Shores of Hazeron Attempt v2: Electric Universe Restart - Games

Can someone tell me where the facepunch empire capital is? I have not played this game before.

I've not played in a long while, but I was Princess in the Arceon Empire. I made the wiki for the game which was soon featured on the game's website. 'But how is this relevant in any way? Are you just here to be a smug twat or what?' I hear you say. Not entirely, being a non-player (and if I did play again I'd probably just casually build up my own little Empire somewhere or another) it makes it pretty difficult to reliably run the main wiki which people refer to for things when the chat are being useless or whatever. In short I need admins. There have been a lot of good people adding things here and there, but occasional contributions isn't everything. I need somebody who will be able to remove completely useless pages, fix vandalism and ban for it and maybe actually do something with the old as hell main page. I'll probably make a thread on the forums but since you guys are active as hell right now I thought it would be good to have at least one (active) admin from Facepunch. PM me if you're interested, no newbies.

Um. Just join our empire, I'll have to accept your request though. To Mr.T that is.

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;27388680]I've not played in a long while, but I was Princess in the Arceon Empire. I made the wiki for the game which was soon featured on the game's website. 'But how is this relevant in any way? Are you just here to be a smug twat or what?' I hear you say. Not entirely, being a non-player (and if I did play again I'd probably just casually build up my own little Empire somewhere or another) it makes it pretty difficult to reliably run the main wiki which people refer to for things when the chat are being useless or whatever. In short I need admins. There have been a lot of good people adding things here and there, but occasional contributions isn't everything. I need somebody who will be able to remove completely useless pages, fix vandalism and ban for it and maybe actually do something with the old as hell main page. I'll probably make a thread on the forums but since you guys are active as hell right now I thought it would be good to have at least one (active) admin from Facepunch. PM me if you're interested, no newbies.[/QUOTE] :saddowns: Doesn't matter, actually :v:

[QUOTE=Roktarok;27387679]Ok guys i'm beginning to find the game quite boring....anything to do beside colonising the shit out of everything and designing ships?..im just a 3-man empire...[/QUOTE] You will have way more fun in a bigger empire. Protips Also, NDC get online.

One guy from another empire was telling me they're at TL17 for most industries. I think we're lagging behind a bit.

Laz, you've gone on a hail-broadcast tirade for the last time. Join back up when you are ready to calm the hell down.

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;27390219]One guy from another empire was telling me they're at TL17 for most industries. I think we're lagging behind a bit.[/QUOTE] There is no point joining any empire under at least TL20. Under TL20, the new update has crippled our ships, making them pretty much useless. You can no longer build the big ship of your dreams, but have to settle for small, shitty ones. Want my advice? Go join a high TL empire, or wait for facepunch to get to TL20 as only then can we get good ships.

I built a ship around 4000m3 at TL7. It's not the game making you incapable to build good ships; it's you.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27390623]I built a ship around 4000m3 at TL7. It's not the game making you incapable to build good ships; it's you.[/QUOTE] Really? My ship is now only buildable at TL9 with 0 armor. Guess what that is? 40k hp and 20k shields! USELESS. We'll be walked all over.

Really it's you. I have a 35k, armor level 5 ship with 20k shields and ATK 45 weapon bays at TL6.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27390733]Really it's you. I have a 35k, armor level 5 ship with 20k shields and ATK 45 weapon bays at TL6.[/QUOTE] Whatever. Due to being chucked out the empire I now have lost control of my ship, so I'm stranded in NDC space. And bob, that ship is a cube, right? My huge, elaborate, futuristic designs have been crushed. I can make.. a box. A box will work.

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;27390219]One guy from another empire was telling me they're at TL17 for most industries. I think we're lagging behind a bit.[/QUOTE] Yeah sorry about that. Had to do some panic-induced mass-tech replication for TL6, gonna set it to proper teching-up. [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] Also who wants to be new Luaville sector viceroy? [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=blazingfly;27390788]Whatever. Due to being chucked out the empire I now have lost control of my ship, so I'm stranded in NDC space. And bob, that ship is a cube, right? My huge, elaborate, futuristic designs have been crushed. I can make.. a box. A box will work.[/QUOTE] No it's not a cube. Really, just play around with the design stud- oh wait. Should of believed me when I said I was going to kick you out.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27390808]Yeah sorry about that. Had to do some panic-induced mass-tech replication for TL6, gonna set it to proper teching-up. [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] Also who wants to be new Luaville sector viceroy? [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] No it's not a cube. Really, just play around with the design stud- oh wait. Should of believed me when I said I was going to kick you out.[/QUOTE] You kicked me out for being angry that we're now even weaker as an empire.

