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[Tsuchigumo550]

The purpose of this/these posts are to use the FTL ship builders available online to create ships- for a custom game, to build upon ideas, or just inspire.

I don't know when/if I will be able to run the program version, but I do have most ships and their sprites to work with.

As an example, I bring you the Torus- Nomad.

Spoiler: Nomad (click to show/hide)

The Torus Nomad is designed around the idea of transporting people safely across the cosmos. Like a giant mass-transit vehicle of space, the Nomad is well equipped to survive the treacherous enviroments and evil pirates often found in space.

It has an excellent droid bay and shield system, but it's weapon system is base and archaic, very hard to upgrade or use. It's medbay is good for average injury but not those of an invasion (i.e., average). Most important modules in the ship are large, but fire and beam weapons can deal great amounts of damage if used correctly.

All in all, the Torus Nomad uses a captian and co-captian loaded with two offense drones to protect crew and cargo. While it's weapon system is horrific and defenses sorely lacking for nonbasic weapons, the Torus Nomad has very powerful shields from the start and room to expand drone use exponentially.

[werty892]

Any links to said Shipbuilders?

[Tsuchigumo550]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

dead link- do not run the program this contained if you've downloaded it, it -might- have a virus. Avast has just informed me of this, as my laptop can't run the program due to .net errors. Not sure if a false positive, but... i doubt it.

I don't like direct-linking to fourms, but I also don't like direct-linking to a download more. Not trying to advertise.

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And here's the Adjucator-Cruiser! Built on the idea of a sturdy ship with everything important in the same spot, the Cruiser is a menace to smaller ships. It's O₂,weapons, engines, and medbay are made large to accommodate destruction on a whole new level!

It comes pre-set with a teleporter, for even more chaos.

It has a few downfalls, such as the shield system being hard to upgrade. The shield starts somewhat weak, as well. Secondary systems such as doors and scanners are pushed aside, making them weak and costly to upgrade as well. What this ship does do well is have plenty of dead area to hit- dead area that can be quickly vaccuumed with the powers of space. Unfortunately, navigating to any non-major area can be time consuming in the midst of battle.

Vaccuuming the right side of the ship is easy, but the left side lacks doors, making putting out fires a difficult decision when there's a lot of crew on board.

Hmm. It seems like all the links I'm getting, for FTLEdit, and especially ftldat, are tripping the virus fantastic. Nearly got hit with a trojan- thanks, McAfee, seems like I found a low threat Trojan that Avast hasn't defined. Artemis!(some numbers). Ew.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Warning to anyone planning on making FTL mods using the tools- ftldat is definitely loaded, ftledit is simply written in a bad fashion, caution advised with either. FTL Unpacker is clean. I'm not going to be making the data for these ships, unfortunately.

Spoiler: Vortex "Scylla" (click to show/hide)

This is the Vortex Scylla. It starts off without drones, cloaking, or teleporters.

While the organization of the Scylla is largely questionable, its combat prowess is undisputable. Loaded with a massive weapons bay granting the ability to attach nearly any setup without improvements, the Scylla comes loaded with 9 energy for weapons factory fresh!

The shield system is integrated with the weapons, and while weak and hard to upgrade (4 at start, very high upgrade cost) they are a nice addition. All other systems are arguably subpar, but most are willing to overlook that due to the insane firepower the Scylla can haul.

It comes loaded with two beam weapons and a basic missile launcher.
The pilot is somewhat secluded, as there are many areas in the Scylla with no short path from place to place. While unfortunate, again, advocates overlook this and instead drool over the massive weapons bay.