Some big Guns with Engines strapped to them : Cosmoteer

[@Kuablaikan]

Francis, you should try out a circular ship design if you like railguns. You could experiment with different layouts. What worked for me is a large one with 2 pairs of railguns going in the center in each major direction (left, right, up, down, in a plus shape, 16 large railguns total). You can put the engines in the leftover space diagonally, and then some heavy armor in a perfect circle shape. In battle, you turn on indefinitly some of the engines to keep your ship rotating in one direction constantly. From that point your ship will act like a "gatling gun", one line of railguns always firing, the rest reloading. All you need to do is assign targets and watch the show. The constant rotation will also spread out most of the incoming damage along the full arc of the ship's hull.

[@hquest]

Circular ships are much more complex to manage as you have all sides to reinforce, shield and overall protect. Had he elongated his design a little to fit the extra thrusters instead of widening it, he would had avoided being a larger target surface area. And he is still very vulnerable to close combat.

[@Ionizedwater1]

They’re called bayblades

[@thelukesternater]

a spiny boi? four sets of four rail guns, better make two; one clockwise and one anti!

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I have seen the power of the fidget spinner designs. I might even go that way in the end. But for the immediate future I want to take the glass cannon concept and see just how much cannon and how many cannon we can cram in before the game stops us.

[@jimm9776]

​@FrancisJohnYT I couldn't quite match your design (did I miss a link to download blueprints?) Instead, I took over some of the pretty ships, and they distract my enemies!

[@XaqNautilus]

From looting ship graveyards to leaving ship graveyards. Excellent.

[@fallatiuso]

You could add a hyper-jump beacon in that empty spot on the other side. Fills it out and makes it easy for your resource ship to quickly get to your most recent haul.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

The hyper-jump beacon thingy is very heavy and crew intensive, I would much prefer to keep our attack ship fast and nimble for now.

[@sicariusdracus]

Only you would turn Cosmoteer into Dave the Diver.

[@ТьмаСвятая]

Another improvement on sun diver would be to increase power delivery efficiency. Instead of one one t3 reactor (it has the best efficiency for powering long distant rooms and the worst efficiency for adjoining rooms, while t1 is the opposite) place dedicated t2s. The improvement will be huge.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I'm going to have to do some testing on this. The cheaper the sun diver the better.

[@Agarring_Dutch]

I absolutely love it when a video starts with "I got a bit distracted on the background." The BEST videos.

[@sebbes333]

*@Francis John* 1:08:35 I think you can "Rescue" crew from disabled enemies. I have at SOME rare occasions been able to hail a disabled enemy ship & been able to transfer crew to my ship. I don't know why exactly, but if you remove weapons & engines (leave reactor, helm & airlock, intact) so they can't do anything, then hail them. Maybe it worked because I had available fame, maybe it worked for some other reason, not sure yet.

[@grandfremdling3841]

Railguns. Crazy! Great episode

[@hogie48]

I picked up this game on sale because your first video on it and man am I glad I did.

[@gus.smedstad]

I'm torn about this. I love ship-design games like Avorion, and it looks like you're having fun. I'm just finding the idea of power being hand-carried by crew to be hard to swallow. You've got a high-tech spacefaring civilization that hasn't discovered power cables.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I get the crew carrying power as a game mechanic for design limitations, but as a reality it's stupid. It would be like carrying petrol to the engine of the ship instead of just using a pipe and pump. Though I suppose in a way it's similar to coal powered ships.

[@RK-qg8ko]

With rail guns you can already move to the maximum level zone (18 if I'm not mistaken). Anything below level 16 will be too easy with such weapons (in fact, 2 max-length rail guns were enough for me for level 18 zones - these weapons are too powerful for the mechanics of this game). The empire with the centaur icon has the most interesting ship designs, in my opinion.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I found two rail guns were almost hard countered by two flak cannons. It's why I went with more guns instead of longer rails. I think flak shooting down rail guns is relatively new.

