design contest chat

[tender wraith]

It twitches from now and then

[past bramble]

and thats if i dont get vetoed in the first place

[oak plaza]

Every ship is made great...
I'm glad to compete here...

[oak plaza]

Why's that...?

[past bramble]

my ship will not be accepted due to being too similar with another faction

imperium

also u dont necessarily have to win through votes

[oak plaza]

They look far enough for me...
As in a faction of ruffians...

[tender wraith]

Who knows i made a picasso painting

[past bramble]

if this is similar to old event

walt will personally pick a few ships himself

[strange mango]

may* not will, i dont think its too likely that walt vetos them but i am not sure

[past bramble]

so there is 2 ways u can get your ship added in

[strange mango]

but yea that is correct, walts pick is one of the things returning from classic contests

[oak plaza]

What did happen last time...
This is just my first time in this competition and I've only been in the discord for 3 months now..

[past bramble]

u can win 2 ways

first is by getting the most vote

the second is getting your ship handpicked by walt himself

[oak plaza]

Can you vote in more than one ship...?
Or only one...

[past bramble]

wining by vote usually gets all your ship added in

walt pick is usually individual ships

unless there is rule changes

[oak plaza]

I wish it could be by category, so we get a whole bunch of ships added...
But that wouldn't work for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place...

[strange mango]

voting will likely go like this: you will vote for 3 participants full submission AND for 3 individual ships, the top 3 in each category win so theres essentially 2 voting systems at once

[oak plaza]

You can't vote your own ships right...?

[strange mango]

i mean, theres no way to enforce that, so you can vote for yourself but its more sportsman like not to

[oak plaza]

I already have my 3 picks, but let's see what the others can bring in the table...

Honestly I don't think my ships can compete with anyone...

Hahahahaha...
But I'm happy to join still...

[toxic ocean]

I don't like the color scheme but paintwork itself is top notch.

Phenomenal. I change my mind about the scheme.

[past bramble]

lmao

[toxic ocean]

The quickest opinion change of all time.

[toxic ocean]

I'll leave one ominous message:

What happens when they mix?

Nah nah nah, the better question would be, IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO MIX THEM?!

[past bramble]

i think maybe?

keep the circled part and try to frankenstein them?

u could also probably transplant the bottom corner left ions of the white one to the brown corner left

[stiff sandal]

Maybe, but you show clear talent at replication

[stiff sandal]

Gotta give praise for how well the shape turned out. Tho.. 4 days to paint is a short time constrain

[toxic ocean]

Thought of exactly that.

But uneven core? <megamind>

[toxic ocean]

Thanks. I hope I'll do it.

*In time.

[past bramble]

i had a lineup of Oneye and some saris ships as reference while painting

[mortal cave]

Emulation is one of if not the best way to learn. By reverse engineering you inherently understand what's going on and eventually, how to do it of your own accord

[toxic ocean]

''Imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery, but also the sincerest way of learning.'' Wise words.

I have recreated so many vilda ships for the sake of learning...

Kiriyus, Eleonox, one of the squid bois...

[past bramble]

i love the way oneye and saris paint the imperiums

[toxic ocean]

Plus Hatter's ships like Arcana, Ante, Piranha, Mangrove, Oneye's entire Dormack lineup, so on.

[past bramble]

they look like pieces of armor held together by this red cables

[toxic ocean]

I personally love how Saris paints Monolith and how Hatter does literally anything other than paint Monolith. I'm really sorry but I don't dig any of the paints on Khyber or Gunwing or even my personal fav Longspear.

They are oversaturated with almost exclusively white and are really basic in some parts.

Khyber is a really solid painted ship, but it has this one completely bland line that really annoys me and screams unfinished.

Plus there's barely any Monolith signature blue.

Hmm.

Also I found that Khyber is an utterly broken trainwreck and reported it in #1023036219040464906. Off topic I know.

[past bramble]

i think its better to continue to #ships

[toxic ocean]

Mhm

[bronze citrus]

???? Is this like, an in game design

Never seen it

[toxic ocean]

Yup.

It's Hatter's ship.

I wouldn't make a post on it in ship balance feedback if it wasn't lol.

[bronze citrus]

I am flabbergasted. Why is it half painted

Never even seen it for some reason

Cool layout and coat of paint, but it obviously looks like half done at most…

And i saw ur post about the crew management

[toxic ocean]

Okay.

Yeah, this is by far the most half-baked ship in the game.

[tired vapor]

i m still working on mine

[vernal lance]

wonder how the ships will be put into the game

theres walt's pick but will users vote on what ships get into the game

[tight tapir]

Yeah

[tight tapir]

Yeah I noticed the same problems a while back, maybe still in beta testing, Hatter said he would fix it but I guess it hasn't happened yet

[past bramble]

4th ship maybe

[toxic ocean]

Cool.

SO IMPERIUMY

........

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Man, I have so much stuff I wanna do, yet so little time...

My first priority is the freaking ioncore though.

@slow axle THY I SHALL SUMMON YOU TO ASSIST ME ON MY QUEST-

[slow axle]

I ANSWER TO THIS CALL AND GET SUMMONED FROM THE DEPTH

[toxic ocean]

👍

Okay...

You host or I?

If I, I'm in Proncim station.

[slow axle]

last time i close the game without saving half the thing ._.

[past bramble]

yea no that ship is not making the cut

[toxic ocean]

Hmm??

Lost ships?

[toxic ocean]

Thanks for supreme optimism.

[slow axle]

wait don't you remember?

anyway you host

[toxic ocean]

Okay.

[past bramble]

resubmitting again due to painting errors

[toxic ocean]

😏

[past bramble]

and i forgot to save that little experiment

crap

[toxic ocean]

Okay I'll stop

Anyways where are you @slow axle?

[slow axle]

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[slow axle]

in the same station as you waiting that you host

[toxic ocean]

Oh... I'll shut down the game and turn it back on, real quick...

[past bramble]

i really want to see this rotten core be finished

[toxic ocean]

Hmm... Me too.

Assuming my first and only currently finished ioncore Prosecutor took ~3 months to complete, I don't have high hopes for a 4 day time limit.

But it was my first time tryina make something like that.

Plus I asked Luke for like, 5 total repaints, so it went in a production meatgrinder as well.

[past bramble]

wasnt the previous 2 attempt almost complete tho?

[toxic ocean]

Yup.

[past bramble]

i want a 4th ship but 200k is not alot to work with

[oak plaza]

Tiny missile boat...?
A pursuit craft...?
Tiny patrol ship...?

[past bramble]

mawred kinda fits that role

[past bramble]

there is this barge but i dont like it

[oak plaza]

Yea but it's essentially like a Condor as a nuke boat...
How about a fast laser blaster based ship...?

[oak plaza]

Yea, this is a missile kite...

[past bramble]

nah its a barge

its slow

[oak plaza]

Oh....

I was just going to ask the difference but yea, a barge is slow while a kite is fast...

[toxic ocean]

Oh sorry XSnow you disconnected.

I self-destructed the storages to empty them

[slow axle]

ouf

you lost the game?

i see lag i save the ship

so i still have it

[toxic ocean]

Okay the game is up again.

I didn'tloseit.

Gosh golly lag

The Rotten Core strikes back

Heheheheh 😏

Any ideas/improvements anybody could have?

[misty lark]

(iirc the game auto-saves during mp sandbox)

[misty lark]

paint

[toxic ocean]

Yayaya I have to do paint, but any other improvement ideas?

[misty lark]

aside from prisms, which xsnow is helping you with, i cant think of anything

[toxic ocean]

Any visual improvements I could do?

