Tournament Chat

[surreal pecan]

I think so too, anti is pretty good.

But my favorite ship is an avoider counter T-T

[shrewd imp]

anti you are really good

[vocal cloak]

the entire loser brackets is experts nick

[granite river]

xsnow is a better teacher

[vocal cloak]

it will be quite the miracle run

[upbeat ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/slowking-pokemon-slowking1-slowpoke-gif-27381249

[gilded spindle]

hi

[surreal pecan]

Yeaahh to be fair there's air who I am unbelievably afraid.

Also slow too.

[short tartan]

air was my first "teacher" first person I played pvp against

[hollow socket]

don't worry nick, think logically

[upbeat ridge]

air is a half-decent teacher

[short tartan]

now I just observe and learn from as many people as possible

[hollow socket]

if i beat king, and you beat me, you beat king too

[surreal pecan]

The same person for me was Juno.

[short tartan]

ask questions

[granite river]

Probably a better approach tbh

[surreal pecan]

I played vs their avoider and railfan.

[hollow socket]

it's how winning works

[fast oracle]

i really want to play ion vs avoider

[wind ermine]

you good?

[jagged flume]

@sinful roost unless you give me a reason if you fail to arrive in two minutes you'll be disqualified

[upbeat ridge]

for some people anyway

[jagged flume]

if you forgot the password is cerulean

[short tartan]

knowing is half the battle so I study as much as possible

[upbeat ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-gif-22640759

[sinful roost]

i am here

[jagged flume]

Then join the lobby

[sinful roost]

it's incompactable

[fast oracle]

i'm not sure how good is anti

[surreal pecan]

Why though?

''if you're forgot''?

[raven fern]

You need to update?

[hollow socket]

Then Update

[upbeat ridge]

reminder that i might have to fight miguel again

[jagged flume]

Close the game so it updates then rejoin

[surreal pecan]

^

[short tartan]

I love learning micro tweaks, they are awesome

[hollow socket]

delay

[upbeat ridge]

"if your forgot" is about as coorect

[jagged flume]

I love you sitting like a vulture in case I make a single typo

[hollow socket]

will we see update brackets?

[sinful roost]

im so sorry for the confusion

[hollow socket]

haven't seen since the last one

[hollow socket]

nice

[jagged flume]

You're fine Miguel

[gilded spindle]

Woo

I get to stop air from stalling for twenty minutes

[sinful roost]

it updated wait a min

[short tartan]

saved 600 credits for no loss, that was my recent one

[hollow socket]

he will do it anyways

[gilded spindle]

Cowardice

Does air only have the tb ship?

[hollow socket]

he's going to kite you

[hollow socket]

he has at least 4 versions of it

[surreal pecan]

4 is underselling it.

At least like a few dozen.

[hollow socket]

3 from last tournament, 1 in this

[gilded spindle]

okay

[hollow socket]

and potentially more never seen

[jagged flume]

@raven fern vs @vivid ore now

[remote plover]

mantel redemption moment!! :)

[vivid ore]

nervous about ship choice

[raven fern]

joining

[hollow socket]

no enginerooms

[gilded spindle]

How can I absolutely ruin airs day

[upbeat ridge]

gonna fight chillin

[fast oracle]

ggs

[hollow socket]

use all the weapons

[sinful roost]

i didin't even had a chance ;-;

[upbeat ridge]

my bad fam

[fast oracle]

good luck next time! you should post your ship on #ships and ask for advice 💜

[raven fern]

would someone mind pasting the password? -awkward moment-

[sinful roost]

yep thanks for the advise

[jagged flume]

cerulean

[raven fern]

ty

[hollow socket]

i recommend joining Excelsior, and get the best advice from the top players

[fast oracle]

the ships channel is fine too tbh

[short tartan]

for ion ships that have a single er next to a large reactor for ions/shields you don't need corridors, run the crew through a thruster to the ER

[fast oracle]

not really needed to get advice like "you should have ers"

[sinful roost]

shut up i forgor that it had loosers bracet 😭

[upbeat ridge]

saris one day pulling up with a password that goes don miguelito jacinto dobegando la el diabetico

[granite river]

I got feedback for my actual ship in the ships channel but excelsior is definitely the place to go for piloting/strats

[jagged flume]

You can't confirm the advice in this server though

[hollow socket]

nah, he will just pull one of those AI auto generated 200 character passwords using all the keyboard stuff

[short tartan]

example (left ship)
#ships message

[wind ermine]

@gilded spindle

[upbeat ridge]

@raven fern yoof gg

[gilded spindle]

ah well

[raven fern]

Countered

[vivid ore]

i BEAT A RAIL WITH TB - i BEAT A RAIL WITH TB 😸

[vocal cloak]

amazing

[vivid ore]

greetings from DOM @raven fern

[fast oracle]

spacecat op

[shrewd imp]

wow

gg

[upbeat ridge]

you used missie orbiters

[surreal pecan]

Great job.

[vocal cloak]

you should just use password for password at this point saris

and people would still ask

[forest cedar]

Am i next?

[fast oracle]

slow is next

[forest cedar]

Yeah v who

[surreal pecan]

You could use ''1234'' and people would still ask.

[jagged flume]

You're not for a while Erin. Slowking is fighting Air right now

[forest cedar]

Oh i heard you say erin not air

[short tartan]

actually idk if it's a common technique or not but I just discovered it

[surreal pecan]

Erin you're the ''finalist'' of the loser bracket, so good luck whoever wins the losers bracket you will be fighting.

[forest cedar]

Yeah

[granite river]

TRUE

[vivid ore]

funny how you can watch the comments on your own endgame after you played because of the delay

[young jacinth]

watch them both bring traps anyway

[hollow socket]

What is air doing?!

[shrewd imp]

V

[vocal cloak]

as nick like to say

[vivid ore]

sry Air - that is a stupit boat

[vocal cloak]

truly a ship of all time

[hollow socket]

air be throwing

[wind ermine]

@fast oracle @granite river

[fast oracle]

omw

[granite river]

Bet

[upbeat ridge]

gl

[short tartan]

where third eye

[surreal pecan]

Comedy gold.

[surreal pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/chowder-gazpacho-gif-9764192

[upbeat ridge]

a is literally enough of a password

[short tartan]

for me long passwords suck cause I can't remember them

[upbeat ridge]

ANTI PLEASE

https://tenor.com/view/slowking-pokemon-slowking1-slowpoke-gif-27381249

slowking blessing right now

[granite river]

wow I played so bad

[jagged flume]

@upbeat ridge and @remote plover

[surreal pecan]

Remember kids, as long as you don't forfeit your chances of victory are never zero!

[granite river]

I wanted to try and get around luna and self-destruct my reactor

But i just didn't have the thrust to do it

[upbeat ridge]

it took the three best avoider pilots actively playing at the time to beat that thing

[granite river]

Oh really?

[shrewd imp]

well done! gg

[granite river]

Had I burned off the hooks maybe I'd have had a chance

Should've thought of that

I couldn't do my usual flip maneuver like I did to sparky

[shrewd imp]

:>

[granite river]

May or may not have stolen that maneuver from qawa and modified it

[surreal pecan]

Also, 1K

[granite river]

Makes me wanna build an orbital wall for some reason

[surreal pecan]

It was 999 before but then it ''upgraded'' to 1000 lol.

