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Party Alarm
May 10, 2012


DOWNLOAD SHIPS AND TEMPLATES AND poo poo HERE: http://starmadedock.net/content/

Since the last thread there has been a lot of optimization, a new UI. and holy poo poo a rail system and reworked turret system!

Eviljimmy said it best:

eviljimmy posted:

Imagine a cross between Minecraft and Eve online that is FREE and AVAILABLE RIGHT THE gently caress NOW. Now clean up the drool in your neckbeard, get a new pack of cheetos and download it from HERE.

:siren: GOONSERVER by Zennik! starmade.analpoundtownandassociates.com:4242 :siren:
:siren: GOONMUMBLE by Zennik! mumble.analpoundtownandassociates.com port 4242 :siren:
Official Wiki: http://starmadepedia.net/wiki/StarMade_Wiki (don't use the other wikis they suck)


If you haven't touched this game in a while, you're probably wondering...

SO WHAT THE gently caress IS NEW?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyxsW_2xmo

A WHOLE BUNCH OF poo poo! Schema's been busy.

We've got:



A new lighting system and improved graphics with bump mapping and poo poo!




Dodecahedral planets! YOU CAN BLOW THEM UP YEAH




gently caress yeah LOGIC BLOCKS! MAKE A CALCULATOR




Spiral galaxies and a sweet rear end galaxy map. YOU CAN TRAVEL TO OTHER GALAXIES ACROSS THE COLD VOID OF SPACCCEEEE




Faction warfare! Claim sectors and poo poo!




Super spergy crafting!




A new weapons system!

Other poo poo: Copy-paste with templates! It OWNS. Also there's a build helper that lets you quickly make a torus, sphere, or ellipsoid. There's FTL travel now too - Warp Gates (station, long range) and Jump Drives (ship, short range)

There's also the NEW GODDAMNED UI and the NEW loving RAIL SYSTEM


The rail system lets you make moving and rotating docked entities and neato turrets. Here are some gifs!





















So what the gently caress do you do in this game?

Build spaceships out of blocks, fly them around, mine / shot mans/ explore, build bigger things. The game is primarily focused around ships - you get a few handheld weapons but there is no progression for your pilot. HERE ARE SOME COOL THINGS YOU CAN DO








Make drone launching carriers!




Make a loving clock!




Make a goddamn Warp Gate




Is that a loving THUNDERDOME?




BLOW poo poo UP

Other poo poo you can do

Build a space-faring Dongeship
Build a Warp Gate network
Trade with other players in a player driven economy
Mine asteroids and craft blocks in factory chains
Explore an infinite procedurally generated universe with the help of a ship mounted jump drive!
Accidentally jump into a sun and kill yourself




Look at these big spergy beauties











Also some duderinos are importing EVE ships


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwL3s721PVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7tc19YgKug

DID I MENTION ITS FREE? (The Steam version says Demo, but it's exactly the same as retail and will be for the duration of the alpha)

Party Alarm fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Aug 8, 2015

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Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Tutorial Stuff:


Rail / Docking / Turret System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFqvTyskmFA

Logic System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQq5wwiJ8k

A bunch more by Bench
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=playlist


How to start maek block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nkGSRlzUM

Party Alarm fucked around with this message at 04:15 on May 22, 2015

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Sounds like you got shanked by a pirate spawn. Are you on SP?

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
We've got one, it's in da OP. Just need bodies!

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
I'm not home so I can't check. Did you authenticate your account or whatever?

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Oh yeah. Sector transitions are a lot smoother and there's been a lot of optimization

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
You should have two filled blueprints.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Restarted the server, seemed fine but couldn't connect. Sorry for any downtime!

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012

Shadowlz posted:

Sooo do I need to be a sperg city sperglord to play this or what? There is no way in hell I could make anything good looking. Last time I played this I made stick ships.

Funny enough cube ships jammed with as many systems / subsystems as possible are the most effective!

Also there's a build helper, and you can download copy/paste templates and poo poo


e: Oh, and you can download ship blueprints from the best spergs, fill them with blocks and spawn them

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012

counterfeitsaint posted:

Do we have spawning rights/a lot of resources, or do you have to using the mining and crafting system on this server? I've been just building space ships in single player, 'cause that's what I do, but I'd love to let your server handle the cpu load be social and play on the multiplayer server instead.


