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hey kids, been a not-signed-up lurker for a bit, decided I'd show off a little now that I've got the hang of Starmade.
so first up, my still-sorta-WIP home base, The Rock:
(the 'wip' part is I'm working on converting the asteroid into Station without messing up the looks too much, a long and tedious process)
structurally, however, it's mostly complete, though I haven't got a crafting setup running on it yet (you can't see it, since it's parked a couple sectors over, but I built an ugly-as-sin Planet Cracker Salvage array to fund all this without crafting)
so, for power-
we have this Pylon array. the central pylon is nothing but reactors, a set of six 3x3x3 cubes stacked together. the pylon on the right is identical in size, but is 1/2 powerplant and 1/2 Capacitor. the left pylon with the turrets on it is a stack of three 3x3x3 cubes of Shield Regenerators, while the one behind it is filled with Shield Capacitors in an identical configuration.
the turrets are lightly shielded Dual Lasers with four laser blocks each (arranged into twin 2-block cannons) and are entirely reliant on the station for power.
to cover the other aspect, there are three of these Missile batteries, which have twin 2x2x2 missile blocks, decent shielding, and a small amount of on-board power generation and storage. (there's a third one on the very tip of the 'roid that isn't visible in this picture)- here's a closeup of the business end of those batteries:
the big killer, though, is this baby:
for reference, that cannon goes back into the turret housing for three blocks. it is 12x3x3. can you say PAIN?!
it's so large it even has an interior housing:
yeah.
on the actual base interior, all I've added thus far is a good-sized cargo crate and the computer core:
which has most of the station's important gubbins, like the Build block, plex undethinator, and Faction module. once I have more of them, I plan to add some additional display screens for notes and such- the one now is a 'systems readout' that's really my 'to-do' list for the base. it's got full gravity, blast doors (which I also use on my turrets to get at the AI module) fully enclosed enviroment etc- I haven't finished making a proper airlock for it quite yet, so it's still unpressurized like most of my craft, but it does okay.
speaking of craft!
this is a Light Tug I put together for pushing asteroids around. it's got slots for two 1x1x8 weapons (currently sporting a Repair beam and Salvage Beam) and light shields, though I wouldn't take it into combat. excellent thrust profile- it can quite comfortably push the asteroid around which The Rock is built.
my current main ship, however, is the Black Manta, into which I've dumped all the Black Advanced Armor I could find:
as you can see, she's got three turret mounts, currently sporting those light laser turrets and a missile battery, as well as a towhook on the tail for small things like cargo pods or turrets. she's got two cannons and two lasers, decent shielding, and a fair bit of power to throw around. future upgrades will include steath/EWAR systems to make her a proper sneeky git to run around in.
she's got a small cockpit interior, nothing too fancy:
that's it as far as 'nice-looking' ships go, the only other one is my Planet Cracker, which is literally just a gigantic plate of Salvage Beams (offset on the diagonals so as to have LOTS of beams rather than one Superbeam) a truly ludicrous number of reactors to power it, and some thrusters. sure, it looks like crap and dies if you even sneeze on it, but, well, Planet Cracker isn't a overly ambitious name for the damn monstrosity.
so first up, my still-sorta-WIP home base, The Rock:
(the 'wip' part is I'm working on converting the asteroid into Station without messing up the looks too much, a long and tedious process)
structurally, however, it's mostly complete, though I haven't got a crafting setup running on it yet (you can't see it, since it's parked a couple sectors over, but I built an ugly-as-sin Planet Cracker Salvage array to fund all this without crafting)
so, for power-
we have this Pylon array. the central pylon is nothing but reactors, a set of six 3x3x3 cubes stacked together. the pylon on the right is identical in size, but is 1/2 powerplant and 1/2 Capacitor. the left pylon with the turrets on it is a stack of three 3x3x3 cubes of Shield Regenerators, while the one behind it is filled with Shield Capacitors in an identical configuration.
the turrets are lightly shielded Dual Lasers with four laser blocks each (arranged into twin 2-block cannons) and are entirely reliant on the station for power.
to cover the other aspect, there are three of these Missile batteries, which have twin 2x2x2 missile blocks, decent shielding, and a small amount of on-board power generation and storage. (there's a third one on the very tip of the 'roid that isn't visible in this picture)- here's a closeup of the business end of those batteries:
the big killer, though, is this baby:
for reference, that cannon goes back into the turret housing for three blocks. it is 12x3x3. can you say PAIN?!
it's so large it even has an interior housing:
yeah.
on the actual base interior, all I've added thus far is a good-sized cargo crate and the computer core:
which has most of the station's important gubbins, like the Build block, plex undethinator, and Faction module. once I have more of them, I plan to add some additional display screens for notes and such- the one now is a 'systems readout' that's really my 'to-do' list for the base. it's got full gravity, blast doors (which I also use on my turrets to get at the AI module) fully enclosed enviroment etc- I haven't finished making a proper airlock for it quite yet, so it's still unpressurized like most of my craft, but it does okay.
speaking of craft!
this is a Light Tug I put together for pushing asteroids around. it's got slots for two 1x1x8 weapons (currently sporting a Repair beam and Salvage Beam) and light shields, though I wouldn't take it into combat. excellent thrust profile- it can quite comfortably push the asteroid around which The Rock is built.
my current main ship, however, is the Black Manta, into which I've dumped all the Black Advanced Armor I could find:
as you can see, she's got three turret mounts, currently sporting those light laser turrets and a missile battery, as well as a towhook on the tail for small things like cargo pods or turrets. she's got two cannons and two lasers, decent shielding, and a fair bit of power to throw around. future upgrades will include steath/EWAR systems to make her a proper sneeky git to run around in.
she's got a small cockpit interior, nothing too fancy:
that's it as far as 'nice-looking' ships go, the only other one is my Planet Cracker, which is literally just a gigantic plate of Salvage Beams (offset on the diagonals so as to have LOTS of beams rather than one Superbeam) a truly ludicrous number of reactors to power it, and some thrusters. sure, it looks like crap and dies if you even sneeze on it, but, well, Planet Cracker isn't a overly ambitious name for the damn monstrosity.
