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After I saw Marmilo trying to get as much weight on an Acarii drive as possible with the use of 0.25 placement, I got back to testing.
I figured if you want the most efficient Acarii drive, you need each docking port to have the most interactions with other docking ports as possible.
This will result in a circular Acarii drive
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TWR:9.5
This is just a concept, and you can compact more ports into this area, but thats not the point.
Something to note:
When building an Acarii drive there comes a point where you shouldn't stack the docking ports vertically anymore, because the top most row of docking ports will be out of range of the bottom row, thus being inefficient. So you will need to keep going horizontally for the most efficiency.
Theoretically curving the edges like this and having them only be this tall is the most efficient way to build an Acarii drive
If I'm wrong please correct me and show me what is right.
I figured if you want the most efficient Acarii drive, you need each docking port to have the most interactions with other docking ports as possible.
This will result in a circular Acarii drive
TWR:9.5
This is just a concept, and you can compact more ports into this area, but thats not the point.
Something to note:
When building an Acarii drive there comes a point where you shouldn't stack the docking ports vertically anymore, because the top most row of docking ports will be out of range of the bottom row, thus being inefficient. So you will need to keep going horizontally for the most efficiency.
Theoretically curving the edges like this and having them only be this tall is the most efficient way to build an Acarii drive
If I'm wrong please correct me and show me what is right.
Very annoying: depending on how you stage the 2 batches of docking ports, the bottom set could interact with the top set even if everything is locked together. Here's an example:
Trust me, the selected ports will remain active when in that configuration. With this setup detaching the bottom two ports will make the Acarii drive go up (before it redock).
If I stage both parts within both's timers to interact, it will produce velocity even though everything is docked together, which isn't really good for reusable Acarii drives. If you wait a second to stage one before the other, no velocity is produced when everything is docked. (Successfully disabled)
Trust me, the selected ports will remain active when in that configuration. With this setup detaching the bottom two ports will make the Acarii drive go up (before it redock).
If I stage both parts within both's timers to interact, it will produce velocity even though everything is docked together, which isn't really good for reusable Acarii drives. If you wait a second to stage one before the other, no velocity is produced when everything is docked. (Successfully disabled)