[shrewd imp]

Also this lel

[fast oracle]

i've only seen saris win every time against it tbh

with avoider

[desert sky]

well your main mistake was to throw yourself into the nukes
you want to kite that thing

[upbeat ridge]

?????

[fast oracle]

have you not lost?

[wind ermine]

@vivid ore

[upbeat ridge]

i mean i pissed you off

[vivid ore]

?

[desert sky]

i won matchs without taking horns off 🤭

[upbeat ridge]

you're up

[fast oracle]

true but i was already pissed off

[granite river]

It had more range and speed than me

[jagged flume]

Actually, it's @gilded spindle vs Spacecat

[granite river]

How the hell am I supposed to kite it

[jagged flume]

I blanked out

[granite river]

Sure, ions spread but still

[fast oracle]

don't worry, we can practice this fight later

[surreal pecan]

Great job to Juno for winning vs a hardcounter.

[vivid ore]

cannot remember what air brought

[fast oracle]

if snow or jun0 or any avoider pilot is around you'll learn fast

[surreal pecan]

Lol

[vivid ore]

i thought he lost with the laserthing

[upbeat ridge]

hardocunter? i've practiced this since classic

[jagged flume]

He did lose, I made a msitake

It's Slowking now

[surreal pecan]

I think it is a pretty unfavorable matchup normally.

[short tartan]

I wanna see if I can get a CG and RF trap set working

[vivid ore]

ahh ok

[surreal pecan]

You have like 1/4 of your entire surface area that doesn't like instantly die when shot with rail.

[gilded spindle]

password?

[jagged flume]

cerulean

[icy oxide]

Result of mistakes from rail traps

[surreal pecan]

^

Ye I guess.

[vivid ore]

slowking having huge variety of ships

[surreal pecan]

That's why UL railtraps are better.

Far more responsive.

[short tartan]

but I don't think I have the skills yet. hard enough piloting a single ship. it's 3x harder with two.

[hollow socket]

railtraps probably nmeed less side defense aswell

[desert sky]

juggles strafe use rampup to your advantage

[upbeat ridge]

ever since its introduction, ultrafast rammers vs railtraps are just about who can get to the rear of someine first; the game plan of the ion is to block with the railtrap, and with the slow railtrap movement (which i kinda started) it was much easier to scoop em up and kill them one by one

[short tartan]

but it's a combo I would like to see

[desert sky]

atleast it's the most consistent way to do it

[granite river]

So basically a more difficult version of what I did vs sparky's ion rammer

[desert sky]

i thought it was impossible too, but then i saw juno do it
and then i made my traps based on the same tactic

[upbeat ridge]

pretty much

[remote plover]

@upbeat ridge i'm gonna need to fight that ship again

lol

[surreal pecan]

Asymmetric ship (real)

[upbeat ridge]

yeah i know you're gonna win now that you've seen trhe ship

[fast oracle]

yes, to be fair sparky wasn't great at that match

[short tartan]

does anyone else think my idea would work?

[remote plover]

i might've gotten you if not for a missed targeting :(

[fast oracle]

it works

i'd say dc-rail works better

but chain-rail works

[short tartan]

oki

[upbeat ridge]

i'll take up the offer

[short tartan]

does it work well?

[granite river]

I'm also not sure exactly what to target, I just lock onto the reactor furthest forward but idk if there's a better option

[remote plover]

rn or later

[fast oracle]

drill through front armor and explode front reactors

you have enough dps to do that

[granite river]

I figured

[fast oracle]

you just have to avoid me long enough

[remote plover]

i made a lobby with the password "a" if you're ready

[desert sky]

sorry i wasent here the whole tourney, can't tell but probably
you did decent after you got hit by the nukes! but a LS avoider without LS is a dead fish

[gilded spindle]

I knew it was bad

[granite river]

You can rewind the tourney stream to watch earlier matches

[gilded spindle]

I knew I had better options

[jagged flume]

@fast oracle vs @upbeat ridge

[hollow socket]

sloking lost again?

woah

[vivid ore]

did not make the same mistake twice 😼

[fast oracle]

omw

[upbeat ridge]

@remote plover maybe after this

[forest cedar]

Oh damn

[remote plover]

kk i'm going to a fair so i guess i'll catch you at a later date

[gilded spindle]

luke re?

I'll host

[vivid ore]

guess expierience with chainguns is not yet here - it is the inital spam test

[vivid ore]

later

[surreal pecan]

Yes.

[short tartan]

@jagged flume the unique shape of spacecats ship also helped

[hollow socket]

barge still on top!

[snow seal]

huh theres a tourney rn

[raven fern]

Chaingun would've won that. Slowking didn't use his hooks properly to flip spacecat unfortunately
ggs

[vivid ore]

not so sure about that one

what i did (or at least tried) was weaponpicking - withouth that i would have lost

[snow seal]

saris isn't shuffling the loser bracket...?

[short tartan]

Alpha CG works best when wrapping around so by you effectively have a stay awake stick you prevented it from working best

[granite river]

congratulation

[upbeat ridge]

crashed

i think

[jagged flume]

@hollow socket you're up now

[hollow socket]

alright

[gilded spindle]

I am getting salty for no real reason

=-=

[jagged flume]

It's always good that losing events stings; means that you were invested!

This is the spirit of tournaments!

[gilded spindle]

back to the drawing board

[upbeat ridge]

anyway i like this tourney format

the only trhing i don't like is ram issues

[snow seal]

whats different in the format today

[upbeat ridge]

like i had to hard reset

[upbeat ridge]

fow

[snow seal]

ohhh

full blind?

[hollow socket]

woo

[upbeat ridge]

yep, 200% blind

[hollow socket]

i never used chainguns at all before that!

[jagged flume]

@young jacinth vs @vivid ore

[fast oracle]

aw

[upbeat ridge]

okay yeah saris sin't counting that it seems the match ended before i hard resert

[gilded spindle]

wow

[raven fern]

luna nooooo

[gilded spindle]

teratron gaming

[snow seal]

:0

[vocal cloak]

oh my

[raven fern]

She didn't see that the chainguns weren't out of ammo

gg tera

[surreal pecan]

Tera that was some serious shit!

[upbeat ridge]

@jagged flume my screen died for a second damn

[hollow socket]

i made that ship after i lost my match against you nick

[upbeat ridge]

like vram issues

[jagged flume]

You had half of a single ship left you absolutely lost

[short tartan]

woah

not me

[upbeat ridge]

it was like a minute (hyperbole) before that

[hollow socket]

direct controle

i found after ramping them up i can juggle them from a state of not firing and firing to keep the ramp up

[jagged flume]

Funny how this is the first time ever that this has occured in the history of all tournaments

[upbeat ridge]

100% serious

[surreal pecan]

But to be fair Juno does have pretty rough connection.

[hollow socket]

it was right in the middle of the fight i found it

[surreal pecan]

Pretty genius, nor can I call it a bug.

