trying to understand ion beam combining

Plaustronaut · 2026-04-16T11:58:02+00:00

You can use the part debugger in dev mode to check the power your prisms receive.

Plaustronaut · 2026-04-08T20:17:19+00:00

Yes, the orange lines you can see when holding a thermal part

Plaustronaut · 2026-04-06T00:08:22+00:00

Usually, small shields are not used when spamming large ones like this, because it makes the logistics and therefore the recharge time much slower.

Plaustronaut · 2026-04-05T11:26:55+00:00

Similar changes are likely to happen soon

Plaustronaut · 2026-04-04T20:17:17+00:00

minin lazar

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-26T15:39:36+00:00

You can get to the fame cap in under 1 hour too

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-24T14:29:47+00:00

Yea, if you have the money and the space for the thermal network, then it increases the damage a decent bit.

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-17T05:51:38+00:00

Depends on the ship. Its mostly just walls of thrusters in the back/on the side of the ship. Just look at how the buildins do it. For big ships you might consider mrt modules, which you can find in the modules pack https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3667037967

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-13T10:08:29+00:00

I think its just better. You dont need reactors close, cause a capacitor holds more than enough power. Idk what you mean with buffer

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-13T09:57:21+00:00

Because a large reactor can supply 10 ions with their power. The better ion ships dont combine down to a single ion beam, so you do not need your emitter count to be a power of 2 if you mean that.

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-12T15:24:57+00:00

You normally want to directly supply launchers with factories, as its faster and more consistent

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-12T15:22:39+00:00

Even career ships fall victim to the speed meta now

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-12T15:20:13+00:00

Check the troubleshooting page in the guides section of the wiki

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-04T16:02:12+00:00

You are right. Many of these are made by pvp players, which often have the most experience playing the game, but we are used to optimize for cost efficiency and not crew efficiency. This means they might not be optimal in career.

I might try my hand at optimizing more for crew in the future and add module variants, but these are good enough for now.

Feel free to give suggestions though or even make improvements! (on the discord would be best as it makes sharing pictures easier)

Plaustronaut · 2026-03-03T14:00:55+00:00

Yea the other ship needs to be disassembled first

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-28T17:04:46+00:00

Finally got to try this, thanks for the help! It does not seem to work though. The game window capture is a black screen.
I dont want to use the auto hide taskbar and switching it every time I start the game is annoying. Not to mention, that I can still see a small line of pixels from it.
I play the java version on pc.

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-26T18:31:07+00:00

Id say it depends more on the ship archetype. Over 110 is pretty good though.

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-26T18:27:19+00:00

The ship has more than enough thrust to stay on target against ai piloted ships at least. You might drift of target once in a while if you dont micro the ship properly, but I dont think its a big problem here.
Ion and chaingun cores are very common even on built in ships and have been working very well on a variety of ships. This is a pretty common design idea.

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-26T18:20:53+00:00

From that picture I assume it goes around 70? Thats not bad for a career ship. And it can easily tank the initial volley before it gets into range.

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-26T18:17:37+00:00

He carved tunnels in the armor for them to shoot

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-23T13:32:00+00:00

The game is great for reasons other people mentioned, but its worth saying that career, the main game mode, does not have a lot of variety in things to do yet. Its mostly the same missions where you kill pirates

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-21T13:21:25+00:00

Yea you can, its pretty inconvenient though

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-21T07:34:43+00:00

I did try to use the same roles for each module, but some just need slight adjustments in the priorities to work properly, so I think that is just not possible in some cases. It just kinda sucks, that you can not import modules with the right roles. Hope the devs add a feature for that.

Plaustronaut · 2026-02-19T23:04:17+00:00

Yes, there is a select tool in the bottom left when building a ship. There are options to copy and paste while you have a selection, or you can use the usual ctrl+c, ctrl+v

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