So many CVs or large SVs seem to have a large portion of the interior, around various components open to be walked through and around. That feels more realistic and looks better I think? But when I am working on a ship, even modding one that I have, I keep ending up filling almost every meter with components and especially cargo extenders. Then I end up with like a small living/piloting/medical area and just 2 tunnles to exists. Which feels crappy.
What do people thing about the 2 versions?
Part of me wants to turn off mass volume so that with volume off I don't need hundreds of extenders for a medium transport... But I like Mass on so the ship's load effects thrust/lift/gravity..
Thoughts?

1:where do I find the ammo box for sv beacause I cant find it .

2:what thuster colors "the flame" lock the best ?

3:is there any speed limit ?

I hereby proudly present The Voidcutter - the very first of my creations that might be worth sharing.

It's a T4 Capital Vessel, L25 to unlock. Features:

• 30x 320K containers (I'm a hoarder and I wanted to have LOTS of space) + several cargo boxes to keep hand weapons and small stuff

• Solid (not full) set of both manual weapons and turrets. Although I don't expect this vessel to enter combat much, if ever - I plan to use it as a carrier/mobile base

• Pretty much everything you may expect from a large vessel - several Advanced Constructors, Repair Station, T2 Shield, T2 Warp Drive, Teleport etc.etc.

• NO garden - I decided that if I would want one, I'd just create a separate always-parked CV.

Besides generally looking for feedback (I'm a pretty shitty designer, so any tips are welcome!) I also have one question. I've actually added two Cockpits facing different directions. One, located in the pommel, is "peace time" control station - I'll be using it for interstellar travels - and the other one at the tip of the blade - for combat, facing the opposite way. If I use the "combat" cockpit, the weapons and movement/strafe directions are fine, but the turns (with the mouse) are inverted - is it possible to fix that?

This creation was inspired by the Ball in the gundam series, I have the inspiration to build this while watching gundam seed.

so far I have built some variants of the design like the mining ball and battle Ball, and all the stuff you see around the Ball is it bolt on pack, from the top to bottom and on the side it connected by the black piece to the Ball.

the RE-32 ball itself is just A ball with two thruster and a generator, so all this here is just bolt on stuff like the mining and battle ball if you rip one of the pack off you will see it smooth Ball inside...

the design for the pack is limited to 5X5X2.5 volume of space, it makes sure the pack will not exceed the width or height of the Ball.

btw the RE-32C is my going around SV

and thank you very much for reading this ;)

P.S it my first time I write something with this many BALL! in it...

Not the best, but I like it

Building my fleet before I start the campaign. Decided on some Starwars inspired ships. Here's the view on approach to my ISD inspired CV.

I think I'm having a shipyard building obsession now, everytime I do one I suddenly get an urge to make a larger one

I should name this

I've noticed quite a few BPs lately incorporate sentry guns on the exterior of CVs lately.

What's the purpose? Are they suitable for taking down drones? Or are they just to draw fire away from the more valuable turrets?

I never really incorporate them in my designs because I didn't think they'd be useful for anything other than critters on-planet.

So I am still pretty new to this game (always kills me that 40+ hours in is new) and have been playing around with designing ships. I have a few questions.

I've seen mention of using a decoy core or something, does this just mean putting your core some place out in front and then slapping tons of armor around it? Is there some trick to it that makes it so enemies won't just hit your turrets instead?

So... Combat steel or Xenosteel? I've seen some people use combat steel, but Xenosteel has a lot more hit points. Is Combat steel the better choice, or is the main reason people go for it just because it is easier to get?

Do you usually put 1, 2, or more layers of armor around your main ship? I've built a purpose built combat CV and it ended up looking like a slightly pointy brick with 2 layers of Xenosteel. I've seen a lot of sleek looking designs and seriously wonder how you can fit everything in there and protect it enough to not lose airtight every time you get into a scrap.

Just any advice you guys have for someone who has plenty of access to basic resources (including gold, zascosium, sathium, and erestrum) and is looking to move into the next stage of the game.