Recent content by Coyote27

Wires: I don't like the idea of requiring them at all, but a decorative block of wiring would be kinda nice I guess, kinda like the pipe decorative block. And wedges for both of them would be extra good. Solar panels that generate power output based on the lighting level they receive from the...

Even Edy can be right on occasion. Good idea.

That feels like one of the most obvious uses for crew, IMO, but might be difficult to actually get working the way we want.

Why would anyone choose to surrender an entire ship if they could have a damaged ship flee back to be scrapped or repaired instead? Maybe if there's expensive crew involved, and surrendering means you get all the crew back whereas fleeing might result in them getting chased down and blasted...

It's generally accepted that the ship Ai needs to be a lot more flexible and therefore more useful, so here's some suggestions for behaviors that can be toggled - either on the Bobby AI module itself for individual ships, or in the fleet settings for fleets (having both is not particularly...

Every chamber should auto-charge by default. There is nothing added to the game by making people hold down a mouse button.

While a smaller ship would have an easier time hiding, a larger ship with a larger antenna would also have an easier time seeing. I think it would end up as a wash as regarding a small ship versus a large one, though larger ships could detect other large ships at greater ranges than small ships...

Even Edy is right twice a day. Protecting a vulnerable base isn't simply like Britain trying to protect the Falklands, as challenging as that was in reality. Instead, it's more equivalent to the Argies being both willing and able to bulldoze the islands into the sea and make them vanish from the...

I've made a good number of "fighter"-sized ships before, but never with the intent of using them as fighters. Usually as scouts, light packet transports, or other utility purposes. I did make a ~600 mass microcorvette in the past and use it for combat, but I wouldn't really consider it a...

It's not a bug, it's a safety mechanism! You have to click with both buttons now - hold down left-click as if you're charging and then right-click. This was changed because of the new zoom mechanic with right-click - it became really easy for people to accidentally jump away when they're trying...

As far as I understand it, wormholes do not deal heat damage and aren't supposed to; the heat warning is a bug that happens because they still count as stars in that respect.

As far as I'm aware, the general PvP meta already encourages smaller numbers of larger turrets rather than the inverse; the larger your ship is and the larger the battles are, the more lag-reduction and memory/processor efficiency matter for combat effectiveness as opposed to raw on-paper...

You need to make sure that your turret-part cores are perpendicular to both axes of rotation and able to both line up in the same XYZ orientation. This is aggravating when you get it wrong.

It seems like as a general rule, 1k reactor size ~= 5k ship mass, at least for how I build.

You salvaged up someone's secret asteroid stash?