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Thanks man! Yeah, I just got that idea from @kevmeup, a few days before I did the tutorial.

I'm not sure I understand... you want to set waypoints for the camera in relation to a grid and not in relation to the game world?

@@toroidaldevil9303 Yup, i tried but as soon as i clicked my ship (grid) the whole screen jolted and pieces flew off the ship !

@@MozoTyce1 I wonder if another grid you selected earlier may have been pasted into your ship somehow? IDK. I'm just taking wild guesses.

@@toroidaldevil9303 Hmmm no idea !

You know I had a feeling something like that was going on, but I've never paid enough attention to figure it out. lol. Thanks for the info!

Oh yeah, that's fine. Just embarassing I don't know what the actual range is. lol. Thanks for checking out the video!

Thanks man! So embarassing that I wasn't prepared. lol. Funny how I set it to 3 times vanilla.

🤣Thanks man! I had a good time adding in the b-reel for the tormentor. Made the episode more fun. :) Yeah, I had to turn off the temporary containers so I could go back to scrapnadoing. I felt like they did increase performance... I had the item limit maxed. I reduced the limit to I think 400 items now, and containers are off... :)

Nice. I did have quite a few of those this time. I'm doing some tutorials ATM, so I'm working harder than normal. Maybe that's why? lol.

I did try the Yorkshire gold. It's also very good. A little stronger as you said, but very smooth, great flavor. Thanks for recommending!

@@toroidaldevil9303 At least you have an excuse, I die with wild abandon without any ecuse 😆

@@toroidaldevil9303 Taylors of Harrogate also do a good selection of coffee too - same company that makes Yorkshire tea.

Yeah really made my day to get a large chunk of uranium like that! I'm starting to think the best way to get gold might be to just go after the SPRT mining signals. I can get onto one of those and cut up all the thrusters for pickup with the magnet.... probably won't die more than once or twice. lol.

@@toroidaldevil9303 "Tis but a scratch!' Monty Python, Holy Grail 😆

@@Chilled_Mackers Lol. yeah that dude hopping around on one leg threatening to bite the other dude to death.😂

I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you for pointing out the bits that worked for you. I keep those comments in mind when editing. :) Yeah, I really appreciate the proximity alarm, mostly it's only detecting maydays for me... I mean it closes the doors and what not, so it ensures that the blast doors are closed during an attack, but it's only good for 2.5k, so If there's a Reaver around... it's probably already locked on...but it does ensure we won't be surprised... like from salvage station drones, that kind of thing.

Thank you sir! I was very concerned, the large Reavers are extra dangerous. Yeah the AI does a real good job of that. I kinda feel like with these big Reavers, that fighting them at range is a bit "cheaty", because MES can't use they're turrets at max range. Once we get home, I may do another series where I change that, so they are more deadly. They're hard enough for this scenario as they are. The salvage only for resources makes it very hard to fight back. lol.

Thank you sir! Was definitely NOT on the menu. I just waned to deal with what I already had. lol. Darn Havelocks. When they spawn, they always come after you within 13 seconds. There's never a chance to send them away with a decoy.

I may have over complicated the design, wouldn't mind having a discord discussion about it. discord.gg/zzkrJdDS94 I've been messing with missiles/mines a bit for this scenario, and would like to feel as though I understand the problem set and how to reliably solve it during a play-through. Obviously there are things for me to learn still. I know there is definitely something going on with the blueprints, I'm glad you've found at least one of the issues and reported it. It's super frustrating when you just have to rebuild some of the more complicated things instead of being able to rely on a blueprint. I don't mind setting things up... but I generally have the expectation that I can avoid doing it in the future. lol. The reason some of those missiles "swarmed" is that they only had forward thrust turned on when they detected a target. sigh. I was very pleased that I had some success with it, and it was very impressive(for me anyways). I make these hydrogen missiles, because I don't have the resources to put warheads on them. A couple of warheads with a detonation sensor is much more effective.

@@toroidaldevil9303 Yup when you finally ran the test i was impressed ! Whatever process we all take towards the conclusion... if it works, it works !

