design contest chat

[wispy vigil]

Ammunition factories are very dense ways of holding ammunition and are great for deck cannons

[rose swan]

Unless your ship is the size of Sprocket (or slightly larger) you should be using ammo factories with stored sulfur for deck cannons. Some built-ins don't do this, and they tend to have pretty dire ammo issues against players or other NPCs.

2x3 is generally fine for nukes, though I'd try to push that up to two 2x2s or a 2x2 with a 2x3 per launcher on larger ships if you can. 3x3 is fine for flak.

[wispy vigil]

I think 1, 2x3 storage is fine for 2 lc

[rose swan]

LCs will chew through that very fast. On small ships that might be fine, but on anything large/medium-sized you should probably bump that up to a 2x2 or 2x3 per cannon. That still runs out fast, but it isn't practical to add much more without chaining/shield placement issues - and at high prices surface weapons like LCs and flak will usually get destroyed quickly anyway, so it matters a bit less.

Stored ammo is pretty much the last thing you want to pinch pennies on if you're trying to make a built-in.

[elfin venture]

ah

[uncut vault]

Yeah a sensor doesn’t fit in the current configuration

[lament skiff]

So just to make sure

The actual price is the one when you spwn the ship in with no resources

right?

[oak plaza]

Yes...

I however, just use the as is price for mine...
HAHAHAHAHA

[lament skiff]

I usually do that

However I added some aesthetic structure and now I’m over the limit with the shown price

[oak plaza]

Bad, disqualify this person😤... /j

[grizzled sequoia]

second ship done

[oak plaza]

Magic Wand...

Kills you with the power of friendship...
And this Nuke I found...

[oak plaza]

Gives a whole new meaning to Nuke Stick...

[vernal lance]

it really doesnt

[grizzled sequoia]

Expecto patronuke

[toxic ocean]

Lmao that's so good.

[oak plaza]

I need a question for the Architects, is Mister Rock's ship be okay to edit again and submit to the architect voting process once more...?

I really wanna know more of the flaws of that ship, or is it just because it's a Deck Gun Rammer that it didn't get approved...

I as much as I could, I wanna make sure the two, Mister and Missus will be in the career somewhere...

Even if they aren't spawned together, just like a love story they will come together as one by the player...

[small breach]

my current submissions are looking good

1.150mil ship with satellite theme, rammer with nuk and cold explorer

[lament skiff]

Nuklearni’s revenge

I think the nuke rammer looks cool but it would probably do better in the contest with more joobles and jibbles on the front

[small breach]

cro cube done

tried to mimic cantiloupe somewhat based on how i remember it looking

[small breach]

i'll do fixes and paint changes tomorrow

[lament skiff]

👍

[toxic ocean]

I like the stalagmite ship.

Or satelite whatever.

[toxic ocean]

Not bad not bad, it's definitely unique.

[oak plaza]

Have you seen my new Marigold Reborn recolor rehaul Nick...?

[toxic ocean]

Ahh yes, very contextually appropriate question.

Also no.

[rose swan]

From the Oct. contest event doc:

You may submit your ship to be reevaluated once if it is rejected.
So no, you cannot.
I really wanna know more of the flaws of that ship, or is it just because it's a Deck Gun Rammer that it didn't get approved...
The winning ship of that contest was a deck gun rammer.

The brick shape and overall paint quality were the reason it was rejected. You can see specific feedback on the spreadsheet.

[fleet gull]

Take a look pls

Survive even cut in half

If the engine and nuke survive its still can win a fight

Shit about the paint

[elfin venture]

Impressive but definitely too big to submit

[fleet gull]

Are this one fine?

[elfin venture]

How much does it cost?

[fleet gull]

2,800,000

[elfin venture]

it is not

check the design contest rules - largest division goes up to only 2mil

[fleet gull]

OK thanks

[oak plaza]

Well that's sad...
I guess I have to rework Missus Ket's lore description to note that there is a partner locked somewhere...

Mister Rock is still in the game files right...?

[oak plaza]

I just made this 260K ship that I would dub as the most cruelest ship if ever it was implemented in career...

It relies on the enemy ship not having a sensor which will exploit and shoot before they notice...

Thank God I already posted 3 ships...
I will submit this one for the next if ever...

[vernal lance]

did you forget the existence of ship blips

[oak plaza]

But do you know if that ship already has fired missiles on you...?

[vernal lance]

the build button mysteriously turning into the repair button:
the blip consistently being 50m away from my fog:
me missing thrusters:
the pause button:
page down:
attentiveness:
playing on 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 speed:
game slowdown when engaging in combat:

[oak plaza]

Yes, that's the panic I want people to experience...

https://tenor.com/view/fire-gif-10341555270454130792

[vernal lance]

that's not panic, that's reasons why the concept fucking suck a- I mean why it doesn't work as much as you'd ope to

[oak plaza]

They would think the blip would just carry on their way but didn't know it has much more range than them...

It will be too late to go back now...

And it being out of their view is just too bad, if they could not catch it, it will just dump and dump on them...

[vernal lance]

career has taught players that:
far blip = risky but not dangerous
close blip = engage

the blip being that close signifies engage no?

[oak plaza]

That is why I told earlier this is a Newbie Wrecker...

That's why it's so cruel...

[vernal lance]

a newbie learns that long before they enter their second system

[oak plaza]

Honestly, the only thing to do when fighting this and you ain't ready is to leave...
It has like 17m/s forward thrust that it cant pursue you...

[elfin venture]

bro is trying to make a newbie wrecker when every faction already has one
Sainted Pyre, Sprocket, any small Imperium nuker, Rochre
all of which are very dangerous ships that teach newbies that the level 4s should not be underestimated (except rochre which is level 5)

[vernal lance]

chances are, they'd attack the blip rapidly approaching their location

[vernal lance]

condor

also true

[oak plaza]

Fuck Condor, all my homies hate Condor...

[elfin venture]

i dont remember condor because i never see early imperium

[oak plaza]

And this will make the player learn the importance of range...
The sensor is good...

[vernal lance]

it's a funny ship

there's also an imp nuker that is 76k or so

[oak plaza]

One of the ships that is "lemme do some little bit of trolling"...

[vernal lance]

a rastaban could do that

[elfin venture]

osprey

[vernal lance]

and it's cheaper than your ship

[oak plaza]

But does it have more range than a Rastaban...?

[elfin venture]

Sainted Pyre is less dangerous but teaches newbies better since it costs less and im guessing goes faster
Rastaban isn't a Newbie Wrecker, just a Wrecker

[oak plaza]

The amount of shields Rastaban has is damn fucking hard to fight...

[vernal lance]

I don't have an instant built-in folder right now so I can't demolish your point further

[elfin venture]

the PD too
i think Sentry is the same, a Wrecker but not a Noob Wrecker

[elfin venture]

i can remember Rastaban's design

[vernal lance]

a wrecker could be a noob wrecker too

[oak plaza]

All I wanna say, this is a missile boat in a very smol package...

It gives people the experience that "Wtf, I can't see the fucker"...

[elfin venture]

it has more range than the ions (barely), but it can't outrange the twin EMPs
moot point because rastaban has plenty of PD and shields, so without the ions firing it just won't go down

[elfin venture]

might want to paint it something other than white then lol

[oak plaza]

It dies to Rastaban because there is no fog of war...
But it goes in stalemate when it do...

[elfin venture]

true but ideally a noob wrecker teaches them for the first time
whereas Rastaban and Sentry are basically lesson 2, following on from the lessons taught by Sainted Pyre and Rochre - namely, that mono ships are good at brute force, and that you need some way to catch up to kites

[oak plaza]

What you mean, its already painted Mono...

