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fixed emitter issues (finally) should be able to get the fist couple of the new weapons done sometime next week!

If anyone has some ships they think are up to snuff and want to see if they make it into the mod feel free to post them!

    Northerner
    I'll start making a few ships soon if possible, but I haven't played the game in a long time. I started back using this mod to help get back into building strong ships. It has helped me a great amount so far. I'll eventually start making ship designs to see if they past the tests. Also great mod btw.

    Jabenyezaa Thank you, I'm glad you like the mod! I hope the mod continues to help you improve! I cant wait to see the ships you post!

      Hi. It is really help to build better ships, bcs default is too simple. Also, i make some ship designes and hope that you add this ships into your mod.

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      I want to get this mod, but I am also planning to add my own bounty hunter difficulties in my main mod, so I also don't want to run into errors using both of them 🙁

        germheh I'm glad you are finding that the mod helps you build better ships and thank you for your submissions! However, only one ship "passed" testing would be your railgun ship call "Skat" however it (and all of your other ships) are lacking adequate fire extinguishers and most of your designs have none at all. A more proper ratio for fire extinguishers is 2 per every 6 man crew quarters and 1 for every 2 man crew quarters. You also have double or triple the amount of reactors necessary and your designs suffer badly from this as nearly all of them chain explode. My advice would be to add more fire extinguishers and less reactors and to space your reactors further apart.

        If you get a better balance of these elements on "Skat" then i shall consider it for addition into the mod. I appreciate your submissions and hope that this mod continue to help you improve your ship building in Cosmoteer!

        Translated by Google translator.

        Hello. The fact is that ships like "tank" were built at the highest level of complexity in your fashion. Therefore, ships losing in battles even small pieces of the hull were inefficient, since the cost of repair was often equal to the reward for the ship. Because of this, the emphasis was placed on the shields, which reduced the damage to a minimum. Because of weak armament, many reactors had to be put on shields so that they could regenerate faster than damage. But because of the high cost, I could not close the whole ship with shields, so I had to put up armor. Next, I ran into the problem of maneuverability, because of my weight it was very easy for me to get out of the gun, so I had to figure out how to increase maneuverability not to the detriment of weapons. And then I got the idea, and is it possible to keep the activated boosters endlessly? It turned out that yes, but this will require a whole reactor for each engine. However, there was nothing to do, so I put this system, and even won, because the weight has increased slightly, the price was also not too big, and the speed increased much. The only downside is the explosion, but I did not care, just because I would have rebooted again if I was damaged, so it did not affect anything. On fire extinguishers it was all the same, because if armor penetrated, then all the reactors also exploded, so they were not very necessary to me.

         So a compact and maneuverable "fighter" came out, destroying the enemies or practically without damage, or immediately exploding, ideally suited for this regime. Probably, it will still be superfluous in your fashion because of too low a survival rate. With him, I reached the level of difficulty "major" and could not move forward because of a lack of fuel. I hope in the next updates you will increase it a little, because, as for me, it is almost impossible to move forward.

         About the rest will answer a little later, so the story stretched out.

        germheh Can you be more specific with what difficulty you are playing on? Just from my experience so far i have excess fuel on all difficulties and have beat the game on "Real Tough Guy" with out much in the way of problems as they pertain to fuel. However that said if it is just fuel you are having a problem with just fuel then i will increase the amount is rewarded as I don't care as much about fuel rewards as warp efficiency is not a factor in tournament play.

        However when it comes to the cash rewards, the higher difficulties are very grindy and i see it being a struggle to advance in very hard and impossible. What I have done to win in the higher difficulties is grind on low level worlds for a bit until i can comfortably beat ships in the higher difficulty worlds. The rail gun ships are supposed to limit the effectiveness of that strategy but it still works if a bit boring.

        All that said i will see about making some changes to the difficulties, and appreciate your feedback! Your back and forth with you designing your ships is what i was hoping to achieve with this mod, that i feel the base game is lacking!

          Well, I will clarify with what I have problems. At the very beginning of the game, I can not kill most ships "forehead", so I have to dodge tactics. But it is not always possible to destroy all the ships purely physically at the first level of difficulty in the beginning, because they regenerate the shield more quickly than you do damage. Because of this, you have to leave with not completely cleaned sectors. So far, everything rests on money. Further, when you learned to destroy all ships on the first level and the periodically appearing ships of the second, you go to the second level because of a lack of fuel. The only way out is to leave the ship the same, and again farm the small levels so that when you move to the second level, you are immediately "strong." And so every time, you sooner or later face the problem of fuel, and your exits - to ease the ship a little, and go to clear light levels, farm money, or go on to kill every second ship, but you got enough fuel. If you increase fuel from each enemy at least 15-20 percent, then when you move to the next levels, you will be more prepared, and it will be easier for you to kill ships. It practically does not affect the level of skill, as the reward and repair will not change, but will reduce the need for a special grind at low levels, which gets very boring, and because of this the game becomes boring. Therefore, I believe that you need to increase the amount of fuel at maximum complexity.

           I would also like to say about the "Skat", I do not know how to reduce the number of reactors near the shields, since I already think 6 reactors for 14 shields with a small number. As for the reactors in the beginning, I can drop you the original version of the ship, worth exactly 1,000,000, but with weakened engines. And besides I would like to ask what you did not like these ships, what is wrong with them?
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            I forgot to mention one defect of AI, it can not use booster. He immediately turns them on and off, thereby they are discharged. I have one so?

              Original version:

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                Also i have 1 question, why you dont place cannons here:

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                @germheh Your missile ship was fine but since it lacked fire extinguishers it burns down very easily, the other two ships were above 5,000,000 which is the current max ship cost in the mod so i did not bother to test them. If people want to fight very slow laggy battles with ships above 5,000,000 i will consider upping the max ship cost.

                The reason i do not place all of my cannons in configurations like those is that cannons do not like armor tunnels to shoot through, but the ship called "Armor Fiend" has a similar set up to the top configuration but in delta design, delta and V designs oddly enough make cannons much more accurate, which allows it to focus most of their cannons on one target.

                I also modified your two ships to a level where they pass testing this is the modifications i have done to them:

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                  Northerner changed the title to Galaxy in Flames v0.4.5 (Alpha).

                    0.4.5 Update:

                    • Updated more designs since some were missing doors
                    • Added 2 ships by germheh
                    • Added 2 new tabs with their own weapons
                    • Added Electro missile launcher, and cobalt weapons.
                    • Added 4 new badges
                    • Added several new ships equipped with the new weapons
                    • Increased fuel rewards in Very Hard and Impossible difficulties
                      *Sprites on the new weapons are not final

                    Compatible with the newest version?

                      PureCringe Yes it is!