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You're probably going to think "but what the hell is he going to talk about?"
Small story, then free commenting :3
So... Here's one really great game, Freespace 2 (haven't played FS1 so, can't judge). This game has amazing story and gameplay, and even tho the game is getting old (it got out in 2000 or so if I remember well), it's still super badass :3
Of course, one may only want to rebuild a Freespace ship in Starmade, as I did with 2 ships. And of course, there are just so many of them, it would take years to make every one of those. But what is the "real" achievement, the greatest and hardest of all is to manage to rebuild the capital ships, but not just any capitals', the biggest ones. There are two : the GTVA Collossus, and the SJ Sathanas.
As I like to be the big bad mean guy, I picked the SJ Sathanas (SJ standing for Shivan Juggernaut). Small presentation required:
I made a few annotations, to get a precise idea on where to start placing blocks.
The SJ Sathanas is a 6km long ship, featuring 4 frontal giga beam lasers, jump-drive capability, and the ability to make stars explode, causing supernovas. And we can't even be sure how much else it can do.
Back to Starmade, so the first thing I wanted to do is to create a frame, able to containe the Sathanas. That's a box of 2632 * 2905 * 5980 blocks. Right, that's 45.722.840.800 blocks. Supposing the Sathanas only fills 10% of that, that's still a ship of 4.57 billion blocks. It's easy to realize how monstruous this ship is, considering a pixel on the right part of the image is a 10x10x10 box.
If you place 1 block a second, considering it's only 10% of the frame box (which is unlikely, probably more like 15%), it would take a single player 145 years to place all the blocks. Of course, you have sym. and can place 10x10x10 (or more depending on configuration, 20 in my case) blocks, multiplied by up to 8.
And since I didn't the want the core to be on the center of the ship (blue cross), I made a structure to find the actuel center.
A red, black or gray bar is 40 blocks long (except the very last red one). Here we see the left part of the ship. In fact, even while being in the middle, we can't see both sides. The grey bars have numbers, to visualize how far we are from each end of the ship. Width is made of 5 numbers on each side, length goes from 1 to 10, reaching in the middle.
If you try to go to the far end (front or rear) of the ship, it'll simply disappear, because the core is in another sector. Even tho the ship has less than 10k blocks, it takes almost a minute to save as a blueprint. Not mentioning how colliding with an asteroid makes the server lag like crazy.
So why the story? Just to ask you questions and have a "small" context :p
What is the biggest ship you ever made/are building? If you finished it, how long did it take? If you had a project such as mine, what would you do? Would you search help, and get as many people as you can? Would you simply give up? Would you make a smaller version? Would you still try to build it nevertheless? Or else?
Now it's up to you :3
Small story, then free commenting :3
So... Here's one really great game, Freespace 2 (haven't played FS1 so, can't judge). This game has amazing story and gameplay, and even tho the game is getting old (it got out in 2000 or so if I remember well), it's still super badass :3
Of course, one may only want to rebuild a Freespace ship in Starmade, as I did with 2 ships. And of course, there are just so many of them, it would take years to make every one of those. But what is the "real" achievement, the greatest and hardest of all is to manage to rebuild the capital ships, but not just any capitals', the biggest ones. There are two : the GTVA Collossus, and the SJ Sathanas.
As I like to be the big bad mean guy, I picked the SJ Sathanas (SJ standing for Shivan Juggernaut). Small presentation required:
I made a few annotations, to get a precise idea on where to start placing blocks.
The SJ Sathanas is a 6km long ship, featuring 4 frontal giga beam lasers, jump-drive capability, and the ability to make stars explode, causing supernovas. And we can't even be sure how much else it can do.
Back to Starmade, so the first thing I wanted to do is to create a frame, able to containe the Sathanas. That's a box of 2632 * 2905 * 5980 blocks. Right, that's 45.722.840.800 blocks. Supposing the Sathanas only fills 10% of that, that's still a ship of 4.57 billion blocks. It's easy to realize how monstruous this ship is, considering a pixel on the right part of the image is a 10x10x10 box.
If you place 1 block a second, considering it's only 10% of the frame box (which is unlikely, probably more like 15%), it would take a single player 145 years to place all the blocks. Of course, you have sym. and can place 10x10x10 (or more depending on configuration, 20 in my case) blocks, multiplied by up to 8.
And since I didn't the want the core to be on the center of the ship (blue cross), I made a structure to find the actuel center.
A red, black or gray bar is 40 blocks long (except the very last red one). Here we see the left part of the ship. In fact, even while being in the middle, we can't see both sides. The grey bars have numbers, to visualize how far we are from each end of the ship. Width is made of 5 numbers on each side, length goes from 1 to 10, reaching in the middle.
If you try to go to the far end (front or rear) of the ship, it'll simply disappear, because the core is in another sector. Even tho the ship has less than 10k blocks, it takes almost a minute to save as a blueprint. Not mentioning how colliding with an asteroid makes the server lag like crazy.
So why the story? Just to ask you questions and have a "small" context :p
What is the biggest ship you ever made/are building? If you finished it, how long did it take? If you had a project such as mine, what would you do? Would you search help, and get as many people as you can? Would you simply give up? Would you make a smaller version? Would you still try to build it nevertheless? Or else?
Now it's up to you :3
