Cosmic Anomaly Discussion Thread

Does it have any items that weren't in the original game? IE any custom blocks or custom items like a S00PER D00PER Matter Manipulator? That should be the easiest question to ask when making sure it's server-friendly.
In the case it /does/ have custom assets, I'd just use a mod off of the server and return with items that are not added into the game by the mod. And this does not include items made in Starcheat, those use ingame assets.

 

Can a standard ship outrun it?

 

I would simply not use the mod in multiplayer quite yet, and use it in singleplayer as you suggested. The mod seems worth investigating, though.

 

So lets say that a person in their standard ship sees the anomaly from maybe the furthest distance. Can they, or can they not out-run it? Or is it if you even see the anomaly, yer boned?

 

Well, I have a character who I'm not going to bring into it. I'd prefer that he /sees/ the anomaly, escapes it, deals with all the shit back home, then eventually goes into it suicidally only to find... tada, Ex-Antares people.

 

I have an idea that may explain the anomaly only hitting a few things and not others. It affects all teleporters/beampads/etc... and makes them go haywire. Beampads allow entire ships to be warped away, and teleporters in planets cause either the entire planet to be whisked away or individual aliens in them and possibly chunks of buildings - planets found might just have ruined chunks of buildings in them.

Now, on thing that doesn't quite sit me right. Galaxy-wide anomaly? This seems far, far too big in scope. I would restrict it to a small cluster of sectors (however we define it) instead.

 

I would rather the anomaly happens in the Antares Sector too, not the entire Universe.

 

whats the difference? less character backgrounds available? yea, thats the only difference

 

DID SOMEONE SAY MAGIC, I HEARD MAGIC, HERESY.

 

The difference is in fact that such an event on a galactic scale on multiple civilizations would mean complete societal collapse, anarchy and trillions of deaths, let alone what the fuck would happen when you stuff a bunch of tribal Florans, religious Flightless, Apex Miniknog, volatile Novakids and thousands of wild alien beasts into one planet all at once.

I'd like to think that our excuse for a server wipe will not in fact result in the end of all known civilizations as we know it.

 

Well the true fact of the matter is that none of our characters will know, since we would have next to no way of understanding where we are, we might be able to pick out some stars but really what's the problem if the entire galaxy becoming our 'frontier', we never see it in game anyways. You can always make up a place to be 'from', that remains unchanged, because of history. The point is moot.

 

Maybe big ape and Kluex could finally get together for that cage match eh?

On a more serious note, it is science fiction. Anything can happen. Here's an idea, and its fresh, so listen up lads. The story could start with a scientist, or a genius working on a new FTL drive. It works by creating a bubble in space and time, and then closing in on the ship, removing from existence, and placing it back in at the destination. Unfortunately once the first test goes, the bubble is not limited to the ship, and explodes across the entire Antares, taking it out of existence, and placing it elsewhere. The obvious problem with this is you might say the planets would be taken as well, but I say they're too big or something. Science fiction!

 

It only affects people and their stuff, no more need to be worried about universal colapse. And everyone is going to one new sector surrounded by voids, so you can't leave. and everyone displaces at different times, like one could be gone, then apear later within seconds, or they could apear many generations later, or anywhere inbetween. but to the person that gets displaced, it happens immediately, and they travel forward in time.

 

Actually I galaxy wide would utterly destroy all the civilizations, EVERYONE of them. Sector wide is very much more reasonable, which it what I thought this was not galaxy. I agree with the others this should be sector only.