Taking off your right hand now, and then replacing it later when its needed is also the same. The point remains, you removed apart of yourself, and you're likely to need it again, for what purpose, you could have spent that time adding another arm and hand.
Not quite. We don't know how such a system would affect future features so its a question of whether the devs want to spend the time on a whole new feature now and then troubleshoot issues with each other feature that messes it up, or wait until the features most likely to conflict are already in and the issues are likely to be lessened since they already know what to expect.
I agree with you that generators where a bad system, they caused lag, and had little advantage, what i'm saying is that schine could have atleast hinted at a better system down the line, or waited until they had a really good replacement for it. Consider this, large scale battles are currently unplayable regardless of generators, even with AUX blocks, titan fights only ever end in crashing. They can change things but atleast give us some hope, or replace the feature with something better. As i've said before, they could have simply done a hotfix to change the config to make rail blocks unkillable, for now, until they had a better feature, this would have been better then rushing something to replace it.
This is a good point, perhaps the strongest point against my argument. You're right, we don't know, but we know schine does, and so, they could have at least informed us of the real reasons behind removing generators, even something like "We removed them now, because we're going to replace the whole power system in a future update" would have been better, but instead, they where replaced by what seems to be only one part of the new power system.
Schine absolutely needed to edit this part of the game. What features are coming up next? NPC faction reworks and, at some point, unloaded fleet combat along with it. You can't have unloaded fleet combat with docked generators. How the hell are you supposed to incorporate docked generators into that? It's much easier for them to use auxiliaries.
There are all sorts of reasons. When you start looking at where Saber and Criss are with building. Within the next few months they'll be starting on larger ships and stations as well. They'll need the power. Docked reactors were gonna go, and Lancake had a good idea of a way to make a good system for allowing power beyond the current cap. Maybe it was only good enough, but its something they can build on without being super complicated. Docked reactors we always laggy and that's not really gonna change. There are tricks for physics to make them go faster but there is computational limits. Looking into the future as well. We've been aiming at more and more stability. This also makes sense since the holiday times are almost on us, and Schine needs to eat. Stability looks good to potential sales. So this seems to be a damn good time to change it.
Ah that's the nugget I've been looking for.
I won't lie, while they may seem shitty at times, the collisions in starmade areactualluy pretty well optimized (especially since the last updates). Compared to space engineers's collisions (taking ship size and block count into account), it is perfection incarnate. Seriously, it could be much much much worse (like it used to be :P)
Before unloaded combat becomes a thing, Starmade has to be able to load a sector with a station and a fleet in it, without 20+ entities loading in inside of the station's blocks. The whole loading in inside of stuff thing is why Bobby and his admins instituted the whole "max 20 ships per fleet / max 10 fleets per faction / max 3 fleets per player / max 1 fleet per sector" rule. Even though I know that you could have 10 of those fleets in one sector as long as you load the sector up in a stealther before the fleets arrive, I still have to follow that rule, because the rules go for everyone, and everyone seems to be crashing the server with a fork.
Nice slice of cheese you got there.Does anyone know the mathematical formula for power aux? The graph is nice but the numbers are too big.
Edit: Bonus Cheese
Oh no i agree with you, but it is still a major source of lag regardless when things are moving around. :P
Perhaps a docking mechanic that allows you to secure or lock the dock, effectively making the docked entity a part of the primary entity whether the dock is destroyed or not. Or perhaps a cascade effect where, if the dock goes so does the docked entity. This could be related to the energy link/transfer component as a type of power overload cascade. Thus destroying the docked entity all together.
That would be cool, but more than one docking connection is a severe technical problem.
I do.