[elfin venture]

exactly
its very bright, very easy to spot

[oak plaza]

It's already hiding on the shadows, no need to do much more...

And the lore and everything is already written out...

[oak plaza]

Sorry for the ping Vilda but I just remembered, what about the other previous design contest designs...

Most of them aren't bricks and have genuinely different designs...

If the paint is just what's bringing them back, now that I have more knowledge on painting, I wanna repaint them and submit them again...

How would that sound...?

[rose swan]

If they got approved that's fine, but if they didn't I think the answer is no. It's not very practical to bring everyone back for voting on ship remakes every time they happen if there's no limit to the amount of re-submissions people can send in.

[oak plaza]

The thing is, I think there was no news about when if our ships was approved by architects that time...

All I got last time was vague ideas like when Oneye taught me to paint it better, but that's all I got from the last two Design Contest...

That was the time where the resubmissions channel was made, so I guess it wasn't clear or am I just too dumb to see there was a vote last time...

If there's nothing to be done in that side then it's fine...

Thanks for giving your time to read my chat though...

[small breach]

kaine i think i accidentally copied your idea

these tend to blow up often splitting crocube into 2 functioning flak ion flankers

[small breach]

i think crocube is finished now

[tired vapor]

ery boxy

very

[small breach]

intended

also unintended but croatian checkerboard colors

ig crocube was supposed to be like them

[toxic ocean]

White and red checkerboard lol, didn't think I'd see this ever.

Sooo who wants to play cosmoteer checkers with me?

I have... A board...

A decorated one.

[small breach]

i do, one problem idk how to play checkers

[toxic ocean]

It's literally the simplest board game in existence.

[small breach]

nop

x o is simpler

uhhh tictactoe

[toxic ocean]

Oh right of course, if you can consider it a board game.

[small breach]

i forgor its name for a bit

[toxic ocean]

Naughts and crosses?

Or something?

[small breach]

idk

anyways face is back

[oak plaza]

Splitters, Let's Go...

[small breach]

oh shit slight aysm

on the parts that are supposed to be sym

crocube fixed

[tribal heath]

Community Voting (1 week):
Divisions will have separate but concurrent votes to determine the winning ships. Ships will only compete within their division. The top three ships of each division will be added to the game’s ship library (available in the creative mode menu) and proceed to architect voting. The winner of each division will receive a Discord role (Master of Design).
@rose swan It is 3 winners for 3 divisions or 1 winner best of 3?

[lament skiff]

Oh gosh it’s only top 3?

I believe in lingchi

[novel coyote]

thoughts on this design anyone?

[lament skiff]

Looks pretty cool

[desert trail]

looks good

[oak plaza]

2Mil...?

[novel coyote]

yes

[oak plaza]

Looks great, the paint will be the decider though...

[novel coyote]

1994143 to be specific

[oak plaza]

Meh, that's enough...
Hahahahaha...

[toxic ocean]

Not bad, I like the front area and the thrust setups are nice too.

That poor small reactor powering 2 large shields though ;-;

[vernal lance]

1 large 2 smalls, actually

[toxic ocean]

Oh nevermind.

It's about a similar workload though, 1.2/3 large shields.

[late zenith]

just submitted my 3 ships, hopefully one makes it in, in the meantime here's some extra screenshots from my most expensive submission smashing stuff

[deft kayak]

I love that nuke setup

[simple valve]

You can mirror the factories to put the ammo next to the gun and sulfur next to storage

[rose swan]

3 winners for 3 divisions, 1 winner per division.

[novel coyote]

sorry I do not understand this sentence in the slightest

[lament skiff]

Use the mirror function instead of rotating the factories twice so the sulfur and iron inputs are next to each other

[novel coyote]

I still don't get it wdym

[lament skiff]

For your missile factory set ups it doesn’t actually matter but for your dc’s, notice how one ammo factory for each one has the bullet output next to the gun and the other factory has the sulfur next to it

[novel coyote]

ohhhhh

so thats not just cosmetic?

[tired vapor]

the logistics D:

ijnteresting shape thogh

[novel coyote]

whats wrong with the logistics?

[lament skiff]

No if you watch you can see the crew actually carrying the stuff around

[novel coyote]

yea I see it now I just thought before that it would just be like they could deposit the material as soon as they enter the factory

[tired vapor]

parts i do not like in purple

[novel coyote]

so basically everything

[lament skiff]

some are easy fixes

For the ions, the doors of the ions should be right next to each other so crew doesn’t have to walk as far when moving between them

[tired vapor]

they should be next to each other to slightly decrease the crew's efficiency

otherwise they will consider going back to their bunks which is even worse

[novel coyote]

but however yo move the doors around won't there always be some next to each other and some not?

anyway the ions work consistantly without flicker so I don't see why its a problem

[tired vapor]

congestion and in the very rare event of emp

might win u 1 fight over 10 parralel universes but it's free

[novel coyote]

so your saying having a bigger gap here is better?

[lament skiff]

yeah because more doors next to each other

[novel coyote]

ok

[tired vapor]

it is better because it makes 2 ions use the corners

[elfin venture]

Is this ship too close to Two for Flinching to be a good submission?

[oak plaza]

It looks different enough...

[median patio]

My poor ship :(

[oak plaza]

@late zenith missed opportunity brother...
it should have been this...
HAHAHAHAHA

[elfin venture]

the very specific feeling of winning a design contest and seeing someone else blow up your ship to demonstrate their shipbuilding prowess

[median patio]

Anyway what do you guys think of my submission?

[elfin venture]

u sure? it has 2 rails and cannons on the sides just like TfF
that said it performs much better, it can beat Caladrius, Peregrine, Acolyte of Adhara,

[oak plaza]

Bro, Look at my Broken Wings...
This is more like Two For Flinching...
HAHAHAHAHAHA

[elfin venture]

oh yeah shadowblade is sick
did you modify it for the design contest at all?

[median patio]

Yeah I did

Added more armor and disruptors

Plus necessities

[oak plaza]

Where is Shadowblade again...?

[elfin venture]

my ships is broken wings junior then lol
they're closer to each other - 2 rails in the middle with deckguns on the side
its the hybrid child of Broken Wings and TfF lol, but it'll have completely different paint
in fact almost opposite to Broken Wings since im planning a very dark paint scheme with a few white highlights

[elfin venture]

in submissions

[oak plaza]

Very Cool...
Ill be waiting for the result...

[oak plaza]

which submissions...
Am I blind...?

[elfin venture]

my other two are finished but i want to wait and submit Ruination last lol
im gonna end up with 1 lone submission and then 2 put together

[oak plaza]

I just saw it...
HAHAHAHA

[elfin venture]

it was literally right before your own submission

[oak plaza]

yup, I just scrolled fast that I missed it...

[elfin venture]

lol

[elfin venture]

finished paint
your thoughts?

[oak plaza]

Very Cool...
neon...

[elfin venture]

not really neon
even the sole highlight is not that bright, especially compared to my other submissions

[oak plaza]

Yea but the subtle in my eyes makes it neon...
the light sections shine bright over the dark background...

[elfin venture]

then yea that makes some sense
thats also why there's not much paint over the reactor and shields, because it's already bright there

[oak plaza]

Gives me Echo of the Abyss vibes...

[elfin venture]

yea i see what you mean
also is there a reason why people submit all their ships at once?

[oak plaza]

no, in my case I just want it to be close together and one cohesive submission...

[elfin venture]

aight
should i do the same?

[oak plaza]

It wouldnt hurt...
and it makes people see your ships in one scroll instead of backlogging...

