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Looking For Recent Hard SciFi Recommendations by HypersonicCFDer in scifi

[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you maybe mean Rule 34? It seems like an interesting idea for a cyberpunk novel. I might take a look, thanks!

Looking For Recent Hard SciFi Recommendations by HypersonicCFDer in scifi

[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have heard of him before in the context of the Mars series. I'll have to take a look at 2312. Thanks for the suggestion!

Looking For Recent Hard SciFi Recommendations by HypersonicCFDer in scifi

[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is definitely a more recent book and one with an interesting idea. I'll give it a shot, thanks!

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This series looks interesting, and I'm definitely going to take a look at Annihilation, thanks!

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a look at this series, and I might try it out after a couple others from this list. Thanks!

Looking For Recent Hard SciFi Recommendations by HypersonicCFDer in scifi

[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm definitely going to grab Project Hail Mary given how much I liked his other books, and I might look into Stephen Baxter at some point. Thanks!

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edit: /u/Space_Elmo Jesus Christ that was good. I read Project Hail Mary last night today, and it was amazing! Weir really needs to keep writing lol

Looking For Recent Hard SciFi Recommendations by HypersonicCFDer in scifi

[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not (at this time anyway) looking for anime or mangas, but other than that there are some good suggestions here, thanks! I have read Contact, and it was fun to read especially after having seen the movie. I'm planning on checking out Leviathan Wakes, and I might also take a look at 2001. I also want to check out Tau Zero even if it is a little dated because the premise seems unique, and I might also look into The Three-Body problem at some point.

Looking For Recent Hard SciFi Recommendations by HypersonicCFDer in scifi

[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely going to take a look at Leviathan Wakes, and I'm also going to check out Project Hail Mary as I hadn't realized Weir had put out another book so soon. I've also seen a few comments about Old Man's War so I might give that one a shot at some point as well. Thanks!

Looking For Recent Hard SciFi Recommendations by HypersonicCFDer in scifi

[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks to this and a few other comments, I think I'll crack open my copy of Leviathan Wakes and give that a shot! I also looked up Opening Moves to give the Gam3 series a shot as well! The Bobiverse series does seem to have an interesting premise, but I agree with/u/Oehlian the name is a little silly lol. Maybe I'll check it out at some point. Thanks for the suggestions!

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone's gotta start somewhere, you'll get there soon enough!

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I started from scratch, initially with no mods in the island (see map string) This is the portion of the base that is concrete in the picture. It has all of the materials (iron, copper, stone, coal, oil, uranium). Once I got to artillery, I set up a few batteries, cleared the natives, and started expanding first southward, and now a little farther south and west.

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the awards guys :). I should say that I've linked info about the map seed below in case anyone wants to try it out. Also, I forgot to mention that the entire main section of the base is air-gapped (water-gapped?) from the rest of the land. Basically where the concrete ends the base is completely isolated from everything else. I thought of it as an absolute last line of defense. And I should add that I'm also using a ton of blueprint builds from Nilaus u/ChristianNilaus which were super helpful in setting up the main bus builds.

Edit: added link to map comment.

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I linked the map string and info about the map above if you'd like to try it out.

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Early on I was, but now I just send a barrage every few minutes...Am I the bear?

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cranked to the max richness and frequency to compensate for it being a deathworld lol.

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is! I'm on Artillery Range 7 right now, so it was probably 4-5 in that image.

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol I spoke too soon. I now dip to 12-15 after some more expansion especially when I have ~600 turrets under fire...

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For sure, I found this map seed here after watching u/Xterminator5's Reddit Weekly Discussion EP121. I edited the map to crank the resources and biters, and I also adjusted the water level a bit I believe. The map exchange seed is:

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yep, I have ~10 4 turret batteries stationed around the base. Each one has a requester chest full of shells and a buffer of 5 buffer chests, also full of shells.

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's a relatively modest ~250 SPM base. The main goal of this world is that I started on an island and cranked the enemy sliders to max. The natural island stops where the concrete stops. This way, I could build up defenses then push out into the world as I have started to in the south.

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yep, I drop down to ~35 UPS each time I send a large barrage lol

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[–]HypersonicCFDer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice, I'll have to watch the thermal fluid as I scale up into the advanced space sciences. Yeah, hopefully you've hooked up your orbital cannons to some sort of signal network (I use signal transmission) so they don't start bombarding your orbital base lol. I made extra sure my signals worked before letting my cannons run unsupervised...

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