Defense Platforms built around gates how-to?

[oddgit]

Hi all, i have seen a few screen shots of defense platforms built around gates. Are there any tutorials on how to do this? Or is it something my sleepy brain isnt finding with web searches. Some look really cool.

Thanks!

[adeine]

In order to get a plot on top of the gate just place it as close as possible, then use the resizing sliders to make the plot bigger so it overlaps the gate/accelerator on the map.

More recent versions of the game show other objects in the build plan, allowing you to precisely position modules in relation to the gate. Depending on how neatly you want it to line up it can be a bit finicky/time consuming to get it right. Here's a build plan if you want an example or just a solution you can paste and deploy.

If you design a plan yourself, you definitely want to make sure all the modules are 'technically' connected to a single module (like the highlighted defence disc in the above). Otherwise when you save your build plan and load it into a new plot/gate you won't be able to adjust the position of the structure as a whole. Which is bad news since no two plots will fit around gates the same way, so you'll always have to manually move it into position in the build planner.

[peteran]

Also, taking care to make one edge of the plot parallel to the gate before expanding it is useful.

[oddgit]

In order to get a plot on top of the gate just place it as close as possible, then use the resizing sliders to make the plot bigger so it overlaps the gate/accelerator on the map.

More recent versions of the game show other objects in the build plan, allowing you to precisely position modules in relation to the gate. Depending on how neatly you want it to line up it can be a bit finicky/time consuming to get it right. Here's a build plan if you want an example or just a solution you can paste and deploy.

If you design a plan yourself, you definitely want to make sure all the modules are 'technically' connected to a single module (like the highlighted defence disc in the above). Otherwise when you save your build plan and load it into a new plot/gate you won't be able to adjust the position of the structure as a whole. Which is bad news since no two plots will fit around gates the same way, so you'll always have to manually move it into position in the build planner.

Thanks! also that station looks cool.