[@RK-qg8ko]

@@FrancisJohnYT On larger ships, flak is less common - they rely more often on armor and shields. And the length of the rail guns adds “damage” and (if I’m not mistaken) the speed of the projectiles; at high speed the flak is not as effective. The flak was added a long time ago, and the shells knock down by all types of point defenses - some more effective than others. Among the new ones are machine guns. It would be interesting to see them in action.

[@marknorton586]

Yah for building the mining ship. The quad is awsome too

[@FelixChamber]

So fun to watch you play this game in your renowned style and great to hear how much you enjoy blowing these ships up

[@LiqnLag]

On the refit of the rail platform do not forget the warp beacon so the mining ship can just warp to you!

[@diante50]

Episode 1: I don't know why people would leave a ship graveyard here, there's so much valuable scrap! This episode: So I've just turned this whole solar system to scrap. I don't know why I'm bothering to mark it as i won't be coming back for it.

[@irrelevantirrelevant7332]

I love watching this series! Cosmoteer really suits your style and you are presenting the game well! Pls continue playing this game! :)

[@AegisPupus]

9:20 try adding the 2 missing doors between the reactor and the shied, they might use them both and you would have less crew to crew collision; they slow down more if they have to pass through each other. You might want to add the extra door on the room or even downgrade to 2 2 men bunkers, this would allow 2 crews to exit the room to go feed the shield. 28:00 You don't want to have a "split ship" because that causes crew to use the airlock instead of corridors to fetch a battery from the other side of the ship... That happens all the time in a fight when the only reactor left on the ship is in the other sections 31:30 Infinite fire does not damage friendlies at least while at a station.

[@astronomicalanomaly7973]

I forgot about this game til I saw your videos, so I played the demo and now I have to buy it. It's funny having the crew go everywhere and accidentally leaving some in eva while I fly off and have to go back for them.

[@OniZai]

Sometime its not the game, but how you approach and the enjoyment from it that makes it a pleasant video. Esp when you think its a stupid design but it works lol

[@arturmonteirodacosta170]

I gotta say I really enjoy this game, you're the reason I got into it, thank you Francis! Keep being awesome!

[@jeffarends8843]

I'm really enjoying watching Cosmoteer and hearing how much fun you're having with it! Keep it up!

[@martindevries8335]

Awesome to watch. Oh you can paint your ship to put on the skull and cross bones and such. And you can just hyperspace jump to the sector space station without having to first fly there.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Never thought to try hyper jumping without exploring first. That simplifies things greatly.

[@NickAndriadze]

I like your design philosophy with the sundivers, pretty much what you're supposed to do. However, you could add even longer prongs on your shields to make them even tighter. It's hard to accidentally scorch yourself unless you're being reckless inside of the sun and I've made designs with unbelievably thin shields (I have in fact created a sub 100K sundiver design that runs off of a singular medium reactor and a singular large shield, but it has a very thin shield coverage profile) that are still managing to do their job just fine. With that on top of the proper crew and positioning management you already have you can forget about fearing about shields ever going down no matter how deep you go. Oh also, I was slightly disappointed that you didn't actually touch the corona in here *11:11**,* because what happens is your ship immediately disintegrates and it's really funny to watch. Once you actually touch the sun's surface it starts dealing an ungodly amount of damage and it's overall a literal blast. *1:07:44* The part where you instantly killed Nutcracker broke my heart, that ship is normally an extremely fun and challenging encounter but rails completely break it T~T

[@rakaydosdraj8405]

My sundiver designs are smallshield based diagonals. It needs a large reactor, but DOESNT need diamonds that large shields need, letting you build them earlier in your carear. Smallshields with a large reactor take 2 crew to saturate, but can be placed behind armor, allowing you to be significantly more greedy.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Looks like I need to go back and do some more sun diver design testing. I think this game needs a few tutorials.