[jagged flume]

Post about that tech on Excelsior yeah Terra?

[surreal pecan]

Yeah dew it

[hollow socket]

i mean, the animatioin is so long but still counts for keeping ramp up

[hollow socket]

sure

[raven fern]

He was probably direct controlling the chainguns or cancelled their orders?

[upbeat ridge]

alright i'm pissed

[vocal cloak]

eh how do we fix this ask terra v luna already played out and its a super close game

[upbeat ridge]

idk, i'm just pissed now

[icy oxide]

It's pretty intuitively tbh. The ramping slows down during the closing in of the shell.

Force fire -> cancel -> repeat

[snow seal]

the reason rails aren't firing is because the target gets removed every u leave fow

[merry crystal]

@jagged flume hello. I just joined this server to tell you that I was literally in a vc with @upbeat ridge and I can confirm they did not ragequit and that you are very wrong for assuming so

[hollow socket]

how do i make a gif clip?

[snow seal]

ctrl alt g

atleast thats the default hotkey

[jagged flume]

Screeeeew off Stuff

Why is Jun0 pinging you about needing a cheerleader

[merry crystal]

she, unlike prehaps some people, does not have a nasa supercomputer and suffers from technical issues which causes crashes at the end of games. I can confirm that I also have the same issue and can reproduce it.

[merry crystal]

you don't like people disagreeing with you?

[upbeat ridge]

?? thats not what im talking about

[jagged flume]

Stop baiting, Stuff Photon

[upbeat ridge]

no i had screen issues

[merry crystal]

oh right

[vivid ore]

very well played with that singel railkite @young jacinth

[jagged flume]

@hollow socket you're up now

[hollow socket]

sure thing

[vivid ore]

my turn again? can i dring a sip of water

[merry crystal]

???

can you please explain yourself?

"stop baiting" is not a form of arguement

[surreal pecan]

Woe, spacecat did MUCH better than I'd expect it.

Glad to see.

Like Ciberia is a great ship, and like Russia during ww2 it can LAST XD

[vocal cloak]

no experts in the top 5

this is something

[surreal pecan]

It is.

[jagged flume]

They're all out of practice and rusty

Haven't kept in shape compared to the people that have actually been playing in the month leading up to the event

[surreal pecan]

Wouldn't say so about Juno she's a very active (not to mention still un-rusty) good player.

[hollow socket]

i am not even adept

[jagged flume]

Yes, I agree, Jun0 had phenomenal piloting for the ultralight ships

[surreal pecan]

@jagged flume Will the final showdown be a bo5?

[jagged flume]

Yes

[surreal pecan]

I see.

[merry crystal]

not responding, great

[remote plover]

@upbeat ridge just realized it was kinda rude of me to request a rematch without first complementing your skill, that was a hell of a fight that'd be a struggle even if i never blundered , I'm just hoping to at least get a more skillful loss lol

[hollow socket]

damn

wp

should have just gone with a railfan

[jagged flume]

Heh, you're still up @vivid ore vs @forest cedar

[vivid ore]

oof if he is rly an ionenthusiast

[upbeat ridge]

eh, i've been used to it for while now

i accept your apology <3

[remote plover]

ty

[forest cedar]

Ok just a min

[surreal pecan]

Space what is your secret 👀

[wind ermine]

@surreal pecan You'll be up for the finals after this game playing the winner

[surreal pecan]

Aesthetic offmeta domination!

Aight, good to know.

[fast oracle]

spacecat climbing up

[surreal pecan]

Yes

To be fair my ship is very offmeta too.

(Ships)

[upbeat ridge]

well... there's the part where it's a soft counter to everything that it's fought so far

[surreal pecan]

But it's still undeniably impressive.

[vocal cloak]

im surprised people just blindly pick CG into spacecat even tho its clear what he gonna pick

[forest cedar]

game crashed

[jagged flume]

I mean to be fair his very first match he lost to it immediately, right?

[fast oracle]

i mean you know what spacecat is going to bring xd

[forest cedar]

hold on just a min

[jagged flume]

We can wait for your connection to stabilize if necessary Erin

[upbeat ridge]

yeah i can't exactly build something in 5 minutes to counter it

[surreal pecan]

Lmfao so true.

[vivid ore]

erin havin connection troubles

[short tartan]

he's not getting into an argument lol. saris doesn't care

[forest cedar]

Yeah i closed everything on my pc except cosmo, hopefully that helps

[jagged flume]

I'm surprised you didn't do that earlier

[fast oracle]

spacecat wins the psychological fight

[forest cedar]

Normally connection is fine

[jagged flume]

I was under the impression everyone did. I mean, I have to as well

[short tartan]

oh they left lol

[gilded spindle]

I could have won

[upbeat ridge]

apparently that also means my screen

[surreal pecan]

Everybody's too afraid of the final boss of all missile barges.

[surreal pecan]

Photon is such an anomaly of a member lol.

They join and quit 20 times a week.

[fast oracle]

yes

[short tartan]

smh

[fast oracle]

i was expecting you to fight nick slow

[upbeat ridge]

this is... the first time they joined in months

[surreal pecan]

Me too

My bet with air was slow.

Now I have to paint his ship ;-;

[gilded spindle]

rip

[forest cedar]

Alright the mind games got to me lol

[upbeat ridge]

gonna briung this up 3 months later

[jagged flume]

Why

[upbeat ridge]

that's just my mode of operation

[young jacinth]

I love how everyone is throwing against spacecat

[hollow socket]

i really should have gone railfan

[surreal pecan]

xdddd

[surreal pecan]

Tb rail yes.

[hollow socket]

the one that has the sensor

[surreal pecan]

Kite seems pretty good against it actually.

Railkite.

.....Okaaay at this point I genuinely fear space.

[hollow socket]

i made one of those too

[surreal pecan]

I think it's gonna come down to a barge duel.

[hollow socket]

use the kite

embrace it

[surreal pecan]

Alsooo... Like I said previously, there are far less sensor ships popping up than I thought there'd be.

[surreal pecan]

I have no good kite :c

[hollow socket]

i can lend you one if you want

[surreal pecan]

Nah

[hollow socket]

i made one i never got to use

[upbeat ridge]

gg spacecat

wait no thats not the single barge
either way

[fast oracle]

erin gave me 5 heart attacks being so aggresive and risky

[hollow socket]

good luck out there nick

[surreal pecan]

Thanks.

[surreal pecan]

Me too lmao.

[forest cedar]

Damn

[hollow socket]

rip

[forest cedar]

Hold on just a min

[surreal pecan]

double dc

[hollow socket]

luke has that fibre broadband

[surreal pecan]

Hilarious.

[hollow socket]

vodaphone for obvious reasons

[young jacinth]

Oh btw @gilded spindle I made this to specifically counter you. Didnt get to use it though xD

[gilded spindle]

The spinners and traps xD

I suppose it'd work

[hollow socket]

oh my

back armour

[sleek blade]

who won?

