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IW Ranger AM

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Blueprint: Capital Vessel

Custom: Airtight

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IceWolfen Vanilla Fleet

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Description

Made for XCaliber's Anvil - August designers challenge. "Build a CPU Tier1 CV"

A very economic CV made to operate from a base or a large CV. It does have a WARP drive, but the intended use is within a solar system. Made in carbon composite, but does have a T2 shield for protection.

I have been using it for 4-5 days on my server and really enjoy flying it, agile and easy to find landing spot. I used it mainly for scouting on a new planet and emptying auto miners in the solar system where i currently have my main CV. Was even on a planet with 4.14G and collected two sathium, one pentaxid and one promethium deposit in one run.

The front is a made in a way that allows you to enter with a HV and dock it to the roof. There is also a SV deck on the roof.

Easy to upgrade to T2. By removing shower and WC you get full access to the inner hull.
And all the thrusters are small, but there is room to replace them with medium.
Only thing keeping it from being lvl 10 is the shield, replace or downgrade if needed.

Two mini gun turrets and two sentry guns takes care of the drones and enemies around the deposits.

No need for dedicated drone hatch, just deploy the drone and fly out the boarding ramp.

152Ksu cargo storage (can be expanded when upgrading)
14Ksu ammo/cargo box

If you find something i should change or fix, please let me know in the comment :)

IceWolfen
My workshop: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/id/icewolfen/myworkshopfiles/?appid=383120

I sometimes stream building and gameplay on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/icewolfen

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icewolfen [author] 9 Aug, 2020 @ 7:07am

If you downgrade the shield, you will get more CPU to play with, and you can put in constructor, food processor and stuff :) I see what you mean, constant repair of early game SV is a part of the game. Hope it turns out good with your rebuild :)

Tarsis 9 Aug, 2020 @ 5:07am

Hm. it *is* 15. I swear up and down I checked it 3 times and it was 25.
I may have dementia.
15 is perfectly acceptable, lol.

I often find myself in game settings where there just isn't enough resources to make a T2 CV on my starting planet, and the enemies are way too dangerous for a SV without a shield to even risk hunting for materials abroad. (or sometimes the SV shield is gone so fast, it could well not exist)

I prefer my CV to come without growplots these days. I'd rather add them later, or hope for a large space to stuff an IW Modular growplot!

icewolfen [author] 9 Aug, 2020 @ 2:04am

@Charlie Bravo glad u like it :) and @Tarsis Thank you! Actually, i did build it as a lvl 10 starter first, with t1 shield, constructor and grow plots. The reason i went with unlock lvl 15 on this build is because i feel CPU T1 is to low for a starter CV. And i don't like to publish vessels i never would use my self. So instead i went for a special purpose CV. If i should use this as a starter myself i would upgrade it to T2 and fill it with way more stuff. I might do a starter edition of this later on.

Tarsis 8 Aug, 2020 @ 8:42pm

It's nice, but a lvl 25 T1 CV seems at odds with itself to me. You *do* remind us it is the shield, which I'll downgrade to try it out as more of a starter CV. There are enough drones around now that going shieldless is crazy talk though.

Always happy to see more IW works in my lineup.