[@rhmagalhaes]

There's no way to have a video less than 1h... This game is very addictive ❤

[@Freakatwar]

keep it up! i was very excited when i saw you get into cosmoteer! after seeing how diligent you are in finding optimal and creative designs ins ONI i just knew you we were gonna be treated to something good here

[@williamhess180]

found and recreated a ship I saw in the workshop. square with railguns on each side so you can just spin like a top basically. Also it may be worthwhile to make a second ship to cover your flank. Maybe a missile boat but whatever sounds fun to you.

[@mofoq]

dang it...have to wait for the next installment

[@bruhder5854]

Space stations (the ones you get missions from) usually stock up massive amounts of hyper coil. It's actually worth luring some stronger pirates to them so they can make a mess of that place and you can sweep in the loot the station drops. I ended up with about a 1000 hyper coils on my first time alone

[@SephirothsBIade]

11:20 You still have shield juice. Surely you could survive an actual dive without anything horrible happening.

Getting distracted, sounds like a great start :D

[@Conners1979]

it wouldn't be a FJ vid if he didn't get distracted

[@zekialhabib]

Late to the party, but at around 10:50 I found myself thinking "Sure, you can land on the sun! Just make sure to go at night. 😊"

[@MajesticBearSong]

Your railgun ship is a lobotomizer. Surgically gouging out the brains of your enemies

[@jacobh9241]

Railguns are finicky; they work better if you over-rotate. Don't settle for turning to face your enemy. Go _past_ that and your guns should fire in a nice spread. But watch out for your maneuverability!

[@leafykille]

I am loving this! Just discovered your channel. Just FYI, the algorithm only recommended these to me because you went over an hour. I almost always go for longer videos, if you consistently do longer videos, you will find the algorithm brings in more viewers like me.

[@BWSC81]

Sweet, excited for the massive new rail design. Definitely enjoy that process. I doubt 10-12 is going to be very tough, maybe a little more grinding but still do-abe.

[@mentallystrengthless6589]

You can get the pirate decals under the ship's paint tab!

[@iaries]

neat, when you zoom out, the weapon looks like asgard beam weapons from SG1 :D

[@VitaliySunny]

Godlike slicer

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

One major improvement to Francis's railgun ship design that I can think of would be to move his thrusters at the front of his ship further backwards, more towards the middle of the ship, so that he could then have enough space to protect them, along with the rest of his ship, with even more shielding and/or armor at the front of the ship. (The same could also be done with the thrusters at the rear of his ship, but that seems less important.) Actually, perhaps Francis could design a module full of engines, plus a single reactor and as much crew as needed to support all these engines, that could be saved and installed onto his ships as needed?

[@CST247]

I confess I’ve gone onto the steam workshop and downloaded some designs and now have a 310 crew warship 😂. You genius level stuff is a bit beyond me 😅

[@dahn57]

Loving the power of your rails, it's the kind of ship I tend to go for. The only issues that you have though are your lack of manoeuvrability (That's why you couldn't hit the Pirate Hunter flying past you) and lack of defence. It would be very much worth your while to add a couple of smaller thrusters for turning, and you really do need some point defence for the missiles that get sent your way. A couple of emp missiles and your ship would be in serious trouble. And you can see what happens when enemies get close range, that is when your ship will suffer. They are going to be increasing their speed, firepower and defences rapidly as you increase difficulty, and that means that long range rails alone won''t be enough to win every time.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

You predicted the ships weakness to EMP right here, good call.

[@dahn57]

@@FrancisJohnYT Thanks, but you are doing really well, you are picking this up faster than I did. Although I was learning while it was still in development, so things kept changing 😉

[@MarkkuS]

This is like the fourth game FJ made me buy 😂❤

[@wolfen210959]

I'm gonna stick with three, this game looks fun, but i don't think I have the time, or money, to add another FJ game to my schedule. (checks bank balance....hmmm....maybe) :)

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Sorry about your bank balance and free time 😃

[@guyincognito1406]

32:00 Unless you target them as an enemy it does no damage thankfully.

