The S.T.A.R.S (community tournament) is now live! How fast can YOU reach the SHATTERED PLANET?

[happyfactorioaddict]

Have you ever wondered, how fast can you reach The Shattered Planet?? 2 hours, 1 hour, 40 minutes?
Lucky for you, that's exactly what the S.T.A.R.S Community tournament is going to answer! (Speed Tournament of Asteroid Resistant Spaceships)

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Starting today, you'll have until September 30th (2 months+ from now) to design the fastest space platform known to man kind, that can successfully reach the “legendary” Shattered Planet, obliterating trillions of promethium asteroids on its way!

You don’t need a late-game save to participate. We fully allow and encourage you to use the editor mode (and a few QOL and designing mods) for designing, building and testing your Shattered Planet Spaceship Design! Speeding up the in-game-time is also allowed in your final submission (because the official times are measured using the in-game-ticks system by a combinator chronometer blueprint!).

There’s four official categories that can be combined as follows:
Spaceships “With quality” (uses any quality buildings) OR “Without quality” (only common quality buildings)
AND
“High research” (your ship uses the max infinite research levels that can only be researched by a mega-base, 16B sciences max cost) OR “Low research” (your ship uses max infinite research levels that researched by a “small” space age base, 512K sciences max cost).

You don't need to make the fastest spaceships, we all want to see these cool spaceships, no matter the speed, so if you have ever made any spaceship that reaches the shattered planet, feel free to post it too!!And if you haven't, give it a a shot, it's really fun and not that much time consuming!

If you want to: participate by designing your own ship, submit your design, read the full rules, post any sick spaceships you made (that go to the shattered planet or not) or just want to see the coolest flying factories ever made, JOIN THE OFFICIAL DISCORD SERVER:
https://discord.gg/K7YvMkzyfE

Hosted and organized by the one and only ME, the same guy that created The 1000KM/s Shattered Planet Spaceship: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... are_button (Yes, i made this entire tournament just to encourage people to beat my record).

[eugenekay]

…are there any Limitations besides “Quality” and “Research Level”? I would suggest adding “Weight Classes”, such as Under 100T, up to 1000T, and over 1000T.

I have hit 1500km/s+, using Modded thrusters stacked together the only speed limit is how Long to build the ship.

[happyfactorioaddict]

…are there any Limitations besides “Quality” and “Research Level”? I would suggest adding “Weight Classes”, such as Under 100T, up to 1000T, and over 1000T.

They aren't exactly "limitations" but categories, for example, one may want to compete in the HIGH research WITHOUT quality category, but i get what you meant.
I tough (and wanted to add) "weight classes", but i ran into a few problems, first, if there were 3 more categories that can mix and match, there would now be 12 different categories instead of 4 (witch is pretty bad for competitiveness), and second, using just the ton number is miss-leading, because if ,hypothetically, a ship is really small (under 100t) but goes fast (700KM+) it would need to have at least two rows of thrusters, witch themselves already weigh more than 200t, this would impose a technical cap on speed for each weigh category unless we used a different method to determine in each weigh class the ship fits in, witch in itself would be super complex to regulate.

However, in the official discord server, the submissions are all made in one (forum based) channel and i have tags to determine the category, but also a few extra tags to filter the ships, one of them is lightweight (it doesn't have an exact number of tons max, because of what i mentioned) but if someone designed a ship just to be light, i guess you could search for them and make your own leader-board.

Also, very cool mod you found, i will definitely use it for my next modded play trough.

[coffee-factorio]

Is promethium collection part of the design criteria or just the ability to travel?

Edit:

And to be clear:

Sciences bought individually are less than or equal to 512K"? This is how I am understanding it now.

So I can have physical damage (up to 512k) and railguns damage (up to 512K).

[happyfactorioaddict]

Is promethium collection part of the design criteria or just the ability to travel?

It's just the ability to reach the SP, we are going there for the difficulty not for the promethium! IF you think about it, it's the most useless possible spaceship, because it doesn't produce anything to the base and consumes SOOOOO much UPS

Sciences bought individually are less than or equal to 512K"? This is how I am understanding it now.

The science number there is representative of the amount of science needed to research only the last level ,ex: the max level of physical projectile damage allowed for the LOW tech category is 15, that level uses 256k science to research, so (256k) (it ain't level 16 (512k) because 15 is a round number and i prefer making the "LOW research categoy" the lowest tech possible without compromising on effective DPS, so more people can build these ships in their normal bases), the full list of max levels for each of the categories as well as a more detailed explanation of the rules and how to submit your ship are all wroten on the discord server!