Yeah, I thought it was common practice but apparently not. Feel free to try it out. Hanging from the cockpit gives you free access all around the vehicle. It's actually Hangar A but its okay Oh, yes! I built my first two vehicles in creative but everything since then I've been building in survival. Just much more fun like you said, you can bounce between projects, do something else if you get bored, go shoot something etc. And for me part of the fun is to build suitable facilities for building too. Yeah I will probably dock my fighters that way. I can recommend it to building too. Too bad you cant do it in a base
It's especially handy when building HVs. I just build a cheap CV that's essentially a flat base with a "crane"(ie line of blocks going up, over, and down a bit) and anchor stuff to it when I want to work on the underside.
Today, I was doing trial and error for SV. Dear SV-PrefabTier1. Add ECSs, generator, cargoboxes, and weapons, moved frige and o2-tank, enhanced to hard-armor and thrusters, changed cockpit. But from time I first played EGS, I was always with you. You are good compact, good style, and good operability. I love you. Besides, I made this. This is minimalism cube SV. Useful to going around minerals, and make high-height building. Small, lowcost and quickly! I also imitated it. Thx!
So, it feels like we've had a bit of dry patch, nothing's really felt right and the ideas have not been forthcoming. So I bullied the Master Builder into trying out something...... different. very WIP but it'll be a civilian-ish long range science vessel with a very geek, if somewhat twisted reference Spoiler: This is up? going to be.... interesting
I woke up in the middle of the night last night and couldn't back to sleep so I started working on the piece someone had commissioned and knocked it out of the park. Yay for insomnia? Grizzly tank from Battlezone
I totally know how that feels. That's when Inspiration can be especially needed. For the Topic: I've tried to resume work on my not-even-halfway-done CV Build started before 5.1 & in this now Post-5.1 Era it's jumped to Size Class 10 now & I dunno if i'll be able to even use it on the WASD Games Server play it's intended for, especially cause i'm still hoping Mr. Fun will get well soon from some recent health trouble that sent him to the Hospital so I currently have no clue how he's gonna adapt the Server to the new Build Size Class Criteria. (Or if this New Criteria will be tweaked in future Patches...) Anyway, Post-5.1 I can't get much done on the CV Build work before Empyrion either Crashes to Desktop or Freezes & makes me Emergency Task Manager close it. I've sent several Logs to the Empyrion Support E-Mail & pray for fixes. (So I can resume build on a CV that I might not even get to use on the Server thus I might be wasting my time even continuing build on... >_< )
Well, being a newb and all my first video went thru a few edits. Then end result which you saw was snipped till the action started and then ran at 2x speed. All done with youtube free editing software.
It looks like maybe an Event is on the Horizon. So what did I do today. I worked on that HV tank a little more. Came up with an alternate texture scheme and uploaded that. Then I updated the Ogre Mining Hulk for 5.1. I also updated the interior while I was at it so I can cross that project off the list. And a shot of the mining outpost which is still waiting for me to finish texture and paint. I keep working on it here and there adding little bits. Spoiler
I downloaded OBS and recorded my game... 4 hours later I have something but I now need to figure out how to upload it. I unloaded my autominers and refueled. Then I made some combat armor blocks and beefed my ship up, headed to omi 2 moon. I was lookin for a RIF base to destroy but I heard rumors of it being barren again. I wanted to find out for sure. I was fully ready to blow up a base. Unfortunately I saw a new player and sort of blew him up. I felt terrible so I took his stuff salvaged his ship and flew over to a motorbike. I accidently killed ANOTHER new player that was probably his buddy so felt even worse. I spawned in a SV T1 to replace his original that was blown in half and set it to public. I feel so bad dangit. I need to get in there and give a few people some T1 CVs. I greatly dislike where the official server is going so cut throat so I am hoping to friendly it up a little bit.
After auto mining considerable amounts of ore on Aitis, I finally managed to locate the drone base only to find that the only way to take it cleanly was to undermine the thing. I looted some goodies, including an epic weapon and that finished the elements of my quest on Aitis. On to Masperon. Here's my Masperon house Lookin' in I can't decide whether I like it or not. I think that I need to reduce the boxiness of it. Anyway, it's sort of appropriate to the landscape and that's my main objective. I've now built bases on Akua (My starting planet) , Ningues, Skillon, and Masperon without having to return to any of them. The bases all have defenses, farms with 27 or more plots, and full equipment. I took out the drone base on each planet to ensure that my stuff will be there should I return. My primary goal is to have a working base on every planet without having to return to any of them to accomplish that.
YouTube has free Editing Software!? You blew up that first peep... then your guilt compelled you to take his stuff & his Ship Parts... that's a very strange form of guilt... That's a mighty interesting House Aesthetic... ya might benefit from advice for it from @LiftPizzas & his great expertise at such Aesthetic Builds.
I don't know if we are suppposed to feature other ppls. work, but i have stumbled upon an ingenious design: zertalis Exo-Frame CV #1 Spoiler: Images It is almost exactly the design what i have been looking for. Also, it's quite original and pretty nice to look at IMHO. ( very much like the unsymetric and yet symetric design, very cool imo.) Additionally, it is uncomplicated, no unneccessary nonsense (greebles, ugh i hate them). Inside it is very easy to find things and it is very spaceous too. The only thing about is, i could kick myself for not coming up with something like this myself. You can find it here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=844236652 Ahh, yes i did a non Star Trek related home base/explorer type ship: Now i only have to make some decent interiors for it...
I found (as others may already have) a way into the Abandoned Mine + Epic weapon at level 3. You drill down on the back and using CoreAssist you can shut down the whole base using 200 Biofuel (As tested with Starter drill...video shows T2 drill), ~150 30mm bullets to break the Core and a few ingots for CoreAssist blueprint. If you drill down on the left or right side (as seen from the front of the Mine) you can just bust in with 50 .50 Cal bullets (to knock out the Alien wall block) and take the Epic weapon out of the ultra rare pod. A cheap robbery I think! [EDIT] Found this! All kinds of awesome P.U.P.s
I learned that by using the chainsaw you gain more XP for killing things! Ok, it's only slightly more, but it's still fun to live out your Galactic Chainsaw Massacre dreams.
Don't see why not, I have mentioned the Planetary Dock multiple times. Looks great, and I feel your pain on the interior. I always have issues with the fluff pieces. (Does not help that I'm color-blind). As for what I did today, I added a warp drive to my CV Mobile Spawn Point. iamyeti had added it to his collection of Compact CVs and it did not meet the rules he set for the group (no warp drive). Guess he did not catch that, so now you know the reason for the second mobile spawn point. I was able to keep it operational using only one small generator. It will yellow the generator during atmospheric flight, but it does not redline it. I had a second project inspired by Alwayssleepy, see if you can spot it. "Empyrion Chainsaw Massacre", I can see the YouTube video now...
Thats one thing I have yet to do... Work with wood. Up until recently i was far too concerned about the drones blowing it up... But since all you need is a cannon turret and limited 30mm rounds, its no big deal. Time to build my first wood house