[@iGourry]

While the railgun does have diminishing returns the longer you go, they're still returns. I say it's worth it to go max length on the railguns!

[@AlexKasper]

I'd like for Cosmoteer to have an auto-marker drop off. Essentially drop it right at when an enemy ship gets defeated. Add a custom prefix (e.g. "wreck") next to the ship's name.

[@guyincognito1406]

Ctrl+m is the hot key for the marker and if you put it right on top of the wreck it names it whatever the ship name is automatically. Hold shift when placing and you can add more, also holding shift while removing many… gotta appreciate the qol stuff at least.

[@AlexKasper]

@@guyincognito1406 I didn't know about the shift while clicking. Thanks! That would save time when marking the spoils.

[@harrin1982]

interesting tidbit that occurred to me while watching this video: The bit about. the hyper-jump gate not being shiny. There was a short with a few videos on some of the questions you'd get asked when applying to (I think it was) NASA. One of the questions was about if you saw a Asteroid heading to earth, what would you do to slow or stop it? The options all seemed reasonable, but the cool part was the correct answer - Paint the front of it white. Even light reflecting off the asteroid would slowly change the direction, and inertia of it. It made me think: If the hyper-jump gate was shiny, it would require more effort to keep it in a relatively fixed location, than if it absorbed the light instead. I know it's more 'game-dev' or 'in-game' logic, but sometimes games unintentionally mirror real life without trying - or at least that's the way it seems.

[@IainDoherty51]

Hearing you say "We don't need Strafe Thrust" hurt me a little bit inside. Strafing in any ship allows for extremely useful manoeuvres when rotating around enemies if you can manage to force a weakness, and being able to strafe also lets you hide in behind asteroids and pop out to shoot before moving back into cover during fights. Sure it doesn't always help in some long range stuff like this, but it can be extremely powerful in a lot of scenarios

[@danfr]

With how fast the railguns take out ships, I'm surprised FJ hasn't tried anything to make clearing out a bunch of pirates less manual. Especially after optimizing the railguns for a high fire rate that can't be acchieved while fanning. First thought I had was to come in at an angle where multiple ships are lined up. Turn on the continuous fire he used for testing. And see how long it takes to destroy the second ship by indescriminately firing through the first. Second thought I had was to try turning on fire at will so the railguns fire even without a perfect target. Then use shift to queue attack commands on multiple ships, without targeting specific systems, and see whether the ship is so OP that it can clear out multiple enemies automatically without even being given a weak point as a target.

[@YouthOobe]

Great videos to learn from! I am trying to learn the ropes of this game but I'm still struggling when it comes to combat manouvering, specifically how to strafe in circle keeping the ship pointed toward the target. Can someone break it down to me, please?

[@sebbes333]

58:44 Imagine how scary that would be for the "civilian"(?) ship... Fighting a pirate base, probably certain death in some seconds.... Then a flash, the station is stopped firing... a scan reveals a new hole in the center core of the base, where the command center was... And you didn't even see that caused it, but you're quite sure whatever did that is coming for you to.... but nothing happens.... You never even saw who your savior was...

[@danielduncan6806]

It looks like your weapons target a specific point. And they won't fire unless they have a target solution; in other words, until they know they have the hit on their target. But because the rail guns are all fixed, all but one of them thinks it is going to miss the target, so they don't fire. This, I suspect, is why you have to "wiggle", because as the ship wiggles, all of your guns pass the target and gain their target solution.

[@DawidSikora]

You can favorite quests so they get a golden star instead of the normal one, it makes it easier to identify which quests are worth doing and which are pointless Also when you go into higher level stuff consider getting a second ship, a brawler so you can outmanouver them - hitting in the rear with either one, otherwise killing ships with a dozen of interlocking shields get tricky

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Thanks for the Star tip I have been using that to prioritize missions to maximize fame return.

