I Took Too Long To Save The Station... And Got Rewarded?!

[@gnaskar]

When building, the ship first uses materials in space nearby, which is why there always seems to be less loot available after you've built extra cargo space to pick it up. Thought I was missing loot through timeouts for a long time before I figured that out.,

[@snakevenom7847]

The one bad thing about this series is how quickly it feels the episodes go by by virtue of just being damn entertaining

[@Aavak]

Very kind of you to say, thank you :D

[@lordporpoise8761]

After playing the game myself a fair bit there's something very odd about watching Aavak's beautifully functional, symmetrical and aesthetically pleasing ship after creating my own barely functional asymmetrical monstrosity the likes of which Warhammer40k orcs would consider to be distasteful. (Somewhere on my ship there are 2 people locked inside a bunk with no door, their cries likely keeping the other crew awake at night while they wait to finally get enough funds to complete the blueprint and free themselves.)

[@Aavak]

Had a good chuckle reading this XD

[@RupertAndCheese]

Conveniently ignoring that his final design was asymmetrical, the front engines.

[@satannstuff]

It could always be worse, I've seen more than a few designs that have to fire every thruster at once just to fly straight.

[@Jenna_Talia]

My first go at things went pretty good, strong ship that of course looked phallic as shit, but my downfall was when half my fucking crew didn't return to the ship when an enemy jumped me and I had to either turn and flee to get them back or slowly back up to play things safely. Chose the latter option, and ended up with my shields disabled anyways and then a fire sprung up in the back and the command module ended up unpowered and it all just went downhill from there...

[@spaceenjoyer8304]

Beautifully functional? Nah, man, this dude uses big thrusters for maneuvering on frigate class ship, highly lacks energy, uses storages as corridors, this ship can't be "beautifully functional", it is a mutilated victim of bad engineering.

[@david2869]

I do highly recommend the mining laser as it is useful as a short-range weapon, quite devastating if you are close to your target. Mining lasers not only break apart asteroids but also help with scavenging dead ships and hulks, splitting them apart much faster than your crew can. Not to mention the mining laser is similar to the deck cannon in that it mounts in the middle of the ship and is well protected by the armor and other parts of the ship.

[@KainYusanagi]

It can also be used with a very fast ship to outspeed enemies and salvage LIVING ships, hehehe.

[@gozzilla177]

The deck cannon looks cool but honestly its crap, 4 heavy leasers take up less space then 1 and 4 lasers out performs 4 deck cannons lol in top of the size and ammo consumption they fire slow and stun crew... mining lasers are superior unless you can keep just at edges range of something that cant catch you.

[@KainYusanagi]

@@gozzilla177 One benefit of deck cannons is that you can have them built deeper into your ship, instead of exposed at the front. The penetration and massive damage output are also much better than you're giving it credit for; 7,500 a shot, or 6,000/sec. Regular lasers have a damage of 400/shot with 0 penetration and DPS of 533, so 4 of them would do only 2132 DPS; if you instead meant 4 heavy lasers, they do 900 a shot or 1,600 DPS, but again no penetration (and even more exposure to enemy fire), and 4 of them would do 6,400 dps, 400 more than ONE deck cannon, but definitely not more than 4 deck cannons. Also, yes, they use ammo, but they don't use energy, and ammo is cheap as heck to craft yourself (0.1 sulfur gives you 5 ammo after all) or simply salvage from enemy ships. I'll agree with you that mining lasers are generally superior for actual damage if you can penetrate their shields, though.

[@lexiconduvall1314]

This game just scratches my starsector itch, even though they are vastly different, so I'm very happy you're covering it

[@GunRunner106]

you can also mass select any multiple rooms by just double clicking on em till it select all of the same rooms on the ship. so if ya have like 20 PDs around the ship doubleclick till all of em are selected (evtl), makes editing lots of gun behaviours a lot easier~

[@chickennuggetman2593]

tilde

[@arvetis]

I like how you started off trying for a nimble gunner to circle-strafe around enemies and take out the bridge, but ended up making the Death Star.

[@Aavak]

lol, yeah, life is weird sometimes XD

[@keithclark9719]

the symmetry is soothing to the soul. looks like a fun game, and looks like you can go with many play styles combat, transport, mining.

[@lttle_eclipse]

things i like to do for naming ships when i think back of my time when i played avorion i liked to give them animal names, because of how cosmoteer is showing the ships i think insects could be more fitting if i think of the thrusters as "legs" so something like scarab or if your ships get more chonky maybe beetle if they are maybe a bit more thin and speedy something maybe like katydid if any more surgestions for names are needed i'm happy to help

[@DeathsFire]

Was so excited to see this!! I can't wait for more! Thank you for your hard work!

