Design Contest Voting

IoBondrew

Hatter I actually tried with white paint to get the rails to not stick out so much, but it didnt look like i wanted it to look. sure the rails do impact the visual quite a bit, but given that the real one also has white marks that stick out like lights in the darkness, i feel like its ok; as for the space, for some reason it wouldnt save with a space between the words, dunno why. i dont mind it really tho
your ship still has a good style without the colourmods, even it might be a different one, i like bothXD
Edit; the name is actually only because i didnt know what else i should name itXD i mostly just number my builds or use something that i heard just a sec before naming or that just came to my mind(later with this build), given that the build is more black than red it actually doesnt fit tooo well, but whatever. im better with building than with naming(if you have a better/more fitting name tell me, Memories might be able to change it if i like it as wellXD)

CaptainRedstone

IVIemories Just out of curiosity, is there any particular reason my ship didn't make it? I'm not salty or anything, I just consider it the best I've made yet, and I'd like to know if there was any fatal flaw, so i can fix it next time.

Andrion56

CaptainRedstone I was wondering why mine wasn't here

RandomCommander

CaptainRedstone

I'm not too upset that QuadraStar didn't make it to voting - there were a NUMBER of design flaws I had left in there because I was too excited for the idea. One of the main ones was that despite this being a working ship, THE AI DOES NOT RECOGNIZE SELF-DESTRUCT MODULES. Or if it did, I did not set it up correctly. Something about control groups?

There was also a less-than-satisfying paint scheme and a basic shape. By itself it might have gotten lucky if one of the mods had taken an interest in star-shaped ships, but combine that with the above flaw, and it was just guaranteed to not make it. It also really sucked that I could not submit a new version of it to rectify the mistakes.

Moral of the story - Do not submit early, even if you are prone to forgetting to submit things. Chances are you are going to test your ship out and realize there are things you could improve.

IVIemories

Not any real reason other than nobody choose it. I can't speak for the other moderators but for me personally all the remaining ships were really good, so it was a tough choice.

botlawson

RandomCommander Moral of the story - Do not submit early, even if you are prone to forgetting to submit things. Chances are you are going to test your ship out and realize there are things you could improve.

Alternatively submit rev 7 of a design right when the contest opens. :-P

I haven't found the easy way to setup AI vs AI battles so I don't know how well the AI will handle it, but Maw's 'Octal Maw' rail-gun array is glorious to watch in action. Two crushing alpha-strikes, then sustained random fire at 1.5-2 meteors per second. A bit of a glass cannon though, Easy to loose half the array to concentrated counter-fire if you get too close... (I swear that the guns chain 'splode diagonally at times)

I'm much more of a builder than a painter, But I think it's best to keep base color of Maw black so the other paint pops. (Even if it does make the engines and rail-guns stand out.) I also like the simple design, as I find the more psychedelic paint schemes jarring. Still plenty of room for improvement. For instance, I wanted to give Maw laser eyes instead of laser nostrils but the clear space in front of shields has stumped me so far...

IoBondrew

always test before you do anything else with it, except saving, you might want to do that first(lost a few ships that wayXD)

CaptainRedstone

IoBondrew You could always check your lost ships folder

IoBondrew

CaptainRedstone usually its there, but sometimes it wont save the lost ship so i loose it. happened only a few times, and mostly to proof of concepts anyway, so i saw what i built it for and didnt realy need the ship anyway after

RandomCommander

botlawson Alternatively submit rev 7 of a design right when the contest opens. :-P

Huh. You would think that would be disallowed somehow, but I don't think I see such a constraint on the original design contest thread for this year!

Splendid, I'll just make a folder for Design Contests Only and just make a few ships for certain themes and/or the inclusion in Bounty Hunter! That will at least keep my interest in Cosmoteer longer should I fail to find anything else about it interesting (which it keeps being interesting for me, so that's unlikely).

Zig

Hatter aw thanks

IVIemories

Congratulations to @Equalizer for winning the design contest with his ship the Ardama

Second place goes to the Crystal Angel by Mr Zig Zag

Third place is tied between the Red Baron by @IoBondrew and Astra by @Namek (both ships will enter bounty hunter)

image https://forum.cosmoteer.net/assets/images/10-WJcnFbPAm9O1tc7x.png

Not-New-Anymore

Good to see the Astra getting in! Next time I'm gonna have to make a better ship...

Hatter

Obviously voter fraud was committed to deny me my rightful victory, the vote percentages add up to 213% !
(or maybe because people could vote more than once)
In all seriousness, congratulations to the winners. I look forward to blowing them up in bounty hunter.
And I got fourth!
Tied with Lafiel, but fourth!

Zig

no... wasnt @ -ed

Zig

4 days late to the post 🙁