Eccentric Ship Classification

jbox1

In the Cosmoteer community, there are the ships, then there are the 'other' attempts to make something that is as powerful as possible. This post is about those ships which are different, and how to classify them. These are the classifications so far (you can suggest changes or new categories):

Gunbeds
A long repated ship consisting of a long front section covered in weapons and heavy sheilding, and a short back section of thrusters. May also be called cannon walls, if using cannons (and since cannons already are heavily sheilded, they already fit the heavy sheilding category)
Missile Kiters
A fast, poweful ship that is capable of staying out of range of enemy fire, whilst overwhelming them with missiles.
Shield Balls
A ship that attempts to cover every possible surface, hole and opening with shields.
Ion Combs
A ship that has long slits, ending in Ion beams. Since Ion beams are uni-directional, this means that they are largely protected from incomming fire, and the inclusion of sheilds often further provides protection against the odd bullet.
Diagonals
A diagonal ship is one that is built with a diagonal line of symetry (most times). These ships are often mor difficult to build, but can have certain perks such as better sheilding coverage, more agility and better weapon coverage.
Carriers
A ship specifically designed to split apart into other units. these do not have to be self contained.
Broadsiders
These are long, thin ships that are shielded and armed on both of the sides (occasionally with frontal weapons) and designed to stay side on to an enemy.
Stations
A Rotationally symmetrical ship with long truss sections poking out each side. They can spin around if one section is damaged.
Eaters
A ship that is structually designed to surround smaller ships then bombard them with weapons. They are often weak against fast ships, being unable to “swallow” them, and to save space won’t be well armored on the outside.
Modules
Ships consisting of self contained areas which can be placed together to form a large, functional ship.
artsy
A ship which is based upon the form of another object, like a sword or cosmic sea horse for example. These can be of various sizes.
Mixed
A ship which tries to effectively "mix and match" modules so as to get the best efficiency. If you download the community ship mod, and look under Teg's ships, you will find a few good examples.

If you would like to submit an example, suggest a new class, or suggest a change, reply to this thread! have a good day!

Atarlost

jbox1 Gunbeds
A long repated ship consisting of a long front section covered in weapons and heavy sheilding, and a short back section of thrusters.

(warning, old, horribly unoptimized design)
image https://i.imgur.com/QRBBaET.png

Missile Kiters
A ship consisting of a heavily sheilded front section, and the sides being mostly missile launchers. Often the back or center section will contain trhusters

You have the wrong definition here. A Kiter defends itself primarily by not being in range of the enemy.

image https://i.imgur.com/F3dS9Do.png

Shield Balls
A ship that attempts to cover every possible surface, hole and opening with shields.

Ion Combs
A ship that has long slits, ending in Ion beams, and protected by shields placed in these slits so as to defend them.

It doesn't need to use shields. Armor tines work surprisingly well.
image https://i.imgur.com/Fan2ksy.png

Broadsiders
These are long ships with shielded and armed sides (occasionally with frontal weapons). A sub type is the semi-broadsider, which has weapons only on one side (so as to keep the AI pointed in the right way)
Semibroadsiders are just gunbeds with an asymmetrical engine layout.

image https://i.imgur.com/JQrKo5c.png

Modules
Ships consisting of self contained areas which can be placed together to form a large, functional ship.

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

Another big category is Artsy Ships. These are ships that are designed first and foremost to look like something. Like swords, because swords are awesome.

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

Inkless

jbox1 Just A really big example of a missile Kiter
image https://i.imgur.com/sdhcqQ0.png

Also you are forgetting one type of ship, The Ship Eaters

A Ship Eater is a ship that is meant to grab ships smaller than it and destroy them from all sides

(Examples)
image https://i.imgur.com/0BIdYG8.png

image https://i.imgur.com/QHpk2BN.png

jbox1

Atarlost thank you for the ships and information... I was trying to see if I could get it right, but mistakes were expected!

jbox1

Atarlost

This was more of a sheild bed then a gunbed...

Drakador_Chaos

jbox1 Are Cannonwalls considered Cannonbeds? Are they the same? [enter another question here just to make it 3 of them], who knows...

Atarlost

jbox1 This was more of a sheild bed then a gunbed...

I have not yet begun to shield spam!
image https://i.imgur.com/kUCbcQg.png
I think that makes another category.

jbox1

Drakador_Chaos cannon walls closely resemble gunbeds, so yes they are the same. I’ll just add cannonwall as an A.K.A of the gubbead

Tickytickytango

Broadsiders
These are long ships with shielded and armed on both sides (occasionally with frontal weapons).

Modules
Ships consisting of self contained areas which which can be placed together to form a large, functional ship.

Artsy
A ship which is based upon the form of another object, like a sword for example. These can be of various sizes.

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