[@Aavak]

You're very welcome :)

[@ajrspace8321]

When it comes to ammo it’s good to have the resources and production. They make quite a few shells for sulfur. But that ends up being a large system either way.

[@ajrspace8321]

I wish there were more deck components.

[@bfallout111]

Wow this is a great game thank you for covering it aavak. I hope you continue playing it. You amazing as always

[@00impulse00]

Got very lucky with that station. Huge upgrade for the weps. Def needs more cargo space tho. Thanks for the great episode as always Aavak!

[@DamsdelDrennon]

The evolution of the game to this point is at the measure of how pleasant this series is to watch, which is, if don't mind me saying...stellar in fact.

[@Bananahammock681]

So, we became Space Piccolo melting enemies with our 'Makankōsappō' Approved!

[@demos74dxs]

Really enjoying this series. The ship is coming along.

[@dace48]

Me: "Derper 1?" Aavak: "The Dapper One." Me: "Ooohhh!"

[@gnaskar]

You can have several bridges. No need to invest in a bigger one right away. The next tier up is 5 times as powerful, but uses 3 times the crew, so until you're contemplating your third bridge, the smaller ones are better.

[@Aavak]

Excellent tip, thanks :)

[@Cjpaulbeck]

Pretty cool game! On my wishlist now! Would love to see more

[@TheLastSyphen]

I love seeing the designs people make in this game

[@CarlGorn]

There's an old paper-stock tactical combat game I used to play called _Star Fleet Battles,_ loosely based on the races in Star Trek lore, with some expansions that introduced new galactic concerns. One of those new political entities was the Inter-Stellar Concordium, or ISC for short. Their ships had an interesting basic design consisting of a main body the shape of a medieval shield, with 3 forward-facing arms that served as weapon turrets. I'm wondering if such a design wouldn't be advantageous for the ion beams in Cosmoteer.

[@baktru]

Rare as they may be, sometimes you see another SFB veteran. Narrow salvo the photons Captain?? :p

[@londoeblack]

Two thumbs up! Great video. Thanks!

[@graxx478]

Early game, while reactors are kinda expensive and dangerous, capacitors are amazing. They can store a lot of power and I often use them where I might use a reactor. As long as you aren’t in long term sustained combat, they should solve your energy needs.

[@ytiq4899]

thank you, really great playthrough. You really help to understand the game better!)

[@Aavak]

You're very welcome :D

[@batman4ever666]

This game is really cool! I hope you post more of it! Thanks for the episode

[@prestonwade4619]

On the 2nd episode of ur playlist for this game. Bought it over the weekend hope that in ur later videos you have made a ship that has dedicated to only ballistic weapons system. Really would like to see someone with ur experience in building do one with something other then lasers. Do plan on watching ur entire playlist. I'm really enjoying the game so far.

[@supremecommander2398]

wow, given the screenshots on the steam-store, those ion-crystals got a huge potential for some crazy beam-arrays

[@armokgodofblood2504]

This game was an instant buy for me after your first video.

[@Titanblade17]

Ship name ideas: The Titan The Exodus The Erudite

[@TheWellHungPony]

Mining laser also helps break down salvage quicker.

[@ThomasG1971]

Loving the game play ... looking forward to the next

[@Siris43982]

You should call it the Dapper Dan. A call back to a funny movie "Oh brother where art thou?"

[@adamdubin1276]

HMS Mordor! Because she has more doors! Also love the paint scheme, looks really nice.

[@GtierGoes]

More episodes! 😀

[@danielhomant2832]

Making an Ion weapon setup before upgrading shields? I guess one could call his ship a Glass Cannon, heh.

[@Cuthawolf]

Really enjoying the series.

[@AngelicDirt]

The Dapper is a fine enough name. Then we can flank it with The Ducat, The Dalliance or The Oubliette later. Or a little speeder that we can name The Yoko. ... Ah, the allure of the fleet. :B

[@rominkivela9351]

14:566 that almost makes me want to design a tiny ship with a single deck gun capable of stunning the entire crew onboard

[@wolfcommando8467]

Two things I have found out through playing Cosmoteer, cannons are great for damage, the early ones aren't expensive either. And if you want a second ship, (I may be missing something here, I have not seen another way to do this however) then you can use the explosive device and split a second ship off from your first. Just put at least two crew spaces on the other ship, a reactor, and a command module onto it first*. *Warning, the explosive charge deals enough damage to blow up adjacent modules, use armor to cushion the explosion.