[elfin venture]

ok fair
can i delete my old submission so I can group it with the others then?

is that allowed

[oak plaza]

yes you can...
you can even edit them if you saw some flaw on your ship...

[novel coyote]

I need opinions on this
I made this ship with the plan to invert its colors (cause I think thats pretty 'unconventional') and have its lore/backstory be that it somehow warped here from another reality and that's why its colors are negative (and I made this short video for that)
but does it actually look inverted, or just weird and that it has white shadows for some reason?
or should I just submit the original, non-inverted color one instead?

[elfin venture]

ooh that's a very interesting concept
execution though could be better
the front doesn't look that bad, it's mostly just towards the bottom
i'd say darken the base paint and toy with the inverted version, try and get inverted shadows to still look like shadows by making sure that there's only dark areas underneath the whtie fades - it'll look like it's faded but reverse, so also change the structure of the fades so it still looks like it has depth and isn't just a ship that looks shit because it was inverted

also the cosmoteer ost in reverse is chilling

[safe stratus]

Sweet Omnissiah, guide this missile into the hearts of Your foes.

[novel coyote]

I think this looks better

[fleet gull]

always wins againts orion . my ship cost 4,251,372. orion cost 2,933,910. 4,251,372-2,933,910 = 1,317,462 but its win with some damage or if its explode but the engine is allright then nukes and cannon will do its job the laser is very strong btw its 36 22 11 and 1

this is it but being cut in half with orion

@elfin venture

defeating all for now

almost being defeat too

pure madness

[novel coyote]

Is this the right place to discuss this ship, as it is to expensive to submit for the contest?

[fleet gull]

too

just proto i can make it smaller

[novel coyote]

👍

[fleet gull]

btw if you mind if i ask what is maximum cost for the design contest?

[novel coyote]

2mil

[fleet gull]

thanks

[novel coyote]

Probably check the rules doc #events message

[lament skiff]

and with that my submissions are complete

will probably fix x calibur up a bit but is mostly good

[elfin venture]

it does yea though personally I'd still darken basically all the paint except the white

[novel coyote]

So, darken the paint in the normal version so the inverted is brighter or lighten it so the inverted is darker?

[elfin venture]

lighten it so the inverted is darker

assume im always talking in terms of how the inverted version would look, since that will be the final result

[novel coyote]

Just one concern I have is if the inverted version looks too normal there is nothing to suggest it isn't just a normal paint scheme, and then what's the point?

[elfin venture]

fair enough
I don't think it'll look normal
lots of white fades ensures that it looks like it got inverted
perhaps the name could also help

[novel coyote]

Yea i was thinking the name could be reversed aswell (though I don't know how good of an idea that is)

[elfin venture]

what was your original name?

because that could potentially work really well if we find the right word

[novel coyote]

Haven't thought of one yet

Possibly a palindrome, kind of like how the ships paint works both ways

[elfin venture]

a palindrome could definitely work too

[elfin venture]

how about Evitagen? Negative backwards
i could see that working as a ship name

[novel coyote]

Oh yea that's cool

Although, how would it be pronounced, 'eh-veeta-jen'? 'Evy-taygen'? 'Evy-tah-jen'?

[elfin venture]

In my head I though Evy-tah-jen
or more specifically Eh-vi-tahjen

[small breach]

all current submissions me want feedback cuz i will submit them today

[elfin venture]

he blue ones are excellent
I don't like the red cube one, its not my style
I fear it may be too weird for the voters - unconventional is the theme yes but it also has to be generally visually appealing, which is what I think this one might struggle with
that said the design is very interesting - if you win, it'll probably be one of the most impressive winners ever due to its oddball design and paint, even if it doesn't look as good as some

[simple valve]

I love the "dive rail" because there isn't a built-in that behaves like that yet but the paint is weird in some places...

[small breach]

gonna submit crocube and zadnja zima

front armor feedback on this needed

also i need a name for it

[tribal heath]

Wtf orbital wall for design contest!? Call the police!

[small breach]

ok now all submissions are done for real

[toxic ocean]

@small breach Ya submitting the ships snowman?

[small breach]

yea

[toxic ocean]

Aight wish you luck.

Even though that left ship is basically a rehash of the previous one.

Not sure if that's allowed..?

[past bramble]

I think you can resubmit if it never won

[small breach]

allowed in the rules document

[open stag]

It appears to lack back thrust

[tribal heath]

Very

[lament skiff]

According to the doc, ships must have reverse thrust

[slow axle]

i will simply not vote for it

[toxic ocean]

Oh wow, it's just a modified rain wave. Back nuke though? WTF

How would AI use it.

[deft kayak]

thoughts?

any suggestions before i start painting?

[slow axle]

...why having prisms set in such a wild way

[deft kayak]

also idk how i'm going to paint this

[deft kayak]

when one gets destroyed, the next prism in line continues firing

[slow axle]

i think the umm the structure cage brake the shape

[deft kayak]

yeah i wasn't sure about it

[slow axle]

that what feedback is for

[deft kayak]

the rules suggested having a ramming cage on the front so debris doesn't get stuck, then i noticed i could make the whole circle

[tired vapor]

maybe have it be pointy like the rest of the ship

the ship is very sharp and angular other than the structure

[deft kayak]

good idea

or i might reduce the angularity of the rest of the ship

actually i'll try both and see what looks better

angular cage looked weird around the thruster deadzones so i didn't use it there

honestly i think i might go with the right one

do some more minor edits to make it curvier while still sharp

[slow axle]

for record i prefer left

[lament skiff]

#1059085469708734515 message

I’m gonna assume the familiar tune is megalovania

[desert trail]

yep, i realised that the jump drive is blue and well...

[late zenith]

getting a lot of skeletal themed ships this time around

[lament skiff]

I only see one

[slow axle]

i think this look decent

[desert trail]

i forgot a door, and it cant brake sheailds, so i need to fix it up a bit,

but other then that

[late zenith]

see there's mine, there's Rib Rage and then one of snownuktrio's was supposed to have a skull on it

[desert trail]

might stick an emp some were...

[desert trail]

great news! thanks to the emps, it can almost beat deathreato

migh have been a fluke, turns out it can absolutly wreck deathreato, with luck

i think..... this might be my most efective ship that i've bult so far....

2 for fintching is like 300k more then it....

[elfin venture]

yea but TfF sucks

[desert trail]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[elfin venture]

it is a punching bag

[late zenith]

plus your ship is a deck gun vessel and deck guns are extraordinarly strong brawlers. There are some even the [WARLORD] can't beat because they have too much armor

[elfin venture]

oh yea warlord
it's a pretty good ship, it stomps my 900k submission
and summarily gets stomped by my div 3 one because it's 300k below mine lol

[desert trail]

yea, i figured the deckcannons were realy good

it turns out cannon rammers are stronk,

[late zenith]

I couldn't make it cheap enough for div 2 and I didn't have the motivation to make a new ship for div 3

[elfin venture]

deck guns are pretty damn good weapons that work basically anywhere
their dps low but they're just so hard to destroy

[desert trail]

i dont know why it took me this long to figure that out

[elfin venture]

ah, so that's why it's at the very bottom of div 3

[desert trail]

did they change the atacks for some ships?

