That would be some awesome fleet coordination to see :)

Star Wars vipe XD /Ery sci-fi Whit drives xD

That would not even be that hard as long as the settings for that game allow such big structures. I would put armor blocks in two lines with landing gear every 20 blocks. Then This "ship" would connecto to everyone and these other sips should have their dampeners on. Disconnect. Then Start the jump drive. reconnect. Whoever moves will be forever forgotten.

That's what I do. I have a ship that can carry my battleship and all of my landers, fighters, mining ships, and repair ships. It takes 16 jump drives to let it jump 6000 kilometers fully loaded. Unloaded it gets somewhere around 21000 kilometers. It also has a central refinery, assembly plant, and lots of cargo space so any ship that connects to it can rearm and resupply.

DefineFox oi what about those Jedi ships that docked with the rings to jump?

Yep, it's pretty cool. They did a pretty nice job on the effect too, I was very excited when I got the screenshot for the thumbnail :P

There's a reason for that ;)

@@Splitsie monopoly?!

I was thinking the same, would it seriously work tho? Lol

SrammVII I believe it should if done to small ships. It could even be modified to drain power.

It would be difficult to attach to their grid though. Another reason to not have open connectors on your ships!

I made a drone wich is basically a baterry giroscopes a warpdrive and a landing gear and a laser antena (stealthy boi ) then i use it to grab big ships into a grinder (piston double sided) :)

I’ve done it.

They're not accurate enough to jump close enough to the target for that to work

@@Splitsie it may work on space stations or big motherships that stay in roughly the same location for a while, in wouldnt work on any small ships. And it doesnt need to be 100% accurate, because you keep your momentum after jumping, so you can jump infront of them while going 100 meters per second to close the distance or fly into them. Moving targets will be incredibly difficult to hit, but stationary once shouldnt be to difficult. If someone has a astroid base with defences and you launch it to within 1000 meter then the bombship only needs to survive for 10 seconds. Also, what happens to any subgrits (like pistons or rotors) during/after a jump? And what happens to stuff thats attatched with landinggear/connector? I would imagen that clang destroys the pistons/rotors but im not sure about connectors and landinggear.

@@Splitsie wow two year old video respect (Love your work btw you taught me how to play this great game thank you)

Hey, nice idea about weaponizing something that was meant not to be weaponized. And Splitsie, thank you for the tips about jump drives, I didn't know how to work them. Thanks

@@danstoisor4563 I have learned that if something can be weaponized it will be weaponized. I'd rather be prepared to defend myself then die not knowing what hit me.

2 jump drives, 100.000 missiles. Use one jump in, launch, jump out with the other. (but I'm uncertain whether taht would work.)

@@ZMacZ likely not

@Matt Teeter yes

Hey, just be glad you don't have our spiders ;)

@@Splitsie or our fires!

I remember sometimes, but I smashed into the wall instead.

@@Splitsie Luckily as have grown older i've learned not to be afraid, just instead just bitch slap spiders with a truck.

So the planets aren't the actual real life distance away from eachother? Like is the moon 300,000+ km from earth?

that could work, even better have a second set of jump drives so you ram into them, lock on with landing gear, jump, drop them then jump away again ;)

Or, turn off their power systems, lock on and bring the ships to speed, jump towards a planet, unlock and basically fling them into the gravity well. Then jump far away :D That is of course asuming they can't get their power back on in time to stop from going to far into the planets gravity. I may have to do some testing with some AI ships first. Just lock on, fly into gravity, drop them off in at least 30-40% gravity, detatch, then make my escape burn. Cause the AI should be to stupid to fly out of the gravity.

Ahhh, that wouldn't be possible. You cannot activate jump drives if you are in a gravity well higher than 0.05g in strength. You can however try building thrusters that are overridden and force them into a gravity well.

Ah, if only. The carnage would be exquisite :)

You're very welcome, I'm very happy to have helped you get back into it :)

Yeah, that's what I thought until the heavy ship wouldn't jump. Now I'm just really confused about what distance an object has to be to be considered in the way or not :P

Thanks, it's always bugged me when it takes several minutes for people to get to the actual stuff in the tutorial that you're looking for :)

You're very welcome :)

Are you planning on building a secret hideaway base that can only be reached by jump drive?

