm a little worried the CPUs are too weak. We'll just have to see. If that turns out to be the case, I kinda plan to use it for something else.
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PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Gared
Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
The GeeBee Space Superiority Fighter is rolling off the assembly lines.
While sporting a more limited arsenal than the Ballista Heavy Fighter, the GeeBee is trimmed down to what works best - homing missiles and gatling cannons. Additionally, the cockpit sits in the rear, so it is unlikely to be automatically targeted by turrets, as was often a problem with the Ballista. The nose has supplementary thrusters inside it, behind a nose cone many layers thick of solid hardened steel armor, made to attract (and then absorb) enemy turret fire, making it a much more robust solution for attacking alien POIs and enemy bases/capital ships. Moreover, its weapon package is spread much wider, so that one or two well placed missiles WON'T defang you of all your homing missile launchers. And when the going gets too rough, it even has a warp engine to jump to safety.
All of this comes at the cost of fuel efficiency and size. One GeeBee SSFTR takes up the hangar space of two ballistas and is also longer. However, I believe it much less likely to be shot down in typical use.
While sporting a more limited arsenal than the Ballista Heavy Fighter, the GeeBee is trimmed down to what works best - homing missiles and gatling cannons. Additionally, the cockpit sits in the rear, so it is unlikely to be automatically targeted by turrets, as was often a problem with the Ballista. The nose has supplementary thrusters inside it, behind a nose cone many layers thick of solid hardened steel armor, made to attract (and then absorb) enemy turret fire, making it a much more robust solution for attacking alien POIs and enemy bases/capital ships. Moreover, its weapon package is spread much wider, so that one or two well placed missiles WON'T defang you of all your homing missile launchers. And when the going gets too rough, it even has a warp engine to jump to safety.
All of this comes at the cost of fuel efficiency and size. One GeeBee SSFTR takes up the hangar space of two ballistas and is also longer. However, I believe it much less likely to be shot down in typical use.
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Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
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Gared
Gared
Y'all, I present to you, The Ravenous. I was gonna use thumbs instead of spoilers, but even the thumbnails are huge.
Looking down her throat. There is a slight chance of a down the throat shot getting through that forcefield that doesn't have a door in front of it and either going straight through (and wrecking both battlesheep) or exploding recklessly in the tank bays and making a royal mess. That sounds more sexual than I meant it to. Oh well. There's still room for more blocks, so it could be styled to look a little less like a city, and some of that styling could potentially be used to obstruct those shots better. That's why this is the first version, I s'pose.
From the starboard side. You can see the Huntress III in that big bay in the middle. Gas reckons he can fit two SSF's in that main bay (or four if he wanted to dock two upside down). I couldn't resist including Covenant rising in the background. Aislynn is thinking of colonizing it, just as a personal base like the one back on Ningues.
From aft. On this end I at least managed to fit a shutter door on the outside to cover the forcefields from the emitters (she isn't symmetrical front to back, only port to starboard, and her internals aren't exactly symmetrical either, for reasons). That big blue beast in the background to the right will take up one of the big tank hangars on the bottom, but this whole thing would be more capable if they included large elevators for moving SVs and HVs inside carriers and bases.
Those base designs are going to have to wait though, I'm too burned out on design to even lay concrete pads and deal with structural integrity today.
Looking down her throat. There is a slight chance of a down the throat shot getting through that forcefield that doesn't have a door in front of it and either going straight through (and wrecking both battlesheep) or exploding recklessly in the tank bays and making a royal mess. That sounds more sexual than I meant it to. Oh well. There's still room for more blocks, so it could be styled to look a little less like a city, and some of that styling could potentially be used to obstruct those shots better. That's why this is the first version, I s'pose.
From the starboard side. You can see the Huntress III in that big bay in the middle. Gas reckons he can fit two SSF's in that main bay (or four if he wanted to dock two upside down). I couldn't resist including Covenant rising in the background. Aislynn is thinking of colonizing it, just as a personal base like the one back on Ningues.
From aft. On this end I at least managed to fit a shutter door on the outside to cover the forcefields from the emitters (she isn't symmetrical front to back, only port to starboard, and her internals aren't exactly symmetrical either, for reasons). That big blue beast in the background to the right will take up one of the big tank hangars on the bottom, but this whole thing would be more capable if they included large elevators for moving SVs and HVs inside carriers and bases.