Shape looks really bizarre and janky, but that's kinda the point.

[past bramble]

i think the structures is abit too much on some places

mainly the one that sticks out out alot in the upper left and right part of the ship

[toxic ocean]

I guess...

[past bramble]

or its just too little structure and make those long segments look out of place for me

but the ship is still unpainted and paint is big part in selling it

[fast goblet]

less than two days left 💀

[past bramble]

the first thought that came when i saw this was a solar sails

this is cool

[fast goblet]

Thanks :)

[strange mango]

to those who might not make the deadline, please see my latest post in #tournament-announcements

[toxic ocean]

YES BLAKE YOU ABSOLUTE F*CKING LIFESAVER <3

:DDDDDD

[fast goblet]

heck yea

[strange mango]

glad to do whatever needed for everyone to finish their ships in time

[toxic ocean]

This ship is so huge yet so overstuffed there's not a square centimeter of space for the operating crew...

And I can't do detatch because well, DUH...

[tight tapir]

You can always extend the arbor and put crew in it's place

[toxic ocean]

That's the ironic thing, I can't.

Top of the grid

Bottom of the grid

''ნიკოფსიიდან დარუბანდამდე,'' as they say...

[vernal lance]

indeed

[toxic ocean]

Lol

[oak plaza]

@toxic ocean, do you think you can finish the paint with the extension...?

How many ships are you planning to submit anyways...?

[toxic ocean]

5... Might not have enough money and round it down to 4.

Also don't forget, Blake increased the time limit by A WEEK

[oak plaza]

Yea, that's why I asked if you can now finish it...
No more bumming yourself out...

Don't stress yourself too much...

[oak plaza]

Is this going to be one of your submissions for real...?
I wanna ask what's it going to be named...?

[toxic ocean]

Yup, it's going to be my submission.

[toxic ocean]

The name's gonna be ''The Rotten Core.''

[oak plaza]

The paint would be like...?
Rusted but not like fringe...?

[toxic ocean]

Here's a sneak peak.

[oak plaza]

Wow, thats really epic...

It feels like a butterfly pattern...

[toxic ocean]

Thanks.

[toxic ocean]

The what 🤨

Lol.

Could also name it Mothron, now that I think about it...

[oak plaza]

Yea, a moth would be a better explanation rather than a butterfly...

Its just that...
The moment I saw it, I got scared like when I see a mariposa...

I have a phobia on butterflies...

[toxic ocean]

My brother has that as well :v

[oak plaza]

I don't know why but that shit is scary...

Liked the paint tho...

[past bramble]

i see a masterpiece in the making

[slow axle]

that mean i could ruin it

[oak plaza]

Will you be making Nick's Ion Core...?

[toxic ocean]

Nope. Snow will be helping me PAINT

You can take your time though... We have all the time in the world.

[oak plaza]

Hey, if you get lazy now you might get rushed later on again...
Hahahahaha

[toxic ocean]

True.

[oak plaza]

I pray and wish you goodluck in your painful painting, as I wish you to succeed...

[stiff sandal]

We get an extension? Pog

Could use this time to give some parts of my ships a makeover, all 3 have little issues

[stiff sandal]

Very front armor bit looks cool

[strange mango]

while the extra time is intended to help those who were not gonna make it, i suppose it could be used by people who already finished to update their ships

[stiff sandal]

Absolutely

Little impurities to correct, or at least make sure they aren't too overpowered lol.

[past bramble]

i got time for a 4th ship now

[toxic ocean]

I've got time for Rotten Core now :DDD

[tired vapor]

"too overpowered"????

[stiff sandal]

Nukes go brrr

[past bramble]

:)

[tired vapor]

but dodge D:

[past bramble]

i think mine would actually be super unbalanced

nukes + TB for extra hit guarantee

[tired vapor]

ai can't use tb lol

ai isn't good at tb at least

and 2 tb isn't going to do much

[strange mango]

powerfull ships are fine, just dont go into meta territory.

[tired vapor]

what is meta though D:

[strange mango]

a ship that was designed with maximising damage output or surviveability in mind, and with little focus put into appearance.

but a ship that is made to look nice, that is also very optimised after is fine

only ships that cant be very powerful are size classes under 3, as those are meant to be easy enemys to introduse the player to the game

but to put it more generally, as long as you dont build traps/walls/railfans/mobile spinning forts or something along those lines its fine

[misty lark]

i think the shrike skips that rule lol

[tired vapor]

i did that lol

except it's not as good as it should be bc i was too lazy to make a new one and just modernified he old one

[past bramble]

the outer ions would drop once in a while

my logistic is bad

[tired vapor]

this is the one i tried to be more meta w/ but it's still pretty aesthetic

it's not as good as it used to be bc the materials thing and alpha strikey facotry setups not working too well

[strange mango]

ima give it the green light

[tired vapor]

yay

[strange mango]

in all honesty, im not that strict on the meta rule, its more for the extreme cases that have like 10 TB or are 50% optimised shields

[tired vapor]

mm ok

[tired vapor]

i was going to make a ship like that but it was really hard to build around so i gave up

[strange mango]

i probably would not have allowed it

[quasi axle]

I've got an almost identical 16 core i was testing, only i had 4 emitters touching the reactor, i like that little gap that makes the emitters line up like that. Is that 8:1 from the bottom half and then 2x 4:1 outputs if i'm seeing it correctly?

[past bramble]

Yes

[stiff sandal]

managed to fix up gladius, should be good to go

next, to polish ancile and Kopis, seen whats already been submitted so I'm getting nervous lol

Avokado and Corrupt got some serious craft

[simple wigeon]

Are there any problems with these ships?

(or sugjections)

(also paint is unfinished)

[bronze citrus]

Too much storages and placed in bad areas

Too many reactors too

[stiff sandal]

imo, gonna need alot more paint

[bronze citrus]

Obviously yeah paint is nowhere near done

[toxic ocean]

Very explosive bois

[wanton granite]

ma smol pirate ship fleet

probably cant do more

[strange mango]

@wanton granite a couple problems with your submission:
first off you are required to give the ships size class (see image that came with the rules)
and second, alot of your ships have overlapping size classes (judging from the given prices) which isnt allowed (at least 3 of them are in size class 1), this rule is to avoid a submission that is just a whole lot of small ships.

you got the following options:
you can remove the ships with overlapping size classes so that there is at most one ship of any given size in your submission and edit the left over ships posts to give the size class. or you can choose to forfeit this contest. although i hope you choose the first option

for reference, here is the size class table

you are not disqualified outright, but you also dont qualify without some changes

[toxic ocean]

Hmm.

Poor Kommandant 😔

On other note...

OH BOY IT'S COMING TOGETHER...

[strange mango]

im noticing ze kommandant isnt in the rules thread, you have read the rules right?

[wanton granite]

i mean i read the anouncement

in the official information wasnt a limit of how many ships can be posted :(

minimum 3

[strange mango]

well i did say in said announcement that the rules are diffrent that usual and should be read carefully, and there was a rule for that: "you must create ships of different size classes" as in no more than 1 of each size class

[toxic ocean]

However it has rules on how you shouldn't have 2 ships of the same size class.

[wanton granite]

duh

[strange mango]

sorry, as much as i hate to say this, but not having read the rules is kinda enough reason for being disqualified from this design contest. i hope you understand. though you are welcome to try again next contest

so just to be sure @wanton granite have you read the rules? yes or no

[wanton granite]

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????ß

i read them

[strange mango]

ah ok, then its fine

[wanton granite]

and i can swear that size limit wasnt there when i checked maybe i just overlooked them

i only read 3 minimum but more allowed till 3500000

[strange mango]

it was there at the begin too, so im guessing you overlooked it

looks to be all ok now, ill try to make the rules more clear next time

[stiff sandal]

Progress being made, front is quite interesting

[toxic ocean]

I guess :>

Progress being made s l o w l y . . .