[late zenith]

yeah and also I was having way too much fun watching it slap around ships both cheaper and more expensive. Favorite fights were against the previous design contest winners whose ships I formerly thought were almost unbeatable, also umbrage and magistrate from built ins

[desert trail]

becase i dont remember banshee being an orbiter

[elfin venture]

that would be because banshee is not an orbiter
it's a rammer
but rammer v rammer combat, especially when the rammers aren't that agile, tends to devolve into spinning

[elfin venture]

i mean the other winners are pretty damn good
Superconductor has no right to be so good for a hodgepodge ship
that said my own div 3 has had similar results, the only reason it loses to the previous design contest winners is the fact that they use deck guns and it's weak to those

[desert trail]

i want to make a ship with glitched out paint

but not sure what to do

[late zenith]

I thought I saw someone in the Oct 2023 contest who had an interesting glitched out paint, but they were pretty obscure and didn't make it very high

[tribal heath]

AI uses auto orbiting to orbit around enemies

[oak plaza]

GGs bois, I think we already have a winner...
Hahahahahaha

[tribal heath]

Hahaha

It would be too easy

[oak plaza]

Yup, seeing your ships guys, I always have a hard time thinking how the fuck do I contend with you guys...

Here is me hoping my Bois pull up their weight...

[tribal heath]

You don't like pvp-looking ships?

[slow axle]

yes? i never did and never claimed to.

[small breach]

i prefer left

it better imo

[toxic ocean]

Man, this looks extremely frail.

[grizzled sequoia]

finally, last ship done

[elfin venture]

is that just multiple smaller ships tied together? because i love it

though it looks like the missiles would have some trouble firing without hitting the ship

[oak plaza]

The Vibes I'm Getting...

[grizzled sequoia]

not realy, the outer stars just mostly armor, their ecxistance just to protect the main body

[grizzled sequoia]

dont worry it's orbital ship, altough it's my first attempt, it's just works fine

||actually i just copied it from kine's man o war, coz idk how orbital ship work||

[small breach]

getting THE SUN WILL SHINE ALWAYS (random voice line from quasimorph) vibes

[desert trail]

shooting star is defintly a good name for it

[small elm]

What are the budget brackets?

I've yet to even lay a keel.

[lament skiff]

They in the doc

[grizzled sequoia]

Done, Shooting Stars ||Cabal cousin lol||

[elfin venture]

damn real nice

I just noticed the star in the srcture on the largest one too, that's a nice detail

[grizzled sequoia]

thanks

[toxic ocean]

Very cool looking ships, even if I'm a bit skeptical about the combat cappabilities of the middle one.

I love the things you do with structure bumpers, like the imperium logo on that one ship you made and a big star frame on the largest ship.

[grizzled sequoia]

the middle one is an orbital ship, and i think it's just work fine, coz idk how to make orbital ship, just copied from other ship

[tribal heath]

What sacrifices are made for the Design™️...

[slow axle]

it's intresting we'll be two to have a star theme

[grizzled sequoia]

wow is it?, cant wait to see it

[slow axle]

some people refer to it as "minimalist" so i don't think it have chances of winning as much your submission does
plus in 15 days i only got a few prototype/

[small breach]

i mean it could be good

[open stag]

@small breach Cro Cube's ions are on auto fire

[small breach]

as intended

oh wait ami not supposed to do that??

@rose swan is autofire ions fine or do i need to change that

[open stag]

also, are hyper drives required?

[small breach]

yes

[open stag]

@oak plaza Broken Wings is missing reactor assignments to 2 of the hyperdrives
@vernal lance Thunderclap is missing door(s) to the Hyperdrive
@small breach Both Zadnja and Proto 4.5 are missing reactor assignments to hyperdrives
@halcyon python Shadowblade is missing hyperdrive(s)

[tribal heath]

Is Itchy a hidden architect? 😆

[small breach]

idk but feedback is appreciated

[lament skiff]

Idk if it’s specifically not allowed but Saris’ built-in guide says you should never have them on so I assume not a good idea either way

[small breach]

turned them off already

[median patio]

oh shoot yeah
also you pinged the old activatewindows

crisis averted

[oak plaza]

thanks Itchy...
just fixed it...

[tribal heath]

Redline Sequel 👀 ⚡

[lament skiff]

👀

[vernal lance]

greysmidge

[tribal heath]

Buy some dihlophos then

[toxic ocean]

Oooo, very pupel

#1059085469708734515 message Anyways I actually really like the hull design of this, reminds me of old timey classic missile barges.

[tribal heath]

Very what?

[lament skiff]

urple

[tired vapor]

???? waht

[toxic ocean]

Porpol

[toxic ocean]

Bruh you were literally there to see them.

The funky missile holes thast interwove with one another.

[past bramble]

im out of ideas

so i gave man o war a morbiter cousin

[slow axle]

mood

[sorry didin't meant to ping]

[past bramble]

big ship hull is atleast done

now what to do for small and mid size

[small breach]

idk

i would give you all of my tournament ships but they all suck mostly

this is as good as my ships get

you could take inspiration from them ig but that's all i can offer

[oak plaza]

God Damn...
This looking cool, I need to see the full thing...

Welp, this is it Bois...

GGs...

[small breach]

last time you said this you got in

[oak plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/toy-story-sarge-mission-accomplished-well-done-men-pack-it-up-gif-23945062

[oak plaza]

I always am not confident with my capabilities...

There is always someone better that me brother...

[tired vapor]

doesn't look that similar

imo

[oak plaza]

I appreciate your support brother but, these will be in a lot of contention that it will be a miracle that I won this again...

In a row...

Brother in Christ, I still hope Express Delivery, Knock-Out and Broken Wings clutch it...

[small breach]

they can, they look epic

you got 3 divisions to win in

also is it top 10 per divison?

[oak plaza]

Well yea nuki, but still...
After seeing Corpo and Immtrms ships...

I gotta say GG...

[oak plaza]

3...

Only 3 per division...

[small breach]

only top 3?

damn

ig ggs then

i won't make it

[oak plaza]

Found It...

Bro...
This will be rough...

[past bramble]

Wait 1 per division?

Well gg

[oak plaza]

I think the winner part there is for the Master of Design title...
But idk...

[lament skiff]

3 make it per division and 1 gets the masta builda title in each division

[past bramble]

I see

So 9 ships will get in game?

[lament skiff]

Yes

[late zenith]

tragedy, my chances are pretty low especially in div 3

[small breach]

9 overall is not that bad, 3 per division is though

limits chances of people getting in significantly

unless big players fuck up at all divisons but 1

like immtrm can make 3 bangers and win in all divisions

[lament skiff]

Yeah

There’s basically one open spot in each division

[small breach]

but to be fair it's not like it was much different from previous tournaments

take for example the previous tournament someone could've made 2 bangers and that's basically 2 places taken

only difference here is scale

[lament skiff]

well yeah

[small breach]

not too bad now that i think about it

since people won't really vote for the same ships in different sizes so that'll limit people's ability to make really good bangers in multiple categories somewhat

[lament skiff]

I wouldn’t be so sure

[oak plaza]

Bro, it's corpo, Nick and Immtrm on the top Ill call it...

[small breach]

honestly corpo's ships don't feel really unique to me

[lament skiff]

At this point I’m likely to vote for multiple meekoz ships personally

[oak plaza]

Not mine...? 🥺

[lament skiff]

Idk how many votes we get

[oak plaza]

Depending that we get 3 votes per division...
Or even 1 per division...
I think very little...

[small breach]

should we ask vilda for how many votes we get

[oak plaza]

Shoot...

[lament skiff]

I’d vote for your red and white ships

[oak plaza]

Thanks Brother...
||I'm not match fixing I swear...||

Any reason why you don't like Express Delivery though...?

[lament skiff]

Too blocky, not very interesting to look at

[oak plaza]

Well it's meant to be a disguised hauler but I understand the point...

[small breach]

aside from the blocky part that is what i mostly got from it and corpo's ships

[oak plaza]

Honestly the whole idea was to make a cardboard box ship to get the whole Snake Master of Stealth meme going...
But ended as that...

