Leaving a unrelated note here. I have not forgotten about this month’s PS+ games for the PS4. Ohmrygud.. please stop emailing me about it! I know! I will get to them this month, I promise! Now get off my back!!
Sorry about that, folks. I’m having to deal with the masses. Anyway, today… is when I finally get my first taste of Multiplayer in Space Engineers. And I’m sure it’s going to be a taste that will force me to get to the bathroom and throw up. Now it’s not a public dedicated server I’ll be joining, but either my own or ‘his’ (hasn’t been decided yet).
Who is “his” you ask? ‘Adm. zalex’ is his name on Steam. Some time ago, I saw his work in a screenshot while trying to find a ship with a shuttle bay, and I did my best to copy it as much as I could.
I friended him, as I wanted him to throw it on the Steam Workshop so I could check it out closer. Got to be able to do so.
Now.. I need his help. Remember when I mentioned how I lost my updates to the SS Benie (my large ship)? Basically what happened, I used Space Engineers Toolkit to bring my ship over to me (as I didn’t know where it was). I also deleted a bunch of objects that were listed as “Floating…”
I think by doing this, caused the map to corrupt itself. What was weird, it removed the map from my list yet kept saying “Yo, I’m still corrupted!” I used the log to pinpoint the corrupted save and deleted it. And the message is gone.
Sadly, I barely remember any of the changes I made to the ship.. it’s been that long, and I’m kind of angered at myself for not doing a blueprint back then. It did teach me a lesson to do more blueprints.
As I said, I need his help. I want to make the ship un-ugly, and I don’t know where to start. All he told me is that dreaded ‘T’ word. No, not “Tornado”. Not “Terrorist”. And not even “Trump”(even though he is a threat).
The word… is “try”. Ugh. He said to look at ships on the workshop, even though I had already told him I tried this and had no ideas; only seeing the complexity and “god I wish I could build like that!”
So he said sometime today, he would message me about how we’re going to go about doing this. He’s currently Away at the time of this post.
I just hope he can help me un-ugly my ship (or at least revive the creative side of my brain that has been dead since Gmod). I even have a list of all the things I want in it (but again.. no idea on how to implement). Though I also feel this is going to be a serious waste of my time, as he’ll say “all I can tell you is to look around”. Not sure how the word ‘helpful’ would play into that.
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EDIT: Half an hour passed. I asked him who will be hosting the server. Said he will. Had a bit of an issue trying to find his server (this is my first time, don’t judge me). But I finally found his “Server fun” server and quickly joined. I was shocked how quickly I got in. Amazing, compared to taking 5 minutes to load the game. The reason is because I’m not using my mods on his end (the mods he uses, stay on the server).
I discovered that I can paste my ship in. The thing is, if it doesn’t have the same mods he’s using, it won’t display properly. About 1% of the ship was kind of ruined due to the missing thrusters.
I asked him if he could de-ugly it, and he started building a ship near mine. I then told him I had a list of all the things I wanted, and posted it in the chat (hoping he’ll read it). Yet he never acknowledged. He did mention how he was confused of what I mean by wanting an ‘elevated bridge’.
I should had made what I was talking about, but for some reason… that thought never came to my mind. Plus, I did like what he was doing with the bridge he was building. The glass placement was good.
Thing is, as he continued to build the rest of the ship, I started to not like it. The first thing I didn’t like, was how low the ceiling was. He said how he made it to “look fast and sleek”. Also, none of my real requests were being made.
He did make a hanger bay… somewhat. It was similar to an idea I had (with the airtight door on the bottom). But with barely little room to get my rover and small ship in, I questioned how I was going to get them in.
He said to put one in, or “put them on the roof”…. seriously? Put them on the roof? The purpose of a hanger bay is to have it large enough for a small ship to be in!
He did have an issue, when he said he was going to try to fly it to see how the thrusters work. See, he created the ship as a station. That’s pretty clever, because by doing so, the ‘ship’ won’t move. Also, you can switch it from a ship to a station and back again, at anytime (as the large grid blocks are for both things).
