ScrumbleShip is the most accurate space combat simulation devised to date. Gather resources, construct a capital ship out of individual blocks, then pilot it with AI or human help against other players.
Thin Plating
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Thin plating is now in the game! These plats function much like blocks, but are 1-thick. The struts in two of the plates in the center allow you to affix objects to the thin plating.
Cheers,
-Dirk
Woah, we can now literally build ships out of tin foil!
I... Yes. Yes you can. Hah!
I love unintended consequences!
I should note that this stuff is available in the bleeding edge. The placement code is still a little rough, but I'm improving it all the time.
This stuff is a lot more resource-efficient - You can coat 16 square with thin plate for every one you can coat with full-sized blocks. I also intend to make a medium plate block.
Cheers,
-Dirk
Wow, this raises a lot of new possibilities. Whipple shields are more feasible than ever - especially once medium plating is introduced. Thin seems a little /too/ thin for me to want to use it on a warship, but I'm sure it has applications.
It might be good for a tank containing coolant wrapped around a fusion reactor - the thin walls would allow heat to transfer more easily than blocks. Get that coolant on a pumped pipe network that cycles it from the tank to some radiator fins, and you've got a nice cool reactor.
Yes, I can finally remove the one meter thick whipple shield from my newer ships.
And now that I think of it, different thickness of armor would be best against different types of attacks:
- Full blocks would be good against everything, but heavy
- Medium plating would be too thin to properly stop lasers but would still shatter kinetics
- Thin plating couldn't stop lasers and railguns but would still detonate missiles
Also, allowing the struts to connect two full blocks instead of just plating would be great for building supports without having to put down full blocks, again with the disadvantage of being fragile.
I'll have Nezumi design a strut/scaffolding block for you guys. Hadn't occurred to me that you'd want to do that : )
Cheers,
-Dirk
Also, those struts will make it easy to have a layer of vacuum between an outer plating layer and an inner hull layer! It'll be a good way to isolate the hull from laser heat. Sure, the outer layer will be weak and get messed up by kinetic weapons - but it'll take the edge off the impact to the actual hull in the process.
Butter shielding.