Unfortunately this is not how to array prisms in order not to lose most of the damage that every ion beam puts out in sum.

i hope you don't mind but i loved your ship design i could't help but modify it, if you want me to take the modified version off the workshop just say so.

@yaddah it's all good, I'll just have to make an actually efficient ship now :)

This ship probably isn't the best at combat, considering there's two aesthetic gaps in the ship that hinder the combat potential.

really loved it until like lvl9 enemies. even though its a little jank to fly it really shined in combat. after that damage just falls flat and i dont see an easy way to power through with simple upgrades :(

Shots fired! ;)
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2885220145

I hope you don't mind that I took your ship as a target in my demonstration pics. I should've asked before. If you mind, I can take them down and take a different ship.

It's the same for me. Been doing almost nothing but building & painting since release. The decal system in this game is really good. Though sometimes I'm missing those 2-3 specific decals that are a mix of fade & solid colour that would make the design really pop.

i wish i was creative. i just build a 32 ion array... its ugly as hell

I just really love cosmoteer's decal system, so I've touched little of the actual combat / internals - I surprisingly haven't even touched railguns yet.

It's remarkable that you seem to be a new player (not knowing about prisms), yet you're able to create such an amazing paint job. How did you go about it?

I never knew about optimal prism placement, thanks for the tips. I'm not gonna change the prism placements on this ship, since I designed this ship around the single channel prism set up, so all the decals would have to be changed :( I'll definitely keep that in mind for my next ship though!

if only this amazing looking ship had optimal prisms

Wow, extremely beautiful paint job. Must've taken hours.
Prisms set up like this, will create very suboptimal combination losses. You could gain maybe double the power from your beams, if you'd always combine two beams of the same strength. Because as it is currently, the strongest beam coming from the back, will always get the highest efficiency malus.