[BBTS] Bronies Beyond the Stars V4.0

Hey guys, can I join? (I kind of got lost on the other thread, and everybody was asking, "can I join?" so yeah, I'm not really sure about the rules of this stuff since I'm new here...)

 

Oh hey, I see you found your way over here after all.

 

Woah waoh woah Sudden activity again. Sweet!
Anyway. We had so much Servertalk recently. But are we going to actually follow trough?
Waiting for the game to be finished would be a mistake. since trying that almost drove this chat into ruin.
I guess the actual decision is with @MoshiMoshi .... but i really want to see this happen soon.
It would be so much fun to finally build a homebase on some planet with some of the other members.

And yes! i am pretty sure that you can! @MoshiMoshi or @Zailiner can add you to the list if they happen to come here. But you are welcome to chat with us as much as you want!

 

So much agreed

 

The biggest issue with hosting the server will be money. That stuff isn't free.
We'll need a whitelist.
We then need to vote on moderators.
I think we pretty much already agreed on most other things.
The only thing left would be to get an actual list on mods that are being wanted.
We could call every member in our memberlist and tell them to list the mods they want.

Until we get a actual server set up...
visit me at Shinobi.myftp.org i'd love to build some stuff with you guys!

 

As was already brought up, I don't think funding past the first month will be as much of an issue as it currently is. Right now, people are hesitant to donate for two reasons. One, they are not sure if the overall server experience would be worth it, and two, it's been more than a year since the server was being planned, so people are sceptical it will even happen regardless of their donations. Both of these would be resolved by actually getting a server up and running. Plus, it's human nature that, once you have something you like, you're much less willing to give it up than before you had it. I have no doubt that, once the server is up and populated, people will be much more willing to donate to keep it from going back down.

As for mods, I nominate myself. :^)
(Honestly wouldn't be opposed to mod position, but I dun wanna take the position from another that might be more dedicated than myself)

 

I certainly hope so! we technically already have the funding if i remember correctly. Id di donate 5 bucks a while ago...

I'm also building a Underwater Base at the moment. The first level is done :

Do you like it?

 

Looks sweet! Are those lilly pads modded in, or are they new decorations from the unstable? Either way, awesome.
If I can get @Midnight_Blitz to throw the server on later today, I can screen-grab some of my creations. Need to work a bit on my crop complex, but I personally think it is quite impressive regardless.

 

No mods at all! I think they've been in theg ame for quite a while. but unaviable due to there being no hylotl villages yet?
I used admin commands for most of these since i'm lazy bitch

 

Any mods on that server there? By which I mean stuff like Frackin Universe and so on.

 

Wha, Midnight's? Not currently, though we are planning to reroll characters and play with sprinkle mods. Dun think that mod would count as a sprinkle mod.

 

Sprinkle mods? Like, mods that change tiny things here and there? Let me know which ones, I'd try to turn up. Though so far I've only had a 25% success rate at joining servers. Some of them I just can't connect to, and there was one where I could connect, but if I picked up so much as my starting flashlight I could never load a planet or ship again on that character.

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Regarding our own server mods, (again, gameplay mods,) I've got other questions. Pure survival, gathering all the materials for building ourselves, or /admin-ing some in for builders? That'll make a difference into what I'd look for in a mod. There's a few block-duplicating mods I'd look at so you don't have to demolish entire villages to build your own.

I've tried three of those build-your-own-ship mods, and I'd be fine with any of them. But I've had trouble getting them to work with non-standard races so far. (My modding skills are limited.)

If there's anyone at all who's worried about ship griefing, I found one that lets you /admin in a small shield generator switch; perhaps allowing people to have one specifically for ship use would be worth it. Or possibly for their own build, if their ship isn't that important to them. (Although they can be misused to block off a planet's spawnpoint, so that's something for which we should watch out.)

I don't think there's any mods (other than the pony pack and maybe a ship mod) that I absolutely have to have; although the money plant mod would be nice for printing out lots of decorations...I have a habit of filling up my 3d printer options rather than make a new storage locker for every possible dungeon or town type I come across. I also wouldn't say no to a better glow lantern, though I'd understand why some wouldn't care for that. Something like Mysterious Stars or Prismatic Stars might be something to consider, though again not a must-have. (Don't get me wrong, I still like ore plants, but if no one's alone then it's not a must-have.)

