reviire
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Post by reviire on Nov 2, 2016 11:07:00 GMT
EDIT: Should this have been in general, not gameplay? Pretty much the title. Share any designs you've made that while may not work very well, are pretty fun to build/watch in a fight.  |
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Post by Lieste on Nov 3, 2016 0:04:48 GMT
The "stock only modules" ship design that was the solution to most of the campaign missions - with a small methane tanker and *sometimes* a stock missile sloop in attendance. Apart from the missile launcher, it has higher firepower to a broadside opponent than the Gunship shown alongside, as all the weapons are mounted on one face, with the radiators opposite.  |
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Post by lieste on Nov 3, 2016 0:20:33 GMT
Attachment DeletedThe small size makes it quite capable of taking on it's default opponents and the dual violet lasers are sufficient for missile defence.
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Post by nerd1000 on Nov 3, 2016 12:27:25 GMT
You want crazy, stupid, silly ship designs?  I give you the Heart of Gold, a ship where I made every part I could out of gold. It has gold armour, gold propellant tanks, gold radiators, gold crew compartments, gold railguns (firing gold bullets) and a reactor using gold as the moderator, control rods, coolant pumps and half of the thermocouple. Propulsion is provided by seven gold decane NTRs. To my annoyance, there are some parts you cannot practically make from gold: the radiation shields (sadly gold is quite bad at blocking neutrons), reactor neutron reflectors (see above), nuclear fuel, NTR control rods, thermocouple N-type material (I used platinum) and various parts for which you can't choose the material like the inside of the command modules. Naturally its combat effectiveness is somewhat... lacking, though it is capable of beating the stock beamcraft in a 1v1 if you use ignore range on the railguns. |
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Post by boomertiro on Nov 3, 2016 17:22:06 GMT
...I want the L'Unite and the Heart of Gold.
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Post by targetx on Nov 3, 2016 19:55:10 GMT
You want crazy, stupid, silly ship designs? I give you the Heart of Gold, a ship where I made every part I could out of gold. It has gold armour, gold propellant tanks, gold radiators, gold crew compartments, gold railguns (firing gold bullets) and a reactor using gold as the moderator, control rods, coolant pumps and half of the thermocouple. Propulsion is provided by seven gold decane NTRs. To my annoyance, there are some parts you cannot practically make from gold: the radiation shields (sadly gold is quite bad at blocking neutrons), reactor neutron reflectors (see above), nuclear fuel, NTR control rods, thermocouple N-type material (I used platinum) and various parts for which you can't choose the material like the inside of the command modules. Naturally its combat effectiveness is somewhat... lacking, though it is capable of beating the stock beamcraft in a 1v1 if you use ignore range on the railguns. I LOVE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD! |
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Post by Rocket Witch on Nov 4, 2016 0:16:04 GMT
I saw a good looking saucer design around game release time, and have been wanting to make one myself. It's kinda awkward to make and looks like a half-length food can with glowy boubles sticking out... oh well. It performs surprisingly well due to the compact cross-section, but oversteers a lot for whatever reason.   The really crazy thing about this design is that a radiator made of lithium is in the water exhaust stream. |
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Post by jonen on Nov 14, 2016 17:10:11 GMT
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Post by Pttg on Nov 15, 2016 5:44:18 GMT
Good thing you can launch one every 15 seconds. Having to wait 20 seconds between launches would be just too long. |
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