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My small contribution to the tests.

210 size, 5 heavy vulcans, three lasers, and two heavy missile launchers.
Keeps dying to smaller ships though.

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Gamesmanship Ray


Built using the new weapon masses. Best used en masse. Its rear is made of talc.

GunPatriot


Slow and vulnerable, has to stay the hell away from the front line, but goddamnit it has six bigass guns and I feel like the motherfucking He-Man with this shit on my side.

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That's an example of a good signature file, not the thing you have now where you say you're white and your symbol is a sunburst and your enemies are blacks and reds.

Rule of thumb I used for metaships when doing thrusters;

Main engines primarily reduce speed and accel.

Secondary engines and angled thrusters (the sort you might see on some DVL designs) primarily reduce turning, but may also have a small impact on speed.

For example, the Daredevil II (one of the few designs I made with engines besides the main bank) loses a lot of speed if you take out the rear engine block, but the side pod engines only reduce it's speed by a fairly small amount - though they take a decent chunk out of the turning.

Remember to set it so that accel is never reduced below 0.01 and you can avoid pingponging - accel works as decel as well. Having engines reduce speed/accel/turning noticeably is required, but on the same note don't feel you have to completely immobilize them as HM says. Ships probably have myriad unrepresented maneuvering thrusters that they can use for propulsion and general maneuvering in a pinch if you really want an excuse.

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hey STARSTRUCK, what was it you said the gunpatriot made you feel



pretty much the most possible weaponry you can fit onto a meta ship using current rules

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There is no OP, there is only more boosters...

I've just picked up on something. Arc ranges seem to be pretty large, e.g. putting in a vulcan at 90 gives it a whole half circle. Just wonder if it's supposed to be like this, or if 90 is supposed to be degrees and in SM inputted as 45. Just incase i'm making ships with massive firing arc's.

Also another test, just a little one this time, ultra-light core and engine, one heavy autocannon and two vuclans. More an armoured shuttle or something than a warship.

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90 means 90 degrees to the left and to the right, as a weapon turns left and right, also read the first post there's rules and guidelines there for a reason.
Like the weapon and module stats.

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It's supposed to be like that. 90 is the actual Arc Range value that you enter into shipmaker. Vulcans have massive arc ranges because as well as being effective main armament for small ships they are also for use on larger ships as CIWS.

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Yes i have read the first post, several times, carefully, that's why i asked...and funnily enough i do understand how arc ranges work, and the principle of left and right.

@HM: Ok thanks, i guess the vulcan's seemed ok, it just struck me when a big artillery gun still had 60 listed as it's arc, thought it was rather large for a big gun like that.

Edit: A damn fast ship, since after fighting starstruck's gamesmanship ray and it doing one circle round my ship so fast it destroyed it having barely been targeted. And also i forgot to put a beamer onto the previous ship that should've been on.



Ed: @Starstruck: I think you should take a look at your vulcans on the Gamesmanship Ray, they seem to have an awful fast fire rate for heavy vulcans, just compared it to a little mock up and unleashed them at a brick, definitely faster.

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"Damn hippies with their slippers and mesh bags looking for "adventure" or friggin' nerds who hasn't held anything but a microscope in their girly little hands. Such posers don't last long here." - Wolf (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)

Shit, man. I accidentally set the damn things to fire about twice as fast. Sorry 'bout that. Here's a new upload.

And yet another ship for the test roster:

Valiant-class Assault Carrier

A meta1-style bundle of rape. Works well against smaller, maneuverable ships that would normally be a pain in the neck to hit.

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That's an example of a good signature file, not the thing you have now where you say you're white and your symbol is a sunburst and your enemies are blacks and reds.

seeing as arcalane said that there'll be tech advancements allowing us to use multiple cores, can we create test ships with multiple cores to see how that would affect gameplay?

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There is no OP, there is only more boosters...

My hands on some meta2 ships...

I present you the Centurion-class Strike Destroyer

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The one who makes the best[Claim disputed] mechas with BSF currently. (And the creator of the Sabot Cannon of the BSFCE.)

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The Earth Coaltion
Mars People's Union
The Free City-states of Luna

Can't wait to pit that against my new little flankers .



One laser, two autocannons, light armour (very light in the centre and rear), and pretty damn fast.

Ed: Reposting the download cause the thrusters doubled up for some reason.

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"Damn hippies with their slippers and mesh bags looking for "adventure" or friggin' nerds who hasn't held anything but a microscope in their girly little hands. Such posers don't last long here." - Wolf (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)

Decided to do something.
Here it is:
Zephyr-class gunship

Beats STARSTRUCK's GunPatriot hard. Yay for drone bays. Yeah, slow as hell though.

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Stupid Stufff:

Introducing...

Electronic Countermeasures!

Modules that allow ships to dazzle the sensors of enemy ships in order to avoid detection.

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Do those have any effect in combat, or are they just for the strategic portion of the game?
Anyway new test ships.

Small size 70 frigate with 2 drone launchers and 4 autocannons.

A tiny gunship. 1 beam and 1 vulcan. Fast and manuverable, but flimsy.

Testing an engineless station. 4 vulcans and one of the new ECM modules.

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