Orbital Shipyards

This would be a large-scale, automated orbital station. It would be crewed by NPCs and some players. I think the shipyard would have at least 5000 vehicle/base health, and shields. You would upload designs of your ships to a central computer. First, you would actually have to build the ships yourself. The computer would bring up a GUI (Complete with custom names for your ships) that allows you to select what kind of ship you would like to build, and to name it. The name of the ship would be printed in wool (Color of your choice) on the side of the ship. The ship would then start being built. This would take several weeks in-game. Any weapons you have on the design ship will appear on this ship, but unloaded. All you have to do is stock the ship up, and fly her into battle.

I'm posting this BEFORE I make a giant shipyard to accommodate Assault Ships, thank God.

ManSaysNo wrote:

This would be a large-scale, automated orbital station. It would be crewed by NPCs and some players. I think the shipyard would have at least 5000 vehicle/base health, and shields. You would upload designs of your ships to a central computer. First, you would actually have to build the ships yourself. The computer would bring up a GUI (Complete with custom names for your ships) that allows you to select what kind of ship you would like to build, and to name it. The name of the ship would be printed in wool (Color of your choice) on the side of the ship. The ship would then start being built. This would take several weeks in-game. Any weapons you have on the design ship will appear on this ship, but unloaded. All you have to do is stock the ship up, and fly her into battle.

I'm posting this BEFORE I make a giant shipyard to accommodate Assault Ships, thank God.

Seems to be a bit...... Easy, cheap even. With cargo ships and frigates, sure, mass production will happen with a simple model, but this would be to easy.

Oh, forgot to mention you would need to supply it with resources to make the ship. LOTS of resources.

It cuts the time to construt into thirds. At this point, resources can be obtained easily.

Ugh... I guess my explanation was kind of choppy. Basically, you need to have ALL the resources necessary to build the ship before building it. These can be stored in a special room on the shipyard. The shipyard then draws resources from this room to make the new ship. As I stated earlier, it takes several weeks, if not months, in-game.

I have an idea for an orbital industrial base, actually... you send up a hub module, programmed to expand itself until a certain point, as well as some mining ships and a smelter module. Mining ships get ore from asteroids/planets, bring it to the Smelter. Smelter makes Trinium, which gets shipped to the connected hub. The hub slowly begins adding on to itself, eventually giving you a mammoth space yard that's capable of building assault ships.

Sequence

1
Hub Module - Smelter Module - Mining Ships

2
Expansion (smelter added, construction module added, more more ships needed)

3
Expansion (third smelter, second con-module added, more mining ships needed)

4
Shipbuilding can start (3rd Con-module added, Shipbuilding module added, more mining ships needed)

5
Expansion (second shipbuilder, bigger ships can be built, or two at a time)

... and so on and so forth, getting ever faster in expanding. The first levels will be the slowest, but as more con-modules and smelters are added, more materials and capacity are available.

I like the idea of auto-expanding, but it doesn't give much room for customizability.

Oh, and this brings the need for Planetcrackers from Dead Space

Ah,

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you send up a hub module, programmed to expand itself until a certain point,

I said this... and you could program it to build other things too! Drag & drop a graphic of the module you want into a GUI in whatever configuration you want, and it'll autoexpand and build it for you.

Shiva wrote:

Ah,

Quote :

you send up a hub module, programmed to expand itself until a certain point,

I said this... and you could program it to build other things too! Drag & drop a graphic of the module you want into a GUI in whatever configuration you want, and it'll autoexpand and build it for you.

legit

Awesome idea. As long as I can manually give it resources myself.

With all these awesome ideas flowing in the forums, I can't help but think two things:

1- Is this even possible?

2- If it is, how damn long would it take to get even just one of these things programmed, and the whole mod after that?


I would be very happy with shipyards that automatically build ships based on a model you've given them, especially since ship production is what I look forwards to most.


I want people to come looking for me to buy quality and good-looking ships. Buying, of course, with in-game resources. I'm not thinking of making this my full-time job ( not yet anyways? )

ManSaysNo wrote:

This would be a large-scale, automated orbital station. It would be crewed by NPCs and some players. I think the shipyard would have at least 5000 vehicle/base health, and shields. You would upload designs of your ships to a central computer. First, you would actually have to build the ships yourself. The computer would bring up a GUI (Complete with custom names for your ships) that allows you to select what kind of ship you would like to build, and to name it. The name of the ship would be printed in wool (Color of your choice) on the side of the ship. The ship would then start being built. This would take several weeks in-game. Any weapons you have on the design ship will appear on this ship, but unloaded. All you have to do is stock the ship up, and fly her into battle.

I'm posting this BEFORE I make a giant shipyard to accommodate Assault Ships, thank God.

I love this idea, but wool sounds stupid(My opinion).Also it should have to have fuel to work, resources, tools, and perhaps defense turrets as extra.

Great Idea maybe you can use Special Teleporters which can teleport things through shields and even build through teleporting things to the Place they are made for

Cool3303 wrote:

Great Idea maybe you can use Special Teleporters which can teleport things through shields and even build through teleporting things to the Place they are made for

that's... really overpowered,

BACK ON TOPIC! WOO! WOO!

You know teleporting things costs much energy Mr. overpowered?

Cool3303 wrote:

You know teleporting things costs much energy Mr. overpowered?

I still think the ability to teleport things inside of shields is overpowered, unless you have to have 3 suns powering it for 1 shot or something :/

Shields up= no teleporting in. That's final.

And I look forward to owning a 140km long super-shipyard, and I shall call it Vulcan.

Guys you missunderstood me you can only teleport to non moving things and teleporting through Shields won´t change that
The enemy won´t stop their Ships except they are stupid and so they can´t be surprised by guys who stand in their teleport chamber

You could use it to deliver the space station support crates when they are invaded and to work on a Ship in normal Gravity (this requires shields and then you won´t need to fly back to the ship and so on

They may stop their ship to overload their guns. We talked about that in a different thread.

the fluctuating Energy would cause an molecular movement which is over the normal Level so you can´t teleport ( Got You(another one bites the Dust DaDaDa...))

Cool3303 wrote:

the fluctuating Energy would cause an molecular movement which is over the normal Level so you can´t teleport ( Got You(another one bites the Dust DaDaDa...))

You mean like shields do?

You know, those big bubbles of fluctuating energy?

Pat22 wrote:

Cool3303 wrote:

the fluctuating Energy would cause an molecular movement which is over the normal Level so you can´t teleport ( Got You(another one bites the Dust DaDaDa...))

You mean like shields do?

You know, those big bubbles of fluctuating energy?

Well The Energy in shields is bound into an shield Structure and won't fluctuate (Shields should be solid shouldn't they ?)
but if you overcharge your weapons they will lose a litle Bit Energy Cause they Aren't constructed for it and this will Move The Atoms in The Ship enough To prevent The teleport comPuter from finding an average Landing place

Shields are not solid, they are energy. Energy kept in place around your ship so that it will intercept, disrupt and destroy anything that comes into contact with it, including teleporter signals.

What is it with you and bad ideas?

The Thing is The shields don't lose Energy (I thought this can Be counted As solid)
So they can't corrupt The Atom movement.
2.U Tunnel The Shield by teleporting through an other Phase so it can't prevent The Teleporter of course you can Protect your Ship against some Phases but not against Every Phase because it would Cost To much energy