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08.10.7016
Turret Designing
I am still obsessed with the railgun from the Expanse, that I saw firing from the Donnager in the 3rd episode.
The designs I came up with tried to reenact the style in the smallest manner possible. These turrets do penetrate roughly 15blocks of basic hull with their 52-52 cannon-beam setup. For RP purposes they are a nice thing I think. Ofcourse they are only a small mirrorimage of what the railguns in the Expanse universe are cappable of. Still I will try to see if I can find a place for them.
In all the turrets the middle line of blocks is filled with decoration instead of weapons, but what seems like wasted space is in reality a amount of 7x3=21 blocks wasted. If I tried to go most efficient I could get 20% more damage (but remember diminishing retrurns with higher block count). Also their projectile is yellow and comes out of the middle of the turret, so it moves along the accelaration line in the middle of the turret resembling speeding up a shell in a magnetic field.
I even phantasized about using logic one day in a bigger turret to mirror the charging and shooting style of the firing weapon by activating the lights inside the barrel with the right timing.
09.10.7016
Expansion circular Staircase
I wanted to build some more ships now and that needs an additional docking port that I want to add into the top direction of my station. I am still used to building staircases instead of spaceish pipes and modules, but the staircase is a nice template for the time being. A bit to colorfull but its a game not a designer contest, and I had no other blocks around at the moment to build it (yes I still don't cheat my stuff into survival and I still don't have made that mega salvager and mining operation that basically turns the game into creative unless you want to build titans). =)
Turret Designing
I am still obsessed with the railgun from the Expanse, that I saw firing from the Donnager in the 3rd episode.
The designs I came up with tried to reenact the style in the smallest manner possible. These turrets do penetrate roughly 15blocks of basic hull with their 52-52 cannon-beam setup. For RP purposes they are a nice thing I think. Ofcourse they are only a small mirrorimage of what the railguns in the Expanse universe are cappable of. Still I will try to see if I can find a place for them.
In all the turrets the middle line of blocks is filled with decoration instead of weapons, but what seems like wasted space is in reality a amount of 7x3=21 blocks wasted. If I tried to go most efficient I could get 20% more damage (but remember diminishing retrurns with higher block count). Also their projectile is yellow and comes out of the middle of the turret, so it moves along the accelaration line in the middle of the turret resembling speeding up a shell in a magnetic field.
I even phantasized about using logic one day in a bigger turret to mirror the charging and shooting style of the firing weapon by activating the lights inside the barrel with the right timing.
09.10.7016
Expansion circular Staircase
I wanted to build some more ships now and that needs an additional docking port that I want to add into the top direction of my station. I am still used to building staircases instead of spaceish pipes and modules, but the staircase is a nice template for the time being. A bit to colorfull but its a game not a designer contest, and I had no other blocks around at the moment to build it (yes I still don't cheat my stuff into survival and I still don't have made that mega salvager and mining operation that basically turns the game into creative unless you want to build titans). =)