Accursed Daylight Savings Time... it's a good thing I had today off!
Anyhoo...
Saturday Morning
I spent the morning adding a storage facility to my Starbase, in preparation of moving the rest of my stuff off planet. As nice as prototyping things may be at times, I actually have more fun doing this kind of thing live... especially when I don't have a lot of time to play, or I've got multiple games competing for my attention. At the very least, I can pay attention to the chat... assuming anyone is online at 5am, of course.
I spent my evening session continuing my return to civilization, via Colonia, in Elite: Dangerous. It's been over a month since I'd last actually played the game, and I forgot how satisfying it is to fly ships in VR in that game.
Sunday Morning
I started the morning by dismantling the now empty supply rocket.
Once that was done, the pieces squirreled away in my storeroom, I used my jetpack to return to the planet. I stopped at my Starbird for a quick charge, and to realign the solar panels.
On the way down, I kept an eye on the ice below, trying to see at what point my ice mining operation became obvious. While Keen may have done a much better job with voxel level of detail, there's still plenty of room for improvement. In the picture below, I'm at 5km up, and the "crater" my base is in is about twenty times the size of the ice I've dug up.
At my ice mining operation, I decided I wanted to do a little more exploring of the Alien World. I also wanted to take a closer look at that "enemy" base. So I manufactured the first weapons I've ever made on this server: a "precise" rifle, and several magazines of ammo. In order to manufacture weapons, though, I needed magnesium. Thankfully, I had bookmarked several deposits already.
On the way back with a ship full of magnesium ore, I decided to stop at the site of my old base. The server had already reset the voxels, so it was as if that base had never existed in the first place. It's barely been a week!
I then flew roughly north for the rest of my morning session. I had gotten about a quarter of the way around the planet (give or take) when it was approaching time to log out, so I used the medical supplies from my cryo-kit to make a survival kit, which allowed me to set up a camp/charging station. I was near the mountains, so I also added a H2/O2 generator, to fill up my personal hydrogen tank. In the future, I'll bring two large tubes, as well as twelve small tubes, so I don't have to build an assembler in situ.
Anyhoo...
Saturday Morning
I spent the morning adding a storage facility to my Starbase, in preparation of moving the rest of my stuff off planet. As nice as prototyping things may be at times, I actually have more fun doing this kind of thing live... especially when I don't have a lot of time to play, or I've got multiple games competing for my attention. At the very least, I can pay attention to the chat... assuming anyone is online at 5am, of course.
I spent my evening session continuing my return to civilization, via Colonia, in Elite: Dangerous. It's been over a month since I'd last actually played the game, and I forgot how satisfying it is to fly ships in VR in that game.
Sunday Morning
I started the morning by dismantling the now empty supply rocket.
Once that was done, the pieces squirreled away in my storeroom, I used my jetpack to return to the planet. I stopped at my Starbird for a quick charge, and to realign the solar panels.
On the way down, I kept an eye on the ice below, trying to see at what point my ice mining operation became obvious. While Keen may have done a much better job with voxel level of detail, there's still plenty of room for improvement. In the picture below, I'm at 5km up, and the "crater" my base is in is about twenty times the size of the ice I've dug up.
At my ice mining operation, I decided I wanted to do a little more exploring of the Alien World. I also wanted to take a closer look at that "enemy" base. So I manufactured the first weapons I've ever made on this server: a "precise" rifle, and several magazines of ammo. In order to manufacture weapons, though, I needed magnesium. Thankfully, I had bookmarked several deposits already.
On the way back with a ship full of magnesium ore, I decided to stop at the site of my old base. The server had already reset the voxels, so it was as if that base had never existed in the first place. It's barely been a week!
I then flew roughly north for the rest of my morning session. I had gotten about a quarter of the way around the planet (give or take) when it was approaching time to log out, so I used the medical supplies from my cryo-kit to make a survival kit, which allowed me to set up a camp/charging station. I was near the mountains, so I also added a H2/O2 generator, to fill up my personal hydrogen tank. In the future, I'll bring two large tubes, as well as twelve small tubes, so I don't have to build an assembler in situ.
