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cinder timber Mar 31, 2025, 6:35 AM

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Very nice! Is the goal that your space platform will fly from one planet to another and then land? That would be awesome 😛

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I'm curious how you're planning to allow the player to control it?

solid salmon Mar 31, 2025, 8:20 AM

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Le dot. Well played for achieving this already !

wintry mesa Mar 31, 2025, 11:09 AM

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That's really cool.
You said about wire connections, but should they even connect? If its a spaceship that is its own entity (figuratively), it doesn'f make much sense to connect to the surface's power grid automatically

molten depot Mar 31, 2025, 1:22 PM

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nice! Do you have an idea about how fast it is compared to SE style spaceships?

vague cliff Mar 31, 2025, 2:20 PM

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cinder timber Very nice! Is the goal that your space platform will fly from one planet to anot...

The goal is to have space platforms be stations and have the ships be able to fly around and land on planets or maybe only land on stations, but I like this idea as well. The end goal does change a bit as I'm learning what I can and cannot do with space platform prototypes.

vague cliff Mar 31, 2025, 2:24 PM

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wintry mesa That's really cool. You said about wire connections, but should they even connec...

Fair point, I feel for transportation ships, you might want them to be able to connect for power storage reasons. But for now I'll leave it.

vague cliff Mar 31, 2025, 2:26 PM

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molten depot nice! Do you have an idea about how fast it is compared to SE style spaceships?

Currently, instaint. I have not implemented any "traveling" just the scan and clone to new surface. Now I need to figure out the best "traveling method", maybe convert to space platform so it can use the train stop system to move around? Not sure yet, will need to do some more testing.

solar adder Mar 31, 2025, 9:11 PM

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Hi @vague cliff, if you want, I've created a ground version of the space platform that looks actually made for the ground. You can use it for your project with credit if you want, or just use that mod as a dependency
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/space-platform-for-ground

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Space platform, for ground - Factorio Mods

Adapted the space platform tile to work (and look good) on normal ground.

vague cliff Apr 1, 2025, 2:27 PM

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solar adder Hi <@196126300140732416>, if you want, I've created a ground version of the spac...

ill check it out, thank you 🙂

sweet tendon Apr 5, 2025, 9:54 AM

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this is very impressive, sorry to nitpick but i noticed when it lands in Gleba there are some decoratives plants present on the platform tile in the back and it gave me an idea that if you are going to fiddle with this, it would be funny to have the spaceship "burn" the grass when landing, or when taking off you'd see the silhouette where it was parked had turned from grass to dirt

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