How to Optimize your Ship or Station PCU, Space Engineers Grid Optimization Guide

A short video tutorial / guide explaining how to optimize your ship or station's PCU so they don't use so much, without reducing their functionality.
Especially important after the economy update!

[@toby999991]

i used whole weeks to build platform and hangar to use building and launch my rocket and already reach the limit i never heard off!!! that changed everything

[@thecrimsonfkr2818]

11 months later, great video. Don't mind me while I dig through the rest

[@LucaTheGuide]

Thanks Crimson! c=

[@ph11p3540]

The PCU player limit has turned out to be a good thing for me on a Keen public survival server. It has encouraged good, real world survival ship designs. I find most large guilds build huge, ponderous ships of poor design. Bigger is only better if it's really well thought out. In the meantime, I have stumbled upon a new design language theme that I like that still works in pure vanilla.

[@gamedesignerwannabeakavipe7506]

Ngl it’s only annoying for me because with my creativity it games I like to make huge extravagant builds that end up eating away at the game limits lmao. Literally every single building game I’ve played (besides Minecraft of course because there aren’t any limits lol) I have reached the limit of what you’re allowed to have on a vehicle..

[@DevinFire724]

Woah, I didn't even think of that. :) Thanks!

[@LucaTheGuide]

Np devid, glad you find it useful c=

[@NotAlex360]

Thx Luca! This is gonna help a lot

[@LucaTheGuide]

np boombox! c= x3

[@CMDROldDuck]

I need to research this pcu more.

[@r.c.c.3871]

All good points. Would you consider developing a list of the PCU heavy blocks, maybe a spreadsheet?

[@LucaTheGuide]

I might! I thought someone have already done that o:

[@r.c.c.3871]

@@LucaTheGuide No, it is a great sadness upon my heart that a spread sheet showing the various blocks, their mass, and PCU load has not been completed. Were I not so busy I would do one myself. I am sure it would be useful on the SE Wiki page.

[@heikoschmelz1283]

Does the cpu limit refers to a single ship or station or the hole amount of ships and stations together?

[@LucaTheGuide]

It's all of the grid that's owned by a single player c=

[@fraustpunk]

I hated the pcu limit at first. Then I learned to appreciate the extra parameter it put on design.

[@snazzy2397]

Much epic

[@LucaTheGuide]

thanks snazzy >:3 x3

[@Kyra-1138]

Been working on a starship design since I was 13… 😑 she’s 857 meters long pcu is screwing me over horrifically….

[@AmaticXLII]

Is the pcu limit on pc different then the on on xbox?

[@LucaTheGuide]

It's on 20,000 PCU on official servers rn c=

[@AmaticXLII]

@@LucaTheGuide something i don't understand is how some creators submit creations the overshoot the limit

[@LucaTheGuide]

@@AmaticXLII Indeed :P

[@AmaticXLII]

Yeah hi. I realized that in the pc version, you can disable PCU.

[@pedropimenta896]

Why dont you use a mic to record?

[@LucaTheGuide]

I did on my previous SE video and the result was horrible xD

[@pedropimenta896]

@@LucaTheGuide i cant find it :(

[@mleise8292]

@@pedropimenta896 Maybe it doesn't want to be found ;o)

[@Hades_Space_Engineer]

@@mleise8292 luca is very silent in these Videos :(

[@LucaTheGuide]

@@mleise8292 It's my ROCS video x3

[@Standalor]

Good to know I made an absolutely massive ship that takes up 70,000 pcu so it will never make it to a server... I should note that it is horribly optimized and far too large for it's purpose of being an all in one station, if I took the time to optimize it then it could work

[@matteogibbone8917]

la sigla non mi piace

[@slothlair]

Intro wow too loud.

[@Sinaduel]

Could you imagine if any other game did this? "Hey we're optimizing multiplayer by destroying all your shit and not letting you build half of what you used to." Honestly, for a game that uses trailers of huge stations and large scale ship to ship combat, the engine is incapable. Every dollar spent on DLC is going to GoodAI, that new research project of Marek Rosa, that siphons money from steam, to pay for what appears to be entry level basics of AI research the likes of which can be found at a highschool science fair. In other words, Marek Rosa is actively laundering money from SE to pay for God knows what. My best guess? Prostitutes.

[@vitiate5093]

The game is fun but very buggy and frankly a hunk of junk tbh but something we have till something better comes along.

[@vitiate5093]

The game is a joke with optimizations and the AI is trash anyway.

[@thebigXgaming]

Funny how minecraft, or lego worlds don't have a pcu limit, just this half ass game...their whole motto is "the need to create" well I NEED to create and I can't because I'm limited to how much I can create, this game is a scam... if I can't build whole fully furnished cities on my base xbox one... then what is the purpose of purchasing the game for base consoles... quit limiting us from creating what we want and give us the power to create truly anything

[@brandonminer749]

Robot voice; automatic 👎. This is so hard to listen to