That's why I upgraded T.F. out of mine, I gave it modded armored windows, upped the roof armor on the bridge, the M.A.C. guns from Halo, a rocket turret on the stern for defense, a taller relay tower, D.L.C. tunnels to protect the crew better while walking around, and camouflage that works both in space and on the surface of a planet.

I still need to fix some of the broken systems that I broke when upgrading it, and I likely will upgrade it further again. But in general I'm proud of my improvements for survival.

@Zhunter247 the class of ship you're thinking of sounds like a heavy-frigate or light-destroyer. A frigate is small, it was meant to hit fast and hard then get out relatively undamaged if it does get hit. They also aren't designed to work alone, they're meant to be in a small fleet.

I swear sometimes I'm the only one who knows how what ship works when.

Survival players when your obviously aesthetic ship doesn't work as well as their brick.

my brother in christ, you chose to build the silly ship with the exposed bridge instead of making this fantastic combat ship in your head

No Assembler? Then you can't repair the weapon systems you have mounted. No Basic Refinery? The you can't even hand mine the Cobalt to repair your Hydro thrusters.
You'll have to carry enough parts in that Exposed Large Cargo to repair everything critical to limp back to base for proper repairs.
Light armor exposed bridge will have YOU personally targeted by defense drones and you'll be sniped right out of your control seats the moment they are in range because there isn't a AI Defense block so your turrets have to wait til they are 800 meters away before they start to target them.
It's pretty looking Tin Coffin. nothing but regrets for wasting time and resource to build one.

This ship is truly remarkable! The spirit of Vanila and the practicability of survival game. I love it!

@Patrick not sure which ones you mean, the only ships i took as inspiration for this are the keen red corvette and my own adrasta class cruiser

@R3LOAD, that's because it's two copies of a vanilla NPC merged together. I was working on the same thing, with the same NPC, but this turned out way better than what I had.

The vanilla vibes are immaculate

this is ship

because it is no DLC, frigate gaming
well done, especially with how you managed to get it to look good without the DLC

really nice

amazing ship