When making a large ship, autostruts are your friends. They are practically required to avoid the ship tearing itself apart. But I'm having some troubles making them work now
I am building a large ship in caveman. This forces the use of small docking ports, hence the ship is full of weak points. I'm trying to autostrut it in place, but the autostrutting options are not helpful here.
Normally, I use autostrut to heaviest part. Most of those huge ships have some huge fuel tanks at their center of mass that are very convenient places to strut things to. Here, however, there are no such tanks, because it's caveman and i have nothing bigger than the FL-T400. Of which I have about 10, scattered around the ship, and most of them in periphereal positions. Then I have the other two options of grandmother part, but the ship is already comprised of over 20 separate modules, what's the root part?
The core of the ship are 5 hitchhicker containers, they are also at the center of mass, and I would like to strut stuff there. but I don't know if it's even possible.
I put some random autostruts here and there, and it improved wobbling somewhat, but I'm trying to find a better way.
P.S. the better way would be to use eva construction to place some manual struts, but for challenge reasons I would like to not use eva construction if at all possible
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When making a large ship, autostruts are your friends. They are practically required to avoid the ship tearing itself apart. But I'm having some troubles making them work now
I am building a large ship in caveman. This forces the use of small docking ports, hence the ship is full of weak points. I'm trying to autostrut it in place, but the autostrutting options are not helpful here.
Normally, I use autostrut to heaviest part. Most of those huge ships have some huge fuel tanks at their center of mass that are very convenient places to strut things to. Here, however, there are no such tanks, because it's caveman and i have nothing bigger than the FL-T400. Of which I have about 10, scattered around the ship, and most of them in periphereal positions. Then I have the other two options of grandmother part, but the ship is already comprised of over 20 separate modules, what's the root part?
The core of the ship are 5 hitchhicker containers, they are also at the center of mass, and I would like to strut stuff there. but I don't know if it's even possible.
I put some random autostruts here and there, and it improved wobbling somewhat, but I'm trying to find a better way.
P.S. the better way would be to use eva construction to place some manual struts, but for challenge reasons I would like to not use eva construction if at all possible
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