Is there room for a noob who'd like to join up with fellow bay12-ers? Just toyed around some in sandbox, and I must say, I had good fun.
I'm interested mostly in building nice big ships, and will probably want to delve into factories and production chains as well. Is that possible on the bay12 server, or do I need to grind rescources for weeks, in a crappy ship for that first?
As it currently stands, to get a recipe to make something, you need 5000 of that something to buy the recipe in the shop, or you need to find a recipe in pirate loot, which is rare. So factories are possible, but you either need a lot of what you are going to be producing already or you need to be very lucky. Though if you do want to have a factory in this version, I could provide you with the materials to buy a recipe.
I entered the server adress found in the OP from this thread in the launcher's "Host:Port" box. Is that correct?
Or should I leave that at localhost:4242 and enter 68.55.212.49:4242 somewhere else?
It gave me a message, that that server had not updated yet. Which makes me suspect I entered it correctly, and that is because of today's update.
Yeah, you did it right, it's just that the server wasn't updated. I sent forsaken a message about it, and it appears to be on the correct version now.
Just curious: can you build missile turrets? Or are turrets restricted to direct fire weapons?
You can build turrets with anything type of weapon, but the AI won't use harvester beams and I'm not sure about targeted or heat-seeking missiles. If you want to use a turret while flying your ship, you can hit the up and down arrow keys to toggle back and forth between them and the core. (You can also use left and right arrows to switch between the core and cockpit modules, in case you didn't know.)
Damn. There goes my idea of mass ordering power cores and docking them to my station in a way to save materials and time.
It would have been inefficient anyway, since power generators work best when they are spread out as much as possible and use as few blocks as blocks as necessary to do so. If one of your power arrays is more than a block thick in any direction, you're doing it wrong.
Is it possible to freely walk on a ship while someone else is piloting?
And yeah it would be nice to be able to make modular designs by docking things onto other things.
It is possible to do so if you use a gravity module, though I have read that that can stop working at high speeds, so it's usually best to sit in a weapons computer or a docked ship.