Doubled the overall mining bonus, I might increase it more because mining kinda blows. Probably gonna increase starting resources too - as it stands you spawn with default blocks, a filled Isanth blueprint, and a filled Delorean blueprint.



counterfeitsaint posted:



One thing I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere: is there any way to have more than 10 hotkeys while piloting? Betweens weapon systems, defense systems, and logic systems, 10 really isn't enough.

Not yet but they're working on mulitple hotbars on the dev build.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
I was kind of hoping to make the goonserver a place where we can shoot each other a lot, but it seems like I'd be better off making it creative in nature, and having those who want to shoot pubbies migrate to the Shattered Skies server - usually 20 people+ online there with lots of duders to shoot.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Me, Desideratus, and MisterBobPerson have started a faction on Shattered Skies called Earth's Special Forces. If you want in to shoot pubbies just apply in game and post here with your ign. We'll have industry set up by tonight and should be able to start cranking out ships for you to shotmans with.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Back from camping, hope to get industry finished on that server tonight

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
I just spent WAY too much time setting up a factory station with a control room to toggle production of pretty much every block in the game. Even has wedge/all shapes toggle for armor.


I've got some ideas to wire in a timed shutdown, emergency stop butan complete with red flashy lights in the control room, and possibly some rail powered pistons to make it look fancy when producing things.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Starmade is 50% off on steam if you want to support the devs. It's still free to play (the demo is the full game and you can download it independently of steam too)

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Completely remaking my factory into a new, better version. More efficient production chains for armor, and the following logic features:


Error checking for each production line. Green and red lights above the activators that tell you if you have the required resources. If you're out, the red light activates and the production line is shut down, and cannot begin again until you have the required resources. No waste, and no situations where one production line pulled all your sertise capsules and is just sitting there dick in hand because it doesn't have the other resources.

Smart activation for the capsule refinery so it doesn't waste power when there are no resources to process

Visual indicators (rails, lights ect) when parts of production are active, I'm thinking giant stamping machines for armor, complex machinery for more advanced bits, conveyor belts, and so forth.

A set of indicator lights to tell you want resources you are out of, and what asteroids to mine.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Most servers have mining multipliers set up in the config. Hefty ones. Vanilla settings kinda suck

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Read the post after the OP, I linked some tutorial vids, inc logic and rails

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF0fe6EBMuA

Patch out! HP system!

e: NINE MORE HOTBARS YEAH

Party Alarm fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jun 20, 2015

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Come play on Shattered Skies with us Warpigeon!

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
https://trello.com/b/9Kg5Jn6g/starmade-roadmap

This is a thing now

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
OH MY GOD this owns. Hope its not buggy right now

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Man, the dev team does a pretty good job. Every time I come back to check out the game there's new cool stuff.


There's a cargo system, thrust system, and a bunch of other odds and ends. All the things that annoyed me about resource gathering have been fixed too! You can transfer cargo between entities now, and make teleporters so you dont have to walk from ship to station.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Well, they actually kind of can. Magnetic docking makes it possible - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYdi_waOMSQ

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
You could always put the flight deck rails and elevator rails on rails so you can swap them around and whatnot without needing to move the ship. There's probably some way to make it work.


Also HOLY CRAP they made inventory management (setting up storage pulls) so much easier. Factories don't keep pulling ingredients past what the job requires, and the cargo system is slick.

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Slabs seem pretty interesting as well.

I'm playing on Shattered Skies again. I'll take some time to do a quickstart writeup and whatnot

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012


I've been turning to LEGO for design ideas. I think I'm gonna ape some M-Tron stuff aesthetic wise




I highly reccommend roughing your ships out without wedges and whatnot first I get too burned out if I have to do a shitload of hull detailing before flying the thing. I'm gonna be smoothing this thing out and adding detail / greeble as time goes on. It's a decent upgrade over the newbie ship you get on SS

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
It's already there in the front!


Station progress:





Should be easy to tell where I got the landing pad / platform inspiration from!

Party Alarm
May 10, 2012


Progress! The lower area will contain the respawn area and teleporters. I still have to add a shipyard and factory area.

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Party Alarm
May 10, 2012
Home base + dock on said home base is a good way to do that.


That ship looks like it'll be cool AF HoC. I like the aesthetic style you've got there.

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