[@RichardTruth123]

Since your strategy is to fire while reversing you could save alot of mass resorces and crew and set the ship to fly backwards and to flip at engage time

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Seems like a lot of micromanagement to flip the ship every engagement. Also really hard to run ships down. For now we will stick with engines both directions, but if the enemies get fast enough it might be necessary to go unidirectional on the engine mounts.

[@RichardTruth123]

@FrancisJohnYT I tried it. It was annoying. The save attack option meant the ship will auto flip itself and that was great until you chase some one it auto flips and you flip to 20m/s forward.

[@thelukesternater]

i would love to see an attack fleet of three, one railgun fan, one emp missile ship with many point defence, one brawler shields, armor, lasers and cannons!

[@gothicpando]

You can also hire crew from trade ships.

[@Paul-ll6el]

Can you share some of your ship layouts? I really want to try that Quad :)

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Took me a min but have shared the sun needle and quad in the video description.

[@JStankXPlays]

THE SHIP CAN"T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS CAPITAN!

[@jakubpollak2067]

45:00 You kill pirates, so anyone who wants to live will rather join you than pirates, that's how fame works :D

[@DeHerg]

27:25 Francis, I think you might be a bit too concerned how those rails do under prolonged continous fire. During combat you have to do that wiggle thing, meaning they won't even be able to fire continously anyway (probably a bigger bottleneck to DPS)

[@atlasfailedatlas1557]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The number of shots he can get of by wiggling is a lot lower than the maximum rate of fire. So he needs to figure out to either wiggle faster or fire more shots per wiggle. More guns, but fewer crew per gun.

[@owenk3455]

I think you can cut down on crew for the railguns. You optimized it so there wont be any downtime, but they way you use the guns has a lot of downtime, so it doesn't need to reload as fast

[@FrancisJohnYT]

For railgun reload you don't always need them going at full speed, but sometimes it's entirely necessary so you can break the enemy shields before they recharge. To quote the old adage, it's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

[@DaFreak860]

Now that you have reached this point into the game, I think it's about time for you to learn about spinners, spinners fix the two major problems fanning has, reloading time and downtime. The last railgun to fire after fanning is the 1st railgun that fires in the next swing, and the 1st railgun to fire is the last railgun to fire in the next swing as well, resulting in times where your railgun is not firing due to being unloaded, and some railguns being loaded for a while and not firing due to line-of-sight. Spinners fix this by having railguns fire as they are loaded, causing no downtime and no railgun being unloaded when it is their turn to fire, the spinner achieves that by completing a rotation on one point in the time it takes for you to reload a railgun, so that a gun fires, reloads and fires again immediately after completing a rotation due to it having acquired line-of-sight once loaded and having been given time to reload. You can tune the speed your ship rotates by adding thrusters, and mass to the ship to counter thrusters, or by hasteing or slowing down reload-speed of your railgun and simply adding more total railguns to get the target DPS, as the design is expandable without making downtime worse, unlike with the fanning designs. Sidenote, you may want a point defence and/or EMP-missile focused companion-ship for your main ship, since you are currently vulnerable to railguns and nukes.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Spinner rail guns are great in a duelling setting, but slow as a wet week when moving on the world map. I want to go with super fast and hitting hard so we can clear maps quickly, if the enemies get tough enough we will have to upgrade though.

[@DaFreak860]

@@FrancisJohnYT true, however, I used a few beacon ships that were fast and allowed me to jump to their location, the beacon ships were no larger than your sun-diver and cheap enough to spam them, which allowed me to get away with nearly no crew on engines on my capital combat ships.

[@LongShadow81]

love your videos. Can please you post the ship blueprint ?

