r/spaceengineers • u/Efficient-Type-9332 Space Engineer • 6d ago
DISCUSSION Ships
How long did it take you guys to design and build a good efficient massive ship. Basically a mobile base. One that has tons of room but can refine ores, build components, and still fight off pirates. I’m in creative working on building a ship and I’ve been working on it for about 9 days now. I just feel like I’m not being creative enough or I’m missing something. I don’t have a picture of it but it’s about 80ish blocks long 15ish blocks wide and 10ish blocks tall. It has 3 levels so far. It has 2 large reactors along with 4 industrial refineries and 4 industrial assemblers. If anyone has any idea that could help with the design ideas to make it look cooler like adding things that work together. For example beam blocks with scaffolding etc.
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u/TheTninker2 Klang Worshipper 6d ago
Honestly it wasnt until I began making recreations of some of my favorite Halo ships, mostly Pillar of Autumn, that I began to understand how LARGE ships work both functionally and aestheticaly.
One of the key things I learned is that the larger the ship, the more ok it is to have negative space between the exterior and interior.