One thing that bugs me is the inability to see server settings and therefore the need to join and test everything yourself.
The most common differences between servers may be sector size and topspeed, which can be checked immediately as you enter a server. Other settings like mining bonus, weapon speed/range changes, jump distances etc. cannot be seen right away and take a long time to explore on your own before you can even know if you want to coninue playing on this server.
Example:
Some time ago I joined a server and I was satisfied with maxspeed, sector size and jump distance. I continued playing, went to a claimed territory and got ... what ? 1.2 million shards per mined block ???
Since I like the sandbox survival aspect of the game I can obviously not play on this server any longer where mining and resources do not mean anything to your progression.
I switched server, saw that the maxspeed was 500 without overdrive with vastly increased sector sized. When I check the weapon stats though I notice that everything is unchanged, which means the standard weapons ranges and speeds are effectively tiny compared to how fast ships can move wich would simply break the balance in PvP. Also the power consumption seemed about halved on this server, making most blueprints suboptimal.
Can we please get an option to view the server config in the serverbrowser for the reasons mentioned above ? I feel this is a lot bigger priority than adding new fancy blocks and functions right now. The game has enough features as it is to work but thats no good if you cant find a crowded server that suits you, at least this is the situation I find myself in coming from europe.
The most common differences between servers may be sector size and topspeed, which can be checked immediately as you enter a server. Other settings like mining bonus, weapon speed/range changes, jump distances etc. cannot be seen right away and take a long time to explore on your own before you can even know if you want to coninue playing on this server.
Example:
Some time ago I joined a server and I was satisfied with maxspeed, sector size and jump distance. I continued playing, went to a claimed territory and got ... what ? 1.2 million shards per mined block ???
Since I like the sandbox survival aspect of the game I can obviously not play on this server any longer where mining and resources do not mean anything to your progression.
I switched server, saw that the maxspeed was 500 without overdrive with vastly increased sector sized. When I check the weapon stats though I notice that everything is unchanged, which means the standard weapons ranges and speeds are effectively tiny compared to how fast ships can move wich would simply break the balance in PvP. Also the power consumption seemed about halved on this server, making most blueprints suboptimal.
Can we please get an option to view the server config in the serverbrowser for the reasons mentioned above ? I feel this is a lot bigger priority than adding new fancy blocks and functions right now. The game has enough features as it is to work but thats no good if you cant find a crowded server that suits you, at least this is the situation I find myself in coming from europe.
