Mostly, you have to consider performance. There are so many things to consider when building big that have nothing to do with appearance or functionality or "aesthetics". Here's an old image of my current build - refit of an old ship - the old large ship which I did get burnt out on and was too afraid to chop up at the time Copy & Paste is your Friend (when it works).DON'T burn yourself out, don't worry about the look of the whole ship, just do bits at a time - if need be move onto other ships occasionally.Even if you have spent hours on a section - if you find it doesn't quite fit with another section - start moving things about or remove it altogether and start anew. DON'T be afraid to chop your design up.scrapped the fist two attempts at wing sections. Then returned to the front - chopped it up - widened it - narrowed it- until I got the profile I wanted - then did the sides for the ship. I started with the front - I then switched to doing the bridge tower, then stated the aft section with engines. With my current Large Ship build, I began with the exterior. Do you build modules, and save them and then stitch them together? Do you do sketches or drawings on grid paper to help sort out how component blocks can fit together efficiently? But I always find myself overwhelmed and becoming something of a perfectionist when I try to go for large grid ship designs.ĭo you start with an exterior shell with the shape you want and then fill in the details or do you start with all the functional blocks that you want and build armor around that. I am also looking to build multiple ships for different roles but I want them to share some common design traits such as using the same colors for armor, lights, and the same shapes and details in the design even if the shape of the ship overall is completely different than the others. What I'm really looking to do is design ships in creative and then bring them into survival. The thing that I find difficult is the conceptual side of building large ships, such as getting the appearance I want along with all of the functionality without compromising size or aesthetic. I've logged around 400 hours in the game and have a good idea of how the blocks work and what functionalities are etc etc. I'm not concerned with the technical side of things.
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