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darkdragon396 It took a while, but I finally managed to have a look at your ship.
The first thing I've got to say is (deep breath to calm down) you've committed way too much armor.

• This thing has more armor than anything else and way too few thrusters for a ship merely half as large and filled with structure instead

• The railguns need better powering, most dual-pd and the rear capital laser turrets too

• A dual shield layer isn't enough to protect the penetration cannons against ships of similar cost. The flak and the nuke launchers aren't shielded good enough neither

• Those clustered pd will hardly protect you from all incoming missiles

• The flak is rather useless, it doesn't target any lasers and any enemy ship will have lots of those

• Not. Enough. Thrust.

• Many energy sources are too far away from the things they're supposed to power

• Too much wasted space

• Use modules or at least actual compartments

• The penetration cannons don't get enough ammo

• Bad distribution of basically everything

• Reactor clumps/lines

• No FE in the upper half of your ship

• Poor door placement

Guess I could go on if I bothered enough, but that's already enough for you to fix.

Aisling Seems okay so far, I'm still running a battle against darkdragons oversized clump of armor tho, so you'll have to wait a bit until I can load it in.

Fair enough, I'm glad it's okay, at least for now

Aisling Nevermind, I'm not that patient and watching a ten million ship with like three times the weapons of my 3 million ship slowly loosing its parts is rather pointless.

• (The things I mentioned earlier)

• Having flak at the rear is unnecessary

• You only need one sensor, having two for symmetry is somewhat acceptable, any more are wasted

• Keep in mind tractor beams have limited range

• FTL-drives only need power when jumping, giving them an extra reactor is futile

• Control rooms shouldn't be positioned near any explosive parts and are safest in a ships core (Clustering them is pretty much pointless btw)

• The middle tractor beam compartments need more crew, the single tractor beams only need one reactor each, the ones on the sides lack crew too

• You might want to improve the paint

Still 'okay', even tho the front lacks dps. (Large cannons would be good, smaller ones or heavy lasers would work too.)

CursedPh4nt0m I felt like the extra flak could help reduce damage to the front, but I'll probably swap out some for cannons. I had a fair amount of empty space after the exterior of the ship was done so I was kinda scraping the barrel doing the insides. I would like more internal thrust but with lots of places, If I hooked the thrusters up to an already active grid then it would negatively affect it but if I feel like if I add any more reactors then the ship will just be one big bomb. When I did the jump drives, I suppose I was modeling them with getting all the drives spinning in a reasonable amount of time rather than keeping the insides safe. The paint was just done in 2 minutes because I had to go somewhere, expect something flashier on the next version, which I'll probably post sometime tomorrow
Also, I'm not sure, but were you saying that each individual tractor beam emmiter requires one reactor each?

Aisling

Aisling Also, I'm not sure, but were you saying that each individual tractor beam emmiter requires one reactor each?

They need even less, if I remember correctly (which is rarely the case to be honest). The crew simply doesn't manage to supply them good enough, that's why I suggested adding some quarters.

Aisling I felt like the extra flak could help reduce damage to the front, but I'll probably swap out some for cannons.

Keeping the flak should be a good idea, I was mainly referring to the lasers and eb.

Aisling If I hooked the thrusters up to an already active grid then it would negatively affect it

The reactors on the thrusters are placed rather unbeneficial, or as some wise guy once said:

Equalizer Crew are really slow, inefficient and costly at moving things any further than about 2 tiles.

CursedPh4nt0m I don't think more reactors or storage would be great and I'm not entirely sure where to move the reactors or which areas need the reactors moving, how would you do those thruster sections then?

CursedPh4nt0m so i couldnt rly put in any internal armour though i did change one of my flak on either side to defence and i replaced the two middle reactors with one. try it again if you can

Aisling You somewhat have to add a reactor or at least storage to keep those thrusters running for more than rougly half a minute:

Astrum that first one reminds me very much of one of my ships that i built recently

Astrum no, i like it!

very cool, also nice that you used 2 reactors instead of 3 that i used. what does yours cost exactly?

kieffer5101 200k exactly. Somewhat of an unconventional cost (I feel like 250k, would be more traditional).

CursedPh4nt0m he all won