I stayed up way too long chipping away at a few projects, so I didn’t have the energy for Clan Battles again, but all in all I think it was worth it. I even got to test a suggestion by one of the commenters from cheerkin’s ASF drone page.

Since the landing code on the drone is a bit hit or miss(crash), pairing it with arguably the best automatic docking script in the game could solve the problem. It would even give me more reliable pathing options and unique landing spots. The problem is that there’s a difference between pairing programs and combining them. The latter would have been more desirable, but I don’t even begin to comprehend either of those programs. The best I could do for now was to see where and how they interfere with each other visually, try to compensate, and take some notes for posterity.

The reason I’m looking into this again now is because the Kaisers use a weapon called a ‘subcannon.’ The official name is grafschwerter or grafenschwerter depending on the model. This weapon is essentially the combination of a drone and railway gun. To get it to work, the subcannons have to be able to detach from the mothership, participate in a multangular attack, and then return to dock on command. It’s all got to work from the helm or command station of the ship in question.

The first ship the Kaisers have that will have subcannons is the Prinz Eugen. Others include the Bismarck class battleships, and the Graf Zeppelin. I can post pone work on the Eugen until the subcannon design and programming is finished, but that would probably mean skipping over to Seydlitz, which I’m not sure I’m ready for either. Converting the Hipper hull into something that can comfortably carry more than 20 Cosmo Messers, or a combination of them and other Kaiser ships, is way too daunting right now. I still have to design the other planes and make sure they’re roughly compatible with the same connectors and platforms as the Messers.

Daunting, I tell you.

Anyway, I know this is mostly Space Engineers talk, but that’s not all I’m working on. I’ll try to branch out with other topics once the Cosmo Messer F and the Admiral Hipper are finished and uploaded to the workshop.