[gilded spindle]

unless I used a kite

[young jacinth]

You wouldnt

[gilded spindle]

I could have

It was in my selection

[young jacinth]

You would have dared

[young jacinth]

damn

[hollow socket]

looks like my

one

[young jacinth]

your cg ship also probably counters that

[gilded spindle]

Every kite looks like every other kite

[hollow socket]

very similar in design

[upbeat ridge]

need i say more

[gilded spindle]

spinner beats it

lmao

[upbeat ridge]

i lost ammo there what do you mean

[gilded spindle]

I'm confused

[upbeat ridge]

i had like half ammo that time iirc

[gilded spindle]

In theory it loses to the spinner anyway

[vivid ore]

cooudl not set my weapons to fire at will

[upbeat ridge]

do it per side

[hollow socket]

looks like nick is not fighting luke barge

[vivid ore]

dose not get closer then this

[jagged flume]

You're up now

[forest cedar]

I was not expecting to win after losing a reactor

[surreal pecan]

Comin'

...Anyways, about today... Man I love this timing so much lol. Today and tomorrow is a 2 day festival celebrating my home town Tbilisi (The capital of Georgia), ''Tbilisoba.'' And it just so happened that today is the tourney and tomorrow is the DC announcement! Very good coincidence.

[upbeat ridge]

hey, when has theory ever been 100% right (railtraps vs ul cg ion-exque rammer)

[vivid ore]

pulling my hair because i had this - then control points

[gilded spindle]

Perfect piloting railtraps win

[surreal pecan]

Good job space cat.

You did PHENOMENAL

[vivid ore]

so i place 3rd - not too bad

very ggs

[upbeat ridge]

i've been waiting for someone who could do that

[vivid ore]

rly enjoyable tourney - also without complicated rules

[short tartan]

yeah!

[vivid ore]

guess my focus was fading also ...

[gilded spindle]

Erin needs to win twice

[short tartan]

I think single best of 5 makes more sense

[upbeat ridge]

well this should rpobably decide the precexdent for each subsequent tournament

[icy oxide]

bo101

[vivid ore]

@gilded spindle want that re now?

[gilded spindle]

I mean I modified the ship a lot

so idk

[vivid ore]

a quick post tourney match would also be ok

[upbeat ridge]

laugh too saris

[vivid ore]

erin dejavu moment

[cloud lily]

Wow, it's still going ehh?

[vocal cloak]

nick 2-0 erin

1 more nick wins

[vivid ore]

1/4 speed makes it somewhat slowmo to watch

[jagged flume]

The alternative is insane lag

[vivid ore]

true

great finish

[frank pecan]

@surreal pecan GG! Congrates!

Greatest story of mines lol.

[vocal cloak]

amazing

[vivid ore]

i ate all cahinguns, so there are only mines left 😉

[vocal cloak]

now win design contest

to get all of it

[icy oxide]

Ha-ha!

[frank pecan]

🎉

[surreal pecan]

Thanks ya'll!

[fast oracle]

congrats nick :3

[surreal pecan]

I can't believe it, that's such a high honor for me!

[fast oracle]

master of tourneys

[surreal pecan]

I finally got to win with mines.

[icy oxide]

@surreal pecan 👏

[surreal pecan]

❤️

[hollow socket]

gt nick

[granite river]

Congrats!!

[hollow socket]

the newest champion

[icy oxide]

Now outpace me in DC, hahaha!)

[hollow socket]

nick for paragon?

[forest cedar]

CONGRATS NICK @surreal pecan !!!!!!]

[hazy root]

Congrats !!!

[cloud lily]

Well played!

[frank pecan]

Ok CCC member who is keeping up very late for the event can go to bed as well. GGs, those were great matches that worth our stay.

[thin dagger]

congrats nick

[sinful roost]

GG

[surreal pecan]

You did so amazing, I'm proud to have shared both finale matches with you.

[vocal cloak]

well its time for that expert submission perhaps

[surreal pecan]

Nah.

I don't think I'm worthy yet questoin mark?

[forest cedar]

you won

by all definitions

[frank pecan]

I mean whoaw, many of those matches were the best we had.

[forest cedar]

you have a pinkish red name now :D

[surreal pecan]

I wanted to get pinkish red name from a design contest, but I'll tale this ^v^

*Take

[sinful roost]

bro just look at the ship YOU build that is in your profile pic

[fast oracle]

@jagged flume i like this double elim but 1 match per couple.

I think choosing blindly ships is fine too

[icy oxide]

I don't sure... But ok heh

[surreal pecan]

Yes it was good.

[vocal cloak]

design contest is soon right? get the pink double role

[forest cedar]

?

[surreal pecan]

I expected it to be a disappointement but it made room for some exceptional matches.

Also almost no tb rails, morbiters and other meta builds, it was such a fresh tourney!

[jagged flume]

One match per couple is a lot? I literally can't do less

[upbeat ridge]

hm yes heuristics tourney

[hollow socket]

you can do less

[fast oracle]

no, i like it

[icy oxide]

😏

[hollow socket]

0.5 matches each

[surreal pecan]

Lol.

I will try my best.

[fast oracle]

weird wording

[surreal pecan]

How so.

[upbeat ridge]

actually yeah out of all the people does quix qualify for both master of design and champion or is it just for first-placers

[fast oracle]

I like this system

[surreal pecan]

Anyways, fossil continued to amaze me and upheld itself. I wonder why those old diag morbis got out of style, they're great.

[icy oxide]

Only for second

[surreal pecan]

Well it's time for me to pick up that cisionary I always wished for.

*Visionary

[upbeat ridge]

well, first of all, you have to consider that you had large shields

[forest cedar]

damn if i had played atromitos i would have won it probably

[surreal pecan]

Which is that?

[upbeat ridge]

if i played with a good screen i would have won guys

[surreal pecan]

Yes they're a great asset.

[fast oracle]

yes

[sinful roost]

i need to learn how to biuld ships that aren't just a amalgamatioon of all things i know but just a good ship

[surreal pecan]

Maybe.

[fast oracle]

i would have chosen that one over your nuke ion

[surreal pecan]

Ahh, this thingy. But all shieldless vs mines is RISKY

[icy oxide]

I won Nick's fossil by classic 10er rammer few days ago lol

[forest cedar]

yeah

i wouldve gone for orbiting

[jagged flume]

Can you post Fossil by the way? That was really cool

[vocal cloak]

its all barges

[surreal pecan]

Yes but I blundered big time.

[vocal cloak]

spacecat barges and nicks barges

[icy oxide]

Hype

[surreal pecan]

Sure, here you go.

One with sensor (tourney version) and the other with pd.

[surreal pecan]

My reactor went the moment mines fired, I thought they wouldn't even go in time.

[jagged flume]

I was almost screaming about how they could absolutely arm

[forest cedar]

again, nick, great piloting from you

[surreal pecan]

Thank you.

[forest cedar]

i wasnt watching the stream, i was listening to metal and punk to get myself amped up lol

[jagged flume]

Good choice

[surreal pecan]

Yeah I was amazed by that too (To be fair not THAT much because I have own a lot of matches with fast kite and mines whilst being chased).

