"Ship Design" (Art by Aeolys) : rimworld

[–] foxlore@programming.dev 30 points 3 months 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.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Shouldn’t spaceships be a collection of tubes?

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

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A disk is just a very short tube.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wouldn't a sphere be more efficient?

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 4 points 3 months 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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

Depends on what metric is being measured for efficiency.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

The Borg have spheres too, to be fair.

[–] TheVillageGuy@rimworld.gallery 4 points 3 months ago

That's dwarf fortress: Odyssey

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months 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.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Me playing avorion.

[–] Ydna@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Engi freighter always

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago

Fine, it'll be a double walled square.

[–] Mainwave@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Save our Ships devs in shambles. Or elated maybe?

[+] Arigion@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Having spent way too long playing rimworld I’m pretty sure that’s a kitchen and cold storage space. The white thing on the exterior wall is the cooler, the middle room is the kitchen counter, the outer room that connects to the hall is a dining area.

The lack of doors direct from the cooler out is intentional because your people will cut through there if there’s a door and you’ll struggle to maintain temps and cleanliness, so your people are more likely to get sick.

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