Merc-MX15

Heavy survival gunship. (SV Class 4)

Primary roles: Survival, Coop, Combat, Storage and crafting, Long Range Missions

Major update 7/30/19 _______________________________________________________________________________ Extensive work was done to this to bring it to Alpha 10 specs. This includes rebuilding much of the interior, cleaning up exterior textures, and adding a bunch of new features. However, nothing was removed from the original ship and has the same weapon loadout, part placements such as RCS/Generators, etc.

New Features:

1. New Alpha 9/10 Storage. The ship has 8K storage bay, 5K ammo bay, and 11 large cargo boxes. 2. Shield, Wifi, Detector added 3. Drone hatch + control switch 4. Redone performance mode vs standard RCS/Thrusters. Performance mode now adds more RCS to flight as well. 5. Increased lift thrust to deal with weights and volumes. (Added 12 1x3x1 lift thrusters) 6. Some visual tweaks/block changes thru out the ship, but keeping it very close to the original. _______________________________________________________________________________

Update 5/12/18: There was a problem with alpha 8 experimental which was causing the player to get stuck getting out of the pilot seat. This issue is now corrected. The deco frame blocks above the cockpit on both sides were removed allowing the player to get out of the pilot seat correctly.

The Merc-MX15 is the latest in the Merc line of ships. It was built for many rolls and designed to be a good ship in most all senerios. For being a class 4 SV, it is still fairly quick and agile. Packing 272 RCS units and a large amount of higher tear thrusters it can move similar to a smaller fighter but also take a beating. The ship was built entirely with hardened steel and has a massive amount of redundancy for internal parts. The core is well protected located below the floor near the crafting area. The hull of the ship was built with layers of small clusters of parts with block seperation and in most places offers more than 1 layer of protection. The weakest point would be the cockpit in it's current configuration. It features the maxium amount of weapons allowed for a SV. Also, all thrusters are exposed and not blocked.

Features:

1. Supports 3 players with seating and 3 armor racks 2. 32 Large cargo boxes, 6 fridges, 6 ammo boxes, 4 constructors 3. o2 for interior space + o2 station 4. Short range warp core 5. All thrusters exposed and not blocked 6. Automated ramp, door and lighting 7. Econony mode - Control switch inside will shut down 1/2 of the thrusters to save on fuel 8. Switch for exterior lights (Spotlights front and rear) 9. 272 RCS units with a large amount of balanced thrusters providing good speed and agility for a class 4 ship 10. Layered and seperated small clusters of ship parts. Extremely reduntant. Weak point would be the cockpit itself 11. Despite being a class 4 SV, it has a fairly small foot print and can be docked on all of my existing bases and CV's including the flight pad of the Carapace C2. It can also dock in the hangar of the Manticore-EX1. 12. Maxium amount of weapons allowed for a SV.

This version of the ship is built for long range PVE survival missions, combat, storage, and coop (3 Players). I am testing some ideas to possibly make a version of this ship for PVP and any feedback would be helpful. My current thought is to add a second cockpit in a secure internal area with no window access and would require a person to control only via 3rd person camera. (V Key) I am not sure however if this is a good idea or not. The weakest point is the cockpit and adding layers of glass both makes it ugly and hard to see in 1st person.

For other creations, several shown in screen shots, please visit my Steam workshop or the "Military Survival Series" Collection, link at top of post.

Note: If you want the ship to gain higher thrust speeds, there is a way to do it that I find kind of a problem with game stats. The ship uses 2x2x5 thrusters for all sides but the back. Replacing a single 2x2x5 thruster with 4 1x1x3 thrusters provies more thrust for the same space plus another 8 more blocks of free space. It uses slightly more fuel as well. I think this should be addressed with the game itself as you would think a higher tear larger thruster should be a better way to go and out perform 4 smaller lower tear thrusters as it takes up more space. This is just FYI if you were interested in getting higher speeds.

Enjoy!

Update 4/13/18 - Toughened up the interior ceiling a bit and added a couple more support blocks.

Update 5/12/18 - Removed deco metal frame blocks on both sides of the cockpit near the ceiling. In alpha version 8(experimental) it was causing the player to get stuck getting out of the cockpit. The player will no longer get stuck. The ship however still works in alpha 7.x as well as Alpha 8.

Modded versions made by other authors:

Merc-MX15-H by Farseer 7/12/2020. Thanks Farseer! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2128074508

Merc-MX15 Modified - Modded by [FR]Dylos https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1365140319

MX15C by Semp (Capital ship conversion) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1569772591

Thanks [FR]Dylos and Semp!

For other creations, several show in the screen shots, please see my workshop or the "Military Survival Collection", link at top of post. Thanks