Cosmoteer Official Design Contest (Pirates!)

CreatoR

What would a pirate use? A skull ship 😃

Skull ship

Nonschman

A pirate needs a ship with a big cannon - so here it is:
Big cannon pirate ship

GalacticFish

Little story about how I made this.
I decided to first create the normal non-pirate version of this ship cuz I felt like it had a better connection to the ship to begin with. Second, I tried to make it look like it had been beaten up and shoddily repaired with wathever the pirates could grab. I ended up with this design. It's built as a strike ship to get in fast and sustain fire for long enough to deal some damage. Overall, I'm pleased with my result, and open to feed back to improve my designs in the future.
image https://i.imgur.com/3mYsN8X.png
P.S. The original XM23 can defeat 1 Ragnox-5 in combat but can't quite face two. Just wanted to add that

Koppi

Bigger is better. So a pirate would use a huge cannon-ship i think.

Big huge cannon

IVIemories

Koppi Sorry, that ship is not functional in any context so it doesn't qualify for entry.

BrandedSniper

This is the bounty hunter's glory a ship made by an eccentric and once famous bounty hunter who has fallen on hard times.
image https://i.imgur.com/xC0H7vo.png
Despite financial difficulties, he has converted a captured trader into a cruiser he personally commands to watch smaller ships get bullied. The ship is ragtag in areas the ships intersected and suffers from slow firing time and poor armor placement, with a botched paint job to boot, it looks like this ship won't last long against some better-designed competition.

Bevan

BrandedSniper it's more alien than pirate in my opinion :/

Bevan

Jesus3747 reminds me of the minmatar republic

CrazyLunatic71

image https://i.imgur.com/f6E4GQB.jpg

image https://i.imgur.com/tfdqMTK.jpg

Interior and Exterior of the "SS. 7 Galax-seas", A rocket based cruiser with low mobility but high survivability, unless ammo storage is blasted into. Point Defence and Missiles are used for aesthetics to simulate a traditional non-space pirate ship's cannons. Control room is needlessly staffed and powered, to again simulate a traditional ship. No mods were used in the making to make it more of a challenge, and end costs are 3,129,350 units. Was tested in vanguard and is actually rather usable to my surprise 🙂

David623

CrazyLunatic71 you didnt read the thread did you,there will be no fighting involve
It would be like the previous design event(i personally asked the mod on discord about the event) that it would be the mod and walt vote for ship that pass the qualifier then the comunity will vote for the selected ship
So building something fully combat focused is basicly giving up your chance

IVIemories

CrazyLunatic71 This is not the right ship file. I need you to upload the .ship.png, not a jpg file.

CrazyLunatic71

Northerner "High Damage" in the amateur worlds. Anything higher and it will meet its match easily. Nice aesthetics tho. Place Point defence pointing backwards, as missiles tend to miss small ships such as this and catch up from behind, giving point defence plenty of time to gun em' down

Northerner

CrazyLunatic71 that's the tier I'm shooting for so thanks for that! And I'll see if putting a PD on the rear doesn't bump it out of the tier. But I'm glad you like it!

CrazyLunatic71

Indifference should of painted it. Still looks like a standard cosmoteer space ship with the shiny aluminium colour scheme, not a grimy, dirty pirate ship. Nice, tho 🙂

CrazyLunatic71

David623 Makes it more of a challenge, and installing mods doesn't increase your chances

David623

sigh, are you dumb dude?It not a battle challenge
It a god damm show of art,and mod have extra cooler looking stuff that fit the theme of pirate more
heck,a total art ship with a coupe cannon and thruster can still participate as fine as there would be no fighting so already there would be a huge amount of ship getting out simply cause they look like box

CrazyLunatic71

David623 Cool. Ill just make a 8x2 with a bunk, large thruster, reactor and control room and paint it brown

CrazyLunatic71

CrazyLunatic71 Ooh, and install a mod that gives it a sail. Itll be completely useless, which defeats the purpose of a pirate ship being militarised and useful for battle, but itll be for your specifications

David623

well duh,it a DESIGN event
The whole meaning of the event is for show of ship in a beauty contest
They literally wont test anything like speed,shielding,combat and what not
Just how good it look fitting with the theme
I already participated in the last design event and mod said it would be the same as the last one

CrazyLunatic71

David623 And why cant it be beautiful without being modded out the ass? Right now I can install mods that make a ship look EXACTLY like a 18th century battleship, with simple placeable decorational items in the build menu, or I can spend longer making a functional, gorgeous ship in vanilla and spend actual time and effort giving it an aesthetic look

CrazyLunatic71

David623 I put shields and thrusters and weaponry on my design for the simple fact that in the end its still a ship design in cosmoteer and looks good in my opinion, not because it has tactical advantages

David623

CrazyLunatic71 eh since when did i state only use mod?