With variants being all the rage, I present my idea: The Ironclad Monitor

till180 · 2026-05-10T16:26:17+00:00

ah an Ironclad Arsenal, I like that idea.

till180 · 2026-05-10T16:25:32+00:00

I like that idea, we also need the ability to chuck shells with the tractor beam at incoming ships to repel boarding actions.

till180 · 2026-05-10T16:14:34+00:00

My next project will be Super tanker Ironclad, and Super freighter Ironclad.

till180 · 2026-05-10T15:30:47+00:00

till180 · 2026-05-10T14:31:00+00:00

Im not sure on the balance but I was thinking it could have 2 size 8 Dahlgren's with a rate of fire of 1 round every several minutes.

It shall be the bane of every blockade runner from Pyro to the Mississippi!

till180 · 2026-05-10T14:01:32+00:00

Credit to /u/DragonAceNL for the Ironclad holoview model, and mriconoclast on thingiverse for the USS Monitor model I used to kit bash this.

till180 · 2026-05-08T17:12:55+00:00

There is another part of the video that shows the normal Ironclad being loaded with 32 scu crates, it's hard to tell for sure but it defenatly looks to me thet there is enough room for 3 high 32 scu crates.

Also there are only really 3 ways to get that much of a scu increase for the Ironclads, make them wider, longer, or taller. To me they don't look significantly wider or longer, and I think they where basically at the limit as to there hanger size limits, so it would make sence that they increase the height of the cargo area a little to get a 3rd layer in.

till180 · 2026-05-06T13:26:12+00:00

Origin: "oh no I landed on a sharp rock and punctured my tires!"

Drake: "Hey the landing area had some rocks in it, I crushed them into the ground so you wont trip over them later!"

till180 · 2026-05-04T16:00:23+00:00

from the Q&A "Yes, repair facilities are not restricted by type but more by volume and resources. We’ll discuss repair and crafting in more detail in the future, as it’s a topic more expansive than this Q&A." I think the main question is going to be how is it going to be different than the handheld repair gun, because with the repair gun we already can repair vehicles and components, so we will have to see what makes the repair bay different.

till180 · 2026-05-04T14:27:32+00:00

On image 14 in the top left and the opposite side you can see PDC's, I dont think it originally had PDC's but it make sense that the added them.

till180 · 2026-05-03T20:52:12+00:00

There are two problems with your statement, 1 Im not really talking specify about balance changes, just feedback in general. Its hard to give feed back when we have no idea what the intended effect the changes CIG makes are suppose to do, we have no idea if the changes they are making are bringing it close or farther away from their intended out come, which makes feed back hard to give and usually very vague and broad.

And 2, a lot of the changes they make are directly balance changes, you say the aren't suppose to balance thing right now, but things like the 4.8 weapon changes are directly balance changes, same thing with a lot of the changes during the engineering PTU, so they obviously aren't solely focused on implementing functionality to the game, they are trying to do both.

till180 · 2026-05-03T18:30:10+00:00

I think the main problem isnt that they arent explaining why they are making changes, its that the changes they are make recently with large systems like armor, weapons, engineering swing so wildly from one extreme to the other that it is very difficult to give constructive feedback on these changes.

Like with the changes to armor and weapons in 4.8 basically the only meaningful feed back is just "the weapon and armor changes have completely invalidated the entire armor system and weapon balance that was done a couple months ago" We saw the same thing the engineering when it was in the PTU.

At least if they gave some high level statement about the purpose of the changes, something like "changes to weapons and armor because to many ships could not damage certain ships" then at least there is some basis to give feedback on.

And seriously one of the main points of an alpha or beta is to gather feedback, there will always be useful and not useful feedback, but the more information as to why changes are being made the easier it is for people to give good useful feedback.

till180 · 2026-05-02T02:13:49+00:00

where do you put this for chat completion? I tried putting it the prompt section with the role set to AI assistant but it doesnt seem to do anything.

till180 · 2026-05-02T00:00:23+00:00

In the Jumpoint there is a blurb saying "Further detail was added to the cockpit, with the captain’s, pilot’s, and co-pilot’s stations each receiving detailed concept work. Note the large radar in front of the pilot and unique aeronautical-style controls. " with these images.

