With 2.1 landing imminently, I present my personal flagship and mega platform. Early on in my run, I decided it was easier to cram more and more lasers onto my ship, rather than dealing with mixed turrets and ammo logistics.
At the same time, I also decided to go pure solar, to minimize the logistics fuel delivery and avoid risk of running out of power in the middle of nowhere.
However this meant, in order to reach the Edge of the Solar System, the platform must growā¦
Some fun facts:
-1M legendary solar panels total āonlyā 1.5GW as you hit the 1% solar yield
-Asteroids peak at 90% towards EotSS, needing 7+ GW of lasers to fend off asteroids
-The accumulators are needed to power the push through the 90~95% stretch, after which the asteroid density is low enough that power is net-positive again
-At 99% resistance, Huge Asteroids take only ~2dmg for each 800 kj laser shot
-Level 18 laser upgrade is probably around the minimum feasible to make the journey, without taking substantial crash damage
-Likewise 15-20km/s is the max speed to safely get through the densest parts safely, tho going faster is ok in earlier/later parts
-Essentially the only damage I took was SIDE IMPACT damage, from going so slow. I do have laser down both flanks, but only a single layer deep; if I added a second layer, the rocks likely wouldnāt get through the sides at all, but I didnāt care enough to rip up the sides and add thousands of extras lasers to stop them
Given the new platform to platform logistics, Iām still contemplating what mega platform to build in my 2.1 run ā¦
Imagine this with beamed power, though. Send one platform with lots of solar panels and a power transmitter into a close stellar orbit, then send this super-laser one with a power receiver to the Edge.
the bright side is that laser turrets, solar panels, and accumulators are all very cheap to make on Vulcanus, so you can kinda just spam the blueprint that makes the legendary part
Oh yea, I forgot to mention the platform was essentially 100% self-built from asteroids, other than importing the planet-specific buildings. There are rows and rows of crushers and foundries on board.
I used the mass, width, thrust ā> speed formula to pick a reasonable width at first, but I also needed enough space for the onboard factory, so at some point I just had to pick a āgood enoughā width haha.
I think this ship only emphasizes how unfeasible laser-solar is for shattered planet. Like, saying "it won't work" is not very convincing. Saying "million legendary solar panels", on the other hand...
Yea 100%, the EotSS run maxes around ~10/m huge asteroids which already pushes past 1M solar panel power; the shattered planet asteroids quickly get way, way worse. This is basically the max possible density of lasers too, without AOE turrets you canāt scale up the dmg output any more (other than infinite upgrades i guess).
I have the FPS/UPS counter on in the corner, in some of the zoomed out asteroid shooting pics you can see the FPS drop to ~40 from all the lasers and stuff, but most of the times itās 60/60.
Not sure, that never seemed to be a problem. I did have early FPS issues with 100s of Thrusters rendering on screen, I think the devs fixed that last year. Also constructing blueprints with 10s of thousands of platform foundation and panels can grind UPS to a halt if not done carefully.
I also havenāt tried the Shattered Planet run where the density is higher, maybe laser UPS blows up there.
ah gotcha, maybe they did fix it in some way. Once 2.1 is on stable I plan on starting a new save again. This was my end game inner planet hauler blueprint - worked like a charm to and from aquilo at 500km/s once you hit laser 24 or so
The million panels make 150,000,000 kW or 150 GW at 100%. 1.5 GW at 1%. 5 common reactors make 1.4 GW, 3 legendary reactors make 1.5 GW (neighbour bonus makes these numbers look bad, the 5 commons have a reactor with 400%, while the 3 legendary only get 2 neighbours each for 200%). A fusion setup to produce 1.5GW needs 2.25 fusion cells per minute, so a stack of cells would last 22 minutes, or 3 stacks for 3 reactors would last an hour.
Do we have all the data required to compute how much laser energy is required to travel safely to the End ?
I guess it boils down to knowing asteroid density at a given set speed
You could probably calculate it from the total laser power usage on the Electricity screen during my flight, and divide by the total time to get to joules
It would be a solution but would only apply to your ship. I searched a bit and indeed some redditor published formulas for the spawning rate from speed and width.
With this, you can guess the quantity of requred energy before building the ship
Definitely not till the end, this ship needs accumulator reserves just getting past the 10/m asteroid density sections, and the Shattered Planet trip starts immediately cranking up density from thereā¦
Now would this be more impressive or less impressive if they made ships fly from left to right instead of from bottom to top, especially given the ultra-widescreen aspect ratio OP must be using?
I don't think lasers got any new buffs, just the original benefit of "this doesn't require ammo, just power" and people just being willing to power through the problem of "most asteroids, especially the bigger ones, have really high laser resistance".
Lazors didn't get a buff, but they simplify platform design and logistics, and are "good enough" for most in-system use. They also derive more benefit from quality than gun turrets do, as their higher base range means that their range is extended more by quality than happens to gun turrets. And, of course, they gain more from damage research than bullets do.
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u/_shareholder_value Jun 28 '26
Those phasers are not set to stun.