Space Engineers - Say goodbye to Starmade and Blockade runner.
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[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;46889231]I rather make it 100% vanilla
I managed to make it work finally, it can easily ram a ship 2-3 times before it's "knife" dulls without causing massive damage to the hull
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not really good looking but who gives a fuck
[t]http://i.imgur.com/HI6axYn.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
use a projector with the whole ship as the blueprint and just have it aligned to the ship so someone can just go out and welder it and fix any other damage that occurred.
[QUOTE=Pigbear;46890963]use a projector with the whole ship as the blueprint and just have it aligned to the ship so someone can just go out and welder it and fix any other damage that occurred.[/QUOTE]
Better yet: Hold the blade in place with landing gear and have a cavity behind it where a new blade is constructed. Then, when the blade is dulled, eject it and push it out with the new blade behind it!
i wouldn't trust landing gear to not explode, merge block maybe?
Welders behind armor has never worked better, probably should try having a set of welders protected behind the blade that repair it all the time.
I made a ship built for high speed ramming last night, the idea was that the front would have 20 block thick heavy armor and would blast a hole big enough for the ship to sail through effortlessly.
[IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/46493271113954264/C1C7EAD64B6B5DE1D8E8EA99E68E2875833A689F/[/IMG]
To test it I rammed the Ulysses, my 300m light armor ship with 5 decks. instead of going through, it buried the nose in the ship and punted it across space at half the original speed of the ramming ship.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;46892155]I made a ship built for high speed ramming last night, the idea was that the front would have 20 block thick heavy armor and would blast a hole big enough for the ship to sail through effortlessly.
[IMG]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/46493271113954264/C1C7EAD64B6B5DE1D8E8EA99E68E2875833A689F/[/IMG]
To test it I rammed the Ulysses, my 300m light armor ship with 5 decks. instead of going through, it buried the nose in the ship and punted it across space at half the original speed of the ramming ship.[/QUOTE]
Mmmm inertia
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Maybe if they finally add catastrphic explosions to the reactors then ships wont be the equivalent of pretty clumps of wet clay.
I don't see why they should, the most a uranium reactor might do is shoot coolant at high pressure in a beautiful semi radioactive space rainbow.
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And I guess the high pressure part is assuming it uses water as a coolant and not a salt or something.
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Come to think of it, despite the fact that they hum, I would speculate that the mechanism for generating electricity must be thermoelectric in nature? The reactors don't seem to have any kind of moving electricity generating component(s).
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;46891089]Better yet: Hold the blade in place with landing gear and have a cavity behind it where a new blade is constructed. Then, when the blade is dulled, eject it and push it out with the new blade behind it![/QUOTE]
I will try this
but so far here's a video of it being tested against various things
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2NB71-5eWs[/media]
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;46893196]I will try this
but so far here's a video of it being tested against various things
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2NB71-5eWs[/media][/QUOTE]
I can't help but being reminded of an Ork ship from WH40K, called a Brute Ram Ship.
Which is basically a giant as fuck ramming beak with even bigger engines behind it.
is there ANYthing in space engineers that might produce a pretty explosion (apart from explosives and warheads)
like thrusters! surely they could explode in a phenomenal blue explosion as all that blue stuff combusts at once.
That would be annoying though since you usually place thruster together and i wouldn't want all my thrusters to go fuck in some... absolutely spectacular chain mechanism or would i?
ok yeah that whole idea about a retractable/extendable knife doesn't really work
[t]http://i.imgur.com/grht9ST.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hmPHwdH.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/cDHdrvp.jpg[/t]
you can't turn without the knife going apeshit
once the ramming blade head thing is pushed forward it should disconnect with the pistons and instead attach to other merge blocks on the ship. thus when it gets dull and destroyed you discard it, quickly build a new one and bring that forth for more action!
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fancy ass maneuvers is never a good idea when you're lugging around a lump of heavy armour attached to pistons
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all this talk of ramming really makes me wanna build something like that too! something heralding to the ancient greeks and romans!
Picture a space version of this! with that fearsome paintjob and all!
[t]http://www.tau.ac.il/medicine/trireme/images/TRIREME.jpg[/t]
Yeah the whole knife thing was inspired by [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker"]Icebreakers[/URL] and Pirate Ships. Since most ships my friends build are in creative, the only way of doing damage is ramming into them at 100m/s.
