Goddamn Kieve. I love that whenever you set yourself to that most wondrous of efforts; crafting a vessel, you do not just make a ship, but a stunning work of art. I am speechless man, simply speechless. Apache is an ugly lump next to Soleil. I am humbled and honored to be joined in the challenge by you. I am also very, very curious about the LXS version. I wanted to go as low as possible, but I am not a crazy person... well... I do not mind working for some iron ingot accumulation if I think the effort is worth it. My comfort zone tends to top out between 10.000 and 15.000. SIX HUNDRED?! I am pleased to only get the one and maybe 5 - 10 for a BP. Good heavens!
I would offer and friendly suggestion to @Friendly Timo for the hangar; I see the truss work, I love good truss work in Hanagars; maybe extend it across the ceiling and form some kind of assembly for a crane or lift. Since you are going for the more terrestrial/Organic feel, you could try to form it into some kind of claw... That is a VERY cool ship. It gave me an idea for how to finally answer Mr. X and his damn Red Baron SV. Do you have Steam link? I do not really need one, but it might be helpful to brainstorm. Those are adorable! I never seem to remember that the personal drones can be used for mining... I forget, is it only the T2 drill or is it also the T1?
To be fair they fired pink lasers at me first. So it seemed fitting and it was also a safety concern after falling off the mountainside base repeatedly. Also cheaper than railings too. And I too look forward to both versions of your CV!
Spent most of my time repairing missing blocks and upgrading a few blocks on the HV SV today. These new metallic blocks make hanging out in my hangar enjoyable for some reason. I spent most of the time there just crafting and repairing. I should repair my CV but I want a new CV. So maybe later. lol
Today I continued to work on Wyvern, and I worked all around the ship. I painted some exteriors. It's really difficult to get pictures of the exterior right now because of shadows. I moved the ship into direct sunlight, but there are still shadows in front. I did some work in the bridge, Captain's Quarters, some hidden maintenance areas, and almost finished the hangar. And to make sure no one gets the wrong impression of this vessel, I made an info sign. @Fractalite I did the truss work (and I get to build much of the internal structure of the ship this time!) and I'll see what I can do that will not create difficult shadows. I don't want to add more lights though.
The originals are in the workshop, but I think I need to delay updating them until the public release catches up to the experimental branch. SV-Wasp-T1 SV-Wasp-T2
THAT is a pleasure cruiser? In fact, that is a cruiser? I was thinking dreadnought. And yeah, I realize now that those are the blocks painted with the truss texture, but the theme should still fit. I have been thinking about the claw aspect though... seems a tad macabre. Hmmmm... well, it is an idea. Maybe a hint of a trolley assembly or something. Or scrap the idea? Either way.
You mean something like in my (still very much WIP) ore refinery? Have seen similar things in custom POI's too.
You are so good at that Rainy! WOW! In this case the truss work are almost like girders, and I was thinking something like have them be part of a railing or rail that an assembly travels along - when I say assembly, I mean a group of blocks shaped into... erm... Let me hunt for it on google.... Something like this: Except upside down and for the hangar. Although, I will add for everyone who just got inspired; your welcome. But this is RIGHT up your alley Rainy. I also hope Starwing does not get TOO intimidated by it; could be fun. No pressure. I have too much to do already, but maybe I can get around to ALSO making a refinery, powerplant, Hangar assembly... someday....
Yeah, that's the reason the refinery is on hold at the moment - not enough time to make all the projects happen...
This past weekend I saw the solution to the 'coasting' problem. In the past we could turn off front thrusters and then coast in space. Recently they have included the Auto Brake on/off, by simply pressing "i". In doing this Eleon has deprived me of several mouse and key operations, and also removed the need to set up a group that has only my forward thrusters. I would express my resentment at this, but instead I will simply say: Brilliant! Thank you. I love the way that we slide sideways in space as inertia carries us along. It feels a great deal more like space flight.
I've left Ningues today on my search to greater adventures, going where no DroneHunter has gone before... Making a Stop at the Trading Station (the System) first. As seeing some Freighter Light Carrier approaching on my way to me I hopped in my MKIII (the MarkV is on the outer landing bays and I didn't wanted to loose time...) going on attack course... oh weia... I had forgotten I had switched all turrets back to auto-attack as I started from Ningues... Suddenly I heared some BUMM BUMM BUMM behind me and me thinking some "oh nice new rocket launcher sounds, really impressive that!!!..." as I've shot a few rockets against it's turrets about the same time... but it kept rumbling even as I stopped shooting.... oh weia... they sieved that ship like a swiss cheese... there was a complete second passage now for any landing Drones... btw.... I haven't seen Drones this time...?? Did they got paralysed from that Thunder?! or what?! Nevertheless I've picked up most of the boxes that were falling off the ship until it had stopped. Without me doing much... oh my.... Then the usual procedere, changing core, disassembling until timers goes down, I think I managed to completely remove all blocks (at least >95%) this time, but it was mostly standard steel anyway (thats why my turrets could demolish it such fast)... Next some visit to the station, hoping to can buy this new fine Pulse Rifle (in Epic - I've had modified some traders to sell sometimes Epics for a good amount of cash).. then... I still don't know where's good to go afterwards... Any advice? Note: a complete Set of Turrets on a relatively small CV can be really devastating to these light carriers... I hope there's a few more harder vessels out there...
@Fractalite and @rainyday I'm not sure why you guys even bother to give me tips--you know I care too much how the kitchen looks
You've been to Akua & Ningues so far? Lava planets (Aitis & Aestus) offer some extra challenge in the form of heavy gravity. Alien Outpost could offer a nice space combat and some interesting mining. Or just chill out at chilly Oscutune Depends on what you look for, really. There's many planets still that I haven't properly visited. Skillon, Zeyhines, Aestus, Masperon...
I've cleaned Akua, Omicron, Skillon and Ningues. Skillon is nice, but go only with appropriate armor, its radioactive fog there... and some hot places too ;-) So Aestus or Aitis (should be both Lava) then? Good!
Working like crazy on the new ship - now I know why. You cant wait to get to the kitchen and decorate it
hm... have I found a bug?? I approached the Trading station, finding another Station there "Orbital Station" launching multiple Drones. Okay, I see, all the Drones from the Carrier were on vacation there.... Good. I approached in fire range with my BASE STAR, doing a bit Coop - now I wanted to test how good these turrets really are - but me hopping again in my MKIII... Oh my... these poor little Drones... that was a short fight... But the Turrets of the Station? What's that? Their mostly aiming at my CV but it's out of range... completely ignoring me??? Is this a Bug??
Ok both of these are up ....NOT finished yet still need a texture, paint, and final what did I forget...... Reaver CV sometime in the next couple of days...that idea is still cooking
So spent the last week or so bumbling about getting stuff upto date in creative. and putting the final touch's to probably the biggest CV I've ever tried to build. It's just a shame its to big to spawn on any of the servers I usually join XD
Working on a base that isn't a hole lined with concrete blocks. It's slow going. Edit, I discovered something interesting in the build system.
