awesome! I always wanted to fly that ship! Thanks for making it possible!

incredibly gorgeous !!!

@napabe84 Having a High Guard HCBG (Heavy Cruiser Battle Group) is always a good idea. For you know "peaceful" first contact missions, and during "aggressive negotiations." A display of strength, a strategy Admiral Constanza Stark liked to use:

"I've always found a fully deployed
battle group to be the most
effective negotiator."
Admiral Constanza Stark
High Guard Chief-of-Staff
CY 9758 -- “Point of the Spear”

Glad you like my High Guard Ships. Still need to release my To Seek To Find Class at some point.

This is a beautiful Build. Im glad i took a look at your other workshop creations, in my next game I think i'll have a High Gaurd fleet follow me into the core.

(:

Jesus..... Some of you builders are just flat out insane

razorback, nope no turret hard points. The problem I have with turret base blocks is where I'd like to have them I can't put them because turret corner blocks do not exist. Vanilla turrets though can be placed anywhere. The turrets I would use would all be fairly small turrets anyway which are limited later in the game. And with turret lock blocks broken for custom turrets, I'm not sure whether I'll ever add them to this ship. I won't say never, but right now, almost none of my ships have them with the exception of the ship I'm about to release. Sorry.

It seems it does not have any turret hard points >.>

thanks dont have a powerful pc so i wont use mods unless needed

@cozwort1, Yes it will totally work without the texture replacer.

will this ship work without the texture replacer

@That One Lass, Thanks, appreciate the support.

I'm going to go ahead and say this- I recently watched Andromeda, and I'm absolutely BLOWN AWAY by this build, like holy shit. And, it's one of your first builds?! Holy SHIT! You, my good man, are on my watch list from now on! I'm not going to use the Andromeda myself, but I just HAVE to give support and subscribe.

Keep on making works of art, my dude! o7

@DBell I’m flattered you’ve thought of me for designing a ship for you but at least at the moment I kind of think I have enough ships I’m working on. Sorry.

hey mate, i need you to design this, https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/542103171812556800/599236761847070729/latest.png

@matthew Fair enough and thank you. We're all human. No lasting harm done.

My final word, as I now realise that I have made you upset. That wasn't my intention, for that please forgive me. There are rare times I seem to go too far, and lose control over what I type.

I have deleted all my comments, it is for the best.

I wish you luck in your future projects and ships.

Farewell

@DarthK3v Thank you you're very kind.

Yeah this was my 3rd ship, Eureka Maru (1-2 slot ship) as I said it was my first. The To Seek to Find Class Science ship (a 5 slot ship) was my 2nd and then the Andromeda. As my little science ship was getting beat up a lot. 4th was my Collector ship (7 Slot) as an escort.

I have also followed you on the workshop here. You can bet I'll be drooling all over anything else you release.

Those screenshots are all beautiful. I'm especially in love with the Collector and what you have so far of the Orville. I'm greatly looking forward to seeing the finished products.

Also, this is your third ship?! That's it?! I went through dozens of experiments before learning to make things I thought were at least somewhat good, and I still can't even compare to this! You have serious skill, and don't you ever doubt it. I wish I was half as good as doing curves are you clearly are.

And I cannot leave unmentioned the courage to put your work out there in the first place. I haven't even uploaded any of my own work, with the exception of two models made by someone else that I simply tweaked and re-uploaded with their permission. You are a skilled artist, and for me at least, also an inspiration.

As for the next project(s). I have more ships from the Andromeda Series I’d like to post to the workshop at some point.

These are the ones that are basically done:

I have a Collector ship:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074341886

And my “To Seek To find” class Science Ship:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074340462

A Slipscout:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074358579

And I have a small starter ship my first ship, The Eureka Maru, she’ll need a bit of a rework but sh’s mostly done:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074352029

As for the next new ship The Orville WIP:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074355048

@Arakiss Thanks, for the kind words. It’s much appreciated.

The regret is more just me getting a little annoyed at feeling like I was being constantly told to do a thing rather than being asked nicely. And then not being given much time to make it the way I was told.

I’ll live.

Also keen to see what your next project the Ascendant is not an easy model to pull off keep us posted

Why the regret man its an awesome model be proud of what you have made

Good job nice curves she has and imo the block count is fine a lot of complex shape are going on if his pc or whatever can't handle the block count then tough luck and some ships just can't be used in multiplayer due to game limitations we just have to accept it ive posted ships with well 50k blocks as pure show pieces and as Siv said this is the new benchmark for this model in avorion i highly doubt the block count can go down to multiplayer standards and even if a lower block count was made the curves wouldn't be as smooth the model would have less resolution and if he really doesn't like the stats then he should just gut it himself and redo the insides and stop complaining

@Matthew

SivCorp has many more hours in this game and many more ships that he has posted, many of them improved versions of his past ships. SivCorp is awesome.

I'm not SivCorp.

This is my first ship I've posted, and third ship that I built in the game at the time of its completion.

A lot of hours, Hundreds of hours, went into this ship.

The constant criticism from you isn't adding anything new, I've heard you, I have, and as I said I am working on it as a separate version, as you can see in the screenshots. Block count will be higher though.

Technically it's ready to go now. Hours went into it. Hours I could have been spending doing other ships.

I'm feeling a bit of regret for having posted this ship to the workshop at all, and I really shouldn't be feeling that way.

So yeah tone it down please.

