A very nice ship, everything is fine, I just removed a few guns and added a hull shield. Thank you very much for your work.

Okay, I...again, have no idea what I'm doing lol
Someone told me the other day that Project Eden is much better than Vanilla, that I should grab it...and so I did. And unless I'm mistaken, it sounds like like Project Eden is the problem, rather than the ship here itself. That at least insofar as ship stuff is concerned, Project Eden has a whole other set of rules than vanilla. Oops lol
Well good! Maybe I'll look into seeing if I can't relax that requirements somehow because I LOVE this ship to pieces...its part of why it was so disappointing.
Okay, sorry...Jrandall, it really can't be said enough just how amazing your designs are...these aren't gaudy or overdone, not too flashy, not show-boaty, just utilitarian, functionally fantastic with a nice touch of classy. You should design stuff in rl with your kind of eye and taste, thank you! And thanks for responding pretty well to what was essentially a gripe lol

imwithdummy! the Merc-MX9D is this vessel, it is just updated for CPU standards and weights & Volumes. I think you will enjoy it.

Thank you Doc and imwithdummy! @imwithdummy, So many creations like this one were built a long time ago when CPU, the new flight model, reforged Eden, etc., did not exist. Some just can't be done to size and specs. Now, I started making new stuff compatible or intended for Reforged Eden which is again different. Many times, things are so different now, building new creations to work with the current rules works out better than trying to update an existing creation. I have got way to many creations out to possibly try to keep them all up to date with what ever the latest changes are and it had 3 major changes including Reforged Eden since this was released. All I can say, is the newer releases are made for newer versions of the game. Creations I did update will have update info on the post. I currently have very little Reforged Eden creations released besides the Carapace C7 and recent Centaur-MT. More to come thou. Thanks again all!

Hey, love these ships, absolutely love them...the amount of work that went into them...I can't even imagine.
But a note here? This is the second ship I've grabbed and built, only to find out that it has nowhere near the CPU capability it supposedly needs. This one requires 89,000 and yet is capped at 6k.
I just hopped into this game a week ago so am unfamiliar when whatever updates took place that may have made ships like this obsolete. Maybe I should have known better, maybe there's a fix? But nowhere on this page does it state anything about, "hey be careful, this is an outdated ship". Instead its like a sitting duck...attracting ignorants like me who don't realize its of no use.
Again, maybe there's a fix, but I just realized after...all afternoon, really, that I need to revert to an earlier save to get the materials back from this. Hard not to find that pretty frustrating.

It's all Good :-) and thanks for adding it.

Thank you for the complement. and yes may may add it

I ran this through the Shop, and Made (In my option) Some major Positive changes to this ship.
Added several things Wireless, Shields, CPU Extenders, ect. Check it out at https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1944297791

Thanks Aaron. Yeah, I would have had one in it if there where in the game when this released. Most of my ships are in the same boat expect the newest ones. At some point I do want to go thru many of the older creations and get them up to alpha 10 spec. I am pretty sure a shield could be added somewhere but I would need to adjust things to make room for it. Thanks again!

need shields. love it

Hey.

Just an idea, in-stead of all these ott Fighters, like something from 40K, like the Manta or whatever, you really need a Drop-Ship...

I really think the small ones, including the little ones with the Rocket-Pods is enough, in-terms of actual Fighters, so yeah, if you can do that...it is just my opinion...hope it helps...

Thank you Foxtrot147!

Best SV if you plan on getting shot at. i test each Merc-Mx# with the Merc-MAV and this one stayed alive the longest. Very nice.

Thank you very much Payden!

I'm finding this one to be the perfect mix of size and firepower. After some interior decorating, hauling 11K cargo and ideal for raiding POIs, quick trip off-planet for some rare resources, servicing auto-miners. Great build!

@upfrontmanager, haha :) Thanks!

I use this GOMER...a lot. Poor thing looks like a cinder block from all my repairs, but it takes a n00b's mismanagement and hangs in there!

Thanks QventinT

фригидный? оскорбить пытаешься, воспринимай критику нормально.

Thanks Frigidman (lol) and QventinT!

протестировал основную линейку этих МС - только 1 модель с припиской прототип, более мение живучая. остальные ваншотятся в днище с левой стороны по центру. С первого залпа другой МС (4 орудия)
Чисто внешне конечно красиво собрано

You suck, everything you do is garbage, you should just stop trying .... ;) j/k man, you know I love it when you post something new.

@eyespeculum, haha. Well, Actually I did make 2 SV cargo ships I just haven't released them yet. Planning on it this weekend. In my workshop under the screen shots tabs I do have pictures of them as well as a new WIP CV. :) Thanks again!