[wind ermine]

Seems like it worked

[surreal pecan]

But anyways, this is my greatest accomplishment yet, I prove to world that mines are indeed worthwhile.

[forest cedar]

im gonna watch the final matches later to see what the commentary is

[fast oracle]

cool

[granite river]

Does your program just yoink the ship parts and display whatever it gets? (i.e. it sees a launcher and displays the default launcher - HE)

Since everything is showing as HE missiles in there

[fast oracle]

yes

[granite river]

Makes sense

[wind ermine]

I wasn't typing much in chat besides pings, but for anyone who didn't watch the stream this tourney was awesome and you all played your asses off. Those were some really good games

[surreal pecan]

It has a lot of torque.

[forest cedar]

also saris you were saying that in my avoider mirror v antithesis that i was shaking in my boots lol
i was doing that cus i wanted to be able to target my weapons before engaging

it worked

[surreal pecan]

It was another great match yeah.

Poor anti had found themselves up against a vastly inferior ship objectivity-wise (It is still an amazing shipthough) that has a good time SPECIFICALLY against it. But they still resisted great.

[forest cedar]

yeah amaranthine recusant is a beast

[granite river]

I saw you post that in sotd subs a while ago, wonderful ship

[forest cedar]

thank you :D

[granite river]

I need to build an avoider that has a little more defensive capability, my current one relies so much on damage spreading

[gilded spindle]

It looks so similar to true administrator

[forest cedar]

uses the same pallette

also has 30 hl

only 12 eb tho

[gilded spindle]

I have a true administrator that does that

exactly that

[forest cedar]

here is a version with 36 HL

[granite river]

Also, I actually pilot with the face ship towards mouse cursor function so it's really hard to both damage spread and select targets

[forest cedar]

yeah you should probably turn that off

[granite river]

I had it on because I used to play a game for a very long time that had that function

[surreal pecan]

Absolutely. I just feel a bit concerned about the hyper thick but concentrated side armor.

I would've spread it out.

[granite river]

I was a top player there

[surreal pecan]

Yes this parallel has been made like a dozen times.

[granite river]

The skill didn't really transfer though

[forest cedar]

ah

[jagged flume]

Ah, a good choice. It just seemed silly and I liked to personify it as being fearful of whatever you couldn't see, yeah?

[forest cedar]

yeah

[gilded spindle]

I use this sometimes, particularly with the tiny orbiter squib

[forest cedar]

no i found it funny too but i just didnt wanna be shooting without a target

[surreal pecan]

Once again, sensors got le game!

I would've lost far back vs tera if he hadn't blundered because he had the visibility advantage.

[granite river]

I'm just confused how people use WASDQE with only four fingers, I can never manage it properly

[jagged flume]

Antithesis! Your avoiding was phenomenal! I saw hallmarks of skill and piloting patterns that have only been demonstrated by people who were part of a club that died roughly half a decade ago! I am exceedingly impressed!

[granite river]

Thanks :D

[surreal pecan]

It was impressive, yes.

Better than xsnow for sure

[forest cedar]

i dont make pvp ships strictly off meta, i also try to make them look good so i do make "un-optimal" choices

[jagged flume]

Part of the Wasdque issue is that you need to flip Q and E and flip E and D

[surreal pecan]

I agree!

Has been a few times I've squeezed in a decorative piece in my pvp ships.

[granite river]

R?

[jagged flume]

Normal DC piloting rarely if ever uses strafing, wheris for avoiders it is an absolute must, with rotating being not as useful

[forest cedar]

its easy cus q/a and e/d are mutually exclusive

[jagged flume]

Er, D, yes, not R

[granite river]

Also no xsnow is still way better than me

[vocal cloak]

You know snow is the one that taught antithesis avoider piloting

[forest cedar]

so you never press more than 5 buttons

[upbeat ridge]

rsdget sweep

[forest cedar]

or 4 i mean

also i dont have ad and qe switched and i do fine with avoiders

[upbeat ridge]

no, i can feel some inexperience

[surreal pecan]

Yes but the quality of the student is just as important as the quality of the teacher.

Also quality is a wrong word here.

I mean like... Skill and talent.

[upbeat ridge]

100% valid

[jagged flume]

Anyway I would recommend using A and D for strafing instead of turning, and Q and E for turning instead of strafing. It's significantly easier to input with your fingers and will result in better results. In my opinion. Having extensively tried both.

[granite river]

I already swapped them like that

[jagged flume]

Ah, good

[granite river]

One of the first things I did

[jagged flume]

Nice

[surreal pecan]

Ooo, very interesting bindings.

[vocal cloak]

Snow is honestly just stuborn and refuses to use large shields avoider out of spite

[forest cedar]

lol

[granite river]

I've still been using face mouse cursor because I'm used to it though

[vivid ore]

realize how good DC are as addons because you can place them anywhere or in the middle of your vessel.

[forest cedar]

i use small shield avoider cus it has overwhelming firepower

[surreal pecan]

But for people who are used to one with wasd might make a lot of blunders.

[upbeat ridge]

i should just run an entire tourney with face ship at cursor

[forest cedar]

yeah, i think its just up to personal preference, neither is objectively better

[jagged flume]

Transitioning is definitely difficult but the boons are immeasurable

[granite river]

I've been told that small shield avoiders are better for mirrors but large ships are better for everything else
Is this right?

[surreal pecan]

That'll be so much fun.

It's such an obscure yet funny feature.

[vocal cloak]

Should be

[surreal pecan]

Also I never got to use the other dullahan I had prepped.

[granite river]

It is an incredibly fun time I must say

[surreal pecan]

😔

[granite river]

Except when you have to aim

[jagged flume]

I am willing to write an essay on ergonomics and piloting patterns to argue my stance being superior if anyone was interested

[upbeat ridge]

well... no
i mean i've used exclusively small shield avoiders for a while now and everyhting barr missiles, rails, hybrid emps, and hybrid mines are like its only downsides

[surreal pecan]

Oh also I didn't get to use the 🇬🇪 ship too, this was also for tourney.

[icy oxide]

@jagged flume Any news about design contests? 🗞️

[surreal pecan]

^

[upbeat ridge]

i mean also CG but like it may be kiteable

[surreal pecan]

It is dropping tomorrow I think.

[jagged flume]

@azure goblet's taking care of it this time round. We'll see in the future if I take over in his stead

[upbeat ridge]

i've been interested ever since like 4 moths ago

[jagged flume]

lmao

[surreal pecan]

And what about blake?

[granite river]

I'm used to WASD being forward/back/strafe from the movement keys in Space Engineers

[upbeat ridge]

i wanna hear your take but i would not start off with that without a huge explainer

[granite river]

Q/E is roll control

[jagged flume]

Starsector also uses WASD for strafing and movement

[jagged flume]

What about Blake?

[upbeat ridge]

blake does DCs

[icy oxide]

I used and using QE for strafe in all games, though

[jagged flume]

I know that Blake does design contests Jun0, I was wondering what Nick's question was 😄

[surreal pecan]

No, will he be hosting any longer?

[upbeat ridge]

that was likely the entire idea; blake doing dcs means they can feasibly also take it up

[surreal pecan]

He's a very charming and good host that interracts with the members a lot.