@Matthew I'll just leave this here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074005165

and this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2074026279


Your Criticisms are fine in moderation. And I welcome them as I can and have learned new things like that I can stack more than 4 blocks into 1.

But...

@matthew I don't play multiplayer. I don't have the same concerns you do. You really shouldn't generalize so much and assume everyone plays this game the exact same way you do. For single player, even on Expert difficulty, this ship is plenty. It does not really need any further tweaking. And yeah, the block count is high, but again, not a problem for a single player game. Unless your computer is a potato. But mine isn't, so once more, not an issue.

You don't like the ship? Don't fly it. Make your own. Don't criticize it and demand the author do better.

@matthew Have you ever tried using shield boosters instead of shield reinforcers? I mean you're talking about wanting a ship which is very fast but also has tons of hitpoints. You're asking for a holy grail. Of course nothing would compare to a "perfect" ship, which makes your comments unfair, and somewhat pointless.

This ship at its base works perfectly fine. Shield boosters would give it even better shields, and you could even add hull/engine mods to boost them as well. You have 15 upgrade slots on this beauty, more than enough to spare. The large amounts of negative space on this model coupled with basic maneuvering will also make it a harder target as the AI does not always aim for the largest chunk of hull or the center of mass.

@Palladin888 not really sure what you're asking.

@matthew "End Game"? Did I have that as a tag at one point? If so that was a mistake. I would consider this ship "late game" hence me putting mid/late game in the description. And the current game stage tag of late game. Depending on difficulty maybe end game.

I'm Curious, what difficulty are you playing?

You are kind of comparing apple and oranges when it comes to a ship that has overlapping blocks and my ship that has only a few thrusters that are that way so I wouldn't expect my ship to compare well to it.

I think I'm happy with the stats for this version. I don't think I'll change this one much more.

But as you said, I'll make a separate version for you and anyone that wants a more "advanced" version. (:

when doing slopped surfaces how do you keep the angle uniform from one end to the other?

The largest I've ever seen turrets go to is 2x2. So you shouldn't need any turret blocks with a surface larger than that.

This is an absolutely astonishing piece of art! Also I think the stats are just fine as is for a ship of this size. Also overlapping blocks are not welcome on all online servers, so there's that too.

Keep up the amazing work!

Very nice ship. A piece of art !

Using overlaping tricks can easily lead you to merge 8 block in one position. (4 corner on the top and 4 on the bottom)
And if you want even more overlaping it's possible to merge 24 blocks (i've done it with 24 gyro-array), but it's a bit tricky...

But i'm not sure it's needed here :). And i'm not sure overlapping is multiplayer friendly.

Turret bases and blocks are a whole others can of worms, one I have not really explored. Probably not something I have time to do at the moment. A future version maybe....

@matthew, Thanks that helps to give me a target to shoot for stat wise.

....Right taking a look at Kandosii MkII (Advanced).

As I thought SivCorp is using corner 1 blocks to overlap blocks, though SivCorp has gone beyond what I thought was possible by having 8 blocks overlapping when I had only done 4 for some of my directional thrusters.

So yes I can totally use that knowledge to increase the ships handling engines/thrusters and increase the upgrade space of my ship. Internal Block count though will increase 8x though.... Probably need to gut the central section and start the internals from scratch. Not sure where that leaves the under 15k version as I didn't have that much wiggle room.

Give me a week or two to rework my ships internals.

Edit: Ok, now I see the differences, but still good enough.

@StarryWisdom If I'm perfectly honest, I do not see a difference between the original build and the under 15k block version. I say it's good enough.

Thanks SivCorp.

By advanced building stacking method, you mean 4 corner 1 blocks and then converting those into the desired block?
I started to do that with some of my directional thrusters. But I have not done it for all of them yet.

Excellent job. A beautiful ship. I've still got to update my own version with the new blocks. But this one is the benchmark. Very well done :)
Stats can be improved using the advanced building stacking method. I may do an edit to get it there.

@Turanic Raider hencojoubert, thanks.

this is a work of art.

@DarthK3v Glad you like it. More ships from the Andromeda TV series to come.

@matthew, sorry you didn't like the handling.

If I may ask, what stats would you like to see from a ship? Specifically what are the stats of ships you do like to fly?

There is some wiggle room for me to add more thrusters and engines as well as inertial dampeners.

I can’t guarantee anything, but some more info from you, or from anyone for that matter, about the stats you’d like to see would help me if not in improving this ship at least in maybe influencing future builds.


Block count wise, yeah, not much I can do with a ship like this.

However...

@CarpeThatFknDiem a 15k server block limit you say?

Is that per ship?

If so I can make a version available that has much of the little details gone but with a block count of 14,937

Screen shot:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2071675673

If that’s acceptable let me know.

@matthew While I can't argue with you on the block count, I would argue that the maneuverability is respectable for something of this immense size. Your criticism is honestly somewhat unrealistic as you couldn't really hope for much better than this while keeping to this shape and scale. If you personally want something much faster than this, you're going to need something much smaller.

Also, while I can't argue against the incredible number of blocks in this build, such is the price you pay for an exquisite work of art. StarryWisdom, if you read this comment, know you've made another Andromeda fan quite pleased.

if only the multiplayer servers didn't have that 15k block limit, i cried a little

That is one gorgeous design - great job!

F*ck me, that is beautiful.

Thanks everyone, glad you like it.