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Neddy Seagoon posted:Why are you relying on Connectors are your primary means of joining them? Merge blocks are what will keep the ship together as a single grid. I hope you intended "Connectors as" and not "Connectors are". Mr. Powers posted:I guess I'm still confused. There's a projector in the vehicle that projects the modules and that lines the connector on the vehicle up with the module, and there are also merge blocks. So, the merge block keeps them connected until built then you can engage the connector? The connector is to transfer resources to the other section. The merge block makes both grids one so it's easier to control whatever's on the other side.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Why are you relying on Connectors are your primary means of joining them? Merge blocks are what will keep the ship together as a single grid. There are no small grid merge blocks on this server. I'm giving up for another year or so, anyway. Had built a large grid ship with all the basics to go find another home outside of the gravity well of the planet (my first home was under 0.56 m/s/s of gravity), plopped it down, built a platform, and when I released the landing gear the whole thing blew up. I'm not a big fan of SP or creative, so I'll wait until MP is better again. E: it's worlds better than when I last played which was almost a year ago, maybe two years.
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Speaking of Multiplayer, we've got a Major patch this week with the new Server Browserquote:Summary The Teaser's interesting this week; Wind turbines. Wonder if they're working up to weather in-general on planets.
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Something that was happening to me a lot was asteroids disappearing. I don't remember that being an issue when I played a while back but this time it was pretty frequent, to the point that I had to place enough waypoints to be able to navigate in without seeing the walls at all.
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Jesus loving Christ, are they ever going to get to an actual stable 1.0 release with this loving game? According to Wikipedia this went into beta in 2013, that was 4 loving years ago. Of course I also paid for Miner Wars when Miner Wars was sold as the game Space Engineers actually was, then was thrown away, so I have only myself to blame. Ok, that's harsh, I got more than my money's worth from the game but I'd like to be able to get back into it without new poo poo breaking every week or month and I tried that a few months ago and things did not end well.
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RandomBlue posted:Jesus loving Christ, are they ever going to get to an actual stable 1.0 release with this loving game? According to Wikipedia this went into beta in 2013, that was 4 loving years ago. Of course I also paid for Miner Wars when Miner Wars was sold as the game Space Engineers actually was, then was thrown away, so I have only myself to blame. A bit off topic and much bigger scale, but minecraft has been in continuous development for at least 8 years now, 6 of which is after its official release. I suppose the two can't really be compared that way, but ... And Factorio was also officially released a while ago but is still in continuous development and improvement. I do get what you're saying though, both of the games I just mentioned have had official 1.0 releases and are quite stable. Just curious, how many hours have you sunk into SE? I have a bit over 600... back when I was addicted to it, I was putting 16 hours a day into it when I could. Considering it's a $25 game, that's about 4 cents an hour. 250 hours in Factorio for 8 cents an hour and modded minecraft... ehh, rather not think about it. thousands of hours for fractions of a penny per hour.
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Apr 14, 2017 09:45
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Do people actually PLAY medieval? It never really seems like it.
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I want to play medieval, but it seems there's literally nothing at all to do in that game? I'd really like to build stupid minecraft sort of stuff and minecart rides, but with actual physics, but it doesn't seem the content is there at all? Castle building is really well done though.
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Both games seem most hindered by the absence of enemy AI. If there was some sort of opposing force in the game then all of the engineering work would have more meaning.
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I don't mind there being no opfor, seeing how I disable or cripple them with settings even when they're as simple as in minecraft. They just get in the way of building stuff. What I mean is, there appears to be no interesting blocks to play with. Minecraft and space engineers have all sorts of fun machinery you can build with just in the base game, and mods add a shitton more. ME appears to have neither.
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I played medieval for a while with some friends from another community, on a random public server, and it was actually pretty good. As long as other people are chill about not smashing your poo poo while you're offline it's pretty fun to try to figure out how to siege stuff/defend from sieges. With the ropes and stuff there's a fair amount of actual engineering to do, too. Last time I played people were working on building a gondola-thing to haul wood from the bottom of a hill to the castle on top of the hill.
