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AprilPvd in VR:
No Man’s Sky
Tuesday
I encountered another YouTuber and he expressed some strong opinions about what he calls “exploits“ in No Man’s Sky. He may be right. He feels that there shouldn’t be any duping at all and in the last week I was very much heavy into duping. He also thinks that the runway mold should not respond so quickly. I think what appeals to me and I think other people about No Man’s Sky is the flexibility and that if you want to, you can avoid the hard grind. I imagine some people who work 40 hours a week do not want to have to come into the game and do more work. But at the same time, I can also appreciate the fact that the game may be more challenging if we couldn’t dupe. My feelings is that I have gone through the game and I’ve played and now I just wanna have fun and that there is the creative mode which I could turn on which would do almost the same thing. Maybe I’m just trying to justify. What I still play if they turned off all the exploits? Yes I would. And I would stop duping. And it would be OK. What do you think about duping?
Wednesday
As I said last week, April Pvd had some suspicious packets for tech which she gave some to Sebastian so that he could upgrade his sentinel ship. Still on the focus of Sebastian and Aprillian. Sebastian did one of the quest where you had to hack a computer node And it was a base computer in a nice flat area and so he claimed it. Interesting enough I had just heard about these on a post on Facebook and that they are very rare, but maybe the expedition brings out something.
Thursday
Worked out in VR today and it was really good. I actually got a 948 hit streak in the boxing workout which is 16 minutes of nonstop cardio and a whole bunch of sweat.
Captain Steve on YouTube shared glyphs to a planet that he wanted people to build bases on. Of course, Sebastian is the only one that has all the portal glyphs So I had him go to the planet and then April Pvd joined and set up a base there. It was fun to be building again and I got to try some new things I Learn learned from visiting other bases.
Friday
Logging in on Sebastian and I placed a base next to where April Pvd had placed her so I’m going to work on building up that base so I can upload it. Sebastian build up his base and he’s bringing in when I’m bringing her in on the flatscreen. I can’t fly well on the flat.
Saturday
Saturday was a big VR day for me. Of course I did my VR workout. It was great and I got another streak in my boxing which always makes me feel good.
It was also the first Saturday of the month so I had the Zenith cosmetic craze at 4 PM EDT. Unfortunately, it was also, July 4, which is a holiday so we didn’t have enough people. But I didn’t get to talk to one of the guys that shows up every time his name is ninja and he is very nice and helpful and it was interesting because I told him I was organizing my hard drives and he was doing the same thing moving stuff around and putting them in a certain order instead of just having them has me on the external hard drives. I decided to put my gaming files on one hard drive because I record every time I play so I have a lot of files and then put my real life pictures and stuff on another hard drive. But it was still nice to talk to him for a few minutes we were there.
Then I logged into Aprillian and I was on her Base on Captain Steve’s planet. of course, I wanted to do some missions on on her because she sage, but I also wanted to do some things with her underwater house. For one thing she needed the ladder to go up and down between the two floors. but first I went to check the teleporter to see what other bases were built on Captain Steve’s planet and I saw one that caught my eye and it says trading post base and so I teleported there and someone had made a base right on top of a trading post and now I am obsessed. I think it’s something I want to try doing. He did a good job with it. I have done one at a depot before so I think I might try That here as well. It’s such a brilliant idea. then I did all the missions. One of them was uranium for polo and I duped some, and then I went to the anomaly and turned it in, and I had Sebastian join me so that I could give him some uranium, but when he went to turn in the uranium, the mission had expired so I must’ve just gotten there just before the end of the cycle so a brilliant went out and did her missions. I’ve gotten really good at fighting off the swarm thingies. I’ve been using a pulse charge to freeze them and place and they’ve fixed a lot of the issues with the gravity coil in VR. then I went to the anomaly because I found out something from watching another. YouTuber and I feel stupid that all this time that I have been playing No Man’s Sky that I did not know this, but I went to the anomaly. I got the blueprint for the ladder and a couple of other things for the underwater build. then I did some decorating with the small wonder I really like the sunflower plant that was on that one planet so I use the small wonder to put it in my house along with a couple of other plants I had found. It’s really a neat thing to be able to do. Then I use the quick menu return to the anomaly and it just feels like why have I never used that? Aprillian finished her missions and then I got on Sebastian who went back to the anomaly to buy some more parts and worked on his home and did the same thing with the small wonder that the brilliant did. I just wanna make it interesting and unique because Captain Steve does look at the Bases that are made on his planet. And I finished off with Sebastian doing missions.
