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Discussion: How best to represent starship construction and supercharged slots

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2y 2mon ago by lemmy.world/u/SkySchemer in nmsglyphexchange

The Orbital update has introduced the notion of starship construction. For those who haven't explored this aspect of the game yet (or are still waiting for the Xbox update), the new space stations have a construction terminal where you can build a fighter, explorer, or hauler (no solars, exotics, shuttles, or interceptors at this time).

The way it works is, each ship is constructed from base components that you obtain by salvaging a starship, and a reactor core that you purchase from the starship tech merchant at the station (the class of the reactor core determines the class of the ship).

For a hauler you need: cockpit, wings, and engine. For a fighter, it's: fuselage, thruster, and wings. For an explorer, you have hull, left wing and right wing. Note that each component can (and for wings, typically is) a set of multiple of components, which is how you get all the variations.

To obtain a component, you have to scrap a ship that has the configuration you want. The ship scapper has a new option to let you salvage one component. So if you want to make a ship, you have to scrap three ships total to get each component: cockpi+wing+engine for hauler, fuselage+wing+thruster for fighter, and left+right+hull for explorer.

Testing has shown that supercharged slot arrangement is procedural. The same components (including the reactor core, so S-class vs A-class etc. matters) at the same space station will result in the same SC slot configuration. Color is irrelevant.

So what does this mean for the Glyph Exchange?

It means we can publish glyphs to space stations that result in favorable SC slot arrangements for a given starship configuration. The question is, how best to do that?

Since the subject lines here are intended to serve as an index, I'd like to suggest using this form:

Fabricated Starship/Galaxy

Then we have to name the parts and provide a photo of the SC slot configuration that you get from that space station with that configuration.

As for part naming, though it's tempting to use the game's "language" for the parts, there are a lot of component names because they are describing combinations of parts rather than the parts themselves, and those names have a lot of potentially confusing redundancies. I think it's better for us to stick with the standard part names we always use, as people are already familiar with those and it's pretty easy to figure out which ships you need to scrap to get what you want.

I'm quite out of the loop and don't remember much of the game but I'll be keeping an eye on this for after I move and get my computer set up again.

The NMS Glyph Exchange resources post: everything you need to know to find the things you want

2y 11mon ago by lemmy.world/u/SkySchemer in nmsglyphexchange

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Starship/Hesperius Dimension: C-Class Orange Delta I-Wing Closed Tank Interceptor

5mon 1d ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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6mon 5d ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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1y 7mon ago by lemmy.ca/u/Grimpen in nmsglyphexchange

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Farm/Euclid: Stasis Device System

1y 7mon ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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I found my first Robot planet!

1y 8mon ago by lemm.ee/u/mjhelto in nmsglyphexchange from lemm.ee

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Planet/Euclid: The Abyss—a gloomy, lush planet with chromatic fog in the Cemetery Drive system.

1y 8mon ago by lemmy.world/u/lady_maria in nmsglyphexchange

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1y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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Starship/Euclid: C-Class Light Yellow Cylon Vented X-Fin Interceptor

1y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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1y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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1y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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1y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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1y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/jeff_rose in nmsglyphexchange

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2y 2mon ago by lemm.ee/u/kinttach in nmsglyphexchange from lemm.ee

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Fabricated Starship/Calypso: Double-wide box hauler, duck cab, box tail, 3-corner SC slots with 4th just one slot away

2y 2mon ago by lemmy.world/u/SkySchemer in nmsglyphexchange

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