There are so many reasons that geometry of a space ship matters from pressurization structural stability, acceleration stress, to deflection angle of space debris during travel.
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Shouldn’t spaceships be a collection of tubes?
If you removed the disk of the enterprise you’re basically there.
A disk is just a very short tube.
In CAD maybe but air pressure doesn’t work that way
Not with that attitude it doesn't! We've got shields to tell the air pressure how to behave.
I love ships that wouldn't work well in atmosphere! They look much cooler! Feel more spacey!
My friend in avorion spent countless hours designing incredibly cool, streamlined ships that had V wings and neatly spinning barbettes for weapons systems. He downloaded the fan-made recreations of popular sci-fi series.
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I made cubes. I put square stone on top of square metal armor on top of reinforcing blocks, and threw everything into ever-expanding cubes. Once I got the auto-targeting weapons, I WAS the borg. It was beautiful.
Me playing avorion.
Fine, it'll be a double walled square.
Engi freighter always
Save our Ships devs in shambles. Or elated maybe?
The room right to the upper left one is missing a door to the hallway, I think. You can't get out if the bathroom is blocked.
Having spent way too long playing rimworld I’m pretty sure that’s a kitchen and cold storage space. The white thing on the exterior wall is the cooler, the middle room is the kitchen counter, the outer room that connects to the hall is a dining area.
The lack of doors direct from the cooler out is intentional because your people will cut through there if there’s a door and you’ll struggle to maintain temps and cleanliness, so your people are more likely to get sick.