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Title: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Duban on November 21, 2015, 10:29:42 AM
The spaceship itself.http://i.imgur.com/84qjyWP.png (http://i.imgur.com/84qjyWP.png)

The main base. http://i.imgur.com/zOY3AgL.png (http://i.imgur.com/zOY3AgL.png)

The plasteel mines. http://i.imgur.com/bA6eirL.png (http://i.imgur.com/bA6eirL.png)

The weakest point in my base is 21 layers thick (3 of which are plasteel). http://i.imgur.com/xwI4BJd.png (http://i.imgur.com/xwI4BJd.png)
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Post by: milon on November 21, 2015, 10:42:34 AM
Holy ship!!

Tell me you did that in vanilla with no dev mode!
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Duban on November 21, 2015, 10:43:21 AM
Quote from: milon on November 21, 2015, 10:42:34 AM
Holy ship!!

Tell me you did that in vanilla with no dev mode!

I did that in vanilla rimworld with no dev mode.

Lets just say sellling crops is a good way to make a shit ton of money. Ended the game with something like 50,000 silver, 10,000 steel, and 1,200 plasteel. I honestly have no idea how many bulk traders I bought out of steel and plasteel.
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: milon on November 21, 2015, 03:14:55 PM
You should put that on Tynan's screenshot thread!
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Post by: Coenmcj on November 21, 2015, 11:35:31 PM
Damn, What's the name o' your vessel Cap'n?
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Post by: magicbush on November 22, 2015, 12:41:59 AM
Wow thats awesome, and I aspire to build a base like yours one day.
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Duban on November 22, 2015, 10:06:45 AM
Quote from: milon on November 21, 2015, 03:14:55 PM
You should put that on Tynan's screenshot thread!

Where would I find that, exactly?

Quote from: Coenmcj on November 21, 2015, 11:35:31 PM
Damn, What's the name o' your vessel Cap'n?

Good question, I'll get back to you when I decide.

Quote from: magicbush on November 22, 2015, 12:41:59 AM
Wow thats awesome, and I aspire to build a base like yours one day.

Thanks :-). I haven't even been playing a month yet, so it's not like there's an experience barrier preventing you from doing it now. Just learn from others, learn from your experience in the game, make proper use of the terrain, and take 10 minutes at the start of the game to create a long term vision of how your base will progress (based on the terrain). Planning is important unless you want to stumble over your past mistakes.
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Post by: Komyets on November 22, 2015, 08:40:04 PM
Holy ****!

I NEED to try something like this! Wow, thats really an impressive ship man, congratulations, really.
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Dodging Rain on November 22, 2015, 10:59:42 PM
Did you plan the layout of the ship or roll with with and added things?
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Duban on November 22, 2015, 11:10:14 PM
Quote from: Dodging Rain on November 22, 2015, 10:59:42 PM
Did you plan the layout of the ship or roll with with and added things?



This reddit post describes the process I used pretty well. (https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/3tp1oh/my_colonists_took_off_in_a_proper_spaceship/cx83z7m)
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: milon on November 23, 2015, 07:25:29 AM
Screenshot thread is stickied in the Stories subforum.
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=3255.0
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Post by: Shinzy on November 23, 2015, 09:37:38 AM
hehe, those four tiles desginated for smoothing middle of the reactor =P
makes my heart warm
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: magicbush on November 23, 2015, 08:32:00 PM
Quote from: Duban on November 22, 2015, 10:06:45 AM
Quote from: magicbush on November 22, 2015, 12:41:59 AM
Wow thats awesome, and I aspire to build a base like yours one day.

Thanks :-). I haven't even been playing a month yet, so it's not like there's an experience barrier preventing you from doing it now. Just learn from others, learn from your experience in the game, make proper use of the terrain, and take 10 minutes at the start of the game to create a long term vision of how your base will progress (based on the terrain). Planning is important unless you want to stumble over your past mistakes.

Yea I just don't have much time to play even though I have had Rimworld about a year now lol. I usually get bored and start over at a certain point. I don't seem to have much motivation to keep playing once everything is setup and working correctly.
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Post by: keylocke on November 24, 2015, 02:41:33 PM
woah nice, does it launch?
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Post by: Komyets on November 24, 2015, 03:52:37 PM
Call me a copy cat, but this inspired me, since my colony was also pretty big and could handle on its own, I didnt have much motivation to keep playing with it, until I saw this post.

It gave me a new goal, to make a badass ship as well. It's still unfinished, need 30 Caskets x.x http://i.imgur.com/Y3fCLuk.jpg

One could say, "It's easy to get the steel." But on this colony I commited myself to never, never, use the mining tool. So I depend on my electric smelters, and traders to get it. Its... hard, but quite a challenge haha!
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Duban on November 24, 2015, 04:31:46 PM
Quote from: Komyets on November 24, 2015, 03:52:37 PM
Call me a copy cat, but this inspired me, since my colony was also pretty big and could handle on its own, I didnt have much motivation to keep playing with it, until I saw this post.