[@loganrezac3992]

You can also transfer crew to a wreck (one you create works too) in order to get a second ship. Just be ready to repair it to a flyable state to get it to a base and actually build what you want.

[@wolfcommando8467]

@@loganrezac3992 I did figure that out recently.

[@ParaforaD]

I have feeling I am late for a name, but, how about The Dapper Dragon! That way villains scream, ON NO!! It's the TDD! Flee for your lives!!

[@erikmulderij1184]

This game is going on my wishlist

[@generrosity]

I love the name 😆 the mathsy improvement for a mark 2 version might be DPR-LN2 to match what you call us dapperlings 😅 might be a bit nerdy tho, ... ln(2) log jokes

[@StyxAnnihilator]

Left and right front by the thrusters are not symmetrical, 3 block wide corridor at left, 1 at right.

[@Aavak]

Already fixed (noticed it in editing, so fixed it up before I painted the ship for the thumbnail :))

[@basildaoust2821]

ok, I watch someone elses video on crew and I will admit not having any practice in the idea of directing people and machines to do ABC kind of things created more questions then he answered but I can say you can make your crew extremely efficient without using Aavaks weird plan. Now I will say I think he had about 5 or 6 rolls or the crew which he seemed to assign by sleeping areas but it sure looked good when we got it all set up correctly.

[@davidmason5163]

Well, Aavak. Its been a few years since I last heard your sultry tones on a gameplay. Not since the heady years of playing Robocraft!

[@eurabe1]

Needed some more wholesome content so I've also returned.

[@Aavak]

Welcome back, both :)

[@theangrydiver]

Same story for me, but in my case i still hear your voice every time i open stardew valley! Good seeing you back in the feed!

[@Voron_Aggrav]

@@theangrydiver just look at your Subscription feed you'd find people more often that you liked in the past, ofcourse you need to remember to subscribe to those you Like

[@chadgilliam1413]

thank you for the great content. I'll be adding this game to my rotation.

[@McGrolox]

Saint Algorithmus is now Paint Algorithmus! God that ship is pretty! Damn you Aavak! Maybe someday my artistic skills will come to meet a level as fantastic as yours, but alas that day is as of yet afar. Paint Algorithmus, Aavak's Dapper painted ship requests the continuation of your patronage! (Too many exclamation points? There, a question mark just to offset the balance ;p )

[@sipofsunkist9016]

17:14 this sounds like a voice line in a game to me for some reason lmao

[@PedroBentoIT]

might not be the most efficient design but i would love to see a broadside brawling ship

[@FedralBI]

I was thinking the same thing. The Imperial ships in Warhammer 40K had huge broadsides of lasers, missiles, and torpedoes. Would be really amazing to see if it worked.

[@roadtrain_]

And here I thought ion would basically be EMP'ing the enemy ship. Instead it's a death beam... I approve.

[@scottwolke7868]

Rail Guns......massive damage and long range. I built a pair into a single ship and the every encounter was over in very short order

[@david2869]

I have noticed a flaw in your design. If your current ship at the end of this video fights another ship with an ion beam, it might be able to destroy that focus crystal and disarm you except for your PD. Plus, a lucky errant missile could also do the same damage if it got through your shields and PD.

[@Aavak]

If a missile got through the shields and PD, it's not lucky, it's worn down my defences and deserves to do the damage XD But in regards to the current ship design, it's heavily reliant on a single high power weapon, that's never a good place to be as it makes the ship easier to disarm, but in the current area this ship seems to be quite a lot stronger than the ships we're facing so I'm not too worried at the moment. We'll be upgrading it (and adding more weapon systems) as we expand out and explore other areas :)

[@someguy4252]

not sure how it goes nowadays but in the pre-steam version one cheese tactic was to have a bunch of hi explosive launchers in the back and have havy armor in the front lots of it the result usualy looks like a brick but it usually kills before it bites it.

[@MuhGuy]

first thing i read wasn't DPR1, but DERP1 instead.🤣 Sorry~

[@Aavak]

LOL XD I mean, maybe... perhaps for the next ship? ;)

[@porkeythejoejoe]

My tea from the last episode has long been drank, but I have dogs to pet!

[@m.ubaidaadam]

I love the name Dapo one it just sounds right!

