I gotta stop flying into stars. It's like. There's a star here. I'll warp. I'll go through it *boom*

Somehow, I forget stars are a thing....derp

its beeing worked on
expect some big changes in the upcomming months probably

I mentioned this on newbie channel when you were on about it....but actual combat is more a crew type thing. If you ask nicely enough IC I may well see about helping you out in a mission, but fighters are a pain in the ass no matter what.

I much prefer crewing with a bunch of people and us all tackling a mission, really. I'm fairly sure you'll enjoy it even if you suck at gunningg. I've always got room for an engineer on my ship and missions, yep. THe actual track command works like so. It tells you the direction to fire, like port up range 35

Ignore the ship type for now. Focus on the directions. And...remember your weapon ranges.If it's not in range don't fire.

Also for charge, you got three systems, and a max power level. It's up to you to set up your weapons to work with your power levell.

Cheat sheet:

wc l/c/w is to recharge
w-config will set up your weapons
la/ca/wa <direction> <angle> fires

Example:

I'm in my ship. I can do everything from the control room. As you get bigger ships, learn where the engineering room is....

So, from a control room or engineering room on a bigger ship....type w-config. Then note down your max charge. Set up your weapons to go under the max charge or just up to it.

For example: Max charge of 100. Each of my three weapons gets 33 charge each.

Then, type wc l/c/w/ as above, to charge your weapons.

Then, red for red alert. Yiou can't target/fire without being in red alert.

THen Then track and once you're in range, open fire.

So apparently the server's down again? o.o

I thought that was fixed, for some reason? Okay, not sure now....but I'll put my thoughts here.

I know the hosts are working on adjusting activities, but.....

I'd rather have less than more. Like, I'm rank 920 something. I got a ton of activities to do, but I'd rather have less, but more evenly spaced out. Like, I'm rank 920 something at last check, 924-925 I think? But I have too many activities to try. You may sit here, read this and say great, that's a good thing. No, it isn't, because only one gives good points and cash.

Ah, I hear you say, but you're meant to RP. Yes but with a player base that small, and the need to grind and rank up....you have to either make a choice. Either you RP, oryou grind. If you don't grind, you get left behind. If you do, you don't RP.

Now, the hosts are on about balancing out the economy. THis all sounds well and good. But....here's the thing. Somebody like Dark will suffer because of this. The hosts idea of 'fixing' the economy is.....not a total reset, which is the smart thing to do. No. It's just to (going by the HTPC logs at any rate) to lower payouts and rewards. Which will hurt the new players or those resetting. Instead.....get the activities and economy to where it needs to be, and wipe the quads off of the old players. Hell, I got a quad in total due to (what I consider) broken mechanics. I'd argue fix the economy and take everyone's money, and let them play in the new economy. Why should new players be penalized for a new economy when it doesn't affect the old players who have absolutely everything, exactly?

Also @Dark: I read your activities topic. You just wait till you get to star studying rank (around 600), you will rage. You absolutely will raaaaaaaage.

As I said on newbie chat, if space combat is group only, then that is a bad thing for me. Group activities might be okay occasionally but they're not my main focus, indeed I'd prefer to sort out what I'm doing solo before I try grouping with anything.

Likewise, I never got the impression that mutariansi couldn't do ground combat or that they shouldn't do solo ground combat, indeed from what I can gather with the right armour ground combat is possible if you ignore stun time and make heavy use of the take cover command, though it'd really be helpful to know what stats are required for what.

Actually with all the forms and the different combat abilities, I thought Mutariansi would be fun in combat, but hay, hopefully this will get a fix.

As to the economy, we'll see. Currently it seems most things are doable by doing activities, the only odd things I ran into that were really too expensive were orbit harvesting upgrades, and those were possible to buy once I went and did some salvage and sold off my debris.

Actually I do remember that when I used to do asteroid mining, it  always irritated me that I'd mine all these elements and the only thing to do was transfer them to the default market, nobody wanted them and the trade posts thing never seemed to work out for me, so I sort of like the idea of making tradables and resource gathering more of a thing so long as it doesn't hurt advancement too much.

As to higher level activities, we will have to see.

Edit: eh? I literally just logged on, and less than a minute after the server went poof!

@Jase Kay, that help file also said that Mutariansi were lightly offensive and that larken were the main healers, so while I didn't expect to be as good in combat as a dragon I still hoped to hold my own, after all, clerrics should still be reasonable solo players.

Well I've tried asteroid processing but honestly I'm a bit confused and I suspect I didn't do as well as I should've done since I must've misunderstood something.

So I have I got to a point where my drones wouldn't harvest anymore water and I couldn't process anymore bricks because I'd not got enough. The funny thing though, I only had 2k minerals in the storage bin. The help file said you can have a max of a thousand of each type, with a total of six thousand (I didn't quite get thatt). However, whenever I told my drones to go  harvist some water, they went out to a segment with water in, I got the message about them harvesting water, then they just came straight back to the bay and the water was never dropped off.
I can only assume that the storage limit is waaaaaay lower than I thought it was, and next time keep a drone on processing duty to make sure I use the resources efficiently, still it was really rather annoying to still have a bunch of resources in an asteroid that I just plane couldn't use.

I did raise a rank out of it, but given the 10 minute fly out to the asteroid and the processing time it was not very efficient for the reward I got, though I suspect that was more due to the lack of processing than anything else.

Does anyone know what the total storage limit for asteroid processing is exactly?

you can play this at any working mud client i believe
though, looking from the soundpack side, the v i p one is the only one beeing worked on at the moment
there is also a mush pack available but, i'M not really sure about its status

You don't need to pay for it, just restart every 2 hours or so, its fine.

Does any one know how to get the sound packs to play in VIP Mud? I have installed a sound pack and I am not able to hear the sounds.

Cosmic rage is mostly shit when it gets down to the brass tax. all the system crashes makes me pull hair and want to execute the idiots who run the server. then they tell you to ignore the fact your character just passed out for no reason. oh the illogic of it.
moron fucking central.

Server down. growl-snarl

Haven't people said stop posting that the server is down?