Space Engineers

Space Engineers

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[2019] [PvP] Find Players and own them...
By callme-jk
Lets talk about some nice pvp-action. And the best thing is: We can do this already with starting-gear... :)
The question is... Can you survive?! - The new spawn-system is funny... But better be prepared, now! xD

Still working after SE-Respawn-Update? - Let me know!...

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With these proven tactics I had fun. :)
With these in action proved steps I found and owned in one hour:

- 6 Spawn-Pods
- 5 Base-Grids
- 2 Players on earth and another 2 players in space
- 3 Vehicles

Trust me, my friend, you can do this, too! - Lets bring funny pvp-action into the sandbox, again... (watch game-trailer 2014... and you know what I mean here) :


And it was not rly hard, just to do this with starting-gear... With the new spawn-system we can now find others rly fast.... And thats a very good thing.... Because in the past: empty 6.6 AU... becomes rly fast boring.... Now, we can test.... Can you survive? (by an attacker just with starting-gear und flying in charsuit...! - what a joke if you cant and need to whine/flame - haha...) ;P

And yes, there are options to defend yourself here:

- Use open eyes / brain near the base. Dont expect peace, there is no reason for!
- Use Weapon-Systems to defend the base / vehicles.
- Make peace with others... Yeah, you know this sandbox comes with a chat, u know?! Oo
- Use Faction-Ally-System...^^ and work together.... Ah, Singleplayer? Dont join a server! :P
- Dont use in long range Antenna / Beacon if you cant defend yourself...
- Use a Savezone / ask the Server-Admin for it! If you are here just for PvE (LOL)
- Dont use in angry mode the chat and make private (base-locations) public... (another owning) LOL
- Use the gps-sharing feature in the right way... (yeah found 2 others because of wrong usage) LOL

We are all now, near each other...! - Dont forget this new detail in the sandbox...! :)
KSH changed something... ;P
After this guide was out... I think they checked it... and thought its way too easy to play (or to grief?! - whatever...), their new respawn-system... - Maybe this guide helped them here, too.... xD - HEHE :P

#whatever... I dont know all aspects they changed, yet... and maybe never will, because of big silence after asking in forum. Nothing else expected... xD But I found some things thats new:

Changed things by default:

- respawn-pod became the option for respawn-timer back
- enlarge the distance of spawn near other from 2 Km to 16 Km

(we can still edit these both settings in the ds-software, back to the old values, in case we prefer this more: no spawn-timer, around 1-2 Km spawn near other... - I think these values way more fun. But decide yourself, what you prefer! - Old values still need some work to find others...)

Another point they changed:

No bind on only one player or grid for respawn... nearby... I had not directly this feeling, during test, because I found more then one grind, but whatever... Oo Maybe its now way harder, or total impossible to find others with 3-times spawn... Maybe we need now more spawns, or it isnt working anymore.

Old classic and boring respawn/gameplay again? - Who knows more...?!

Maybe we find now again, no other player at spawn... Like in the past, the classic and very boring gameplay... Oo - The new respawn-system with old values was a very good step into the right direction... Maybe we are no longer on that road, again... (-.-) Who knows... Oo - Test yourself and let me know, I´m busy currently with other things... ;) - Time to launch Everspace... Uh, thats space-grafic, that fits... ;) hehe ;> :P

I changed something, too... xD
In case you want this feeling on your server, use old values and:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1755798387

Lets start with our first steps
The first steps of owning:

Use the server-search with:

- Find a server with default starting pods.
- Check in the server-settings for:

--no respawn-time... it goes still with, but its better without... or a little timer.

- Best thing is: When the server comes with inactive despawn of starting-pods.
- Best thing is: When the server comes with inactive auto-cleaners. (grids/voxel)

- Join server, to own the world...
Keep an eye on your stuff!
Keep an eye on our bars, we are always
looking for: (in the right logic blocks)

- Ammo (check others pods- / bases-seats / container here)
- Charsuit-Fuel (check others pods / bases for it)
- Charsuit-Energy (other pods-seats / bases-seats)
- Basic Stuff / Tools (Grinder and Weapon)
Use the pods for target-locations
- In this case we use the Earth-Lander-Pod in Spawn-UI. (no need to join a faction)

But no panic, its not a problem to find other players with other pod-spawn locations on planets/moons or in space... Space-Pod (maybe 2 gps-points more is a good idea) and the Moon (good to hide here with the ground Oo) spawn is a little bit harder, but not rly a deal.... you will find your meat here, too. :)

- Lets press directly H until we have full signal mode.
(maybe we find already new signals of antenna/beacons)

- After landing we make this:

- Jump out of the seat go to the Survival Kit and look at it, press K to open terminal.
- Disable Survial Kit now.
- Use now gps of your terminal, delete all default spam (wtf KSH, rly?! Oo)
- and make a new gps-point for current location (your name #1)
- Disable battery (maybe better this grid become by auto-cleaner removed, or use remote remove-feature in terminal, when its active on server!)