[strange mango]

(post this was an answer too got removed(presumably by the poster)) is my calendar wrong? there should be a week plus left

[oak plaza]

Okie...

[stiff sandal]

No there isn't anything wrong, I read the dates wrong

[strange mango]

ah aright

ill leave the comment, just to clear up any possible confusion for any people that may have read it before you removed it

[quasi axle]

Oh no..... everyone else took down their stuff to edit and resubmit, now I'm the first submission...

No pressure 😅

[stiff sandal]

Only planning to resubmit as to see how the first view impacts results

[stiff sandal]

No pressure at all, you still got time for paint refixing and logistics upgrades

[strange mango]

@umbral swift the prices in a few of your ships (by the looks of it, all except roach ) dont check out, the submitted price of pirouette for example(107k) and its in game prices (99954 with resources and 98834 without resources) dont match and are too low for a class 5 (110001 to 140000)and should be a class 4(90001 to 110000). also, please give the full price in the submission

@agile adder the prices of Repulse and hammerhead dont check out, and hammer head is illegal by being out of bounds of the build grit. also, the names of the ships are different in game compared to the names given in the submission

[umbral swift]

Are they all disqualified or am I allowed to correct the informasjon without the resources?

[strange mango]

not discualified, just update the post and/or edit the ships where necessary

[umbral swift]

Oki Doki

[strange mango]

@lean flume The infiltrator is just called '300k' ingame

in general, i rarely disqualify anyone outright, and i definitely wont disqualify anyone for making a mistake in the submission unless its clearly done on purpose

that said, any invalid submissions after the deadline will be disqualified

[umbral swift]

Are you sure its 99954 credits cause im veiwing the game price right now and it says 107k

actually it says 113k

i can recheck the values and edit them but still, i think youre mistaken, cause i cant seem to find any other way to veiw your 99k value

[strange mango]

hang on let me double check

[umbral swift]

oki :D

[umbral swift]

HUH?

where do you find this?

[strange mango]

in the ship library

[umbral swift]

something is really wrong

[strange mango]

this is odd

do you have any mods that could be interfering?

[umbral swift]

ohyeah

fuck

i have more storage

ugh

[strange mango]

that explains it then

[umbral swift]

lol

[tight tapir]

@umbral swift if you want your diagonal deck cannon ship to look better, you can save it during battle while the cannon is pointed diagonally

It will make the ship file look like the cannon points diagonal

[umbral swift]

its okei, i kinda dont care about its direction xd

[past bramble]

6-7 more days before voting

[slow axle]

6-7 more day to finish this paint

panic

[vernal lance]

6-7 more day of trying to build an optional 8th ship

[past bramble]

any sneak peak for that rotten core ?

[slow axle]

progress is slow but progress is made

Nick is supposed to paint the left part

[safe stratus]

you could do shadowing first, and then add details... right?

[slow axle]

that what i do

[safe stratus]

ok, then sorry for bothering

[slow axle]

i just don't put shadow all over the ship before making the details only a part

when i fill it i just add more shadow

[safe stratus]

ok

[stiff sandal]

Huh, is the ion core still an issue?

[wanton granite]

piercer

[slow axle]

no i just did not got the version made by ions tinker

[stiff sandal]

Ah

[slow axle]

maybe i would have to repaint some triangle near the core but that fiiiiiiiine

[stiff sandal]

Have fun painting

[wanton granite]

wait why just not copy pasta one side to the other

[oak plaza]

What a great spire...

[wanton granite]

wdym by that?

[vernal lance]

because assym paint

[wanton granite]

wait

lol

assymetric?? it doesnt look like assymetric

[slow axle]

asymetric

[vernal lance]

youre blind ok

[oak plaza]

It has long rod sticking out...
That's a pole, commonly known as a spire...

[simple wigeon]

Wait, are we able to repaint our ships until voting starts?

[oak plaza]

You can still redo your ships up until the end of the submission...

[oak plaza]

You cannot change what you posted when the time is up...

[umbral swift]

ayo stop going so personal on me

[stiff sandal]

Your scraphead ship definitely looks like it could fit as a pirate ship

[umbral swift]

Hahaha, thank you

[tired brook]

Now they have hypers :)
I do think my style fits more to a "rugged militia / Privateer gang" than actual scrapper pirates

[stiff sandal]

@vernal lance nice sotd ship, is it a design contest submission perhaps?

good firepower and perhaps suitable speed for its size

[vernal lance]

yep

[stiff sandal]

very neat

[vernal lance]

im resubmitting my ships to include it

[vernal lance]

well this was a fun contest to mess around in

[wanton granite]

i think ik who will win design contest

[vernal lance]

not me

probably someone like fusion or something

[toxic ocean]

Yeaaah.

Fusion is really talented.

I'll definitely vote for him.

I'll vote for one of your ships too, mister In space f*ck faction bias :>

I especially love the Polaris remake.

The shape, even if kind of stolen, is gorgeous and I don't even want to talk about how great the paint is.

my other fav is the ship with missiles on the back and 2 large shields on the front.

[past bramble]

i already made up my decision on who to vote for

unless some last minute submission blew me away

[stiff sandal]

You and avokado are my toughest opponents

I don't have this so easy, but there are more variables that looks to take into account, stuff like what players would rather fight, mainly what's easier or what would they like to handle in later games

Tried to make my ships weapon systems very fragile, for career railgun ships to easily exploit at ranges, so we will see

Frontal armor however, is a teensy bit tough

Ancile for example, has a very thick frontal armor, but somewhat weak sides

Also unsure if any sotd wins gives influence

[toxic ocean]

[toxic ocean]

My goal 🫡

(Whoops sorry didn't meant to ping)

[stiff sandal]

^

[past bramble]

ur already guarenteed a vote unless its dissapoint :3

[toxic ocean]

Could be optimized down to 3Mil.

Would be very hard though.

[wanton granite]

i have no time nor the will to make a 3 mill pirate ship

also imo it doesnt really fit that pirates have a super beeg ship, except its some patchwork flagship

[past bramble]

3m also leaves very little budget for the other 2 ships

[toxic ocean]

At this point my biggest fear is that I won't have enough money for the rest of the ships because of the sheer magnitude of The Rotten Core.

[stiff sandal]

I'd need to remove alot of reactors, there are like 17

Also for a pirate capital ship, it is helpess against flanking maneuvers or anything staying out of its 64 combined ion beams

[stiff sandal]

How much does it cost now?

Also, I won't submit Hastati, cause I really like how the other 3 ships turned out with their paintjobs and shape 🖌️

[toxic ocean]

About 2.9 Million...

WITHOUT The ioncore!

[stiff sandal]

Oh geez

Thats complicated lol

Your not in a promising situation

[toxic ocean]

Oh speaking of which, I'm yet to merge the ship with the core itself.

[past bramble]

ur gonna have to cut down your submission to 3 at this point

[toxic ocean]

Go on. Logistics are far from done but the beam's gonna be operational as soon as I put the core in.

[toxic ocean]

🥲

[stiff sandal]

Might be best to wait for you to complete your core 😅

[toxic ocean]

All I can do is cross fingers and hope the ship will be able to single-handedly carry my trio ;c

Yes, TRIO

[past bramble]

isnt max class 18

and that is 3m max

unless there is a class above it

[stiff sandal]

Yeah, you got about like 500K left to work with, hope you got some attractive looking tiny ships

[toxic ocean]

Yup, sure got em' 😏

[stiff sandal]

That's good

[toxic ocean]

Go to the first ever post in this channel. I submitted the full class list.