[@chr0mg0d]

Double yo gun, Double yo fun 😆

[@bruhder5854]

25:20 the sides seem a bit too exposed. I know sniping and not giving enemy a chance to come into range but still a rogue ship coming from the side would be devastating

[@shadowkhan422]

Someone above proposed changing design to spinning circle . Railgun pair on each direction, ship spinning non stop - you basically get a Gatling gun. Which also can have heavy armor and the incoming damage will get spread around. No need manually rotate anymore. That sounds awesome :)

[@bruhder5854]

@@shadowkhan422 I've suggested that in the past couple of videos as well xD but Francis wants to push the frontal design. Can't blame him though, railguns are some of the more complicated things in the game

[@FrancisJohnYT]

The goal is glass cannon to the extreme. I want speed and damage to be our primary stats. Might put a few points into point defence to deal with emp missiles. Later on we might go for something more balanced.

[@rednoodleoffate]

It’s starting to feel like railguns need a dedicated counter.

[@deatho0ne587]

FJ talking about pretty ships, makes an old time piece maybe?

[@gus.smedstad]

It looks like you've run into the "Moties escaping Murcheson's Eye" problem, where surface area for your shield generator is your main enemy.

[@keninishna]

I think your ship is probably good enough to take on all content in the game, because railguns are overpowered like that. Once you max out your fame though you could try designing an ion ship for fun.

[@ditheraith]

i never found the need to mine from the sun in my game

[@grandfremdling3841]

12:23 you might hav build only two blocks in front, to narrow the shields, in the creative you had three, maybe?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Adding more block to narrow the shields really does help a lot, have added in some more and the ship is pretty much immune to the sun now. We do have to keep a really narrow profile though.

[@marks7502]

Ship Blueprints for the Dual Rails ship plz?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I linked a bunch of blueprints to the last video in the series, don't know if I included the dual rail design but all later designs were just an evolution of it.

[@marks7502]

@@FrancisJohnYT Thank you!

[@vroomfondel5447]

Oh! Pirate Hunters are Pirates who hunt. Not people who hunt Pirates.

[@SpaceCliffie]

Wait, the dupes will interfere with each other a tiny bit when the pass each other in a narrow hallway or door. Add a second door to the shields and the reactor so they can get in there in parallel without crowding delays. (Watch them pass in a narrow hallway and you’ll see what I mean).

[@jerryandersson4873]

Niice end. :D

[@danielduncan6806]

"I would hate to be on the receiving end of that." Is that foreshadowing?

[@tqit3173]

SunSpike, yea, feels bit better

[@Beldizar]

45:00 maybe the more enemy ships you kill, the fewer there are to hire people, leaving more for you to swoop up. You are just eliminating the competition for hiring crew.

[@gus.smedstad]

I want to make a "Sundiver" by David Brin reference here, but I think the number of people have read it is vanishingly small. It's part of the Uplift series, but not nearly as popular as Startide Rising or The Uplift War.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

They are all part of the series, but the only one I have read of the series. Where someone cuts out a chunk of his brain and he can only curse or sing. Was a weird book.

[@gus.smedstad]

@@FrancisJohnYT - Startide Rising and The Uplift War are both really good books. Real classics, practically must-reads for anyone who likes SF. I'd avoid later books in the series, though. Brightness Reef / Infinity's Shore / Heaven's Reach are kind of dull, to be honest.

[@michal5642]

39:38 - 39:45, this is me at the local nightclub

[@gothicpando]

Might want to bury your rails behind armor for protection.

[@hameighthesliceofham7467]

Double sun needle = sun thorn?

[@mruglehface]

Wouldn’t it be safer and easier if you just pulled the asteroids out with the tractor beam? You’d be able to haul out the entire asteroid and take all of its resources without having to care about space because of cargo ships. I’m pretty sure it would be cheaper too, you would only need to care about thrust, shields and the tractor beam instead of the mining lasers and cargo space

[@waveclaw]

This was what he did originally. The physics of pulling things using the tractor beams were really flaky and slow. Faster to just pull up, strip mine the asteroid then fly back out.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Tried the tractor beam approach but XXL asteroids require two tractor beams and lots of engines. Also tractor beams put torque on the ship which can be messy. In the end I found mining on site easier and faster. Pulling out the asteroids was really slow.

