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P160-V6T STARBURST

The P160-V6T is the latest Entry to my "Pure Ion", fully Vanilla, 1vs1 Line of Ships (as of 14.01.24), but doesnt "just" focus on Efficiency this Time, but also on the economical Part, so it can be flown even at the hardest Eco Difficulty and have some spare Crew for Miners/Escorts.

Thus the Mantra for it was, to keep it at 160 Ions (because thats just enough Dakka for almost everything), below 900 Crew, below 10.000.000 Credits (for PvP Boss Brawls) and compress the Design enough to still have decent Speed/Manouverability and Armor, as well as most of the Stuff of my previous Designs.

It took me about 300 Hrs over 6 Weeks, with 400+ Test Saves and 6 total Rebuilds of the Ship to achieve that, so... drop me a Cookie if ya will =P.

Some notable Things this amassed to would be the 2+ "Fire Modes" (Instructions below), using Bunks as Corridors, very fast rotation Speed (Strafe is subpar though, so use the "rotate" Command), a Shotgun (focussed at close Range, spread out beyond) Beam Setup, super compressed Ion Chambers, an Ion Tunnel Armor Spine, huge Frontal Armor (with 2 Layouts of Hyperweave for Anti-Beam and Anti-Nuke), a Paintjob that drove me insane by the lack of shading Blocks and most importantly, the Fact that it can beat "Stronger" (more Crew, Firepower) Ships regularely (not always/depending on AI/Skill), while having about 200-900 Crew less than all the Ships i tested it against.

This includes my own P192/P128 and probably all the other Dread Designs out there by the Date of Upload and of course all the biggest integrated AI Ships of the Game.

It would technically work with even less Crew (Ions can work with just 1 Feeder per Ion, but not on bigger Ships due to "Task Lag" (Link below)), so if that gets "fixed" someday you could reduce the Crew by up to 96 Souls, down to 802 total (just from the Ions).

So as always, long Story short, heres the Stats, enjoy! =)

Name: STARBURST
Type: P160-V6T
Class: DREAD
Price: 9.987.700 Credits

Armament:
160 Ions (2to1/6(8) Outlets/188 Prisms)
24 PDs (3 Nests/as distraction Target/Rest is tanked)

Center Only (AvgDmg-150m):
(4x32) + (2x16) = ~179.372 DpS
Center+Side (AvgDmg-150m):
(2x32) + (6x16) = ~189.336 DpS

Defense:
24 L-Shields
46 S-Shields
~18 Layers Armor (Front Wedge)

Speed:
152 Engines (134L/12M/6S/All Bosted)
33 Engine Rooms

FW: 78.3 m/s
BW: 78.3 m/s
SW: 21.2 m/s

Weight:
18262.0 Tons

Crew:
898 (1581 Suggested/683 Less/Fully Functional)
123 Large Bunks
80 Small Bunks

Energy:
24 L-Reactors
22 M-Reactors
4 S-Reactors
8 Condensators

Command:
4 Bridges (Used 2667/Reserve 1333)

Utility:
2 L-Hyperdrives (69% Efficiency)
320 Hyperium Storage (incl.Drives)
1 Radar
1 Mining Beam
1 Res-Tractor
7 Airlocks
88 Fire-Ex

Feats:
Can win against double Firepower/Crew Ships
2 Fire Modes (CenterOnly/Center+Sides)
Super compressed Design (Ions/Engines/Armor/Crew)
Shotgun Beam (Focus on Enemy Ion Tunnel, spread beyond for more internal Dmg)
Hyperweave Armor for diagonal Ships (Link below)
Ion Tunnel Armor Spine (against Enemy Ions)
Crew Hive System (Bunks as Corridors/looks like a Hive =P)
Pretty efficient Engine Blocks (1M-R to 2ER x 5H-Eng.)
Semi 3D + Module Shading Paintjob (Game needs more Color Layers)
100% Vanilla Design

Hotkeys:
1 - Center Prisms
2 - Side Pirsms
3 - All Outlet Prisms
8 - Port Side (Left) Redirect Prism
9 - Starboard (Right) Redirect Prism
0 - 1 Ion from each Chamber for Testing

Fire Mode Instruction:
For the 2 Basic Modes i included, just switch the Prisms on Hotkey 8 and 9 as shown in the Screenshot of the Slideshow above.
One can also use other Prisms to redirect more Dakka to the Side Beams, e.g. if the Ship gets split, but i leave that to you to fiddle around with, as its not necessary for the most Part. =P
Use Hotkey 0 to fire 1 Ion from every Chamber to better see the Routes the Beams take, for testing that.

Hyperweave Disclaimer Link:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/799600/discussions/0/3732953628864456854/

Task Lag Disclaimer Link:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/799600/discussions/0/3732953986134897471/