Murry wrote:
Well, alot of small scifi ships (Think Firefly) don't have many corridor, only hatches. You can also look at submarine designs vs Battleship designs. Every space is important for small ships. While bigger ships need to look for effecient travel, because they have so many things to access and they are spread all over the ship.
Exactly.
One thing that really bothers me is the placement of hatches on corridors. After playing around with it I actually think I found a bug. The situations in which you can or can not place a hatch at a certain spot on a corridor seems to be pretty erratic. It would be nice to be able to place a hatch anywhere on a corridor. Why shouldn't I be allowed to put a hatch on every side of a Corridor2?
Trying to place an EEV on one design really drove the point home for me (I've tried to simulate the situation I ran into in the picture below). I had everything in place and just needed one last EEV to be 100% green. I had a pretty wide open space at one spot, but couldn't connect a hatch to the side of the corridor, so I had to rearrange quite a bit to make things work.
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In some cases you can place a hatch on a corner of a corridor, in some you can't.
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Unfortunately L corridors don't make up for it because they are massive (for what they are).
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File comment: Using an L Section a hatch and any 2x2 room takes up a crazy amount of space!
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This does add an extra layer of challenge to ship layout, but one that I think is unnecessary and frustrating.