His issue is he couldn’t get it converted into a ship. So he and his brother (named “zx98”) tried everything they could think of. Finally they got it. It was basically that annoying as hell faction system where everything must be set to ‘Me’ as ownership. Seriously, Keen… fix it to where when you build things, they’ll all be set to ‘Me’ in ownership automatically…
So he flew around this small’ish large ship around. Was pretty good.. still not what I was looking for. I even tried to remind him of the list I sent him. He said something about how it’s ‘short range’ or something like that. I just stared at him like “.. Seriously? This isn’t what I asked!”
He then says how things like a Captain’s Quarters really have no purpose in Space Engineers (right now), and he never built them. Obviously, he favors function over cosmetic. So I think “alright… fine. I guess I’m going to have to do it myself”. I’m looking at the bridge he made, thinking “this shouldn’t be too hard to do”. And then something just said “meh, fuck it”.
Then he said he had to do a restart of the server to add a few mods he forgot. I actually had to quit the server instead of it kicking me out for a change.
While I waited for him to get his server back on, he mentions the requests I made, of how “ill use them for a much larger ship’. Yet he never responded to my requests (I never bugged him about it) of when he’ll do it.
He added these heavy landing gears which can extend. Then he starts swearing at Keen for ruining pistons and “having to completely rebuild the landing system”. I had no idea what he was talking about. Discovered later that he made these strange stop blocks on the bottom to act like landing gears.
Overall, it’s a nice ship. Just… isn’t everything I want it. Plus, the main airlock I wanted, he put it on the ass of the ship. So you literally have to get into the ship’s ass to get in and out. That’s just.. wrong in so many levels. This isn’t a ‘small ship gone wild’. He should had put it on the side.
Though I did like the choice he made for the doors. It’s this new modded airlock door that slides open (and lets in/out air depending on where of the ship you are).
Speaking of air, he added oxygen and piping.. in a rather crude way. Exposed pipes everywhere. His brother is no better, having exposed pipes in his station.
With this, he’s all “alright, I’m done. You can paint it and I’ll upload it to the Workshop for you”. I’m thinking “wait.. paint it? I never painted my ships before”. Honestly, I never have. I usually just keep them that color.
After that, he was playing around with the ship by flying it around (and having fun with his brother by messing with his station). And I got to see why it’s important to be seated when a ship in Multiplayer is moving. Because I’ll go flying and bouncing over everything.
Speaking of his brother, he looked at my hilariously bad attempt at doing a ship and said how “this looks like one of my early builds”. -_-
He told me that he has zalax (his brother) do the ships for him, and also said how he’s better at doing stations. Checked out his station while zalax was working on that ship. Noticed he started with a really large hanger bay. And the style… shockingly looks like mine. He even made corridors that looked like mine.
I did notice him using merge blocks for the airlocks, and told him that I tried this with my station and it destroyed my ship. He said that any block connected to the sides of a merge block will attach, and to have them outward instead of being built inside the hull.
It looks tacky, but it would definitely work.
Soon he (Adm. zalax) reached a point he had to shut down the server due to having issues, and he uploaded the ship he made for me as ‘Benie Corvette Mk1’ on the workshop. I then finally asked him about this larger ship, and he said he’ll do it later; how he has homework to do. Then says “cya in a bit i hope”.
As far as I know, he never did. And the day after, he was too busy to do it.
But that’s all. It wasn’t as bad as I thought. Didn’t have that many issues. Though I am concerned on how busy his life his. I don’t like him being the only option I have that can build ships in SE. I need to find someone else who has more free time (yet is also nice).
I’m trying to get Tulsi into buying it. I’m hoping he’ll get good enough to where he can actually help me. Though I feel he’ll be at my level of building skill.. if not worse. And knowing Tulsi, he’s probably going to run around with a grinder and grind parts of my ship away because he’s “bored”, instead of thinking of something to build. Not to mention going AFK at random times.