Anyone make it as lone survivor with Cataclysm space weather?

[Calaban]

I Tried it out a few times- starting with nothing, and trying to get successful... even just established- in a world more heavily showered with meteors. Id like to hear some success stories, if they exist out there- and would be interested in seeing the different ship and station designs such an environment would demand.

My own stories of survival.. didnt go so well. My first idea was to tear down the starting platform gear, and relocating it all UNDER the platform- using it as a shield until such time as I could find shelter in a hollow asteroid somewhere nearby. Failed. Lost half the gear before my little grinder could even salvage it. And when my tiny storage box with prized materials got hit.. well...

Then I tried it in the big Red ship that was wrecked... wow that was crazy, and intense, but fruitless.... by the time I scrapped the floating Gyro to rebuild it to the ship so it could steer... both engine pods reactors were gone, large Cargo Box gone, etc etc.

Then I tried just blasting off in my suit with all the tools and 02 bottles, and setting up inside a "Hollow" starting from even more zero than the platform gave me, but at least in some shelter. Nope. Ran out of O2 before I could mine, build, and process any ice. barely got the assembler started before I was gasping my last.

So yeah. Its a REAL survival game this way. I want to play it no mods, Lone Survival, autoheal OFF, respawn timers x5000 (or whatever)

I think I'm in love. And its a Hardcore kinda crush.

In the yet unreachable future in such a world, I envision nested bases built like armored bunkers in shadowy nooks, and drones doing most of the work "outside" while the astronaut stayed safely at home. But eventually something will cause me to leave (say a discovered Civ station I could salvage for parts), and when I do, it would be in some sort of TANK like ship, heavilly armored, and redundant enough, to take several serious hits and continue on.

And THAT is what keeps me trying again to survive like this: seeing the fundamentally different style of ships that emerge as I learn to survive it.

So thats the dream. Has anyone ever lived it? Learned and Earned all their "chops"? got a list of blueprint designs of lumbering armored beast of ships made to weather such storms?

So far the searches and workshop creations have turned up empty.

[Shade]

you could create a starter station with an AMS system and a small miner, you'd have to be able to quickly get fuel and materials to keep up with the ammo demand to keep it running

[Calaban]

Nope not on the sole survivor world starting point. Theres literally no way to keep your equipment "alive" long enough for you to be able to build your first ship.

Oh, and btw: HardCore Survival means NO suicide to get a respawn ship for more resources! you start with NOTHING but a space suit, and if you die, you Die. Restart .

[Twelve]

we kinda did in mp once, there were 3 of us, we dismanteled eveything we could while getting pelted then flew off to the back of a nearby asteriod and started to re-build, then the host had to go eat dinner : /
and we lost our grav gen parts cos that got pelted.

the only thing we used that could be considered an exploit is one of those small drill starter ship to carry resources around.

also if you build a very basic wall in the direction of the meteors it can buy you a little time to dismantle your stuffs. i havent built anything that could stand its own in the path of them the only option ive seen is to relocate and hide

[Calaban]

Ive recently tried starting the game, grab the drill and immediately dig a hole into the asteroid at platform level. I was lucky that that part of the rock had Iron, so I ran back at loaded the refinery as I made trips back and forth. I scrapped the control station first, landing gear second and those tw interior wall blocks tucked under the refiner, throwing those parts into my cave. By this time I lost the gravity generator.. dangit, now my parts are floating around because I have yet to make a storage bin.

Having salvaged all I could to make a spaceship (motors, computers, displays, steel, internal, tubes of both sizes, everything but the thruster components and reactor parts), I trew up some simple armor grating around my reactor. Because that was key. I learned in this barrage conflict that a double row of simply placed armor blocks can stop a meteor enough to save whats behind. By this time, now, I lost the refinery and assembler. DANGIT!

All that was left was the reactor and medbays. I grabbed the bottles from the o2 gen, salvaged a bit off the medstation (for silver- reactor components) in the hopes that I could patch together a small ship O2 generator if I just had time... just had time.

By now the temp armor wall was in tatters, and I made frantic trips back and forth to take the reactor apart, in hopes of rebuilding it inside the protectivbe little man-cave I was trying to set up.

About 4-5 trips, while in the cave herding my loose parts into a nook, KABLAM!!! a meteor struck the roof of my cave.

Game over. Splat.

Still, quite a story, though, huh?

[Darkaiser]

As much as I like a challenge, I just couldn't play something like this. You all have my respect for trying it.

