February 2025 Competition

February 2025
The Three Amigos
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Submissions opened	2025-01-27
Submissions closed	2025-02-15
Video release	2025-02-28
Entrants	Zenrath Rochdale Sharnoras NobodyOfConsequence Stunty DoctorX omgbear Ranamar tsaoT

Goal & Prize

Create the most effective combat ship and see how it holds up against the competition! All submitted ships will compete in a bracket competition if we receive enough entries. Ships must come stocked with ammo, crew, and life supporting resources. See details below. The winner receives the Competition Winner flair and/or associated roles in the Discord server.

Submissions & Rules

All ships must be submitted by February 15th, 2025 at 9:00 PM EST. Totengeist and Johnny_Struggles will not submit any ships to participate in the tournament, as they'll be running the battles.

You may submit your ships to the Ship Showcase on Discord or send a Steam Workshop link or .ship file directly to Johnny_Struggles.

We will allow up to 2 submissions from each contestant, and each submission may be composed of 1 or more ships, so long as the combination of them meets the requirements below. (e.g. the combined total cannot cost more than 6 million space bucks.)

The tournament bracket is randomized (3 times using RANDOM.ORG), so we may end up having 2 submissions from the same person fighting each other.

Build Requirements:

• Submissions must be built between now and the deadline and work properly in the current version (Alpha 13).
• Submissions must cost less than 6 million space bucks.
• Submissions must have at least 1 Engine.
• Submissions must not travel at speeds higher than 130.
• Submission crew capacity must be equal to or greater than the number of crew.
• Must use your own ship design(s).
• Do not use weapons officers or consoles as the AI doesn't handle them properly in this setup.

Combat rules:

• Ships will start combat facing each other outside of Railgun Range.
• The games AI will control all the combat.
• The default orders will be on so hull repair will be enabled during combat.
• Ships will fight each other twice and the ship with two kills wins. If both ships get a kill then the ship that killed it's opponent the fastest wins the tie.
• Combat has a 5 minute time limit. If the limit is reached, the ship with the highest percentage of health left wins.

AI options:

To add even more excitement we can alter the basic strategy your ship uses by default for combat. They are defined below, so you now have the opportunity to choose one that you think best fits your ship. Now two things to be aware of. It's possible the AI will change the strategy it's using based on the situation it's in so it may not stick to what you have picked.

Strategies to choose from:

StrategyVeryCloseOrbit	Broadside orbits within Gatling gun range.
CloseRangeAggressive	Broadside orbits in cannon range just outside of gatling gun range.
MediumRangeOrbit	Broadside orbits at far end of cannon range.
LongRangeSniper	Broadside orbits at railgun range well outside of cannon range.
FastMovingJet	Forward facing strafing Runs, fly's straight at opponent then circles around to do it again.

Entries

• Sharnoras's rakars Class
• tsaoT's Neonate-C & Neonate-G
• omgbear's Super Shrike
• Stunty's Monarch Class Frigate
• omgbear's Wasp
• DoctorX's Mayhap MK II
• Rochdale's Mega Maid Vacuum & Spaceball 6
• Stunty's Kobold Class Gunship
• Zenrath's Squeeglet Salvo, Squeeglet Bomber & Squeeglet Fighter
• tsaoT's Aphelion
• NobodyOfConsequence's Pebble Class Drone & Nugget Class Drone
• DoctorX's MYG-11
• Ranamar's Evaluator
• Rochdale's Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber
• Zenrath's Squeege Behemoth & Squeege Bomber

Battles

Competitors	Round 1 Winner	Round 2 Winner	Fight Winner
Level 1
Drakars Class vs. Neonate-C & Neonate-G	Neonate-C & Neonate-G	Neonate-C & Neonate-G	Neonate-C & Neonate-G
Super Shrike vs. Monarch Class Frigate	Monarch Class Frigate	Monarch Class Frigate	Monarch Class Frigate
Wasp vs. Mayhap MK II	Wasp	Wasp	Wasp
Mega Maid Vacuum & Spaceball 6 vs. Kobold Class Gunship	Mega Maid Vacuum & Spaceball 6	Mega Maid Vacuum & Spaceball 6	Mega Maid Vacuum & Spaceball 6
Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter vs. Aphelion	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter
Pebble Class Drone & Nugget Class Drone vs. MYG-11	MYG-11	MYG-11	MYG-11
Evaluator vs. Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber	Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber	Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber	Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber
Squeege Behemoth & Squeege Bomber	BYE		Squeege Behemoth & Squeege Bomber
Level 2
Neonate-C & Neonate-G vs. Monarch Class Frigate	Monarch Class Frigate	Monarch Class Frigate	Monarch Class Frigate
Mega Maid Vacuum & Spaceball 6 vs. Wasp	Wasp	Wasp	Wasp
MYG-11 vs. Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter
Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber vs. Squeege Behemoth & Squeege Bomber	Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber	Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber	Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber
Semi-Finals
Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter vs. Glandstone & Shortpump Bomber	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter
Monarch Class Frigate vs. Wasp	Wasp	Wasp	Wasp
Finals
Wasp vs. Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter	Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter
Competition Winner
Squeeglet Salvo, Bomber & Fighter

Choice Awards

Category	Winner
Coolest Ship	Mega Maid Vacuum
Best Back Story	Aphelion & Mega Maid Vacuum
Best Fight	Monarch Class Frigate vs. Wasp
Least Like a Penis	Squeeglet Salvo, Squeeglet Bomber, Squeeglet Fighter & Squeege Behemoth