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Kilroy

31 Oct, 2017 @ 4:59pm

[UESC] [Results posted. Contest Closed] Construction Contest 43: Rods from God Station

"In stellis ortum certa evadat. Percutient, dignissim cursum."
This contest is organized by the UESC community in collaboration with and sponsored by Keen Software House.

Introduction

Following along with last years November contest of "Evil Overlord's Moon-Base" this, the end of the year contest, will be over the top and ridiculous. Have fun with it engineers.

Now that the UESC has secured the space in orbit of the martian pirate planet. It has been determined by high command, the most cost effective way of ridding the sustem of pirates once and for all, is to destroy their planet side instalations from orbit.
Your task is to design and build an orbital instalation that will launch huge missiles at pirate bases. When asked how destructive the UESC high command wanted the missiles to be, they simply responded, "Anything in that general direction must die".

A note from the Moderators

This will be the last contest of the year 2017. Next month will be a place holder thread where W0lf3y and I will be talking about our favorite creations over the past year and will be entertaining any ideas and suggestions for next year. It has been a pleasure moderating these contests for everyone. W0lf3y and I will not be moderators next year. After 2 years of running the contests we have decided to hang up our hats and pass on our ban hammers to the next generation of moderators. NemisisMAX and Avendril will take up the mantle of moderators starting next year January 2nd and will lead you all through another fun year of creation, engineering, destruction, and Klang worship.

W0lf3y plans of returning to be a general contestant and will therefore have little/nothing to do with the back-end of the contests after December.

Kilroy will be judge for next year. he will continue, in part, to be the contests financial backer for the humble bundle prizes.

We both are looking forward to our retirement, thanks to all you players for making these contests awesome.

Kilroy

Contest World

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1187315046

Construction Requirements

Primarily Large Grid Construction (may have splices for features / functionality / decoration)
12,000 Large Grid Block Limit
Must be station or station like creation. (dont build a thing that can fly about freely)
Must function in 0g environment only.
Must be able to assemble and repeatedly launch highly destructive projectile. (not counted in block limit)
Must be able to target pirate base in provided world file.
Must have separate and distinct Rooms: Weapon Control, Engineering, Pressurizable hangar bay.
Main areas of the station must be airtight.

Some Helpful Links:

Can I use mods?

Hell yes, this is the mod list.

As usual the mod list will remain open for the first week of the contest, an announcement will be made when the mod list is closed.

Entry Deadline and Submissions

The contest will end on November 30 Dec 10th, 23:59 (UTC).
Official Countdown Timer![www.timeanddate.com]

Monthly Contest Thread Located Here
Fleet Contest Thread Located Here

Prizes:

Keep watch here for prize announcement in the future.
Choice of.

1st) Dead Rising

2nd) Bionic Commando

3rd) Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete

Choice of SE / ME steam game key provided by Keen Software House.

Note: Hosts reserve the right to change posted prizes without notification.

Winners

1st
RogueDelta Dirty Snow Flake 63.3|75
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1204942861

2nd
Zaflow Vaporizer Station 62|75
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1225763552

3rd
MACH Velocity Devastator Class Orbital Siege Platform 61.67|75 https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1218910324

results may be viewed at this public dropbox link.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yyrx9k5t5a6tt7r/AADn2y4lyfZaKmBKhWABP7FLa?dl=0

How will my entry be tested?

Your station will be pasted at world beacon (labled start point) and judges will after looking through your creation attempt to destroy the pirate base on the surface. Judgeing will be done in creative mode. Thoes of you who still wish to make your station survival ready you will very likely be awarded 'Feature' points.

How will I be rated?

Features:

30 Pts

Aesthetics:

30 Pts

Destructive Power:

30 Pts

Please read: Terms, Conditions and Rules, formerly called "The Boilerplate".

FAQ Link

Last edited by Kilroy; 22 Jan, 2018 @ 6:41am

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Kilroy

31 Oct, 2017 @ 4:59pm

FAQ

Q: So i see that my projectile is not counted in my 12 k limit, can i have just a stupidly huge thing and have it single fire into the planet?

A: Yes and no. Really the size limit on your warhead is however big you can have your station assemble aim and launch.

Q: I would like to just use W4stedSp4ace's final lotus is that cool with you?

A: No. The construction contests are about engineering original work. simply taking WS weapon wholesale and submitting it is against the contests policy's and you will be DQed

Q: Ore Cannon?

A: No, Ore cannon is not a rod from god. however the rod from god can shoot ore

Q: DPS or DPH? and at what point will the judges stop pummling the pirate base to assess damage?

A: Over the years when we have done super weapon contests it has been DPH, BUT ,

Originally posted by OP:
Must be able to assemble and repeatedly launch highly destructive projectile. (not counted in block limit)

The key word here is repeatedly. your reload time doesn't realy matter so much just as long as your stations weapon is able to be reprinted after being fired. Having said this the judges are not goint to just turn on some form of cosmic showerhead and rain tiny warheads untill they have bored a hole throuhg to the other side of the plannet. So...

You all should assume that the judges will fire one or two of your warheads or launch a short barrage to check that your weapon system is both reloadable. then check damage to the pirate base from the resultent barrage.

This allows you contestents to continued latatude in your entry designs while not crashing the judges PC or eating a whole bunch of there time.

Q: How do i get max points for destruction

A:
smoaking creater with tiny rocks rolyng around = 30|30

while an admirable RP position to want to go down and salvage things or rebuild a non functional pirate base. your directive is "everything in that general direction must die"

this is your boss on this one guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CP9dg38cAI

Q I did so much damage that the base phases through voxils do i win?

A: No. abusing the ksh physics engin does not count at winning

Last edited by Kilroy; 6 Nov, 2017 @ 5:31pm

W0lf3y

31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:02pm

Let's see some divine damage on them pesky pirates!

W0lf3y stalks off to go get all "Old Testament" on their a$$es.

Last edited by W0lf3y; 31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:04pm

Chucky Dickens has Space Engineers

31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:13pm

Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-YmRDUA6Wk

Kilroy

31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:15pm

what game is that from chucky

Zunkey

31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:25pm

Are we able to do a joint entry?

Kilroy

31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:35pm

you can but if your entry wins you still only get one prize and you both have to fight about who gets it

Zunkey

31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:39pm

Originally posted by UESC Kilroy:
you can but if your entry wins you still only get one prize and you both have to fight about who gets it

thats fine. thanks

Chucky Dickens has Space Engineers

31 Oct, 2017 @ 5:51pm

Originally posted by UESC Kilroy:
what game is that from chucky

"SoaSE"
"Sins of a Solar Empire

I recorded some footage of a "TEC Novalith Cannon" in action, and put the music over it.
I then sent it to a friend who was looking to test out his editing software and said, "have fun."

Copycat80

31 Oct, 2017 @ 6:04pm

I see that the station can opperate from 0g envirmoent only; I understand that you want an orbital weapon launcher and not a lander/ drop ship, but can I build a more flexible station that can say; opperate in a .1 G lower orbit.?

Lystent

31 Oct, 2017 @ 6:21pm

Interesting theme... I haven't checked to see what unsupported voxels is set to yet.
Also:
-"Must be able to target pirate base in provided world file." By 'target', you mean have someone point & shoot at the least, or does it have to have autotargetting?

-"Must have separate and distinct Control deck, Engineering Deck, Pressurizable hangar bay." Safe to assume hung crafts are outside the contest's specifications?

-"Must be station or station like creation. (dont build a thing that can fly about freely)" So no thrusters for holding it into space when unsuported stations are toggled to fall/drift off?

#10

MysticMalevolence has Space Engineers

31 Oct, 2017 @ 6:51pm

Overkill, anyone?

Also, are thrusters of any kind disallowed, or just that it won't be piloted at all?

Last edited by MysticMalevolence; 31 Oct, 2017 @ 6:52pm

#11

Zunkey

31 Oct, 2017 @ 6:52pm

Yo can the world disable block limits? cant weld my giant flying phallic object for rearm

Last edited by Zunkey; 31 Oct, 2017 @ 6:52pm

#12

MysticMalevolence has Space Engineers

31 Oct, 2017 @ 6:53pm

...Can the station itself be a massive bombardment weapon? (Guessing no.)

#13

Kilroy

31 Oct, 2017 @ 7:16pm

Originally posted by Dylan the Cartographer:
Overkill, anyone?

Also, are thrusters of any kind disallowed, or just that it won't be piloted at all?

so you CAN have thrusters on your station for stability, but dont build a ship taht can fly about. when we have done stations in the past we use to say only one thruster in each primary direction. but that is really wordy and im lazy. so just dont make a ship.

Originally posted by Lystent:
Interesting theme... I haven't checked to see what unsupported voxels is set to yet.
Also:
-"Must be able to target pirate base in provided world file." By 'target', you mean have someone point & shoot at the least, or does it have to have autotargetting?

either/or, up to you. "everything in that general direction must die" at the end of the month

-"Must have separate and distinct Control deck, Engineering Deck, Pressurizable hangar bay." Safe to assume hung crafts are outside the contest's specifications?

yes extra craft you chouse to include will not be judged and will not garner extra feature points

-"Must be station or station like creation. (dont build a thing that can fly about freely)" So no thrusters for holding it into space when unsuported stations are toggled to fall/drift off?

see above