The First One!

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I couldn't resist claiming “The First Meta”;-)

I uploaded a ship called “The First One”, not sure if it is actually there but it seemed to work. I was trying to create a tiny little fighter, that is a heavy class ship, with the both the most powerful weapon and secondary ability in the game on it. I couldn't figure out how to make the engines, weapons, etc small and changing ship size didn't make enough size difference to be worth the loss of hit points.

For some reason I don't understand, this ship comes to a stop and acts like a turret whenever you let off of the thrust. This makes it a lot less powerful that it would be if it continued to drift (retrograde) when you let off the thrust. I don't understand why it is stopping, and it is making it a lot weaker than it should be. But it is still insanely powerful and very easy to defeat the entire enemy lineup with one of them.

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Reply #1 from StarControl Forums Top

Awesome!

There is a bug with the designs ships whee they don't have full inertia.  It'll be fixed in the next beta update.

Reply #2 from StarControl Forums Top

My ship doesn't seem to be showing up on Steam, but I am guessing that you guys have to approve them for them to appear.  I can understand why you might want to "intercept" this one and not put it up on Steam.  It's all function and no form;-)

 

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from StarControl Forums Top

That's probably just latency, because mine are instantly available.

Reply #4 from StarControl Forums Top

It wasn't there at all before, now about 24 hours later it is there under "My Ships" but doesn't seem to be on the list of all ships.  It's not a big deal.  If you wind up seeing it eventually, you'll see that I didn't exactly spend a lot of time on it.  Being as small as it can possibly be is part of its "meta" design, so it isn't much to look at;-)

 

Reply #5 from StarControl Forums Top

Yeah, the small hull is currently really ridiculous. With max engines and thrusters, I made one earlier that was able to spawn dozens of contagions and just kite for days. I dunno how well it would fare in the era of the asteroid ring, though. It was made before the ring was introduced.

Reply #6 from StarControl Forums Top

The editor is very simple so it is easy to describe "Lorien".

Heavy hull, max everything (thrusters, engines, etc.), single miniaturized component mounting what looks like a flying engine with guns.

Black Hole & Speed Boost.

As long as you think "stay away and never get hit" as your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd priorities and only try to shoot when you know it is safe, only Scryve's weapon is any threat too you.  Against the AI, I can't really play online until I have a gamepad, but this ship would dominate online right now as well.

 

 

Reply #7 from StarControl Forums Top

Quoting Kavik_Kang, reply 6

I can't really play online until I have a gamepad

Aw c'mon Kavik I'm playing online with keyboard! Jump on in. Its a shame I won't be able to hear your screams of defeat in the cold silence of space ;P  

Reply #8 from StarControl Forums Top

That's exactly what you'd hear with me trying to use the keyboard against human players, haha.  I am really bad with the keyboard.  There are completely different "tricks" using keyboard and gamepad, and I am all about the "thumb roll" control of the gamepad.