[@empressbulby3761]

That is a chonky ship. A wide lad.

[@scottie7346]

please more!

[@MirageGSM]

I was trying to buy this on GOG, but apparently it won't come out there until Dec 31st...

[@renegadeleader1]

I can't wait to get my hands on this to try and recreate the Space Battleship Yamato using the deck guns.

[@Ironbuket]

That station got completely destroyed in my game. I got about 2000 Hyper-coils just picked up off the 'ground'. I had to modify my ship and add loads of extra storage areas and I still couldnt pickup all the loot just laying around in one trip. I have to go back and actually salvage it at some point.

[@Aavak]

Woo, I wonder how that'll change your game given the quests that station would have offered won't be there now.

[@Ironbuket]

@@Aavak I randomly went past the station early game and noticed it was being shot at. With 2 other hostile ships nearby I just flew away. Later when I had a better ship, i tried to pickup the mission to save it and the mission just disappeared when I tried to accept it. I went out to the station anyway and found it in bits.

[@Voron_Aggrav]

Pretty sure the Loud end of a gun is the Front, and that's in the vacuum of Space,

[@Eklinaar]

Ship name suggestion: Dragon Passant or Red Dragon?

[@mariorossi5197]

I wonder what happenes if the crystal is destroyed midfire. And also, if you can make arrays with it, like a cluster of beams+crystal into another cluster and into another etc. This definitely has wide possibilities for backsitting! :D

[@shadeling6717]

i've been interested in this game since Aavak first showed it years ago. i tried it for a bit, but found i actually get bored with the building a little too fast. I wonder if you can make the ships fly broadside when you fight. Seeing the new top turret guns though makes me want to try that. still on my wait and see list

[@tri99er_]

What does DPR mean?

[@unknownhall8569]

Like the idea of broadsiding an enemy from a distance. Just, turn left a bit... fire. Dead enemy going wtf just happened!!!

[@theaureliasys6362]

looking at the laser that can't get energy because you deleted the doors.

[@auroramistressofshade4687]

haw about the red hornet as a name for the ship

[@justinpeterson2591]

loved the episode!

[@joewilson3393]

I just had this weird thought of a game like Cosmoteer combined with a game and lore like Duskers... Edit: Thinking about it, that is kinda like Space Haven.

[@styxdragoncharon4003]

The last time I heard the word "elongate" it was from the guy who may or may not be buying Twitter....

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

MOAR!!!!!!

[@Fireiy]

I noticed that you've not been using the capacitors, is there any particular reason for that?

[@Aavak]

I imagine the question will be answered when you watch the latest video in the series XD

[@talsauron9442]

Pssst, Aavak, your front thrusters aren't even. I doubt you intended that but if you did my apologies. I may actually have to check this game out now seeing how far it has come along. Or play through Space Pirates and Zombies 2 again to scratch the itch.

[@tubman1952]

St. Algorithmus look kindly on this video!

[@Aavak]

Praise be!

[@chasingthefish9042]

What happened to the last episode that you had to make private

[@medge734]

MOOR!... plz?

[@connorwagner614]

love the salute to the glorious homeland the DPRK

[@justarams4562]

you make a comment in another video about your point defense gun not shooting at the ships. There is a setting and it's set to defend. You can set it to attack and defend, just attack, or just defend. Bottom left when you select the point defense gun. I'm sure you know by now.

[@kenalpha3]

yayyyyyyy

[@tacoboy2218]

Ez clap I guess

[@P_diddy_rizz_kids]

i played this game for 2y man if i just had 20$ I WAS GOING TO BUY IT BUTT I TO POOR SAD DAYS :(

[@McGrolox]

Light pocketed Dapperlings unite! In sadness XD

[@P_diddy_rizz_kids]

@@McGrolox dam

[@alfreddelcrow9941]

Can anyone tell me how to make a new ship i think I'm to stupid to understand the guide 😐

[@darkholyPL]

Why are you no longer putting the name of the game.. on any ep. count for that matter in the vid name? It sucks! It's such bs. I don't, at a glance, know if something is a continuation of a series I've watched, or not. Hate it with a passion.

[@Petq011]

What I don't currently like about the game is the way that every next crew hire costs you progressively more and more... or rather, every next person costs more for whatever reason.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

I like the game concept. Graphic is lacking for my taste

[@Aavak]

It definitely has a particular style in regards to the graphics, and it makes sense it wouldn't click with everyone. I wonder if there are any games with a similar core game loop but different graphics style.

[@CED99]

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