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PatrThom
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Gared
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Gared
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GasBandit
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His Starfury was still hovering in midair. I declawed the POI, then managed to fly up, core it, and re-core it, then drop it to the deck so I could multitool the good stuff out of it
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Say hello to the Leviathan Supercarrier.
She's a bit boxy, and expensive as hell, but guaranteed to get you there firstest with the mostest.
She can easily fit 10 bad pennies inside her, with room to spare for battlesheep, miners, and whatnot. That's assuming you want to dock fighters to the flight deck up top. You don't have to
She's a bit boxy, and expensive as hell, but guaranteed to get you there firstest with the mostest.
She can easily fit 10 bad pennies inside her, with room to spare for battlesheep, miners, and whatnot. That's assuming you want to dock fighters to the flight deck up top. You don't have to
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Gared
Gared
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Gared
Also, I threw together a quick CV defense tank - basically a turret on a hover platform. The cockpit isn't secure in any way, so you can't ride these into battle or you will die, but for deploying a quick defensive shell around a planet-bound CV, they should do quite nicely. It doesn't matter how many of them we could fit in the Leviathan, because our computers would all give up long before capacity from core-overload. These should replace the Antipersonnel and Artillery tanks Mk II for CV/LZ defense, as they're cheaper, smaller, and less clunky. There's one of each turret type, one turret per tank, so you can set up a defensive shell of LZ -> Artillery -> Plasma -> Rocket/Minigun, with some faster turret types scattered in amongst the Artillery ring to defend against people dive-bombing the LZ.
Now, since I'm still not happy with the performance of the Robert Grey or the Ghost heavy fighters, I think I'll go work on something a little smoother.
Gared
I think she's gonna need some more fuel tanks for planet-side operation. Yes, you can turn thrusters and RCS off once you get down safely, but this thing is so big it dwarfs the Planetary Yard, so you're going to have to spend a lot of time looking for a flat space big enough to land her, and she only has 6.5 minutes of fuel during flight ops in Akua atmo.Say hello to the Leviathan Supercarrier.
She's a bit boxy, and expensive as hell, but guaranteed to get you there firstest with the mostest.
She can easily fit 10 bad pennies inside her, with room to spare for battlesheep, miners, and whatnot. That's assuming you want to dock fighters to the flight deck up top. You don't have to
Also, I threw together a quick CV defense tank - basically a turret on a hover platform. The cockpit isn't secure in any way, so you can't ride these into battle or you will die, but for deploying a quick defensive shell around a planet-bound CV, they should do quite nicely. It doesn't matter how many of them we could fit in the Leviathan, because our computers would all give up long before capacity from core-overload. These should replace the Antipersonnel and Artillery tanks Mk II for CV/LZ defense, as they're cheaper, smaller, and less clunky. There's one of each turret type, one turret per tank, so you can set up a defensive shell of LZ -> Artillery -> Plasma -> Rocket/Minigun, with some faster turret types scattered in amongst the Artillery ring to defend against people dive-bombing the LZ.
Now, since I'm still not happy with the performance of the Robert Grey or the Ghost heavy fighters, I think I'll go work on something a little smoother.
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The Leviathan is now in on Renntech, too. Here's a CV parked on top of it
The first fighter to go in her hangar:
Size compared to the Reliant:
And compared to the Legion:
The first fighter to go in her hangar:
Size compared to the Reliant:
And compared to the Legion:
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GasBandit
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Tinwhistler
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OMG and now the new processors just arrived! AAeeeIIIIGGHHH!!!
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Dave
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GasBandit
So, once I get the billing and stuff out of the way, I'll go elbow deep in the server and nobody will bug me because they'll assume I'm doing something important
GasBandit
Well, for the first part, I'd like to actually get it on my workbench here at the office, it's better appointed than I've got at home right now for working on machines
So, once I get the billing and stuff out of the way, I'll go elbow deep in the server and nobody will bug me because they'll assume I'm doing something important
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I mean, if it’s a 1U, then I assume you won’t be mounting it at home unless you’re hoping the constant VrRRRRrRRRRrRRRRrRRRR will help lull you to sleep, or maybe act as one of those sonic pest repellers.
—Patrick
PatrThom
You haven’t even posted the specs!OMG and now the new processors just arrived! AAeeeIIIIGGHHH!!!
