TheSpaceEngineer @ TheSpaceEngineer @lemmy.zip

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Fair enough! I put the cdkey information out there for those that can't afford the full $15 price tag. It's been a hard year for a lot of people, so I always try to be sensitive to that. I think I paid $10 back in the beta myself.

I just wrote some detail on this into another reply here, but suffice it to say that the game with mods these days is nothing like the original game.

Out of the hundreds of games I've played, I've never seen a community put so much effort into modding a game. It's turned a game that held my groups attention for 2-3 weeks into a half a year endeavor.

Oh, and the game is only $5-6 if you get a cd key! Be careful when using these services, but I've yet to be ripped off after buying dozens of games this way.

https://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/en-us/buy-starbound-cd-key-compare-prices/
(this is an aggregate, I have used Kinguin with success which is on this list at $6 right now.)

I'll tell you, the original game is just okay. It's kind of fun, but it never really drew me in... The big wildcard here is the mod scene. Mods like Frackin' Universe (which we are running) turn a game that holds most people's attention for a few hours into a game that's highly addictive, which tends to span for months on end.

Our last season was expected to run for a few weeks (that's how long we lasted with the non-modded server). Instead, it ran something like 4-5 months. And most of us put hundreds of hours into it.

So, if you check it out, be sure to check out mods like Frackin' Universe along with the core game. I don't think it's inaccurate to say that Frackin alone adds many times more content than the original game serves up.

It's the perfect game for Lemmy in that respect. It's all about free contributions (mods) from the community. They basically saw potential in a base game, and decided to create hundreds of hours of content for the entire community to enjoy. Very inspiring stuff in a somewhat darkening time in human history.

Hopefully this doesn't count as excessive self-promotion. This is actually largely a very single-player oriented game, and as such we don't need additional players to enjoy it by any means... this said, I thought it would be really neat to connect with other Lemmy folks and bond over Starbound!

Our group primarily uses Discord to communicate (I know, it's a terrible platform, but it's really hard to replace when you're trying to keep gamers connected to one another). It's a very active discord - we chat every single day with one another in it. It's been a hot minute since we've advertised a new server, what with the country and the world being so chaotic and negative lately... but I believe distractions like Starbound can be really important!

I hope a few folks check us out. It's a great group of people, and we enjoy some really fun games together on a regular basis.

I was excited to try this, but I typically play multiplayer, and weaponscore is blocking it haha. I guess there may be an issue with it.

Assemblers are easily one of the most temperamental things in the game. Typically, problems arise because they are full, but in this case it's entirely possible something else is going on. If you have any interest, PM me and I can get you into a Discord group I'm part of that's full of folks who can help you troubleshoot! We're very patient, and we like to help folks out. Like, you can hop into a voice chat with us, share your screen, and we'll get you straightened out really quickly.

That invitation to open to anyone, too, even if you just want a place to chat about SE. It's a private community, but it's full of great people.

Here are the names, and their links in the Workshop!

Octave (best purple alien planet ever) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2151052687

Zerior (ice planet with rings and crazy atmosphere) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812528051

Ravcor (volcanis) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2328266874

Planet Pyke (deep orange volcanic world) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3028738424\

Teralis - City Planet https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2195637331

Hah! That's a really good point. Honestly, I'm most excited for the decorative blocks that help make living quarters look cooler. It's all about greebling, that's the true end game of SE!

PixelFed Gallery

If anyone has a better, more integrated solution to sharing multiple pictures at once here on Lemmy, I'd love to learn about it! This works, but you do have to go through the extra step of visiting another website (at least, on desktop you do). I feel like there must be a better way than this?

Edit: You know what, I'm just going to put them right here above my comment for now!

If you like PAM, you may also enjoy taking a look at SCAM! It has a crazy cool, fully visual and interactive, in-game interface. You can control multiple drones with it to mine out asteroids.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2572154209

I've never attempted this before, so I'm not sure how helpful I'll be, but I did find the following resource that seems to insist it is feasible: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/space-engineers-linux/

Additionally, this Q&A looks to cover a more recent resource that could be helpful, to which the Github is located here: https://github.com/Matoking/protontricks

I will say the game runs fairly well on Windows, but if you play with a lot of mods, it regularly encounters problems. Historically speaking, I re-install and/or fix my SE installation many times a year. So if it makes you feel better, encountering problems while attempting to run the game is a fairly regular experience to some degree.

Wobble drives aren't talked about often, but they use a spinning apparatus to screw up enemy targeting. Think of a hammer with decoys on the end spinning around a smaller ship... this used to (and probably still does) create problems for tracking within SE's vanilla systems. I imagine it may also create the same problems for Weaponscore as well.

Essentially, hardcore PVP'ers used/use this tactic to create ships that are very difficult to destroy with automatic tracking. You'd typically be forced to use fixed weapons, and depending on the server your on, those may or may not be effective.

Edit: To clarify further, this is definitely not an example of a wobble drive. This is just a Clangtraption that's gone hilariously wrong/right in a great way.

I just spent a good 20 minutes looking into this... and I'm fairly certain it is this one! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=865384995&searchtext=

Fair warning, I want to say using this skybox got rid of the "bloom" effect on LCD's. If you use it, check out your LCD's after you enable it. I think I did find a workaround for this... but I can't recall clearly. It also may have been fixed in the years between then and now.

It's bad, but after watching over a million Americans die of COVID while (seemingly) half or more of the country refused to take - or often even acknowledge - the most basic of preventative measures... Well, I just don't know any longer.

Shootings are far less deadly, and that's a much more murky subject as there are plenty of justifiable reasons to own a gun. You also have to wonder how many deaths are Darwin Awards, or justified self defense... It's just an incredibly complicated subject compared to "hey guys, let's wear masks."