[@EBeenU]

was looking forward to you take on this game...#nerf rail guns lol

[@bigmack1992]

The grey text under enemy ships is the related mission, so "Pirate Hunter" is what the mission is called not what the unit is called. I've seen many content creators call the pirates with those labels Pirate Hunters, so it's clearly a confusing design decision.

[@CarlosEstebanLopezJaramillo]

​ @FrancisJohnYT Hi, love that Sun Needle, do you mind if I put it in a ship pack in the Steam Workshop? with proper attribution of course.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Take all the designs you want, sorry about the delayed reply. I should put up the save game file so people can grab what they want.

[@CarlosEstebanLopezJaramillo]

@@FrancisJohnYT Done, did some small changes, crew dedications & smaller crew size to 26 (and an ugly paint job), in case you want to take a look search for Luchillo's Logistic Ships, also let me know if you want me to change the description.

[@deathdealer646]

Is there any chance you could add a tag that pops up to tell us when you swap from normal to creative mode and back it's kind of confusing. Maybe in the top right or something.

[@youtubehandlesux]

Look at bottom right. When there isn't an add marker button, it's in creative

[@hardkur]

I played these game while back and i made railguns as long as possible and never noticed flak stopping projectiles , was it added in recent patches?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

No idea if flak stopping railguns is new, but it sure does take the teeth out of you attacks unless you bring some extra rails.

[@TheRoanock]

On the topic of sun divers. Something that's more fun than practical is strapping enough tractor beams to the ship and just dragging the whole damn asteroid out of the suns danger zone and harvesting it there.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I tried that but found it more time consuming. The bigger roids are really slow to extract. Mining on site just went faster for me.

[@MrNewber01]

try controlling the ship with ctrl+d... its easy that way

[@Davini994]

2 guns good 4 guns better!

[@chrisknoll1910]

I wish they would have an energy conduit system (like piping fluids in games like factorio) instead of having people physically walking canisters of energy from the reactor to the shields or engines for example. That one element seems strangely out of place, but I understand it's a function of crew management. Just....strange. Edit: or the wiring system they have in Oxygen Not Included.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Think of the crew in cosmoteer as hauling coal and gunpowder to the engines and guns. Like steam powered war ships in space, or the green blobs of power equivalent.

[@willbordy]

Francis, Love this design and I don't think there is going to have a lot of things that can kill your ship, why? Because normally the biggest ships in the game cost around 2m and that is the price of your ship, you must be fighting ships that cost around 9k with a ship twice as expensive.

[@hquest]

You could had stretched the ship instead of widening it. Then, you would put your thrusters in a line, to better utilize that emptiness, while saving on shields and being less surface area for enemies to target you. And why aren’t you using capacitors yet?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I don't see the point of capacitors in Cosmoteer just yet. While they are cheaper and less explosive than a small reactor they do the exact same thing. Except for the part where you have to fill them with power from another reactor.

[@huckel120]

if the video is to long than cut it mayby in half and post both. i would like to see more contend.

[@EbolaWare]

"We're a weapon system with engines strapped to it." So you're an A-10 Warthog...?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I think the A-10 is a pretty good comparison, we came up with a weapon and then built the ship around it.

[@EbolaWare]

@@FrancisJohnYT I vote for the next iteration be named "Warthog" or "Pumba". And if you go with the latter, "Timon" would be the support ship...

[@ExcelInstructor]

Hi Francis, I have huge favor to ask. Make this game permament on your channel, it is as superbly entertaining as ONI :) or maybe even more.

[@KaedysKor]

It pains me that you didn't mirror the railgun section when you slapped the second one on >.

[@GluMonkey]

Just commenting for fun

[@custume]

more engines might be better to control the rail guns

[@sepehrjahani4345]

at the end of the video you were not playing cosmoteer you were just doing surgery to take out cockpits :)