Your Day One Starter Ship

[splatthecat]

The server I normally play on is resetting on Augist 14th so everyone is having to start afresh! To save me faffing around at spawn trying to build a ship and make the exodus from 2,2,2 and find a nice piece of space to call home I have prebuilt my starter ship that can be built from the default starting blocks, cash and the sale of any unwanted items.

It has a reasonable salvage array, radar jammer, some shields, storage blocks and cargo space and a usable jump drive (with no power loss while charging even with the radar jammer on). I was able to save a few ship cores, power and thrusters for my pocket and bought a build block and undeathinator for my temporary home somewhere.

While I am always impressed by a detailed multi-million block mega ship, I just thought I'd share my humble beginnings and would love to see other peoples takes on what can genuinely be achieved with the starting rations, especially the default ones.

Spoiler: Images

 

[Batavium]

One of the better looking starter kit ships for sure.

 

[splatthecat]

One of the better looking starter kit ships for sure.

Thanks, I just may upload this to the community content next week.

 

[Sachys]

Not bad - personally prefer a cloaker though. I take it the server doesnt provide a custom starter ship then?

 

[jayman38]

Not bad - personally prefer a cloaker though. I take it the server doesnt provide a custom starter ship then?

I don't think you can build an effective cloaker with the standard starting supplies, which is what this thread is all about. Custom starter kits need not apply.

 

[Pacific_Jim]

Surely what you can pick up from the shop counts.

 

[Sachys]

I don't think you can build an effective cloaker with the standard starting supplies, which is what this thread is all about. Custom starter kits need not apply.

Doesn't answer the question - which is sparked by the OP.

 

[Lukwan]

I am able to make a perma-cloaker from the default starting blocks, provided I have a shop to trade items with. There is enough left over for a couple of faction blocks, an undeathinator, some cores/thrusters/power and build blocks.

 

[splatthecat]

I'd love to see a cloakable starter ship! Especially one that can mine resources and then vanish at the first sign of trouble.

I've played on servers that provide a starter ship but I tend to find that this tends to be simply a bonus collection of blocks/sellable items.

I built this not only as an exercise as to what was possible with the default starting kit/cash that would give me a ship that i would actually want to fly.

Once I had the basic shape and systems I simply played around with wedges and slabs and added in the crystals for the engines and checked the functionality of the ship overall.