idk why but when you use it for your self you can do hyperjumps

gj

Whew ! I had this ship downloaded for a while, but I just got around to fighting it now. I didn't have any 1.5 mil ships, so I first tried it against one of my 1.3 mil ships. First time mine won, and the two next rounds had yours win. It's a shame that the ai sucks at using broadsiders, my ship didn't roll its armor at all!!!

With that out of the way I designed a quick deck cannon/large cannon ship w a few EMP missiles, and it beat the ES consistently off the get go. I will note, designing the ship took a bit longer than I'd thought it would because I didn't want to cheese it with a direct counter like nuke spam, flanking, or any form of kite that the AI sucks at fighting, but it was a good fight in the end regardless!

Unfortunately I have no clue how to post images on steam, so you'll either have to take my word for it or track me down on the Discord lmao.

Lifelore hosted an AI tournament featuring this ship. It's a pretty fun watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5cA7SnbBTo

How many flaks are needed to shoot down a single nuke? I've never seen them shoot one down that is already speeding towards you. Flaks seem kind of broken in general. They often don't shoot, even if they could.

Yeah, most of the things i make have a bit of flak down the sides for any looping missiles, they are the only thing that can reliably take out nukes (dozens of tests against the awful Voluntas in game launching 24 at a time).

Ion ships always tend to fire straight down the middle so a solid armour spine is one of my go-to starting points, can really nullify all those expensive credits for a while to let your weapons go to work.

Simple, brutal & effective. But you probably didn't need the 4 Flaks, right? Did they shoot down some nukes?

Nice design, don't usually do small ships so was a difficult one, settled on keeping it simple and just outgunning with armour providing more bang for buck on defence.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888374056

Haha same to you. This was tough, one round of those nukes instantly vaporizes one of my poor ships so I just had to hope they could get around behind it and start breaking stuff up. I let the AI do all the fighting in the interest of fairness. Aaand... my De Laine class frigate is pretty powerful, but has an ammo consumption problem so they weren't able to actually break the last parts of it, but it was dead and disabled anyway.

Nicely done tn44.

weird...

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888154873
Cool ship! Cool challenge idea as well.

I changed nothing about the offensive capabilities though.

in my tests the new one cant destroy the old one.

Just updated it thanks to a few good suggestions from PyroMancer. It is now faster, has a weakpoint patched up with a shield and is even surprisingly a tiny bit cheaper. ^^

@m4rcus: Yeah, the challenge is a bit too easy since I had to cut thrust to get it under 1.500.00$ and the range nerf on top of that. I'll update it so that it can actually get in range most of the time.

@SimianChaos: Yep, that'll do it. Very specialized ship. Nice.

@dark elf wizard: thx

cool ship

Here's my solution. Made it last night before the update. Will make a new one
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887636612

Update: The Ion range nerf apparently hit right after I got done building this. So the challenge is now to beat it up close. xD

read: can you tank nukes and ion until you reach the control room? :<

Huh. You have some shield placements that I find incredibly intriguing and never even occurred to me. Great job as always.

good idea!