There are indeed classes above 3Mil, but you're not allowed to access them in this tournament.

[stiff sandal]

Unfortunately

[past bramble]

11 to 3

thats a lot of ships u axed huh

[slow axle]

the first post is pretty far already

scoll time!

[past bramble]

thank god blake pinned it in the other channel

[slow axle]

that what i was about to say--

[past bramble]

hmm the most expensive ship in this contest would be the rotten core followed by mine and fusion?

oh i forgot to write down the class in my submision

better fix that

[stiff sandal]

Yep

[quasi axle]

aye, my biggest is right on the line for 15 at 1,599,978 lol

[toxic ocean]

Y o u f o o l ! #1059084974655033415 message

[past bramble]

would be fun tho if we get like 6m budget and can build a behemoth

[toxic ocean]

Yup.

Capital ship design contest when 🥺

You're just dropped in with the task of building one single giant ship with min-3.5 million credit cost and an upper limit budget of 5 million.

I can even picture the motto being ''Quality over quantity!''

[stiff sandal]

Yeah, building behemoth ships for contests would be very entertaining

Makes painting em worth it, well, with the contest giving an extra prize or smth

[strange mango]

i could ask walt if a pirate station contest is within question, and stations go in the 7mil in some cases

[slow axle]

some build-in station are full of stuff so that how they go pass 7mil
at least it was like that the last time i check

an 7mil station is like really huge i think

(correct me if i'm wrong)

[strange mango]

yea its huge, so huge that its illegal by being out of the build grit in fact

[toxic ocean]

hEHEHEHE

Iontinker you chad!

[quasi axle]

I'd be super interested in a station build contest. Though I assume there would be some design requirements similar to this contest for storage space and such if it's a station

[stiff sandal]

Ready for me to have a duel

[quasi axle]

I've also seen discussions of other NPC stuff people would like to design. Like jump beacons, "cryopods" for missions to find and rescue crew members, or even civilian ships

[stiff sandal]

Looks very impressive

Ion is quite an expert

[toxic ocean]

Sorta

[stiff sandal]

Aight

[strange mango]

who knows, i might do one at some point, but it ultimately depends on whether or not walt is okay with it. though i will first make sure there is at least one pirate ship of every size class in game(i will probably ban any size classes that win this contest in the next contest and repeat that cycle until there is at least one of each in the game)

[simple wigeon]

How can I paint my ships better? (they are in the submissions already)

[strange mango]

you are free to delete/resubmit them to make improvements (as long as its within the deadline (feb 8)). as for how you can improve your painting, try to take your time with it, art often takes time to create, and also try not to be a perfectionist right from the get go, thats how you lose motivation

[toxic ocean]

Smart move.

Couldn't resist the urge of a class 18 ship or else I'd be submitting one of every small size ship I could with the budget.

Next time remove he ''one ship per size class'' limit and I'll make precisely 58 size one ships for ya XDDDDD

[strange mango]

thats exactly what that limit is there to avoid

[stiff sandal]

You got alot of large ships, don't ya? @toxic ocean

[toxic ocean]

Only one.

Man this project is SOOO exhausting...

Should've started making major progress a week ago instead of playing with my balls ULMSFs...

:agony:

I thought I had a whole full month so I didn't hurry...

Now the crippling imminent threat of a deadline is right in front... 😳

Ehh, I still got four days, all is fine ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[strange mango]

a. im not extending the deadline a second time for the sake of not having the contest last forever, and b. try to keep it at least a little bit family friendly

[toxic ocean]

Just have to paint my part of the rotten core, optimize it more so it reaches levels where I can take other ships as well, manage crew and resources, more logistics, write lores for all other entries, optimize them all too and prime them up then submit them with all their essay descriptions aaaaaaaaaaa-

[toxic ocean]

It was a joke. By balls obviously I meant these things.

Sorry if it sounded stupid which it did.

And yes I am incredibly grateful that you increased the deadline by a week already and I definitely do not expect any more, that was a kind godsend already 👍

[strange mango]

context was very important here

[quasi axle]

balls nuke and rail spinners

[stiff sandal]

Pretty sure 4 days is sufficient to complete some tiny ships

Or at least, polish them up

[toxic ocean]

Of course.

[toxic ocean]

I did write ULMSFs there though.

[strange mango]

i honestly dont know what that means, and i hate that i currently feel like a boomer asking their grandson "whats a lol"

tho to be honest, im just very bad with abbreviations which might be an extension of my dyslexia

[toxic ocean]

Yeah true, I'm not keen on abbreviations and frequently ask questions like ''What's a smh?''

[toxic ocean]

Yeah, I can relate :>

ULMSF is an Ultra-Light Mobile Spinner Fortress, basically a fast spinning ship with a lot of shields.

That's all, no layers.

Just said that questionable line because over past few days I've been doing nothing but tinker with them.

[strange mango]

ah right, i suspected it was some sort of mobile spinning fort but the UL was trowing me off.

[slow axle]

good thing i start painting a week ago even if i worked almost everyday see how i'm slow

[toxic ocean]

True.

Working at regular intervals slowly can almost be better than thinking you're fast and putting off the work until the very last day XD

[quasi axle]

yeah sure, that's a totally intuitive acronym

[toxic ocean]

Lol.

[strange mango]

whats a lol?

(oh i forgot to turn off ping, my excuses)

[stiff sandal]

ok, imma submit em now before I forget

[toxic ocean]

No poblem.

[oak plaza]

I thought the ion core would have a wonky set of prisms but still functional like what I did in my Asteriod, you know to look like it was damaged by the shot but is still working in order...

But it's great...

I could say it's very well built...

[toxic ocean]

Sigh this was one of the most painful logistics tasks I ever had to endure 😫

Crew part down, now time for the resource part.

That won't be nearly as ainful... Hopefully.

*Painful.

[oak plaza]

It will be done in no time...

[oak plaza]

One of the drawbacks of not making a symmetrical ship...

[toxic ocean]

Yes.

Anyways, with the undoubtedly way simpler resource part down.....

It's now time for the final stretch— The aint.

*Pain't

Also ye that's a nice Easter Egg.

The ship's fully hotkeyed now...

[oak plaza]

Nice...

Someday, I will make a ship costing 420,690...

And I'll name it Nice...

[slow axle]

good thing i don't know how to do logistics avoid me pain

and give me pain when i'm in pvp

[toxic ocean]

Okay... I did some DC bindings and fixed some hotkeys and logistics... Set flaks to only defend...

Also at this point I'm just stalling for time because I don't want to get to the painting part.

So being a smirking face I am 😏... I will do a stress test :D

LOOK AT THAT! It barely even flickers!.. Except for the backside but that's because it has a med reactor.

I'll physically never be using all these engines in conjunction.

[slow axle]

you have to test with the ions on

[toxic ocean]

Oh boi

Yeah I'll do that too.

First a monothrust stress test...

It works flawlessly, especially for such a worn ship.

This proves that no matter how bad (Functionally) the ship, good logistics can save anything!

One pat on the back for me!

Even ions aren't that bad... On their own at least.

INCREDIBLE POWER

[oak plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-doctor-octopus-the-power-of-the-sun-in-the-palm-of-my-hand-sun-gif-23770857

[toxic ocean]

Its shieldsoaking potential isn't insanely exceptional (It's still amazing considering Icarus has the strongest set of shields in the entire game) because of the spread on the outer edges, but don't forget, this thing can chase, and it has 6 Disruptors, not to mention nukes, HEs, anti-squib cannons and HE missiles! This thing can pack a punch to say the least, even when its beam is taken out of the consideration.

