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Sevnn
Candy Cane King
Joined: 22 Mar 2003
Posts: 7711
Location: Kyrat
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Last night was both the most intense and most fun I've had in SE yet. I converted the big red home ship to have a conveyor system that got ore through a collector in one of the nacelles. My big ass mining vessel had a conveyor system and a connector that was above the collector when I landed and attached to the nacelle using landing gear. When I turned on the connector on my ship it would dump ore into the collector. This was awesome but SLOW AS HELL, like 135 ore/sec and I had about 2 million units to offload.
I researched and found that you can use 2 connectors on different ships to combine conveyors from 2 vessels. I swapped out the collector with a connector and raised it to meet the connector on my ship. A few seconds later big portions of my ship start disappearing and a HUGE chunk of rock appears in the hole. The nacelle was almost completely hollowed out by the rock, my ship was tossed upwards and out of control, and the big red base was falling off the map at a couple meters per second.
I was able to stabilize my vessel as I reported the loss of the red base to Brules. After my ship was stable I threw myself in the direction of the base now a few hundred meters away and still falling. When I arrived I got into one of the chairs, checked to ensure that the stabilizers were on (they were) and tried to determine how to arrest the fall. I quickly realized that both Brules and I had cannibalized a few of the engines on the ship because "it will never fly again". With the stabilizers on and the fall continuing I thought that we must have grabbed all the bottom engines and tried to rotate the ship so the big engines on the back could stop us. After rotating the behemoth 90 degrees to the aft, it wasn't slowing down. I knew we took a few engines off the back of the base but I thought it still had the big engines. What I didn't realize was Brules had turned them off to conserve reactor power.
I decided that the only remaining course was to try and build new engines so I jumped out of the chair and headed for the reactors. When I got to them to pull materials they kept leaving me since I had my stabilizer turned on. I quickly went to the other side of the reactor (the side towards the fall) and they ran into me and kept me close enough for me to get an inventory window. I grabbed all the materials I thought I needed, prayed I remembered correctly, and headed for the engines. Brules was in chat trying to tell me to just turn on the big engines but I didn't see the messages until I was done building new engines. Once built the small engines arrested the fall and I was able to stabilize the ship.
Sorry for the long story but it was all very intense, fun and I felt worth sharing to show one of the aspects of the game: "any small force acting upon something can cause your plans to spiral out of control quickly".
After getting the base to a new asteroid, rebuilding some of it including the conveyor system, and looking at the connectors again, I was able to determine that the connector must be "external" of the ship and not flush with other surfaces. With this knowledge I was able to get the mining ship connected to the main base and transfer ore instantly. A cool bonus of connectors is you can move ore/materials and handle assembly queues from your ship's console if the connector is locked. This means you can mine, return, dock, transfer ore, queue it in refineries, queue builds, undock, and go back to mining without ever leaving your super comfy space chair.
Digi, what speed connection is the server running on? Are you doing any form of backups of the world file? We were reset a couple days ago, is that going to happen again? I ask because I'm thinking about setting up a server at my house on my big fat cox pipe.
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Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:18 pm
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