ScrumbleShip is the most accurate space combat simulation devised to date. Gather resources, construct a capital ship out of individual blocks, then pilot it with AI or human help against other players.
Commander Keen's Kobalos
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This is Commander Keen's attempt at making the smallest possible spacecraft in ScrumbleShip. I think he did an excellent job!
He does mention it having "paper thin" armor... Personally, I don't know why he's writing on 2.5 inch thick slabs of aluminum.
Cheers,
-Dirk
When all shielding you from the vacuum of space is a sheet of aluminium, you wish people wrote on at least metre thick blocks :P
Either way, I personally consider the design to be a failure. A single hit practically anywhere can be enough to disable the whole ship, it's going to be tough to fly and especially dock since it must dock sideways and the weak firepower meants it will be just a pest to anything bigger than a corvette. The only advantages it has are being extremely cheap to buy and use.
Now thinking about it, this is the kind of ship that the stereotypical evil empires use - weak, but cheap and easily used in hordes.
I think this ship might actually not be a failure in the right application. Sure, it'd fail miserably as a combat ship, but as an escape pod, or a cheap and maneuverable shuttle to hop between large ships and between large ships and stations, it'd be great. You could even use it as a small tug to pull containers around a mining/trading yard. So, not a total failure - just not a combat ship.
True! That didn't even occur to me. Well, I believe a spacesuit is the best escape pod, but people will likely disagree with me. With its gunsweapons and agility of the best fighters it could be a good luxury pod for wealthy captains. The shuttle and tug ideas are also great!