What Happened Here? | Space Engineers

[@halfcirclehranch6877]

Those pods are definitely an older encounter. I encountered them several years back when I did my return from deep space challenge. Part of my challenge was a requirement to explore those encounters, with a set number I had to complete in order to be able to build a jump drive. That challenge took me a few months... I started on a barely functional station in deep space, something ridiculous like 40,000km from Earth, which was my goal. I had to upgrade the station, build a ship capable of long distance travel, as well as being capable of landing on a planet, and would drift along, checking asteroids for valuable ores and ice, and exploring any encounters I came upon. Those pods I ended up combining into a ship that followed along just using relative damping. Once I got the jump drive going, I had to dock 4 ships (my original, as well as 3 I had salvaged or cobbled together) to make the jump. The pod ship (which was a rather sizeable conglomeration from 3 sets of those pods I encoutnered) ended up being left on Titan, turned into a base which I called my retirement home.

[@andyblondyn1898]

As I am at the beginning - for future, when you want to use merge blocks - you can just group specific thrusters and turn them off via event controller when merge block is used. This way you do not have to remove them :)

[@PandemicPlayground]

@@andyblondyn1898 that's a good point

[@andyblondyn1898]

@@PandemicPlayground of course it creates some issues, like if you want to turn all of the thrusters, etc. - however on capital ships I doubt you ever do so :) I wishh to see you taking that approach, as it is easy and do let you to merge the ships at your convenient spot.

[@vicflaggon6124]

Oppsy … did you hear that bang ! ….GG

[@RvnKnight]

Only a couple of minutes in and there is a way to control it as a drone and stop it from always attacking but also follow you: signals update. Use it to activate and deactivate combat AI on all drone ships at once. Would also allow deployable missile pods that can fire on command or via AI.

[@galaxyofgames537]

Red ship cool

[@Razielzian]

You know, if you get very close to the turrets, they won't fire...

[@PandemicPlayground]

I recall getting blasted in the face when I get too close lol

[@Razielzian]

@PandemicPlayground you basically have to hug the turret, back off even half a meter and you eat lead

[@brutalavenger3992]

I think the small thrusters burn 3 blocks distance and the large thrusters burn up to 5 blocks away.

[@blipzero]

What Happened Here? i can tell you .. the dev all every other dev got the target amount of money wanted and now thy are going to jump ship that is why thy are dropping S.E. well "F" the like ever other game Corporation i guess there all the same now i own nothing rent every thing and in the end have nothing to show for my time spent . well it is till a fun game and i will play it till it is no longer up or i can go and play with sticks and rocks . i wish thy would come out with toys or maybe some thing i could own maybe even a patch or some thing . but who care any more .. i know i don't any more . oh i still like the show .. still like the ideas people have .. still would like to see what it would look like of like 4 people built a world shop .. each build a part of a ship and then linked them up as one huge one and then we could look in side it ....