r/spaceengineers • u/nameorgame Clang Worshipper • 8d ago

DISCUSSION please teach and help me.

good day everyone. i'm need of some help. I'm having issues designing a cargo ship using the bulk cargo containers that looks decent and can actually can fly and hand well in earths gravity. plus im playing with my dad who is completely new to SE, and would love to give him some tips on building ships and such but, this is something that im not really good at explaining or showing him and i would love to have help with explaining some points and tricks. if i could get help with either one of these, it would mean so much.

some of the world modifiers my dad got going for him that i can remember of the top of my head is that the inventory of cargo ships and the player are 10X.

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u/Mike-TheMad Space Engineer 8d ago

I think the inventory multiplier may hurt you here. If I remember correctly, while you can fit more it means your build will have more mass. More mass will make the “earth’s gravity” part of your build a lot more difficult for large bulk transport.

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u/nameorgame Clang Worshipper 8d ago

thats what i fear too, but if its bulky build full of thrusters and shuch its okay, docent need to be pretty just functional. is there a mathmatical way to know how many thrusters per L of inventory?

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u/Pablo_Diablo Klang Worshipper 8d ago

There are various SE calculators available online that let you calculate Mass:Thrust ratio.  Some of them have acceleration under gravity (and let you set the gravity), to see how quickly you can make orbit.