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[genmac]

This is probably a dumb question, but how do you turn animal corpses into meat?

Loot the corpse to get meats.  Here's a little teaser screen (as I attempt to collect all the upgrades Aphtonites has made for a blog update):

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Snipa action!



Space-conomy~

[zombat]

Yes I got meat loots after posting that.

It was strange that the previous night before that post I killed many wildlife and recieved no meat or skin

[genmac]

Yes I got meat loots after posting that.

It was strange that the previous night before that post I killed many wildlife and recieved no meat or skin

I can think of two things - if there were multiple corpses, try referring to them as 1.corpse, 2.corpse, 3.corpse, etc.  Meat and hides do have a chance to not drop but you'll usually see one or the other.  However, things that are like, cold blooded, crystal silicates for instance, might not drop meat or hide at all.

[genmac]

Behold an update approaches, what with screenshots of a text based game and everything - Aphtonites has been bustin ass and expanded space, commerce, and AI by quite a bit.  NPC factions can fly in, deposit their load of jerks, and the NPC pilot will hang out for about 5 minutes to provide close air support with his gatling gun, before heading back to base.  Not even kidding

Meanwhile, I saw the Dark Knight and made this:

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We have some explosives already but this is the fanciest one so far:


Turn it on!


Oh god turn it off


Noooo swampdog

Now in addition to being fun to make (especially those little random 'code numbers'), the fusion bomb is also a complete test and bug cleansing run of the claimable PvP crafted items kind of system.  The basic idea is you craft something immobile, but quite powerful.  Your enemy gets a crack at it, but claiming something leaves you wide open for a minute or so. 

Behind the scenes is the on demand spawner, or $ODS, which I've posted a more primitive shot of before:

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This thing adds a lot of lifetime to the RAM usage and is generally useful in about a billion ways.  It persists rooms with players in them while trying to move the room around as you go, re-using empty rooms, and can handle a 3d space (for future digging features) inside whatever area you want to define.  Right now planets are fully on demand and the next step is moons and the aforementioned digging, which I am thinking will involve trenches.  This is the same idea behind the ocean and (prototype) wasteland/highway system on hellmoo. 

A few more assorted screencaps:

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Cockpit display with gas clouds and asteroids:



I used to love these in Legend of the Red Dragon, we've only got a few so far:



Paint yer truck (oh yeah also, tanks)



The map has had a few changes to go with the on demand stuff.  Since we aren't retrieving data for all the rooms that don't actually exist, I use perlin noise to generate a few weather patterns with icons for clouds and rain.  You can still see the icons within 5 rooms of you though, so you can recognize landmarks, building icons, or resource build up.  There are a lot more icons to set before this is finished (so much text!!)



Last but not least, these randomly generated posters are what keep my dead cold heart beating:

>read poster
Hawgpadre reads through the movie poster.

This St Patricks Day at a web video site near you.  From the ill Associate Producer Cristopher Burke who helped create the classic 'The Dog and the Cyborgs' and the fantastic 'Iron Computer', the holo-flick critics are calling the worst pile of junk ever.

Grand Redemption:

He was a nice paranoid android, with a dying mother and shoulders of concrete. She was a bored athlete who pushed Rod Hull off a roof top in 1999 making it look like an accident and was looking for the ghost of her brother. Together they travelled back in time.  Fighting liberalism and holding back the soulless machine tides.

This April at a big screen near you.  From the loathed Guru Keenan Farrell who swept the board with 'Queen of Panther' and the often misquoted 'Aluminium Steel', the holo-flick critics are calling just a load of rubbish.

The Son of Gravity Well:

He was a japanese B list celebrity, with an ego the size of a cow and a strange illness. She was a beautiful grandmother who could never be found when heavy lifting was required and had a life threatening case of bieber fever. Together they were the best darn couple on campus.  Fighting disease and changing lives.