It gave me a new goal, to make a badass ship as well. It's still unfinished, need 30 Caskets x.x http://i.imgur.com/Y3fCLuk.jpg

One could say, "It's easy to get the steel." But on this colony I commited myself to never, never, use the mining tool. So I depend on my electric smelters, and traders to get it. Its... hard, but quite a challenge haha!

Cool. I do think your entrances should have air locks with two doors instead of only one. You know, so the crew can actually go outside for maintenance and the like. Right now half your ship would get blown out the door as soon as they attempted to open it. Your crew is basically locked inside whenever the ship isn't in a habitable atmosphere.
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Komyets on November 24, 2015, 05:53:50 PM
Thought about it, but i cant afford it, you should see this ship is actually rather small despite having more space for cryptolsleep, its because, as i said before, im not mining anything at all XD, will do on my next playthrough where i will actually dig, I want to stick to my commitment, no pickaxes shall be used here :P
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Post by: A Friend on November 24, 2015, 07:13:47 PM
Quote from: Komyets on November 24, 2015, 03:52:37 PM
Call me a copy cat, but this inspired me, since my colony was also pretty big and could handle on its own, I didnt have much motivation to keep playing with it, until I saw this post.

It gave me a new goal, to make a badass ship as well. It's still unfinished, need 30 Caskets x.x http://i.imgur.com/Y3fCLuk.jpg

One could say, "It's easy to get the steel." But on this colony I commited myself to never, never, use the mining tool. So I depend on my electric smelters, and traders to get it. Its... hard, but quite a challenge haha!

So it begins... the great "actually make a proper spaceship" goal of our time.
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Komyets on November 25, 2015, 06:20:06 AM
I REGRET NOTHING XD

But seriously, I thank Duban for posting this, it does really adds another interesting puspose to the game, I also found out it stimulates my creativity to design a nice looking place too.
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: milon on November 25, 2015, 07:39:36 AM
Quote from: keylocke on November 24, 2015, 02:41:33 PM
woah nice, does it launch?

Sure it would, as long as all components are present and linked together with Ship parts (they are).  Once it lifts off, all Ship components leave the map.  The rest of the structures will be left on the ground, which breaks the realism a bit and looks kinda funny.
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Post by: Coenmcj on November 25, 2015, 11:04:49 AM
That's the moment when you turn on dev mode and obliterate it all though, so it's not technically cheating and you have to rebuild the new ship, should you leave anyone behind after the first one.
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Post by: JimmyAgnt007 on November 25, 2015, 11:37:30 AM
I made a 36 pod stick ship that took forever to make, thats all just insane.  Good work!
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: A Friend on November 25, 2015, 09:19:53 PM
Superior toothpick ship masterrace
(http://i.imgur.com/pDrB15l.png)
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Coenmcj on November 26, 2015, 01:25:11 AM
Whether your ship doesn't speak loudly enough about the hardships you've faced and the trials your colony has endured, your AI core is giving you too much lip and calling you an 'organic meatbag' or your vessel just doesn't quite have the zest one would expect from a rag tag group of bards and crash survivors then talk to 'A Friend'!
He can set you up with a glorious masterpiece of an inter-crashsite capable vessel! Complete with actual working engines!*

*A friend is not held liable should your vessel inevitably crash and kill the majority of the passengers.
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Post by: killer117 on November 26, 2015, 07:19:18 AM
Ive posted on at least half a dozen subjects and 2 of my own that we should be aloud to build something like this, then use it in like a rimworld version of ftl. Look it up if u havent heard of it and just imagine how cool itd be to use ur ship in a similar way
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Post by: Komyets on February 16, 2016, 01:50:17 AM
So bad nobody has made more fancy ships anymore :c

I've been trying but I havent been lucy, colonies dying all the time lol, cant even research the ship stuff :P
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Grimandevil on February 16, 2016, 06:06:52 AM
That is, actually, what i wanted to (pre)build, but for opposite purposes.
I.e. not for colonists swaying away from the planet, but to simulate living in a crash-landed ship on the planet, instead of dropping in tin cans and magically build up a city. Might be a nice idea for a mod.

In fact, i've never really bothered building the escape ship.
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Post by: Listen1 on February 16, 2016, 08:23:32 AM
Wow, since someone ressurected the topic:

OP said that he made a crapton of money selling crops for bulk goods trader... How about simple meals? I don't know how much costs the best crop/meat/animal product, but the simple meals sell usually for 5,5 to 6,5 silver each, only taking 10 food units.
Title: Re: My colonists escaped on a proper spaceship instead of a rocket stick.
Post by: Grimandevil on February 16, 2016, 08:40:13 AM
havent noticed much profit inceace from selling prep'd meals rather than the raw products, and then considering time consumption, its even more doubtful.
raw components usually go for ~0.5
selling human meat and leather, that makes u a fortune.
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Post by: Listen1 on February 16, 2016, 10:43:46 AM
It would make much more sense if any trader would buy meals.

I mean, it's food. Just because John was an abrasive psychopath it dosen't mean he has a bad taste.