Space Engineers - Say goodbye to Starmade and Blockade runner.
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render distance be damned. It's possible if you make the whole thing hallow.
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221 long, the width of the ship
[QUOTE=Ogopogo;42679827]Well first thing is first, I think I have to make it half size, if only because 800 is longer than the render distance.[/QUOTE]aww damn i hope they up that at some point
[QUOTE=Joazzz;42679969]aww damn i hope they up that at some point[/QUOTE]
Also, can you get the distance from the rear to the widest point? Doesn't matter if it is halved or not.
[QUOTE=Ogopogo;42679977]Also, can you get the distance from the rear to the widest point? Doesn't matter if it is halved or not.[/QUOTE]approximately 53 blocks, full scale version
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actually, looking at your pic, i think a 1/2 version might actually be closer to the real size, while the "1:1" scale thing is closer to a light super star destroyer. i might have underestimated the size of the Large Ship parts
[QUOTE=Joazzz;42680032]approximately 53 blocks, full scale version
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actually, looking at your pic, i think a 1/2 version might actually be closer to the real size, while the "1:1" scale thing is closer to a light super star destroyer. i might have underestimated the size of the Large Ship parts[/QUOTE]
Either way, it is still massive.
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ohohohohohoholy shit
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also since i haven't actually gotten to play the game yet, how does the reactor power output thing work? can you conduct power further by having a bigger cluster of reactors?
[QUOTE=Joazzz;42680125]ohohohohohoholy shit
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also since i haven't actually gotten to play the game yet, how does the reactor power output thing work? can you conduct power further by having a bigger cluster of reactors?[/QUOTE]It's just a value that increases with more reactors added or bigger reactors. You don't have to wire anything up or worry about distances, all parts that in some way connect back to the reactor get powered.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;42680615]It's just a value that increases with more reactors added or bigger reactors. You don't have to wire anything up or worry about distances, all parts that in some way connect back to the reactor get powered.[/QUOTE]
It took me forever to figure out they were actually needed.
I was wondering why my lights weren't working for like 20 minutes.
Is one big thruster worth the same amount of small ones you can occupy its space with or larger?
A WIP of the Whirlpool, my first serious ship in this game. Still need to do the engines and backside stuff and exterior things.
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So I made a super space MV-22 Osprey
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more pictures yay - this time not hosted on my dropbox 'cause all the traffic got it temporarily suspended last time :v:
WARNING: if you are allergic to terrible double entendre or puns , please refrain from reading this post
i call it 'the penetrator'
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ribbed ;~)
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minimal compartment for the pilot
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plenty of... thrust
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penetration~
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the shaft of the ship sustained surprisingly little damage
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going in for round 2
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down to the hilt~
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backing up for the final blow
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oh dear - it went everywhere
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edit:
fwiw i didn't intentionally go for the rear - it was just the biggest, flattest and easiest to hit target.
Note to self: dickships work really well as boarding craft.
Setting the foundation of the ship is the hardest part of it. I managed to finish the majority of the measurements of the bridge
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Edit: this ship is going to be almost unfathomably heavy. That much alone weighs 1000 tonnes. Predicting a weight around 1000 kilotons or more.
[QUOTE=woolio1;42681723]Note to self: dickships work really well as boarding craft.[/QUOTE]
just be careful with how fast you thrust at the target - i found that if it were going in too fast, it'd just disintegrate itself and would barely penetrate the target at all.
15m/s seemed to be the optimal thrusting velocity.
heh.
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Fucking do it, that thing is meant for ramming.[/QUOTE]
I tried to the best I could do, sadly it didn't turn out as good as I'd hoped but oh well.
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[QUOTE=PsiSoldier;42681764]just be careful with how fast you thrust at the target - i found that if it were going in too fast, it'd just disintegrate itself and would barely penetrate the target at all.[/QUOTE]
the best strategy seems to be to get in close and sort of wiggle your way in rather than trying to smash through in one go
[QUOTE=EVIL WEVIL;42681855]I tried to the best I could do, sadly it didn't turn out as good as I'd hoped but oh well.
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Remember, building bigger will give you more detail. Most 40k ships are HUGE. Build HUGE.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;42676623]i'm bored and feel like doing some measurements, so
1. how big are the titular characters if measured in small ship blocks?
2. how big are big ship parts if measured in standard small ship blocks?
or let's make this more straightforward actually, how many metres do you think one normal-sized cube is?[/QUOTE]iirc either the devs said or it says somewhere in the game that the large blocks are 3.5m. Not sure about the small ones.
EDIT: Large blocks 2.5m, small 0.5m.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;42678151]scrap ship, BLAM commander, BLAM tech-priests, BLAM fabricator general, burn blueprints, exterminatus Mars[/QUOTE]
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Placing breaching charges on the sides of ships to blow holes in their hulls would be cool.
I hope that multiplayer comes soon because if we grouped together producing that Star Destroyer would go so much faster. Would also be easy to groupbuild since we have schematics.
Can you just imagine trying to build this out of materials you scrounged though?
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While the block aspect is miles better than what Minecraft has on its java, there's a thing it does better: in minecraft, you don't just add a block, you replace it (air to stone, or air to wood etc), and huge buildings don't lag as much (I may be wrong). In this game however, you add blocks, and it gradually starts to lag more. So what I'm saying is, it's not gonna be lag-free to build huge (even mid-huge) ships in multiplayer.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;42683099]Why stop at a star destroyer?
Make a Deathstar covered in thrusters.
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Turn it into a giant bowling ball :v:[/QUOTE]
1:1 scale Death Star II
it'll have so much mass you won't need to put down gravity generators
[editline]spess pinball[/editline]
I saw your pinball idea
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;42683099]Turn it into a giant bowling ball :v:[/QUOTE]
Because one exhaust port wasn't dangerous enough, now they need 3.
God help them if the Rebels build an enormous hand.
Space Engineers - Say goodbye to Starmade and Blockade runner.
