We use the same but for turrets:
Make the ship as long as possible so that after taking out the center of the ship, the turrets are more or less useless to kill the other 90%. Core moved to random location and incase in tons of armor. Fuel tanks, generators and thrusters also spread out on the inside.
Of course it uses random shapes to protect a bit more vs lag shots. It drains some FPS but still doable.
Still gotta adjust the flaks (gotta make a pillar upwards for them. They are currently attached to the main body which is bad. Also gotta move the rocket guns further out and heavily armor them.
Tons of cockpits and medbays all over the place. I guess 25 of each. Because respawn timer being ~ 0 = totally balanced after all those patches still.
Did I forget something? Ohyeah docking a lot of SV but that may be considered an exploit so perhaps not. And then I gotta fill the entire inside with random shaped combat armor blocks to make it a real tortuga tank on top of everything. I could probably logout for 10 minutes in battle and return and my ship is still intact. Unless they blow the core out using that collision exploit.
That ship in the background on the left is 200k iron ingots btw so you can compare size. It’s max size. But that ship in the background is vulnerable to inside-out-blowing so not good…
But the BEST ship is a pure combat armor block 127x127x127 in size (max size is a bit smaller I noticed because of some bug) and then just fill it entirely up. Only roughly 20+million iron ingots but the fuel cost would bankrupt you lol.