That is a very interesting point you are making about the event controller. I guess if I'm going to use them to detect, they should all start "off"... but also... I'm really going to have to look into that a bit harder. Will it be setup when the rest of the blocks finally print, or will it just need to be re-setup, regardless of whether it starts off? Great question. My reasoning for using the block destruction is that to me it *appears* to be cheaper in a couple of ways. Programming simplicity: 1 connection point for all 3 mines. 1 firing mechanism for all 3 mines. merge block and connector statuses don't have to be handled. the tanks are on stockpile as default. PCU count: merge blocks are 100 PCU each connectors are 100 PCU each So for 3 mines, that's an additional 1200 PCU. A merge and connector on the launcher and on the mine for each one. I've done the merge block connector pattern before, and not been very reliably successful... (I lost my whole mine launcher top malfunction) this appears... at least in my test world to be pretty reliable... but then my mergeblock/connector setup works all the time in the test world I built that in too. Forehead slap.

@@toroidaldevil9303 I figured the gun action would give you more of a feeling of 'firing' the missiles whereas i see them (for what i do) as drones - your method works that's what's important ;) The event controller doesn't matter whether it's on or off when built, but the blocks it controls need to be present.

@@MozoTyce1 Thanks for the tip man, I'm going to revisit these eventually, and I'll check that out. I do think some of my problems may be attributable to that.

Thank you sir! Yeah, the darn things target you withing the first 13 seconds of spawning. They do, or can change targets, but I don't know the specifics.

Nice. lol.

Yes it was. Yeah the issue there is that MES can't control the turrets, so they only shoot at 800M. It makes all the MES opponents pretty easy kill. Especially now that you can put AI blocks on your grid and get all of your turrets to fire at max range. I'm thinking about "fixing" that for future scenarios involving the Reavers. Hey man, you seem to have watch most of this series. If you're interested in giving me your opinions about what works for you, or not, I'd love to hear them. I'm just kinda making content that works for me, but sometimes I probably spend effort on things that may not be important to others... or maybe I'm not showing things you'd like to see. Here's a link to me discord if you'd be up for sharing: discord.gg/zzkrJdDS94

@@toroidaldevil9303 Thank you for the invite, I'm not the most active Discord user in the world but I joined and will probably lurk in the background to get the feel of things before I say anything. I've watched most of the series because I enjoy seeing how others play and its helping me to change the way I play.

Thanks man, glad I did a better job of playing and editing than normal. LMFAO. Yeah, I've definitely thought about trying to shed some weight. If I'm really super psyched about getting home... might that speed up the process? There's definitely enough power now with all the hydrogen. The reason I'm not doing that is actually because I want to work on the ship more. I'd like to finish it more before I get home. The series is supposed to be about building a ship along the way. It somehow feels wrong to tear it up as we get home. I do have some other plans for after I arrive home. I've been working on getting a different scenario ready, and that has given me some MES skills. Current plans are that when I get home, I'll be taking a game save, and doing some setup to make a workshop scenario that continues where this left off. I have some simple objectives that shouldn't be too hard to implement. I'd like to keep working on the ship, and Reaver combat/capture tactics in general. There's a lot of stuff I wanted to do this series that I didn't have time for, or did poorly and then moved on. What's kinda not great about this scenario, is that it's SE, and there really isn't any point at which you can just sit down and do some building. Sort out some problems. Have the resources available to do some testing. yada yada yada. If I do a "continuation" series, it will offer opportunities to build in peace, and acquire resources a little more easily.

Yeah, maybe the continuation there could be something really hardcore waiting... Like an "End Boss" with Prototech or something. Oh yeah very stoked to see what they next update is like! I have been working on a few ships for public servers, (Vanilla + DLC and <20k PCU) and I have a design that includes every single feature in the game, plus some of my own made up features.. but now yet another update is coming to completely change my design lol. I have just started using action relays, doing things barely worth doing tbh but now the whole game is about to change again. I haven't even tried a broadcast controller yet lol.. I need to start bringing my gaming pc to work with me at this point... 🤣

Well, that's how you learn the blocks right? Just start out trying to get them to do whatever, lol. Then incorporate that into your gameplay in some way that's cool.