Sunday
It’s funny when life imitates art as it were. I was watching Captain Steve and I know I’m talking a lot about him because I really enjoy his videos and his style of talking while he’s playing. It takes a lot of work to continuously talk while you play. I try to do that in VR. It was very hard but he’s playing on the flatscreen and I’m sure a lot of what he does is edit it. He was playing and doing one of the missions and it was the one where you have to go to the spot where the four swarm striker come at you and it didn’t work because a trader pops up in front of you.You end up having to abandon the mission and then get it again and of course by then it takes you to a different galaxy and that’s what happened to me as well. I went ahead and finish the missions on Sebastian and I went back to his place to put out a landing pad. I really like the way his landing pad turned out because it’s partially underground, and it blends in with the area around his house.
Then I brought Aprillian in and she did her missions when she first logged in. It said the progress was 93% and when she was logging out, it said 94%. I think the prismatic core is going to be built by tomorrow. around her house she’s the one with the underwater home and she put in a landing pad, which works out really well because it works as a bridge to some land that’s beside her house even though the first two floors are underwater and she also got a new pet that was underwater and I love looking out the window of her home because there’s a lot of fish nice fish floating by and I just like the concept of underwater now I did discover that I might be on the wrong save the wrong that’s it. I don’t know. I was watching Captain Steve, and he said that he changed something he changed the same so I’m not sure if the planet that he’s doing is supposed to be in the main save or in the expedition so for Sebastian it doesn’t matter cause he’s gonna keep his safe as it is. I’m wondering what’s gonna happen with the other buildings near him? If he doesn’t cause they’re not gonna keep that say they’re gonna go back to their main side so maybe tomorrow I will look at going back to the main save on April Pvd and then porting to the same portal thing and see what’s going on there but I just love the whole fact that this is such a community in No Man’s Sky
Monday
So I figured it out the main planet for Captain Steve was in the regular save. So I flew there after having April Pvd change back to the primary save. I did the thing I hate the most which is trying to find the exact coordinates. I logged in on Sebastian at his home, which is next-door to April Pvd‘s and I noted the coordinates.
Once again, I did the missions on Aprillian and Sebastian. I also did some work on Sebastian‘s home because you know he’s gonna keep that and then I did. I did the missions on Aprillian and it was a pretty full day. Of course I can only do three of each and then by the time I got to finish out all the missions on both the prismatic core was at 99% so I ended up spending a lot of time, just sitting around watching the prismatic core on both of my characters. I even went so far as to put my quest three on my punching Bob and just keep the video recording waiting for the 99% to tick over. Finally I logged off for a little while.
Then around 730 P.m. EDT I logged in with Sebastian and counter measures had completed, and the Prismatic core was done. I had to go and talk to polo and he gave me some blueprints to make this lens and I had all the ingredients which was corrupted Ichor silver and gold 100 each. It was funny cause I Hang onto that corrupted stuff because I thought it might come in handy. It can be turned into nanites. But of course I didn’t need any. So have you install that you got another milestone completed and you establish a link to the core and you got some check for your shit but I didn’t need it and then you end up fighting fighting the hive of glass. It’s a hard fight but it’s doable if you pay attention. It’s a little bit harder than fighting the pirate dreadnought because you do have to focus and keep renewing your shields. The little screen comes up like when you’re fighting the horror and other bosses and it goes down as you hit it and you have to keep hitting it constantly. There’s a lot of maneuvering. You have to stay out of the reach of the arms but once you get it, it’s a really satisfying feeling. I did watch a YouTuber go in very haphazardly and not keep his shields charged, but he did learn his lesson afterwards and he actually gave some hints about getting some tech that might be good for fighting than when I fight the next battle. so then you have to go talk to Atlas and he sends you to a completely different planet, which is OK because you can summon your ship and nothing’s broken. Sebastian claimed all of his rewards and immediately it said the expedition was over and this was my main save. I did put a base down and then I went back to the anomaly and checked the terminal and it said the expedition was over and that a new journey would begin soon Then I realized there was a few things. I wish I had done with Sebastian before I had finished the expedition on him. I wish I had given him all the stuff that I had left over. I have so much stuff on my other characters and yes, I can move some stuff over but I wish I’d like giving him some of the ships and stuff so I got this crazy idea.
