My best ship up to 3.5 million

eNclave

I couldn't find a ship under 5 million that could defeat mine, and it was also able to destroy every ship in the game(including terror) with minimal damage. I have no imagination, so I named it and decorated it like this. It has 36X launchers, 5 anti-aircraft guns, a lot of armor and not a lot of engines. I will be glad if someone sends a worthy opponent here and tells me how to improve my ship

Altraxia

eNclave 1 reactor for 2 factories is a bit much,maybe use 1 medium reactor with storages to power all the factories? And also one factory can supply 2 launchers. You can add a lot more missiles on that ship without changing much

DeletedAccount

eNclave I'd say it has too much armor, too much wasted power and too little firepower for it's size.
(By too little firepower, I mean than my ship has double the amount of missile launchers while only being slightly more expensive.)

After some lazy modifications to a recent prototype of mine (Trying to cut down costs for a similar fight). It was pretty one sided (AI vs AI)

bruhsd

More Missiles?

eNclave

bruhsd it's too obvious

eNclave

Altraxia I can't make one reactor for all the factories, because the entire ship consists of independent compartments(each one needs a reactor), and changes in this structure will greatly affect the survival rate.

eNclave

Altraxia Also, one factory, unlike two, is not enough for the smooth operation of two launchers, but this made me experiment with the number of crew and the ratio of missiles to factories

Altraxia

eNclave You don't need a constantly smooth supply

eNclave maybe make slightly larger modules with thrusters/shields? That way you can use more of the reactor and not waste it's power generation

eNclave

Altraxia 2 factories with a 25% bonus were able to provide _93% rate of fire for every two missiles (186% in total) at a price 1.5 times larger, 1.2 times more mass, and 1.3 times more cost. I rebuilt the ship and put in a total of 12 such modules(48x missiles instead of 36X), added one flak battery from below and replaced the large reactors with medium ones. All this added only 16K to the price and 500 tons to the weight. This version is much better than the previous one.

eNclave

DeletedAccount could you share your ship?

DeletedAccount

eNclave Sorry for the late reply, I fell asleep 😛 anyways, here's the design.
Edit: The ship isn't optimized too well because it's mostly just a proof of concept and this one was just lazily edited. One of the main reasons this thing works pretty well is the crew management option. If you wanna know how to do crew management, I recommend reading @Oneye 's guide called "Introduction to crew management".

eNclave

DeletedAccount well, my improved version of the ship(with not too little firepower) was actually much more powerful than 0_0. Thank you for advice. Do you have even more powerful and expensive ships?

DeletedAccount

eNclave As of late, i don't have any large ships built for this version, I still have some ship designs from over a year ago but I doubt they're still effective.

eNclave

DeletedAccount Yes, I don't think I'll need them. There have been many balance edits in recent updates

cosmos-warrior

The shields can be in the medium?

eNclave

cosmos-warrior in the middle of what? If you're talking about the module bays, then putting shields in there is a futile idea. After breaking through the "hats" of the armor, all the guns begin to hit the modules, and under this pressure, no shield will last longer than a couple of seconds. It's just a waste of money, the armor is better for this. It is better to put shields where the enemy shoots with a lower priority(as at the bottom or behind).

abakus

It is illegal in vanilla, requires huge ship mod.

eNclave

abakus rly? I thought it wasn't that big...

HMMM

But the real question is, could this ship fight the Confederacy of Independent Systems?
No one will know...

Yet!!! AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHA

DeletedAccount

eNclaveI Tried to reposition it around and yes, it is illegal in vanilla.

cosmos-warrior

eNclave That middle.