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Due to lack of small ship diversity, I'm holding this tournament. Additionally, I'm experimenting with the idea of giving attendees ideas that they have to build around, which is something that hasn't really been explored.

Ship submissions will no longer be accepted past the 15th of September

Event Format

  • Participants can submit their ships by posting on this forum thread. Please do it in #design-contest-submission on the discord if possible though.
  • Community votes on selected ships to decide contest champion
  • Walt will veto any ships he feels to be not well suited for inclusion in Bounty Hunter
  • Top nine ships will be added to the game as bounty hunter enemies (plus any additional ships Walt personally picks)
  • Winner of the contest will receive discord rank and forum flair
  • The designers of any ships added to Bounty Hunter will get their name in the game credits

Guidelines

  • One Ship will be submitted to each category of classification and voted on per category
    -- There will be three separate voting sessions, in which the top three of each category are put into the game
  • Ships built purely for combat (pure walls, death cubes etc) are unlikely to pass the voting phase
  • Don't submit bombs (ships that die due to chaining explosions) and try to keep ships from being excessively weak

Notes and rules
Within this specific tournament each attendee will be designing three ships that would work in patrol squads: an armed logistics/utility vessel, a generic warship, and a ship that you can do anything you want with. Each of these roles can be assigned to any price range, so long as you have one ship for each of the classifications.

  • There are three price ranges:
    -- ₡0 - 150,000
    -- ₡150,001 - 300,000
    -- ₡300,001 - 450,000
  • Each participant must submit one ship to each of the price ranges
  • Mods are not allowed
  • Ships must be functional and usable without modification
  • By submitting ships to this contest, you are giving Walt permission to include those ships as a built-in ships in Cosmoteer, if he so chooses
  • Walt will automatically veto any ship with a dithered paint-scheme (Kovlier by 0neye)

Official Status: Official

Saris
Since there are separate winners for each category, do your ships need to look alike, and do you need to submit a ship to all of the categories?

      Cy-co They can be entirely separate looking. In complete stark contrast to each other if you want

        Since we aren't making these ships purely for combat, it's expected that they'll be pretty bad competitively, right? That's not a problem, right?

          dragonknight44

          Ships built purely for combat (pure walls, death cubes etc) are unlikely to pass the voting phase
          Don't submit bombs (ships that die due to chaining explosions) and try to keep ships from being excessively weak

          Gotta thread that needle. I'd recommend looking at the built-ins for figuring out the lower end of what's acceptable. My rule of thumb is that it should kill a built-in about 75-80% of it's price fairly reliably and call that good enough.

          @Saris, how do we know if weak is too weak?

            It's hard to make "an armed logistics/utility vessel" that can compete with other ships in its price range, which is why I'm asking.

              Hatter how do we know if weak is too weak?

              for the big ships, there is the ragnarock, if you lose against it, you're too weak
              for smaller ships, maybe with the procedurally generated ships, but iirc they are way too bad to be used as examples

                  I don't particularly know how to determine if a ship is far too weak to be included, thus far it being open ended and vague hasn't really caused any problems. I trust the judgment of each participant, and if there's an absolutely abysmal ship I might just message the owner that they need to beef it up a bit

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