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[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;46894139]once the ramming blade head thing is pushed forward it should disconnect with the pistons and instead attach to other merge blocks on the ship. thus when it gets dull and destroyed you discard it, quickly build a new one and bring that forth for more action!
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I decided to just scrap the pistons and just go with one big ass knife that you have to manually adjust instead of using pistons. Pistons are pretty buggy and they refuse to cooperate with me
also
[t]http://i.imgur.com/RRi40qj.png[/t]
I built I blade ramming ship once
[t]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/452906158623482016/FA66BCA2D8807E98257C5C65B20DD0FC86213879/[/t]
[t]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/452906158623483551/732025BE656E1A63FD17BCDE6B41D189A0B83448/[/t]
And a sawblade ramming ship
[t]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/594788129958971575/8301DD1E1BF6794DE4498D855B3B3929BF673970/[/t]
And a big sawblade ramming ship
[t]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/57735143748211118/90680F5794C2F08254B55A4FA5F5EA7A38B011CA/[/t]
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;46893531]Unfortunately no. They wanted to take a really realistic approach to this, taking as few liberties for the sake of fun as they could.
Only way you'd get a typical explosion in a scenario like this would be inside a pressurized ship with an atmosphere. But they don't even have a system like that in the game.
I don't think there's anything stopping people from just modding stuff in though.
And yeah the warheads are pretty but they just delete any areas that get blown apart. You can never really get any actual debris fields.[/QUOTE]
You could easily explain any explosive behavior by attributing it to the technology that allows for miniaturized nuclear reactors in the first place.
It would be glorious to fire a torpedo into a massive flagship and watch the reactors explode along the length of the vessel.
ok thats actually clever
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;46894594]
also
[t]http://i.imgur.com/RRi40qj.png[/t][/QUOTE]
This always happens to me every update. I have to verify the local game content with steam and then it goes away. In my logs it crashes with something dx related but reinstalling directx does not fix it, only verify local content. Makes me feel the update didn't fully finish or something.
I think I found the space engineers equivalent of the city of Gold and it is beautiful:
[T]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/36360352464455703/542793D34AD6D53C0227AA99256EC6E7528AB4BD/[/T]
[t]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/36360352464456142/CDFC6781B57C5A0B76291231156AC7EB64136881/[/t]
I wish I could have taken more pictures but I had to go check in on some things and forgot to pause the game and died in there.
Also is there some kind of mod from a small refinery/assembler? Starting out without a refinery and assembler means it is impossible to do anything until you find a ship to tear down for the said parts and it's tedious to find any playermade ships. Though you do find cool shit every now and then.
[url=http://imgur.com/a/ATORJ]So, apparently someone made Von Neumann probes.[/url]
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;46896497][url=http://imgur.com/a/ATORJ]So, apparently someone made Von Neumann probes.[/url][/QUOTE]
Genius
good god
I asked him and he said he may try to build a more complex mechanism wherein the probes mine their own ores and produce the necessary materials to self replicate if a few prerequisite programming additions are made
Do those involve programming?
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;46896497][url=http://imgur.com/a/ATORJ]So, apparently someone made Von Neumann probes.[/url][/QUOTE]
Random Encounter: Von Neumann
I hope that if I am on a server and someone releases these that I can get far far away, more so if they grind down ships eventually and then make more
[QUOTE=Pigbear;46897217]Random Encounter: Von Neumann
I hope that if I am on a server and someone releases these that I can get far far away, more so if they grind down ships eventually and then make more[/QUOTE]
That feels like a Sword of the Stars 1 reference.
[QUOTE=Craigewan;46897237]That feels like a Sword of the Stars 1 reference.[/QUOTE]
It was.
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VN was the whole reason I disabled random encounters or lowered them to like 10%
seriously fuck VN
My second attempt at the terran wraith. My first attempt was at launch of SE (my first small ship)
[img]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/31856754836048569/9E594B3CE646F8E70AF50F0854FE7BB90160060F/[/img]
are there any methods to automatically change all the block of a certain colour do a different colour. Like a mod or a script or something. I cbf doing it block by block
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Space Engineers - Say goodbye to Starmade and Blockade runner.