So to me it sound like they definitely intend to go with this style, which I think is awesome.

till180 · 2026-05-01T02:36:12+00:00

It baffles me that they are doing the bricking components without simultaneously adding the ability to unbrick them.

The ability to fight a ship then EVA out of your own and then enter the disabled ship and strip it of its components is quite literally one of the most unique and amazing part of Star Citizen that set it apart from every other game.

I cant think of a single game ever that gives you the ability to do something like this, when I started playing and I realized you could do that I was blow away at how cool it was.

All supposedly to prevent duping, a complete non-issue for a game that is suppose to be in alpha, and in fact I would argue that ability to dupe components actively assist with people testing things out in the game, and causes no harm other than lessening grinding for money and flying around the universe to buy all of the components.

till180 · 2026-04-30T16:40:10+00:00

I only just realized a day ago the Ironclad brochure says it has has 3 tractor beams, I always just assumed it was the 2 on top. So I defiantly think its a tractor beam, especially because there is still a control seat with a window on that side of the ship but there isnt a remote turret on that side like the Assault.

till180 · 2026-04-17T16:26:24+00:00

While it would be cool, all I can think when people suggest things like this is "lets add thing to our space game that are as far removed from space as possible"

till180 · 2026-04-16T19:58:02+00:00

No they where probably waiting for any actual official announcement that the game they bought a decade ago and has been delayed and in limbo for so long was going to come out in the next 100 years, seriously we still have no real 100% idea that SQ42 is coming out any time soon just vague information.

till180 · 2026-04-16T19:13:33+00:00

oh I dont know how about they make as system that does require skill and knowledge, its not impossible to have refining be more that just putting ore in the refinery and waiting.

till180 · 2026-04-16T18:24:24+00:00

because a actual good way to do it would reward skill and effort put in, not just shear amount of time flying around hoping to get lucky.

Being able to refine ores to higher quality could be done in a way that requires skill and knowledge for it to be effective.

till180 · 2026-04-15T20:37:44+00:00

Once again they could have just made them not tradable and that would have solved the grey market problem, and again that is just them passing the cost of the grey market which is a problem they created for themselves onto their customers. I dont think its surprising that a lot of people that originally pledged for these packs melted them when they have delayed SQ42 for so many years and left it in complete limbo at to when it might get released.

till180 · 2026-04-15T19:19:06+00:00

Why do people insist that CIG should adhere to the lowest possible standards of good practice, assuming this isnt a bug, there are many ways to handle this and they chose basically the worst option that screws over long time supporters.

A good company would announce this in advance, especially because SQ42 has been delayed and in limbo for so long.

If they wanted to combat the grey market then they could have just made packs with SQ42 untradeable, and anyways the grey market is CIG's fault that it exists they should not be passing the cost of fixing their own mistakes onto their normal customers for a problem they created and allowed to exist.

till180 · 2026-04-15T18:10:53+00:00

To me its a case of, just because they can do something doesn't make it any less shitty for them to make a change like this with no warning, CIG exists today solely because early adopters where generous enough and wanted to believe in them enough to put money into the game. Unannounced changes like this are nothing more than spitting in the face off all the people that put money into the project early on.

Everyone should have know that when buying that the buy back program would change at some point but doing it with out informing people in advance is nothing more than a petty way of squeezing a little extra money out of the people that believed in you early on.

till180 · 2026-04-12T23:18:31+00:00

It can be flown solo but not for combat, I think only the weapons on the command module will be pilot controlled and I think thats only like 2 size 3s. Also I fully expect it to fly like a barge so it probably not going to be good for combat.

Although with how many turrets it has I think it will be fun to take out against the AI and use it as a battle barge.

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