Building Academy

Warning64

Astrum Nah, its good. You build better than I do. Even when I am focused. Which I never am because I am doing something like watching youtube.

Warning64

Oh, I have a fixed version of my dreadnaught right here (its probably not much better):

image https://i.imgur.com/IQTBvWz.png

Alpha

Astrum

Astrum I don't believe I have the patience to build something quite that huge, at least not without copy-pasting

Building is the easy part. You don't want to know how long it takes to give a +5 million ship that's designed for RP a good paintjob. 😕

(On my competitive ships I usually don't spend too much time on paint, but it's kinda an unspoken law to have good paint for role-playing.)

Astrum

Alpha I can only imagine. Maybe once my schedule clears up, I can actually sit down and dedicate myself to a larger build.

Warning64

Astrum I am going to start a new dreadnaught soon. I am going to try to make it bigger than the last one I made (and better).

Astrum

Warning64 Consider me interested (and a little frightened. Your first one lagged my computer quite badly). I really liked the visuals of your first one, so I have faith that your new one will look quite nice, at the very least!

Warning64

image https://i.imgur.com/aPgjp06.jpg
Astrum lol, thanks. I am thinking sort of like a star wars imperial star destroyer with a huge laser cannon running down the middle facing forward (railgun). I'll look for a pic, give me a moment.
Found it...

Crest12

I would like to see that

Warning64

Crest12 Ya well my cosmoteer just died trying to build it and now i'll have to restart.

kieffer5101

look in the lost ships folder, cosmoteer tries to save ships if you accidentally destroy/lose it that have not been saved, if it is not there you can also look in a auto-save to see i it saved your wold with the ship in it

Warning64

kieffer5101 well that's imposible because my cosmoteer literaly deleted itself. I have no Idea how. And if its still in my files its not even close to how far I was done because I was in blueprint mode the whole time. Ugg, now I have to redownload cosmoteer.

kieffer5101

Warning64 i dont think it deleted itself? are you sure it is gone? if so it was probably not cosmoteer that did it

Crest12

Warning64 are you sure it deleted itself? you might have mistaken it for something else

Warning64

Oh, and I am building these on my laptop, not a computer with more ram and a bigger hardrive.

Warning64

kieffer5101 yep, cosmoteer just self uninstalled itself. I checked all of my files. My data is still here so lucky me.

Warning64

Crest12 Nope. Checked multiple times. My data is still there tho (somehow) I just had to redo load it.

Warning64

Ok time to rebuild the shell of my dreadnaught.

Astrum

Warning64 Sorry to hear the game vanished. That's bizarre. Anyways, good luck on your dreadnought. I love the Eclipse! The Executor gets a lot of love, but one shouldn't forget the Eclipse too!

Warning64

Astrum Yep, I love the eclipse. All of the variants are good, this is just the easiest to build on cosmoteer

newageofpower

@Alpha ... I'm back for tractors!

Regarding push tractors, having a hard time keeping them powered even with 38 crew in a compartment and 3 reactors. I noticed like half the crew are sitting around in their rooms doing jack squat.

What do?

Equalizer

newageofpower Yes crew are stupid. If you don't care about cost, try using power storage as a buffer to aggregate the power from multiple reactors.

Seems to be the only way to provide increased power supply (should be enough to sustain push) but is very cost inefficient.
image https://i.imgur.com/RcizJlx.png
(Note: Reactor clustering is unavoidable here due to the crew needing to be able to go quickly between them as they run out of power.)