Stairs / doors height design flaw ?

David Desvaux shared this feedback ago

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Seems to me like there is an issue with the heights of stairs and doors.

For example, if you want to build a two floors building, you have tow options :

1) Stack doors directly on top of each other. In this case, you need to add a floor that will be taken from the first or second floor volume, resulting in a height different between the two floors. But on the other hand, it is properly compatible with the use of stairs, and is also a multiple of the height of several other blocks such as (small) reactor, smelter, etc.

2) Add a layer of small armor between the two floors. In this case you get a similar height for both floors, and it becomes incompatible with the use of stairs, because they are one small block too short to reach the floor.

Anyway, regardless of how you build, it seems like you'll end up with something looking dirty. There needs to be several changes in the height and thickness of stairs and/or doors blocks to simplify all this and make it look clean.

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David Roby ●

I think modular stairs with variable heights would fix this problem.

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Deon Beauchamp ●

There is a stair mod.

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David Desvaux ●

Falling back to mods to fix issues that shouldn't exist in the first place doesn't seem like a clean solution to me. Also I hate mods personally.

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Tristan Sullivan ●

@David Desvaux Not to be mean but i got some bad news for you, SE1 and SE2 are designed with modding in mind.

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David Roby ●

Many things can be fixed with mods, but this seems something that should probably be vanilla.

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Tristan Sullivan ●

There's a whole assortment of blocks that don't follow a cohesive pattern. like the interior walls were talked about becuase they dont fit correctly. https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/45853-tiling-conforming-sub-2-5m-shape-variants-for-2-5m-tiling

Sadly its been archived i still think this is a serious issue and needs to be addressed makes design confusing as hell.

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David Roby ●

That is a good point. I read the thread. It will probably get fixed eventually, but till then you can create a base for the stairs with detailing blocks or pillars. They still let you walk up them like stairs.

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Tristan Sullivan ●

@David Roby I'm hoping it gets fixed eventually but given they archived the post and it didn't get enough votes I'm growing increasingly unsure whether or not they will fix it or not. It doesn't even appear to be on their radar so idk what to think. Its honestly seeming like the forum is not getting the attention it needs to get matters like this voted to the point of Keen actually seeing it.

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