I kicked you out for several community-antagonizing tirades about clearly explained parts of the game that didn't fit perfectly with your ridiculously-unbalanced vision of the game. You were making us look bad and I am not being on the receiving end of an anti-trolling, multi-empire invasion fleet like Herby suffered.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27391198]I kicked you out for several community-antagonizing tirades about clearly explained parts of the game that didn't fit perfectly with your ridiculously-unbalanced vision of the game. You were making us look bad and I am not being on the receiving end of an anti-trolling, multi-empire invasion fleet like Herby suffered.[/QUOTE] ... Pahaha, the game was balanced, and now it isn't! XD Think about it, right. Any ship built before the patch is -completely- unaffected by this. Therefore, there are now 100+ ships in the universe that could easily fuck the shit out of any buildable 'new' ship. And around 88 of those ships belong to one empire. We are FUCKED. Well no, YOU are fucked, since you won't let me back into the empire, to which I contributed a LOT.

Really the armor patch didn't change much. The aforementioned TL6 ship was TL6 before the update. And really, no we aren't fucked. We are increasing our tech level steadily and have a sizeable (if somewhat thinly-spread into weaker ships) navy to dissuade higher-TL empires for simply wandering in over here and gobbling us up. Your contributions to the empire (which I admit are sizeable) are outweighed immeasureably by your constant annoyances: - Complaining about not having the homeworld's tech - Complaining about people not dropping what they are doing and buying you said tech - Constantly requesting to use the homeworld's resources to build your unnecessarily massive ships when you SHOULD have sufficient resources to build them yourself if you would buy the tech yourself - Constantly complaining every time your ship design doesn't work out perfectly (by throwing a temper tantrum and shitting in Hail for 15 minutes). - Constantly complaining about pretty much every thing that doesn't work out perfectly. So please, think about what you are saying when you talk.

We could probably draw in more players if we had a better OP. Next thread (or this thread even) i suggest we add stuff documenting things like the scale of the universe, ringworlds and the ship editor, be sure to include "all 'dem fansy piceytuuurrs" Plus a tutorial here and how to join the empire there and other fancy stuff.

Yes, someone should create a better OP than this. I kinda rushed on this one.

