Yeah, I've noticed. Unfortunately, in retrospect I'm not sure if I want to live in a universe with myself. It tends to involve a lot of planetary bombardments and front-loaded missile volleys that are rather hard to fight against. I'm trying to use a different strategy than usual in this game, but it's proving rather ineffective against my own old ships :D

It is not a min/max design. This design is more of a flavor design. Given that Stardrive AI uses your designs for ships, you create the universe that you want to fight in.

That doesn't strike me as a very useful design. The armor is a bit weak, and lots of space is wasted on power conduits and bulwarks that won't do much anyway (if those bulwarks are taking damage, you're already dead). If you ever need more than two tiles of conduit, just build a new small reactor with a single piece of conduit next to it. Additionally, try to avoid putting all your big guns at the front. While it looks cool, you risk losing all of them in the initial exchange of fire against other capital ships. Put them along the sides (inside the armor) and they'll be much better protected, while freeing up frontal room for more plating.

Just a tip for getting power to your weapons (e.g. on the front). Instead of using lines of power conduits from your main engineering, you could use a single small reactor on the edge of the Internal and one power conduit. That would have freed up 9 spaces, though there is a downside in that if the front gets demolished the reactors will blow.

Great tutorial helped me build my ship :D

Sure I could do a couple different ones, I will work on another one this weekend.

Love the tutorial, gave me a great understanding of the ship building mechanic. Any chance you will do other models?

useful tutorial, but try speeding the footage up in post production with some comentary over the sped-up footage. keep up the good work!

Yeah, I would have liked to have taken it into battle too. The game crashed at the end of the video though and so the design was lost. There were a lot of choice words said off camera lol.

I liked the video but I would like to see it in battle working. Show the desgin in a battle