Ship size

[X7]

The ship designer won't let you make a ship longer than 40m in length.

One of the helpful tips I received on a loading screen was "no ship longer than 80m may land on a planet's surface."

When building an outpost the standard non transport oriented landing pad says "only for ships under 40m in length."

Is the 40m limit a bug? Did they originally intend larger ship sizes and remove it from release? Or is it a feature expected in future updates/dlc?

So many times I have voiced a silent scream when discovering the ship I just spent an hour designing violates the flight check because it is 41m in length.

[jonnin]

I don't know if its a removed feature or bug or whatever, but a max length ship already bugs up at many of the landing pads in cities -- new atlantis hangs my dock ramp off into space and I have to jump up onto it, and one of the other towns trapped me under the ship with no way to get out. I don't expect 79 to be supported given these problems.

[Jestre]

In the editor the measurement is shown from the center of the ship. So 40m to the rear and 40m to the front would be the 80m total for a landing pad. This caused me a bit of confusion at first and may be what you are seeing.

[Prophet Ge]

Originally posted by X7:

The ship designer won't let you make a ship longer than 40m in length.

One of the helpful tips I received on a loading screen was "no ship longer than 80m may land on a planet's surface."

When building an outpost the standard non transport oriented landing pad says "only for ships under 40m in length."

Is the 40m limit a bug? Did they originally intend larger ship sizes and remove it from release? Or is it a feature expected in future updates/dlc?

So many times I have voiced a silent scream when discovering the ship I just spent an hour designing violates the flight check because it is 41m in length.

Probably Bethesda couldn't afford to put a million dollars in work hours into making sure that landing sequences work for kilometer long spaceships on procedural landscapes, or in city landing pads.

[jerrypocalypse]

The 40m shown is from the center point, not the total length. So 40m fore and 40m aft

[X7]

Ahhh never though about it that way ...

ty for the responses

[ZombieHunter]

If you build a long ship or wide ship and land on a pad you will run into issues. You can get stuck under your ship, inside your ship, inside objects near the pad, or fall under the world.

[dethtrain]

I can't wait until someone makes a doctor who police box ship. It's smaller on the outside