Please make the new Event Controllers a 50cm³ block

Dread Mechanic shared this feedback 3 hours ago
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Please could you consider making the new Event Controller in SE2 a 50x50x50cm block?


While the new design looks cool, it will arbitrarily make vanilla programming builds twice the size they need to be for no apparent reason other than aesthetics.

For the average player that rarely uses Event Controllers it probably won't make much of a difference.

But to experienced players that rely heavily on vanilla programming for small builds, this will severely impact the ability to create compact designs.

For example, the most basic control system I build for my vanilla mechs in SE1 uses 10 x Small Grid Event Controllers, occupying a 10 block space.

With an additional 3 x Timers, 2 x Lights and 1 x Rotor to trigger or be triggered by the Event Controllers.

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The same system built in SE2 requires 20 blocks of space just for the Event Controllers with no added benefit beyond a few new conditions that can mostly be replicated through other means in SE1.

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To effectively make a heavily automated build in SE2 you would basically have to build it out of Event Controllers, which is a point that Diggrok raised in his recent SE2 VTOL video...

https://youtu.be/yC1ajxsJng4?t=963

This design choice also renders the SE1 Grid Importing Tool completely useless to anyone that has built an Event Controller on their grids because the two styles of Event Controllers won't be able to occupy the same space.


It is also a shame not to see more use being made of the 25cm grid system, particularly for the new Automation blocks as they could very easy be made in "circuit boards" and "server racks" at that scale.

This an an image of how I imagined computer systems might look in SE2 had more use been made of the 25cm grid system.

This was made with a simple mod I have been working on.

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As some one who regularly champions the Event Controller as their absolute favourite block in SE1, this choice for SE2 really disappoints me.


Cheers

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I am not the only engineer that feels this way. There are other tickets with similar problems but for different issues surrounding the size of these block...


https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/55098-correct-event-controller-size-to-match-se1

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Not to be a pain, I do agree with you, but 50x50x50cm and 50cm^3 are very, very, very different things. You should brobably correct your title.

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