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Hello all,
Firstly, take this post with a grain of salt. This is just me (poorly) mocking up an idea in sketchup and presenting it to you, the reader.
Secondly, this is a ship design that is easier to think of as a carrier type vessel that tows 8+ other specialized ships. Essentially, the main carrier ship would be towing the "smaller" ships. The carrier would literally just hold large amounts of fuel and the biggest/strongest thrusters, and would have to be absolutely covered in maneuvering thrusters. The smaller ships would essentially be small gun boats. They would mostly hold ammunition, and a small amount of fuel in order to position themselves onto the larger carrier. Their entire point is to be bullet sponges/weapons platforms for the main carrier body.
This design could also work for maybe transporting larger amounts of resources too. The smaller ships could instead be designed as cargo vessels, sacrificing fuel tanks and reactors for MORE STORAGE. They only need enough oompf to doc with the carrier after all.
I do realize that each individual ship will need to be unlocked from the main ship if you wanted to doc the carrier. For this reason, I think something like this would only really be useful for a coordinated corporation. It'd be the bullet sponge shock-and-aww vehicle that only gets assembled and launched for large corporation efforts. And this is a very boxy and simplistic design I know, I fully plan on trying to do something like this at some point. Hopefully I can convince my fellow Empire members to help me field it.
If course, if you cant use guns or turrets while your ship is being towed, then I suppose thats it for this design haha.
Firstly, take this post with a grain of salt. This is just me (poorly) mocking up an idea in sketchup and presenting it to you, the reader.
Secondly, this is a ship design that is easier to think of as a carrier type vessel that tows 8+ other specialized ships. Essentially, the main carrier ship would be towing the "smaller" ships. The carrier would literally just hold large amounts of fuel and the biggest/strongest thrusters, and would have to be absolutely covered in maneuvering thrusters. The smaller ships would essentially be small gun boats. They would mostly hold ammunition, and a small amount of fuel in order to position themselves onto the larger carrier. Their entire point is to be bullet sponges/weapons platforms for the main carrier body.
This design could also work for maybe transporting larger amounts of resources too. The smaller ships could instead be designed as cargo vessels, sacrificing fuel tanks and reactors for MORE STORAGE. They only need enough oompf to doc with the carrier after all.
I do realize that each individual ship will need to be unlocked from the main ship if you wanted to doc the carrier. For this reason, I think something like this would only really be useful for a coordinated corporation. It'd be the bullet sponge shock-and-aww vehicle that only gets assembled and launched for large corporation efforts. And this is a very boxy and simplistic design I know, I fully plan on trying to do something like this at some point. Hopefully I can convince my fellow Empire members to help me field it.
If course, if you cant use guns or turrets while your ship is being towed, then I suppose thats it for this design haha.
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