This is the ship that will pierce the heavens!

[Edymnion]

So I've gotten underway building my new capital ship, and all good ships need some nose art.

She's still not much more than a nose right now, but I can't think of any better dedication.



Just who the hell do you think I am?!?

 

[Rixxan]

Just who the hell do you think I am?!?

A man with a Very, Very big gun.

 

[Edymnion]

A man with a Very, Very big gun.

Nah, those are the medium ones. Each barrel is packing a half million damage lock-on torpedo. The studs are recessed point defense cannons, only one block taller than the hull.

Got 8 of those medium torpedo launcher turrets ringing the front of the ship, restricted to a 45 degree firing arc each so that the barrels can't as easily get in each other's way.

 

[Keptick]

If you want the ship to pierce the heavens it'll need to transform into a giant drill wielding mech:p . Nice sunglasses on the emblem btw.

*guren laggan referencing intensifies*

 

[Edymnion]

If you want the ship to pierce the heavens it'll need to transform into a giant drill wielding mech:p . Nice sunglasses on the emblem btw.

*guren laggan referencing intensifies*

Oh it will have drills...
I'm actually in the middle of revamping my design just to give it drills.

Gonna have to recruit a crazy little guy as a faction member who's job is just to wail on the FIRE! button.

 

[Keptick]

Oh it will have drills...
I'm actually in the middle of revamping my design just to give it drills.

Gonna have to recruit a crazy little guy as a faction member who's job is just to wail on the FIRE! button.

-hey, maybe we c...
-FIRE EVERYTHING!!!!

 

[jayman38]

 

[Admiralkio]

Row Row, fight da powah.

 

[Edymnion]

The more of this I build, the more I realize that I have lost my frigging mind to be building something this big.




Just turning the skeletal outline of that spinning ring on drops my framerate down to a third of normal. God help me when its fully blocked out.

Also now at 8 full sized docked reactors hidden inside of those lava tubes (you can just see the tails of the back set poking out), plus the 4 half sized ones in the head. At something like 550m long now, and once the ring is finished I'd say about halfway done.

Have I mentioned lately that I am crazy for building this?

 

[sayerulz]

Thats no moon....... It's way to big to be a moon!

 

[Edymnion]

So I turned the ring on for the first time and not only did my FPS plummet down to 15 from 150, but the entire player community in unison basically went "Lag from hell! Edy, what did you do?!?" as the server screamed in agony.

So apparently I have a new, unexpected ultimate weapon. I turn the spinning ring on and crash everyone's systems with the weight of it's shear awesomeness, and then blast them while they're trying to reboot.

 

[sayerulz]

Drat! Lag based weaponry is the only thing that could have countered my anti-titan ion frigate and bomber strategy!

 

[Unnamed25]

It looks cool!

Did you fill the whole ship already, or is still WIP?

 

[Edymnion]

It looks cool!

Did you fill the whole ship already, or is still WIP?

It's still a WIP.

Nose is done, the lag ring is mostly done, but the back end is still kicking my ass design wise.

I'm wanting to have a large drill on either side sort of like the Cathedral Terra, only not so spindly.


Thing is, I can't figure out yet how to get them in there.

I could mirror top and bottom, but I've done that 4x mirror twice now, and instead of feeling like a continuation of a unifying theme I feel like doing it again would just look lazy. So I want to keep the two drills only.

Don't want them centered down Z axis either though, so they're going to need a counter balance on top of some kind, while still giving it a nice butt that doesn't just kind of stop.

 

[Edymnion]

Alas, this ship has been despawned to a blueprint for being too much awesomeness for the server to handle.

I was slideshowing any time I brought a ship near my station, the server was getting almost nonstop Heavy Load warnings, etc, so I finally despawned it all into a blueprint. I can now move about freely without going to 1 FPS, and the server overall is much happier.

I guess I will have to wait on some capital ship optimizations to be made, or build a shipyard station specifically for it in a remote corner of the system so that I'm not constantly getting collision checks against it every time I run out to the corner market for a camera block.

Building a capital ship in the backyard of your main faction base? Convenient for when you need to run off 50k more blocks, not so much for anything else.

 

[CaptainTaz]

maybe try single player in creative mode? xD

 

[Edymnion]

maybe try single player in creative mode? xD

Been building a new station that will be big enough to house this thing (which I haven't worked on in quite a while now due to not being able to load it into a shipyard, and building in single player is boring with no one to talk to).