I mean, if it’s a 1U, then I assume you won’t be mounting it at home unless you’re hoping the constant VrRRRRrRRRRrRRRRrRRRR will help lull you to sleep, or maybe act as one of those sonic pest repellers.
—Patrick
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GasBandit
Here's the specs, obviously the CPU is about to be swapped out, tho.
Model Dell PowerEdge Poweredge R710
MPN R710-48GB-1.2TB-11961
Processor Two (2) Intel Xeon Quad Core E5530 2.40GHz 8MB Smart Cache 5.86GT/s 80W
Memory Installed 48GB Total; Eighteen Slots Available: 12 x 4GB PC3 Registered DDR3 Memory Installed
Hard Drives 4 x Dell Enterprise 300GB 15K SAS 3.5" Hard Drives (1.2TB Of RAW Storage)
Drive Bays 6 drive bays
Riser Board 2 x Riser Board with 2x PCI-e G2 x8 Slots Per Riser Board
External Media Dell PowerEdge R710 SlimLine Optical Drive
Power Supply Single 570W Power Supply Unit - Power Cord Not Included
Backplane Backplane for 6 x 3.5" SAS or SATA Drives
Ethernet Broadcom BCM5709C 4 x iSCSI TOE NICs (4 On-Board Ports Total)
Video Embedded Matrox G200 8MB
Form Factor 2U Rackmountable
RAID Controller PERC 6i RAID Controller with BBU and Cables
Remote Access Card Dell iDRAC6 Express Card Included
Front Bezel Not Included
Rapid Rails Rail Kit Not Included
Operating System Windows 2016 Server Pre-Installed
Software Software Media or Licenses Not Included
COA Not Included
Service Tag Various
Processor Manufacturer Intel
Processor Type Xeon Quad Core
Return Policy/Warranty 60 days Money Back Or Exchange
GasBandit
It's a 2U, and I'll probably be keeping it on a shelf in a closet with the door closed
Here's the specs, obviously the CPU is about to be swapped out, tho.
Model Dell PowerEdge Poweredge R710
MPN R710-48GB-1.2TB-11961
Processor Two (2) Intel Xeon Quad Core E5530 2.40GHz 8MB Smart Cache 5.86GT/s 80W
Memory Installed 48GB Total; Eighteen Slots Available: 12 x 4GB PC3 Registered DDR3 Memory Installed
Hard Drives 4 x Dell Enterprise 300GB 15K SAS 3.5" Hard Drives (1.2TB Of RAW Storage)
Drive Bays 6 drive bays
Riser Board 2 x Riser Board with 2x PCI-e G2 x8 Slots Per Riser Board
External Media Dell PowerEdge R710 SlimLine Optical Drive
Power Supply Single 570W Power Supply Unit - Power Cord Not Included
Backplane Backplane for 6 x 3.5" SAS or SATA Drives
Ethernet Broadcom BCM5709C 4 x iSCSI TOE NICs (4 On-Board Ports Total)
Video Embedded Matrox G200 8MB
Form Factor 2U Rackmountable
RAID Controller PERC 6i RAID Controller with BBU and Cables
Remote Access Card Dell iDRAC6 Express Card Included
Front Bezel Not Included
Rapid Rails Rail Kit Not Included
Operating System Windows 2016 Server Pre-Installed
Software Software Media or Licenses Not Included
COA Not Included
Service Tag Various
Processor Manufacturer Intel
Processor Type Xeon Quad Core
Return Policy/Warranty 60 days Money Back Or Exchange
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GasBandit
Hrm. Also, despite coming with 4 300 gig drives, the current raid configuration just seems to have one 900 gig volume. I'd like to reconfigure that into a raid 10. Of course, that'll blow away the current windows install, but as it's just evaluation edition, I'm probably just gonna install windows 7 pro on it and be done with it
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GasBandit
I Don't know if the UPS is SNMP or not, I don't care, it's just to fight power fluctuations mostly
As for the eval thing, it's just because I didn't read the fine print.
GasBandit
I know you asked me in discord, but for the folks at home, the rules say 20, Evasong says 15, and Iceman said in elders discord chat that when alpha 8 hits he wants to lower it to 10.
I am, it is, and it will be. It'll be 300 gigs, as a raid 10 - like I said, I got 4 300 gig drives. Though, I don't know if the limitation is really a factor, since the raid controller is pre-bios hardware (PERC 6/i).