[toxic ocean]

Shading sneak peak

This is probably the first and last sneak peak I'll submit before the left part is finished.

[oak plaza]

Can't wait...

[safe stratus]

b o i

dis gonna come out gud

[past bramble]

3-4 more days before voting

[wanton granite]

me like

i luve the detailing

[toxic ocean]

Thanks.

Detailing was done by Xsnow.

I haven't started actually painting yet.

Only shading and some slight paint additions for now.

I'm gonna get started on the real paintwork soon enough.

One last sneaky for now.

(Yeah I actually started painting the tail end but not the left part)

[strange mango]

not to rush you, but you got a bit over 3 days to do so

[toxic ocean]

I know.

Today I did a ton of progress.

[strange mango]

ah nice

[toxic ocean]

If I do just the same tomorrow, it'll be done then and there.

[strange mango]

aright just making sure, idd hate for you to spend so much time into it only not to make it

[toxic ocean]

Me and Snow's (And Iontinker's) combined work might add up to a straight day if not more, a this point.

*At

This ship's been through 2 failed prototypes and one heck of a production mayhem.

[stiff sandal]

Im positive you can finish it in time

[tired brook]

The ship looks gorgeous. Itl be exciting seeing non-faction ships ingame

[stiff sandal]

Indeed

[tired vapor]

can someone check my stuff pls i have no idea if i did it right or not

had several wips but then i didn't feel like playign this game anymore

[strange mango]

looks good to me

[strange mango]

ive said this earlier in this contest and ill say it again as many times as needed, please dont overwork yourself into a burnout over a digital competition for a video game, this contest is not worth that, its meant to be fun first and foremost

[tired vapor]

mhm

[toxic ocean]

Yes, the contest itself, even if fun and worthwhile, might not be worth overworking oneself, but it's not a mere contest anymore, at least for me... It's hours upon hours of passionate work that I definitely don't want to go to waste.

Just like you said, ''would be unfortunate if this much work went to waste.''

At this point the paint's ~75% finished.

Maybe even more.

[tired brook]

Our contest ships also looks cool for general showcasing

Fun stuff im proud about

Ill make 1 more 500k ish then sub all my builds

[strange mango]

while it would be unfortunate for anyone to work hard on a submission only not to make it, thats never an excuse to sacrifice your mental health

[toxic ocean]

True 😔

[oak plaza]

On a high note though...

You got this brother...
Never surrender and never give up...

[toxic ocean]

🫡

[past bramble]

its nice tho having a reason to try something new

[stiff sandal]

happy you got it finally out of the way? I remember the big one taking quite a while to perfect, turned out pretty solid so it seems like it was all worth it.

[oak plaza]

It looked like tiger stripes, I love it...

[quasi axle]

Definitely some solid looking entries @tired vapor

Glad to see you've finally decided they're ready

and @toxic ocean i'm hoping to see your submissions, but if you don't finish in time for contest, i'm still gonna hope to see some SotD submissions at least.
Don't stress too much, but I still hope you finish and wish you luck/creative inspiration to finish painting

[tired vapor]

no lol i could've done so much more but i feel very dead rn

[toxic ocean]

I love your submissions air, as a stray ship I willde finitely vote on your larger one.

[tired vapor]

yay

[strange mango]

i want to keep the votes as rule-less as possible (other than things like "only vote once"), but i did add a rule to the individual ship vote that says that you have to vote for at least 2 participants, just to make it impossible to only vote for your own ships.this decision is not yet final and any feedback to this is welcome

[tired vapor]

most ppl probably won't vote for their own anyways lol

[strange mango]

most yes, but that would give the people that do it more of an unfair advantage

[toxic ocean]

Simply make it so that you can't vote for yourself, if there's a way to do that, like register the ships to specific users that made them. Voting for oneself is incredibly petty and cringey and kinda against the voting thing to begin with, and no fair person should do that.

[stiff sandal]

Question is how many people are even gonna be able to vote anyways? Only like 30 people are here so...

We're probably gonna need alot more

[toxic ocean]

Just ask walt to do @ everyone and announce the fact.

We'll get hundreds of votes in notime :D

[strange mango]

ive had this problem for as long as i have been hosting, im yet to find a good way to avoid it all together. i did consider asking for the users discord name but that came with its own problems
@stiff sandal votes will take place in #tournament-announcements , which everyone can see

[stiff sandal]

Aight

[quasi axle]

I've actually been meaning to go reread the rules to see how voting would work because i didn't remember reading about it anywhere. this is great to know

[quasi axle]

I shamelessly vote for my own ships when i submit them for SotD... (i know SotD is just whatever Walt likes) but i also vote for all the other ships i really like too. I vote for the ships I want to win lol

[toxic ocean]

I don't think it's about how many upvotes a ship gets, it's about which one Walt thinks is the coolest.

I guess ''UPDOOTS'' play a part as well.

[strange mango]

to sum it up, you will be asked to vote for 3 full submissions, and 6 individual ships, the winners will be the 3 participants with the most submission votes and 6 standalone ships (that didnt win the aforementioned) with the most individual votes

[toxic ocean]

I honestly don't really care that much about the smaller ships (Aside from Shamblefoul maybe). I only want my our month old passionproject to win.

[strange mango]

the is also another way to win: walt himself may choose a couple ships as a 'walts pick', those get added to the game along with the winners of the vote

[quasi axle]

If every participant has the same 3 votes, I don't see why voting for yourself would be discouraged. As for individual ships, even with 6 votes and voting for your own ships, it's not like you can vote twice

[toxic ocean]

I will still not vote for myself. I'd genuinely feel shame if my ship won (I.E. got into the top 3 factions or top 6 ships) by one more vote, only because I voted for it.

[strange mango]

the thing is, if everyone votes for themself it would be no problem, but not everyone does, so it gives an advantage to those who do

[mortal cave]

Why is voting for yourself always so contentious? What's wrong with having confidence that your ships are the best ships?

[tired vapor]

sotd "votes" don't matter

[mortal cave]

And yeah just have more individual votes afforded to players mitigates that

[toxic ocean]

I don't know, I personally find it slightly petty. And then again you make ships so good it wouldn't be a shame to consider them the best.

Also imagine if Engineers participated in DCs, they'd absolutely destroy the competition. There's not really a point as ya'll already can put your ships in the game with no trouble, but it would be hilarious

[mortal cave]

Yeah that's the next point, if any of the architects entered they would have the best ships

I think most people have the self awareness to not be biased towards their own ships and just vote on the best ships to put in the game anyhow

[strange mango]

i suppose so, i guess i can try a vote without set in stone self vote rules

[quasi axle]

I feel like the only way self votes would be a problem is if the only people voting were the participants and no one votes for anyone but themselves. I'm certain that we'll have more voters than participants

[stiff sandal]

Im in this for the cool discord rank lmao 😅

and maybe to show off talent on the side

[strange mango]

probably, last time there where about 40 voters, after the steam release theres likely gonna be more

[quasi axle]

same, but also to get some of my art added to the game

[stiff sandal]

yeah, seems we both have that wish

[slow axle]

imagine having 20 people collab and all self-vote

[stiff sandal]

that would be funny

[safe stratus]

welp, my laziness got me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late.

