hahaha yes... just yes

10/10 love the what they wrote i would love more lore please

Ships got lore, I like it

The description is still the best ^^

Very Nice Ship!

Hope you come back to the game and design more ships, I love how these look and their mobility. Could use some framework to add to their versatility and ability to stand up to late game threats. Thank you for making all of these!

beautiful but 170k shield is way too low for a 10slot ship and there are no frameworks to work with

A little tinkering, it doesn't come with any hardpoints for weapons but they're easily inserted in the clearly designed places. I used the mod to triple the available weapon slots and this has 20+ defense spots, 50+ active hard points. Beautiful

@Pragmatic tornado just replace the3 smart hull with armor or normal hull

It's default socket size is 11 now, not 10, which is very unfortunate given that you can't build it pre-barrier anymore without shrinking it. That severely limits its usefulness, but I'm still having fun with it post-barrier.

Also, there are many spots on the outer parts of the ship which are not covered by the integrated field, which means bits will fall off as soon as you engage enemies. I fixed it by spending 15 minutes placing blocks on the outside of the ship to cover the remaining. I assume the field radius was nerfed at some point post-2017.

I'm sure this was a stellar ship back when it was made, but it can still be very good with some work. Won't look as pretty, but it'll be a beast.

And it's definitely the best looking ship out of all the ones I've tried so far. Cannot imagine how many tens of hours it took to make.

Found this model recently, and with some work it becomes a true beast.
Honestly I recommend this model and it's smaller 6 slot variant to everyone.

it even work at 100* zoom, perfect design

Please a 2.0 rebuild

This is legitimately one of the most practical ships on the workshop. Looks great and has really great stats for the cost. Highly recommend.

Can you make exactly this just bigger and add 2 Hangars? :D i need a carrier fortress!

Would love some custome small/medium/large turrets for these :D

THANK YOU !!!

now we need this in a faction pack

reminds me of the Dreadnought from Stellaris

I can tell you started to make like a USS Enterprise-esque ship, and then said, "Fuck it, I'm doing this." Looks awesome, hope you can modernize it!

One of teh best designed ships a year ago, This has gotten too dated.

really good ship, i converted one of the cargo bays to torpedo storage and added torpedo launchers where some smaller guns would mount, works boss. my main (and only) ship so far.

Would be great to see block count, processing power, fighter max etc

Exept with this one you can jump to wherever you can reach

I smell Stellaris in this build

2Balkinus use railgun

wow

that descption

Looks great. Is also flying great. Unfortunately, no good places for guns and where you can place them is difficult to aim.

Not bad :)

HI like it but how many other ships do you have?

ok you guys aren't doing this by hand. That much I'm sure of so explain how you create such beatuies? :D

my friend is asking if you play on a mothership or any 10 slots or above carrier type for his fighters. and he lvoes production block s:

Yeap, Thanks :) I have two, in fact.

Jupiter-Class Dreadnought - Same series as the Praetor. Closest thing you can get to a big ship with a "main gun"

Olympus-Class Dreadnought - One of my older builds, tougher than the Jupiter but a lot bulkier.

I won't be building anything anytime soon though, too many IRL commitments right now. Also, neither of these are updated with production blocks for fighters, just a heads up.

Best ship of its class, had no issues tajking down the guardian solo with 18k firepower on normal difficulity. repl;aying the game now on insane. thanks for the ship, any bigger ones?

really nice ship, i fly it since 2 days on our server, handeling is awesome, even with more weight when you upgrade shield, gen etc. to xanion it still works, also like the small plates in the turret mounts so you can upgrade the mount to fit higher turrets

You got perfect ships man, they look awesome and handle the same! :)

@DerpSuper++, We had to add a link directly to your Workshop from our site because of all the requests. http://planetpvp.net/links.html There are a lot of rescaled versions flying everywhere. Lots of custom paint jobs too. https://i.imgur.com/M7jRqy2.png Again thank you for what you are doing for the entire community.

@Psybertech Oh wow, thanks. I don't know how to respond to that. I guess the usual answer would be... uhh... "I'm honoured." ?? :P

@Derp, we have started to notice that just about everyone on our server is flying one of your ships! It is one thing to make a damn good-looking ship, and quite another to make them outperform everything around them! All of your ships are amazing!! You have quite the following over at PlanetPvP.net .

