wow, that was just a wag off the top of me pointy head.. dang it! -Knew- I shoulda played the Lotto this week! Hopefully someday Eleon will add in Terrain tools like Space Engineers has. They allow all kinds of creativity, basically 'clay scuplting' with any mix of terrains, including the ores. Plus I _think_ that means that it's far less 'load' than blocks, but not sure. @Germanicus , good lookin ship there. The larger engines really work well in a larger hull like yours. & I'm starting to wonder if we'll ever get you off that planet.. plus I'm wondering if you're building another massive themed base there?? -- Redid the totally tublar experiment and added a shield and warp. Completely forgot to add in a constructor, armor locker or fridge. So wound up slapping them on the front behind shutters, which resulted in exiting cockpit to the side, leading to the odd platform/wing bits alongside the cockpit. But since this ships purpose is to warp to other planets to mine Neo & Sath, they'll actually be useful.
@StyleBBQ "I don't know which are smarter, cats or dogs. All I know is my cat got me to feed, brush, play & open doors at his whim, for 21 years without ever rolling over or begging... "Furry terrorists" yeah, let's go with that!" There is a saying in German: Dogs have Owners while Cats have Toilet-Cleaners
Lots and lots of digging recently. Finally found a nice Arid planet to actually spawn my dwarven underground build into: new constructions...
Have thrown my own thoughts into the Bin. Now there are two of them....a Mk.I without Warp drive, but with Shields and a Mk.II with Warp Drive.
Today I rebuilt my old hangar from another game took some fancy screenshots in there. Also refitted the projectors in the Creative Library POI and added more text to them. They turn off/on based on which side of the projector you're on, so they don't run all at the same time and you can see through the projection without seeing other projections on the opposite side. Landing Sequence MK3 Launch Sequence MK2 The Hall of Creation on the Creative Library. Currently, only this side of the screen is signal controlled, the other side isn't finished. There's also another screen on the other side of the hall. I'll probably stick deco stuff in the middle like benches, a sofa and some plants or something. With the amount of info I can fit on those screens, i'm gonna be hard-pressed to fill this room, let alone the OTHER hall on the opposite side. What i've got in this one is largely redundant. I doubt anyone needs a complete explanation on how pressurization works or how much thrust an SV needs to get off the ground. Okay, well, those are probably pretty useful in a technical aspect. This side of the screen is all the vital blocks, RCS, pressurization, thrusters, hovers, weapons, fuel and generator usage, etc... The other side is the multitool, texture and color tool and how to use the build menu's functions (Copy, paste, symmetry, etc...).
Jade, try the "fill" tool. I was doing some recent cliff-size excavations/modifications and it was pretty awesome. One disadvantage is that the filler terrain is a different texture: but the effect is still really powerful and fun to play with.
I think I beat you all on ugliness. And I work hard for that ! I think it only has 4 or 5 carbon comp. blocks just to fill some gaps inside, and everything else is devices/ shutter windows/doors. Less wasted space than my previous "flying saucer", and just enough to park my small SV/ HVs. The point was mostly to have a rough idea of the overall dimensions, so now I can switch stuff around to optimize the shape in order to use as few "dead mass" (blocks) as possible. But here is the "beauty" in my eyes... behold... No "player walk on moving ship" here... unless wearing thick rubber armor.
Need more details. Try just shutting power down and back on, remove-add one block in the buggy area, etc. What does the "show airtight blocks" look like ?
*Ogles the gorgeous beauty...* Could the Build be short the needed O2 Storage to hold enough air for the job?
If I'm remembering the notes way back when, this may not be an 'air tightness' issue but might be you need another Ventilator? maybe... @Kassonnade , what, do I look stupid? (don't answer that!) No _way_ would I call her 'ugly'! No death wish here mate. Seriously though, those stats are "wowsa!!" and I like the 'no frills, bare metal' look a lot. -- Also I'm hoping Eleon is working on a, not really restrictive, but maybe a bit?, thingy so that there may be a trade off between heavily Shielded vs. heavily Armored ship. So something like your ship would fall into a 'Strike Destroyer' cat while same general thrusters/gens/guns but lots of Combat Armor would be more a starbases 'Heavy Destroyer' for a more tanking/defense type roll. Not too likely I guess, just recalling some EveOnline mechanics, which I found quite interesting. -- Play/build wise I've been thinking about leveraging cheap HVs for static defenses. I've had a couple, how come the base turrets ain't shootin?, episodes recently and also seems like that first attack on your second third etc base can be quite quick. So the plan is to deploy a couple of these and see how they do, both 'alone' and as I can add base turrets. Suprisingly driveable. Should/could spread the turrets a bit more and redo the genie/tank/core so they're more protected, but we'll see. oh, gonna call this the 'Bic Defense' cause they're basically throw-aways. Full tank of gas gives 20 hours standby. Just the Ammo Controller itself, and plan on only dropping in a couple hundred rounds, in case they get blown up. No need to throw away ammo, heh. All the Carbon Fiber & the few Steel armor blocks (just over the top of the tank) removed.
This used to be a thing back when Docking itself first got brought into the game in its Band Aid Form... it got deemed an Exploit & was shut down by making it to where when a HV is Docked to something, its Turrets can't fire at anything for any reason.
Arriving soon! Is what I would like to say, but there is still lots to do.... Interior is mostly done though Phase one at least To summarize, I probably will cut of the front and redesign it completly.. I'm SOOO not happy with it.. allthough at first it looked nice, special at least, but now annoys the heck out of me... Kind of completly destroys the overall nice lines, dont you think so?
The new small CV is starting to take shape... Extended the airframe a bit to accommodate one of my ultra-small SVs on a landing pad at the rear of the cargo bay. Also tweaked the styling here and there. Still a work in progress.
After dealing with a medical issue for the past month that finally ended up landing me in the ER for 4 days and requiring surgery, I'm feeling well enough to play some Empyrion now. Still not up for working on the scenario just yet, but I have sooooo many ideas for it that I can't wait to get back to work on! So tonight my brother and I continued our exploration of Eden in our survival game. Home sweet home on the Temperate Starter: I let him pilot the ship and choose where to go and look where we ended up: Afraid of melting our hull off, he took us to an Ice planet controlled by Polaris. Parked in the fog: What a view! hah! Exploring in the dark: Dawn on a new world: My brother loved this planet and decided it would be our new home! We also wouldn't get attacked by the Zirax since Polaris owned the Drone Base which was a big plus. I put down the starter base I had sitting in the factory and we logged off for the night, excited to explore the rest of the planet and wipe the Zirax off of it! Hopefully in a week or two I'll be feeling closer to my usual self and can get back to work on the scenario. I'm really excited to get some more planets and some more of the storyline made for it. @Vermillion the new Hailstorm and Icestorm defense POIs scared my brother.
Has someone talked about its ship looks like a BRICK? MeToo# As it is all that I could find/loot it formed up as the Bridge Section for my future CV - ugly es hell Found a Place where I could build up and get Production running Clouds are a reminder of "Home"
