Newbies Tips
All credit goes to Eliphaser!
Use the overlays, many of them are useful.
If you get your arse handed to yourself, try to figure out why. E.g. if you used grenades against a metal-armoured ship you should notice that metal armour has good blast-absorb. Or if a big, slow ship is lost after the only propeller is shot you should consider adding a second propulsion-module.
The building in this game is a lot more complex than it first looks, many things to factor in starting easy and just assembling modules simply, putting ammo near guns and coal near propellers and suspendium chambers is a pretty good thing to do.
Hatches (and decks) as far from the bridges and cockpits you put in your ship as possible, as that’s the main way boarders enter it, so that may be why you lose ships to boarders (having multiple command modules spread out also helps).
Overengineering is easy, so keeping to fairly simple ships that don’t try to do everything at once and don’t carry too many different kinds of weapons is also a fairly decent start.
There’s a lot of very useful tips to ship designing and making effective vehicles and buildings, but I don’t really want to overwhelm you with a gigantic infodump, so the best thing I can say is to experiment, and as the other guy said, play around with the overlays.
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