[tribal heath]

😏

[lament skiff]

I personally vote for what I find the most interesting to look at, I don’t particularly look at how unique, well built, or ‘paint quality’ it is

[small breach]

atleast give up on 1 divison so that nick can finally win lol

[oak plaza]

THIS IS WHY I'M STILL MAD WHY THE REDLINE FAMILY ISN'T IN GAME...

[tribal heath]

Ha-ha

[lament skiff]

although bad paint quality usually makes things not interesting to look at so there is a bottom line

[oak plaza]

Well it's your choice and vote...

[lament skiff]

Like Quartz from last contest for example

[oak plaza]

Nah fuck Nick, let me win...
Hahahahahaha

[lament skiff]

Looked really awesome but there were a bunch of paint errors

[oak plaza]

It was sure fire win to us and the architects though...
Don't see what's the problem honestly...

[lament skiff]

There isn’t a problem

I’m just saying it had paint errors but it still looked cool

[tribal heath]

Now there no faction ships allowed and I don't want do 2 ship of 1 but with different paint 😔

[oak plaza]

The CG and Rail Orbiter looks unique enough though...

Cook up another hellish eldtrich monstrosity again...

[small breach]

those were intended afaik

it just looked unconventional and didn't follow most rules people usually want to follow

[lament skiff]

I kinda doubt rosehip intentionally made paint errors

[oak plaza]

Speaking of paint, I literally just painted all 3 of my ship with that I learned how the Imperium does it...

Is it much better...?

[tribal heath]

People don't like aesthetics of orbital wall, so another (better) ship is coming.

[small breach]

they're paint errors to you

[oak plaza]

Close Ups...

[small breach]

as i said, it's just unconventional

[oak plaza]

What...?
It was a banger though...

[lament skiff]

shadows and highlights that don’t connect properly are just paint errors no matter how you look at it

They’re unavoidable with the style but doesn’t mean they don’t exist

[oak plaza]

I call that aesthetic choice...

Brother in Christ I wanna burn the memory I have with painting these...

[small breach]

check ships made by yugi for those

it's just an aesthetic choice

when they do it's not as interesting

as is shown by your adaptation of it

[oak plaza]

Yugi is absolutely goated in painting in a very unique way...

[lament skiff]

Rosehip painted it not yugi

And mine still has them

Hence why I know they’re unavoidable

[small breach]

ik i meant check ships made by yugi too, they also have some of those

it's not just rosehip

[tribal heath]

Even mine has them sometimes, but it is a deal of perspective

[lament skiff]

I never saw any ships painted like Quartz before

[small breach]

also from what i can see you definitely put effort to avoid them and for the most part they're not there

unless you're talking about what's on the pieces which then that isn't really a paint error eitherway

[lament skiff]

Yeah I switched the bottom two layers which takes some of them out

But not all

Regardless my point is that paint errors don’t necessarily make a ship worse unless they’re particularly egregious

[small breach]

if they don't make the ship worse then they aren't errors

that's my point

[lament skiff]

If there were more paint tiles I am pretty sure the authors of some of these ships would want to fix them

[tribal heath]

Also something like orbital wall can't carry good pack of decorative elements and it's not good for design.

[past bramble]

Wall are boring

Very repetitive

And not much space for decor

[tribal heath]

At least not with only one section... But with more yes.

[lament skiff]

I guess it depends on the exact design

I didn’t feel like I was lacking design room with xcalibur

[small breach]

wouldn't change it all that much

[past bramble]

I wish to make the spires longer but already hit max grid

Sad

[lament skiff]

Big shps isn’t allowed?

[tribal heath]

Welcome to the club of long 3-section broadside orbiters

[past bramble]

No

[slow axle]

i really hope unconventional paint design will take over conventional paints in the voting

[small breach]

it will

[lament skiff]

Which ones would you consider unconventional

Looking through the current submissions, the only one I think I would consider particularly unconventional is Ruination

[tribal heath]

Paint is quite subjective thing, but some paints look better than other and... that's it.

[slow axle]

Lingchi, Stalker, snownukitro or Luna&starlight and Rednax910 submissions are definitevly the most unconventional (not like i will vote for them either)

[lament skiff]

Yeah I guess Luna&Starlight has a pretty unconventional style too

[toxic ocean]

Wait, so only 3 ships will be making it into the game?

That is far too few.

3 winners for each division feels so much more fair.

Time to not get my glorious clock tower in because Immtrm's purple wall won against me by one vote.

[lament skiff]

I thought any that succeed architect vote and community vote get in not just the winner

[tribal heath]

3 top ships in each division go to the architect voting phase, not only 1st place of each division.

[small breach]

that's how it is

top 1 of each division is for master of design

[tribal heath]

Quite generous.

[toxic ocean]

OHHH I see.

[small breach]

3 people can get MoD but only 9 ships get in

[tribal heath]

Now I'm thinking about whether to build third ship or not... 🤔

[open stag]

Give everyone else a chance lol

[desert trail]

i still need to make my 3rd one.....

[simple valve]

I still need to finish my first one, I need motivation

[desert trail]

🏃‍♂️ 🏌️‍♂️ finish it now before the golfer hits the guy

[tribal heath]

https://tenor.com/view/where-is-your-motivation-where's-your-motivation-wheres-your-motivation-vergil-vergil-dmc-gif-4153196228805105292

[toxic ocean]

It came back the same way Palpatine did.

[deft kayak]

I also need to finish, not because of motivation but bc of time

[toxic ocean]

BC of time... I see what you did there sneaky piston man

You know, BC...

[desert trail]

inacurate to lore and also probibly sorcery?

wait witch timeline

[proven grove]

How does this actuallu works?
Does it mean everything empty like this case?

[desert trail]

i think so

its less painfull if you use develper mode to remove all

but that needs a seting i think

[tribal heath]

You can spawn empty ship from library by holding ` button (near ESC)

[proven grove]

Thanks That helps a lot!

Then the cost would be measured in that way

[lament skiff]

Ye

[flint basin]

i still need to start my first one

[tight tapir]

Oh shoot I still need to start too

I'm about to do the most unique paint method ever

[lament skiff]

bold statement

[small breach]

show

ping me when its done pls

[past bramble]

ship

[open stag]

That is in fact a ship

[simple valve]

ooo I like how it's ===

[lament skiff]

Very nice

[slow axle]

that a WIP build of my star theme
please i need help to paint faster i've been working on this since the first week of the month omg

the theme itself was imaginated before the contest butthatt only my second paint >.<

[misty lark]

it looks cool

pun intended

[slow axle]

but does it actually look cool :(

[misty lark]

yea

i havent even touched the paint brush lol

1 2x2 ammo storage/LC is enough for 1.5 mil right?

[tired vapor]

for pvp? yeah

for career? maybe but probably not

[misty lark]

alr

i know this is the design contest chat 😂

[slow axle]

#1059084974655033415 message

do that help?

[misty lark]

yea, thanks

its a secondary weapon anyway so it'll be fiine

[toxic ocean]

This is devious.

[tight tapir]

I'll try to remember to

[oak plaza]

Kine, is the small reactors that necessary...?

I'm thinking that you could cut the price significantly with capacitors...

[toxic ocean]

Go on?

I am very curious if you'll be able to beat DA CLOC or the tesla coil circuitboard, good luck :>

[open stag]

I read that as DA GLOCK

[tired vapor]

me too

(not to optimize)

[tight tapir]

Ooh you're gonna make your own?

