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Korbac

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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #420 on: November 05, 2012, 03:57:56 pm »
That's a neat discovery. I'm too stupid to utilize it :P; but this is Bay12. I'm sure you guys can do something. :)
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #421 on: November 05, 2012, 04:46:36 pm »
All I can think is that mounting a rear camera just became interesting, and point defense might be a bit easier.
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #422 on: November 05, 2012, 05:06:41 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on November 05, 2012, 04:46:36 pm
All I can think is that mounting a rear camera just became interesting, and point defense might be a bit easier.

Whelp. No big deal.. In other news, I present to you... THE DESTROYED DESTROYER MK I

AKA NEVER LET ME BUILD A SPACE SHIP

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So yeah, my first spaceship building attempt. Needlessly to say if failed. I cant fly it and it turns really slowly. But not bad for a first try I should say.
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Korbac

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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #423 on: November 05, 2012, 05:09:20 pm »
Dude, that looks AWESOME. Nice interior design and I love the asymmetry, it's really great! :D

Doesn't look super ultra expensive and would probably be a tough challenge to destroy. :)

I'm just finishing up my second ship (the large one) and have realized that it moves INCREDIBLY slowly. Ahh well, that's sort of the point. :P
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #424 on: November 05, 2012, 05:09:58 pm »
God that's ugly.  But I like it.  It's a solid chunk of boulder.  When multiplayer comes around I'll have to help you get the engines oriented and make it fly straight.
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #425 on: November 05, 2012, 05:24:24 pm »
That's not unusual.  The trick to learning ship design, is to realize that the only symmetry that matters is the one of mass.  Equally massive blocks on either side of the center of mass will offset each other.  The exact position doesn't matter, only that they're the same direction away from the center of mass.
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Korbac

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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #426 on: November 05, 2012, 05:28:18 pm »
Desired / Needed Features : Ability to save our ship templates.

I'm almost done with my big frigate! :D
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« Reply #427 on: November 05, 2012, 05:30:21 pm »
I guess you could also spread mass unevenly and even the thing with diferent engine power, but thats SCIENCE!!
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #428 on: November 05, 2012, 05:34:21 pm »
I've actually been debating how to test the engine effects at different powers, and how to tell how to position unequal engines.
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« Reply #429 on: November 05, 2012, 05:45:59 pm »
I guess keeping a ratio should work the problem is knowing how the mass is distributed, as we dont even have a center of mass indicator so far.
Also altough unrealistic you could place the engines in the center(inside) of the ship i think that could help (maybe?)
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #430 on: November 05, 2012, 05:47:10 pm »
We... do have a center marker though.  That's the green thing.
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« Reply #431 on: November 05, 2012, 05:51:45 pm »
I entered the game to take a screenshot and prove you wrong, but it seems... you are right. Maybe a % of engine increase based on how far from the center the center of mass is? Ill start testing.
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #432 on: November 05, 2012, 05:56:07 pm »
I gave this a try and its pretty good but I just can't get into it before it has multiplayer.  When it does I'll be coating my ships with raw rocks to disguise them as natural objects.
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #433 on: November 05, 2012, 05:56:25 pm »
There is, unfortunately, rather poor ways of testing speed and power.  You can't really give the thrusters a timed burst to check the power, and it's a tad tricky to time how long it takes to hit max speed.  Outside of some times macros, there's not much in the way of scientific tools!  Can't even really measure how far you've gone on a timed thrust.
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Re: Corneroids
« Reply #434 on: November 05, 2012, 06:02:42 pm »
Have you tried a stopwatch and a calculator?
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