Now, regarding server mods (as in "Who's in charge here?") I can say I wouldn't be very good. I've got limited monthly bandwidth in the first place and slow uploading speeds, which would make grief-fixing rather more annoying than it would normally be. I'm also pretty lousy at mediating disputes.


EDIT: I am slightly amused about the Bees mod (which I've finally gotten around to trying) having Sun and Moon bees.

 

Yup, basically aesthetic mods that have no real impact on the core gameplay. As for you joining, that's @Midnight_Blitz call.

I don't usually approve of using /admin to get stuff, and I really don't approve giving it to builders to circumvent material gathering for structures. There are some cases where I might not be as opposed to it, such as getting aesthetics that are not available due to not being implemented, but beyond that...

I'm impartial to ship-building mods. Don't personally use them, but I have nothing against those who do... provided the materials used to build it are legitimate.

As the server will most likely be whitelisted, I'm not sure we'll have too much of a trolling problem. And in the end, the only way for someone to get on your ship is for you to be in a party with them. So... yea.

That's something that should actually be considered... do we want to allow 3D printing? And if so, to what degree? Anyways, I would honestly prefer the Lightdrones mod over that lantern one. Gives more of a tiered structure to the same general concept, of which I am all for. And those Star mods look quite nice, and I have no objections to them from what I can see.

And again, impartial to the Bees mod. Actually be interesting, imo.

 

Hey bro! I actually did, thanks for inviting me here!.... now what happens?[DOUBLEPOST=1426752895][/DOUBLEPOST]

I'm really excited to be here, thanks for inviting me here!... so yeah!

 

Well, first you must pray to the elder god that is Yog-Sothoth. Then, you must make a blood sacrifice at the shrine of the silver monkey, and finally-
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Oh, wait... wrong group. This is just the one to discuss either Starbound or MLP in general, if not both at the same. Yeah... pay no mind to that first part...

 

I somehow missed the lightdrones. I'll look it over.
Ha! Shrine of the silver monkey! Everyone knows that's not only an idiot trap, but it also reduces the intelligence of anyone who interacts with it.
I brought up the ship mods because none of the ponies have upgradable ships at the moment, just graphical reskins of the small-size tier 1-3 escape pods that the game calls starter ships. Not in itself a problem as far as traveling around or exploring goes, but it does mean no wiring station, no pets, no skyrails, etc.

As far as whether 3d printing will be allowed, I'd suggest allowing it for at least the bare minimum of producing quest items. It's a pain in the rear scouring through five or six whole systems looking for one piece of random furniture that just won't show up. (Made worse when your previous character found exactly one easily, but you didn't put it in the printer so they can't make a copy for you. And your map isn't matching up to anyone else's map, so you end up skimming the surface of dozens of systems and end up making one character and making sure every item you get ends up in their printer so you never have to deal with this again. Or at least until a future update happens that breaks characters or changes quests or quest items completely.)

[](/twitwitch)

I still haven't found that bloody USMC stone sign.

 

I suggest the Pixel Goods Store for the builders. it adds a lot of furniture and design choices.
As much as i hate to admit it... spawning/printing items should only be allowed for unobtainable furniture. Like hylotl stuff.

 

Hmm... yeah, that is a problem for the starter ships. I've spoken with c0bra before concerning our (that is to say, Midi's and my own) pony music implemented in the modpack, and I actually have a friend who has built a custom ship and is familiar with the way it works, so he MIGHT be willing to assist in getting ship upgrades for the pony races underway. Regardless, yeah, those mods are probably the best solution for now.

As for obtaining quest items, I would assume that we as a clan would stockpile them on the starting planet so those just starting can get a decent, working ship asap.Maybe not all of them, but I wouldn't be opposed if we did.

 

Lol, I guess we can erm, pick up where we left off? (Oh, and I already sacrificed to the silver monkey shrine, so now I feel tingly. I can't tell if that's a good thing, but I know that my dog is afraid of me for some reason now).