[Calaban]

Success story:

Restarted in Starter Ship, knowing that the Sole survivor platform was simply too little in such a harsh world. This was Open Play for 8 players, where I offered others to join me in another thread

I Beelined to the nearest Big Rock I had in sight- one that I knew typically was hollow or ran through with giant tunnels- It was 18km away, and by the time my ship got to the shadow side of that rock, 2 meteor showers peppered me. The first one I luckily went unstruck, but the second one hit me with a small meteor (that just mangled my roof armor), and a large one that seemed to sideswipe my ship (annihilating my door and rt front thruster) giving my heart a mis-beat in surprise as I Was sitting right next to both of those (good luck getting this much excitement in solo survival without Cataclysm settings)

Limping and smoking a little, I was thankful the Starter ship had redundant thrusters on opposite sides of the ship- able to take a hit on one side to the braking thrusters, yet retain some stopping power. Otherwise this story would have ended shortly and.. messily. As this Bee was heading straight for a wall of Rock and Iron- like a metaphorical windshield.

Getting to the dark side of the Asteroid (which is typically the safe harbor from that hateful sun and its meteor shower point of origin), I was dismayed to see there were no tunnels for my Big Bee to go into. I gulped a bit in nervousness, swooping around the sunlit side at close range, dreading another meteor shower so exposed.. and found a tunnel entrance.

It was juuust a bit too small. With the butt of my ship sticking out in the hateful sunlight, I scrambled out the new hole in my hull with my hand drill and got to work chipping away at the tunnel protrusions. Feeling it at about 80% good enough, the warning of another shower inbound blared. I dropped what I was doing, hopped back into my ships control station, and shoved my ship into the tunnel....

.. yeah, it was only 80% big enough. With a CLANG!! that I though was another impact, and with my view spinning among wreckage, I thought I was dead, and this story was over.

.. yet, after unwincing my eyes, I saw I was still there, oddly floating around inside my ship still seated in my Control Station. At this point I berated my starter ship design- as what happened is my ships' Chin hit a rock with 4 thrusters behind it- and broke that piece of angled armor away. That particular [half] piece of armor was the piece the Control Station was mounted to. Mental note in this harsh world; never mount the controls on the sacrificial front bumber plate, guys.

sitting crammed akwardly in this tunnel, 90% safe from harm, I dug out the rest of the obstructions, tore down and rebuilt my control station back a bit, and carefully drifted in for a look around. found a nice nook far from the sunlight, yet looking at 4 tunnels leadout out into that sunlight (gotta have a view of the fireworks, afterall).

Parked and looked around. Everything I needed was nearby, in smaller rocks nearby my large one. That was good, and bad; good that resources were so close, bad that most of them were OUT THERE. Also noted my big rock of mostly Iron had some Magnesium. Yup this was Home.

Realizing this was open multiplayer, in a harsh world; I made a gun. Because, you know.. 'MURica!! I also started a Faction " \o7.Badland Survivors " with a public statement of "Come in Peace, or go take a walk Outside", And a Private Statment "Beware of Dawg" (as I planned to have an armed drone patrolling my little shelter of paradise- eventually)

Began tearing down my ship, anchoring it to a station block embedded into an iron wall. Left the refinery, assembler, and storage attached to the wall, moved the o2 gen to top of my medical bay [where it was supposed to be], and started converting the front half of my ship to an up armored version of itself.

I imagined the old Homeworld Kushan Ion Cannon style of ship- with that big turtleshell of armor to serve as a shield to aim at the sun when Out There. And maybe the Kushan Heavy Vette style for smaller drone ships... time will tell.

.. Then I became apalled that heavy armor needed 150 steel plates. Each. Doing the math on how much iron ore was needed, I gave up when I had to shift the decimal to the right 5-6 times. So I started to get to work. Taking care of powerplant fuel and Ice, then iron iron iron.

Oddly enough Few if anyone joined in the entire time I was mining and upping my industry. hmm. But, its established. I am surviving. Heck even breathing, with lights on, medbay, Gravity, and everything!

Not bad. not bad. The near constant thuds of meteors hitting my mancave wall make me worry if eventually the sunlit side will get eroded away, but in the end, the survival of this kind of survival mode turns out to me mcuh of its own reward. Now to build something, get Out There, and be some sort of Mad Max Badlands Survivor. Out to conquer. and Salvage. Develop and Brotect whats MINE and out-tough the next guy.

And get some sweet armored beast of ships and deployable station pods (credit to VCI for idea on that for the mass block landing mechanism), all able to take a meteor pounding and simply shrug and continue on. Because, truly- what good is a shiny new space ship if you dont ever WORK the armor and stress the survivability?

Some think battle damage worn with pride is Sexy... right?!

