Space Engineers!
 

I saw some talk about it in a certain other thread, so I figured I would plunk this down.

I friggin love this game.

Anyone else play?

I've been spending a very long time working on a very massive supercarrier that can be effective both in atmo and in space. Fuel efficiency and material cost is simply no longer an object, but I'm happy with it so far. Anyone else plays, we can swap blueprints on things we've made or are making!

I'll fire up the ol' Space Engineers tomorrow to take a screenshot of my lovely rustbucket. A majestic space-faring vessel that has never seen the light kiss of a planet's surface.

...You know, unless loading up an old game spontaneously puts me in a gravity well of a new planet, then the ol' rustbucket's gonna be an ol' junkheap.

Oh no, planets are only added to new game files. They will not be there in old ones, and you can still play without them. And the gravitational field is very gradual. Not sure how long it's been for you, but they now have Ion Thrusters (space only, very weak in atmo), Hydrogen Thrusters (extremely powerful in atmo and space, but require hydrogen fuel and conveyers), and atmospheric thrusters, which are just turbines. I...love the design of the atmospheric thrusters.

Last I played there were only ion thrusters, and no pirate drones to fight with. So...it's been a while.

Pirate drones are...odd.

There's a new thing where if you approach an AI ship, it will immediately summon a drone to support it. The drones are generally easy. However, there are now pirate carrier ships that spawn drones as well, and they are simply not worth the damage caused to go after if you ask me. They're fun to fight in creative mode, where you can test ships. But in survival, it's easier just to let them pass.

I'll see about getting it after university is over.

Add me on Steam, Lawtan. Same name.

It seems my old save game is corrupted and unplayable now. So sad. :( The ol' rustbucket was an impressive amalgamation of random crap, and I had amassed more than a few abandoned ships that I collected around an asteroid.

Aww, I am sorry sir. Sounds par for the course, the game itself is still unstable at times. This is a grand time to restart anew though!

Indeed. I started a new game, haphazardly landed in a forest, built a little platform with solar and batteries... Then closed it to look at the new stuff in ksp that I still haven't checked out.

Hah. Sounds like we're both finding it difficult to transition to the other space game.

Hah, perhaps.

Steam says I've played Space Engineers for 115 hours.

...And KSP 490.

Kind of the opposite for me. KSP ranks in at...19 hours.

Space Engineers is at 557. Oh boy.

I have 12 hours on Space Engineers, all of it on the same platform I started on (creative survival mode, I think). Here's hoping my game will still work with the new update. Hate to lose my efforts on my asteroid.

My general approach has been throw stuff together and see what doesn't cause damage, like thrusters too close to the station on take-off burning a hole in it. That, and asking Salone how I make a thing.

Two ships so far, my mini-explorer "Puddlejumper" and my drill ship "Mole Rat." Pretty sure your Leopard is still parked on my station, Salone, and I'm gradually grinding it down for parts. I'll see if I can get some screen shots of the inside of my asteroid lair.

This is the Vladivostok. A hulking ship that has been retrofitted time and time again to adapt to each update. It carries 10 carrier based fighters, 6 atmospheric ships, and has runway support for up to 4 ships, including reloading and refueling. 8 refineries, 6 Large reactors, enough cryo units for a full crew, and all coming in at well over 10,000,000 kilos.

It took forever to make it gravity friendly in atmosphere. It is however my personal pride and joy, and offers every single service that one could need from a ship. It is essentially a roving space station, and can support expansion and colonization on planets and in space.

My god, that thing is huge. :O My biggest ship is a refitted Mining Hauler with a pressurized command section in the back.


...No, wait. That's not true. I made a much bigger ship from scratch once (not as big as that one). It had a cool flight deck in the middle, with hangar doors. But this was before those fancy pressurized hangar doors existed, so it used pistons and, well.

Piston doors cause spontaneous rapid disassembly. My poor ship.

I am so sorry! Pistons and rotors have been worked, although rotors are having an issue right now. They no longer cause as many explosions. They've added in oxygen, planets, pressurization, hydrogen and hydrogen thrusters, and the like. Each time they do, I have to go back and redo the Vladivostok for it, but it's nice. I like the idea of an old ship being constantly retrofitted to keep up with the times.

I found a huge ass derelict ship once, I refitted it with the oxygen stuff, although I decided it was too big, so parked it at my asteroid base (also discovered, not built), and flew my rustbucket around instead.

It's one decked out mining hauler. Even has jump drives. No guns, though, because it was last updated before pirates and reinforcement drones were a thing.

Of course, that save file seems to be dead now, so, alas, it is no more.

That is so sad! But now...we can rebuild! We can do it!

We need a Trisphee Space Engineers game going.

:O Yes, perhaps we should. That would be interesting.

One day, when servers are fiiiiinally a thing, that'll be the time to do it. But we can do local hosting and play together. Think about it! We can have ridiculous space battles!

Alas, tried to get some screen shots of my lair but no joy. Photobucket won't upload them. Will fiddle with them later. Site seems to be having hiccups.

I notice the colours all seem out of whack. Is that from the new update? Much brighter and more gray than I remembered.

Wow, Photobucket is painful.

First room! This was all hand drilled as the terrain leveler wasn't a thing get.


Further in...


My super-secret landing pad where Puddle-Jumper is currently hanging out.


EDIT:Photobucket, you pain me. Will fix middle screenshot later.