Splitsie ... See, now you've done it; you've gone and mentioned something made of pure, concentrated awesome... :P now *I'm* planning it! XD I respectfully second Dukes request. :)

Duke00x its not *only* gravity Wells that prevent you from warping,you just need to be about 2 km away from a voxel or object,to prevent clipping issues which would destroy frames. so you need a lot of room,a circle (or sphere)at least 2 km in radius.

So now we know: Pull the hand brake, flip around the pilot seat, jump back!

This could be a tactic to leave a homing missile behind on a jump out

That's something I really want to do, largely because after doing these videos I tend to understand things so much better and I really want to get my head properly around building drones - I also want to do some videos on some of the cool drone scripts on the workshop :)

I would like to learn if there is some way to make automated jump-capable transports.

Something I built was a jump drive satellite. It’s a large grid satellite with plenty of batteries, two jump drives, a beacon, and solar panels, all attached to a connector. The idea is you connect it to a small grid ship, make the jump, and point it towards the sun before you disconnect and run off to do whatever it is you wanted to do, and hopefully by the time you get back to it, both of the drives have recharged

Thanks, I'm glad that I've been able to help you get over that hump and hopefully find some of the fun you can have in se 🙂

And he;s holding a camera? Should be microphone god damn it.

You're very welcome :)

Thank you and you're welcome :)

Thanks! I didn't show it but you can't jump no matter your heading, if you're in a natural gravity field :)

You can jump out of a grav well using the Advanced FTL drive but you can easily run into problems. It is just safer protocol to move out of a gravitational well before jumping.

Yeah, I remembered there being a deliberate variance to their landing location but forgot to touch on that in the video, plus it would have taken a few more minutes to prove that there was a significant variability and I try not to drag these out to 30mins+ :P

Machin Truc if there is an object within 2km of the jump coordinates,your jump will be shortened.

Yup, thankfully they covered a lot of potential trolling with how it was set up

Thanks, glad you've been enjoying it so far :)

You're welcome, happy to help :)

Thanks, glad you liked it :)

Thanks :)

Thank you!

That's how they all used to be - a relatively recent update changed all that

@@Splitsie I remember the colorfully almost entirely ore composed asteroids. So long ago ☺️

It's often handy having that second backup jump drive, for when you need to escape somewhere quickly, even if you've just jumped a long way to get there :)

Thanks! :)

That sort of system works really well, the only limitation for it is that your main ship needs to be large grid as well - at least if you want to remain in the same cockpit when you connect to the jump ring (you can't control a jump drive from a small grid ship attached by any means to a large grid with the jump drives)

@@Splitsie This seems to have changed; because, I do regularly utilize the cockpit on my small-grid ship, connected by a docking connector, to jump my freight hauler and take me with it.

It would sometimes be nice if autopilots could use jump drives as the drone possibilities are interesting, they'd still not hit things at superluminal speeds as missiles but it would be an interesting thing to use offensively given the cost

That's true from what I've experienced too, you only need one fully charged in order to initiate jump, which is good since it allows for a 'safety' jump drive in case you want to escape the place you just jumped to :)

It would be a pretty tricky but incredibly impressive move to pull off :)

Thanks stan, you should really set your phone to silent so these stop waking you up! :)

Splitsie it wakes the wife up then she slaps me and says youa gota messaga .it's ok to get the video upload warning early in the morning.gives me something to do in the morning.nothing else happens in the bedroom anyways.i married a Asian woman.love her alot but there is one draw back.when you marry Asian woman you marry the whole family.i have 9 woman in house.my wife.daughter.wife mother.2 wife's sister in-laws.wifes sister.wifes cousins.wifes cousin inalaw.

