Ship Improvement Thread

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.
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Guy

Saesee_Tiin
Any good?

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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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Saesee_Tiin

Guy Well the very frugal modifications tell me that I'm doing something right. Thanks man, I'll probably try and shave something else to get those jump drives back though. Maybe the boosters...

Equalizer

Saesee_Tiin Try making the railguns a bit bigger. A 4 accelerator railgun can knock down a shield in 1 hit.

It also only needs 1 engine room in those thurster blocks. Note that the engine room buff does not stack.

Might want to find a way to have more turning thrust on the front so that it can rotate more easily.

Guy

Saesee_Tiin
Well I don't play tournaments or anything, but I am half decent and I didn't see any major problems. You may want more electro bolters, maybe another pair at the very top or very bottom of the broadside. I honestly didn't look too closely at your thruster blocks, but you could change the other two similar to how I did the top one, so you only use one engine room apiece. You could probably also fit some side-facing normal thrusters in the gap between front and rear-facing thrusters to help with your strafing. The doors to make that work might be weird, but it's just a thruster block and should be fine.

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Saesee_Tiin

Equalizer That's the plan. Though rotation speed is not a problem, it's lateral movement that I need to upgrade.

Saesee_Tiin

Guy Here's what I decided on.
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Equalizer Pinged you too since you showed interest

And here's an older version of the ship for context
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Brank

Teg Here is a ship I need improved
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RedAndCosmoteer

Brank So you're going for something at exactly one million?

Saesee_Tiin

CATMASTER That's what happens when you redesign the engine compartment and forget to remove something

Brank

RedAndCosmoteer ye.

mystery_player

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can anyone make this more perfect? it's one of my best ships relative to size.

Saesee_Tiin

mystery_player Here

You may need to repaint it a bit, but the functionality you wanted is there. I did sacrifice one FTL drive though. Oh, and don't mind the battle damage. XD
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It's definitely better.

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Saesee_Tiin

Guess who's baaaaaaaaack! So I have another older design that's now part of my fleet. Unfortunately its performance is less than satisfactory. I want a second opinion before I go chopping it up. Fair warning, it MUST stay at or under 2 million credits.

image https://i.imgur.com/yR9Rtpy.png

Now I've already made a Mark II, but it's too pricey and I really don't want to use rail-guns on the original. Here's the MK II for reference.
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mystery_player

thx

mystery_player

thx

Whispering

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My first attempt at a mega ship, it can handle all the built in ships besides the Terror. Any suggestions?

kieffer5101

Whispering don't clump reactors they will chain and wreck your ship

Whispering

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Right don't chain reactors, that would explain the massive explosions when something gets through the shields.

Amazing_Goob

Whispering Those reactors at still too close. About 4 away should work.

DeletedAccount

Whispering well first this one has a tiny amount of fire power considering it's price and also chain reactive so i tried upgrading it so it is more effective and cheaper now but still lacks fire power,cant really do much if i dont want to affect the shape to much,also changed the paint abit 🙂,here is the design.
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