A couple of quick updates.

Space Engineers

I knew I would be too out of it to get much else done this afternoon, so before I went to sleep I spent a good chunk of the morning doing some series testing on that carousel style hangar on the Admiral Hipper. I also tried to enclose the entire thing in an airtight room.

I really really needed a modless solution to having an opening wide enough for the Cosmo Messer’s wingspan but I couldn’t get an airtight seal with hinged doors, rotor doors, or hinged fill ins + normal hangar doors like some of the ones I spied on the workshop. Some people like to use pistons for this kind of thing, but I won’t even consider using pistons on my ships anymore unless they’re part of a Clang drive, or a small grid fighter catapult.

They’re still too finicky for my taste.

I tried an extended hangar door mode for a quick and easy–and temporary solution, but as I was slipping into dreamland, something told me the only solution that will work for a combination of ship sizes like this are side entrances. This way, the Cosmo Messers can leverage their short height to get through the doors same way the do on the Prinz Heinrich. So I’ll be putting in side doors and making some tweaks to the hangar to accommodate, because with sloped LCDs being the one exception, I refuse to use any more mods on this ship than necessary.

Fleeing Victory

Part 2 is coming along, but I’m still putting together certain scenes relating to the one I’m on–the usual. It should be done Sunday, but that largely depends on when and how I wake up. Right now a couple of other things are higher priorities for me, including deciding between a Remnants story or an Artorius story.

Since Fleeing Victory is more of a long term experiment, the pace could pick up dramatically or the whole thing could go quiet depending on what else is going on. Either way trust in these words when you see them:

“To be continued”

Phoenix

As for me, it’s tougher now. I haven’t had much in the way of good and consistent sleep for pretty much the entirety of March. Too many things were lined up to push and pull me in every direction at once. Not to mention I was making a bunch of little changes in the way I do things, especially on P.R.

So I’m still adjusting, and while I don’t expect April to be much better than March was, it’s a phase I’ve got to get through.