build struts first setting

[astral lark]

considering the fact that every part requires a bunch of struts under it to be built, a setting where the crew focuses on building every strut first before shifting to making the actual parts would be nice

[dense monolith]

this would make crew construction at least 2.5x better. Especially on big (and laggy) ships

[valid cedar]

i imagine this would speed it up a decent bit as well, at least for ships with bubbles or similar

[drowsy lynx]

Why would this be better?

[astral lark]

well since a strut is 1x1 and costs so little only 1 crew can carry pieces to it at a time and its often times slow

if you had the strut placed already then all the crew can go out at once to build the more expensive parts

[languid basalt]

But wouldn't this just mean the crew are basically building the ship twice as they go back to finish the first struts they placed? Plus when your building you'll already have all the parts, building the most expensive means nothing

[astral lark]

yeah but sometimes i notice that the crew can leave a single strut unfinished because they focus on building something big which results in some things not being built

[languid basalt]

That sounds like a bug

[dense monolith]

it allows more crew to work on building stuff. Instead of having to wait for a new crew member to be deployed to build each new tile, the same crew member could start building many tiles (I forget how much steel each crew can carry), allowing more crew to join in construction faster.

[stuck obsidian]

Isn't that a different suggestion though? You're asking for structure building tasks to group together several connected structures so one crew member will build more of them at once (this especially slows down building thin connecting parts right now). That doesn't necessarily require that all structure is built first.

[dense monolith]

I thought struts were the squares that formed when a crew places one steel on an empty tile. If I’m mistaken or if madeqan meant structures, then this suggestion would be slower.

[astral lark]

strut, structure, same thing

[dense monolith]

oh, the I'm probably not going to find use out of this setting

sorry

[languid basalt]

I think I get it, just not sure how much faster it would be if at all, structures do take like less then a second to build so as you have like 3 crew flying around building just structures the rest can start building the rooms ontop of those

[dense monolith]

I just noticed that crew will already do this sometimes, but it seems random weather they decide to start a new tile or not. Maybe it could somehow be made a 100% chance?

[warm dome]

Lag could be solved if there werent half a million direction lines

[dense monolith]

Nah lines are super cheap for computers to render

Besides, the the is cpu limited, not gpu limited

[cursive forge]

My headache would be solved if there weren't a million lines. 😛