Tuesday
So on Tuesday, I decided to do something really crazy. You know what I said that I wanted to do things differently with Sebastian that I would’ve given him stuff that everybody else had in the same I mean so much stuff we could just dump on him I could’ve dumped on him because he’s keeping the same same well I decided for one thing and maybe it’s not too crazy to start a new Expedition with Epril Because she has the least after Sebastian and her main saying. But now that I’m going through it, I think it was a brilliant idea because it also addresses some other interesting factors. OK so now I wanted to speed Through the whole situation so Logged onto Epril And started a new save within the expedition, and then I had her after she went through the whole initial thing I had her run to her ship and then I logged in April Pvd in VR while Epril was on flatscreen. April Pvd joined her and even though she got the notice that the expedition was ready to move on she ignored it and went straight to join Epril. she gave her everything she needed chromatic metal glass. Everything she needed to start her ship up and then she needs star bulb so she actually flew out and got it and then came back and I would go over to Epril Screen and do all the things she needed to do to be able to get the shit off the ground. It was a very quick and efficient way to do it within 15 minutes. She was ready to go. I also put a bunch of stuff into Epril’s inventory that I knew she might need. it was less than a half an hour between the time that E got to her ship And that she was up in space meeting the hive of glass so she did all the things she needed to do. She know she did the combat and then she completed the expedition and then went to the anomaly. Talked to Polo. Then I took her over a quicksilver and she got her living ship and she was organizing all the stuff that April Pvd had been given her and then she oh I know what happened. She had to sell some of the suspicious tech in order to get the living ship, but April Pvd had given her a bunch. Then I brought in April Pvd on the flatscreen and she gave E her Sentinel ship after she went back to her main save and made a copy of it, and she also gave her her living ship. The interesting thing was, though that when she got the Sentinel ship, It was C class. I did the swap where you take it to an NPC. He buys it or trade it and then you have the other character buy it from that NPC. Then I got a Freighter for E so that she could get a squadron finally, she got back to the anomaly and it turned out that she didn’t have to do all the missions again she just had to do each mission one time.
The next thing that happened is kind of a learning experience for everybody. I’m so mad about it, but it was my fault when I went back into my main save with April Pvd, so that I can make a copy of that ship. I forgot to check to see if PVP mode is off. I decided I wanted to go login on Sebastian cause he’s now in his regular state and to make sure that my home that I had made was near his, so I went through the teleporter of the anomaly and hi teleported to my home on the captain Steve planet got in my ship and went to head to where I thought Sebastian was and I immediately got attacked and killed. The only thing that makes me feel good about it was that they really didn’t get a fight. I ended up having to restore and I got back at First. The first time I restored my grave was gone. I was way away from my ship. My ship was so damaged and all my inventory was gone, but then I got out of multiplayer or out cause I had joined Sebastian‘s save and I got out of that and then I did the restore and I was back in the anomaly before the whole thing, but it was just a little bit of a waste of time, but it was a lesson well served. But I did find Sebastian‘s home and that was really interesting because I know that it works when he when you build a house in the expedition and then you make it your main game it stays in the same planet and basically in the same place so it would be interesting though if I made another base with Epril like near where he was but instead with Epril. I love messing with the mechanics of this game, so I got E afraid of just so that she could get a squadron and give the squadron the living ship that I had given her from April Pvd And had her join E on her freighter because she was running out of room and then she could make a storage room and put the stuff in there so that helped and I also did some duping because she was going to need some money or unit and then I took Apple Pvd back to the anomaly and she loaded up the console with all of the other things that she had left over and I ended up having to go into the settings and turn off multiplayer because people were standing in front of it, and then April Pvd closed out the expedition and went back to her main save.
Epril Went on to do the rest of the milestones up to counter measure and she only had to do one of each of the missions so she had to do a striker, a sabotage, and a restore. And then once she did that she immediately got the counter measure one.
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