Ship Improvement Thread

Oneye

GarryGarret With files on the forum you just drag them into Cosmoteer (in creative mode). If you try to download them they won't work.

culanns_hound

Oneye That's weird, when I download files from the forums it works fine for me. You just gotta make sure you put .ship when you save it

Oneye

culanns_hound It is just easier to drag it than to edit the name.

GarryGarret

culanns_hound there may be an issue with quality, so if you could please re-upload the blueprint it should fix the issue

GarryGarret

culanns_hound excellent work on the re-fit. I am very impressed, and thankful. While you were working on your refit, I made my own, as well, its cheaper than yours, but only has 1 rail gun.

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Oneye

GarryGarret I have had no problem loading it, so it is not the picture.

Amazing_Goob

dethstrider one way to improve the look of anything: ARMOR WEDGES.

culanns_hound

GarryGarret I tend to like having two railguns because it is easier for me to set up the reactors

Alpha-Dog

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Can anyone fix this for me?

GarryGarret

I think you need more cannons.....

Alpha-Dog

GarryGarret I thought that too, but then it beat the Archangel first try... but I know the reactors, ammo Prod/storage, and crew quarters are all horrible.

Undated_Abyss

Alpha-Dog
Your first mistake was using ammo storage...

Alpha-Dog

Undated_Abyss Yeah. I realize that too. I'll try and do something about it myself and see if I can get anywhere on the ship.

Oneye

Alpha-Dog Try this: https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/4578-dos-and-don-ts-for-building

GarryGarret

Alpha-Dog I think your main issue is streamlining your interiors. If you did that your ship would be good. But if you added maybe a few small cannons and some EBs then you'd be golden. For a ship of that cost, weapon diversity is definitely a good idea

Alpha-Dog

image https://i.imgur.com/SoKwWZm.png
Still needs some work but its the best one so far. Still not finished with the internals, but currently, it beats the gatecrasher, The Cerberus, Archangel, and the Crescent Wrath. Not saying much I know, with their intentional flaws but its better than before.

DeletedAccount

can anyone give me tips on how to improve this ship without affecting the overall shape too much?
image https://i.imgur.com/2hLIMiX.png
(frame by @QuantumRK)

Guy

DeletedAccount
You could replace a lot of that internal armor with structure and still leave the outside several blocks thick, especially on the back of the hammerhead where you're not likely to take fire. It would save you a lot of credits and also weight, so the ship would be more maneuverable.

Try shifting your stack of missile launchers down a little so the ones from the top launchers aren't as likely to hit your hammerhead. I'd shift it all down by two and make room by moving a row of crew to the top of the stack.

You could put engine rooms in the corners of your thruster clusters, there's plenty of dead space around them for the reactors and crew in those spots.

Guy

image https://i.imgur.com/N06WEBJ.png
I'm pretty happy with the swarms fighter, it's probably my most successful design.
That said, I'm open to suggestions. I'll probably swap in the new laser once I get home, and it has some issues with rotating despite the large thrusters and engine room. I'm not quite sure what's up with that. It also doesn't do all that well against missiles, but I use this in multiples of three and they normally empty their tubes on just one of them so it kinda works out. Still, I'd like for it to be better but I'm not sure what to do other than replacing guns with PD.

image https://i.imgur.com/Wx2fZZx.png
In its own class the rails ship can beat up whatever it can catch and can run from most stuff that can catch it. That's the idea, anyway.

image https://i.imgur.com/cm30Ps8.png
The brawler is just plain hard to kill, but I know it can be better. It's an older one of mine that I compartmentalized, rather than being a ship built around some solid compartments, and I think that shows.

Overall I've only just started paying real attention to my crew to gun/factory ratios instead of winging it, so I'm sure there's a lot of optimization I can still do.

Saesee_Tiin

I'd love a second opinion on this vessel. It's already been heavily modified from the original, but I'm still not happy with it.
image https://i.imgur.com/qqZLYCF.png

Guy

Saesee_Tiin
Any good?

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

I reworked the front compartment for efficiency, especially for shield recharge, but it did chop everything up into a bunch of little compartments that are a bit awkward. I did cut down your crew in the front compartment; crew optimization isn't my strongest suit, but I couldn't figure out why you needed so many guys for what you do have up there. Also, I figured that, given how short those rails are, that the front is primarily for defense while you switch between broadsides, so any possible reduction in their fire rates wouldn't be that important.

I replaced a fair bit of armor in the middle engine areas with structure. My thinking is that if you really need a ton of armor in the middle of your ship then you've already made a mistake, but I accept that being debatable. I also closed up the gap at the bottom, I could just see the cannon shells flying in there during a flanking attack or a poorly timed broadside rotation.

I also got you just under 2.5M, though I had to cut out the forward-most FTL drives to do it.

CATMASTER

Saesee_Tiin what are that bullshit? why i keep seeing thos stuff when i watch other player's ship
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