The Starcadian is an amazing ship but I have a problem but it may not have to do with the ship at all. Possibly a PICNIC error. I have replaced two of the plasma canons with medium rail guns in the multi barrel formation. I placed them in the inner most weapon cavities and I either get an error stating the weapons are blocked or if I do get them to fire they fire alternately, never simultaneously. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Thanks for looking Arty, I'll do some more troubleshooting and see what i can do.
Thank you for taking the time Mr

Just had a look at the Blueprint, and nothing's wrong with it Warlow. Not sure what the problem is for you exactly, could be your server, could be youre playing a modified version of the scenario, but it isn't the blueprint.

@ArtemisRogue Man i love your ships. I really want to jump into this ship to take on drone space but there's so many guns and blocks missing I just dont know what goes where.

If you drop it in, you can see the counts are off in the groups. IE Weapon group has 5 weapons but opening it only shows 1 advanced laser cannon decoy.

Repair devices, defence devices/shields are missing, cpu missing.

Arty your ships made me fall in love with RE. I know you've poured love and sweat into crafting these. Any chance we're going to see a QoL pass on them to replace the missing blocks?

where do you put all 8 cpu cores? the compartment mentioned in your earlier posts only fits 4.

Thanks goetzjam..

@novoca1n3 I'm not the author but I've got this ship nearly maxed out on upgrades, just need some more crew to finish her out. As far as upgrade path goes, it depends on the content you want to do. I think after the latest changes to add data cores to immerit class and above, going to legacy space to farm quantums doesn't really make much sense. You can get quantums and data cores just taking on immerits. As far as path, I went from 4>6 blasters, then upgraded shields, maxed out medium turrets, removed gats for laser turrets. I've even punched out the decoy weapon and put in a thor2 experimental for precision coring (using plasma on the outside cores risk blowing up quantum boxes on destroyers. Furthermore, the experimental railgun is really useful in drone space for punching out cores in bases. Just use shield calculator or go with something like 4lg capacity, 4 med 2 capacity, then 6 small charger and 2 capacitors.

Enjoying this ship however it would be great if you put together some sort of upgrade guide. Better still install LCD's of where to put things. Are you able to upload a version of this that has been upgraded to 4 Quantum's with a shield and weapon configuration for taking on Legacy? Or do you have this on your discord?

The ammo for the heavy plasma cannons is "quite" cheap compared to other options, if you are friendly with polaris for example can get 1000 shots for 250k credits which aint bad.

Thanks for quick response and shearing knowledge, i hate grind. God o mighty Getting ores for
Heavy Plasma cannons... look what you need Phentoxid , Magnesium, Earstrum Aluminium and quantity...bah. Was very lucky found Temperate planet in Drone land with one Moon only. Every few minutes you will have Meteorite falling down in order Pent (average 1400 crystals) Promethium average 1200 yield and Aluminium similar to Promethium. They falling so quickly you have hardly time to harvest one with end game SV miner running 6 lasers. In 3 hours of real time collected 42K Pent just over 40 K Promethium and same Aluminium. Magnesium was biatch but dropping 10 Automated miners and one industrial, so one medium deposit 6 Small and 3 very Small made my Quartermaster fully employed as mined. They Nerf Isotope gens so my current energy spending idle - 6500 if that is not done i will be -10500. Quantity of ore should be enough
not to grind in Legacy space to harvest 16 Quantum.

I'm a big fan of putting as many Modulated turrets on as possible Misha, I tend to use about 80% of the 3x vs. Shield Modulated type, and about 20% of the longer range modulated type, for a nice long range anti-drone, but short range extreme anti-shield mix. Missiles can be very effective but I just dont like buying, producing, or carrying the ammunition, if I dont need to.

When i said loading Starcadian i meant to say Quartermaster actually Rigor earned for his majesty 4 Aux cores so all in all that was actually 16 Aux . Heehee Master is now monster with Anti matter drives biffed wirh small FC and 6 Helmsman (Reed RCS) Of course 78K shield . Not sure Where to add bit of gunnery just to indulge my self. Do not think that i will need add that
extra drives for forward as you suggest. Loaded Rigor and CV miner slightly bigger and similar wight , 2 SV 1 HV All cargo boxes fully loaded, lifts vertically 59m per second in space 99m/s.
Dives and moves and swings like a belly dancer. Ah yes did biffed landing deck with Heavy double glazing when i was installing Rep. platform. Promise i didn't spoiled of look and that extra load is not even noticed. Once more kind regards

HI Artemis
i have Stercadian with plasma drives large Fusion max N0. of medium lasers 6 large plasma cannons and 2 Large Rail gun turrets and still just over 160K of CPU. Rigor in Drone Land absolutely dominate, earned me 12 Aux cores with no problems including all necessary loot to build them on spot.
Now i am loading my Starcadian to spent time in Legacy space so do i use that extra CPU for
15 T1 modulators or 15 missile turrets for that much i can se space to fit. Mind you i have as well with 16 Mid modulators 6 T1
Regards

What is the block hole behind the pilot seat for?