I wrote a database entry on Giant Bomb for this game back when I played it for way to much each day. So now I just copy-pasted that here to make sort of a OP you can use. Should get someone to make banners, and check it for errors and stuff. Just thought I could throw this out there. [code][b]Overview[/b] Shores of Hazeron is a free space empire MMO which is still in the pre-alpha stage. You begin either as the humble leader of your own future empire, with nothing but a knife, or you join an existing empire. There are no quests, no missions and only one NPC you can actually talk to. That NPC is your guide in the start of the game, teaching you how to move and pick up items. He has mostly been made to show what the "story editor" can do eventually, which means players can make own missions with talking and moving NPCs. In many ways it can be similar to the idea behind Spore. The game has everything you want in a space game. There are countless of solar systems in the galaxy, and finding systems without planets are rare. Every planet and every moon can be landed on and colonized, save for the dangerous Gas Giant. There are Binary Systems and Ringworlds, and there are even rumors of (and images of actually) of Binary Ringworlds. [b]Flow of the game[/b] The game has several stages so to speak, but it plays out differently if you make an empire or join one. [i]Making a new Empire[/i] Note: The tutorial for the game, found [url=http://www.hazeron.com/manualf.html]>>here<<[/url], is a must the first time you play it. [i]Creating your race:[/i] When you make a new empire, you have to choose how your race looks like. The editor for this is not as robust as the Creature Editor in Spore, but you can make a lot of weird creatures. You have basic skin choices, like wet scales, dry scales, skin, feathers etc. Different heads can be chosen, number of arms, legs, height of spine etc. Most parts can also be customized further, making it possible to create something unique. A lot of players go with something distinctly humanoid, while others create crazy beings with four legs, wings and horns. All of the wildlife in the game seem to be randomized, so you are usually killed by creatures only a horror writer could conjur up. You of course name your character and the empire. You also have to pick a flag for your empire. This is not done with a list, but with an upload screen. That's right, you have to draw, or at least find an image for your flag. Once you are done with this you are put on a random planet in a random un-colonized system. [i]Start phase:[/i] In the beginning you learn how to move, where the different menus are, how to interact with the environment etc. Once you got it down, you make a flag and find a nice spot to build your first city. In this game you actually build each individual building and roads. So finding a good spot with a lot of resources is important for the first city. When you place the flag you have to name your city. This is where you can do a huge mistake. Naming the first city in a new system also sets that name as the system name. If the sector haven't been named yet, it is also called what you name your city. So naming your cities should always be done careful. If not, there will besectors, systems and cities called "FurFag". [i]Building cities:[/i] Cities are fun to build, but also a bit tedious. When you are alone, without any NPC or player citizens, you have to manually fetch materials and build each building. Fetching is easy, as you only need to press one button. Building the building is also just pressing a button, but you have to press it several times. Once the city starts to fill up with people, they can build instead. The same procedure is done when producing things, ranging from electricity to plastic clothing. Every process like this can be "locked" so that no NPC citizens can do them. Every process in the game has requirements. To make metal armor you need metal. To make metal, you first have to mine some ore. To mine ore, you of course need a mine placed on an ore deposit, which thankfully never runs out. Most processes also need specific tools to be done, like hammers, shovels, wrenches etc. There are heaps of buildings, and a lot of different things to do with each of them, making the city-building aspect of the game really good. But eventually you want to go out to the stars. [i]First space trip:[/i] The first trip into space will be in a rocket, because the primary material you need to build spaceships can only be found on moons and other cold planets. Once you got that material you can build gravity drives, which means you can build spaceships. But first you need to get to a moon and build a mining colony. This needs planning. A lot of it. But when you actually succeed in going into space... it is a great feeling. Building a moon colony is pretty much the same as building a normal city, except one thing: You need more materials to build everything. Since there is no air in such places, everything must be built into a pressurized box. For that you need metal, plastic and electronic components. So you should never think of going to space without those things. You will also have to either import air, or make it yourself on the moon with water. So you can see, this is not an easy game, as it is pretty complex. Once you got your first mines going on the moon, you can design your first spaceship. [i]Designing:[/i] Designing things in SoH is not the same as in Spore. In Spore you have more freedom in making the shell of the ship, effectively making it possible to make whatever you want. In SoH you can make the shell however you like, but you cannot make anything rounded. But, you also design the interior of the ship, from the placements of different rooms to the placement of equipment and ship consoles. This is because you can actually walk around in your ship whenever you want. This also goes for space stations. [i]Space travel:[/i] Once you got a functioning spaceship, you are officially ready to take on the galaxy! Almost at least. In order to really play the game, you need to upgrade your Tech Level. You start with TL1, but you can go as high as TL32. A few things are locked until you reach a specific TL, like Transporter Pads for your ships (TL7). In order to reach higher TLs you need money in your cities. For your cities to make money you need taxes. And in order to collect taxes you have to declare a capitol and make your empire official. Once you do that you can either invite other players, or set your "immigration policy" to open. If you are the leader of the empire, you can control every aspect of it, but it also depends on the style of government. A Dictatorship is easier to manage, while you can be overthrown in a Democratic Empire. Once you reach this stage, the game becomes all about exploring, reaching higher TL to build bigger and better ships, colonize more worlds to get resources you need, trade with other players or go to war. The galaxy is a big place, and there is plenty to do. [b]Complexity of Spaceships[/b] Spaceships are of course a big part of the game, and the developers have done everything they can to make it fun to fly them. As it is now there are several ways to fly spaceships. Solo: It can be done to fly a ship solo. It is not an easy feat to get from system to system, but you can still do it. The captains chair has the ability to open all the other consoles on the ship, making it a perfect place to sit if you want to fly it yourself. With an NPC crew: This is the most used way to fly a spaceship. With a crew all you need to do is to give orders. This can easily be done when you are on the ship, but if you are not on it yourself you need to have an officer on board to receive and execute the orders. With a player crew: Yes. If you have enough friends, and you have an easy means to communicate (voice chat is mandatory when doing this I think) you can actually recreate the bridge of The Enterprise. You can man the captains chair, order the Nav Officer to set course for Yavin IV. After plotting the course, the Helmsman can set the power to 50% while the Engineering Crewmember fine tunes the engines. The Sensor Officer can scan everything nearby, and the Gunner can keep the weapons on standby, ready to fire. Every console in the ship can be interacted with in some way, even the Transporter pads. [b]Facepunch Empire[/b] This is the empire to join if you want to play with fellow Facepunchers. Spanning several systems and sectors, we still have some way to go to become a really good empire. Off to a rocky start, with too much expansion instead of cultivating what we have, we have now started to pick up speed. [i]How to Join[/i] <Ask Master Bob in game? I dunno, you write something here> [i]Positions in the Empire[/i] Supreme Emperor: Master Bob <then you list the rest here> <Then add a bunch of pictures or something. I dunno, it's your OP> [/code]

