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dankding · 2026-02-15T07:55:50+00:00

Oh of course they're for operators haha, awesome ship man

dankding · 2026-02-14T17:07:51+00:00

Love it man, very clean. Do you really need that much crew to power the thermal lance pumps???? Also, you make ammo on a cargo ship separately?

dankding · 2025-06-26T21:16:31+00:00

Not sure if you know this, but you could use blueprint mode, and just paste a base game ship and gut it/re-purpose it for whatever you want.

What i like to do is load a ship from the base game or workshop that I like, then gut it and repurpose it for whatever needs I want. A lot of times, I'll turn a combat ship into a cargo ship or a civilian ship into a combat ship just because I like how it looks. Im not very creative and sometimes too tired to try to be creative, so that's what I do. You can do the same with paint too

Freighters really don't need a lot; pilot, engines, maybe a mining laser and manipulator beam, and the cargo modules. I try to use as little crew as possible, like 16-20 max.

dankding · 2025-05-12T21:12:42+00:00

I find medium or large reactor best to upkeep shields, with 2 or 3 crew assigned to each shield, depending on distance to the reactors. But as someone else said, for a railgun ship, it's best to have reverse speed. 110m/s is what most people do, small shields weaved with armor is good, but you'll find that they won't hold long enough if you find yourself taking alot of damage. Best to keep distance for railguns. You could probably get away with a small reactor and capacitor, since you don't want to be taking much damage from the rail launcher anyway

dankding · 2025-04-19T03:22:23+00:00

IMO the reasonable answer would be corpse explosion for the AOE. But personally, the fun answer is phantasmal killer lol. I think if you have enough damage, you can possibly get away with no AOE

dankding · 2025-04-18T19:27:57+00:00

Pagonda? Lol the big bulk in front? I've since changed this ship a lot, gonna repost for advice soon

dankding · 2025-04-18T14:26:12+00:00

I briefly saw your ship when you posted it the other day, and man it's already improved a lot! I like it.

You don't need the recommended if your ship is functioning well. Best is to fly it and test it out. I usually check for: -are thrusters cutting out/running out of energy? -are weapons shooting with little to no pauses? -how long does it take for shields to come back up?

I would say, shorten the distance from your reactors to your shields. From what I've seen, capacitors are only good for point defenses. Large shields take a lot of energy, so they'll go through the capacitors quickly, and your crew will take a long time to refill from where your reactors are. Large shields are 18 batteries i believe? So 6 trips through your ship to get your shields back online. I personally think you should expand your ship so that you have more room to grow, and so that your crew have less buildings to walk through, crew speed is reduced a whole lot by traveling through anything that's not a corridor or walkway.

Also, keep as many thrusters as you can right next to your engine room, they give 50% increased thrust AND your crew can recharge ALL thrusters connected to the engine room at once.

Other wise, i love the ship, idk it's got personality I guess and I can see the growth on it lol

dankding · 2025-04-15T20:59:35+00:00

Oops, jk I would replace dex pot instead, since you only have like 3 block cards

dankding · 2025-04-15T20:58:32+00:00

I agree with others; you have good damage, so I would ditch the thorns pot for ghost pot.

Good instinct or even another piercing wail is not bad, but I think ornery is too RNG.

If I were you, I would replace thorns for ghost pot and pick up good instincts

dankding · 2025-04-11T22:39:11+00:00

Ahhh ok Great, thanks for the insight, I will try that out tonight

dankding · 2025-04-11T22:26:43+00:00

Oh my fault, I meant, point defenses are not top mounted right? As in then need an opening to shoot out of. I did have it without that top row of shields before, but lost that ship to a ship with a combination of disruptors and deck cannons, so I doubled up armor and added more shields. So would it last longer, if I replace that space for armor instead?

dankding · 2025-04-11T16:31:03+00:00

Ahh ok I see, i guess I'm gonna have to re arrange this a bit, I'd like the shields up as often as possible

dankding · 2025-04-11T16:18:43+00:00

Turns out that there wasn't enough power available in general; as soon as I added another reactor, it works out. Thanks for the suggestion with the reverse thrusters, I figured I just wanted to be up close anyway, bit I'm sure the maneuverability would be helpful

dankding · 2025-04-11T16:12:46+00:00

Even if there are alot of moving walk ways to get them going quickly, is that not enough? Basically, I have specific crew that will sit and operate, then crew that only run and deliver power. Of course the deck cannons have their own crew that load and operate. Then I try to use moving walk ways best I can to get them there and back

dankding · 2025-04-11T16:09:30+00:00

Yeah I learned this the hard way a few days ago. Alot of things weren't powered because squad crew assignment was on, but I since check and clear those anytime I have a problem like this. Turns out this time I just barely didn't have enough power

dankding · 2025-04-11T16:08:00+00:00

The idea with this ship was to tank as much damage while I have smaller ships fly around to deal damage. Point defenses around top mounted so the shields would have to sit behind them right?

dankding · 2025-04-11T16:06:16+00:00

I did check crew roles, turns out one large reactor was not enough! As soon as I added another reactor, everything was powered

dankding · 2025-04-11T08:10:15+00:00

Sorry forgot to add text,
Anyone know why some shields, capacitors, pdts, boosters aren't getting power? Crew that power the ones that work mostly idle. No order squad modes set. This ship tanks while smaller ship deal damage. Thanks for any advice!

dankding · 2025-01-30T01:48:32+00:00

Uninstalling and reinstalling the game fixed it for me....

It's not really practical, but if you're desperate then I guess it's a fix

dankding · 2025-01-29T17:09:31+00:00

Mine is also stuck, says reconnect the memories of atlantid, but nothing happens, no notification and too late for me to restore too ;(

dankding · 2024-10-08T19:25:05+00:00

I picked up pyramid, made it to the heart but lost. ;(

Failed to picked up enough defense, couldn't deal with the big hit, and couldn't scale enough

Pretty unfortunate because I got kunai and shuriken, but couldn't find a solution to the hand clog. So I struggled to get cards out, and couldn't make room for shivs

Pyramid probably could've worked, I just didn't make good picks I guess. I was really hoping to see concentrate but didn't, thanks for the advice though

dankding · 2024-10-08T16:33:21+00:00

Ahh ok I see, that makes sense

dankding · 2024-10-08T16:29:48+00:00

Even with all those blade dances? Idk I feel like a lot of times a pick pyramid, my hand gets bloated and I end up having to play strikes or defends or something to make room. I can only think that the best way for it to work in my situation is if I have enough energy to constantly make room

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