It does conserve speed when jumping, however, jumps close to objects are cut short, and not entirely accurate, so it's difficult to take advantage of the mechanic to plow into your intended target, unless the target is big :/

2km range limit I think on jumping close to other objects. However, it could be attached to a pod containing multiple autonomous missile arrays that are set to a timer to separate and launch out as a cluster bomb missile turret mine field that would certainly cause all kinds of havoc, especially if you have any autopilot scripts that are set to timers that cause them to converge on a set of coordinates. Throw in a second full of decoys with gun turrets and you have an effective but expensive autonomous long-ranged carpet bombing drone assault

Sadly not possible in SE, though you could take the marshmallows and give them to the little green men on kerbin to toast for you

sadly the sun is actually just a lens flare game object that is set a specific distance away from the player meaning that no mater how hard you try to move to it, it will always remain the same distance away and rotating around the player to simulate the day night cycle , it is a common trick in games like this , though I have played around with an idea for a solar system in the game im designing in Unity that will have the sun stationary but spinning with the planets spinning and rotating around it , the problem ive noticed was that to do that the lens flare game object can not be resized meaning that the planets would be larger than the sun but other then that it is easy to get the planets to rotate around the sun and spin on there own axis as well as having the moons do the same around there planets

Why not smores?

@@macgabhann1108 its been 10 months, im running out of ice

@@macgabhann1108 Did you try maing the Sun a large unlandable planet ? (Maybe use a destruction for when you get too close, where the blokcs all take damage until they dissappear ?)

The jump lands you too inaccurately for that to work, you land anywhere in a 1.5km sphere around your target, plus you can only jump from a directly controlled craft so you'd have to ride that missile right in anyway :P

Yeah, the sequels were BS

Sadly the jump drive jump isn't accurate enough (I believe that's done deliberately), you wouldn't be able to target even a base accurately :(

@@Splitsie pitty :(

It cancels the jump :)

On the left side you can see weapons and tools, click it and drag the thingy into your toolbar.

Voxnic I was wondering the same thing. Press G and the on the left find the menu "Weapons and Tools". Drag the weapon to the hotbar. Exit the G-menu and press the assigned number. Voila! If you want to control it like a camera, find the block in the "all blocks" menu and drag it to the bar, select control and then you can take control of turrets.

Thanks!

It makes me smile seeing people help each other out on my videos :)

They are pretty chunky, but I think that's a good thing for such a high value block as it forces some interesting design decisions :)

Thank you :)

I've done something somewhat similar to that in the machinima series I made over on kzfaq.info :)

I think you could potentially manage that tactic, though you'd have to jump out of the fight and back instead of just hopping around in range since the minimum jump distance would take you out of the fight. It'd probably still work pretty well though :)

The fastest a single jump drive can recharge at max power input is 7 minutes; so, whether it's a single jump drive, or 16 jump drives (the limit to give you the max distance possible), you'll still be waiting 7 minutes at each point. I guess you could build yourself "jump freighters" that you attach to, and then switch, at each station, leaving them behind to charge at the "charging station".

But you jump in a random location near the base, you can't control the location with enough accuracy to take much advantage of it :/

As long as your base doesn't actually include any voxels, that's absolutely the best way to go, why move just the fridge when you could move your whole house? Or something like that :P

It really does :P On a side note I was pretty happy I managed to capture that screenshot :)

It'll be difficult to pull off in SE though, you'd need pinpoint accuracy on a blind warp - it would be incredibly awesome to see it happen though :)

No, not ram. Just into one of their blindspots so you can shoot it.

Good point :)

I think there are some mods you could use to do it since I suspect they wont - don't have the names off the top of my head though

Splitsie you can do it with the mass balls

I can't recall if you can trigger a jump drive that's on a sub-grid, I feel like you can't but I only feel about 80% on that right now. If you can, then a setup like that is possible, otherwise you'd need to switch cockpits to initiate the jump

Yep and would look pretty cool as it happened :)

That's not a bad thought, using the jump drive as a defense rather than offense

Or you can jump at them already moving, or lg to them and jump them to a grav well you Woould Need To Accelerate before Jumping Tho

I don't think you can aim the jump drive in a way you'd be sure that you're moving towards the enemy after the jump. And you can't jump into a gravity well.

I've not messed around with gravity based drives or weapons too much, they're next to useless against small targets due to the slow fire rate so you it's hard to lead your target properly, but they can be devastating against a stationary target. I have plans (not sure how soon) to do a video on gravity generators and I will try to include grav propulsion in that video as well :)

You're welcome and thank you Ian!