Not sure how 0neye wil ldo that as he appears to be far more busy.

Plus I'm sure we all will miss blake (I for one will).

[upbeat ridge]

case and point

[jagged flume]

It remains to be seen. I myself would expect an architect to take over the position due to extensive knowledge and having consistent answers. I've known Blake to be good at holding proceedings, but terrible at making decisions and accounting for troubles.

But it's not up to me, and as long as the DCs get done well it doesn't really matter who's hosting

[surreal pecan]

Huh....

Alright I guess.

Also Saris you blessed me with luck back when you upvoted Fossil's sotd post

[jagged flume]

Ship good

[surreal pecan]

Thank

[upbeat ridge]

nick raking a casual 85k messages but im not complaining

[surreal pecan]

150 away

[gilded spindle]

I only have 5k messages

I'm honestly surprised

[upbeat ridge]

saris the guy presses enter instead of a period and a space

[jagged flume]

Why are you raising attention to it

[granite river]

how

[surreal pecan]

Fair enough but at least I write a sentence at a time lol, I much prefer to type my messages in sentences at a time instead of huge paragraphs because not only does it make reading easier and doesn't make you appear like you're AFK, but it's also more intuitive to me that way. Any problems? If you have any feel free to share them.

(Also I sometimes don't think out what I'm typing at its fullest, send the message and then have to add an addon/extension/continuation/whatever you wanna call it to it, so that also adds to the growing toll of messages I rack up lol)

[upbeat ridge]

(i mean, personally, i would wait like 1 or 2 seconds before sending a message (0 when sending a message to certrain people) but you do you)

[surreal pecan]

Alrighty, I can respect that.

[upbeat ridge]

oh wait this is tournament chat

[surreal pecan]

😆

[jagged flume]

Why are you being randomly confrontational? Shifting the topic to something completely unrelated in the wrong chat?

[upbeat ridge]

alright let me get comfrontational
if your screen wnt out when commmentating what would you do

[jagged flume]

Not change the subject

Regardless since you're unwilling to answer remain on topic for #1020489415476396043 then

[surreal pecan]

Anyways #tournament-announcements message A Blast of a tournament, design contest announcement, a victory and Tbilisoba all in one day, a dream come true indeed 👌

Bye ya'll now it's too late for me 👋

[upbeat ridge]

this is actually regarding a "sportsmanship issue" i think

cya nick

[inland lagoon]

oh nick won, congrats

[gilded spindle]

He needs the role now

[vivid ore]

the amount of odd situations in this tourney was insane ...

[serene latch]

woah nick won

nice

[fast oracle]

I think there should be civilian builtins with mining lasers if no combat builtins have them

[granite river]

Yesss

[hollow socket]

imperium just has everything

[raven fern]

Can the next tournament be 2v2 elimination? The issue was that double railfans were too powerful but we could simply ban rails for a single tournament
We haven't had one in a long time

[hollow socket]

rip rails

95% of my ships

[raven fern]

Well 2v2 tournaments were cancelled because of them sadly

[hollow socket]

what about rails are allowed

but on a max speed of 15 m/s

[spring fable]

thats just boring

[hollow socket]

then 16 m/s

more exiting

[snow seal]

so basically 1 person brings a spinner

and afks

wow great team gameplay

[timid current]

What about 2v2 tourney but teammates can't have the same weapons

So only 1 person in each team could have rails

[buoyant karma]

nice idea

[cloud escarp]

That is the most insane conclusion to a tournament I have ever seen. Ending the tournament on explosive chaos.

[fast oracle]

i prefer 1v1s but 2v2 tourney without rail traps might be nice

[surreal pecan]

Agreed, plus AI can still use mining lasers for combat so some low level scuffed up fringe ships with mining laser as their only weapon because they couldn't find/afford anything else would be both charming and lore-accurate.

[surreal pecan]

Okay that is amazing I'm rooting for that.

[vivid ore]

magenta means rare?

[fast oracle]

yes

[fast oracle]

it's on a link on oneyes document for the design contest

[surreal pecan]

No, yellow means rare, magenta means ''special conditions,'' and those said conditions are listed in the official document.

[vivid ore]

... i have a few requests to share one of my ~ 1.5 barges - this design contest might be the right format to do it since it is all about 1.5 mil.
They also fit the "not only for combat" rule, are rly multi role from PVP to Domination and Career to Aesthetic.
I'm silly proud of them 🐱

[short tartan]

main problem with 2v2 tournaments is that lag can be 2x worse and it's even harder to keep people connected

[jagged flume]

Banning rails is an easy solution the main limiter for me is the lag of having at minimum five players in a lobby, +having to wait for four players to join

[short tartan]

also, congratulations to both Nick and Erin incredibly well played by both

[surreal pecan]

I mean not like we haven't done 2v2 tourneys before. Also banning rails is plain uncool as there are a lot of other non generic rail orbiter rail ships out there (Namely the epic rail combiner builds) that would get thrown from the roster of possible ships, which would greatly hinder the ship choice freedom and overall detract from the tournament.

What james suggested (Only one person can use any specific weapon type, so only one rail ship per team on the battlefield at a time) sounds like a perfect middle ground, the railorbi strat becomes much less oppressive once you won't have yor backside torn open for going at a certain single rail.

(Sorry, Pistonloop, not James)

[timid current]

y'know editing messages is often clearer than adding another message

[lavish compass]

last tournament stream was 5h

damm

[jagged flume]

This is why they're typically split over two days

[gilded spindle]

I prefer a single day in all honesty

[vivid ore]

@azure goblet How strict is the 1.5mil limit in the design contest, is it a brickwall limit or is 1.7mil still ok?

[granite river]

When people have the time, sure, but many won't

[azure goblet]

Strict but doesn't count resources.

[vivid ore]

ok so the ship design value from creative mode, minus the resources, is the exact value?
so i try to laod it in career and see?

[azure goblet]

No need to try loading it in career, but yes.

[short tartan]

go into blueprint mode

[vivid ore]

how do i check the lower prices then - by not desiganting storage?

alwas wished ther was a "Clear all Resources" same as "Restock all Resources" for creative

[short tartan]

by going into blueprint mode

[vivid ore]

ok clear all storage tile designations shows the value without storage resources - ofc the weapons are still loaded with ammo

[serene latch]

@surreal pecan u have been bestowed the title of champion

(u got the role now)

[short tartan]

@vivid ore you can easily see the price of the ship by going into blueprint mode

[vivid ore]

#1020489415476396043 message

[vivid ore]

@azure goblet ofc im always checking the price in blueprint mode but it differs if you have designated storage tiles or not. Weapons are alwas designated so i guess that is taken into account and adds to the cost.

it is an 80K differnece in my case with emty storages vs full storages, weapons loaded in both cases.

[azure goblet]

An "easy" way to check the cost without resources:

• Click on it in the ship library
• Hold the ` button (to the left of the 1 key on english keyboards) while placing it to spawn it with no resources
• Go into normal (non-blueprint) build mode and click the usual ^ arrow to view the cost

This way does not include cost from ammo in weapons.

