Not necessarily by bots, but a lot of product-related articles - say, "What's the best washing machine?" or "What's the best hot wire cutter?" or anything like that - will have multiple near-identical articles across multiple websites with links for each product generating a kickback for the author. Whereas Reddit was just people talking.
Articles like that are probably starting to be written by AI for sure though. You could write an article on every type of product that way, and get kickbacks from all of them, all while depriving people of actual useful info. Woo, innovation!
If you ignore construction guidelines for a colony, we'll ask you to remove the base. If you refuse to remove the base, you'll be removed from the community. If the base is malicious (ie blocking doors, built on top of someone else's base without their approval, etc) we will report the base to Hello Games, and they have a very good response rate of removing those bases.
If that seems a little controlling, you have to understand that this city is being constructed using very specific techniques to minimize rendering issues / lag and provide the best experience for residents. If people start constructing standard bases, not being aware of the techniques we use, it will have a negative impact on everyone who visits the city because it won't load as well.
Plus there's enough room for 170+ people to claim their own apartments, which they can build inside of, and "free building" systems all around this one. So there's no shortage of available space for people to construct whatever they want... I mean... it's a very big game. Just not in this system.
But tbh it's very rarely an issue. We have quite a few colonies where we ask people not to upload new bases. And when it is an issue, it's usually not people trying to do anything disruptive, just people who don't know any better.
Yeah I used them for a cheap randomizer circuit. So I had 2 Bytebeats putting out a total of 8 possible signals, corresponding to 8 possible numbers, plus another Bytebeat set at a different BPM which would put out signals which would interrupt / block the main signals. So the numbers would always scroll through 1 - 8, but on one passthrough it might block 4, on the next passthrough it might block 7... I thought that was a smart and low-part-count pseudo-randomizer. But alas, it doesn't work when I'm offline - people report that it either puts out no numbers, or repeatedly puts out the same number.
One important consideration, since these casinos are meant to be utilized in multiplayer settings, is that I would want to use the smallest number of possible parts to reduce lag and rendering issues.
It may be a little while before I start the next casino, but when that day comes, I would absolutely love to have your help and would be happy for you to feature the process on your Youtube channel. Which could, in turn, be shared with the Galactic Hub community - mutual promotion is always a good thing!
Civilized space is a whole game on top of the game. The metagame. 👀 Next time your attention comes back around, you should check it out - maybe the city will be open by then
Thanks traveler! This edition of the casino is super light on logic, since we're trying to build a full-scale city I want minimal impacts on rendering. But I do plan on building future locations of Caesarus's Palace on different worlds. For those, I'd love help with any sort of logic circuit which could be used as a randomizer, scrolling light, or anything which you can find a gambling-related application for. It can't rely on Bytebeats though; I tried that before, and it seems to only work reliably when I'm in the session. When I'm offline, the machines tend to break.
I used to be big into Redstone in Minecraft, so I would get super into logic in Minecraft, if only HG would give us a diode... my brain, so far, doesn't like to build complex things in a fun way without diodes.
This will be for players! The way it works is, a District Mayor builds their district, and includes unfurnished apartments. Then new players move into that district by joining on the District Mayor and decorating one of these unfurnished apartments. They can also drop, but not upload, a base anywhere else on the planet to easily return via teleporters.
I'm not entirely sure as I have never moderated, and only occasionally utilized, the Glyph Exchange... but I think the biggest task would be removing posts which don't fit the formatting standards, which are in place to make it easy to consistently locate a given type of ship, multitool, etc.
Yes! Every weekend, the Galactic Hub Star League hosts events, which can be multitool PVP, starship PVP, starship racing, exocraft racing, or minigames. Other groups also host their own competitions but I'm less familiar with those.
Personally I use my own equipment for day-to-day use (although I did personally find two T-shaped supercharged slot Interceptors in the first week or two of that update 👽) and I use the top-of-the-line stuff for competitive PVP events.
Excellent! They do have a "Governor" system, where a volunteer organizes the colony, including new resident settlements. So just join up on our Discord and reach out to Progdog for the Pirate Colony or Rikamaru for the HUB6 Nature Reserve. A lot of the other social, multiplayer, and economic stuff is also based on our Discord. Welcome to the Galactic Hub interloper! 🖖🏻
The Glyph Exchange mods have confirmed to me that they have no interest in restarting on this website. Not because of anything against Lemmy, but because doing it a 3rd time would be overwhelming for them.
The Coordinate Exchange is the old one run by a mod who did nothing to build the subreddit, then returned after 4 years and kicked out all the mods who actually built the subreddit. If that mod started one here, I would not support it, since his actions are almost like a scaled-down version of Reddit's actions.
So, if we want a Glyph Exchange here, someone will have to volunteer to run it. A lot of people have expressed a desire to see the old fractured Reddit NMS community unified into a single community on Lemmy, and I think that might be wise too. Especially since Lemmy relies on a search function rather than flairs.
I'm entirely for that. If Lemmy keeps growing (which it's doing very well so far imo), it's possible that civilizations like the Galactic Hub would be posting too much and might overwhelm people here who aren't involved, requiring a separate group. But for now, and for the foreseeable future, that's not needed. And outside of civs, I totally agree that I'd rather have everything - NMS_Zoology, NMS_Bases, NoMansHigh, Glyph Exchange, and the 3 different general NMS subs lol - all in one spot forever.
Not necessarily by bots, but a lot of product-related articles - say, "What's the best washing machine?" or "What's the best hot wire cutter?" or anything like that - will have multiple near-identical articles across multiple websites with links for each product generating a kickback for the author. Whereas Reddit was just people talking.
Articles like that are probably starting to be written by AI for sure though. You could write an article on every type of product that way, and get kickbacks from all of them, all while depriving people of actual useful info. Woo, innovation!