@Eidolan Nah, I just use it simply because it's one of the lightest materials available and also has all the block types. Also, it's a mid-game material, so there's that.

Loving your ships, question, for this ship are you using all Trinium to keep it a "lower" tech level or because Trinium is just better then Xanon? Just wanting to know if I should swap the shield, hyperspace and power blocks for Xanon or leave them as Trinium? I know already to leave armor, hull and hangers Trinium as they get no bonus from Xanon besides being more heavy.

Derp thanks so much for this line of ships, really enjory playing them. Well thought out along the entire line.

Then isn't that where you are supposed to, you know, upgrade the internals yourself to Xanion -> Ogonite -> Avorion as you go and where available? Because I doubt it to be very smart to not do so. Then there's also the types of modules you install onto the ship, which I have no idea what did you put into it.

Also, what method of engagement did you use? Did you just go balls deep and charge head on into battle? Did you make strike runs? Did you out-range your enemies and kept pounding them from a distance, then retreating once they get too close to then attack them from afar again?

I'm genuinely curious because your statements contradict with what some people have said they've done with this ship, and the fact that some people only use a 6-7 slot sized ship throughout most of the game, which would mean that they're likely less durable, assuming it was made of the same material.

There was no ramming, that is the cowards way and not allow in our faction battles. I tried again and it lasted 10 seconds and only 5 sectors this time in PvE. NOTE: I didn't mention this before, but obviously I was not fighting my way to the center of the galaxy, this ship would not stand a chance; I was meerly flying and escaping damage while trying to fly towards the middle. Guessing you have not really gotten to the center of the galaxy yet; which is ok, but it's materials alone are obviously only beginner materials. Defend it if you feel you have to, but it does not last against players that actually know how the game works and how to maxiimize damage output. Side note, it actually did ok trying to get to the middle if you think about it, given it's obvious disadvantages.

I was not saying it was a horrible design, just that it will not be reliable further on into the galaxy.

@M4LX thanks :) I spent about 4-5 days on and off on this thing.

Have say, detail on this thing is amazing. Any idea how many hours you have into it? Well done.

(god damned character limits D:<)

I'm not sure exactly what made you cause my ship to last only 8 seconds ramming to your death doesn't count, that's user error or you trying to be a terrorist , as the AI ships usually aren't as well equipped, even in a similar size class. Unless if you were playing on the highest possible difficulty which I admittedly don't, I'm a filthy fuckin' casual or modded your files to push it past that, OR were playing on a modded server. Also, did you just freshly spawn the ship? Because if so, its shields would need time to regenerate.

Also, I simulated a late game environment using /commands and took the Praetor straight to the centre of the galaxy after your comment and just sat there while the Guardian and his buddies pounded on it, which took them about 3-4 minutes of non-stop fire to shave my shields down, which then regenerated back because of a shield module. I then proceeded to obliterate everything with supposedly "underlevelled" tech level 35-40 excellent quality railgun, plasma and cannon turrets, with the exception of the guardian because I "cheated" myself in with a tiny piece of Avorion hyperspace core and its invulnerability phases its shields stuck at 87.5% regardless of how much I shoot it .

Testing Environment:
- Base game, no mods
- Offline Singleplayer
- Normal difficulty
- Hit-and-run tactics
- random rolled equipment using /commands

And maybe to add as a disclaimer, I build these ships in context of the base game and PvE, and in an attempt to provide ship p0rn aesthetically pleasing ships with decent performance. If it's PvP you want, you're better off with the dishonorable use of the filthy, degenerate cube meta.

Ok for a beginner, but any players that are further into the game...or constantly at war with constant advancements in quality of ships, not really. Lack of quality-tech makes it not last.

Nice look though...

I brought it into a full-blown Faction war with about 30 (30v30) each side and it lasted about 8 seconds against a ship it's own size, but was fun to watch regardless...

In a saved game is lasted way longer and it could not make it from starting sector to the center of the galaxy, but it did survive about 6 sectors before it was obliterated...