[spring fable]

wouldnt it be on the left of the 1 key

` 1 2 etc

[azure goblet]

You're right

[vague brook]

There's also an option in dev mode to clear all resources.

[vivid ore]

perfect, thats very helpful

[vivid ore]

@azure goblet should we submit in the old thread from "ℬatpony" or will a new one be made?

[azure goblet]

This one https://discord.com/channels/314103695568666625/1059085469708734515

[frank pecan]

@azure gobletI am transelating the Event imformation document this contest, and I found a few question:
*By "Unconventional weapon combination", does this means we can submite themeing these as major and ignore the "not faction built" limite, or is it just encouraging submitters to provide more uniqe submissions?
*What specific thing does "exploits" mean here?

[azure goblet]

1. It's just meant to encourage ship diversity and is completely optional. It has nothing to do with factions or their preferred weapons. Another way to word it is "ships with combinations of weapons that are uncommon".
2. That's just a general statement to ban the use of bugs or glitches that give an advantage. I'm not aware of any specific ones, especially those useable by AI. If you're not going out of your way to discover the next explosion gun you can safely ignore it.

[frank pecan]

I have completed the transelation and as it is for CCC I added some content about how to properly submite through CCC community service when can't arrive Discord by oneself.

[surreal pecan]

Feels very honourable to be amongst you guys ❤️

[upbeat ridge]

you had a fair screening

[hazy brook]

i would compete in the ship design contest but idk how to paint

painting is hard when it isnt in a faction i can copy

[hazy brook]

actually i might as well try and see what trash i can put together

[snow seal]

btw @azure goblet are ships voted on individually or as a pair

[azure goblet]

Individually

[surreal pecan]

Why are questions like these asked in here excuse me? I think #1059084974655033415 or even better, the long forgotten rule discussion channel exist for a reason.

[icy oxide]

Design Tournament xd

[frank pecan]

Ok moving the whole thing over to there.

[vivid ore]

The mod changs for the octourney are pretty sensible - buffung underpowered lasers and giving more range overall is what players wanted to try for a long time.
Personally rly curious how the longer range will turn out.

on the other hand i do nto like the "ROD" ⭕ to be near but as long as it is not very near its playable

[jagged flume]

It's the same FoW settings as the previous event

[short tartan]

yay!

[surreal pecan]

Nice time to paint all my pvp ships in a spooky theme. The prehistoric theme I have going works I think.

[fast oracle]

great, another Bo1 Double Elimination tourney :D

i think ship construction should be on in next tourneys, i haven't seen anyone using it effectively yet, but i'd love to see it.

[surreal pecan]

Oh man...

[vivid ore]

i like playing with FoW 🌫️ additional tactical element
in past tourney fog clearly showed that railtraps are nerfed by it

[vivid ore]

actually it would have been interesting in some endgames where all ships where reduced to hardly functioning wrecks

[fast oracle]

I dislike fog but it really is a nerf to long range kites so i'm fine with it.

[surreal pecan]

I really enjoyed the presence of fog of war in the previous tournament, it made sensors actually invaluable and added a strategic benefit to owning one.

Also Saris, don't you feel like your template message shouldn't have September in it?

21st and 28th of October would be the correct one.

[gilded spindle]

If you read when that was posted

you'd realise that's the september example

[surreal pecan]

Right, figured it'd be that. But it still may trip some people up, it almost tripped me before I checked the announcements for clearance.

Also wouldn't it be better to archive all the sign-up threads instead of deleting or clearing them every next tourney?

[raven fern]

Fog was a novelty but it's not something I'd like to play with every tournament

[jagged flume]

In my mind it makes matches 'start' sooner since players need to move forward and find out what they're dealing with, as well as adapt on the fly. Without FoW it ends up being you can just play evasively until you have ideal conditions, leadibg to a lot less frenetic and physical combat. I want to see it for more than just one event, in short

[short tartan]

oh, im gonna have to get sensors on some of my ships

they're 20k

what

[hazy brook]

i love fog but that might be because i play dom too much lol

and arena, DONT FORGET ARENA

[short tartan]

i got them to fit

[desert sky]

me when two tournament and vacation overlap
dies

[fast oracle]

arena tournament when

[surreal pecan]

Career co-op tournament 🗿

[granite river]

Career speedrun tournament

[surreal pecan]

Yes lmao.

May the best 0neye win!

[serene latch]

next thing you know we're going to host the tournament in an entirely different game

[raven fern]

Space engineers tournament when

[surreal pecan]

Pleaaase let's host tetris tournament 🥺

[upbeat ridge]

that's it who wants to host a tournament in showdown

on a more serious note though arena tournament does seem odd, but probably not the worst idea

[sharp bane]

honestly might be a fairer mode

I remember arena tourneys back in 2019 were pretty good even tho arena mode was more exploitable back then

[hazy brook]

wait... WERE GETTING AN ARENA TOURNAMENT????

was planning on another tourney like the last for next month or so

[sharp bane]

no

afaik

[jagged flume]

November can be arena sure

October is already elim though

[hazy root]

Any chance tournament takes place only the 28 ?

[fast oracle]

awesome

[surreal pecan]

Would anybody (other than tapeable the village arena fanatic) want this lol? Because I'm not sure Arena would make for a good tourney.

Then again I've only played messy free-for-all arena games so 1v1 arena might be completely different (But most likely if an enemy counters you they won't have a very hard time defeating you all the time, or at least defeating you more times than you can defeat them).

[hollow socket]

The way I see it, when you first die you then just counter pick the enemy

[surreal pecan]

Oh shoot you're right you can switch the ship mid-fight.

That has some insane implications.

Fog of war no ship preview arena tournament does sound rad.

[hollow socket]

It does sound pretty fun, arena is probably the least played mode for me other than career

[jagged flume]

Hyperdrive tech allows for safe respawning

[short tartan]

I have never played arena

[hollow socket]

Arena is basically elimination, but it is instead multiple battles where 1000 credits of damage is equal to 1 point, most points wins

Or you reach the number of points set that wins the game

[short tartan]

ok

[hazy brook]

yay time for me to lose anyway even with my practice xd

[upbeat ridge]

there are worse strategies than missile sticks

[young jacinth]

@sonic flame you can change the name in settings

[sonic flame]

already had it set to one of those two after finding the setting

[vivid ore]

Undergoing restructuring so i will not be in the next tourney.

[upbeat ridge]

mans restructuring the verenia clan

[gilded spindle]

Unlikely

[upbeat ridge]

a gal can dream

[short tartan]

alr

just about a week before the tournament

my first tournament

training montage time

[surreal pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/blametherobot-onesie-training-montage-epic-training-montage-montage-gif-17970330

[pliant edge]

When is the deadline for signups? (Still figuring out whether I'll have the time and energy to participate or not.)

[vocal cloak]

A few hours before tourney was it?

[vocal cloak]

But it would be better to not be last minute

[short tartan]

deadline is a few hours before the tournement but the earlier the better. if you do it early saris has to do a bit less work

[pliant edge]

Hunh. I was expecting days.

Alright, noted.