[strange mango]

dont worry, there will always be a next contest

[quasi axle]

Discord Rank, your name in the credits, your ships in the game... but mostly that discord swag

[stiff sandal]

Oh yeah

[mortal cave]

Im pretty sure don't get your name in the credits through design competitions, tgough it's still a lot of cool bragging rights to win despite that

[strange mango]

wait you dont? oh no i think i made a false promise then

[mortal cave]

I don't recall it happening in the past. You can look at the credits and see if there's a section with recognizable names

[strange mango]

classic has a section in the credits titled "additional ship design" i kinda assumed that was from contests

by the names in said list it seems to be contest winners @mortal cave

[mortal cave]

One can always ask Walt when prompting him for Walt's Pick I suppose

[past bramble]

i just want my creation in the game

that alone is already a flex

is the discord rank the same one as slowking has?

[strange mango]

theres 2 roles, one for tournaments and one for contests

the contest role is called master of design iirc

[toxic ocean]

Yeah, that's the only reason I want my ship to win. To get a piece of my creativity that I poured a lot of passion into, in this amazing game I've been in love for years.

And seeing your and your partner's name alongside people like Vilda, Hatter and Saris is obviously a big dopamine boost :lenny:

[stiff sandal]

There is a fair bit of good submissions tho

Avokado, corrupt, challenging

[quasi axle]

It's only been a few months for me, but i can already tell that even if I play on and off, this will be a game with years of enjoyment

[toxic ocean]

Avocado, Corrupt, air And YOU are my biggest opponents.

[stiff sandal]

oh yeah, Air has a nice, sleek submission

[toxic ocean]

Air is surprisingly talented at painting, would have never guessed in a billion years.

The same guy behind generic white boxes.

And boom, like that, casually, Vilda-level Cabaline paint!

[past bramble]

im hoping for walt pick like the last time i got a ship in

aint no way im winning through votes against the like of fusion and avokado

[slow axle]

who know

[toxic ocean]

Nah, your paint's of a very similar quality.

[quasi axle]

I submitted ships too

[toxic ocean]

Okay I guess you too

The big ship of yours is surprisingly very good.

Anyways my PC froze again but this time it didn't unfreeze and I lost a buncha Rotten Core paint progress probably, let's see what the latest autosave has to offer...

🙏

Nope.

It's lost :'c

Whatever, it was 15 minutes' worth of progress anyways, not like I lost an entire ship or anything :>

[quasi axle]

As much as I like my smaller ship designs and the progression through budget and upgrades, I'm very proud of my largest ship. I really like how it turned out

[stiff sandal]

will you be submitting anything on your own?

[slow axle]

No, and since i already make a collab with Nick i think the rules don't allow me to anyway--

[quasi axle]

@strange mango Just to clarify, only first place gets the discord role reward?

[strange mango]

yes

[toxic ocean]

I don't think our entire fleet will be worth to get nominated, but the sole ships might be.

Man, I definitely don't want to submit the progress as I want to keep the ship a surprise until it's done kind of done, but I can't express the hype I feel for it.

Painting individual parts, I hought I still had a lot of work leftover, but DANG! the full picture shows that it's in the least 90% done!

And it's looking M A R V E L O U S . . . . .

Man, all those hours upon hours of work are finally paying off the more I work on it...

And this is why, you should NEVER give up!..

I was this close to in many instances.

:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Okay, I'll end of my progress here.

This was epic...

See ya'll tomorrow...

My goal of completely finishing the paint today was unaccomplished, but hey, you can't always be a winner...

[stiff sandal]

hoping for me to get the dub

I need to get this role, more than anything lol

this will not be easy, deadline draws ever closer

[bronze citrus]

Rip

Lost ships didnt work either?

[tired vapor]

i don't get capitals :pensif:

[tired vapor]

my old ships were not very good lol, i just realized doing the same thing over and over again can be productive but it takes forever so i did smth else

[jagged valve]

Time for me to start building

[tired vapor]

would be funny if someone started on the last day and won

[stiff sandal]

that would be impressive....

[stiff sandal]

going to make any large warships, or just sticking with the smaller vessels?

[past bramble]

My ship doesnt have enough ftl efficiency to jump

That is not an issue right?

[quasi axle]

I remember the rule being that any ship above level 5 must have at least one FTL

don't think it said anything about jump efficiency though

But personally it wouldn't feel right if it weren't actually jump capable

Would it be a hard fix? idk about you but i almost usually try to build right up to my budget limit

[past bramble]

i can fix crimsonbrace

thornyard i dont think i can due to how the front half is completely disconnected from any power

[quasi axle]

ehh efficiency is calculated weird sometimes, two FTL next to each other might be enough to do it

@past bramble oh wait! hear me out...

FTL on the front with an airlocks. Crew will deliver batteries through airlocks if it's not connected through doors and corridors

or FTL+Capacitor+Airlock or something

[flint abyss]

now i have to put my name on the ships, and put a description. i'm think of sending 6 ships, i just hope i don't have 2 in the same category (of the 6 i want to send)

wait, i think my smaller ship doesn't have enough storage for 3 fights XD (really depends what it fights)
i guess i'll have to set all the storage to ammo then

[past bramble]

can they transfer energy through airlocks?

[flint abyss]

yes

see title screen

[quasi axle]

Make sure they fall within these ranges. Iirc that can be the empty cost or including the cost of cargo/ammo, though the latter is preferred.

[quasi axle]

Consider for an NPC pirate ship that allocating any and all of your storage to sulfur or ammo makes sense. Stygil is a great example that comes to mind for an NPC ship with big central storage of sulfur/iron, then crew to distribute to local storage for weapons/factories

[past bramble]

idk the extra ftl looks odd

[quasi axle]

ehh idk it kinda fits with the paint, there's a gap there

[past bramble]

crimson with ftl is ok alot easier to pull off

[quasi axle]

nice

[strange mango]

@fast goblet all of your ships give the following error when trying to load them in the game

[fast goblet]

Huh

I'll check if I had any mods on by accident

Sorry

[fast goblet]

I won't be able to do it for at least next couple of hours, should I delete the submission posts for now?

P.s. apologies for the ping

[strange mango]

delete them for now, as long as you get them resubmited before the deadline its fine, also i dont mind the ping

[quasi axle]

@strange mango while you're here, could you verify this info i posted so i can correct it

[strange mango]

it sounds about right

[quasi axle]

okie, just wanted to make sure i wasn't giving out bad info, ty

[flint abyss]

i'm worrying that my ships are a bit too strong :/
they're built half for MP and half for fun

for exemple those are both the smallest and biggest ship that i want to send

[strange mango]

the large ship is a bit armour heavy, but besides than that its fine i think. its not spamming as many nukes and roof turrets as possible (only 4 of each) and it only has 2 small shields so i dont consider it to break the no meta rule

[flint abyss]

just below breach, there's rampart btw

the only redeeming feature is its exposed back

[strange mango]

this one however can be considered a speedy wall (dont recal the exact term), which is a meta

tho its a bit of a grey area

[flint abyss]

it peaks at 90, but then the engine power fails and get to 70

[strange mango]

i hate saying no to a ship, specially this late in the contest, but it resembles a meta a bit too much. how many ships do you got besides these 3?

