C'mon, I didn't have to check for that open connector waste disposal vent 'cause I know darn well if I built that ship it would break in half. Somehow.
speeding tickets can be expected. its drives will make it fly at least 19 spaces (39 with 10 energy units spent).
What a slowpoke, it can't even make a full lap in one push.
Note that the space travel has exactly 40 cells. I wonder if the fact that all motors together can't make a full lap was intentional of just a coincidence
Switch that open-connected battery with the motor that is in the second row (starting from the bottom), left side, and you have a legal ship with no open connectors!
Switch that open-connected battery with the motor that is in the second row (starting from the bottom), left side, and you have a legal ship with no open connectors!
Now someone photoshop that please
Uh, no, then you will have an open connector on that motor instead?
i think, with only one open connection, it's not possible to just switch the tiles and then have a fully enclosed ship.
what you can do, although, is rotate the energy cell counter-clockwise, replace the 3 cargo bays next to it with the motor from 2nd row (left)... see picture.
losing 3 bays is not that bad, given the capacities of the ship. it would't be symmetrical any more, though.
The ship starts out very symmetric at the top and gradually degenerates into a mess at the bottom. I agree, I think with the odd number of connectors you have to lose a tile (not an option) or have one open connector. I sort of came to this conclusion as I got to the end of laying out the ship, as I tried at least once to re-design it. A remote and fuzzy part of my brain said "Yeah , no open connectors can't be done but I'd need a maths whizz to prove it." Also at the end, the rules retention part of my brain (an overused and jam packed area with random temporal retrieval properties) pitched in with, "Aren't the alien life support modules meant to be next to normal life support modules in order to work". Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever I mean this ship is never going to fly in a game, right, what’s the problem, no one’s going to check it.... right?
It is not possible to make it with no open connections. There are an odd number of connections total, and for a closed connection you need two connections facing each other. That means that to make a closed ship, the number of connections has to be even, since they would all be in pairs.
Clearly, having an even number of connections isn't a sufficient condition, but it would be necessary for a closed ship.
Unless, of course, one of the "connections" was actually a waste disposal vent. Then there's no problem =P
Officer: Captain, we have a large meteor shower off the port bow. Captain: Fire the side guns at it quick! Officer: Um... side facing guns? Captain: No side facing guns?!? Who built this ship anyway?
There's no valid brown alien living quarters either...!
I wonder how many people would participate in a contest of: using all the pieces in the game create a symmetrical ship with no open ports that has the largest number of guns, engines, and contains both aliens.
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