Space Engineers have a guide for that:
I mean… you cant exactly be shocked, when cube/square based objects are the second most efficient shape in a cube/tile based world.
As for what the most efficient shape is, well, anyone familiar with RCE should know that one by heart.
ISO 9001 Human Starship. Brick. With guns.
Starfield. I want it to look cool. But I also don’t want to climb the damn ladders inside my ship, so I end up with a big flat slab.
It STILL pisses me off how god awful starship building was.
Its like… how can you not fucking conceive that I might want stairs in my ship.
or control where the fucking doors/ladders go.
but no… we have to generate laberinthine messes because apparently the power core is a goddamn minotaur.
This is, in concept, why my brother won’t play space engineers with me.
Also applies to Avorion lol.
Every FU***** time
I played Cosmoteer before this DLC came out. Everything ends up being a box. I’m guessing FTL and similar games also have that problem.
☝️🤓 You don’t design ships in FTL!
I’m surprised anyone has the patience to get to a space ship. I get bored late midgame when you run out of steel and have to juggle caravans and a colony which is constantly beset with attacks and adverse conditions.
its why I install the quarry mod and just dig forever in it lol
There’s a FUCKING QUARRY MOD???!!! Thank you kind sir. I’m going mining.
and turn the harvest rate up, I MEAN WAY UP
In the Odyssey DLC, there is a scenario where you start with a ship.
Raid strength is proportional to your wealth, as shown in the history tab. You can reduce raid strength by donating wealth (using caravans or drop pods) to potential allies.
It’s such fun game. I will never see what happens past midgame.
Rimworld is the kind of game people beat once, then switch to Randy (the only nod-modded story teller that allows for indefinite gameplay) and just build big honkin castles, or go on genocidal conquests, or try to eat the entire world population… often paired with the genocidal conquests.
Oh absolutely. I have hundreds of hours logged, probably over a thousand now. It just gets so complicated and intense that I give up before getting anywhere near “end game”.
I think this refers to the new (awesome) dlc where your base is a spaceship
Yes, but it’s a “gravship” to differentiate.
Ha, my gravship still looks like a mushroom from my mushroom people eating mushrooms in their mushroom biom mushroom-formed colony. All Hail the Shroom Rocket!
500 named thrumbos and 2600 harvested kidneys later:
2600 kidneys ?? That’s rookie number.
Why only harvest kidneys when you can harvest anything until nothing left ?One lung, one kidney, liver. In that order. Kidney affects blood filtration which means infections are more likely. You could do the heart but there are currently no ways to get any sort of artificial livers while there are artificial hearts. Plus livers and hearts sell for the same price if that’s your vibe.
You’ve got a hard point there. At more than 100 colonists, my game loads in at less than one frame per second. That’s why there’s a cap on kidney harvesting. Otherwise, I would be a more terrible monster. Thanks for your concern, though.
In space, shape doesn’t matter as much as mass center. Here’s the spaceship Sidonia from Knights of Sidonia
Unless you go really fast, then an aerodynamic shape becomes super important again
Yeah, can’t have that pesky air resistance slow you down. In…space.
Edit: Okay, now I’m actually super curious at what speed this would come into effect. I know space isn’t 100% vaccuum, so there is some point where this would become a necessary factor to consider. However, it must be at truly insane speeds, no?
Space is full of particles, and if you want to travel relativistic speeds, they’re a problem.
Cool design ! This sent me for a small research loop, wondering if there is any connection to the song from Muse Knights of Cydonia. The song came out in 2006 and the first manga in 2009. Most likely explanation is they are both named after the Cydonia region of Mars. Probably, the manga got translated back from Japanese phonetically.
We are the Box-shapes, resistance is inefficient.
Me playing Kingdom Hearts.
That’s okay, it’s a Borg cube.
