Can this game be "Played" actually?

[SmilingDemon]

WCG ... beeing underground and dying suddenly ... are you sure you did not make contact with lava somehow ? that would kill you too. and F1 gives you a log list afaik that would likely list your cause of death.

 

[WCG]

are you sure you did not make contact with lava somehow ?

Yes, I'm sure. I've seen lava on other planets, but not anywhere on this one. If I dig down a block or two, I see a swirling mass of... something. The molten center of the planet, maybe? But I wasn't doing anything like that when I died.

I'll check out F1 when I get back into the game. Thanks. After reading the comments here, I tried to find the log. But what I found only lists what happens in the current play-session. At least, I couldn't find a way to look back at earlier events. So I may never know.

I did escape from the planet in my latest ship. I don't know how. There were pirates 3-4 km away, but as far as I could tell, nothing shot at me or even noticed me. Of course, that's exactly how it was all four times I died, too.

I found a new planet, with no pirates in the sector (yet), and I'm digging into a mountain. I don't know if pirates can detect me buried under tons of rock and dirt, but if they do, I'll have an exit where I can drop down and immediately zoom away.

Thanks!

 

[idiotplaysgames]

I myself get passed off how the Ai occasionally snipes me without seeing anythin

*gets pegged 5km out with missiles* yeah...i know the feeling...

 

[Edymnion]

Nope, I restarted on a vanilla server a while back. Default money, 1x mining, no help from anyone. Used my starting money wisely, set up a ground base for some factories, a turret to keep the pirates away from said ground base, and concentrated on upgrading my mining ship.

Died a few times by pirates until I got the turret up, then I was fine. Got a mega miner built the first night, ran off some warp gate modules and explosive modules to sell for fast money, and started building my station the next day.

Like minecraft, if you don't know what you're doing, you die a lot until you learn "Hey, I need to prioritize here and get a house and some lights up before dark, and stop trying to hug the Creepers!" Same thing here, only replace "house" with "base with factories" and "stop hugging creepers" with "build a turret".