Lapapsnow hosted Fleet Tournaments, Oct. 3rd – 35,000P

He’s going to do bracket tournaments and pool tournaments for each faction. I’ll link to the videos here as he posts them. Bracket: Terran Farmer Reds Tinkrell Crystalline Bees Sentinel   I’m kinda late posting this info, but new tournaments are available hosted by Lapapsnow. 9/30/15: Lapsapnow extended the entry date to October 3rd. See … Read more…

Collecting Reassembly Tournament Data from Log Files

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Work Smarter. Not Harder. If you’ve ever gotten serious about trying to optimize your ships or fleets, you’ll spend TONS of time watching matches to see how they come out. What if you could be using that time to build more ships, get more sleep, or maybe go outside sometime? Get some fresh air, will … Read more…

Happy Patriot Day!

Flag Ship

Look! – It’s my giant Flag-ship. Peace on the earth, good will toward men … or women, as the case may be. Bask in the warm glow of nationalism and download the ship here. A quick slap-together Sandbox job. Blocks are from five of the default factions. Unfortunately, it doesn’t fight as well as it looks. … Read more…

Factory Tricks

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Replication Gimmicks. Factory blocks are the source of all your reproduction, punching-out command modules to replicate ships and bases. These tidbits of knowledge may, or may not be helpful to you. Gimme My Space. A factory needs at least one block of space in which to produce a new command module. This one-block space can … Read more…

Mini Fleet Tournament Announcement for October 1st

Videos posted from the NMSS Reassembly Tournament last night. You can also see recaps and get copies of most of the fleets here (click on the Tournament date 10/1/2015 button).   Another tourney hosted by MonsPubis. You can see the full details and submission info here. The whole fleet should be 4000P. Tournament will be in Sub-Pool format. … Read more…

One Fleet to Rule Them All

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Forging the One. The tournament fleet competitions are new, but in testing creating, and trying to figure-out what works, I have some thoughts and observations to share. Essential concepts that I believe will play-out in the future. When you start designing, you’ll probably find that results will be quite random or inconsistent. Some fleets may dominate … Read more…

The Big Shot : Faction 4 Goodness

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Domination. The best range. The most power. The best solar panels. Everyone thinks this faction is overpowered, it’s not so much a question as a statement. Instead of finding ways to survive, this is more a matter of optimizing for ultimate killing power. Let’s take a closer look at beating the game. Basics. The basic … Read more…

Mini Fleet Tournament, for August 31st

You can see the details and submission info here. The whole fleet should be 2000P. Tournament will be in Pool format. Normal playable factions only. Normal in-game blocks only. No multi-faction ships. The fleet can have ships from more than a single faction though. Video for the completed tournament: