Things the books don’t tell

What if the book characters were chibis from Epic Battle Fantasy 3?

Yes, Starmade may have better blocks for the ships interior and ambience in general, but Space Engineers is better when it comes to the shape of of the corridors and rooms. The ability for focused, glowing lights is also neat.

Some insight on the interior design of R.T.F. Starships.

While Space Engineers is shining on the exterior aspect because of it’s shaders and complex blocks, Starmade is better suited for the interior stuff. Starmade has overall smaller blocks and can implement more detail, despite its minecrafty look.

If you ever wandered on one of these ships, you would feel a gloomy atmosphere, the emptiness and loneliness of the ship reverberating in the lower parts of your consciousness.

Most of the ship isn’t designed for human presence - the corridors are narrow and the walls close in on you, sloping over your head. There are crevices in the walls and floor, emitting a subtle glow. The recreational areas are like small, confined, safe havens, surrounded by this big, unfathomably big machine that seems to consist of nothing else than meaningless, dead and absolutely silent corridors.

Image of the classical model of a R.T.F.-ship built in Space Engineers. Lately I’ve become a little bored with this model, hence the other designs on the blog.

A collage of the girls, showing their taste in gala dresses. I would have difficulties with designing fashion for them to wear on weddings and what not, so the stock repertoire of dresses helped out a bunch. It’s great that for each of them their dresses express their nature. In the top left corner there’s also the method of Sims 4 to lay out character traits and behaviour. For those of you not familiar with Sims 4: The golden Object describes a Sims’ life goal and atop of it the starter ability they get for that. The three objects to the right represent character traits. For example, for EVA this means she is a computer freak and gets the ability ‘nerd-brain’ as reward. Her traits are ‘perfectionism’ (the triangle ruler), ‘Genius’ (the atom), and ‘upbeat’ (the lollipop).

R.T.F. Battleship built in Space Engineers. While there are mods, Space Engineers doesn’t exactly support high science-fiction with lasers as shields and everything, thus this Ship has blue thrusters where originally none would be. It also has to rely on rockets and machine guns. Anway, R.T.F. ships come in different classes, much like weight classes in wrestling. A battleship, ranging from fifty meters to a hundred kilometers can actually be smaller than a class 10 destroyer. Therefore, any ship I build in Space Engineers or Starmade is by default class 1.

As there are millions, trillions, I-can’t-even-count-that-high of R.T.F.-Ships in service, it would be impossible to give them all names. I haven’t found a solid way of encoding their IDs, but an attempt for this one would be Nox-LTC1-F2-6625FF82A21, which would be the 7.019.586.660.897th ship of the 242nd division.

Yeesha Florane as a Sims 4 character, #4 of the household. While the options for hair and facial features weren’t as satisfying as I’d like, her outfits are spot on.

Screenshot of the video game ‘Starmade’