[tight tapir]

Thank you, that definitely puts pressure on me to do so

Which is good cause I have not started

[past bramble]

Idont wanna

[oak plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/understandable-have-nice-day-have-a-great-day-have-a-good-day-nice-gif-20850110

[tired vapor]

just want to see it

[tight tapir]

Oh I get it lol

So much pressure

[lament skiff]

If it helps, I don’t want to see it

[tight tapir]

❤️

Very helpful

[vernal lance]

who can help me make my ships actually able to combat

[elfin venture]

can i see the ship?

[vernal lance]

#1059085469708734515 message all of them

and maybe make them look a little better too

[elfin venture]

they all look like they'd be pretty capable

though the EMPs on Thunderclap are a bit open

[vernal lance]

i want them to be more

[elfin venture]

ill assume the flak on Chrysos is set to attack and defend
is thunderclap using rammer ai?

[vernal lance]

yes

[elfin venture]

ah

then im not sure what else could be improved without just stripping all the decorative/interesting parts of each ship

[vernal lance]

how about making them look better

[elfin venture]

a few small details on the darker areas would help, like the way Mono sometimes has some white lines on its dark areas
additionally, lights - i think they would work well with the industrial feel

yellow lights or green and red lights

or maybe just white

[vernal lance]

i keep forgetting lights on everything i make

[tired vapor]

meeeee

[vernal lance]

you can start then

[past bramble]

hull

[oak plaza]

New Ship Just Dropped...

[toxic ocean]

What else did you expect to drop in design contest chat.

[tribal heath]

Broadside orbiters™️

[past bramble]

Man o war needs its family

Is there an ion broadsider in game?

I assume cabal has one

I guess LC for 500k

[toxic ocean]

Broadside orbiters are the best kind.

[toxic ocean]

There isn't one actually, I'd suggest to make one it's super fun.

Do something like absolute radiance but better :>

[past bramble]

It will be 500k

I dont think i can with 500k

1m is taken by cg strafer and 2m by stream of dreams

[desert trail]

i have partly realised that all my submitions are named after things from video games....

[misty lark]

Gamer faction

[lament skiff]

Do hyperdrives need hyperium storage or are they chillin with what comes in the drive itself

[late zenith]

I think they're fine without storage, as long as the ships can make at least one jump and are above 30% hyperdrive efficiency they are good

[wispy vigil]

Missed opportunity to make the ship a green colour

[uncut vault]

I don’t think any built ins have hyperium, ur good

[desert trail]

yep

[desert trail]

witch one?

kazaaakilikpleth, rib rage or dead voxle?

[wispy vigil]

voxels are commonly used for stuff like grass, which is green

[desert trail]

ah, i see what you mean

its named after a soundtrack from minecraft

spisificly a nether soundtrack

hence the red and orange paint

[small elm]

Can I shove a PvP ship in and hope for the best?

Obviously I'd duck tape a hyperdrive to the side.

[lament skiff]

I mean, I guess it’s not technically against the rules

[toxic ocean]

Pegasus' ships look nothing like a conventional pvp ship so I think it'd more than work.

[bronze citrus]

yall think this is "unconventional"?

very odd guidelines

i assume its not a hard rule by how vague it is

[elfin venture]

from what i gathered the "unconventional" refers to technique mostly

so that would count

though i think some of it could be improved upon

[bronze citrus]

meh, cant help but think that this design contest will still result in the good looking traditional ships winning

just because there is a reason tradition exists

[elfin venture]

yea

but like

some of the current submissions are very good and yet don't use "traditional" techniques

for instance all of kaine's submissions

which use the traditional plated shadowless you see Imperium and Fringe do a lot
but they have two highlights on the plating

instead of one plating rim colour and one highlight line that runs between them

[bronze citrus]

yeah ig

but imo it still looks quite conventional, its just using multiple highlights which isnt even unheard of

theyre really good looking ships but like

its easy to call some sort of paint style unconventional by picking out any difference

[elfin venture]

i believe vilda explicitly stated what it was

but I think essentially it must be unconventional compared to built-ins

to my knowledge there's no built ins that are simultaneously "plated" and have two different rims on the plating

[bronze citrus]

mm, is that so

[elfin venture]

here

[bronze citrus]

thought they more meant unconventional in the sense that its innovative and new

[elfin venture]

truly innovative and new is not likely, but there's some really out of left field designs

i remember Mungbean was planning a ship with an inverted paint scheme, so all the shadows were white

stuff like that

one of kaine's ships is designed to look like a bunch of amazon boxes because its a combat ship disguised as a freighter

[oak plaza]

This is unconventional enough, it looks cool... like a dagger...

[small breach]

very

[toxic ocean]

Unique take on lighting, seems solid.

And quite unconventional too.

[bronze citrus]

Well ig i can give it a whirl then. Wheres the DC rules document?

This paintstyle is easy enough. I cant see myself getting burnt out on it

[small breach]

in #events

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16dnPshHHzJHrTA2yo22UJfKiezEhjTFlAxlV0R7dzDE

[tight tapir]

D:

That's what I was going to do lol

If I have time

[bronze citrus]

Lol

[bronze citrus]

You didnt submit yet?

[tight tapir]

Nope

Go ahead and do that

[late zenith]

next time

it'll be painted by next design contest

and I'll probably put a structure guard on the shields

[elfin venture]

railgun wall orbiter
very interesting

[elfin venture]

you still have 6 days don't you? how long does it take to paint a ship?

[bronze citrus]

if our ideas are literally the exact same, we could just do a collaborative submission lol

[late zenith]

I'd have to replace my category 2 with it cause its 900k ish and I like my category 2, it's the first orbiter I ever made and so I'll put the rail wall orbiter in the backlog and it'll show up next design contest

I just wanted to give a sneak peek'

[elfin venture]

ah

[tribal heath]

Mmm, broadside rail orbi 😏

[slow axle]

progress i've been very slow
i have 0 inspiration for the front and back tbh

well, art block is art block this will be my only submission for the contest likely

[small breach]

art block is art

[past bramble]

7-8 more days before submission

And only 1 and half ship done

Wrll this is a problem

[desert trail]

probibly

i keep switching out my ships becase i dont think there good enugh

and also indisision

i think

[lament skiff]

me

[tight tapir]

It's just the paint style, I'd still like to see what you do with it in comparison to me

[bronze citrus]

Sure. I think its gonna evolve into looking like weird fucked up fish

Idk how to explain it

[bronze citrus]

I like the style, it looks really… icy

If youre having problems with armor sections maybe you could style them like icicles

[slow axle]

the theme is "the night sky over the Arctic, where artificial light becomes lustreless."
glad to learn it kept it's Ice feeling. embracing both above and below the horizon is actually a great idea, & while i've tried on multiple occasions only to fail at each, i shuld keep my hopes high! (although this would defintively give it a "cave" view feeling if i put it above the stars)

[past bramble]

thats 2

[tribal heath]

No LS bumpers?

[past bramble]

nah LS bumper looks weird

[slow axle]

agreed

[slow axle]

honestly i prefer bottom to top, ya did a great job on it

[past bramble]

what do you mean bottom to top?

oh you prefer the bottom ship

anyway no clue what to do for lower price point so im just gonna recycle drive bye

[slow axle]

yeah i just realised my sentence make no sense sorry

i prefer bottom

[toxic ocean]

That's just a skill issue of not being able to decorate it properly fair enough, can relate.

[deft kayak]

finally starting to paint, i think it's turning out pretty well

also while i didn't completely change the ship, i upped the firepower to make it better match the other ships of its weight class

[median patio]

Yeah its turning out very well, love the dithering with the curved decals

What if you make them giant flames so it looks like beams of fire are coming from out of it

[deft kayak]

i'm going to experiment quite a bit i think

[oak plaza]

You cooked with this one...

