The Competition:
For this tournament plan each competitor will need to submit two ships; a large cruiser vessel (max size 120) and a smaller corvette (max size 60) which will fight in various battles. The tournament is planned to take place over 4 rounds which will judge different abilities of each competitor's ships and rank them by the cumulative score overall as follows:
Round 1: Appearance (20 points)
Ships will be judged on the aspects of aesthetics and functional appearance
Round 2: The Fleet Competition (40 points)
Fleets will consist of 1 cruiser and 2 corvettes. This main event will consist of a league system followed by a double knockout competition using the seedings from the league. each battle we consist of the best of three ai fights
Round 3: The Cruiser Competition (20 points)
Using rankings from the fleet round, a single knockout tournament will happen where two cruisers will be pited against each other.
Round 4: Tag Team Battle (20 points)
The final competition will pit 4 of one player's corvettes against another players cruiser, and vice versa. This will be a league style competition
Final score ?/100
Other Rounds: e.g 2vs2/2vs1, "Take Down the Mothership" (any ideas welcomed)
The Shipbuilding Ruleset:
Section 1: Class
Firstly choose the class of vessel you would like to build. to be fully entered in the competition you must build one of each class.
Class A: Cruiser
The main ship of the competition, will be used for all rounds. Max size 120 (without shield)
Class B: Corvette
The secondary fleet ship. Will be used in the secondary fleet and tag team competitions. Max size 60 (without shield)
Section 2: Mass and Power Allowance
-Mass: Round your ship's size (without shield) to the closest multiple of 5. Then square it. This is your ship's MASS ALLOWANCE (totally not ripped)
-Power: Round you ship's size to the closest multiple of 5. Square this and multiply by 0.4. This is your ship's POWER ALLOWANCE
why have a ship smaller than the max size? the larger the ship the slower and the bigger a target it is, simple.
a ship must have atleast it's size*0.1 number of sections
Section 3: Mountings
Every Weapon and thruster on your ship requires a mounting to deliver power to it. each size has a maximum amount of mass and power it can support
Fixed Mountings: used for thrusters and fixed weapons such as missile arrays (which shoulad have an arc range set to 0)
-small: mass 50 mass, mass allowance: 250, power allowance: 100
-medium: mass 75 mass, mass allowance: 500, power allowance: 200
-large: mass 100 mass, mass allowance: 1000, power allowance: 400
Mobile Mountings: used for most weapons. note, multi weapon turrets can be used, but all weapons must be the same, and costs is equal one weapon with a burst value equal to the number of weapons mounted on the turret. hp should be that of the turret section (which does not contribute to the overall armour mass of the ship). clip size, fire rate, reload time, turn speed, arc range, firing arc and range should be those of the driver. all others should be that of the firing weapon.
-small: mass 100 mass, mass allowance: 250, power allowance: 100
-medium: mass 150 mass , mass allowance: 500, power allowance: 200
-large: mass 200 mass, mass allowance: 1000, power allowance: 400
Section 4: Thrusters
Thrusters are used to provide propulsion for a vessel, and must me placed on a fixed mounting. There are three types available, each of which provide different ratios of speed, acceleration and truning to mass and power. These total values will then be divided by the overall mass of your ship to give you the ships speed, acceleration and turn speed. You can use any mix of thrusters on a ship. Decide the mass of thruster you want (or the power if you want to define it by that) and calculate the other values from there. All thrusters must be represented on the ship, and must remove their contribution to the ships speed and manoueverability when destroyed.
-Chemical Thrusters: your average thrusters provided a balance of everything. Power = mass*0.4
Speed = mass*10
Acceleration = mass*0.25
Turning = mass*4
-Fusion Thrusters: provide very high speeds, but poor manoueverability. Power = mass *0.5
Speed = mass*16
Acceleration = mass*0.2
Turning = mass*2
-Ion Thrusters: provide low speeds, but very high manoueverability. Power = mass *0.5
Speed = mass*4
Acceleration = mass*0.3
Turning = mass*6
seeing as a couple of people have now had trouble with them, i'll post a quick guide.
Section 5: Weapons
Now onto the fun part! choose from the following list of allowed weapons:
-blaster
-gat blaster
-gat pulse
-beamer
-megabeam
-mining beam
-scatter beam
-plasma
-pulse
-missile
-minimissile
-tac nuke cannon
-plasma ball
-repeating artillery
-vulcan cannon
-particle rifle
-torpedo
-flash bolter
-tesla
-machine gun
-autocannon (no submunitions)
-particle cannon (no submunitions)
stats: anything you like! (within reason of course, no single single shot killer weapons) type them in to the weapon mass and power calculator and get the results.
Section 6: Armour
section hp: 1hp=1mass, simple (core hp counts toward armour mass)
Section 7: The Shield
all ships should have a shield (e.g. TBE_shields/TBE_Shield5) that should cover the front half of the ship. a shield should also have a range 0.1 nanomatrix to repair it which should never run out of energy
-shield hp: 1hp = 1mass, 1power
-shield recharge: 0.02hp per frame = 1mass, 1power
Section 8: Entry
post a shipmaker pic, and a .zip or .rar containing the .shp file, .sb4 file, all sprites and a sheet containing the ships stats so that i can analyse it and check everything's correct.
Weapon Calculator:
IMPORTANT CHANGE
Found here: http://www.mediafire.com/?izww7jnu7bnp0o0
Just put in the shipmaker values and it'll give you the weapon's mass and power requirements for attaching it to your ship.
Approved Entrants:
-Kittenpillar: Eagle Class Cruiser (100), Sparrow Class Corvette (60)
-Ggngunner: Dozori Cruiser (120), Anergia Corvette (60)
-Calvin1211: Tiger Cruiser (120), Coyote Corvette (60)
Incomplete Entrants
-STARSTRUCK: Chaioth Ha Quadesh Cruiser (120), Merkabah Corvette (60) (beams need updating)
-Anna: in process of remaking
-James_Markham: Kurellous Corvette (60), requires cruiser
-Pyrophage: Leviathan Class Cruiser (120), Cancer Class Corvette (60) stats need checking
-Destroyer#1: Cruiser (120), Corvette (60), stats need checking, especially armour mass
-Kittenpillar (second fleet): Owl Class Cruiser (110), requires corvette
-Pyrophage (second fleet): Trilobite cruiser (120), requires corvette