Thank you very much R. Bennett :) Very smart remake you did! Good idea to remove the warp, when your CV has warp anyway.

I must admit this is a SUPER SV!!! Im still on starter planet and dont have much Erestrum for plasma weapons, so went into creative, just made a couple changes. Needed to take POIs out, so since she can dock with my CV to do the warping to other systems, removed that warp drive and removed the constructor and the plasma cannons..... Now.... I then added 2 more gatlins, 2 130 H-MSLs, and 2 Rail Guns, as they outrange most other weapons. I then took this Franken-Ruby into a test survival game and turned up the difficulty another notch harder than I ususally play. This lady TORE through a 3 base triangle setup easy peasy!!! She never got into structure, just backed her out to let shields regen when they got low and usually sniped out of THEIR range with the Rails! She is extremely agile and I really love how she has both internal AND external armored cocopit! Great mid game SV for me!

Great work ICEWOLFEN!

Thanks a lot R. Bennett :) This vessel helped me a lot with taking down POI's in early-mid game.

AWESOME!!! definintly gonna try this!!

I tried to upgrade the thrust more, but then the vessel got heavier, and i needed more thrust, an evil circle :P so i just kept it as a mid-late game multipurpose SV with extra reverse thrust and built the Diamond Star. I make sure they fit on my own CV's but there is a lot of CV's on the workshop and some like to make their own. Have fun playing, i highly recommend placing the T4 extentions under the fuel tanks in the cabin, if you remove the fuel tanks inside, and you get seriously hit, the other tanks might blow up and you fell down ;)

Thanks for the info. I found the Diamond star too long for the hanger bay on my CV, whereas the Red Berryl fits well, hence looking to upgrade it to T4

I have not done any changes to the thrust on the one i'm using in survival, but i have upgraded it to T4 to have more options on the weapons

@fantomas the weapons i have used the most is probably plasma for turrets and lasers when taking down shield on poi. But after i made the IW Diamond Star, i haven't really used the Red Berryl that much. The Diamond Star is able to handle more hits when the shield is down. The weapon choice depends on several things, in single player i might use railguns and rockets, but on a server where i experience lagging and it's harder to aim, i prefer plasma.

@Icewolfen you mentioned having upgraded this to a T4. Curious as to what weapon loadout you found works well and any other changes you ended up making.

@TalonofWindspeak If you like my work, i highly recommend IW Emerald as a starter CV and then IW Black Pearl MKII if your playing solo. I have a tank i'm considering publishing. i did take out a shielded drone base by parking my tank close to the POI and then jumped out to get killed, Respawned in my cv and jumped in my sv to take out the rest of the turrets. The tank took down the shield for me :P

Thx for this build got everything figured out. Went back to the original guns you had on there the plasma, gatling, with two rocket launchers for 10 total and this gets the job done! Keep up the great work. I need a CV next. Too complicated for me to build but I did build a tank and it worked on that POI base I had trouble with. That was the Zirax faction world base. I had to tunnel under it and drive my tank into the tunnel and have it hammer it for like 5 mins from underneath to blow up the shields. Once I blew the core on the base I got a message that I would no longer be attacked by Zirax on that world!

But if the POI you are trying to take out have a shield, i recommend being two people or use two vessels, maybe park a tank close to the POI and fly the SV. Taking advantage off the terrain is also a good tip, just hide when your shield is recharging. Some POI's have certain blocks that can't be destroyed without taking the core.

@TalonofWindspeak I have my Red Berryl upgraded to T4 and 10 weapons as well, it slows down a tiny bit, depending on types of weapon and ammo. some are heavier than others. But i still did take out a lot of POI's, i start with the red laser ones and take the green at the end, the SV can handle some beating after the shield is down and my CV with repair bay is parked nearby.
I just build a T4 fighter/cargo SV. I will do some more testing before it goes public, but so far it's looking good, taken out a lot of POI's on a 4G planet with no problem at all :)

Upgraded to 10 weapons and T4 - ship has slowed a lot. Probably due to weight issues? Still to new to this game - don't know what I'm doing - but it's hella o' lot of fun..

Tried my first Zirax POI and am having trouble. Was able to get 3 of the 5 pods down but the last two there is too much crossfire. Tthe installations are close together and shields are tough to get through to knock out even one turret. Going to need a tank, tried digging under and can't seem to damage the base at all. I have a handheld plasma canon now will go back and give that a try from underneath. Death to the Zirax!!!

Nice to hear TalonofWindspeak :) It's made for my play style in mid to end game scenarios. Have taken out a lot of POI's with it. But i highly recommend keeping the fuel tanks if upgrading to T4. When taking out a drone base, i have had a couple of beers, and forgot to pay attention to the shield, my ship went down :P I had to go to my CV and make a fuel tank so i could fly it to the repair bay. And then the drone base was defeated ;)

The use of extra forward thrusters is a really good idea - this ship maneuvers and brakes superbly. Being able to brake and turn quickly gives a big advantage in dogfights. I haven't tested it on POI turrets yet. Just started this game and been using a repaired UCH Dart I found it was -real slow but it got me around the solar system till I could get enough mats for your ship.

Thanks a lot @Ann|e Noa|m and @TalonofWindspeak. My next SV is probably gonna be a larger T4 SV with more even thrust, This is made for a special purpose and kept balanced below T3.

Dude, this looks awesome.. Love the thrusterhousing, shaping in general and also the colors. Thumbed!!

I was looking for something just like this. Highly effective and it looks great!

@dollarzer0 Thanks :)

Sweet look.