I rarely if ever use decorative blocks. I like the look of them, and I would use them, but:
A) I am usually doing a fast job or want to make quick repairs and care more about functionality than style
B) Once I do get things functional, than I might do looks.
C) Wait no never mind, there are pirates
D) They blew my ship to pieces
I don't use decorative blocks on many of my ships for exactly that reason. My ships are usually fast, cheap and ugly. Also, I'm careless about smaller ships. I don't do many big builds because I want to explore. If I do build a big ship, it's usually slow and pretty bad (I'm very impatient).
I also don't use the logic modules that much, although I would really like to. That's mainly because I didn't learn how to use them well.
Side note: I've been playing Starmade for several years now, and I get nostalgic for the old days sometimes (back when they had those really great hull textures that looked like plates of armour, and when the Bobby A.I. modules had faces with beards on them). If someone could point me in the direction of a download or something of the old texture pack (pre launcher move), that would be great thanks.
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I agree with astrotech being a waste of a block right now, I was envisioning a LOT more usefulness from it than it has been relegated to. I think astrotech will have to wait for "core imprinting" or whatever they're calling the saved blueprint in the core thingy they're planning. perhapse we can just feed it raw resources and it will "build" the damaged and missing blocks with them?
I have in the past considered building tubes/docks out of astrotech beams/hulls and used those to repair ships after mall skirmishes. You just fly in there, dock, get out, go over to the core, get in and fire the astrotech beams at the ship if these are all pointed inwards. Unfortunately, these tubes would be power hungry monsters I believe.