Ok. Cheers

Arcadian is lighter, it can be brought in as an effective Core7. The Starcadian is an enhanced version, the armor is enhanced, the thrusters are drives, allowing way more speed and maneuverability at higher CPU levels, and its upgrade space, options, and hangar are much, much better. The Starcadian is an all purpose premium end-game vessel, available as a Core9. The Arcadian is a mid-game ship, able to fight effectively as a Core7, and upgrade to end-game, but at the highest CPU levels the Starcadian is a better, more versatile ship with more upgrade options, including large fusion core. Either ship will wreck the entire game so it really comes down to preference. If you dont mind being a bit slower and less maneuverable, you can technically get more guns on the Arcadian utilizing only a small fusion reactor.

So I gather this is a step up from the Arcadian ?

Could I get some hints as to where to place the Aux and Quantum CPU upgrades? I see the spot in the back by the thrusters, but that spot isn't big enough for everything. I also see some spots under the seat up top..? Maybe reconfigure the grow plot area's into some CPU lockers? Loving the ship so far!!

I must need Coffee.. is one of the cap chairs backwards and controlling a laser that is blocked?

Love it, its pretty beefy from the very get go... i use it on my Anvil S.10 playthrough atm and am really looking forward to upgrade it and get the Arcadian in afterwards! Very nice buil you did there, 100% efficient!

is it possible that your ship yard some time in future produce carrier big enough to comfortably
holds Starcadian
Regards

How to recolor an Artemis ship in under 1 minute: Cut/paste the full color palette of a ship into Microsoft Copilot with this prompt for recoloring (this ended up being more orange/brown than red, you can tweak to get whatever desired result you may want):

The pipe character | separates individual color codes. The hash sign is a delimiter #. The color code is the last three delimited values in each separate code sequence. Take any color codes that are currently blue and convert them to the equivalent color gradient of red and return the full edited string: |0#0#0#0#0|1#0#50#50#50|2#0#0#255#0|3#0#12#22#45|4#0#33#62#112|5#0#75#115#255|6#0#220#220#160|7#0#15#15#15|0#1#220#220#220|1#1#255#0#0|2#1#5#9#19|3#1#15#29#60|4#1#40#75#135|5#1#87#133#255|6#1#220#220#140|7#1#10#10#10|0#2#170#170#170|1#2#140#140#140|2#2#7#12#26|3#2#20#38#77|4#2#55#83#168|5#2#13#25#45|6#2#220#220#120|7#2#5#5#5|0#3#110#110#110|1#3#80#80#80|2#3#9#16#34|3#3#26#50#89|4#3#62#100#210|5#3#35#35#35|6#3#20#20#20|7#3#0#0#0

Sorry lack of my English
Ineffective is my stupid PC spelling i wanted to say in plain English i am infected by Artemis virus
Best regards, may she never tells you she have headache.

Your building is killing me
First i spawn Starcadian employed 16 crew so we talking 1,507 mil of CPU
encounter Legacy duo in neutral space L system. Armed with 16 mid Modulators 12 X ray and 4
infra red , 6 light modulators all same also includes 4 heavy Rail gun Turrets. Drives upgraded to plasma. After killing both CV-s finished some kind of Legacy mining facility walked out with enough Processors to build 2 Quantum babies.
My loses 4 Mid Modulators mostly due to my stubbornness and lack of patience considering that i am still learning possibilities of the beast i am riding.
Why you killing me ? I just need 2 Aux to seat in Arcadian it is parked on my space station and guess what somewhere in work shop i found your small bastard BP called Halcyon and started cooking. You are very ineffective person.

Feel free Shato.

@Artemis another inspiring creation, thanks for all of your hard work! I found an interesting way to recolor your ships. I'd be happy to share with you and if you approve, with the greater community

Your small Fusion would go in the Generator room, it can fit a Large fusion, so you should have no problem finding space for a Small one.

@me777 , Between your 2 Rear drive thrusters there's an Armored compartment for CPU units. When you enter the hangar, turn around and look up, accessed by removing the window.

really nice, and right on time as I already wanted to upgrade from my Honeybadger, but the Arcadian was out of reach for me.
also it looks bigger on the inside.

I have a few goodies I want to add but I'm not sure where to place those:
3 AuxCores and a small fusion core

That being said, another great ship mate. I love seeing a more "all-around/daily-driver" ship with the combat edge you're known for.

I personally use heavy plasmas "early on", but switch to heavy rail guns once i've got roughly 14+ medium laser turrets. At that point, the extra shield-stripping power of the plasmas is largely irrelevant, and the heavy rail guns outperform plasmas for destroying turrets and digging for cores. Seems many people don't realize heavy rails (unlike light/medium rails) have a huge explosion component, which deals roughly 40% more explosion damage to armor blocks than plasmas do. This is on top of their massive impact damage (15-20x more than the plasmas) and their 10% shield penetration.

I'm fond of a Small Fusion core, a High-hitpoint maxxed shield + All Modulated ( Gamma/visible ) turrets and 8x Triple Heavy Plasma. If you've CPU left, you can go Large Fusion Core + Plasma orAntimatter thrusters, which makes this ship insanely fast and nimble.

Amazing dude, already built the beast. Love the cheaper crafting requirements and upgrade ability. Can't wait to see her maxed out.

What's your final suggested loadout?

fierce looking1

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