General Empyrion Thread

Also, for some incredibly bizarre reason, each time I tried to create a faction on the server we wound up on, it would create the faction and assign a bunch of random people to it, most of them owners and admins, and usually only make me a member. I even named one of them cornpoplolamargo and made the initials cL& because I couldn't imagine that anyone else would've come up with the same, and apparently they had.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Ok! Update to the server status checklist!

Server status:
[X] Server arrived
[X] Verified that stuff works
[X] Replacement CPUs arrived
[ ] UPS arrived (Est Delivery 6/1)
[X] CPUs replaced, work
[ ] Operating system arrived (Est Delivery 6/4-6/7)
[X] Drivers needed for OS reinstall obtained
[ ] RAID reconfigured to 10
[ ] SSD received
[ ] PCI SSD card received
[ ] SSD installed
[ ] Operating System reinstalled
[X] Operating System cracked
[X] Ancillary software installed (Teamviewer, Steam)
[ ] Moved home (THIS THING IS HEAVY AF MY SHELF MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT)
[ ] Empyrion Dedicated server configured


Ok, so... since my legit copy of windows 7 won't arrive until next week, I figured, what's the harm in opening up powershell and dusting off my old pirate skills to see what I can do...

Long story short, the server is now running an activated copy of Windows 2016 Standard... :shiftyeyes:

Sometimes I even amaze myself. Man I wish the SSD was here already, I'm itching to get it in and get this thing finished up. Not so looking forward to the backbreaking schlep to get it home, buuuut...
 
You're installing 2xSSDs? What, one SATA and one PCIe?
Also, yay for both CPUs functioning. Big question is, do they make enough of a difference? I mean, besides being able to make Handbrake crunch through one entire 2hr DVD every 3 minutes or something.

--Patrick
 

GasBandit

Staff member
You're installing 2xSSDs? What, one SATA and one PCIe?
Also, yay for both CPUs functioning. Big question is, do they make enough of a difference? I mean, besides being able to make Handbrake crunch through one entire 2hr DVD every 3 minutes or something.

--Patrick
No, just the one, but I'm installing it directly into a PCIe slot instead of through the SAS/SATA controller, for EVEN MORE SPEED.

As for the CPUs, this game is both a RAM and CPU hog, so I definitely wanted to make sure it had the muscle to flex on both accounts.

Also - check your steam.
 
So apparently we're going to start getting some competition out in PvP space. Sounds like Eva has been goading StF into coming to find us and take our resource planets away from us. I went and parked a Bad Penny on one of the nearer Pentaxid miners on Mars, but then I let Noodle goad me into rage quitting for the night, so that's as far as I got.
 
I'm installing [the SSD] directly into a PCIe slot instead of through the SAS/SATA controller, for EVEN MORE SPEED.
I thought you were getting a SATA SSD? Do you mean you got a PCIe->SATA-III adapter instead of going with what is probably only onboard SATA-II? Because I don't think those machines have an EFI that lets them boot from PCIe-based NVMe storage (unless there's some update I don't know about), and finding the best AHCI-based gumstick drives has become hella expensive because everyone knows they're the last, best ones.
Also - check your steam.
Thanks, I owe you one. One that's not too big, though. Was going to wait until after D3 season-end. Now I'm conflicted.

--Patrick
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Ok, I couldn't help myself... I started up the server early, even though I don't have the SSD in yet. Feel free to check it out, it should call itself Halforums Empyrion Server (should be searchable on the multiplayer menu) and the password is gasbandit. Just keeping it locked for now, once we get a handle on how this works, I'll take it public. I'm mostly interested in performance testing right now :p It's running 7.6.2 (stable).

Ah, I know that one. I've been looking at it to add SATA3 to my Pro.
They also make a dual-drive carrier to allow 2 drives on one slot, but it's 5-6x more expensive, and there are some incompatibilities with some OSes.

Also I hope you checked to see if it'll fit in a 2U...I don't think the carrier you linked is HH.

--Patrick
I got risers. Anything will fit. Also, there's a guy in there with a review specifically saying how well and easily it went into and works on his PE R710.
 
[QUOTE="GasBandit, post: 1398723, member: 167"I got risers. Anything will fit.[/QUOTE]
Oh, good. Otherwise you were going to have to cut a hole in your server lid for the Supercharger Scoop Dam (i.e., SSD) to stick up.