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Calaban:

Success story:

Restarted in Starter Ship, knowing that the Sole survivor platform was simply too little in such a harsh world. This was Open Play for 8 players, where I offered others to join me in another thread

I Beelined to the nearest Big Rock I had in sight- one that I knew typically was hollow or ran through with giant tunnels- It was 18km away, and by the time my ship got to the shadow side of that rock, 2 meteor showers peppered me. The first one I luckily went unstruck, but the second one hit me with a small meteor (that just mangled my roof armor), and a large one that seemed to sideswipe my ship (annihilating my door and rt front thruster) giving my heart a mis-beat in surprise as I Was sitting right next to both of those (good luck getting this much excitement in solo survival without Cataclysm settings)

Limping and smoking a little, I was thankful the Starter ship had redundant thrusters on opposite sides of the ship- able to take a hit on one side to the braking thrusters, yet retain some stopping power. Otherwise this story would have ended shortly and.. messily. As this Bee was heading straight for a wall of Rock and Iron- like a metaphorical windshield.

Getting to the dark side of the Asteroid (which is typically the safe harbor from that hateful sun and its meteor shower point of origin), I was dismayed to see there were no tunnels for my Big Bee to go into. I gulped a bit in nervousness, swooping around the sunlit side at close range, dreading another meteor shower so exposed.. and found a tunnel entrance.

It was juuust a bit too small. With the butt of my ship sticking out in the hateful sunlight, I scrambled out the new hole in my hull with my hand drill and got to work chipping away at the tunnel protrusions. Feeling it at about 80% good enough, the warning of another shower inbound blared. I dropped what I was doing, hopped back into my ships control station, and shoved my ship into the tunnel....

.. yeah, it was only 80% big enough. With a CLANG!! that I though was another impact, and with my view spinning among wreckage, I thought I was dead, and this story was over.

.. yet, after unwincing my eyes, I saw I was still there, oddly floating around inside my ship still seated in my Control Station. At this point I berated my starter ship design- as what happened is my ships' Chin hit a rock with 4 thrusters behind it- and broke that piece of angled armor away. That particular [half] piece of armor was the piece the Control Station was mounted to. Mental note in this harsh world; never mount the controls on the sacrificial front bumber plate, guys.

sitting crammed akwardly in this tunnel, 90% safe from harm, I dug out the rest of the obstructions, tore down and rebuilt my control station back a bit, and carefully drifted in for a look around. found a nice nook far from the sunlight, yet looking at 4 tunnels leadout out into that sunlight (gotta have a view of the fireworks, afterall).

Parked and looked around. Everything I needed was nearby, in smaller rocks nearby my large one. That was good, and bad; good that resources were so close, bad that most of them were OUT THERE. Also noted my big rock of mostly Iron had some Magnesium. Yup this was Home.

Realizing this was open multiplayer, in a harsh world; I made a gun. Because, you know.. 'MURica!! I also started a Faction " \o7.Badland Survivors " with a public statement of "Come in Peace, or go take a walk Outside", And a Private Statment "Beware of Dawg" (as I planned to have an armed drone patrolling my little shelter of paradise- eventually)

Began tearing down my ship, anchoring it to a station block embedded into an iron wall. Left the refinery, assembler, and storage attached to the wall, moved the o2 gen to top of my medical bay [where it was supposed to be], and started converting the front half of my ship to an up armored version of itself.

I imagined the old Homeworld Kushan Ion Cannon style of ship- with that big turtleshell of armor to serve as a shield to aim at the sun when Out There. And maybe the Kushan Heavy Vette style for smaller drone ships... time will tell.

.. Then I became apalled that heavy armor needed 150 steel plates. Each. Doing the math on how much iron ore was needed, I gave up when I had to shift the decimal to the right 5-6 times. So I started to get to work. Taking care of powerplant fuel and Ice, then iron iron iron.

Oddly enough Few if anyone joined in the entire time I was mining and upping my industry. hmm. But, its established. I am surviving. Heck even breathing, with lights on, medbay, Gravity, and everything!

Not bad. not bad. The near constant thuds of meteors hitting my mancave wall make me worry if eventually the sunlit side will get eroded away, but in the end, the survival of this kind of survival mode turns out to me mcuh of its own reward. Now to build something, get Out There, and be some sort of Mad Max Badlands Survivor. Out to conquer. and Salvage. Develop and Brotect whats MINE and out-tough the next guy.

And get some sweet armored beast of ships and deployable station pods (credit to VCI for idea on that for the mass block landing mechanism), all able to take a meteor pounding and simply shrug and continue on. Because, truly- what good is a shiny new space ship if you dont ever WORK the armor and stress the survivability?

Some think battle damage worn with pride is Sexy... right?!

Sounds like a fun server. May I join?

[Calaban]

If only I could find a server with these settings!

Sadly it is all from my own PC, and my badwidth can apparently support only 1.25 other players.

Ive been looking, but cannot find any servers that match my particular favorite:

Cataclysm Hazards, infinite dense, Auto Heal Off. 2-2-2-2-2 (all x2), /Scan mod, Endless Factions Mod. Black Hole sun Skybox (with x4 speed mod)