Power Regen: 10000 e/sec, 5x5x5 Box?

[Firask]

Why is it so important to squeeze so much power out of a 5x5 cube anyways?

 

[agentEE7]

It\'s useful for building small ships without having power take up a lot of space. More power + more space = more room for other systems like shields, weapons, etc.

 

[Wully]

The most I have managed to get, bar Shadowman\'s design is 9088.7 E/s

 

[agentEE7]

It sort of looks right, but I think you messed up somewhere. I was able to get 9927.5 e/sec exactly. Study the design more closely and try again.

 

[You-Go]

Hey Is it posible to stack 4 of those on a cube to make a 10x10x10; Wich is ofc still effecient enought(block/space)

 

[shadowman615]

After reading through some more of the comments here, I did want to clarify that I did NOT come up with that 9927.5 design myself and am not trying to take credit for inventing it or anything. I saw a picture somewhere that I unfortunatly can\'t find anymore showing one side of the cube. I just extrapolated from that starting point and filled in the middle as best I could.

 

[Sinju]

As an added bonuse you can fill the empty spaces in the diesign Shadowman posted with shields

 

[agentEE7]

No, not exactly. You would need 8 of them and seperate each one by 1 block, making one big 11x11x11 \"cube\", which is not efficient at all. Maybe if you expanded the design and added extra blocks it would increase the rate (for example, this is what some layers of the same design might look like in a 9x9x9 cube:

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But this isn\'t the most efficient design for that cube. As far as I know, there\'s no scalable design that works the best.

Try alternating blocks between each layer and experimenting with different designs by filling in the gaps.

 

[merlinludwig]

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[HexKor]

that power blocks had to be placed this way.



Why is that?

 

[Tomino_sama]

The Method Shown above in shadowman615 Post is Stackable. Confirmed. Use Symmetry



I will be making a Horizontal Version, then Pairing it with a design shown in Dev\'s Tut on Turrets (Basics #3)

 

[Maicol9608]

My more efficient ones produce 11k e/sec when on the planet, but when in the ship they produce 9927.5 e/sec...

And the less efficient produce around 8k e/sec on the planet gut 9927.5 e/sec on the ship....

Da fuq ?

 

[Zaflis]

Under no circumstances should 5x5x5 cubes be stacked or used more than once in a single ship. This kind of thread is only for scientific study, or for use for this small ships that must be cube shaped (not 6x5x5 ship, that would give potential for stronger power designs). Even if you put small wings to your ship, you can get much more power out than some 10k power cube. Also \"scientifically\" designing a real 10x10x10 cube will produce MUCH more power than 5x5x5 power cubes put side-by-side.

Also making 5x5x5=125 solid power block will produce much less, only about 5k power. That\'s why these designs are interesting :p

 

[Zaflis]

So far best known 10x10x10 power cube produces 89060.9 e/sec.
http://star-made.org/comment/36606#comment-36606

 

[Riftmaster]

Most of the ships/stations I have built involved either alternating rows of salvage beams and power/engines/shields (depending on what I needed)...

Or had length/width available, thus allowing large L/T shapes of power blocks (which give more power than a solid block...).

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

Reactor on left (R1) is the more standard Overlapping Ts design and the one on the right (R2) is the 9927.5 design.



While R2 with 9927.5 e/sec generator is the most power out of a 5x5x5 cube I find it to be less space efficient over all. To match the shield output of R1 you would have to add 10 shield generators while to get comparable power to R2 only 7 power cores must be added to R1, and R1 has the added benefit of simple design and being easily expandable and can be modified to best fit ships. The reactors on my one of my ships is 5x5x7 and then branches off from there into the rest of the ship where room permitted to increase the \"box\".



Also, Zaflis, of course a single 10x10x10 would be more powerfull than 2 5x5x5 because it\'s as big as at least 8 5x5x5 cores, I think you meant a 5x5x10 core would be more powerfull then two 5x5x5s

 

[Zaflis]

I meant 8 5x5x5 reactors combined to 10x10x10 shape (2x2x2 reactor shape) is less powerful than carefully planned 10x10x10 reactor.

 

[Pixelboy]

one side is 6 blocks wide.

 

[mou]

I didn\'t got that : / I deleted it

stuck at 9K for now

 

[lilbobchicago]

i got over 14 k with this design

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as you can see it is much more powerful than the schematics and i got this off youtube but i forget where.