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[Sensei]

Alright, double post, but it took me a minute to figure it out:

HOW TO JOIN BOATMURDERED:

One of two ways works. First you can add it to your Steam server list: In the Steam client (not in Space Engineers, but Steam itself) click "view" on the top left, next to "Steam" and "Friends". Choose servers and go to the favorites tab. On the bottom right there will be an "Add Server" button. Just add this IP: 173.27.252.248:27016

I also figure out you can create links that steam will open, automatically determine which game is being hosted, launch it and join automatically. They look like: steam://connect/173.27.252.248:27016

So in other words, my server is up and you can click THIS LINK to join instantly! I will add this to my signature. Tell if it stops working, my IP might have gone dynamic under my ass.

[Egan_BW]

I have successfully joined. Guess I'll play for a little.
And then lag makes me crash the landing ship. I still have enough power in a battery to last me 320 years, but I have no more production.
And then I stub my toe on a rock and die.

[Sensei]

Was the server simspeed at 1.0? (You can see by pressing SHIFT+F11) I was playing another game at the time and that might have affected server speed.

[Kot]

Quick question - where do you live Sensei?

[Sensei]

I live in the midwest now, so I'm pretty centrally situated for US users, but euro users should probably expect poor connection.

[zombat]

Has keen improved the netcode at all?

[Sensei]

Yes and no. They mentioned a planned complete netcode rewrite, going from Steam Networking to something proprietary, which they haven't done yet. They did however improve network performance enormously by culling the amount of data sent (apparently the server was sending clients the state of the ENTIRE WORLD, now it just sends stuff near the client's position) and improving prediction, so it's usually pretty playable, at least last I checked. However, a couple people have reported falling through walls/the world/stubbing their toe and dying on planets, so something might be wonky. Maybe it has to do with the internet at my new location, but I only have a very small sample size to go off of so I'm not sure.

I also took some steps to improve simspeeds on the server, which were so-so before. I did a ton of manual garbage cleanup, and I even OC'd my CPU from 4.2 GHz to 4.7 GHz for about a 10% improvement in single-core performance (yes, physics is SE is single-threaded, Keen says they plan to change that in the future). I'm planning to implement some automatic garbage cleanup with SE Server Extender scripts and maybe add some mods for further optimization (although the simspeed is at a pretty solid 1.0 for now). That is, provided there's anyone actually playing to care.

[Sensei]

So that I'm not taking over the entire thread and double posting constantly, I'm moving further boatmurdered server discussion to this new thread in the Play With Your Buddies subforum.

Latest update, though, is that my computer crashed and the save file appears to be gone, so there's that.

[Micro102]

I'm stuck on the ship building tutorial. I have no "new ship" buttons in my toolbar manager screen and trying to place the landing gear by itself just says "landing gear is not available for station".

[TheDarkStar]

Press G, choose the ship creation block.

[Micro102]

Press G, choose the ship creation block.

I don't see it, and searching gives nothing. I did get around it though but building my ship while it was floating around though. I would still like to know the answer though.

Also, I am now on a survival world and am trying to build a new ship. I placed a landing gear on the starting station  (don't know why it worked this time) and added some light armor, but now I can't place a cockpit. No idea why.

[Sensei]

Don't do the tutorials. They're buggy, broken, and in the case of the shipbuilding one, out of date: There no longer is a "new ship" button, you just place a block in space now.

[BurnedToast]

Don't do the tutorials. They're buggy, broken, and in the case of the shipbuilding one, out of date: There no longer is a "new ship" button, you just place a block in space now.

^^this

Adding tutorials when they did was an incredibly stupid mistake on keen's part - they've been buggy, broken, and out of date almost the whole time they've existed and have probably confused far more people than they've ever helped.

If they can't spare someone to update them and make sure they work every patch, they should just remove them for now.

Press G, choose the ship creation block.

I don't see it, and searching gives nothing. I did get around it though but building my ship while it was floating around though. I would still like to know the answer though.

Also, I am now on a survival world and am trying to build a new ship. I placed a landing gear on the starting station  (don't know why it worked this time) and added some light armor, but now I can't place a cockpit. No idea why.

do you have interior plates? iirc cockpit uses interior plates not steel plates.

[Micro102]

Ah no I don't think I had plates. Thanks. Now I can finally build that lifting ship to salvage every other starting ship that I have managed to crash within walking distance of my base

[Sensei]

If you want, feel free to join the Bay 12 Space Engineers server, and/or the Discord voice chat. We can teach you the details of how to play, and you'll have someone to show your ships off to, if you don't crash them.

There's links to both in my signature.