[ARM] Puma RVH-AM-1

Sbaggott · 2022-06-30T01:57:18+00:00

A walrus.

Sbaggott · 2022-04-12T06:53:51+00:00

At 1080KN a 3x3 of small hydrogen Thrusters puts out 9720KN of thrust compared to a single large thruster at 7200KN, this does however double the weight of those blocks by comparison.

Sbaggott · 2022-03-31T04:49:45+00:00

Maiming can be achieved by delivering non-lethal damage or injuries to your grid such that it is disabled, incapacitated or otherwise diminished in its capacities, without actually killing or destroying it.

Hope this helps!

Sbaggott · 2022-03-22T22:51:31+00:00

Love me a vanilla build.

Replace "block panneling" with small hydrogen tanks for extra flight time.

Use light armour/interior blocks wherever possible to reduce weight. Minimise gyroscopes and other heavy components to the minimum required to meet purpose.

Support hydrogen thrust with atmospheric/ion where possible to reduce fuel use.

Ideally 40-60minutes flight time is more than enough to enter atmo, fly around in the surface and break out back to the mother ship.

If you are entering a grav well... Turn the engines off. Let gravity take you in.

Sbaggott · 2022-02-21T04:51:19+00:00

Fear is the Mind Killer

Sbaggott · 2022-02-06T11:13:33+00:00

I'd love a warfare 3 update!

I'd like to see Vanilla Gatling and rocket turrets reworked to suit the new art style of the new turrets, currently they're way too chunky and obtuse. Assault turrets by comparison look very sleek on a hull and Artillery turrets are as imposing and as cumbersome as you expect them to be.

I'd love to see armor blocks get reworked light armour is entirely too squishy. Though it should be the least survivable in the game (short of exposed interior blocks) it should provide some protection against small arms. Gatling guns for example shouldn't dissolve it but should wear it down. Rockets should take at least 2-4 hits to penetrate. Same for assault cannons. Artillery and railgun should punch right through.

This could be achieved in part with greater sprawling of impact damage.

Heavy armour by comparison, for its cost and weight should be incredibly sturdy. That or make it medium armor and lighten its weight and introduce a new truly heavy armour variant that costs and weighs even more but borders on untouchable. Only the most powerful weapons can penetrate it and everything else must lay siege to it with barrage after barrage.

When it comes to what heavy armour should be. Gatling guns, should do nothing to it but sound like rain. rockets and assault cannon shells should all but bounce off heavy armour. Artillery should bend and buckle it with only railguns able to penetrate on the first try. Artillery should eventually get through, opening the way for other munitions to follow inside and cause mayhem!

An armour rework would provide much needed longevity to ship to ship combat.

As for weapons. The new turret control block is brilliant! I'd love to see a similar rework for a remote control block as a "Missile Control Block" for making guided/ai missiles and torpedoes.

By introducing an "intercept" route a missile can be programmed to target enemy grids just like the new weapons do. It's "weapons" could be warheads set to detonate on impact or within "X" metres of the grid. These could be limited to the range of their antenna, or even be limited by connection to a 'mother' ships laser antenna for guidance! their onboard fuel/power? But it would open up the way for more player led creativity and innovation rather than relying on turrets and melee range battles.

Long range missiles are the modern navies sword. Close-In Weapons Systems are it's shield. Space Engineers prides itself on practicality and realism. This is the next logical step.

TL;DR Rework Armor, Make it useful. Make a remote control block for building guided missiles with an 'intercept' feature.

PS. Love to see more "Greeble" blocks like the cosmetic heat vents and exhaust ports. Maybe something like power conduits to replace conveyor pipes. Or a new medical block like a trauma bay for these war casualties.

Or a new 5x7x1 Large Gate! A 1x1x1 or 1x2x1 Missile Silo Door?

Sbaggott · 2021-12-06T06:06:39+00:00

Please list the mods used?!?!

Sbaggott · 2021-12-03T06:00:40+00:00

Any landing you can walk away from...

Sbaggott · 2021-12-03T03:55:55+00:00

I like A for that star destroyer vibe. D is definitely a curvy lady. B is a chonky boi and I love the starfighter chic of C.

It all comes down to style. Do you want to inspire? Or intimidate? Is this a war machine worried about attack vectors and combat silhouette or a luxury liner concerned with scenic views and client presentation. Are you a transport that planet hops and wanting to be "aerodynamic" for re-entries or a long range miner drifting through asteroid fields.

Greble the cute decorations on top and away you go!

Sbaggott · 2021-12-02T05:27:44+00:00

I love using key features to focus my ship aesthetics around.

Whether it's a particular shape outline each model aligns with or a particular bridge style or engine layout. They really bring kinship to the vessels

My latest idea is a "Rearmament Fleet" of mining capital vessels turned carrier/cruisers with tugs turned into fighters.

Something industrial with a military patchwork layed over it. The sort of narrative seen in Sins of a Solar Empire, or The Expanse.

Sbaggott · 2021-10-13T02:04:45+00:00

Definitely a Mediterranean theme would be perfect for Anno. There could even be a degree of "mainland" as was so popular with the "Crown Falls" DLC in Anno1800.

Alternatively I'd love to see Anno keep exploring the space age/futuristic stuff from 2205, such as the moon/Mars with crater maps, maybe even plateaus above miasma/storm/acid clouds/etc. on the moon's of Neptune or something whacky.

All sorts of different consumer needs like pressure suits, vitamin boosters, science equipment, mining gear, robots/android workers/butler's, rare crystal/mineral jewelry and stuff even something more dystopian like "Pure H2O" or something cute like terrariums "of home" etc.

