I've been stockpiling resources on my current Arid. I really should have grabbed more Pentaxid from the starter area as there's only small deposits around here which only contain a handful of raw Pentaxid. Much harvesting of surface nodes has been done. I decided to run the Abandoned Depot and found the below The fresh depot was below ground with part of another above it. I figured what could go wrong so I ran it. Afterwards when I was looting everything I dug out the area around the above ground part and found portions of a 3rd Abandoned POI. The name escapes me atm but it's the one with alien nests in grow light pods. Much good loot was had. So far my experience in MP has been really buggy. POIs don't populate correctly and there's just generally a lot of lag. Lag that causes your hover engines to turn off or your weapons not to fire immediately. Plus I have to keep relogging because my vessels keep disappearing. I know I've seen some issues when I watch let's plays but generally it's not this pronounced. Is this what I can expect normally?
I have had different experiences in MP. On one occasion it was a buggy, buggy terrain placeable sludge. But then in another, it was quite good and I had a lot of fun building with Xcaliber and Jrandal. So, I think it really depends on the server and other technical specifications of the setup. In general, make sure to occupy servers on your same continent or same hemisphere first. That should help.
It really depends on the server. The ones I've played on have been excellent. And while issues do happen, it was mostly fine.
@Fractalite @ravien_ff I'm playing on the Official Empyrion US server which I think is in Germany? My ping seems to be ok. Around mid 30s. Is there another "good" Vanilla server I should be playing on? I spent most of the day yesterday salvaging an Abandoned Bunker I cleared. Loot wasn't quite as good container wise. No matrices or bridges I didn't have a salvager so I ended up utilizing Khazul's HS3 which made somewhat short work of the place. So many twists and turns in this POI. It sort of folds in on itself. A few areas you can't reach without salvaging as well. Kudos to the author. HS3 - Salvager https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2131520869 I'm considering running the last POI on this planet. It's an Abandoned Archaeological Site. Never run one so I'm uncertain if it's worth the effort. It's sort of amazing that I've played the game quite a bit but the majority of the time I'm repeating the same POIs over and over. I wish there was a way to ensure you got a better mix and not so many duplicates.
I've only played on servers running my scenario, but I played on a private one my brother hosted for us, and on Spanj's server which requires a subscription to play on. Both I had very few issues, no problems with latency and such. But multiplayer bugs will still happen but that's what admins are for. Xcalibur's server also seems good but I haven't played on it. It's free but you have to interact and become part of their community before you get whitelisted. There's some great servers out there with good admin teams. They really try to make their servers work well and be fun to play on. I'd check the multiplayer section or maybe ask on discord especially if you're looking for vanilla only servers.
Not much to say about what I did in the last weeks... Besides of testing upcoming changes. As I am not a Tester who picks moments but starts new Games to walk it through step by step I took also my time to build myself a little Starter Base. Just a Start until I could collect enough Material for the (BA) Outpost
@Germanicus That's really simple/effective but stylish. I've been exploring the map and collecting the rarer resources for my T4 CV. Also ran the Abandoned Bunker a couple of times. Experienced my docked vessels undocking and flying across the map a few times. Once I had to get them out of the ocean. Picture below is me on my hoverbike looking for my SV which explosively undocked from my base...
---de--- What did you do in Empyrion today? Wegplatzen! Heute war ein "update" und "copy/paste" von Kisten samt Inhalt funktioniert immer noch nicht. Soll das so bleiben? Googeln und auch hier drin die Suchfunktion verweist mich auf keinen brauchbaren Artikel. Die Lust POIs zu bauen ist mir vorerst vergangen. Momentan fühle ich mich der hier Link im englischen Text Das Teil werde ich somit so in den"workshop" werfen, ohne es vorher als POI zu testen. ---eng--- What did you do in Empyrion today? Burst away! Today was an "update" and "copy / paste" of boxes and their contents still doesn't work. Should it stay that way? Googling and also the search function in here does not point me to any useful article. The desire to build POIs has passed me for the time being. Right now I feel like the one here So I'll throw the part into the "workshop" without testing it as a POI beforehand.
I found this beautiful little desert planet. I almost built a base there but it had no water and was low in resources. Even so, those perfect mountains were too much eye candy.
Indeed there was. I found me a couple of small pools there. The distance to the sun was considerable and the base wouldn't provide too much solar power. But I think I changed my mind and I'll build a small headquarter there. Har har.
I'm working on a new modular "starter" CV for the update. Trying to see if I can keep it at T2. The nacelles and center section are basically complete. Nacelles are spaced to add Large thrusters and each cargo container is actually a docked CV with 320k+ cargo and an Advanced Constructor. I blocked out space for the front and rear but I think most is going to be trimmed down. Still a lot of work to do. Also found someone did something I didn't know was possible. They built on an asteroid.
New CV is turning out nicely but as usual with my attempts ended up way too large. It's basically the same size as the T4 CV I did a bit ago only with the middle section being mostly skeletal. I am happier with the Nacelles on this CV though. Need to decide what to do with the rear and the transition of the bridge with the main body. Kind of stumped at the moment.
My new CV is mostly final. Just doing the fine tuning and detailing now. As always it's way bigger/heavier than I would have liked and I'm trying to still see if I can work in a docking tube entry and pedestrian ramp. I wanted to add an LCD to spruce up the shield generator and I seem to recall someone had a build on the workshop where they put rings around one but I can't recall the author or the build. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
extensive re-modelling of the main hall of the base. new glass roof and some additional walls to support it:
My eyesight must be failing ... I suddenly became dyslexic :-/. Not sure if this is a bug or just some obscure setting that I somehow messed up. However, it looks like the block texturing might have become reversed / flipped somehow. Hmmmmm ...
@Rex Shorman Did you have it set for texturing the whole block? That sometimes does weird things to the side of the block facing you. Due to my recent experience of being unable to get an EVA boost early game I've been working on a T1 SV with an enclosed cabin while taking a break from the work on my CV. I think for the most part it's turning out ok. I've got plenty of space for upgrades and the performance is pretty good. I just can't get the rear thruster assembly in a configuration that I find pleasing.
