Cable bridges.

[EvenTHorizon]

Good idea for next update is bridges for electric cables for cross separate lines.

[Xuhybrid]

Cable bridge sounds really useful.

[eberkain]

I have also wanted a cable bridge at times, but I'm not sure it can be done the way the game is implemented.

[hektor]

What are you trying to do? What do you mean bridge electric cables?

[Mr.Wolf [GER]]

Originally posted by hektor:

What are you trying to do? What do you mean bridge electric cables?

i think keeping it away from a network. for example

[hektor]

If you wanted to keep it away from a logic network you just have a separate cable run that only goes to logic inputs. However there are a number of devices that have their network and power on one input.
Now if you are actually talking about bridging a logic network, then you can use the logic mirror chip.

[eberkain]

I was talking about crossing two separate wire chains through the same space and not connecting them, which i think is what the OP was talking about.

[hektor]

That would defeat the satisfaction of good planning.

[Mr.Wolf [GER]]

well, i agree with that. it´s more fun when it is planned.

[Xuhybrid]

Originally posted by hektor:

That would defeat the satisfaction of good planning.

But in reality there's no reason for cables to auto merge. A cable is a line from A to B and it doesn't matter if it touches another cable in reality. Realism aside, it's not strictly necessary but it would be a welcome feature.

[Zaxabock]

Cable bridges / bundled cables definitely make life easier, I can't go back to plain redstone in minecraft for example, lol :)

But it makes for a fun challenge sometimes, when your base suddenly blacks out and you find out you accidentally crossed a high voltage wire with a low voltage one and fried the network. xD

[hektor]

A lot of things would make life easier. Why can't you cross pipes? Why do I have to turn screws to configure something? Why do paint cans run out?
I am sorry to say this but if crossing a cable is your idea of QOL in Stationeers, boy are you in for something...

[Dunpeal Hunter]

Something similar to this? https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1697254053193669375/C4E2E513CB2151755FEAD7BFC20B3E850A306C40/

Not sure if something quite like this (from Oxygen Not Included, another awesome station building game) can be made in Stationeers, mostly because Stationeers is 3D and ONI is 2D. But for example some kind of gas mixer (for pipes and one sorta similar one for electrical cables) where the gas doesnt actually mix would be cool.

It would kinda break immersion though (as far as you have that with the way you can build things) the gas mixer works because the pipes size pretty much stays the same. But with a bridge to keep it the same block size you would need to make the pipes smaller perhaps?

[EvenTHorizon]

Originally posted by hektor:

A lot of things would make life easier. Why can't you cross pipes? Why do I have to turn screws to configure something? Why do paint cans run out?
I am sorry to say this but if crossing a cable is your idea of QOL in Stationeers, boy are you in for something...

It's diference with cables and pipes. Electric cables can be crossed in real world, pipe need more space for crossing and it's similar in game. Im not your boy, hektor, and if you cant understand simple thing that the cable bridges are in real word, that's your problem. I don't need it to be easier, but to be more immersive. I need only separate data cables and electric cables, because its more similar to reality.

[hektor]

Originally posted by EvenTHorizon:

Originally posted by hektor:

A lot of things would make life easier. Why can't you cross pipes? Why do I have to turn screws to configure something? Why do paint cans run out?
I am sorry to say this but if crossing a cable is your idea of QOL in Stationeers, boy are you in for something...

It's diference with cables and pipes. Electric cables can be crossed in real world, pipe need more space for crossing and it's similar in game. Im not your boy, hektor, and if you cant understand simple thing that the cable bridges are in real word, that's your problem. I don't need it to be easier, but to be more immersive. I need only separate data cables and electric cables, because its more similar to reality.

One small problem with this. It is a video game. Maybe your reality is living on a space station, idk.
I wish they would make carrying around 250 rocks more realistic. I am a HUGE realism fan.

[Zaxabock]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2553307865
If water / gas mixing contaminants weren't a problem, these would do nicely. 4-way and 2-way input/output, and a crossover pipe with valve selector :P