Shipyard POI

[Darth_Wayner]

Hi all,
I just raided the shipyard POI, I mean the one in space with the under-construction ship in the center (not the planet-based one) took out the shield generator, Ramboed the interior troops and respawners. As is my customary poi raiding process, now is the time I blow the core and start salvaging.

I can't find the core. I looked for its so long that I finally broke my cardinal rule and turned on god mode. Flew around for another hour in god mode and still can't find it. Now it's a crusade, so I'll break my second cardinal rule and ask for help. Does anyone know where the core is on this poi?

[TwitchyJ]

If you are already going the god mode route then you may as well activate god mode invisible (gm iv).
That allows you to access the control panel (P) of any structure and you can then click "show on HUD" for the core.
Boom. Now you know exactly where it is complete with a hud marker pointing you directly to it.

[TwitchyJ]

I prefer to find them the hard way myself.

However, if you are already going the command console route you may as well do it correctly.
Since you are already using commands AND asking others to tell you exactly where it is, you may as well just skip the middle man and find it easily yourself (gm iv).

[Darth_Wayner]

Wow, I never knew about that console command. Thanks!!!

[Vermillion]

There are a couple of shipyards.
I'm guessing it's the Ghyst Shipyard (Dark Grey, Dark Tan with Blue Lights). It's in the middle of the cargo bay right in front of the door, inside a Shipping Container.

[Storpappa]

Another reason to play on a multiplayer server :)
Far less temptation

[The Big Brzezinski]

A shipping container in a cargo bay seems like an odd place to install vital machinery. I'd naturally expect it to be kept in a protected section of the station, greebled into the power and control hardware with piping, cables, and such.

[japp_02]

Some POIs have their core at very odd places requiring you - if you persist - to dismantle piece by piece the POI. I had to do so on a big zyrax landing pad, I found it, but what? No advantage for me because there was no important item to salvage 1:1, the only good reason why you would change the core first. Another reason to do it would be: The POI has very large fuel or O2 reserves that you can get from the tanks.

[TwitchyJ]

Originally posted by Storpappa:

Another reason to play on a multiplayer server :)
Far less temptation

If said server uses publicly available scenarios and structures (most do) then there is still nothing stopping someone from exiting the server and loading a creative save.
They can then spawn the structure and see everything they need to see. Core location, door codes, etc, etc.

Most servers don't have the manpower and/or time to make every structure 100% custom.
Even the servers that do use 100% custom content, some of them still provide a creative version of the scenario to test things outside the server.

If people want to they will find a way.... Just saying.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Some of them would almost threaten to break kayfabe. What happened that caused this core to be in a shipping container? Was the previous one damaged, and this is a temporary replacement? How is it connected to the rest of the station?

There should be a story to tell behind these weird station configurations. Maybe one starts with signage about how food and drink are banned outside of mess areas, and dino royale stew specifically is banned from the whole station. Then you come to find some idiot technician was having lunch in their work area, spilled their special stew, it leaked into a CPU extender, and the cause a feedback cascade that blew up half the core mainframe. So the commander ordered the temporary replacement core be wired up in a broom closet to be protected by a trusted guard, who would make personally sure that food and beverages are kept far away.

Content should always try to be in-character. If gameplay needs dictate something strange, you gotta come up with an in-character reasoning for it. It's fun to try and figure out why an NPC did something and follow their reasoning to solve a puzzle. Doing the same with a POI designer's reasoning is not.