Sorry, that should be "an alpha 9 cargo SV" yet.

Thank goodness you haven't made an alpha 9 cargo ship yet. That's forced me to actually look at other creator's designs! Another awesome ship from my go-to shipwright!

@SullyEnza, lol!

dont worry. ill sub to it, make a bathroom.. move 2 other blocks, adjust one texture, add a couple LCD's and re-upload it as my own like so many others seem to do =) I GOT YOU JR.

Thanks hankberube!

again another great mod pal and concrats on one of ur mods making it in to the default game

Thank you Pickle, Commander Shadow, Enchanter Tim, SullyEnza, CrazyZ, and Gene R! @SullyEnza, dam, forgot about that! ;) I guess go out the back! lol. @Gene R, This was actually built over the MX8. It grew slightly in size thou, mainly to get a bit more interior room for a cargo extenders. Armor wise, it should be close in most places and the front cockpit area has more. All the thrusters areas have a wall of blocks surrounding them before reaching inside the ship just as the MX8 had. I hope that helps. Thanks again all!

How sturdy is it compared to the good old MX8? Seems like it has a bit less armor.

Awesome as always. And nice fleet shots!

no bathroom?! wtf JR.

Very cool! Interior reminds me of a ship I made recently. With the outer and inner cockpit. Gives you a survivability option. Nice tweaks.

Great work once again! Can't wait to try it out.

I love to see what people do with the destroyed small vessel from the mine field.

Thanks Loki_McNeil! Yeah, this is not a PVP ship. Moving forward if the CPU becomes a standard in the game, I am not sure how feasible PVP ships will be. There are a lot of restrictions and moving a tough heavy ship around will not be very easy to do at all. I would like to make a high end PVP or close to MX ship beyond the MX18 someday, but even that ships is so far past CPU limits (56000K out of 7500 max) that something like it simply could not work. It however is my toughest SV to date and has both a secure internal cockpit as well as a standard 1st cockpit. Thanks again!

On any other game, this looks like a nice fighter. Great modeling job, and likely a great PVE fighter design. I personally like the ability to see normally through the cockpits, but PVP doesn't allow this given that your cockpit would be the first thing people shot.

Thank you Lee Andrew, Bonedog, rollins_allen, and jmol123 :)

- Great.

Almost hit "Start Blueprint" on your MX-Prototype, but I'm going to take this one out for a spin. Keep up the great work, the game is great but I must say it's you outstanding builders that keep up a big portion of my motivation to play.

Sweet update to the 9 Jeff!

Love it, and the timing too, just last night i was looking for a new SV that has more capacity and a view, mainly to scout and empty auto miners. Perfect!

Thanks Myrmidon, Zero, Apollyon, and Madnesis! @Myrmidon, Good point. I do keep meaning to add a top door (drone hatch) but I normally run into space issues with the design. This ship was actually a redo of the aging MX8. I actually started with that ship, but ended up replacing nearly everything on it but a few blocks and some thruster positions. I will keep that in mind with future SV's. When I had time to play the game (Before the building addiction lol), I lost more SV's do to drone attacks while it was parked outside a POI and was looting inside than anything else. So I tend to worry about the thickness of the roof some. But I admit, I didn't even think about adding one on this ship. Thanks again all!

Thank you, Noeru, and urialia! I really appreciate the comments! @Noeru, Yes the game does look much better than before. The screen shots are unaltered in game shots however I do resize them (reduce the resolution for steam posts) The monitor I have does 3440x1440 and I need to grab a part of the screen shot to keep the aspect ratio to 16x9 normally at 1280x720 resolution. Sometimes I focus in on just an area of the total shot and use that. I also play with time of day and weather sometimes (creative mode). But besides that, these are un-altered game play shots. Thanks again!

It looks dope!

Beautiful! Personally I love these few but big thrusters on the SV-s.

Woah!!! Awesome!!!!

In my latest game I use among others Merc MX18 and now I will try this one. One thing I have noticed on your SVs and I have forgot to mention is that they luck entrance from the top. There are numerous situations that such and entrance is needed, since the player never exits the closed cockpits inside the cabin the SV might have.

I use in parallel, CrazyZ's latest SVs that they do have top entrance a couple of blocks just to allow the player to enter the cabin and not compromise hul integrity. I made one on MX18 and I must say you should consider starting installing top entrance on your SVs. I have taken both yours and his SVs under heavy fire and the top, due to position, does not get under fire too much, especially if you are careful when engaging the enemies.

Good work though and once again thumbs up from me. Thank you for sharing her.

solid combat vessel! really nice work!