Engineers strutting in space to support fold out robotics

[Resilient]

With the introduction of Breaking Ground there is a lot of opportunity to build things that can fold out and deploy. But the joints are something fairly weak. I think it would open up a lot of design possibilities and be a fun gameplay mechanic to allow our engineers to become basic space welders and be able to apply struts to vehicles in the wild.

I have lots of designs I would love to try out, but with the mechanic of only being able to connect two pieces with a single lever/servo/rotor I often just can't make joints that are strong enough. But if I could deploy then 'weld' the items into place after the robotics did their stuff with an engineer I think that would be great.

Edited June 10, 2019 by Resilient

[Loskene]

Sure, sounds good. We can make trebuchets held down by strut and released by hand then too. It's just like that mod I always think will be handy but I never bother installing. It's a very niche thing that suddenly has a lot of applications with robotics.

[fulgur]

I agree. This would make it much easier to do LOTS OF THINGS. The way I think it would work is that, like an experiment, you can take a box of 10 struts and then weld them on. Then you would connect them on EVA.