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My USS Voyager Star Trek. This version has no mods.
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Chop
It is more satisfying to improve your ship yourselves, so let me first give you some tips:

You are good on your way, but:
-Try to use compartments to make your ship more efficient. look at this:

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Just add fire extinquishers here, and seal it off: improved output of bullet-hell!

-Remove useless corridors. You can use structur eto fill the empty hole if you want.

-Lower the amount of electrobolts, less will do almost as well and you can add some more damaging weapons instead, like lasers.

-One sensor array is as good as four.

-Where are your point-defenses? Missiles will be much les sof a threat if you use them.

-Add shields to protect the missile launchers on the "head".

-Place Command rooms in the sid eparts of the ship, incase of them being cut off they will flank your opponent.

-Remove doors: To many doors make your ship more expensive, and most don't get used, look at this madness:

image https://i.imgur.com/A5uXtbp.png

-Hide the railgun deeper in your ship, now you can just focus fire and destroy it easily.

Also:
-Use wedges to improve the shape, take a look at the neck, which could look smoother with them. We are not playing a blocky game like minecraft here!

-After you optimised your ship, it will not only be more effective, it will also be cheaper. Because less crew, doors and corridors will be used.

Good luck!

If you want an example, look at how I improved a very old ship of mine:

Before:
image https://i.imgur.com/69EimEP.png

After:
image https://i.imgur.com/R7PlJCn.png

Need more tips & tricks? Look here: https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/4578-dos-and-don-ts-for-building

    Try to "Remaster" This
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      And this
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      Blu

      a r e

      t h o s e

      s t o r a g e s ?

      (asides from that, looks better than my vanilla ships)

      can u improve my venerable missile cruiser i want the firate to da max i want to increase its defense as far as possible while keeping it in a broadside format and i want it to be fast thx
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        IronCross42 Here you go. I also pitched in a free re-paint! 🙂

        (It's no longer illegal)
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        Blu Here you go

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          The name's going to need changing because it's no longer a fork. The tines interfere with fields of fire, which would have prevented effective point defense from being installed, and it really needs point defense.

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            Oneye Danke comarade

              5 days later
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              newb12_ well since alpha completely re-made your ship I will make my own (not so big) changes. Also sorry for the really long wait.
              Edit: never mind

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                  20 days later

                  (sorry if this thread is dead, but...)

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                  Never been the brightest with vanilla design. In fact, I rarely ever play with vanilla. This ship was an experiment to see if I could build something without mods.

                  (Yes, its turnspeed is awful)

                  8 days later

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                  You cannot improve the OMEGA SHRIMP

                  7 days later

                  @Oneye
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                  Here's a weird one for you, try not to break the 80k limit.

                  DocSlime Just saying, didn't you limit your firing arc with the armor on top?

                    Alpha
                    I did intentionally, to provide cover from singular weapons on ships in the same price range.

                      DocSlime just arent such a good idea

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                        how about this ?