Anyone reading the comments below this: they are from the server back at the start of 2015, and they don't pertain to the new planets server.

Yeah I disabled the cargo ships and increased the speed of ships. Im going to look into lowering the spawn rates of cargo ships tonight before they get enabled again. I'm toying with the idea of just turning them off and using exploration ships instead, thoughts?

Maybe they will fix it tomorrow. At least I hope so :/

I think I noticed you did a server cleanup, and it's been running better for a time, but the Cargo Ships of Doom respawned, and it's pretty much the same as before. Do you think it's possible to disable them for now, as it seems even reddit agrees that those are the main issue? I feel a bit bad for bugging you about it.

Yeah should be doable, ill see what i can do

As of a day after the last patch the server is running a lot slower than usual; server frames averaging 30. Now, Shadowraven and I have hypothesised a bit, and it seems to coincide with the Cargo Ships being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everywhere: This was apparently changed in the last patch; Cargo Ships now also spawn away from the centre. In my last exploration tour to see whether you guys have been slacking off building your bases I noticed how I couldn't go anywhere without having at least one Cargo Ship in my sight, sometimes up to three at the same time.
Is it possible to tweak the settings a little so we don't get swarmed?

Can we get some upvotes for this place going again? Show your love.

What clammy said on the 4th is 100% backed up by me. Please do this.

hey guys. if your base is close to a server beacon (I.E. map center, asteroid field bravo, etc.) please simply place your long range beacons to a distance to that landmark. if you are 1000m from map center, you don't need a 50,000m beacon for your base. just a 1000m beacon to the map center beacon. this will help cut down on beacon clutter. obviously those who live in deep space can't help this, but the rest of us can. thanks guys

X,Y,Z beacons are kinda essential even with the GPS script on.. It just takes forever to try to allign yourself with one axis without help of them. So how others would mind of having 3 coordinate beacons in the world to help even more with navigating through the space

That would probably be the easiest, I'll do that tonight when updating the save file

perhaps a beacon at dead center of the map ? don't go more than 100km from that beacon ?

any idea when the server will be back up ? it is 3am eastern US/canada time here. no rush, just curious. :)

I think I can deal with 100km if it helps the server perform and avoid the instability issues. Atleast till devs could properly fix it. Think we all will find a nice little sector of space for ourselves.. Just make sure there are somekind way of determining your distance from the "walls of the world"

Good spot Dr_Dog! ill put that straight into the how to connec to the server discussions.

I advice to use the Steam's own server browser.. It has proper search function and favourites and history (ye goon olde CSS/HL2 browser) You can find it from "View" > "Servers" in the main Steam window. Just select Space Engineers as games and find the server. The ingame server browser dosent seem to work very well.. dosent even display all servers

I got back to Nick on steam earlier, but for everyone else the server is updated and online

I updated my client when i logged off earlier, and now I cant get on the server..damn

The search feature doesn't work at all for me. Even when I see our server in the list (and it takes a few minutes to appear there), as soon as I type AEN into the search box, the list becomes empty. I'll just have to sort by server name and find it every time, I guess.

I mean de-select

Yeah you select every checkbox to find the server, I already said in steam chat but wanted to post this here for others to see too

Nothing's showing up for me when I search for AEN. Do I need to fiddle with the checkboxes?

This group is essentially the whitelist for the server, the game checks if you are a member here before letting you in.

I would recommend: have fraps idling in the background and record if someone is griefing your base and I will wield the banhammer swiftly.