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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Save our Ships devs in shambles. Or elated maybe?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Fine, it'll be a double walled square.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

My friend in avorion spent countless hours designing incredibly cool, streamlined ships that had V wings and neatly spinning barbettes for weapons systems. He downloaded the fan-made recreations of popular sci-fi series.

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I made cubes. I put square stone on top of square metal armor on top of reinforcing blocks, and threw everything into ever-expanding cubes. Once I got the auto-targeting weapons, I WAS the borg. It was beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Engi freighter always

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Me playing avorion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Be more like the Borg. Our space ship is a literal cube. Efficiency!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wouldn't a sphere be more efficient?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

If you're making square rooms inside, then no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The Borg have spheres too, to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Depends on what metric is being measured for efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Arkon and by extension Terran ships in Perry Rhodan.

Perry Rhodan also has something a bit like the Borg (but I'm pretty sure much older) called PosBis, and their ships are described as roughly cube shaped nightmares.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That's dwarf fortress: Odyssey

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are so many reasons that geometry of a space ship matters from pressurization structural stability, acceleration stress, to deflection angle of space debris during travel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Shouldn’t spaceships be a collection of tubes?

If you removed the disk of the enterprise you’re basically there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A disk is just a very short tube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That sound you're hearing is a mob of angry topologists

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In CAD maybe but air pressure doesn’t work that way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Not with that attitude it doesn't! We've got shields to tell the air pressure how to behave.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I love ships that wouldn't work well in atmosphere! They look much cooler! Feel more spacey!