Got bored so I built the Empyrion Carrier and I thought I'd throw in a poll to see what people think about the displaying of ships from other games whilst the game is still not released. When its released I imagine these forums will fill with vessels from Empyion. Until then lets see what people think. You may vote twice. The Carrier is not perfect replication I only had to angles from one of there videos to build it from and it was running on the laptop so the picture was small, but anyway here you are....
It is not offensive to the Developers, in fact the enthusiasm is amazing to see. What is offensive, is repeated postings of the same topic after this has already been moved. Please keep this in Off Topic Discussion, but definitely do keep them coming.
Well space engineers is not the best game to make "Motherships" Every time I make multiple kilometer large ships my fps drops to 10. Also it kinda depends on what you compare it with. If you compare ships of different games and series the size of a classification are very diverse. So in some universes it could classify as a "Mothership" Dreadnought.
This is true, and if the way Cities: Skylines performs is any indication, the Unity engine will have much better performance, it seems to handle complex simulations across multiple threads really well.
That is nice to know . performance with large ships was one of my main concerns for this game cause I like to build big.
That ship is roughly the same size as the one you see in the developers video, I did it to that rough scale to get an idea of the difference between frame rates [SE v Empyrion] when Empyrion is released. At first glance Empyrion appears to be capable of building larger ships and holding a better/higher frame rate , but to know for sure will mean actually doing it. As one of the loopy's that like to build redonkulasly large vessels/structures I like what this is shaping up to be, I think !
Why should it be offensive? If the Devs think it is, they can say us, and take them down. I think we are the last who have to decide this.
What I wonder is if instead of making buggy, lag inducing, multiplayer incompatible rotors for making turrets for really large ships, they would introduce a player made gun that won't interact with other blocks on the same ship, and can't rotate even close to 360 but instead can pivot on the attaching block at the back so you can still aim it within a narrow-ish arc. This way we can have really big ships that can have proportional guns and can aim themselves a little without having to move your whole ship.
This would need the acceptence and agreement of the Developers to add a modular weaponsystem. And I guess they like this idea not (I would love it). I`m not a friend of prefab things, general. Especial in a thing like big imposant ships it is very sad to be limited to tiny waterpistol turrets. If there would be a chance for a system like this I would suggest to orientate on the turret and Weaponconstructionsystme of the game "From the dempths" I did see no better system anywhere yet.
I too am interested in modular weapons systems... where it makes sense. It makes sense that man-sized weapons and small mounted weapons would be self contained units, but for anything larger, there should be a modular construction system. Although for smaller surface mounted weapons and infantry weapons I could see a self-contained weapon customization system, like in Borderlands 2 or some such.
@piddlefoot I'm impressed on how close you got just from the few screenshots and videos there are showing the ship, nice job.
This is an updated version of this ship, I have been using it in survival so there are a couple of batteries and blocks unfinished etc, and theres a heap of stuff in containers etc, it has had a lot of stuff jammed into it over the last week or so, its had a lot of thrusters whacked onto it, so it doesn't look quite the same as it did, but I needed more power scotty ! I have left a new link to the workshop in this post to the updated version of this ship and I have uploadd a dozen or so new pic's, enjoy....... Blueprint workshop file. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=419685606 This is the whole map file. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=419753333 And these are the new pic's !
I play starmade, and i make 1:1 scale versions of the star ships from Starwars. Heres my current build. The Venator Class Cruiser (1137m long, 548m wide, 268m height) I'm just waiting to build it in Empyrion Here you see 1:2 Scaled Version of the Venator and a 1:1 Scale version of the Acclamator Class Assault Ship (Planetary landing capable)