Hope Broken Sun gets a repaint like this...

[deft kayak]

i'm not 100% satisfied with how it's turning out but i think i'm close

[deft kayak]

broken sun is a fringe ship lol, it won't look like this

i'm not currently planning on ever painting broken sun, you're welcome to if you want

[oak plaza]

It still look Badass...
Sad that Broken Sun haven't been finished painting...

[bronze citrus]

very cool effect, but i think the yellow should be brighter

well, its already turned into a weird fish

awesome

[deft kayak]

agreed

[elfin venture]

oh that's very interesting

can't help but think the base paint should be darker though

[bronze citrus]

its cause of discord compression, its really dark ingame i think

try opening originalk

will probably tweak it a little though

[elfin venture]

no it's still the same

[tight tapir]

I love it

[bronze citrus]

still not too sure about it tbh

i think it has some weak points, but ill roll with this for the design contest

just gonna make a few ships that are more visually complex

maybe nick can help me optimize a ship... i want to make a large one but i really dont wanna optimize it

[tight tapir]

Yeah the front looks nice but the back doesn't make too much sense

[bronze citrus]

its supposed to be like a wedge with the plating splitting out

[bronze citrus]

should make a bit more sense depth wise now

[oak plaza]

I Love The Look Of This, very unique...

[simple valve]

Very unique, good job

[simple valve]

Also very unique, tho the inside seems a little weird

[slow axle]

nice!!!

what price tag the ship is into

[deft kayak]

It's about 1.2 mil

[toxic ocean]

Slightly noisy ornaments, but nice.

[slow axle]

not a competitor to me then :p

(i'm gonna do a single submission because of artblock)

[deft kayak]

same

[uncut vault]

I like them a lot, looks like fire

[lament skiff]

Do they just pull the submissions from this channel

I coulda sworn I rember having to submit my stuff to a google link

[deft kayak]

There's a submission channel

[lament skiff]

Yeah I put it there

But there was also a google form last time

[small breach]

i don't think so

[oak plaza]

Which should I submit...?
Knock-Out (The Right) with 999,840 Credits...
or Lost Piece (Left) with 930K Credits...

[late zenith]

While Knock-out is really good Lost Piece looks both good and unique, although it's possible some people may have issues with the asymmetry

[past bramble]

Un monolith the color first

[oak plaza]

Just to note, Lost Piece is a Ion Orbiter, it survives most fights while Knock-Out is a Nuke Bomber that blows all loads when faced by an enemy...

[deft kayak]

I think lost piece is more unique, could use a color change like kine suggested though

[desert trail]

use the colors of ikea

or lego

[oak plaza]

Hmmm...
Its not even remotely monolith though...

[oak plaza]

What you mean monolith...

[deft kayak]

The blue and white with lots of right angles

Maybe if the blue was greener

[oak plaza]

Would try later...
I just shut off the PC...

I really suck at color theory...

[deft kayak]

You don't suck at it, it's just that that ship looks vaguely like monolith

[tribal heath]

Btw for my look Lost Piece has quite pale colors and it is lack of expressiveness.

[past bramble]

From afar it looks grey

Turms out that is green

[oak plaza]

I see that...

[oak plaza]

It's light yellow Green...

I searched for Hex colors of it...

Each...

[past bramble]

Anyway avoid light blue on white

Too monolith

Not to mention its blocky

[oak plaza]

Will take note...

I really suck at picking colors that I actually search "colors that go well with white" and those are the top colors...

[lament skiff]

Every color goes with white or black

[elfin venture]

lost piece has a better shape but knockout has much better paint imo, i don't like lost piece's paint at all
it looks unfinished because it's all outlines and symbols with nothing else

[deft kayak]

finished the second pair of wings

also added a few lights at the wingtips

bottom part will be like the wings, still note sure exactly what i'm going to do with the middle but i'll figure something out

hopefully within a week xd

[small breach]

change lost piece colors first, otherwise knockout better

[oak plaza]

I feel like the idea of Lost Piece is good, but I just dont have the brains and artistic design to make it look good...

[small breach]

knockout already looks awesome so i'd say stick with that

[oak plaza]

yup, and Oneye already thumbs up the whole submission so I will not replace it...

[stray burrow]

Am I allowed to submit eldritch horror ships?

Like as in ships that are/are possessed by eldritch creatures

[elfin venture]

as long as it follows all the other rules

i guess that's an interesting theme

[stray burrow]

This is the one i was thinking of submitting, after i finish painting

[elfin venture]

ah

[stray burrow]

this or some kind of living ship/weaponized asteroid type thing

(not using asteroid parts obviously)

[oak plaza]

You should see Kine's past submissions...

These... #1091784501274869821 message

[past bramble]

Flesh ship flesh ship flesh ship

[oak plaza]

FLESH...

[past bramble]

Right not flesh ship

Supose to be a fringe attempt

[oak plaza]

I see that people are just submitting their old submissions and I feel somewhat sad that I don't get to see new brilliant ships from them but if there is something to submit again, these FLESH AND BLOOD ALIENS do sure look great with the theme...

[oak plaza]

It looks an alien infestation to me...
Like the "early signs"...

[past bramble]

Harvester made it in, but barely

The problem is their paint dont look impressive

They are carried by their shape

with the current rule set i did consider a parasite ship again but they just dont look good

[oak plaza]

What you mean don't look good, they are epic and unique...

[novel coyote]

finally uploaded my submission

[elfin venture]

it looks good

it doesn't look too blindingly bright despite the white shadows

[oak plaza]

I actually wanna see if you did the colors of Inversion so shit that you need to inverse the colors in game via by filters to see its real colors...

Hence the alternate reality...

[stray burrow]

I’ll upload my full on living nebula ship

[oak plaza]

@past bramble, where is the other parasite ships again...

I remember you doing one with my Crusher...

[stray burrow]

Are these like ships that you made into the flesh creatures?

[past bramble]

yes

first ship based on

2nd is this and a chunk of a much larger ship, both by admiral grant

3rd is based on these 2 both by kaine

4th got its core from

5th is

6th is based on 2 of corpo's ship

both are previous contest winners

[novel coyote]

here's what the original looks like, if that's what you're asking

[stray burrow]

this is the eldritch ship i wanted to submit, with the paint finished

Any changes i should make to it?

Oh yeah the left large thruster cant move because the backwards one will constantly make it go backwards

[oak plaza]

Tried to make it as much like this...
Looks great...

This is the look of it in regular...

[novel coyote]

don't really get it, what were you trying to do?

[oak plaza]

Load the ship in game...
And turn your graphics shaders into "Inversion" to see its real colors...

[novel coyote]

you already sent a screenshot of it with the inversion filter though..?

[oak plaza]

I just thought that The players should be putting inversion on to see the paint themselves...

[night atlas]

Nice

[novel coyote]

ok but why did you alter the paint colors?

[oak plaza]

so that when its inversion, this colors would show up...
thats all...

[novel coyote]

but they already do tho, thats like.. the whole point

[oak plaza]

Yea, I guess...
Nevermind my input...

[novel coyote]

What I was trying to do with the paint was to make it look good (or at least decent) in both normal and inverted styles, without changing it in any way besides just that, inverting it (whether that be through the in-game filter or manually changing the RGB values)

[toxic ocean]

It'd be so funny if somebody made a ship paint with a paint scheme that looks atrocious normally, but great when inverted.

