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Linear Rails / Sliders

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One feature from other similar games I'd really love to have in SE2 are Linear rails. That is, a combination of two blocks. A "head" block and "rail" blocks. The head is the active control block and can slide along the rail blocks to give movement similar to a piston. But is so much better for things like elevators. 20190327022255_1

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Aaron ●

I would like to add to this: just like rotors and pistons in SE1 can transfer inventory, it would be ideal if this "linear rail" can also do so. Transferring power and inventory would allow for better planetary "plunge miner" vehicles that pistons currently can only barely accommodate in SE1.

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Peter Bauer ●

Transferring power would make sense - That's how rail lighting works - but I don't think it would make sense to transfer inventory. To do that, you would need something like the hinge chains that people made use of in SE1.

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Колясик ●

This is exactly what the first part is missing. we can still move the wheels around the guides but it has no stability. This is the best offer I've seen!

(except that I wouldn’t want this structure itself to be able to transfer resources because it’s an unnecessary relief)

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Колясик ●

I'll just write one more comment to raise this post to the top, because it's a really worthwhile idea

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Deon Beauchamp ●

I added a topic on linear motors some time ago, stability is inherent.

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Колясик ●

you have too many trash topics. Even knowing that you have a similar topic, I couldn’t find it. It seems to me that this amount of spam has a negative effect on the effectiveness of the forum

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Deon Beauchamp ●

You have my apologies. I think, I write, I do not elevate, you have a choice. Linear motors are not trash and could be a great problem solver.

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Колясик ●

I'm not saying your idea is rubbish. you just have a lot of proposals and among them it’s difficult to find what you’re talking about

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Deon Beauchamp ●

There was an engineer called Eric Laithwaite, he invented the linear induction motor, but was often derided by his peers. I think that he was a good man who had his heart in the right place.

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Колясик ●

It seems to me that a system of separate blocks in the form of a guide/rail and a head that moves along this rail is a better idea. If I understand correctly, a linear asynchronous motor is essentially the same piston, and there are already pistons in the game. Although it would be great to have a piston with a stackable axle based on this technology.

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Aaron ●

This is what I meant to say in my original comment. Pistons as they stand in SE1 are not useful for things like planetary mining. They don't reach very far, and it's hard to add length to them in the way one would in an oil derrick. Likewise, in the case with lifts, pistons are limited by their head start/end point. A rail -- or more precisely a series of rails -- allowing full traversal is what I had in mind.

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Колясик ●

просто напишу комент, чтобы поднять пост в выдаче

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GodHound ●

Copy from https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/46362-add-track-like-linear-actuators-in-base-game

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The length of the actuator and its movement are precisely controlled by the length of the 'rail'. It is easy to make both short and long ones with physics constraints (for example, an elevator, doors, complex ship transformations etc.) and to create mechanisms different from piston-like ones (you can find examples in Google).
The physics of this actuator can be SIGNIFICANTLY more stable due to the subgrid being attached to the same rail at multiple points or parallel attachment to multiple 'rails'.
Visually, this actuator can be more concealed or not break the airtightness if the rail is part of a wall/floor, etc.

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Denninja ●

Sliding along rails could be incredible for mining and printing. Would a row of drills need to dock with a connector at one or both ends for that to go smoothly?

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Balmung ●

A no-brainer, voted.

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Denninja ●

I would also like a Conveyor rail to simply have drills or whatever sliding along without having to complicate further. The rail acts as a conveyor and could have multiple connections per rail though usually one would be used.

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