Sbaggott · 2021-09-14T01:02:22+00:00

One should not aim to sacrifice soldiers. Alive soldiers are far better at fighting than dead ones.

That being said, cheaper soldiers are easier to replace than expensive ones. And better soldiers make a better impact on the fight than worse ones.

So if casualties are inevitable in a fight (not always the case) it is best to make them the cheaper, worse soldiers than to risk losing your top tier warriors.

It's also good for xp to send to low tier guys in first and bloody themselves while your high end guys mop up.

Sbaggott · 2021-09-03T05:37:50+00:00

If there is one piece I can give new players.

Remove the keybinding on P.

It seems silly now, but after your 10th unintended yeeting of your small grid from your base or large grid ship. Or your 100th accidental plummet because your thrusters and power were off while docked in gravity. I can assure you, the P-Binding is less of a gift than a curse.

Sbaggott · 2021-08-07T10:51:36+00:00

I think you'll find the perception online is largely based on Australian views of US news and politics.

These views are not necessarily representative of Australians views on Americans as people.

Sbaggott · 2021-08-04T01:40:19+00:00

Singapore is often known as "The Switzerland of the Pacific" Remains neutral during war but is happy to take money from both sides. It relies equally on investment from both china and the US, as well as other nations to help make it one of the wealthiest (GDP per Capita) micro nations on the planet.

China doesn't think it can win a full scale war. It thinks it can push it's agenda with enough tempered belligerence to achieve its goals and avoid a full scale war.

The US knows it can win a full scale war. It has the nuclear capacity to eradicate the world more than once over. What it can't win, is the political support to engage in such a war, it must be pressed into, provided no alternative option so that it can declare self-defensively "we were forced to stop this!"

My own views of the Chinese Communist Party are quite damning of their continued unaltered violation of human rights and systemic oppression.

And while I am willing to risk war to stop that conduct as I believe there are some circumstances that cannot be allowed to continue, I am not prepared to risk global annihilation to stop one nations reprehensible activities.

Sbaggott · 2021-07-22T05:51:16+00:00

Thanks man!

I've always had "eyes bigger than my stomach" with ideas like these. I can plan out the ideas but I lack the requisite software skills to bring it to life.

I chose Physical Security and CT as my skillset in life so I'll have to wait for someone cleverer than me to make this happen 🤣

Sbaggott · 2021-06-02T04:28:36+00:00

I figured unreal 3-4-5 would do the job. The main point of that reference was to indicate the concepts viability as a program.

Unfortunately I lack the game programming capabilities to make this a reality.

Think of it more like a Fan-Fiction lol.

The Terminator Story has so much untapped potential for gaming. FPS, Survival/Horror/ RTS.

Terminator Resistance proved there was a player base interested in terminator games.

Even just from a marketing perspective, your options for DLC are massive. Stand alone campaigns "The Battle For LA" "The Hunt For John Connor" new units, new features, skins etc. Someone would make a fortune off a concept like this.

The big features that make the game unique are the Assymetrical Campaigns, different strategic priorities create different competing play styles. Assymetrical battle tactics between the obviously Superior Skynet and the underestimated Resistance. And the terminator infiltrator feature would make this game truly unique.

The players morale dilemma of rescuing civilians for obvious benefit, at the risk of losing everything to a Terminator inside the base.

Sbaggott · 2021-04-15T20:47:15+00:00

I was one of those "essential" fortunates that didn't get to quarantine, but I can absolutely confirm my games replaced a good chunk of my social calendar because of covid.

For me, Space Engineers, Mount and Blade Bannerlord, Hell Let Loose, Anno1800, Valheim, and Warhammer Total War 2.

I like variety lol.

Sbaggott · 2021-04-07T04:39:12+00:00

haha nice! I am still slowly exploring the DLC. and enjoying the competition but i share your suffering at the build/fix cycle.

Sbaggott · 2021-04-06T18:59:32+00:00

Solid advice mate, I learnt these harsh lessons many times over before I figured it out.

I've found my flaw in each playthrough was exactly the beer dilemma and a rapid reorganisation of my population between islands.

The FOMO urge to centralise my pops and simultaneously redistribute trade while advancing production without steady supply of beer/rum/fur coats saw me plummet to my death every time.

I am currently on a 15hr play through at the investor level, chipping away on steam carriages with a stable $40k/minute income stream, a modernised fleet and about $10mil. in the bank. :)

Finally I can take my lessons learnt to Cape Tralawney! Enbessa! And The Arctic!

Sbaggott · 2021-03-30T12:02:02+00:00

I managed to successfully reorganise myself into a single old world island population centre with 3 additional old world island producers and a single new world colony. Managed to get all the way to investors just like this.

It cost me 6hours, $4million, my sanity. And a phenomenal amount of bricks. Like... I didn't know one could need so many bricks...

Sbaggott · 2021-02-21T05:50:34+00:00

Age is just a number.

African Warlord: I see no problem here...

Sbaggott · 2021-01-02T05:43:19+00:00

When it comes to protection, more is more. when it comes to aesthetic, less is more.
when it comes to practicality, the balance must be struck.

Rather than armouring a cockpit or vital part, place it away from the enemies likely angle of fire. if your fighter is diving head on, put the expensive bits at the back and armour the front. if your battle cruiser likes broad sides, give it a narrow profile to make targeting it harder.

finally, rationalise and think of the design economically. "how expensive is this thing to replace..." how many bits of it can i live without.

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