Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander - Ep 14

This has my favorite "ship building / operation" mechanic of any space sim I can think of off the top of my head. It's simple, yet really deep, flexible, and personalizable.
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[@tjep2670]

Hey Quill you are missing out on about 25% damage by having three diamonds pinting into the front one. You should just have two pointing into one.

[@punpundit5590]

I run one support ship in Cosmoteer; it's a production/mining ship, and I transfer crew between that and my main combat ship as needed. I leave a captain and two engine operators (who can also feed power to the jump drive) on whichever ship I am not currently piloting, and have (normally off) hyperspace beacons on both ships, so they can jump to each other at need. I am thinking of adding an all-engine system scout and a sundiver mining ship as well, but I think leaving crew sitting unused on idle ships generally is a poor plan because the main progression cap is how many crew you currently have available.

[@syy1125]

15:12 there are two categories of steam workshop content - ships and mods. As far as I know, simply downloading ships from steam workshop won’t make them show up as generated ships. It takes a mod to put new designs into the pool of spawnable ships.

[@kevinkabali7201]

i have to continue my game sometime too. I went with a fleet: one big capital ship, one industrial "civillian" ship, 2 pure rail guns, and 2 pure ion ships. 2 flak ships to protect the fleet. never really worked (maybe that is the reason I stopped), but someday I want to make it work even if it might never be optimal.

[@comradekenobi8146]

You should pick Project Caprica back up.

[@isaacvincent8443]

Have you done any Asteroid lifting from near the Stars?

[@johnpersson3994]

always blowing up reactors.. what a waste