The Powder Toy

Monotreme Class Battleship by Platypus5

Platypus5
Platypus5
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26th Nov 2019
7th May
Bigger and tougher than the Platyparian Space Cruiser, the Monotreme Class Battleship features the latest in Platyparian space warfare technology. Time to go push some weaker spacefaring nations around!... As long as they don't destroy the reactor...
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Comments

  • Platypus5
    Platypus5     2nd Dec 2019
    @PaladinStar thanks! Yeah, you could say that my creations generally don't do so well in ambient heat, haha. I initially was going to have a warning sign next to the ambient heat option... but I accidentally blew it up before publication during a weapons test, and never bothered to re-create it.
  • PaladinStar
    PaladinStar     2nd Dec 2019
    Love the ship and the ambiant heat self destruct very fun
  • Platypus5
    Platypus5     2nd Dec 2019
    @VIBR No worries! I appreciate the feedback and critiques on how to make my ship better. I can't think of a way to protect against a weapon that just spams "replace" type cray beams, but as far as the DEST goes, have you tried a layer of GEL embedded inside the armor? It seems to have this unique ability to deflect high velocity dest particles. Go figure. BTW, I'm checking out your ship now. I hadn't seen it earlier during my searches of saved sims.
  • Platypus5
    Platypus5     1st Dec 2019
    @SuperRyn I didn't know that! Thank you for sharing. PROT weaponry on either side makes me nervous due to its potential to bounce back and mess with my shield generators, but it might be worth the risk.
  • VIBR
    VIBR     1st Dec 2019
    (also also, im not trying to take anything away from this, i really like it and it's design, just throwing some ideas out for ships)
  • VIBR
    VIBR     1st Dec 2019
    (i do also look into destroyable materials still, but atm i'm still reaching for protection against CRAY, DRAY and my new Piston based tech). In terms of upgrading the defences while still being destroyable, you could add a HEAC mesh to distribute heat faster and prevent melting single sections. You could also use LIFE elements to get absolute 0 temperatures and use those as heat sinks. They won't work against the 8000oC + Ambient heat producing bombs, but it's still gunna be decent
  • VIBR
    VIBR     1st Dec 2019
    That unspoken agreement is great until some chad comes along with DEST and is like LULLL YOUR SHIP GETS REKT BY DEST. So, i personally disregard the no indestructables and watch those people cry. Still, i really like the design of this ship, and as far as destroyables go it's up there. Some ideas you could look into would be (as SuperRyn said) proton beams, virus spreaders and maybe even attractor/repulser beams for tearing some things appart
  • SuperRyn
    SuperRyn     1st Dec 2019
    Eholeless CONV materials that do not have some way of absorbing particles can be "rusted" by compressed particles like PROT and GRVT, and that is why i suggested a PROT gun, because it would rust the bunkium
  • Platypus5
    Platypus5     1st Dec 2019
    @SuperRyn I'm flattered that you even considered this ship worthy of testing against your Bunkium! Yeah, I don't even dream of designing a weapon to penetrate it, but if I had to, I probably would try to use PROT. Fortunately, there is sort of an unspoken agreement in the TPT ship-building community against using armor based on CONV, VOID, or other materials that can't be destroyed by either heat pressure fire. So the Li-Bray guns are normally sufficient :)
  • Dovydas
    Dovydas     1st Dec 2019
    noice mate 1+