[novel coyote]

thats basically what happens when you invert the colors of a normal ship

[slow axle]

did i cooked or did i burnt

@simple valve @elfin venture (you gave me some pretty good advices on my first ship with the scheme, i trust you)

[deft kayak]

ooh i like them

i feel like the second ship should have some color on the front part, it looks unfinished

[slow axle]

not sure if you noticed but the second and third ship are the same

[simple valve]

Looks good, tho the two white chunks on the front feel too jagged, I'd replace them with something straighter

[slow axle]

it looked weird because it broke angles consistency @simple valve
do you have any suggestions for something that is straight yet angle consistent? i'm curious

otherwise i have a day left of deadline so i can submit tomorrow//

[simple valve]

I have an idea but I don't think I can explain it properly. I'll try to create it in cosmoteer tomorrow, since it's almost midnight for me already.

[slow axle]

same here, and i cannot sleep too late i need to wake up early

[deft kayak]

no i didn't im blind xd

[elfin venture]

you most certainly cooked

gonna have to agree with paccipiter on the bits at the front, but it's really a nitpick, and the ship looks amazing

[oak plaza]

@urban elm your submission is looking fire...
Are you gonna submit another ship before the deadline...?

[urban elm]

Unfortunately no. I'm not confident in my ability to make 600k-2M+ ships and even if I could get something good out it would take me more than a few days to finalize

[oak plaza]

its all cool...
did hope you could send a full line up but Im glad to have you on board nonetheless...

[urban elm]

I don't suspect it will be one of the winners anyway

Just happy to post it ig

[oak plaza]

Well dont say things like that...
nothing is set in stone...

me myself, I just trust in my ability to paint, its subpar but thats all the best I can muster and Im proud of it...

[oak plaza]

Im just the same as happy as you are...
proud to show the ships Im working on, if it wins then its a plus...

[toxic ocean]

What's the deadline for the contest again? Asking just in case it's like tomorrow and I have zero idea.

[tribal heath]

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/winter?iso=20240201T00&p0=3919&msg=Design+Contest+Deadline

[toxic ocean]

Oh my god it is genuinely tomorrow.

Good thing I checked.

GETBUILDINGGETBUILDINGGETBUILDING

The clock is ticking yet my clock ain't ticking yet.

[simple valve]

I know it's tomorrow yet I'm still not able to build / paint for some reason

[oak plaza]

It's tomorrow I think...

[toxic ocean]

I already know.

[oak plaza]

Yea, we already talked about this in ships...
Hahahahahaha

[oak plaza]

Very based...

[slow axle]

welp time to fix the jagged paint

[slow axle]

@simple valve @simple valve

howdis

same thing expect i made 2x1 angles be 45° angles

[simple valve]

Way better, try flipping the bottom of the middle chunk tho, so that it's not touching the blue chunk

[small breach]

epic

[past bramble]

cool

[slow axle]

🤍

[slow axle]

okaay i'm blind lmao, thought it wasn't touching

[wispy vigil]

Hmmm

[slow axle]

havent realised but category one is the most contested one @w@

might submit an older design.

@rose swan will voting be per category or per author ( i assume category )

[rose swan]

Per category.

[slow axle]

thanks!

[simple valve]

Is this allowed? It's called False Relay so it shouldn't confuse players

lore is the cosmoteer wants to make enemies think the precursors are attacking them

btw give paint suggestions if something feels off

I didn't go for a full copy since that would be a copy (duh) and would be weak as a ship, so I just tried to do something similar

[tribal heath]

I think it's allowed

[slow axle]

i think the paint is really good however it feel off due to the shape
i think the rear is still abit too cubic

pretty good overall

[small breach]

i completely agree

[simple valve]

Yeah it's hard to place the thrusters to create a circle

Plus I can no longer edit it due to unexpected events

[desert trail]

9 hours till time is up

or something like that

[simple valve]

Yeah but it ends at 6am for me

[slow axle]

should i also submit Glaucus despite not being star-themed

i don't have any ship for C3 that either don't require an overhaul or creation process/

[small breach]

yeah it has a unique enough paint style

it is also pretty good

[novel coyote]

@quaint tusk Your submission's ship file is invalid (not .ship.png)

[quaint tusk]

ok fixed it

[novel coyote]

it's still invalid for some reason, did you take the image from the ships folder?

[quaint tusk]

no i just used the screenshot function ingame
could also be because it's embedded from a discord link

i got it from the folder this time

[deft kayak]

screenshots don't get the actual file

[novel coyote]

you can't load ships from a screenshot even if its renamed to .ship

has to be from the ships folder

[quaint tusk]

alrighty i got the png from the folder and put it in the submission

[tribal heath]

Me right now with 7 hours before deadline

https://tenor.com/view/gauss-warframe-running-speed-gif-5081725831452910087

[deft kayak]

same lol

[slow axle]

aaa i hate when mostly unpainted ship have fabulous shapes to them

[slow axle]

i want to go sleep but now i can't wait to see piston loop final paint

[deft kayak]

just finished it :)

wait i should have done a glamor shot

[slow axle]

this is fire!!

(litterally)

[deft kayak]

lol

[slow axle]

i hope you will place higher than Glaucus (i might save it for next contest >.<)

the finalized build look alot better than the plain white one @deft kayak (i know this may sound dumb but for exemple it's not the case for me)

[deft kayak]

lol i get it

[novel coyote]

I'm curious about the backup prisms, how effective are they?

[deft kayak]

kinda depends on the enemy weapon, but they're often useful

[late zenith]

I like the phoenix, the shape kinda reminds of me of Providence from terraria calamity

[deft kayak]

i have never played terraria but you're the 4th person to say that it looks like something from it

[novel coyote]

oh yea it really does look like providence

[deft kayak]

nick and a few others thought it looked like yharon

[late zenith]

I'd say it's closer to the old providence sprite in palette and appearance but yeah

[deft kayak]

yeah that thing is def more similar

[wispy vigil]

i don't know if there is any time enough left for me to make any more ships then that

[lament skiff]

Ripper is pretty cool

[lament skiff]

i forgor to send the updated version of xcalibur lol

oh well

[late zenith]

wow no nick submission?

[elfin venture]

i'm surprised too

I think he missed the deadline

oof that's gonna be rough

hey are you allowed to vote for your own ships on the design contest voting form

im assuming not

but idk

[rose swan]

You are.

[elfin venture]

oh

so i can vote for myself

nice

[rose swan]

Oh yeah. This is on me since I forgot to mention it in the event doc, but winning ships with special characters in their names will have to be renamed to use Latin-only. Apparently it can cause crashes for some people otherwise.

[small breach]

i woke up 7 hours later

deadline time

[past bramble]

Did nick not submit?

Rip

[simple valve]

May the most original paint win

[oak plaza]

This is it bois...
Its nice knowing you...

You will win this Immtrm...

Uhm, @rose swan...
Is the Design Contest Submission Google Forms supposed to be "we can edit our response"...?

[rose swan]

Yes.

[oak plaza]

Aight...
thanks for answering...

@toxic ocean, Im actually happy that the tip of this ship serves as a lightning rod for EMP...

[tribal heath]

Let's see!

[tribal heath]

Though it was rushed at night in last hours before deadline, heh

[elfin venture]

Sure doesn't look it
it's seriously impressive
the sawblade concept is new and eye-catching, the rest of the paint is good, and you managed to pull off sawblades despite the only built-in point of comparison being Clockwork gears - which have a different structure and aren't sculpted

[tribal heath]

Thanks then

Perhaps fleet of such ships in future 😄

[oak plaza]

Bro, you are sweeping the floor with us...
chill out...
HAHAHAHAHA

[elfin venture]

it's gonna look like a superhero movie trap lel

[safe stratus]

who pinged me

[elfin venture]

I don't think anyone did, at least in this channel
closest is vilda pinning a message but that shouldn't show up as a ping