How to depressurize in between the cabins and the hull

[Tam]

Hello everyone,
I have read some topics about depressurizing ship compartments and it seems that sometimes you just can't. Is that true?
I have just started a new run and I cannot remember having problems with depressurizing before.
But right now there is one thing that I find esspecially troubleing. Sometimes there is pressure between the outer hull and the cabins and I do not know how to get that to depressurize. Because that part of the ship never has a unit to pressuize or depressurize.
If I open connecting doors they close, if I cut holes to connect the rooms they explode (even if the pressure state is the same).
In some topics I have read that the ships are subdivided in areas and pressure or depressurization goes by are not by connected rooms. Is that true? Would that mean that a room without a regulator is impossible to depressurize?
And if this is true is that broken (unfinished/bugged) or intended?

I find my current experience rather frustrating. before pressure came in it was a relaxed fun little game with some drive via the dept on the long run and the oxygen/fuel/shifttime on the short run, I could just take my time carefully preparing my ship maybe spending an entire shift just cutting to make everything go into the right places in the next shift or I could just cut away part by part and send them as they were. Either way it was relaxed and fun.
Now I do not even know what to do anymore as sometimes I cannot cut anything besides the most exterior attachments or else everything explodes.

Could someone give me some pointers?

Thank you,
Tam Hawkins

[Numbers]

I think you're talking about the side crawl spaces on mackerels. I just cut the 4 points holding the back piece on. It vents no problem.

[Tam]

Originally posted by Numbers:

I think you're talking about the side crawl spaces on mackerels. I just cut the 4 points holding the back piece on. It vents no problem.

I probably do, the terminology is still a stranger to me. With back piece you mean the compartment that holds the engine and that also covers the ships behind like a cap on a felt pen? The last time I tried this it janked the entire ship around violently, I did not die but it definitly did not feel like the intended methode.

It also happened with the next sized ship. javeline I think? (it has a ring on the outside that i cannot cut yet).
In that one it was especially bad as the outer part was also holding three reactors and not a single regulator (as far as I could see). I was thrown around like a pinball, was set a flame and got electrocuted and then part of the ship fell apart.

[Numbers]

For the Mackerel crawl space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIs8M3F4h0

For the javelins, the larger ones will usually need the demolition charges to be able to deal with the outside well.

I've never seen a javelin that didn't have a way into the crawl space. There's usually a door from the interior cabin into it. You can use this door to vent the crawl spaces safely.

I haven't had to deal with some of the more complicated ships with absolutely no working atmosphere regulator yet so I can't speak to that. At the low-mid difficulties though, it is always safe to vent one room into another room as long as they are not exposed to actual space. So if you can safely vent any room, then you can just progressively open doors or cut holes to vent all of the other rooms.

[Tam]

Originally posted by Numbers:

For the Mackerel crawl space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIs8M3F4h0

Thanks I will watch that

Originally posted by Numbers:

I've never seen a javelin that didn't have a way into the crawl space. There's usually a door from the interior cabin into it. You can use this door to vent the crawl spaces safely.

So you can use the doors? In the event I described there was a door I tried to use. first I tried just opening it (I already new that would not work but I tried anyway). Then I dislocated the door controlls hoping it could not close then, but it did. Then I decided to just cut it out and everything exploded.

[Numbers]

Originally posted by Tam:

So you can use the doors? In the event I described there was a door I tried to use. first I tried just opening it (I already new that would not work but I tried anyway). Then I dislocated the door controlls hoping it could not close then, but it did. Then I decided to just cut it out and everything exploded.

You can use the doors. Just vent the interior (yes the door will close, it's fine) then open the door. The vent will be gentle and nothing will explode. This is my standard way of venting.

[Tam]

Originally posted by Numbers:

Originally posted by Tam:

So you can use the doors? In the event I described there was a door I tried to use. first I tried just opening it (I already new that would not work but I tried anyway). Then I dislocated the door controlls hoping it could not close then, but it did. Then I decided to just cut it out and everything exploded.

You can use the doors. Just vent the interior (yes the door will close, it's fine) then open the door. The vent will be gentle and nothing will explode. This is my standard way of venting.

Oh ok.
I have been doing that a few times and it seemed ok, but it still made a pretty big draft so I was not sure. Especially with the three generators, I'm always a bit more cautious when it comes to them.

Thanks so much.

[Numbers]

No problem. It's a big draft for sure but it seems mostly cosmetic. Worst I've seen is a data drive getting thrown around but even flying straight into a wall, it wasn't even damaged so it seems "intended". Happy to help.

[Stormcrow505]

For the Large ships, I usually use the Thruster Plate to vent it. I make a sweep through the ship first for anything that is big and could fly into something like the reactor. Then put a tether on the Thruster Plate, from the outside, and carefully cut the two cut points on either side of it.. Catch the plate, throw to the Processor and the ship should be harmless vented. Just make sure you do this before clearing the fuel lines or the could fly out or worse get jammed around inside and damage things. For Javelins, the Thruster plate will vent the rear section, and you can cut away the pilot pod on the side of the front section to vent it. same plan, check the compartment, tether the pod to the ship from the outside, and cut the two top and two bottom cut points. Just hold on to something or do it from a distance. The decompression on the side pod is dramatic, but won't move the ship.