[fast goblet]

I've checked and I definitely have no mods rn
I'll send my ships here for now, can you please check if they are working properly?

thank you in advance

[strange mango]

they load in fine now

[fast goblet]

amazing

I have no clue what happened before XD

[strange mango]

very odd

[flint abyss]

you do't need to worry, i was convinced last minute to send some of my ships here

those 3

[strange mango]

aright then, other than rampart you can submit these ships if you want, though for future contests try to not join last minute (as in join earlyer)

[flint abyss]

i had not intention on joining it.
the contest started just when i came back to the game and i wanted to do my own style XD that's all

in all honesty, i want to send this, but it has no paint

and i need a 3rd ship with it

[strange mango]

well, you are welcome to submit them anyway, but im a bit confused what your goal is if you are not intending to join

[quasi axle]

you have just under 48 hours to apply paint lol

[flint abyss]

ahah, i have stuff to do sadly, that's why i can really just pool from things that are done

[past bramble]

He didnt intend to participate originally but a few people convinced him to submit a bunch of his finished ship since they looked good and are contest material

[tight tapir]

Wow so many good submissions

[strange mango]

ah i see

[flint abyss]

done, if rampart was there, i would be near the submission limit

i was debating to send escort ships, bit they conflict with other ships are they are the same classes

would have sent those 2, but they both conflict with mild and knocker

[quasi axle]

@flint abyss what about your asymm ships?

[flint abyss]

the small nuke on conflict with an other ship, but mostly, they aren't made for multiple fights, they have very little ammunition

[quasi axle]

Ahh makes sense

[flint abyss]

and even rampart could maybe do 2 fights with equal budget, but it is storage supplied (6 DC, each with a 4x4 storage)

[vernal lance]

never knew i was an actually tough opponent to deal with on the contest

[toxic ocean]

Okay it's time for the final stretch 🫡

[umbral swift]

Damn, voting on these ships are going to be hard

so many good contendors

[strange mango]

true, there are also over 70 ships to pick from

[oak plaza]

I wouldn't believe it if I win with so many great ships...
They deserve credit for their efforts...

[strange mango]

for those curious about the exact number, there are currently 76 ships by 14 participants

[slow axle]

and there even more to come

[strange mango]

thats an avarage of about 5.5 ships per participant, which is well over the old standard of 3 ships per participant

(i mean obviously it was gonna be a higher avarage, with the minimum staying the same, but still , i didnt expect it to be nearly doubled)

[quasi axle]

I am one of those who wasn't even here for the last one. I hadn't heard of the game until I saw it on Steam the day it released

[flint abyss]

tbh, avokado and kaine are hard contenders for me to choose.
but out of nepotism friendship i'll vote kaine
(while avokado's ships and paint are great, i would like some normal looking painted ship in the game)

[wanton granite]

im not building large ship with the correct inspiration

sadly no pirate large ship

inspiration..

need to make carrier with tb tech tho

[flint abyss]

call theta then XD

[strange mango]

you will be able to vote for multiple people, so both is an option

[flint abyss]

:o

[past bramble]

its 1 for a player and 3 for ships right?

[strange mango]

its 3 players and 6 individual ships atm, but the numbers are not final

i believe that last time it was 2/6 instead of 3/6

[flint abyss]

fun fact, if there was only 3 competitors, they would all be automatically top 3

[strange mango]

well, yes, they would be the top 3 by default

[past bramble]

Oh

[stiff sandal]

what about me or air lol

[flint abyss]

did i stutter ?

[past bramble]

Well that amount of votes is nice

[flint abyss]

lmao, your ships are great, but doesn't strike a particular cord of mine

[stiff sandal]

Hm

[quasi axle]

what about Anthraax

[stiff sandal]

what about TastyCoffee

[toxic ocean]

...And I guess hey look too much like Imperium in some parts because of the color scheme...

*They.

[stiff sandal]

I guess in the end Walt has the final say

Some could be vetoed

[toxic ocean]

And some submissions could be forgotten by the history books for good 🥲

[flint abyss]

it's kine with the red spiky ships

[past bramble]

Im playing with fire honestly

[stiff sandal]

Aren't we all?

I remember the last design contest for classic

Total nightmare for me lmao

Actually.. I may need to fix the efficiency for FTL on my lads

[past bramble]

One my ftl requires some airlock movement which is not great

[flint abyss]

tbh, if i'm allowed 3 votes (to people) mines would be for avokado, kaine, and in space. (but here again, personal taste)
might use one of my ship vote on fusion's largest ship (the HE boat)

[stiff sandal]

Oh the HE one

[toxic ocean]

The Rotten Core stats.

It's just an hour of work left!

[past bramble]

Pog

[toxic ocean]

Gotta attend to some IRL business but soon enough my magnum opus shall be finished!

[flint abyss]

kine's small one is great too, and air's big one

[past bramble]

I do wonder if recency bias would come into effect

Trying to get to anthraax ship is a long scroll

[oak plaza]

How about mine...😢

[past bramble]

Your abit more center

[flint abyss]

anthraax's ships are just too unique for me

[past bramble]

Anthraax is all the way at the top lol

[toxic ocean]

I will take a moment to mention Kommandant's ships (Which are being posted RN)

They are very basic but very effective.

Simlism at its best.

[past bramble]

Is he doing what you were gonna attempt originally?

[toxic ocean]

No wacky premise, no exaggerated design features, no gimmicks, just overall solid little ships.

[toxic ocean]

I think yes!

All the ships go from diff.1 to... And keep going.

[past bramble]

Doing every single class until budget finish

How much ship were you able to get?

was it 11?

[toxic ocean]

12 I think.

Or 13

[quasi axle]

in what ways?

[wanton granite]

my submissions at the end.. sadly not that many ships as i hoped

[quasi axle]

yeah i've been looking at the scroll bar get longer since i submitted and watched everyone that was above me take theirs dwon, so now i'm all the way at the top

[flint abyss]

just like my ships are just my style

as in your own world

[wanton granite]

uniqueness is the best trait of a ship

which is why i favorite corrupt ships

very assymetric unique and fitting to the theme

[toxic ocean]

~~Asymmetric, unique, fitting of the theme. ~~

[quasi axle]

I guess i try not to mimic other people's/faction building styles, and i try to have my own paint style and color palette.
For example, I really like Saris' art style, but the more people keep trying to imitate it, the less unique it will become.

[wanton granite]

large pirate ship

flag ship*

[toxic ocean]

Yeah, color palette definitely make your ships stand out.

[wanton granite]

this remains my most unique: meme railfan

i wont be able to make a new one sadly....

[toxic ocean]

WHY

[wanton granite]

well

[toxic ocean]

Why you had to do this...

[wanton granite]

too unique

[toxic ocean]

Well at least it's not a box...

[wanton granite]

it was already a tedious task to bring feuerdrache over to modern

[toxic ocean]

Well okay the silhouette kinda is, but... It's a unique kind of box.

[past bramble]

Who is corrupt btw

Is it in space?

[wanton granite]

ye

stil calling them by there old name

[wanton granite]

im honest with you, i wont be able to replicate the paint job, as im a shading dependant now, back than i could only do pattern paint

[flint abyss]

sadly i can't submit my internal spinners.

it would be fun if a "everything is allowed, but no prizes" contest was held

[toxic ocean]

Me too ;-;

I am solely a shade painter now.

[toxic ocean]

Before that my paint style looked along the lines of this.

...And this.

Lot of regular fades, no shade garbo going on.

And weirdass patterns too.

[strange mango]

i probably wont ever to a 'absolutely no rules everything is allowed' contest, at the very least discord tos will aply

[flint abyss]

ok, i agree no NSFW

i mean, is that even a question ?

[toxic ocean]

Self-explanatory rule lol.

[flint abyss]

nor viruses

[toxic ocean]

You probably won't be able to to begin with. AI simply can't use MSFs and Internal Spinner ships.

[past bramble]

Im surprised the veteran builders like quiximo isnt participating

[toxic ocean]

Nor Ion Capacitor bullcrap.

[flint abyss]

no, that's allowed, that's fun

[quasi axle]

speaking of, i wonder if that SOTD with the NSFW name ever got taken down or edited lol

[toxic ocean]

What NSFW name?

Which one you talking about.