Yes sir! Hey man, just to come full circle here, I tried the PGTips. I had been drinking some Earl Grey, and it was "OK". The PGTips was a dramatic improvement, and I now drink a couple cups a day! lol. Thanks for the Tips. Pun intended.

@@toroidaldevil9303 Nice, if you fancy a 'stronger' tea - "Yorkshire Tea" made by "Taylors" is a good shout. PGTips is a good daily tea though, can guzzle pints of it without drama. Now, level 2 tea drinking : Buy packet of hobnobs - dunk hobnobs in tea - eat - win at life. Repeat.

Hmm... not sure I need a stronger tea. lol. I'm definitely into the "low drama" teas. My imagining of a "high drama" tea is a little scary. I like having something to sip on all day. I'm almost through my first 80 bags. I just do one at a time. Do you have a favorite hobnob brand I might try? I'd very much like to get into wining at life.

Yeah, every time they release new blocks/ new features, it always takes me awhile to start messing with them. I'm still working on incorporating the last new features. lol. And it's always a LOT of trial and error to get automated things working in SE... even if some kind of game jank doesn't get in the way and muddy the waters... sometimes just a reload can mess up current AI operations... so if your drone is en-route when you save. One thing I've learned, is that the offensive block doesn't need a defensive block to take evasive manuevers. I thought they needed both. But they are designed to have only one AI "controller" block active at any one time.

@@toroidaldevil9303 Thank you for the tip, I'll remember that one.

One of your sensors had "detect owner" enabled - not sure if that would have any effect on things? If it works in a vanilla environment - could it be a mod causing something to work differently? Clutching at staws, I have no clue fella. :ooking forwards to the next one chap 👍

The detect owner is necessary for both sensors. One is the fire sensor, so it needs to detect when the block leaves. The other is the Clear of Ship sensor, so it also needs to detect owner. Yeah, my thoughts from doing the edit... I get to see more of it than you. lol. My current guess is that something went wrong with the event system. When I was grinding out he timer on the launcher... simply removing the timer caused an event to take place... and after the re-weld from the blueprint... same thing happened. I think somehow the state of the event system got messed up. Don't know if it's from bringing a blueprint in or what. When I tried to reload the world I did the experiments in... like after I put the donut in it, I had issues reloading that game. It was crapping out on the load when it got to the Donut. I had to go into the save file, and delete the Dount for it to load. So at this point I feel like something is just WRONG with the Donuts save data.

@@toroidaldevil9303 Could Donut be exceeding all the limits? Not fat-shaming the ship - but it be a chonker of a vessel 😆 Was the new environment suitably 'un-limited' in terms of pcu/block count?

@@Chilled_Mackers You know that's a good point. IDK what the block limit for that save is, if 100k... then yeah which might explain the messed up entry in the creative world game save. FarFromHome is an unlimited PCU count game. Or at least it's supposed to be lol. The Dount is about 85,000 PCU right now.

@@toroidaldevil9303 Yeah, even when selecting no-limit - it can get funky in the higher numbers - I normally live in asteroids, a mostly static creation - but it still gets wonky on occaision, when pcu gets high-high. Even having a high number of floaty bits enabled can cause oddities.

lol

Thanks man! Me too. lol. Finally making some decent progress in an episode. Yeah sometimes salvage is faster, just not having to place a lot of blocks saves a lot of time. I think it depends on how much of a vision you have up front. If you're willing to just go with the flow, definitely faster to use salvage as a start/basis for your ship.

Nice. I haven't had one in awhile... hmm... Yeah IDK. It would definitely be nice to not have to rotate the ship. I'm a little worried after my terrible missile failures that I'll have problems with blocks named the same or groups, or both across the different launchers, and having to sort that out. It's a very reasonable suggestion. :) Thank you sir!