I Don't know if the UPS is SNMP or not, I don't care, it's just to fight power fluctuations mostly
As for the eval thing, it's just because I didn't read the fine print.
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GasBandit
And just for completeness' sake, here's the ones on the list we HAVE used already:
Legion
Belial
Azrael (not a demon, but an angel of destruction)
Leviathan
Orobos (destroyed, so available again)
Also, two of the CV battleships we got from SkN back during the alien wars were christened Trenchard's Revenge and Trenchard's Revenge II. I guess there's always room for Trenchard's Revenge III
Legion
Belial
Azrael (not a demon, but an angel of destruction)
Leviathan
Orobos (destroyed, so available again)
Also, two of the CV battleships we got from SkN back during the alien wars were christened Trenchard's Revenge and Trenchard's Revenge II. I guess there's always room for Trenchard's Revenge III
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
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Gared
And here (s)he is in Covenant Orbit - the Malphas.
And the overhead shot for size comparison.
Clocks in just under the size of the carrier, as it should be.
And the overhead shot for size comparison.
Clocks in just under the size of the carrier, as it should be.
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GasBandit
She's all ready for cheesy battle.
Though I'm thinking of renaming her the Weenie Cheese Sandwich, not the Cheesy Wiener Sandwich. That way I get a smegma joke in there too, for the extra punch
Though I'm thinking of renaming her the Weenie Cheese Sandwich, not the Cheesy Wiener Sandwich. That way I get a smegma joke in there too, for the extra punch
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GasBandit
GasBandit
I'm pretty sure he's in the dark about it. I quietly built it on the server last night, and ammo'd it up, while he was busy spawning npc monsters on noobs I can't wait to see his reaction too
I can't wait to see his reaction too
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..... We starved to death while waiting to freeze to death because a single plant monster was camping our portable constructor, which we had to put in the water, because two dozen rampaging spiders were waiting for us on shore. 
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PatrThom
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GasBandit
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Gared
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GasBandit
Ok, I couldn't help myself... I started up the server early, even though I don't have the SSD in yet. Feel free to check it out, it should call itself Halforums Empyrion Server (should be searchable on the multiplayer menu) and the password is gasbandit. Just keeping it locked for now, once we get a handle on how this works, I'll take it public. I'm mostly interested in performance testing right now It's running 7.6.2 (stable).
It's running 7.6.2 (stable).I got risers. Anything will fit. Also, there's a guy in there with a review specifically saying how well and easily it went into and works on his PE R710.
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Gared
Hmm. 'gasbandit' 'Gasbandit' and 'GasBandit' all fail as the password.Ok, I couldn't help myself... I started up the server early, even though I don't have the SSD in yet. Feel free to check it out, it should call itself Halforums Empyrion Server (should be searchable on the multiplayer menu) and the password is gasbandit. Just keeping it locked for now, once we get a handle on how this works, I'll take it public. I'm mostly interested in performance testing right now
I got risers. Anything will fit. Also, there's a guy in there with a review specifically saying how well and easily it went into and works on his PE R710.
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
I'm in. 
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Dave
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Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
No thanks, I'll be admin of a server to which only I have physical access, thanks
GasBandit
And then the actual owner of the server, who previously stepped back, Neocorricon, could come back and pull the rug out from under me and reinstall noodles because he's known her longer and doesn't know me at all!
No thanks, I'll be admin of a server to which only I have physical access, thanks
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Dave
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GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
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Gared
Gared
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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Tinwhistler
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GasBandit
GasBandit
And of COURSE I started on tallodar this time
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Tinwhistler
I just respawned to a drone killing my base, so when it killed me, I did a "fresh start".
Imagine how unhappy I was to realize you start over with even less resources..no gun
Tinwhistler
Delete your player file and start overAnd of COURSE I started on tallodar this time
I just respawned to a drone killing my base, so when it killed me, I did a "fresh start".
Imagine how unhappy I was to realize you start over with even less resources..no gun
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Want me to delete your player file too?Delete your player file and start over
I just respawned to a drone killing my base, so when it killed me, I did a "fresh start".
Imagine how unhappy I was to realize you start over with even less resources..no gun
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GasBandit
BALEETED (or rather, renamed to .bak in case it was the wrong one)Sure
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GasBandit
Server resource utilization with 4 players on:
Also, lol, Dave went to tallodar too, right after I deleted my player file there.