[quasi axle]

that diagonal rail broadside ship that was named ||"Rheinmetal-Fatcock420"||, which has indeed been removed from SOTD feed.

[flint abyss]

when i say everything is allowed, it's not for the ai, really, it's just a contest for designs for design's sake

[strange mango]

this is not #generaldo try to stay on topic at least a little bit

(im mostly refering to the nsfw ship name topic)

[flint abyss]

don't you mean, sotd name problem

[strange mango]

well yes, but im stoping the topic before it gets out of hand

[flint abyss]

got it

[toxic ocean]

WUT

That doesn't look like takedown-worthy.

[flint abyss]

i look forward to voting time

[toxic ocean]

But it is very concerning.

[past bramble]

2 days

Or is it 1

[toxic ocean]

😨

[flint abyss]

2-1 days

[toxic ocean]

Lol I'm kidding.

[strange mango]

somewhere inbetween

[past bramble]

Im on asian time and have no idea what cest is

[toxic ocean]

I'm more than ready to submit today.

[strange mango]

its central european standard time

[toxic ocean]

Timezoneconvertersexist.

AA Spacebar.

[past bramble]

I am 7 hours ahead

well so voting would be around evening for me on 8 feb

[strange mango]

nah, voting will last at least 24 hours

[stiff sandal]

Nice

[stiff sandal]

I mean, it's more than a fair bit of other submissions

[stiff sandal]

How much crew is it asking for? Lol

[toxic ocean]

A metric crap ton to say lighly.

*Lightly.

No 666 :'c

[strange mango]

for the record, well planed ships can funtion with much less than the suggested crew amount

[toxic ocean]

Yup.

Rotten Core doesn't though.

...Despite more than enough crew.

10 Ion emitters, few shields, factories and two stacked engine rooms is too much to ask for a giant reactor.

Full top right reactor load.

[strange mango]

yea ions are rather power hungry

[toxic ocean]

10 is the upper limit of large reactors.

11 very slightly flickers.

Any more than that is just not worth it.

It's left over with 0.8 ions' worth of energy after 10 ions.

That's miserable 1 energy per second, only 2/3 of small reactor's output!

...Can still run some stuff though.

Okay this is getting slightly off-topic 🥶

......Anyways, is Yuki submitting any ships?

[toxic ocean]

You were SOOO right on that one...

Also yeah credit goes to you Kine for the idea.

If not for you The Rotten Core wouldn't even exist.

6 Suppliers per 2 is a lot?

[tight tapir]

No

[slow axle]

it's really few

i have 6 FOR ONE

[tight tapir]

^

[toxic ocean]

Okay.

[past bramble]

glad to be of help

[stiff sandal]

Sorry, was not trying to respond to you

Meant to be a continuation of a comment of mine a while back

How's the painting going?

[toxic ocean]

I'm doing something important right now, not Cosmoteer related. When I'm free (And after I eat supper) I'll finish it.

[stiff sandal]

I imagine the paint has turned out spectacularly

[quasi axle]

honestly i can't tell if i'm more nervous for voting time because of my own submissions or more excited to see everyone's finished works.
So many cool ships right now and hopefully some more later today

[fast goblet]

Same
And also no matter what will be the outcome of voting we are guaranteed to have quite a bit of cool new ships in game :)

[flint abyss]

you guys have suppliers ?

[toxic ocean]

Finally.

It's exactly 12 pm and I'll probably go very soon, but at least I'm done... I guess...

(I'm done with IRL stuff, not the ship)

Lol... Just in case someone's confused.

[strange mango]

congrats, im looking forward to the submission

[toxic ocean]

Depends if I'll be able to finish it right now or will need to go.

[strange mango]

oh with the irl stuff, i thought you meant the ships, still looking forward to the submission though

[wanton granite]

Well you still have one day as puffering

[strange mango]

true, theres still over 24 hours left

[toxic ocean]

👍

It is seriously THIS CLOSE

No sneakies yet though 😏

[stiff sandal]

even we got a little while longer, my nervousness is peaking XD

[umbral swift]

Maybe update some of the rules in voting chat? cause its very back and fourth for me. How many votes do we get? what and what do we vote for? u know

[toxic ocean]

AT LAST.

AT LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG LAST.

IT'S DONE!

IN ALL ITS MARVELOUS, SCRAPPY GLORY!

@slow axle This is a big day!

...Or midnight.

[slow axle]

YEEEE

[toxic ocean]

Here's an unimaginably detailed screenshot.

(As detailed as I could make withou my computer exploding that is)

*Without.

I am unimaginably happy on how this thing turned out... It has been a WILD ride!

This thing has had an absolutely stupendous troubled production and I'm ecstatic of the results despite, or maybe because of that!

Probably my single biggest project and the most time-consuming one too.

:D

[mortal cave]

Is this too mean

[toxic ocean]

XD

[mortal cave]

Legitimately well done though, I must say

[toxic ocean]

Thanks a lot, means a ton to me 🫡

Thank ya'll who believed that I could make it to the end :>

[strange mango]

voting will be rather self explanatory once its time . but i can update the rules i suppose, tho i will do so tommorow as im just going to bed, and congrads @toxic ocean on making it with a day or so to spare

[toxic ocean]

Thanks.

...And special thanks to Kine for the idea, Iontinker for the core, and especially Xsnow for basically half the paint.

Now I'll go, it's way past midnight, good night ya'll

Finally, I've been waiting for almost a month to do this...

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/791551 :DDDDDDDD

[strange mango]

i try not to do anything event related before i go to bed, as my sleeping meds could effect my decisions making for the worse

[toxic ocean]

(That's where the name comes from :>)

Now seriously, goodbye-

[strange mango]

i assume you will submit the ships tomorrow then?

[tired vapor]

lol no i think ur fine

[tired vapor]

should be fine actually, especially when piloted by ai

[stiff sandal]

Niceee, after a month it's finally done

The pieces of the puzzle are all together now

[wanton granite]

Guess who got my vote

[oak plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squidward-gif-21621168

Anzu's more delinquent Brother/Cousin...

[toxic ocean]

Yes.

Anzu's slightly foul cousin...

Should I consider a duel between them?

Woah man, Anzu's small compared to it! 👀

[past bramble]

when are you going to submit btw?

there a 28 hours left before submission closed

[toxic ocean]

I know. I just haven't decided what to do with the budget.

Clearly I don't have the money for all four but I really want Shamblefoul to make it in...

[toxic ocean]

YES, FOUND THE ORIGINAL FALLEN!

One hour of tweaks and cost optim avoided!

[vernal lance]

now submit them

[toxic ocean]

Okay.

[past bramble]

christ thats alot of ships all over the place

[toxic ocean]

According to my slightly rough calculations I have ~60K of optimization to do.

:agony:

Oh... MY... FUCKING GOOOOOOD!!!

I randomly imported The Fallen's color scheme on Shamblefoul and it just WORKS!!

This is fucking BEAUTIFUL!

[safe stratus]

Woah

[fast goblet]

Woah, it really looks great

[toxic ocean]

Thanks

Coffee's submissions are underrated, honestly.

[fast goblet]

I mean
The voting didn't even start yet XD

[oak plaza]

You have solid ships honestly...
They look as great as the others...

[fast goblet]

Thanks!

[oak plaza]

Every ship has a great style and was made great too...
Its going to be a hard fight to compete...

[strange mango]

i updated the rules to better explain the votes

[strange mango]

@tired brook could you explain the faction icons on klick? they are not exactly banned, but they should have a reason in universe to be on pirates

[tired brook]

Ah

in universe hes a solo pirate

who counts his kills