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Huge Spherical Structures for station megalomaniacs

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Ever since i noticed the UI supports copy-able sequences that aren't physically connected (at least i hope it's a feature and not a bug that gets fixed) and can create curved sequences easily i wanted to build some artificial asteroids/death stars.
Finally i got the time to finish one, and FPS is way better then i expected so i thought i post them here.
They are pretty cool to fly around imo, 20km diameter is enough to have a minor planet feeling near them :D


This is a mixed race shipyard, docks and build modules are embedded in the surface (~3.2k modules).
To get a sense of scale, that patch of light in the green box (2nd pic) is the xl cradle.
Sphere Shipyard.rar
and its 2 support factories
SphereYard Support MetalWaferAMSubstrate.xml
SphereYard Support GraphCoolCarb.xml
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Also made a boron ball, just the structure. If you like lots of borons (1.9k L Oasis). Hairy inside..
SphereBoronStructure.rar
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And a terran
Sphere Terran Storage Light.rar
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Made a flyby vid for a friend, it shows worst case performance: very evolved game, have 700+ ships just in active military fleets, many huge stations and as a result a booming npc economy with tons of npc stations.
Shipyard is in argon space producing HOP ships so there is some fighting going on as i made the vid, plus video capture took about 20% fps.
Still it's usually 40+ with some dips in the 20s. Without record it's actually playable.
Youtube made it very dark for some reason :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1deTJSl8aTU
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Re: Huge Spherical Structures for station megalomaniacs

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Доброго времени.

Замечательная и грандиозная работа! :) :wink:
И "да прибудет с Вами прибыль"...
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Re: Huge Spherical Structures for station megalomaniacs

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J_M_L wrote: Sun, 10. May 26, 23:41 Доброго времени.

Замечательная и грандиозная работа! :) :wink:
Thanks mate!
Happy you like it!

I tried this with a new game, dropped lod to 80% this time and it's pretty smooth, 50-80 FPS apart from a few FPS dips to 30-40 (with FG).
The weird thing is that i do get some FPS dips even in a new game and in a relatively empty sector with just a few npc stations. Maybe it's not even my station.

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