Balloon sizes/amount

[Asmosis]

just wondering is there a max length on individual balloons or a max limit on how many balloons you can have? or can you just keep extending them until the game becomes unstable.

[Sairi (Jen)]

I think I saw someone mention 2100 for a single balloon

[Doc]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

just wondering is there a max length on individual balloons or a max limit on how many balloons you can have? or can you just keep extending them until the game becomes unstable.

the length of the balloons is limited.
I don't know if more than 3 balloons work.
I have 2 pieces, but I'm sure that more will work
I have 6 parts with the beginning and end and can't attach any more

[DeLindsay]

2100 = 4 Balloon extensions. I swear I read someone had (6) Balloons on some crazy mega Airship, but could be wrong.

[Tachyon]

I have 3 expanded Balloons, for a total of 2,700 carry capacity. I haven't even used 1,000 of it yet and that's with everything built (just missing the freezer) and 18 storage chests, some on shelves.

[Larze]

Does anyone know why I can't get my first extension to Highlight at the rear of the ship?
I have all the materials needed. I do get a blue ghost around the front and middle but can't get it to blue ghost at the rear. I moved my ship forward on a platform so I could get right behind it. I'm a bit confused. Like I said it is mt first extension. Ty

[Rithrin]

Originally posted by Larze:

Does anyone know why I can't get my first extension to Highlight at the rear of the ship?
I have all the materials needed. I do get a blue ghost around the front and middle but can't get it to blue ghost at the rear. I moved my ship forward on a platform so I could get right behind it. I'm a bit confused. Like I said it is mt first extension. Ty

You can only extend a balloon a certain distance towards either side of the mounting point. It's confusing because it doesn't give you a specific error about it.

[DeLindsay]

I just tested it, you can in fact only extend each Balloon 4 times to reach 2100 kg capacity.

[Asmosis]

yip. I read online you can only extend 9 rooms from the base balloon connector point in either direction and im guessing that applies to left/right as well. My own testing puts it at 12 rooms high, when standing on top of that it treats me as not on the airship anymore.

18x18x12 would be an insane looking airship, your basically flying a city block at that point. I may someday try to create a borg cube with the balloons on the inside, but I'm not sure if the weight allowance will allow it. Most of the inside would be balloon anyway.

It might be possible to break the game logic by confusing it about which balloon is the focus point, but i was already hitting 10-15 fps so will leave that to others to play around with.

[Larze]

@ DelLindsay-
I'm still a bit confused. The diagram for my first extension shows it extending to the rear.
Correct me if I am wrong. Are you saying, I need to build more rooms to the rear first and them I will get a Blue ghost on the rear of my ship? I ask because you mentioned sides, making me think left and right side. TY, I apologize if I am saying it wrong.

[DeLindsay]

Originally posted by Larze:

@ DelLindsay-
I'm still a bit confused. The diagram for my first extension shows it extending to the rear.
Correct me if I am wrong. Are you saying, I need to build more rooms to the rear first and them I will get a Blue ghost on the rear of my ship? I ask because you mentioned sides, making me think left and right side. TY, I apologize if I am saying it wrong.

I just stood on the platform I was docked at and pointed the build Tool up at the Balloon, near the back of it and clicked it when it was blue. After the 4th extension (for 2100 kg) it became red along the entire length of the Balloon.

Originally posted by Asmosis:

yip. I read online you can only extend 9 rooms from the base balloon connector point in either direction and im guessing that applies to left/right as well. My own testing puts it at 12 rooms high, when standing on top of that it treats me as not on the airship anymore.

18x18x12 would be an insane looking airship, your basically flying a city block at that point. I may someday try to create a borg cube with the balloons on the inside, but I'm not sure if the weight allowance will allow it. Most of the inside would be balloon anyway.

It might be possible to break the game logic by confusing it about which balloon is the focus point, but i was already hitting 10-15 fps so will leave that to others to play around with.

I went directly from the 1st Balloon's attachment point straight out and could only make it 8 Rooms. I had to place a Balloon in the middle temporarily to get it extended to the 9 that I wanted for the massive build I'm working on, then just removed the middle Balloon.

I also found out (in my build) that I can only go 3 Rooms up or down for 7 high. And yeah, FPS is dropping hard up around 4000 kg.

[Asmosis]

I found the same thing when building up. Initially 7, but by adding a balloon at max height i was able to build two more, for 9 above the initial attachment point and two below.

Actually thinking about it, balloons are 4 cubes high, so if im building 7 up, that's only 3 above the balloon. in the downwards direction 2 cubes below the attachment point is 3 below the balloon, so can probably assume its 3 cubes allowed above/below a balloon up to the hard limit.

I suspect there are two different limits. A build limit relating to the balloons themselves, and a hard limit relating to the 0.0.0 centerpoint of the airship. I say this because when i stood on top of my frankenstein of a ship, the "ship weight" build tracker in top right vanished because i was "out of bounds" of the ship building area.

I also found i could build catwalks far beyond 2 squares at max altitude, although my 3 balloons at random heights might have confused it.

Isn't she a beauty? :D

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2998283997

[DeLindsay]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2998283997

How did you link the Steam SS so it shows with a Thumbnail? I have such a hard time getting that to work. Half the time it just links the Steam's SS page.

[Asmosis]

It's actually a bit easier with the new steam UI.

Share the page (publicly) first by uploading it. Then view your image from your content page (under your username).

There's a little Cog icon on the right, click that then "share" it'll give you a link that can be pasted directly in steam forums which will generate the thumbnail.

[DeLindsay]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

It's actually a bit easier with the new steam UI.

Share the page (publicly) first by uploading it. Then view your image from your content page (under your username).

There's a little Cog icon on the right, click that then "share" it'll give you a link that can be pasted directly in steam forums which will generate the thumbnail.

I thought I did that but I'll give it a try again, thanks.

[Nitro Toxico]

Be mindful about when trying to add a balloon length, cause you have two types of functions from the build menu: Expand Balloon, and Reduce Balloon. If it's not indicating the rear when trying to place, you might be reducing, then rather expanding it. (For those that wonder why it's not highlighting the area you wanna expand)