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There's a FUCKING QUARRY MOD???!!! Thank you kind sir. I'm going mining.

and turn the harvest rate up, I MEAN WAY UP

Rimworld is the kind of game people beat once, then switch to Randy (the only nod-modded story teller that allows for indefinite gameplay) and just build big honkin castles, or go on genocidal conquests, or try to eat the entire world population.. often paired with the genocidal conquests.

Oh absolutely. I have hundreds of hours logged, probably over a thousand now. It just gets so complicated and intense that I give up before getting anywhere near "end game".

Yes, but it's a "gravship" to differentiate.

Yeah, can't have that pesky air resistance slow you down. In...space.

Edit: Okay, now I'm actually super curious at what speed this would come into effect. I know space isn't 100% vaccuum, so there is some point where this would become a necessary factor to consider. However, it must be at truly insane speeds, no?

One lung, one kidney, liver. In that order. Kidney affects blood filtration which means infections are more likely. You could do the heart but there are currently no ways to get any sort of artificial livers while there are artificial hearts. Plus livers and hearts sell for the same price if that's your vibe.

You've got a hard point there. At more than 100 colonists, my game loads in at less than one frame per second. That's why there's a cap on kidney harvesting. Otherwise, I would be a more terrible monster. Thanks for your concern, though.

You could just enforce some level of aerodynamics or similar real world esque constraint. Even if not applicable for space, you could invent some.

Maybe if they changed the way heat dispersal worked? That would be minor though. Currently a freezer is optimal when rectangular because each side (and not diagonals) contributes to heat transfer.

Maybe adding more things you could mount to the sides of the ship like external storage that don't need to be inside and then make them shaped like nose cones? That might make ships look even worse though lol, a square with spikes.

I dont think you need a fancy algo, just some simple contraints.

For instance, maybe the grav fuel cell thingies emit radiation in a certain radius.Make certain parts like the jammer require no obstructions on N sides (like the wind turbine)

There are already little constriants like this in the game for vanilla structures.

In avorion the physics simulation is pretty accurate, for example RCS thrusters placed farther away from the center of rotation are more efficient. However, still no air resistance in space so I just make bricks with struts coming off them.

Haven't played the game, but maximizing surface area for cooling would work. IRL, cooling is a big issue for space craft that do more than just coasting with an occasional short course correction burn. Space might be cold but its near-vaccum is an incredibly good insulator.

So if heat management is a thing in a space game, this would encourage ships with more surface area (so non-boxy, non-circles). At the same time logistics within the ship would favour boxy/circle-shaped ships, so you'd have two contradictory design goals requireing you to find a good compromise between both. That should lead to some more interesting designs.