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Mind-Fracture β€” Starmade Arwing MK1

Published: 2013-06-21 17:06:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 4117; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 2
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Description Starmade is amazing. It's been called Minecraft in space, but that really doesn't do it justice. The moment I saw this game on the Yogscast I just had to try it out for myself. I showed it to and he already plans to get all our friends on one server and build the Death Star. He wants to blow up whole planets while quoting Palpatine. I, of course, called dibs on Vader. He said sure, so long as I don't throw him down any reactor shafts.

I told him no promises.

Anyway, here's my first completed ship. Star Fox 64 holds a very special place in my heart, so the distinctive Arwing was obviously my first project. I borrowed design elements from several Arwings to make this, which I call the Arwing MK1. In Starmade, weapon systems grow more powerful when you link them linearly. Owing to my firm belief that there is no such thing as overkill, the Arwing MK1 has four laser cannons, each composed of eight linked laser banks that combined hit like the fist of a tiny god. The homing missile system extends from the tip of the nose all the way to the exhaust ports. With it I can core an asteroid roughly twenty times the Arwing's size in three shots. The shield systems are stored in the blue side pylons, and with them I've taken heavy laser fire from an entire squadron of space pirates. Their relentless assault only depleted my shield meter by a measly few pips, which regenerated a few seconds later. I'm not quite satisfied with it, so I will likely tweak it relentlessly in the near future. Honestly, I don't think it's powerful enough.

After this, the Great Fox is next. Then after that I might build the Wolfen and then a giant Andross head.
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Comments: 17

SwordFox [2013-07-13 23:53:47 +0000 UTC]

I couldn't find any blueprints of this so I had to make my own using these three screenshots as a template. You said linear stacking allows the cannons to get more powerful, However the "quad cannon" concept felt out of place to me. You also said you used a total of 32 cannons (16 per side, 8 per bank). I got creative and made them a pair of dual cannons instead and use a little bit more than 32 gun blocks by shoving them upward slightly into the "g-diffusers" resulting in a punch of 204.6 (104.3x2). I also tweaked the missile bay so its damage went up to 200 flat.

The one thing I had to overcome after that was the power requirements. Dog-fighting a pirate resulted in energy drain if I was moving and shooting at the same time. It took a couple of days to work that bug out and then adjust for the shields (which I put in the wings empty space). So all in all I've got an Arwing with 8.3k shields qith a reasonably fast acceleration curve but handles side to side strafing a little sluggishly. Its good enough for me though.

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Mind-Fracture In reply to SwordFox [2013-08-07 05:39:25 +0000 UTC]

I've already made the MK2.Β  It's smaller, sleeker, more maneuverable and I've managed to squeeze more power out of it and improve the shields.Β  Might post it sometime, along with it's stats.

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SwordFox In reply to Mind-Fracture [2013-12-10 14:30:37 +0000 UTC]

May be few months late as I seldom check dA anymore but here I go.

In a similar vein I did the same with mine, except for its size (that stayed the same). Changes in the power costs for AMC arraysΒ  meant I had to make a few alterations to the "replica" I made in order to support refined weapons and shields. So now it has some better shields than it used to. The other differences would require me to load it up in the game and I'd rather just send you a copy of its export so you can see for yourself.

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Tribal666 [2013-07-06 23:18:43 +0000 UTC]

Do a barrel roll! Press A to shoot!

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Mind-Fracture In reply to Tribal666 [2013-08-07 05:37:50 +0000 UTC]

Sadly, this design does a VERY slow aileron roll.Β  The MK2 is much improved.

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Horcling [2013-06-30 16:11:56 +0000 UTC]

i like your design on which server do you play?
I play on:
fh.incognitodev.com:4242
would love to see you and your ships there
my name is Chosen_Mimes

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Mind-Fracture In reply to Horcling [2013-08-07 05:36:57 +0000 UTC]

I don't play on a server.Β  Not yet, at least.Β  A couple of friends of mine are planning on making one though.Β  We're planning on making a functional Death Star. My pal wants to be Emporer Palpatine so he can make dark side commends as we blow up planets.Β  I called Darth Vader, of course.Β  He said he was okay with it so long as I don't throw him down any reactor shafts.

I told him no promises.

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Horcling In reply to Mind-Fracture [2013-08-07 07:09:04 +0000 UTC]

nice how big will the Death Star be?

it will need some immense firepower


anyway, the server-ip i gave you earlier leads to a dead server. no one plays on it anymore. sadly.


This is the new server i'm playing on if you wanna come by

starmade-servers.com/server/10…


May the force be with you,

Lord Vader




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Mind-Fracture In reply to Horcling [2013-08-16 21:05:10 +0000 UTC]

Ehh me and Watcher are farting around on our own makeshift server at the moment. We found an empty space station and are just doing whatever. Other day we built a giant harvester and devoured a planet. Good times.

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Dewani90 [2013-06-21 19:36:27 +0000 UTC]

well, hope someday i can play that too, i'm way too hooked to minecraft right now, death star huh?, one day i was bored and recreated the desert colossus from zelda ocarina of time, i kinda had to play it again because i didn't remember how the temple of spirit used to look from inside. and it had to survive a few explosions until i got angry and made an obsidian wall all around the place... freaking creepers

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Mind-Fracture In reply to Dewani90 [2013-06-22 06:24:12 +0000 UTC]

The /mobGriefing false command is your friend.

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WatcherCCG In reply to Dewani90 [2013-06-22 01:55:12 +0000 UTC]

Peaceful difficulty is your friend.

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WatcherCCG [2013-06-21 17:30:05 +0000 UTC]

Awesome.

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Mind-Fracture In reply to WatcherCCG [2013-06-21 17:40:49 +0000 UTC]

Glad you think so. It's not as maneuverable as it's namesake but it certainly comes close. And it's a heck of a lot easier to reload the missiles than smart bombs.

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WatcherCCG In reply to Mind-Fracture [2013-06-21 17:45:04 +0000 UTC]

Heh. Well, this is the Speed Mode configuration. That always sacrifices some agility for speed.

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Mind-Fracture In reply to WatcherCCG [2013-06-22 06:40:31 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I doubt I'll be able to make All-Range Mode without some new parts being added to the game. At least I can "Do a barrel-roll!"

Although to be technical, what Star Fox calls a "barrel roll" is actually an aileron roll . An actual barrel roll is more of a corkscrew maneuver.

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WatcherCCG In reply to Mind-Fracture [2013-06-22 13:09:54 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I've read that before.

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