Also, lol, Dave went to tallodar too, right after I deleted my player file there.
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PatrThom
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Dave
Dave
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!!
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Dave
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Dave
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.
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Gared
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
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PatrThom
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Gared
Gared
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Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
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Tinwhistler
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PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
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.
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GasBandit
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PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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
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GasBandit
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Gared
Gared
My own offhand comment about making the warp sled into a warp semi has resulted in this.
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GasBandit
We now have an entry on empyrion-servers.com, https://empyrion-servers.com/server/21535/
If you guys go there and upvote it, it will help the server's visibility, maybe get us some more randos
If you guys go there and upvote it, it will help the server's visibility, maybe get us some more randos
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GasBandit
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Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Seeing Gared's latest capital vessel reminded me of something..
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GasBandit
Seriously, this thing is huge. It's like 270m x 270m x 180m or so, I think. It's pretty damn close to the dimension limit.
It's like 4 luxury hotels, a shopping mall, a casino, a movie theater, an ice hockey arena, a 360-growplot farm, and an international airport all got mashed together.
GasBandit
God, I wish. So much.
Seriously, this thing is huge. It's like 270m x 270m x 180m or so, I think. It's pretty damn close to the dimension limit.
It's like 4 luxury hotels, a shopping mall, a casino, a movie theater, an ice hockey arena, a 360-growplot farm, and an international airport all got mashed together.
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GasBandit
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GasBandit
I wanted to spend last night working on an automatic backup process and maybe work on customizing that space station more, but I ended up just spectating you guys playing all night Oigh.
I'm going out of town this weekend (family reunion) so the amount of time I have left before Alpha 8 hits stable is limited, I need to get on the stick.
Oigh.I'm going out of town this weekend (family reunion) so the amount of time I have left before Alpha 8 hits stable is limited, I need to get on the stick.
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Dave
Dave
And this is why it was so hard to target the turrets on the drone base:
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Gared
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Dave
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GasBandit
Gared has festooned your island with innumerable defense turret tanks to facilitate your rise from the ashes!
GasBandit
You got a base to rebuild
Gared has festooned your island with innumerable defense turret tanks to facilitate your rise from the ashes!
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
I logged into Renntech last night briefly just to reset the offline protection.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
I'm surprised we have anything left, it's coming up on 14 days I think, since I did a decay duty tour.I logged into Renntech last night briefly just to reset the offline protection.
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GasBandit
There are three common design philosophies to warships in this game - frontal assault, broadside, and point defense. Malphas, from what I've seen, ascribes to "point defense." It expects the attack could come from any direction, so it has some turrets all over it so it can put up some kind of defense no matter which direction that attack comes from.
This makes it strong vs SVs and AI drone attacks, but weak against "full frontal" attack CVs, like the Reliant (or the Weenie Cheese Sandwich ), where the design means that all turrets are located in such a way that they fire straight forward and the sides/rear/bottom of the ship are practically defenseless. The concentration of fire the FF paradigm allows it to overwhelm the turrets on a point defense design, and chew through armor to vitals rather quickly. The best hope a PD CV has against a FF CV is to be constantly fleeing and kiting the attacker, and rotating regularly to distribute damage evenly around the ship.
If you want, I can spawn you some things that you and Aislynn can toy around with, to see how things measure up.
I could also swap the server over to creative mode, letting you spawn in whatever you want for testing, but that might upset any other players that were working on bases and stuff (As I know Dimento is right this very moment).
GasBandit
Probably the best non-weeniecheese ship I've got would be my modified Reliant, but not meaning to malign your design or anything, I think the Malphas would be hard-pressed against it.
There are three common design philosophies to warships in this game - frontal assault, broadside, and point defense. Malphas, from what I've seen, ascribes to "point defense." It expects the attack could come from any direction, so it has some turrets all over it so it can put up some kind of defense no matter which direction that attack comes from.
This makes it strong vs SVs and AI drone attacks, but weak against "full frontal" attack CVs, like the Reliant (or the Weenie Cheese Sandwich
), where the design means that all turrets are located in such a way that they fire straight forward and the sides/rear/bottom of the ship are practically defenseless. The concentration of fire the FF paradigm allows it to overwhelm the turrets on a point defense design, and chew through armor to vitals rather quickly. The best hope a PD CV has against a FF CV is to be constantly fleeing and kiting the attacker, and rotating regularly to distribute damage evenly around the ship.If you want, I can spawn you some things that you and Aislynn can toy around with, to see how things measure up.