This next bit of randomization (markov chains) is compiled from real pastebins, from various people who do things like post a pastebin of their chats.  When it starts to make sense you've spent too much time watching and will probably need to be institutionalized:



edit: almost forget the most important part - english command reference for the flashclient:

[BloodBeard]

Delicious updates. Keep it up 

[genmac]

Still some large chunks to finish, namely dungeons, crew members, and a sector control/turret defense minigame.  I am pretty pleased with the look of the maps and planets though, so I figured I'd post a quick update showcasing some of those~  Full updates are available ingame on *clp or on the dev blog.

Ice planet

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Airless worlds

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Ice planet

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Acid ?!

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Cheerful planet

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Barren moon

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Water world

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Swamps

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Jungles

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Scout ship

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Robot on robot violence

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Space hulks

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Moon dungeons - extremely rough

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Current equipment crafting:

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Current robot crafting:

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Current starship crafting:

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Current structure crafting:

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[Paul]

Been playing around with this a bit. Seems fun, and has a lot of depth. Still pretty early on in it myself, with my char being a unskilled goon just trying to get by.

So far I've:
Spawned as a ranger, constructed a house with a few crafting terminals, then built myself a e34 laser blaster. Used that blaster to decimate the animal population on the planet, killing 100 critters.
Rerolled as a botanist. Tried out the exploration skills, explored a bunch of areas, made 15 botanical discoveries, researched some of the items I found (lots of strange things, including some blueprint chips for things like battle tanks and such).
Rerolled as a student. Crafted my first starship, utilizing an unowned starship center I found. Flew around a bit scanning planets and trying to dock with hulks (couldn't figure that one out) until I ran out of fuel. Realized how easy it was to get reroll points as a student. Rerolled as student 2 more times, to get a total of 9 reroll points.
Rerolled as a retiree. Was a bit disappointed that they got no skills, so built a few buildings quickly and rerolled again.

Now I'm in again as a ranger since I like being able to fight well, and just kinda messing around making parts for buildings. Plan on setting up base somewhere, but haven't decided yet. I'll probably get another starship and fly off to some other planet first, since im getting sick of this FROG planet.

-edit- Haha, well that's a bummer. I loaded up everything I owned and had made/found in the last few days in my new starship and launched, then noticed I still had 3 other ships in orbit, asked over chat if there was any way I could remove or land them to avoid cluttering things up and suddenly BOOM everything in orbit exploded, killing me my newly crafted ship and the hundreds of items in it. Guess I should be more careful what I ask for, or at least fly away before asking about removing extra ships in orbit of a planet I'm currently orbiting haha.

Oh well, time to build another ship. Lost everything I collected and built and bought over the past few days, but I still have most of my tools to rebuild with. Guess I'll be having a fresher start than I intended on the new planet 

[zombat]

An abandoned starship centre on FROG?
Was it in the desert just north of a forest with a lake running 3 tiles down the east side?

[Paul]

I think it was an NPC controlled one or something. Not sure how that works. It had a sector center and faction hq and stuff around it.

[Future]

I played this for a couple of hours last night an it seems like a good game. It seems more relaxed than hellmoo (back when hellmoo was popular). I can just chill out an craft away without being randomly shanked. Nice work so far genmac.

[Nega]

Hey, is there anyone of BLUEJAY that'd like to group up? I've got a house on a mountain and would like some help getting everything done on it.

[yamo]

i tried but i could not figure out how to choose a background

[Jack_Bread]

I've been playing this pretty much all day. It's a lot of fun.
I found it a little frustrating, though, that you don't seem to get any material back from dismantling a building.
I spent quite a bit of time gathering resources for a mining plant before realizing how it really worked.
I built it in my home area, where there wasn't any metals, I thought it would dig a little deeper and actually grab metals, but it didn't. A little disappointed, I dismantle the thing, assuming I would get a percentage of the material back that I had used, but I got back nothing.
That's all I really have to complain about, though.

[zombat]

Automated plants aren't much to write home about anyway, they only mine one resource unit per half hour.

[Paul]

Actually it's five per hour. And it's pretty nice - can log in to hundreds of metal across my plants and just drop it in my refinery to get high quality then go manufacture whatever I need without harvesting.