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I haven't played ME because of the apparent lack of content but its focus on physics and micro scale blocks would seem to make it ripe for introducing rudimentary industrial engineering as a mechanic.
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Sadface that welding causes crashes on dedicated servers at the moment.
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Welding any turret to about 70% caused a crash. The latest hotfix fixed it. But elite tools are apparently broked? There's a temp mod that fixes elite tools; http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=905138840
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It never ceases to amaze, the variety and quantity of bugs that Keen introduce with every patch.
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It feels like welder radius is screwy again, too. It boggles my mind how a Welder attached to a station can't weld a block that's 3 small grid blocks deep on a ship. Like, there's a single stupid timer block in the "middle" of my ship (3 blocks deep) and if I fly the belly of the ship right on top of the welder, it simply can't reach far enough. Bad design on my part, I know, but it really feels silly.
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My favorite welder bug is where it locks your ship to the thing you're welding and you have to get out and unpark and repark the ship being welded despite the fact that your welder ship is nowhere near the landing gear and not in range of them at all. Technically that's probably more of a landing gear bug but I've only ever had that happen while welding with a welder ship.
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XkyRauh posted:It feels like welder radius is screwy again, too. It boggles my mind how a Welder attached to a station can't weld a block that's 3 small grid blocks deep on a ship. Like, there's a single stupid timer block in the "middle" of my ship (3 blocks deep) and if I fly the belly of the ship right on top of the welder, it simply can't reach far enough. Bad design on Keen's part, really. A large grid welder should IMO be able to reach at least 2 large grid blocks deep, which corresponds to at least 6 small. If it's not that big, then that's what mods are for, to make the game playable.
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RandomBlue posted:My favorite welder bug is where it locks your ship to the thing you're welding and you have to get out and unpark and repark the ship being welded despite the fact that your welder ship is nowhere near the landing gear and not in range of them at all. Technically that's probably more of a landing gear bug but I've only ever had that happen while welding with a welder ship. gently caress is that still around? Or come back?
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poo poo like this is why that map I was planning on is on hold. I want to play SE, but the bugs, man, the bugs
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I think I just may have finally gone Too Far. I took a break from my Eagle multipod... and built a Starfighter-portable sniping artillery Gravity-Propelled Cannon. It fires explosive-tipped armor rounds that actually do okay damage to Heavy armor.  It self-reloads from containers via Twin Welder and blueprint (I actually need to still test if the Welder's reach is far enough to build the whole Shell though...).  It does pretty good damage to Large Block Heavy Armor. And while the Hawk also has Little David cannons available, this sucker has no limit on how far it can fire. A single cannon pack might not do much, but bring some friends in their own GPC-equipped fighters and you can probably have some fun ruining someone's day from a VERY long way off.
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Drake_263 posted:poo poo like this is why that map I was planning on is on hold. I want to play SE, but the bugs, man, the bugs Same. Every now and then I think about reinstalling to recreate some of the chill times I had listening to ambient music and welding together a mobile base in a blue skybox but then I read that landing gear and welders are still hosed and I lose interest.
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Has anyone else run into the bug where a ship gets rubberbanded with a station after undocking or decoupling? I lost a small ship last week when this happened---applying thrusters in any direction (even without stabilizers) would give me a small reported speed (but well short of the limit), except i wouldn't actually change velocity and the speed would be damped back down after i stopped thrust. In that case, my small ship has a tiny constant speed that i couldn't change no matter what i did, so it just drifted away. Yesterday, after undocking a large mining ship the same thing happened (except it wasnt drifting). I could still jump around, but always end up rubberbanded to my jump location. A server reboot fixed it, but I'm wondering if there's something else I could have done...
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That sounds like the bug that was happening with batteries. Basically, your client is de-syncing with the server, and the server thinks you're docked/connected while your client thinks you're not. So on your client, you gun the thrusters and try to launch, and the ship sort of twitches and rubberbands back. Usually logging out & reconnecting to the server will resolve the issue.