- Press Backspace for respawn...

- Now we make the same game again... spawn with Earth-Pod.
- Repeat steps of first landing and create new gps-point. (#2)

- Press Backspace for respawn...

- Use spawn with Earth-Pod, again...
- Repeat steps of first landing and create new gps-point. (#3)
- Now we have 3 gps-points all in the near of in example 4 Km of enemy grids...
(each gps-point comes with a placed sphere of the distance-server-setup near others... - check distance in spawn-ui)
- Look the distance and triangle the overlapping hidden sphere-area... there we will find our meat!... (spawncode is checking for others pods, too...! not only bases, but thats perfect for new fuel/ammo/energy!)

- Check now the pod-seat for: rifle / ammo take it.
- Take hydro-bottle, too... this and default tools we need.

- Before we fly now into the target-area, we press L / O to disable char-lights/-antenna. Cloaking and saving suit-energy u now? :) Beside this, we press H until full signal mode, for full location-informations. (in the case we missed it on start)
- Lets place the rifle into the Itembar for fast using... near Flexer is a good idea, too.
- Lets check F3... Faction-Tags and who is on... in case we meet them... (now we know, how much defensive power we can expect... just in case, we want to be prepared!)

- Lets fly 4-500 Meters high. (we want still see the trees)
- Check the target area and with a little bit of luck.... M E A T...

We can find grids with a little bit of grafic-issue in the nature, or the new wind-block comes with a looking of flag-animation... Beside this, we are looking for voxel-changes... Of course, we use H for full location-information... Maybe some dumb meat is using active antenna or beacon, too.... xD - Btw: check left and right area of your monitor during looking around... there we can see a little bit deeper, then in the middle of the screen... ;)
Looking for pods first
Ok, lets say we found just another starting-pod...- Good, very good! ;)
Maybe leaved or still active...

- Use Weapon-slot and be prepared...

Lets say we found another active player... Kill him/her and go directly to the Survival Kit and grind it down.... Take meat the option to respawn here... In case we found nobody, do the same, go directly to the Survival Kit and grind it down... We want to stay here a little bit.... ;)

- Lets use this pod now. LOOL

- Check Pod-Seat for ammonation... maybe we have luck and find another 3x mags xD
- Use Pod-Seat to reload your Charsuit-Power. xD (yeah it works without ownership)
- Check in the grid for hydrogen-bottles... ;) Oh, yeah... we need this rly... we want fly.. xD

- Grind battery down. We dont need this anymore. (maybe good for next target-area and this location will be ignored / removed by server-cleaner)

We can now repeat the game with creating the next 3 gps-points. One here directly at the founded pod!... or in case we found some hydrogen-bottle and have enough fuel, we fly around our current location for checking nature again... This pod here used the location for spawning near other players, too. ;) So, we have already a new starting gps-point, and another grid can be near us...
Your steps at bases / vehicles
Lets say we found not a pod, but a new starting-base...

- Again be prepared and check for players / weaponsystems. AND other grids, like vehicles near the base... If a player is inside of a vehicle.... Just grind some container down... He will not ignore this and will jump into panic mode and leave the cockpit... be prepard and switch after fake-attack directly into combat-mode... ;) Why attacking cockpit, when you can fight directly without block-armorvalue.... ;)

In case nobody is around and we have luck, no defensive-system around..., the first thing we do is to disable the base-power. (in case we need suit-power, look before for a seat)...

We have seen this in the game-trailers the new windblock.... Placed on just a weak armor-block.... not rly builded to the end... Yeah, it looks nice this way.... BUT....

- Shoot one bullet on this armor-block and the wind-block(s) comes down... and the base is running out of power, rly fast. xD - But, check for batterys, too -- No respawn for enemy, anymore... if the base dont have power anymore.

- Now we use this base again... like the pod. We look for Cryopods.... grind them down in the first step! We can now looking for battery. (if we missed it in first place^^)... Grind down, if there is any... And again we are looking for hydro-bottles.... After that, we can grind down the base, if we want this.... xD Dont let us forget to look for vehicles near the base, too.

After all of these action... We can repeat our 3 times creating of gps-points, again... xD

Good hunting! - Bring fear into the world... and ask: Can they surive???....


New options with: Economy Update
Look: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/244850/discussions/0/1637542851360884737/

- Create base near NPC station
- Wait until M E A T need to run missions or have to buy Zone Chips.... :)

I think currently to build a base near the npc-station who is selling zone-chips... its maybe a good idea, too.... xD Why long way, when we can have a short way to PvP. :))