Stock ships redesign - the practical approach

I have a large capship that uses large-scale NTRs for course corrections that still burn continously unless deactivated.

RCS Thrusters work but they have to placed them very carefully almost as if you were moving a slider on a laser or railgun you are designing. 
It's almost not really worth it, can you can't hardly see anything because of all the propulsion wash. The only advantage is more 360 degree armor coverage.
A COADE propulsion tester that would let you see how your placement affects maneuver would be great.
I'll be posting a demonstration soon.

Edit: Durandal Check it out

childrenofadeadearth.boards.net/post/17605/thread

Sorry guys , it took me a while to post this even if the ship itself has been finished for a while now. Thing is that I dislike the low delta V it has but frankly with the arsenal I wanted to plant on it it was inevitable. This or make it a lot bigger which would have been out of the scope of the redesign.

You have already seen the redesigned devastators but here are they and the other weapons on it from inside:
Devastators 


You can see how I'm saving armor coverage with the smaller engines. Otherwise nothing really interesting.

The hydrogen peroxide version of the flak missle:

With the switch to HP instead of LOX I've gained a boost in both the delta V and at the same time the missile is smaller. Its still my favourite missile from the flock. Very deadly and relatively cheap.

The HP/RP1 striker:

I still dislike the missile. The impact of the warhead has been dissapointing and the missile itself is expensive for what it does and big in my opinion... maybe I'll try to find a more capable warhead but I fear everything is either going to be too big or too small.

The new and much improved flare missile:

This one lives for 10 seconds which makes it significantly more capable than the old version. I'm still going to try this with my normal ships but I fear the increased power and temperature is going to make it impractical.
You can notice that I've been lazy and it just uses 2 sets of the tanks from the flak missile. I can definetly make it more compact if I do special tanks for it.

The ship carries 40 of the devastators , 4x100 Strikers , 3x500 Flaks and 500 flare missiles. This shows me that I can cringe my teeth and make a ship with less than 5 km/s delta v I can dislike it but I can take less than 6km/s delta V for the missiles but god help me if I make a large missile ship with less than a 1000 missiles on board .

Combat wise it wasn't really suprising that the AI didn't stand a chance. It was winning easily against missile salvos with the new flare missiles and even 10 laser frigates were no match for the devastators as you saw in my previous post.
Here are some shots :


I have to say that even if I dislike large missiles , the firepower that those 1MT warheads are offering is tempting and I'll try something similar with my normal missiles as well. 

Here is the code:

the stock 4mm railgun is fair aganist missiles, especially if their are more then one or two

I know that I'm still keeping tabs on this thread.

If it's not too much trouble concretedonkey would be able to post a summary of the code for all of the ship's so far?