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Starmade Arwing MK1

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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 :iconwatcherccg: 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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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. :)