BravoTwoZero

Obviously the Rift is even more treacherous to wander about than we previously anticipated. We should approach the Rift which much more care! (btw, the seed number wasn't altered in the server file, right?)

The difficult part is not your resources or rebuilding your ship, but actually getting the upgrades, cargo, valuable items and crew back. Resources and money can be regained by editing the server file to creative mode, get the ship back, add a generator of some worth and sell it again when you switch back to normal game mode. For a small ship, it wouldn't take long to get back to where you were. However, not so much for a larger ship. Although I didn't exactly have a battlecruiser with more than 2 million HP, it's now the second time I have to replenish about 1500 men crew (by visiting each station sector after sector and hire 30~50 at a time), redo the merchant quest (one of the most difficult to find), regain all incredibly rare upgrades, not to mention my most valuable exceptional guns, and 10 hours worth of collecting precious goods with a worth of $100 million, specifically dedicated for large scale turret production (which is again a time consuming process). The game is quite promising and it is very fun to build up your ship and crew, but with the lack of safeguards against game-breaking server disconnects (for example the possibility to restore an earlier backup, which is for example saved every 10 minutes, would seriously limit the damage. Some may be lucky to find their ships back, so far I didn't have much luck... Although the gameplay is promising, I'm done for the moment with playing/testing until some form of redundancy or stability is enhanced (especially for single player). Actually, the solution could be rather simple.... since everything is regarded as a server run locally, it is a good idea to simply make a backup of the galaxies you're playing every once in a while so you don't lose nearly a much. If I lose only an hour of gameplay, that's at least much better than spending 20 hours to build up a ship only to lose against a server disconnect. Just copy the entire folder found in "galaxies" every now and then, or even better, auto-backup the file every 5 minutes with some form of time histories enables for the backup. 8) *description to change galaxy to creative mode