Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
Codger said:
This necro thread just popped up and made me laugh. May it brighten your day too.

Newcomer / Intro - So Solo Play Won't Let You Pause The Game???

So I know it's supposed to be online all the time (even though Braben promised us single player offline) but I was just playing Solo Play and got caught short... Opened up the esc menu to pause the game and went to the loo... came back just in time to see the game had kicked me out of the menus...
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So many years of people thinking Esc pauses the game...too funny.
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Here's the funny part:

Typically, you're not supposed to make duplicate threads. You're supposed to use the search feature to see if a thread already exists and post in it rather than creating a new one.

BUT

Then if you do that and it turns out it's an old thread they give you a ban and lock it down as being a necro.

This is one of the only forums I've ever seen that does that. What's more, this forum software (Xenforo) has a tool available (Batch Update Threads) where you can automatically lock, move, make invisible, delete, or whatever you want to do to threads after a post isn't made for however long. I typically use it every year to get rid of posts that haven't been replied to in over a year or two. It takes about 30 seconds to do.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Marvin the Martian said:
Here's the funny part:

Typically, you're not supposed to make duplicate threads. You're supposed to use the search feature to see if a thread already exists and post in it rather than creating a new one.

BUT

Then if you do that and it turns out it's an old thread they give you a ban and lock it down as being a necro.

This is one of the only forums I've ever seen that does that. What's more, this forum software (Xenforo) has a tool available (Batch Update Threads) where you can automatically lock, move, make invisible, delete, or whatever you want to do to threads after a post isn't made for however long. I typically use it every year to get rid of posts that haven't been replied to in over a year or two. It takes about 30 seconds to do.
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Learn something new every so often, I never new that you got banned for a necro, the thread being locked when the previous last post was written nearly 8 years ago during which time no aspect of the game hasn’t been changed to some extent seems perfectly reasonable after all we can’t play a non current version of the game.
 

CMDRQuainMarln

CMDRQuainMarln
nemolomen said:
Thanks for the input...I do have a few guardian HRP/MRP which I am going to use...

a) I don't have ANY maelstrom materials yet...

b) If I get bogged down in all the details, I'll never build anything because I'll still be analyzing it 6 months from now... (I know me...)

c) This was the very first Maelstrom build I've looked at, I'm familiar with the Phantom AND I started building/engineering it before I had even watched the whole video, which in hindsight was not the best idea...

d) I'm behind the curve at this point because I didn't see anything interesting in the game play until recent revelations about U15, so now I'm in panic mode... 😄

e) This will be an interesting adventure...one way or another...
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While I don't want to say too much and spoil the adventure, there is a crucial point to avoid frustration.
You must use a corrosion resistant cargo rack to carry Caustic Tissue Samples. It is possible for the malfunctions they cause on your ship in a regular cargo to affect the cargo rack itself, which results in them being jettisoned into space. When this happens outside the rescue ship while your on autodock, the local search and rescue ships pick them up before you can and they are lost.
"Ask me how I know," as they say :ROFLMAO:
I put the time into unlocking the class 4 corrosion resistant cargo rack.

On last hint - when flying into a caustic cloud that is melting your ship, have a way to know the shortest route back out of that cloud - especially if an angry Basilisk is chasing you. You have to get quite far out to escape mass lock and be able to high or low wake away. The Anaconda is way too slow, and that rebuy wasn't cheap 😁
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
Marvin the Martian said:
Typically, you're not supposed to make duplicate threads. You're supposed to use the search feature to see if a thread already exists and post in it rather than creating a new one.
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This is a rule most forums sport...
Which sometimes causes some issues for me, as those search engines and my brain don't seem to get along very well...
I usually find loads of anything I didn't want to see, no matter if I know what I'm looking for or not... In most cases, it is easier and way quicker to create a new post than scanning though several thousands of threads that might have one of the letters I put into the search box in it.
 

]M[

]M[
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I am currently impatiently waiting to see how long the download will take. 10GB on Steam and 16GB Epic wasn't it?

Um... is "Epic" the standalone launcher then? :unsure:o_O Am I confusing myself?
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Not sure about the Epic store version, but since at 16:01 (15:01 BST/server time!) it had still not started to download on Steam, i started the EDO launcher from Steam and clicked "UPGRADE" ...it's downloading now deep breaths ;]
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I am currently impatiently waiting to see how long the download will take. 10GB on Steam and 16GB Epic wasn't it?
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Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Um... is "Epic" the standalone launcher then? :unsure:o_O Am I confusing myself?
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No, Epic is another platform like Steam
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
I didn't know mine downloaded, what the heck. All other Steam updates get put in a que except Elite, they always DL whether you want to or not. Must have been in the fine print, you must DL all updates immediately.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
0threeleven said:
I didn't know mine downloaded, what the heck. All other Steam updates get put in a que except Elite, they always DL whether you want to or not. Must have been in the fine print, you must DL all updates immediately.
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There are some settings in steam where you can set this to "only update if game gets started" or something along those lines...
Apparently, it was set to high priority, aka "install immediately when available".
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
]M[ said:
No, i’m in Neites, where i collected my AX ship, finally ready to try the new on-foot missions… but our power is out now for 2hrs - it’s rotating “load shedding” on our grid, to prevent overload …it would have to be now ;p
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Ahh! I misunderstood - sorry!

I've had to post o the EDHM forum about my HUD colours. Something is off or, more likely, I'm not doing something right.
 
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