That nuclear torpedo doesn't work well, but this ship is a pretty cost effective one, oddly enough.

yea i can make that work. Let me know if you want it as a single or double gun and how much engine power you have spare for rail juice when you send her over.

Actually they'll probably be closer to 7x7x5, I can private upload the hull when it's done so you can see

I've looked over your stuff and I like it, the next ship will likely be running 7x7x7 guns at around 120-180mm gauge guns

hmm. maybe take a quick gander at the acadia and floria and see if you like what you see. Could make a pretty mean 7x7x7 or 9x9x8 rail gun which id consider to be pretty small. add me up

I'll say that at 2200 hours in, small APS is not very fun to make, I've gotten very particular with my guns. If you design some solid small APS that you think would fit let me know. I've done some work with other players before and it always works out well. I mostly wish I could fit some massive guns (if you look at my old throne ship which no longer works) into my ships, but the build style is infuriatingly limited. I'm optimistic that I can get some big guns in the fortresses for the campaign.

hmm i see your point with your ships being narrow for FTD standards. I have a lot of time sunk into design and testing aps . It's probably the thing i have the most fun with. Let me know if you'd be interested in a bit of a collab where I build you a couple aps guns

I completely agree, I've always felt somewhat limited by the general time frame my builds are based around. I'm likely shifting to a slightly more APS based system. There will likely be a laser ship at some point. My biggest issue with large APS is finding a ship that it would fit in or make sense with. I'll try to take your advice on future vehicles and completely agree.

Hey! Love your collection. My critique would be that you rely on missiles too often as a main source of damage output. Many of your ships feel the same having CIWS aps guns with a missile battery. Maybe try using a laser offensively instead of defensively or a bigger aps gun to shake things up a bit. Cheers!

That's not a bad thing I say, it means the ship designs stay consistent with each other so they really look like they're part of the same faction, like how the neter factions have similar designs.

Also I didn't even notice the crazy little NUCLEAR TORPEDO under it. I didn't read the description and got a wicked surprise when I tested it against a Norge, the whole ship hopped out of the water when it hit!

Thanks! A lot of it comes down to the fact that I have a lot of pre-designed parts that I reuse and have plans lined up for the next ship or two already in the works. I'll say that most of the time goes into decorating the ship still though. The next ship will probably be a while as I'll likely need some time to set up the mimics for it.

Dude you churn these out like it's nothing and somehow the quality never diminishes!

thanks

It varies for every ship, I like to layer alloy and metal just because I don't like using props or hydrofoils to stay up (even though I often need to use them). I always use stone and HA for the ai compartment and HA for the ammo. I usually try to have one air gap layer as well for heat unless I'm trying to make heat a counter. Usually I try to make the base of a ship at least two layers thick with the side armor taking up a little less then half the width of the ship

What is your armor setup on your ships ?