I think this ship could easily be re-worked and updated to make relevant to play. I really wish I had seen the days of 100% solar setups that worked. It would be an awesome way to play and keep the power/heat very low.

I would try reducing the drain and adding some hydrogen fuel power, but currently the frame rate for intersellar rift to too low and the game has become unplayable. There are other solar powered ships which I have done this for because I still liked the design. I am more of an engineer/scientist than an archtect/artist. Hopefully the frame rate problem will be fixed in the future and I will come back to this game or maybe I need an update of some kind since there is an error popping up. The game has some excellent features which make it worth playing otherwise.

@mitchellmckain I am sorry to hear that, yes, the ship was designed before Nuclear reactors existed; it must have become unworkable as a direct result. Any idea to what extent solar was nerfed? In any case, if it is now less than 50% of what it was, i highly recommend not using this ship design anymore.

It looks to me like this ship is basically running on batteries and when they are used up the ship is dead. The power input cannot handle the drain. Perhaps this was designed before the update which made solar powered ships almost unworkable.

@TheBaron It doesnt have them, because it is designed to be fully solar powered. However, if you run everything at 100% continually; it won't easily charge to a good amount; running it at 50% shields for a while should create reserves within a few minutes, though.

http://www.interstellarrift.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hydrogen_Tank_TI

@TheBaron I might be out of date.. so might the ship design.. but.. what is a fuel tank?

Where is the fuel tank?

I'd recommend a crew of 1-2 people, it is an extremely small vessel, and it is specifically designed to be quick to operate for a single person. (i.e. quick access to turrets from cockpit, and quick access to the rift generator from cockpit)

what is the crew size needed for this

Found it. luckily Iwas in creative just trying ships out, and your has nice control when attack or evading enemies so dying didnt worry me, Now to try it for real. Thanks for help and ship

Kelvin, Life support unit is in the cargo bay, top floor, port side of the ship has stairs leading up, above the molecular assembler.

Cannot find the life support unit apart from that the ship has everything

Looks like you can https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=871866917

@General Inaptitude I can feel some science coming... We should test this.

I don't think it is possible to get stuck between cargo pads placed on floors; not unless someone teleports in cargo while you're on one :D

Ah okay.
Would be too much fiddling around for me tbh but its nice to know that this is actually possible.

When I think about it, I already stuck between catwalk and cargo pads sometimes.
However I always tried to make it impossible to stuck in there and not to actually use this gap :)

I can confirm this also

Isard; this is easy; you can walk in between the cargo pads, there's space and they're aligned such that that is possibnle. Looking sideways a bit; you can see the cargo ledger too.

Hummm, I wonder how you should access the cargo pads if the ship is stuffed to the brim and you need something that is not in front.

Not meant to troll around here but thats really a problem for me.
That means if I dont oversee a catwalk or other access here.

Look who's page one now. You sexy beast XD

Thanks, Taz! :)

nice build