I thought I did, but maybe I didn't include that bit, if you do that, the jump gets cancelled :(

came here for this, thanks

That is a very good point and a lesson much better learned when you have backup saves

Damn that's rough

If they're attached then they should jump together, if not I expect the ship inside won't be able to jump as it'll be obstructed - even though the obstruction calculation is hit and miss I expect it'll still stop you :(

Much like the hydrogen tank vs oxygen generator it's going to depend on your needs. For atmospheric thrusters I tend to favour batteries and recharging from a station for small ships due to the high power need during brief periods of flight, to do that with reactors takes a lot of them. I can certainly think of some interesting tests to do between the different power generation/storage options to help guide that though, so I'll start working on something :)

I have begon useing both at same time, so then im stationary i can change my ship Whit power

I guess you could, but it would be the world's slowest detection method, every time you cancelled your jump you'd have to wait for the jump drives to recharge before you could test the next coordinates, also I think it either doesn't spawn asteroids where you're jumping to or just drops you short if you haven't been in a sector of space previously

That would certainly work, would be incredibly cool footage if you managed to pull of the manoeuvre :)

Gonna try that sometime. Don´t know if it´ll work.

The biggest challenge (aside from surviving incoming fire) is that locking onto a moving enemy grid with large grid landing gear can leave you with a high likelihood of destroying the landing gear :/

1.you could try to make it remote controled for the surviving part (it`s probably easyer and cheaper just to respawn on the mother ship anyway) 2.much helps a lot ?!? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sadly jump drives can't be controlled remotely, they have to be piloted from a cockpit directly :(

You're welcome. Don't want to be doing that at 100m/s for long :P

It should have an impact, but it's probably negligible when we're talking masses over 1,250,000kg. From what I've seen the wiki's information is accurate on those points so having 20 jump drives will allow you to go 20x as far as a single drive, which is nice for the supermassive carrier :)

At some point I might start looking into mods that change the game dramatically, though I have a personal preference towards keeping the game close to vanilla in how it plays so that might be a while :P

well everyone i have shown it to has agreed that shields are mandatory in their future playthroughs after seeing that they dont need to hunt for missing blocks after getting attacked by a drone or after a hard landing or glitchy mining operation by default the shields are a bit OP but you can easily customise the shield capacity, power usage, damage absorption, recharge rate and lots of other factors by default, shields are considered as refineries i think as far as power priority is concerned but they behave like batteries when storing shield points, multiple shield generators do stack their capacity but cannot recharge each other (shield generator 1 can recharge itself but cannot recharge shield generator 2 and vice versa) in my playthroughs and on my server i use the following setup for energy shields (power usage on the server has increased due to more powerful reactors, but these are the values used with vanila power sources and weapons) combining shields (my configuration) with realistic batteries/solar (vanila large battery now only holds around 200kwh and vanila solar panel now only provides 15kw) makes for some very interesting gameplay decisions abbreviated grid types LGLG (large grid large generator) LGSG (large grid small generator) SGLG (small grid large generator) SGSG (small grid small generator) AGAG (all grids all generators) max power usage (no upgrades) if you are short on power the shield will simply charge slower LGLG: 400MW (charging) 200KW (idle) LGSG: 50MW (charging) 50KW (idle) SGLG: 800KW (charging) 10KW (idle) SGSG: 100KW (charging) 5KW (idle shield capacity (no upgrades) LGLG: 50,000pts LGSG: 10,000pts SGLG: 3,000pts SGSG: 500pts shield recharge (no upgrades) with no power limits LGLG: 500pt/sec LGSG: 250pt/sec SGLG: 100pt/sec SGSG: 50pt/sec damage absorption (percentage of damage the shield stops from hitting the targeted block) AGAG: 100% shield leakage (the lower the shield levels the more damage can get to the protected blocks) AGAG: off upgrades (same boost for large and small generators) only large grid shields have upgrade ports flux coil power usage: +50% recharge rate +30% capacitor power usage: +20% shield capacity: +70% hope this helps

Another alternative would be for your jump to get cancelled if you lock onto something with either a landing gear, connector or rotor. I'm not sure which would be easier to implement though...

Yours would probably be easier to implement. Mine would be punishing.