We already know that you can customize your ships, but how much?



Also, how big can the ships be? Do you pick from a selection of different hull types? And if so then how large is the biggest hull?



I suspect that you will probably be able to pick between the typical cruiser/frigate/capital ship hull types but I was wondering if you could go beyond that and construct like a really really big ship. Like some kind of a super capital ship or something!



Anyone?

The largest ship available can be assembled with the Large hull, which is 1000 meters long; you can check these screenshots for reference.



Thanks to them I think there are 4 hull types: Tiny, Small, Normal and Large. With at least 6 different ship classes, which I believe them to be: Scout, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship and Colony. From what little we know so far, I think you are out of luck on that SSD you want. If it's a feature that you consider essential, you should check out Star Ruler; there are no size limits on hulls there. To be clear I don't particularly like that game, I like it better than SOASE for example; but not by much. Nevertheless, since it's totally indie(like garage indie); I bought it anyways.

reynanuy wrote:
The largest ship available can be assembled with the Large hull, which is 1000 meters long; you can check these screenshots for reference.



Thanks to them I think there are 4 hull types: Tiny, Small, Normal and Large. With at least 6 different ship classes, which I believe them to be: Scout, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship and Colony. From what little we know so far, I think you are out of luck on that SSD you want. If it's a feature that you consider essential, you should check out Star Ruler; there are no size limits on hulls there. To be clear I don't particularly like that game, I like it better than SOASE for example; but not by much. Nevertheless, since it's totally indie(like garage indie); I bought it anyways.

Ah! Ok.



A 1000 meter long ship is still very big though, even if it may not be super huge. Plus one can always hope that such a huge ship type will be added later either before the game is finished, with an expansion, or with a mod (the last one is not impossible at all if this game gets lots of mods).



As for Star Ruler, yea I did not really like that game. I think it had a lot of great ideas (like being able to build without size limits) but what killed that game for me was the dumb and confusing way the economy worked. I was never really sure how many resources I actually owned or which of them I could use. It was a bloody micromanagement nightmare.

There is a thread concerning ship design already located right here.



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Hence this thread will now be closed.