Thank you sir.... and yeah. It's getting big. Definitely a problem I have. Making things big. Big things are hard to finish. lol.

For sure man, I have to really get kicking on finishing this ship out. I mostly know what I'm doing with the overall design at this point. It's just a whole darn lot of building a whole darn lot of ship. The Dount is around 80K PCU right now. I looked in the menu the other day, I have 55 ion thrusters. Every one of the thrusters on this ship has been attached with a weldpad. I haven't built any of them. For most of them, I put the names of the ships they came from in the name I gave the thruster. Which I think is great fun. :)

Yeah I was really pleased I was able to release the batteries so that they hit the Reaver. I was hoping they would do more damage when they exploded. The poor speedman. Seemed like the best compromise at the time. I really wanted to get away with the hydrogen!

That's a pretty interesting idea. Helps you remember what's what at a glance... I may color code mine as well. Thanks for the idea!

Yeah man, we're making some serious progress now. I really have to get my act together on getting the ship finished. I have so much to do. It is weird that they aren't specs anymore. lol.

Yeah, won't be too long now. Lots of power for jumps. :) A Reaver ... I think Invader, was prowling around during the outro. lol. The connector thing. Yeah IDK. Weird bug. I saw it with my original drone as well. There's something about hand placing, two of those small connectors to face each other, with armor blocks holding them together. It decides... in that situation only... that the connectors are attached to each other... but I'm not sure if it ALWAYS does that. It's happened to me maybe 3 times now. Maybe it wouldn't have happened if I'd used merge blocks, and then ground off the connecting armor blocks before placing the connectors. I don't think it's a common "bug."

@@toroidaldevil9303 Sketchy af, and I can't even remember how I got my small gird missiles to work, but I do remember klanging my head against the wall for like an hour

Wow. Only an hour? I'm still having problems. I have a terrible time with them is episode 56. Like they never worked at all or something. sigh. They currently work in my other save. The same darn blueprints... so must be something else IDK.

I remember a bug where if I saved and quit, or just reloaded the world, any missiles I had pre printed wouldn't launch. Turns out it had something to do with a battery getting discharged from my jump drives. All kinds of banging my head against the wall lmao.

@@zaflowgalactic Yeah, I feel like printing grids with groups in them... and this may just be because I copied the missiles to start with and renamed some of the blocks, but printing multiple grids that were all based off each other... seems to really screw up the "groups" of grid that the other grids are printed onto... IDK. It goes poorly for me next episode. lol. I may try and work on a different "less" complicated design. It might work better. I've looked at a few workshop blueprints that "appear" to work more reliably. IDK. Maybe I have to build the original missiles in place on the owning grid and do all of the setup in order to get them to print properly from projection. It's just real confusing that they work so much better in my test scenario. Something must be different.

Yeah I didn't do a very good job of showing you guys. It was green. The darn piercer. I didn't really expect him to get me, although I knew he might get a shot off. I'm kinda glad he got me though, it was pretty cool to see how the round tore through the ship during jump.

That's awesome, I'm glad it gave you a chuckle. That's one of the fun things for me, allowing little details in my content to be references to other SE YT, or viewer comments.

Yeah, I think the Reaver targeted the decoy. I think it corresponded with the decoy antenna coming on. There wasn't anything I could do to turn it off. in retrospect, I shouldn't have taken the time to get my tools... or maybe should have started moving the ship. Ions are hard to get.. since I'm salvaging all of them. It was a fairly expensive mistake on my part... I was kinda wondering if the Piercer would shoot at 2ks out... which apparently it will. 🙂

Yeah, not unexpected. I was very pleased with the recoil. I was able to stay zoomed in on the camera, and not lose the action. :) Right... that is kind of an issue, but the Donut is going to get bigger not smaller... so... But yeah, you're right. I'm hauling around at least 600,000kg of iron ore I probably won't need. I could cut off as much weight as possible, and probably get home faster... probably a lot faster, but I'd like to see if I can get a bit farther with the Donut before we get there... like make more progress towards completion of the ship, so I'm gonna keep dragging all this weight around with me. Actually, right now, the tanks on the prometheus wrecks still have my "excess" hydrogen, so I have to at least haul the tanks around until then. lol.