--Patrick
 
Ok, I couldn't help myself... I started up the server early, even though I don't have the SSD in yet. Feel free to check it out, it should call itself Halforums Empyrion Server (should be searchable on the multiplayer menu) and the password is gasbandit. Just keeping it locked for now, once we get a handle on how this works, I'll take it public. I'm mostly interested in performance testing right now :p It's running 7.6.2 (stable).


I got risers. Anything will fit. Also, there's a guy in there with a review specifically saying how well and easily it went into and works on his PE R710.
Hmm. 'gasbandit' 'Gasbandit' and 'GasBandit' all fail as the password.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Hmm. 'gasbandit' 'Gasbandit' and 'GasBandit' all fail as the password.
That's odd, the password is definitely gasbandit all lower case...

Fuck it. Removing the password.

If it gets crowded as shit or something I can reset it or we can test something else.
 
So what did Noodle do to piss you off, @Gared ?
Oh, I wandered into one of her and Eva's conversations in global about how PvE is such a horrible drain on resources for real players and how this isn't Minecraft with pretty ships, the game isn't meant to be played that way and we're wrecking the server for everyone by asking for resource planets.
 

Dave

Staff member
Ah. So they were the gatekeepers of how the game should be played. If you don't want PvE on your server, get rid of the PvE planets.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Ah. So they were the gatekeepers of how the game should be played. If you don't want PvE on your server, get rid of the PvE planets.
I let Iceman know in discord PMs I was leaving the server, and my crew was most likely coming with me, to start my own server

He said "thats fine bro i understand you could have just taken over Renntech to Be Honest, im wanting to take a step back"

I said we didn't want to deal with noodles.

He said "yeah why u think im stepping back"

Oigh. That server is doomed.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
But if you took over Renntech you could nerf Noodles. Ooh! And THEN leave!
And then the actual owner of the server, who previously stepped back, Neocorricon, could come back and pull the rug out from under me and reinstall noodles because he's known her longer and doesn't know me at all!

No thanks, I'll be admin of a server to which only I have physical access, thanks ;)
 

Dave

Staff member
I'm going to log on to yours tonight. Not sure I'll go back to RennTech. No Noodles for Dave.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I'm going to log on to yours tonight. Not sure I'll go back to RennTech. No Noodles for Dave.
I might go back ONE more time, just to try to fight evasong with the weenie cheese... but I also might not. Maybe a clean break is best.
 

Dave

Staff member
I might log on tonight and make all my stuff public, then log off. If anyone finds it, good for them.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I might log on tonight and make all my stuff public, then log off. If anyone finds it, good for them.
Nah, it's in PvP Territory, make em TAKE it

not that anybody's gonna go to unsullied before alpha 8 wipes everything on the 12th.
 
I was kind of hoping that Eva would be able to play as a player on a new server, but as soon as he said he can't play without being an admin because he can't "help" people without admin powers I lost hope.
 
Meanwhile, over on Gas' server, we've semi-successfully established a beachhead on Akua. You'll need to apply for the faction before you approach the base though, Akua is currently set to PvP. Though I suppose I could disable faction targeting on the guns.
 
I was kind of hoping that Eva would be able to play as a player on a new server, but as soon as he said he can't play without being an admin because he can't "help" people without admin powers I lost hope.
"I can't play without being an admin, because winning without breaking the rules would be such work"
 
Meanwhile, over on Gas' server, we've semi-successfully established a beachhead on Akua. You'll need to apply for the faction before you approach the base though, Akua is currently set to PvP. Though I suppose I could disable faction targeting on the guns.
I landed in a copper-sparse zone, so I can't build anything particularly advanced. I might have to figure out how to hoof it over to your beachhead. I used up about 100 bullets before I could build a little mob-resistant wooden platform on a beach.
 
And of COURSE I started on tallodar this time :p
Delete your player file and start over :)

I just respawned to a drone killing my base, so when it killed me, I did a "fresh start".

Imagine how unhappy I was to realize you start over with even less resources..no gun :(
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Delete your player file and start over :)

I just respawned to a drone killing my base, so when it killed me, I did a "fresh start".

Imagine how unhappy I was to realize you start over with even less resources..no gun :(
Want me to delete your player file too?
 
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