Blegh. Bob, mind giving me back my cargo ship running cryozine supplies to you? Since you obviously don't want me back in your empire, I would quite like my 3/4/5 hundred thousand that's sitting on that ship. Thanks.

Yes I actually do mind quite a bit.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27391506]Really the armor patch didn't change much. The aforementioned TL6 ship was TL6 before the update. And really, no we aren't fucked. We are increasing our tech level steadily and have a sizeable (if somewhat thinly-spread into weaker ships) navy to dissuade higher-TL empires for simply wandering in over here and gobbling us up. Your contributions to the empire (which I admit are sizeable) are outweighed immeasureably by your constant annoyances: - Complaining about not having the homeworld's tech - Complaining about people not dropping what they are doing and buying you said tech - Constantly requesting to use the homeworld's resources to build your unnecessarily massive ships when you SHOULD have sufficient resources to build them yourself if you would buy the tech yourself - Constantly complaining every time your ship design doesn't work out perfectly (by throwing a temper tantrum and shitting in Hail for 15 minutes). - Constantly complaining about pretty much every thing that doesn't work out perfectly. So please, think about what you are saying when you talk.[/QUOTE] I shipped tech to several peoples systems, its the least I can do to expect some form of return shipping. I would have had sufficient resources a long time ago, had you not -insisted- we stop independant research and buy all our tech, using our -own- money, from the capital. That update made me rage more than IWTBTG Deal with it. [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=MrBob1337;27395542]Yes I actually do mind quite a bit.[/QUOTE] That's my money, and -my- ship. I want it back.

I was not kidding when I said the offer had been rescinded. Perhaps if you had shut up after I kicked you out and gave you clear conditions for you being accepted back in, instead of continuing to rage, you wouldn't be in this situation.

[QUOTE=blazingfly;27395555] I would have had sufficient resources a long time ago, had you not -insisted- we stop independant research and buy all our tech, using our -own- money, from the capital. [/QUOTE] I did that, and earned money on it. After all, you just sell it in your city for a higher price than what you paid. Which is easy, since the rule of supply and demand means you will be able to buy the tech in the capitol for less than what you can sell it for in your tech-deprived city.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27395632]I was not kidding when I said the offer had been rescinded. Perhaps if you had shut up after I kicked you out and gave you clear conditions for you being accepted back in, instead of continuing to rage, you wouldn't be in this situation.[/QUOTE] What happened is, you said 'One minute till you get kicked out' So I kept raging. Then you were all 'Thirty seconds' And I stopped motherfucking raging. And you kept counting down and then you kicked me out. So I figured, what the hell, go for broke, and that gave me incentive to RAGE MORE.

No you sure as hell did not stop raging. You kept screaming until 5 seconds, and then raged one more time on empire chat before I kicked you. [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] If you want your ship back kill the crew and sit on the helm to capture it.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27395705]No you sure as hell did not stop raging. You kept screaming until 5 seconds, and then raged one more time on empire chat before I kicked you. [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] If you want your ship back kill the crew and sit on the helm to capture it.[/QUOTE] I stopped raging. And you kept counting. Did you even get the post that said 'I stopped, you must be getting lag now' Then you kicked. I don't want to force it back. I want to get back on the facepunch empire, but you won't have that, oh no.

Sure. Join by request and you can be a citizen. You are sure as hell never getting that Viceroy post back. And if you rage again, or complain about tech, or complain about resources, I will kick you instantly.

[QUOTE=MrBob1337;27395850]Sure. Join by request and you can be a citizen. You are sure as hell never getting that Viceroy post back. And if you rage again, or complain about tech, or complain about resources, I will kick you instantly.[/QUOTE] ... Wow, then there is no point me joining back. I'll lose everything. No ships, no trade runs, no colonies. I could just as easily start my own empire.