Thanks!

OMG. LMFAO dude. At least somebody's getting famous. lol.

Thank you sir!

Yeah, that's a great idea, thanks for pointing it out.

Thank you sir!

Nope. She offered, but I turned her down. ...maybe that's why they were so mad?

Well... yeah. That makes sense. I'll check that out. I agree about the toggle being a little unreliable... I was disappointed there wasn't an on off. What's got my brain a little fuddled is that I feel like I ALSO or... already have the thrusters on/off on the event controller. My event controller runs a timer block "shutdown", and another one "startup". They got a little messed up when my connectors got torn off, by my inertial dampener "experiment". That was the difference between all the tugs thrusters on when that happens, and just one in each direction. lol. I never really fully/properly went over those timer blocks to ensure everything is working properly. I was actually in the process of trying to fix it when the Reaver alerted, so I just switch locked it, and flew to the helm. Then I went later and "probably/mostly" fixed it. I'll check on my timer blocks next episode and make sure it's all setup properly. Thanks for the suggestion! :)

Yeah, the sifter is working great! I actually turned off all the sorters, because they use like 250w each. That's saving me some power... and is keeping the usage steady. I guess they only use power when actually "sorting". I'll be turning them on again when I want to refine or clean up, clean out the inventory. Having the refinery running just kind of... whenever... for however long. Was causing me to constantly be out of power. Yes... very close. That would have been so embarassing... it's probably still out there too, so since it's ahead of me... Thank you sir!

Thank you sir, glad you're enjoying them.

Hey man, thanks for taking another look! Mission is going well. Currently trying to haul ass towards home. lol. I think I maxed out the Reaver spawns, and it was like every 5-8 minutes, so I turned them down a bit.... so it could be fun again. Actually, I'd recommend that anyone trying this scenario, should consider turning them down from the start. I think it would be more fun. I have been enjoying the abstinence from solar panels. Relying only on salvaged power. :)

Yeah, you can build drills in the scenario. You *could* mine stone from asteroid encounters, but you're not supposed to. There aren't any asteroid spawns... the only ones available are from encounters.

I'll do what now?

Hilarious

Yeah, I didn't really learn about it until I started the scenario. lol. It's funny, you can have a lotta time in this game, and still be learning basics. That's an interesting idea... turning off the dampeners through an event controller... I'm definitely going to add that to my docking procedure. Cockpit empty definitely would definitely helped me this episode, but I'm hesitant to do that, because if I get out and the ship isn't stopped... Thanks man, I haven't tried the tea yet, but it;s on my to-do list. I need something other than soda/coffee to satisfy my whatever it is.

@@toroidaldevil9303 it's best to have "fail to safe" in most automation systems, so have primary setup for dampners to turn off (prevent damage to donut) - if you want to keep dampners on, just turn the controller off to disable the automation before getting out, via the hotbar? Adding a whirly light or two for dampner states (on/off) might help you notice before it gets its wriggle on 😆 As an avid tea/coffee drinker - I force myself to have a pint of water between consecutive hot drinks - also - try a non-concentrate orange+mango with some ice cubes - chefs kiss!

@@Chilled_Mackers I'm definitely going to add the dampeners off on to the event controller for docking. Solves a potential problem without adding extra steps to anything else. For the orange+mango, you just mean juice right? A non-concentrate of the juice?

Oh ok, first time I've seen that one... at all I think. Thanks for the vote of confidence. lol. If you feel like I should try to do something different with it let me know. discord.gg/zzkrJdDS94 Maybe I do too much salvage, or show too many Reaver decoy experiences. IDK. I think I still have a lot to learn. Doing this playthough has definitely been a challenge from a show standpoint, because the Reavers interrupt you so often... better now with Reavers Lite. It's kinda hard to do other things than salvage/fight/buildship. I'm up for any ideas you have. :)

Thank you sir!