Can someone explain how gameplay works or some video guides?

[zerogear5]

I am very interested in this but I am curious how creating things works. Do I lose my progress every log out? Can I play solo and have someone join me later on a saved file of sorts?

[NateTheGreat]

You can Play :

Single player
multiplayer
Single PLayer and a friend on steam joins your map or vice versa . Me and my friends we play on My map and they join me .

Saving you can either enable auto save ( by defualt every 5 mins ) or u can press escape and save there any time
You can also aim at your creation and press cntrl + B and u can save a blueprint of the item. To take it back out press f10 and then paste it to map via ctrl + V . Add me and check my screenshots we play at a high experience Level but u can roam around us to learn some things

[zerogear5]

will do I will be grabbing this next time its on sale.

[casualsailor]

Here are some resources. GasBandits is very good for brand new players (if a bit old)

Sage and WastedSpace have really good stuff, tutotials, gameplay stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTyd0tLdukI_TMN73wwfJWwG-UJh7kmJM

https://www.youtube.com/user/SleepArtGameEat

https://www.youtube.com/user/w4stedspace

Finally,

http://www.spaceengineerswiki.com/Main_Page <- the wiki not every # and fact is perfect, but it mostly accurate.

http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/ <-- check out news on this one for a list of updates, they come out on Thursday with links to videos explaining what's changed. If you don't understand a particularly block look here for when it was introduced and modified, there is ususally a simple video demonstrating its use or what changed.

[CMDR Sweeper]

This game works like every other game that you host yourself and let your friends join on your save, but they CANNOT transfer progress from your save to theirs or vice versa.
HOWEVER, it isn't very polished, it has a lot of bugs present.
Example is the memory leak when mining which will freeze the game, any items connected players have in their inventories on their person is then LOST, inventories in ships are fine pending on when the game was saved the last time.

The other problem is desyncs and netcode problems, you will experience ships blowing up randomly, things exploding into a million tiny pieces or items go flying into space on their own if you are playing with block damage turned on.
I therefore recommend keeping block damage turned off in case the developers can sort out this current netcode mess.

[zerogear5]

thanks for the heads up since its early access I imagine quite a few problems will be present. all advice is welcomed.