[trim kestrel]

the mines look so much more intimidating now even if they are a little less useful

[short tartan]

do the mines look different if someone else launched them?

[surreal pecan]

Yeah they do look intimidating, but now they have barely any stealth to them. I think a slight counter-buff wouldn't hurt.

[silk flint]

like more health ?

[trim kestrel]

having a faster reload time would help making larger mine fields now that they are more easily avoided

I think they still are quite powerful especially if used in the right scenario

[surreal pecan]

Health barely even matters.

[upbeat ridge]

is this in the mod now?

[pliant edge]

Yeah, it is.

[upbeat ridge]

noted

[raven fern]

Hey Saris, are illegal mines allowed in the tournament?

[surreal pecan]

.....We're seemingly having very few members.....

[silk flint]

illegal mines ?

[spring fable]

they do this

on a mostly regular basis

[raven fern]

Hard to see it on the GIF. Basically, you target your mines on debris and then fire them. They will not explode when an enemy is in proximity but if they fly into them it will deal huge amounts of damage

[spring fable]

basically they dont explode until they hit smthn as apposed to exploding with proximity

[silk flint]

that's straight up evil, and i like it

[short tartan]

makes it easier to win tbh

[jagged flume]

I may just do a round robin with this few people all things considered

[spring fable]

wait when is the next tourney?

i just realized i have no idea

[vocal cloak]

this week and next week i think

[chilly barn]

wait why is the tourney on mondays?

[vocal cloak]

this week sat and next week sat

[pliant edge]

Unless you live in the East of Australia or NZ, in which case it's Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! 😛

[surreal pecan]

Okaaaay the tournament is in a mere 4-5 days and yet I haven't seen a single tourney prep modded pvp lobby. Weird, I guess it'll be the kind of tournament wgere most people will be caught by surprise as most features of the mod are still a bit obscure.

It'll be another FoW no preview tournament right?

[short tartan]

should we start doing some modded lobbies to get some practice?

[surreal pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/absolutely-gif-8113016940758500669

[sharp bane]

caught by surprise in more ways than one :D

I don't have time for practice

[surreal pecan]

I mean come on it'll be fun!

[sharp bane]

tbhhh idek if I should join they are making a drama rehearsal schedule and it is looking more and more like the exact time of the tournament will be the only time everyone will be available...

So I'll see

[short tartan]

i havent seen any modded practice lobbies yet 👀

[raven fern]

Watch all of us show up and make fools of ourselves through lack of practice 😆

[silk flint]

oh, i will

[spring fable]

sounds about right

[short tartan]

ive probably been practing too much

gonna stress myself out lol

ill be fine lol

oops that's hunger not stress, food time

[surreal pecan]

Yeah that is very weird to be honest, I haven't seen any too.

HECK, I don't even have the latest version of the mod installed yet.

And yet so many prototypes are brewing in my head...

[short tartan]

welp there's always tomorrow

[surreal pecan]

Mainly back nuke chicanery.

[icy oxide]

Only half of the truth, no matter how sad is it 😔

[short tartan]

best of luck to everyone tomorrow!

[raven fern]

Hey @jagged flume , there's a chance something might come up tomorrow and prevent me from participating in the tournament. Would you rather I pull myself out right now or would it be acceptable for me to stay in play knowing I may not show up?

[surreal pecan]

Only 11 participants 🥹

(Can become 10)

[gilded spindle]

This is going to be a mess

But it'll be fun

[surreal pecan]

Prepare for the dumbest most bonkers tournam ever I guess. I am not ready (Could not mabage to build A SINGLE of the many goofball rebal mod prototypes I had planned, thanks to work some other Irl stuff, also working on the DC submission) and yet I'm as ready as I can be!

[short tartan]

might be more, you know how many late signups we get lol

[hollow socket]

A bit more unlikely this time

[young jacinth]

Are illegal mines allowed now?

Thes are only patched in the RC

[sharp bane]

I am so ready and definitely have ships optimised specifically for the latest version and the mod

I definitely know what illegal mines are, too.

[surreal pecan]

Mine + structure = shieldproof mines
All you need to know.

[young jacinth]

You target junk so that they dont explode with proximity but on impact with enemy ship parts.

[sharp bane]

Fun!

Especially with fog of war I'd imagine

[young jacinth]

Yea fun having projectiles just phase through your shields xD

[sharp bane]

Yaya

[surreal pecan]

As I mine enthusiast I can confirm.

Even thogh I've never used it.

---

Saris I need you to pinky swear that you won't steal my stuff.

[gilded spindle]

I have just installed the rebalance mod

truly incredible

[pliant edge]

grumbles on the one hand, I'm upset because I really wanted to build a deck cannon-chaingun orbiter with the rebalance mod mechanics, but nothing came together. On the other hand, there's now two different ways I might not have been available on the tournament dates anyways?

[surreal pecan]

Me too lol.

[short tartan]

when is check in?

[young jacinth]

Doesnt exist anymore

[short tartan]

ah oki

[sharp bane]

oh?

[raven fern]

@jagged flume I unfortunately can't participate. May the tournament go smoothly and for the rest of you, good luck!

[young jacinth]

Sad

[short tartan]

Damm that sucks

[fast oracle]

:D

tourney is soon

[sharp bane]

tourney! just a week away

Woo-hoo! I am so happy about this information.

[short tartan]

tournament is today.

[sharp bane]

can you believe it guys?

(ik, we got like... 35 mins left?)

building a ship last minute

[granite river]

Surely there won’t be an update in the middle of the tourney this time

[sharp bane]

my ass forgetting how easily cannons chain

I mean factories

well actually it's not that

the problem is I did not know sulfur was explosive

hhhh this would need a redesign, no cannon wall today.

still seems like it might body a classic laser orbi wall with sheer alpha

[short tartan]

rc already dropped yesterday so we should be fine

[fast oracle]

old ships > new untested ships

[upbeat ridge]

my man makes 0 ships

[sharp bane]

yeeee I am used to all old ships being the wrong price tho

but seems to be fine this time

[fast oracle]

play reactor pikes please

xd

[short tartan]

i have a singlular untested ship but its a varient (armor rework) of a ship ive already ran and tested a lot

[icy oxide]

What about -5 ships

[fast oracle]

i spend weeks designing and testing every ship so making a new one and using it for the tourney is wild to me

[short tartan]

yup

[fast oracle]

do we have fog?

[short tartan]

yes

[fast oracle]

I'll play safe

[short tartan]

i have had 10+ iterations of ships most of my ships now i got right or near right 1st time

[young jacinth]

Then why did you use the strange missile traps last time lol

[fast oracle]

i thought i was fighting an V chaingun because i thought i was fighting another person

the missile traps are very well tested, they're just not very good

[short tartan]

best of luck to everyone! have fun!

[young jacinth]

Oh really?

Never saw you use them

[fast oracle]

it's my first successful pvp ship

back in February i think

[young jacinth]

Ah

[fast oracle]

it's actually the version 4 of the original ship

with extra dps and speed

they are not very fun to use or play against, everyone hates kites

that's why i don't use them

[young jacinth]

Tourney isnt for having fun