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XkyRauh posted:That sounds like the bug that was happening with batteries. Basically, your client is de-syncing with the server, and the server thinks you're docked/connected while your client thinks you're not. So on your client, you gun the thrusters and try to launch, and the ship sort of twitches and rubberbands back. Another fun bug was the anti-gravity bug that would cause your ship to float out into space if you'd been parked on a planet directly. So you'd log in for a fun session of SE, go jump in your ship to do some stuff and the server crashes or you get kicked off because you're playing SE and when you finally get back in your ship has floated 5000KM away and you never see or hear from it again until the server admin asks why you're abandoning some large grid in the middle of nowhere. Oh yeah, also the super-awesome bug where you can destroy an entire server by having a grid with lots of storage room and accidentally leaving a factory on auto-repeat building unstackable items so that the grid has thousands of that item in it and anyone that gets within a certain range of the grid brings everything to a halt while the server continually transmits the state of that grid's inventory. Not that I've ever done that because that's stupid.  I did post a thread on the official forums about that because at the time there was no way to prevent the issue and could be pretty easy way fro someone to grief a server. Really hope they fixed that. RandomBlue fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Speaking of bugs...quote:Hello, Engineers! This week’s update is a minor release that contains some smaller improvements as the team starts work towards the next major release once again. You should notice that because the last update was major, we created the ability to rollback to the most updated version of the previous major update 1.179 via the BETAS tab in Steam. The preview this week is for a 1x1x1 Basic Assembler block. They're also apparently working on rendering and LOD to make denser foliage and general FPS improvements.
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See the space elevator in the video? Someone commented that if there's any damage to something that big the game instantly hits 16+ gb and crashes.
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Spookydonut posted:See the space elevator in the video? Someone commented that if there's any damage to something that big the game instantly hits 16+ gb and crashes. That sounds about right, because something that big has a shitload to render in motion. Nevermind calculating physics. To be fair though, if the developers are actively playing with it themselves it probably makes for good LOD/rendering debugging.
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Holy poo poo, we actually got Hotfix notes for once;quote:Hotfix 4/21/2017  Also a self-contained Gravity-Propelled Cannon module to stick in your own small-block ships. Just remember to aim it away from your face, I don't wanna get sued.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Holy poo poo, we actually got Hotfix notes for once; New problem, opening doors crashes the server and wipes your hard drive. Also, pressurization kills your entire family IRL.
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RandomBlue posted:New problem, opening doors crashes the server and wipes your hard drive. Also, pressurization kills your entire family IRL. Should only take a month or two for them to fix it. And then reintroduce six months later.
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So I made a progression system thing involving unlocking blocks and such: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=911076611 And also this very important google-doc explaining everything: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i-4zYwghJAWnMk_JtYwVxBvoDITd6hGdvIWWqWfEYL8/pubhtml If you don't like the idea of unlocking stuff, you can ignore it because there's actually no code for it. I can't code. But there's a ton of custom made pirate bases on all the default planets and moons to visit and destroy. Including a giant flying one that starts flying when you get within 10km of it. It's also gets very difficult as you progress. Lots of drone antennas and tons of turrets and whatnot. Ass_Burgerer fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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Ass_Burgerer posted:So I made a progression system thing involving unlocking blocks and such: That's pretty awesome  . I'm a bit iffy on the Earthbreaker Drill personally, as it's pretty fragile.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:That's pretty awesome Is it? It seemed fine to me back when I used it. It was either that or the mexplex mega drill. I chose the earthbreaker on its required mats being the way it is. I could replace it with the mexplex one easily. It's only featured on one base. Not really a super required mod anyway.
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Turrets are bugged. They're randomly targeting my own blocks (checked ownership and unchecked target neutrals and everything). Some of my turrets just randomly attack whatever random block looks at them funny.
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I think I poked my head in here like a year ago to ask how people liked this game - glad to see this is still going. For $7.50 I'm probably gonna pick this up on Steam but uh... what do you all think the over/under is on actually making it to release? (Also has anybody written a "How to get Started" / "Known Issues to Watch Out For" post in the last 100 pages) Ghost of Starman fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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