Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Just a Little Update, no, really!

Just me giving a little update (no kidding!) about what's going on. I'm almost done with school (I know, late, but i had about 2 hours of P.E. today.) and I'm going to start up Star Sonata, it is time for me to give up at trying to make a good Berserker class character, I'm gonna neuro-doc and go......something. I don't know what to choose yet (here's a list of classes that I'm looking at: Seer, Fleet Commander, and Speed Demon ). So far, I am thinking Fleet Commander. If you have any ideas, just post a reply, bye for today!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

More Star Sonata fun!

I have been having a blast with Star Sonata. I have a new ship, called a Serenity, it is a paxian freighter, meaning it looks like a boomerang. This freighter is well tooled for capturing other ships, it can equip 3 weapons, has  over 1000 hull (cargo space), and has massive resistance to damage. Two flaws with it, it is dead slow, and runs out of energy quickly. The speed issue is a little annoying, but the energy issue is solved by fighters, I am currently using bulker light fighters, but hope to upgade to chihuahua light fighers soon. The nice thing about fighters is that they do not change targets, remote controlled "slave" ships will switch targets at weird times, like targeting the fighters of a green battleship when the fight is getting close....... yes, slaves do stupid things. Fighters don't, instead, they stay on target as log as they can. I have almost been nibbled to death by bulker light fighters on 3 occasions in the past. Those little monsters can go really far. Anyways, enough of my silly stories, time for strategies. When entering absolution, DO NOT use a serenity, you have been warned. Also, player-built unforges cannot win against an inferno, period, end of story. Now, many players will say that the best way to make money is capturing and selling infernos, this is a great way to do it, but if you can, capture any serenities you can find. While selling an inferno and all its gear nets you about 10 million credits, selling a serenities main weapon alone gets you just under 10 mil., So capture a serenity, sell all the stuff onboard except the engine and controlbot, then engage the bot and kill it, you cant sell serenities anywhere. Also, Pax Astralogicas can yield some great stuff when killed, like the ultra-rare calypso augmenter. However they can only be killed with surgical weapons, and once it starts running you've basically won. It will simply spin in circles and sometimes warp. I will give you more later, I have other stuff that really needs to get done, I could ramble on all day, but i can't right now. So goodbye for now and blog again tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Just Some Around-the-House News

Well, I now have some snapdragons growing in a small pot in my backyard. When they get bigger, I will transplant them to individual pots. At the moment, I have no clue what color each one is, that will be fun to find out. I also plan to plant some cacti soon, once I have more pots to put them in of course. I will get some pictures of the snapdragons once they have grown a bit.

Monday, October 05, 2009

Star Sonata Update

Star Sonata has had it's universe reset. All the galaxies, planets, and bases have been reset. There are some new problems to solve though, for example, I was playing yesterday, in Sol, and all of the sudden, all the bases, wormholes, and ships in stasis were piled up in one place. That was odd. In other news, Sol now has a gate to Juxtaposition! My team has a base not far from sol, and very close to both Underworld and Prism. I just hope that my team does well and I have fun. One of the ships I want to get is called the Mzungu Fluid, I want it because of it's inbuilt secondary energy. This will give me a huge amount of energy to use. It also has 6 weapon slots, which will help me use this energy well. My team's home galaxy has both Paxian AND Bule ruins, these will provide lots of good stuff to aid us.

Friday, October 02, 2009

Argh! Mouse trouble!

My computer's mouse is dying on me. It often double or triple click when I click ONCE. the click flickers when I'm holding the button down. This has lead to a bit of trouble while playing Gmod. Speaking of which, I have a plan in motion to build a floating factory that uses Life Support mod's "powered hoverball", which is a normal hoverball that consumes energy to run, without energy, it shuts down. This means that I will have to find a good way to supply it with power. Solar panels should work fine, but I may need to upgrade to something a bit bigger. Also, I want to build a plane that uses no thrusters or hoverballs (which can be targeted easily) and instead uses a device called a "laser thruster". Here is a good video of the laser thruster (not by me) : Here. These are a bit difficult to use, but are quite strong. They also cannot be targeted, making it very hard to shoot a homing weapon at a plane made with these. In other news, Star Sonata is going to reset tomorrow, all galaxies are going to change, making for a fun time re-mapping. I hope that I dont find This place near low-level warps. I will let you know if I do sometime.