I like the interior of ST-1 more. I think it had more compact and practical layout but I understand some compensations must be made to allow for more functionality.

This is currently my CV on official NA. Loving this thing as a starter.

I am new to RE2 so im not sure if its not allowed but i cant even get this to show up in my library of ships at all

Has anyone else had trouble loading this since the last update?

Empyrion has a lot of interesting aspects. But obviously building cool ship and bases is the best part of the game. At least for me. I've spent hours and hours out in space building ships. Ridiculous time building bases. I played around with some other starter ship blueprints. This one really takes the cake. What a very thoughtful and wonderful ship this is. Well done. This is the type of ship that makes me want to scrap all of my design ideas and start over. You've got it all in a starter ship here. Plenty of storage, great mobility, massive room for farming and once you add a shield it can do pretty decent against some of the initial enemies. 5 Stars, my friend.

This was an ideal starter CV for me as a new (Vanilla) player. The upgrade instructions were clear, making the process relatively easy. Feature-wise I particular liked the quick entry and exit of the ship and the generous allotment grow plots. Adding the mining turrets transformed the ship into an asteroid mining powerhouse for relatively peaceful areas.

Once again, excellent boat. Took me a bit to find where to plop the shield, but its really well done! Makes a very good early game "home ship" to live out of while grinding up for combat centered ships.

Where to put LR radar?

Just brought mine in and very impressed. I put the shield and enough solar on to make it server viable without fuel beforehand in creative and she’s good to go. It even flies for free if I turn the guns off. Tyvm, another bewdy

Honestly, JRandall, I loved the Ascension, but this MIGHT even be better! I truly love your builds. P.S. Thanks for making your builds Vanilla as well as Reforged...

This is a fantastic starter CV. It's easy to spawn in and has the right amount of storage/building/farm to get you off to a solid start. The ability to add 6 mining lasers will have you keeping it around as your industrial/backup CV as you move onto the next ship.

@Crimson Alpha, your refit of the Janus sounds perfect, can you DM it to me as well?

This CV is fantastic, as a new player i'm still learning and alot of CV are confusing lol, the upgrade sheet and placement marks are brilliant. Thank you

This looks great. Perfect all around CV to get started. Can't wait to use it. Once 1.10 comes out with new blocks, maybe Trebuchet 2 ??

I mean labeled in the LCD's

Jeff, your container controllers are labeled 320k but in RE when I spawn them, they are all in fact 200k in size.

To answer your question, there are a few things I look for in a starter CV. I want it to be able to do everything. So mining, salvaging and carrying any SV/HVs that I need up to a 9-core. I also want it to be able to take on weaker (non-shielded) POIs. So having quite a few turret placements on the bottom is preferred. The most important thing to me is efficiency. So being able to use mostly Advanced Thrusters with maybe a few Large is huge. Not to mention max solar (though I saw that you don't want to include those because of RE2). Besides all of that, having at least 1 harvest and 3 other cargo plus a good sized ammo bay would be good.
If you want, I can show you what I turned your Janus into (because I added a lot of what I mentioned). Just DM me.

Cool ship! Just built this as my starter CV, with the suggested add-ons including upgraded CPUs, added generators and T2 repair bay. One small problem: when I try to repair the MERC-MX5E to plan, there is a message: "Area Blocked. Repair template does not fit into available space!" Can you help me fix this?

Thank you Adam's WOG and Montymantis! :)

Another cracker from JR, but like I tell Lyfeforse all the time, you need to make a green Mantid version

Love all your designs, it seems I always end up with one of your ships, only thing I would say it is missing are solar panels! I'm playing on a Anvil server so there is no pause button and sometimes I can't play for few days so for me solar is very important so food and plants don't die.

Thank you Foxlinger and Michael Ian Hammond eco!

A bit FAB in look the Thunder Rumble - painted green

The original Wayfarer was one of my favorite starting CVs, can't wait to get the new version into a game. Your designs are great as always!

Thank you Bolt Marine, PcProz, spyroqueen, and wahnika135! :)

very nice base ship

very nice cv

Another great ship! Can't wait to bring it into my game. I love starter CV's that allow upgrades so you don't have to trade them in so soon!

Awesome! The attention to detail is spectacular. Also, it is so nice to have the designer's thoughts in detail as to how you envision it being upgraded. Knowing where add-on items can be placed takes the guess work out of it, and limits the chances I could accidentally mess up the performance specs. Keep up the good work. It is SO much fun just walking though your creations after I spawn them.

Thank you Sordros and Crimson Alpha! @Sordros, I did think about solar however solar on CV's are going away in Reforged Eden 2 and I didn't really have any good places to put them. I guess you could use the air tight versions and for the floor and ceiling around the hangar area. @Crimson, I am just curious on what upgrades you want? I am just curious and have something to think about on future builds. And thanks again all!

Maaaan if only it had more upgrade-ability. I would be all over it. I am still using your Janus as my starter because I haven't found anything better.

how about adding in solar panels to help with the power??? a friend of mine did that to the janus n now we get a solar janus around lvl 10 that has 4x320k storage plus ammo storage around 200k!!!

Thank you Insopor, Pops_Place, Fasalrod, and Fractalite! @Insopor, yep lol. @Fasalrod, I am not a fan of making ships out of carbon myself however it can give you a serious cargo increase do to weight reduction for low CPU creations that can't afford more/bigger thrusters. If the ship was built of steel, I believe I would have to cut the cargo by nearly 40-50% and it would also be slower in all directions. I really wanted to put a shield in stock, but the standard shield requires Zac/Est and I didn't want that to be required on a starter. The other option would be to put in a smaller RE shield that doesn't require those resources however that would have made it not compatible with Vanilla. So I left a shield out entirely but stress that you want to add a shield asap. @Insopor, lol. Yep, not the ships for PVP. :) And thanks again all!

I will never turn down a good starter CV.

This is really nice. When I made my Venture I wanted to combine the aspects of your Wayfarer 1 and Ascention ISV into one ship, especially the spot for a shield at T2 CPU as I didn't find the rares for it in my previous game. My detailing and paint scheme isn't so great and it ended up longer than I wanted and forgot to add spots for mining drills, but your new Wayfarer fixes those. I suppose a captain's room would have to wait until the next big ship.

With carbon I'd have to be real careful about fights until the first bits of rare ores. That's also a LOT of carbon, which I assume is for weight because it seems a lot faster to salvage for steel than to mine stone and crush into carbon.

Looks really good and very well thought out, thank you for a great starter CV!

Nice.
I can't wait to see players foolishly taking this thing into PvP spaces so I can blow it up.

... just like its predecessor. :)

Thank you lyken4 and Noob! :)

Great ship. Looks like a fantastic update of the first

very cool ship !!

Thank you ProcyonLotor!

Awesome Starter !