What did you do in Starmade today?

Gasboy said:

It's a play on the word Skunkworks.

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Oh, how could I miss that (whatever 'Skunkworks' is).

Gasboy said:

it's just slang.

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You could have said that sooner, now I look like a grammar nazi.

Malacodor said:

Oh, how could I miss that (whatever 'Skunkworks' is).

You could have said that sooner, now I look like a grammar nazi.

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Hah. :P

From Wikipedia:

Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, and the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. Currently its main project is the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, which will be used in the air forces of several countries. Production is expected to last for up to four decades. The name "Skunk Works" was taken from the moonshine factory in the comic strip Li'l Abner.

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Today, I completed a docked shield supply beam for my new ship. It is shaped to the interior of the ship. I also finally started putting weapons, shield capacitors, jump drive, and jump inhibitor for the new ship. The new ship is based off this cool design I found on DA here. I put some wireless logic to toggle the shield supply in case of server lag prevention and for the fun of it.

JinM said:

...I never understand why every second spacecraft gets some wings. Like "hey its space, we have no air, but lets waste some metal one those cool looking side plates coz you know: they look so cool"

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Actually, while spaceships don't necessarily require wings, you may be interested to know they will require significant radiating surface to radiate waste heat out into space (and, no, you can't just convert waste heat into electricity or some other pseudoscientific magic). So your options are A) radiating fins a.k.a. wings or B) convoluted surface features (greebling) that increases surface area. Since most people at least want the option of crash landing on a planet, those individuals are best served with radiating fins formed into wings. So, yeah, we need to waste some metal on wings in space because they are cool. Literally.

jayman38 said:

and, no, you can't just convert waste heat into electricity or some other pseudoscientific magic

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But the reactors themselves are powered by pseudoscientific magic.

JinM said:

But if they are for radiating heat, why dont they look like a passive graficcards cooler? (graphic card passive cooler - Google-Suche)

And why do you have that problem with crashlanding on planets, when you have materials that withstand particels crashing onto your ship on 50.000km/h and higher? Even a small dust particle would do a big hole at any speed higher than 1000 km/h.

Also you have a so advanced traveling technology that manages jumps and warps, but dont have some emergency capsules that also can crashland or some engines that are stronger than some gravitational fields?

But I like the links you provided though. Nice thoughts.

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Uhm. That dust particle smashing into your ship at high speed has very little surface area. When it does hit, the energy transfer happens in a very, very tiny location. The damage it does is relatively minuscule, however since we require air to breath, even the tiniest crack in cockpit glass is an issue. Not so much on the hull, or in armored areas, though sensitive equipment might not like dust particle impacts at high speed either.

Crashing a ship into a planet is another thing entirely. O.O You don't want to thunder into a planet from orbit, sure you're not going to do much to the planet, but your ship will likely be totally destroyed. Wings can serve multiple purposes as mentioned above. Heat dissipation requires great amounts of surface area. Wings can also have convenient hardpoints for weapons. And they allow for controlled landings on planets.

However, since StarMade is a game, I'll tell you the real reason why some ships have wings.

CAUSE I WANT THEM TO, THAT'S WHY! :P

today I accidentally moved my starmade folder and lost it all.

im glad that I made a backup of my blueprints folder.


fun times

I built a gun thingy

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Us eventually breaking it and it refused to spin no more.
Thanks Exozen for participating in my shenanigans :D


Postosis also made a thingy! :D

Build a nice little ship.
Nearly useless but it looks decent


How would you rate that ship?

By the way: Does anyone know how to turn these transparent screenshots off? You know, those where the space background is not included. That's why my screenshots have this greenscreen.

Master1398 said:

How would you rate that ship?

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Good, but a bit too big/small for me.
I would build smaller or bigger, not this size/shape.

heres a concept that i have been working on all week. finally finished it. at least until my a.d.d gives me more ideas to add to it.
[doublepost=1473026614,1473026049][/doublepost]the inspiration for the manta ray ship
[doublepost=1473026676][/doublepost]what happens when your really bored...

Got the Drone launching facilities done on the Carrier Frigate I've been working on. Now I just need weapons/systems and a bit of neatening up the exterior and I'll be done. Might need to wait until the new battery system gets added though, not sure whether the soft cap will be enough to actually be able to move and run passives with the amount of armour this thing is packing.

technocc said:

...a small space station that is just under 4000 blocks long...

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Somebody, grab a Donald Trump "small loan" meme!

I wrote four bug reports. Four. On a single day.

JinM said:

Not that much for an early access game. This will go on for a year or even longer, because they are adding new stuff. (do you have read: StarMade Active Development Timeline) But I understand that it feels like a lot. Compared to the huge ammount of program Starmade is, it might be not that much if you think about it.

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How many bug reports did you write today? Or this week?