I could also swap the server over to creative mode, letting you spawn in whatever you want for testing, but that might upset any other players that were working on bases and stuff (As I know Dimento is right this very moment).
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The big thing about the Malphas is that it's not designed to go up against anything on its own - it's designed more for use as an escort for that massive carrier of yours. It's also designed to have a second person riding along to man the guns for me - either figuratively or literally, as they can either control specific turrets, or just pay attention to what side the primary assault is coming from (I know, lots of jinking will be going on, but bear with me) and shut the broadside ramps on that side, delaying the destruction of those guns while I roll the ship and attack with the full strength of the opposing broadside. That's also why I fully jacketed in the direct-fire weapons and stuck a turret (rather restrictively) behind a shutter door on the bow of the ship. There are also some redundant (though definitely not decoy) thrusters, RCS blocks, and the like up front, behind several spaced-out layers of armor. That way, I can bore in on a frontal trajectory, let my opponent's turrets lock onto those weapons, and then turn my sides to them and open up with my turrets, denying them their targets while I soak damage so you don't have to try to jink with a carrier. A gunner would allow me to worry about the piloting while they gave me roll instructions and opened and closed broadside ramps as needed.Probably the best non-weeniecheese ship I've got would be my modified Reliant, but not meaning to malign your design or anything, I think the Malphas would be hard-pressed against it.
There are three common design philosophies to warships in this game - frontal assault, broadside, and point defense. Malphas, from what I've seen, ascribes to "point defense." It expects the attack could come from any direction, so it has some turrets all over it so it can put up some kind of defense no matter which direction that attack comes from.
This makes it strong vs SVs and AI drone attacks, but weak against "full frontal" attack CVs, like the Reliant (or the Weenie Cheese Sandwich
If you want, I can spawn you some things that you and Aislynn can toy around with, to see how things measure up.
I could also swap the server over to creative mode, letting you spawn in whatever you want for testing, but that might upset any other players that were working on bases and stuff (As I know Dimento is right this very moment).
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Incidentally, Edrondol and Garedicus now have their 6000 credit rewards for voting today Spend em while ya got em!
Spend em while ya got em!
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Hah, and then Ztrobe found out about it and threatened to take his ball and go home. He wants at least 10 bases and 10 CVs, he says. He reminds them that PvE players are a thing. THAT'S gonna convince Noodle and Dos.
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Ztrobe needs to find out about another server with an admin who is not an insane dickhead.Hah, and then Ztrobe found out about it and threatened to take his ball and go home. He wants at least 10 bases and 10 CVs, he says. He reminds them that PvE players are a thing. THAT'S gonna convince Noodle and Dos.
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Dimento says he's gonna try to call in some people from our old MWO unit, the Robinson Rangers Brigade. So that might get some more people on the server, and help us move up in the rankings, which will help get even more people on the server
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@mikerc I really appreciate how you keep voting for the server even though you don't play on it - thanks for helping out
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I can't even run the game in experimental mode. Yes, I'm starting Steam in admin mode.
It's telling me that I can't run 8 because I have DirectX9 and that only works with version 7 so please switch back. I did dxdiag and it tells me I have 12 installed, so...
It's telling me that I can't run 8 because I have DirectX9 and that only works with version 7 so please switch back. I did dxdiag and it tells me I have 12 installed, so...
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Try a clean install?I can't even run the game in experimental mode. Yes, I'm starting Steam in admin mode.
It's telling me that I can't run 8 because I have DirectX9 and that only works with version 7 so please switch back. I did dxdiag and it tells me I have 12 installed, so...
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The number of times I have said "I am SO glad I stuck with windows 7" (and turned off updates) in the last few weeks is astonishing.I can't even run the game in experimental mode. Yes, I'm starting Steam in admin mode.
It's telling me that I can't run 8 because I have DirectX9 and that only works with version 7 so please switch back. I did dxdiag and it tells me I have 12 installed, so...
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All you gotta say is "1803 update" and every windows 10 user shits their pants
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It's not just this one particular issue. People have been having all kinds of problems, including some of the poor schmucks here at work who got updated to 10 automatically without even being asked. Meanwhile, every single windows 7 system just keeps cruising along nicely.
All you gotta say is "1803 update" and every windows 10 user shits their pants
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