ABOUT ♙DMG||The Reach Empyrion Server

Group for Empyrion Frontier Roleplay Server

This is a Steam Group for the Empyrion Roleplay Server called The Reach: Frontier Server.

It is a server headed and maintained by the company Darkmind Games who is consistently working on improving and expanding The Reach including an extensive, roleplay framework for Empyrion, an economy, expanded universe, theme-friendly lore, and much, much more.

The Reach Staff

[DarkmindGames]♙SLIVER (Creator/Admin)
[DarkmindGames]♙Xerith77 (Creator/Admin)
feanor_269 (Server-side Admin)

Server Rules:

1. No racism whatsoever
Confirmed racism will result in a 10 year ban and Valve report, no exceptions. That includes ship and base names! Don't do it.

2. Don't be mean
Rudeness and aggressive attitudes will result in a 3 to 7 day suspension depending on severity.

3. Do not grief
Confirmed griefing another player will result in a 7+ day suspension, this includes: ''(A)trade skipping'' and "(B)overbuilding:"

A. If you make a deal to trade with someone, keep it. Don't steal from what's suppose to be a trade. Be smart: bring guards to protect trades from hijackers and pirates.

B. Oversized builds (Class 5+) will be removed on first offense. Severity of punishment increases per offense.

4. No religion, politics, or money talks
Like being in a bar or club, don't talk about these subjects...they're too controversial and lead to people becoming scary monsters. Monsters get kicked.

5. No sexting/cybersex
There's a time and place for that (if that's your thing) here and/or now is not it. Also it's punishable by a 6 month ban here. Sexual harassment will result in a 20 year ban and a Valve report!

6. "Mature" cursing only
We're all adults here so if you start cursing excessively like a 12 year old, you'll get kicked for the day/night. Keep it up and you'll get kicked longer.

7. Be respectful

Server Privileges:
VOIP: Use of a TeamSpeak server

Light Role Play: Unlike many other role play servers, we don't require you to act or talk a certain way. The way you play is the way you role here! If you want to be an explorer: explore. Want to be a trader: trade; we'll get you a booth at a starport! If you want to be a pirate: get ready for a fight!

Open Community: This server's theme, mods, and other ideas have been made because of suggestions and ideas passed along by server participants. If you've got an idea, WE WANT TO HEAR IT! So, speak up and let's make it happen!

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

So, an unlikely and unprecedented update...

5 June, 2018 - [DarkmindGames]♟SLIVER | 1 Comments

How so? Because I didn't expect these tools to become so available so quickly to be honest; after Eleon's recent string of announcements and headlining "News" I pretty much lost all hope of any upcoming release of problem solving logic to come from them in any time quickly.

It's been over a year since The Reach shut down and it's almost monthly that I bump into or talk to a "Reacher" and am reminded just how much everyone truly enjoyed the server despite its terrible, unforseen lack in accountability and (ultimately) balance. I said when I shut The Reach down that eventually I would come back to it to fix what was wrong with it when the tools were provided from Eleon. Then, Eleon didn't fix anything; they just continued adding newer textures and creating customisable "scenarios" and so forth which weren't really needed, but this carried on for over a year.

Now, after a long wait, it seems that Eleon finally got the message and they're FINALLY going back to mechanized development where they're fixing the things that were mechanically wrong/missing in Empyrion. Barriers are gone, planets are spherical, food/medicine is more balanced, stealth (although very shallow and beta) is there, and most important: we have a modding API. I had a very set list of things I wanted to see implemented into Empyrion before I would relaunch The Reach including:

Parallel movement (moving on a moving ship)
Hot seat logic (sitting in a docked SV on a moving CV)
Various range warp drives
Removed barriers (green/orange barriers actually toppled The Reach more than I'd like to admit - so problematic...remember disappearing ships?)
SDK/Modding API

Some of these things have actually been implemented already and are noted by the strikethrough of the text. However, most importantly is the Modding API; now the documentation is scarce and not the easiest to put together as this API was basically reverse engineered by the Homeworld team (if my info is wrong on that, please let me know), but the ability to add/change actual logic in the server and how it interacts with its players is paramount. Given what must be done in it for The Reach to return, in regards to having this API, the work we have ahead of ourselves is enormous. So, the tool we needed to actually revisit The Reach and find a way to fix what imbalances were there inherently has finally arrived.

I don't want to get your hopes up too high, we're still only a 2 man development team (with 9 - 5 day jobs) for The Reach project and not to mention that Darkmind Games is currently developing its own, standalone game in the lull of The Reach being up from an API/SDK being absent. So, it would be devastating to simply abandon one project to rekindle this; likewise it would also be devastating to now have the tools to rebuild The Reach into what it was always meant to be and not revisit the project.

So, careful steps and delegation must be taken to ensure that this server will return in good faith and that the company isn't stretched beyond its production limits. In the end, we're talking about both now at this point whereas before the conversation wasn't even being had for a while. So, no announcement date of a return yet, but we're at least back at the table with new talks about how to rebuild the server.

So, if you want the [TL:DR] version: new API released, server relaunch...coming when it's ready.

~SLIVER

New Rules!

8 February, 2017 - [DarkmindGames]♟SLIVER | 3 Comments

So I've been thinking...

I know, scary words there huh? But it's true, I've been thinking, as per usual, about what the new Reach will be like. I've seen some servers that just allow for total chaos and anarchy and they're not any fun. I've also seen some servers that have so many rules and regulations that your fun comes into question upon any moment of liberating enjoyment.

I've always strove to make Reach a place somewhere in between: structured chaos. Most of you all already know this, but I'm curious as to where you think the rules may have been too strict or too lenient. I've had a few ideas that I've discussed with a couple of you in private about what things need to change, digress, or update with the new server. However, I want to make this a public conversation at this point because I want to know what kind of server YOU want to play on. I want to know your ideas and what you liked the most about The Reach, what you didn't, and what you'd like to see in the new Reach.

Some ideas like blocking BP builds or restricting BP builds to lower classes such as Class 3 and below have been discussed. I've gotten some feedback, but now I want more feedback from a much broader audience. With exploits trolls use such as the flying-brick-base-destroyer ships becoming more and more rampant, I want to know what you guys think should or could be done to help promote a fun and healthy gaming environment.

Just keep in mind the idea of Reach: structured chaos. I want people to be able to pirate freely, run smuggling rings, grow narcotics, run from the TEC, attack the authorities, rival other factions, run illegal Pentx refineries, keep peace and order among the systems, and trade at starports or in a field full of corndog plants LOL. I want all of these things, but not at the expense of someone using the rules as way to corrupt the enjoyment of the gameplay. Things like hijacking ships, taking and parking those ships in PvE only zones as "trophies," as well as the flying-gun-brick ships sour a server. So how can we fix it?

Let's get the conversation started in the comments below!