Runner-up
Zenrath
Space Invader
Competition detail
The Competition with No Name
Competition #11
Challenge
Build a self-sustaining ship that starts without ammo, manufactures everything it needs, and carries battle damage forward through the bracket.
Final
Winner
Rochdale
Watchtower
Rules
Full rule breakdown recorded from the original Discord announcements.
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Build
- Entry format
- Build 1 ship
- Maximum cost
- 7.5M spacebucks (arena cost)
- Maximum toughness
- 1600
- Minimum speed
- 10
- Maximum speed
- 100 (142 for Fast Moving Jet)
- Maximum engines
- 4
- Docking ports
- At least 1 required
- Cannons
- Maximum of 8
- Railguns
- Maximum of 8
- Gatling guns
- Maximum of 8
- Armor
- Not allowed
- Wall removal trick
- Not allowed
- Ship file editing
- Not allowed, except fighters
- Connected structure
- No free-floating sections separate from the ship
- Overlapping items
- Not allowed
Crew
- Food and water
- Required
- Crew capacity
- Must be equal to or greater than crew count
- Breathable atmosphere
- Required where spacesuits are not needed
- Oxygen supply
- Must be supplied from a bottle or reprocessing
- CO2 and sewage
- Must be captured and either bottled or reprocessed
- Maximum habitation
- 100
Ammo
- Ammo at start
- No ammo; ship must produce its own
- Preloaded weapons
- Allowed
- Starting materials
- Unlimited metreon gas bottles and scrap metal allowed
- Forbidden starting items
- May not start with metal ingots, refined metreon gas, explosives, cannon shells, railgun slugs, or bullets
- Production machines
- All ammo production machines must be empty at submission
Combat
- Combat control
- Game AI controls all combat
- Hull repair
- Enabled during combat via default orders
- Match format
- Ships fight three times and the first to two kills wins
- Time limit
- No time limit; judges can call battles early if ships are stuck in a loop
- Persistence
- Winning ship carries forward between bracket levels without resetting
- Gas clouds
- Ships may start in gas clouds randomly
- Drones
- Destroyed drones are not replaced at the end of combat
- Drone fallback
- If the winner has 0 drones remaining, it is gifted 10 drones and salvage time is reduced to 1 minute
- Salvage phase
- Winning ship gets 2 minutes of salvage time, then 30 seconds of hull repair only
Entries
Main
12 entries in this division.
| Entrant | Entry | Result | Honours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochdale |
Watchtower
Primary
|
Winner |
|
| Zenrath |
Space Invader
Primary
|
Final |
|
| BrendyBear |
Double Trouble
Primary
|
r3 |
|
| BrendyBear |
Shield Hero
Primary
|
r3 | — |
| Ranamar |
Warspite Returns
Primary
|
r2 |
|
| Rochdale |
Chernoballs
Primary
|
r2 |
|
| SpaceKitty |
Hyperion V3
Primary
|
r2 | — |
| Warchief |
Shuriken-class Corvette
Primary
|
r2 | — |
| DoctorX |
DRx Makeshift
Primary
|
r1 | — |
| DoctorX |
DRx Stopgap
Primary
|
r1 |
|
| OmgBear |
The Tick
Primary
|
r1 |
|
| Wunderwood157 |
Shayad Factory Gunboat
Primary
|
r1 |
|
Trainer ships
No trainer ships are recorded for this competition yet.
Awards
| Award | Entrant | Ship / entry | Judge |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Rochdale | Chernoballs | Johnny Struggles |
|
|
Rochdale | Chernoballs | Totengeist |
|
|
Hyperion V3 vs Double Trouble | Match award | Both judges |
|
|
DoctorX |
DRx Stopgap
DRx Stopgap
|
Johnny Struggles |
|
|
DoctorX |
DRx Stopgap
DRx Stopgap
|
Totengeist |
|
|
DoctorX |
DRx Stopgap
DRx Stopgap
|
Outcome |
|
|
OmgBear |
The Tick
The Tick
|
Johnny Struggles |
|
|
Ranamar |
Warspite Returns
Warspite Returns
|
Totengeist |
|
|
Wunderwood157 |
Shayad Factory Gunboat
Shayad Factory Gunboat
|
Outcome |
|
|
Wunderwood157 |
Shayad Factory Gunboat
Shayad Factory Gunboat
|
Outcome |
|
|
Rochdale |
Chernoballs
Chernoballs
|
Outcome |
|
|
Ranamar |
Warspite Returns
Warspite Returns
|
Outcome |
|
|
Zenrath |
Space Invader
Space Invader
|
Outcome |
|
|
BrendyBear |
Double Trouble
Double Trouble
|
Outcome |
Matches
Main division
| Round | Entry 1 | Entry 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Round 1
|
Shayad Factory Gunboat | Chernoballs | Chernoballs |
|
Round 1
|
DRx Makeshift | Shield Hero | Shield Hero |
|
Round 1
|
The Tick | Watchtower | Watchtower |
|
Round 1
|
DRx Stopgap | Double Trouble | Double Trouble |
|
Stage 2
|
Space Invader | Chernoballs | Space Invader |
|
Stage 2
|
Shield Hero | Shuriken-class Corvette | Shield Hero |
|
Stage 2
|
Watchtower | Warspite Returns | Watchtower |
|
Stage 2
|
Double Trouble | Hyperion V3 | Double Trouble |
|
Semifinal
|
Space Invader | Shield Hero | Space Invader |
|
Semifinal
|
Watchtower | Double Trouble | Watchtower |
|
Final
|
Space Invader | Watchtower | Watchtower |