Recent content by TheWurm

It's always fascinating to see how other people read a post, then go back and read it again. On my first read, it seemed pretty clear that the 'roles' were just a framing device for different aspects of play, and not, as in mmorpgs, a menu of options, of which you must choose a few too the...

It'll probably take some getting used to, but this system seems pretty forgiving. Remember, the minimum radius for stabilizers is only for maximum effectiveness, it sounds like they'll still have some effect if you put them a little closer, and of course they don't seem to be necessary for your...

And doing this with your stabilizers accomplishes... What now? added distance beyond the minimum has no effect. all you've done is protected the least valuable part of your reactor system from damage, and made it impossible to turn. And yes, I know I attacked the example, not the actual point.

In that case you and I have understood the proposed changes differently, and ... well, I can't say it's specific enough to say for certain which of us is right. The assumption I'm making based on what's presented is that right after firing an alpha weapon will have the same draw (or slightly...

See, the thing you seem to have missed is that they are also proposing a change to the weapons so that Alpha and DPS will now use (roughly) the same power regen for the same block count. Under the current system you're right, but under the proposed system you are ... much less right. My main...

So as far as I can tell we're leaning toward no on docked reactor's to keep the TP limit for the ship, yes? This is disappointing but understandable. For what it's worth, I'm in favor of the originally proposed system with bounding boxes, with a tweak where smaller reactors have less than the...

Had to re read the OP, but it looks like there won't be any benefit for stabilizer distance past the minimum radius. So a stabilizer block right off that border will be just as effective as one 5 k blocks away. They meant to describe the shape, methinks. But yes, confusing as all get out...

Alright I get your reasoning that follows here, but, and this is important, there's not much Schine can do with the ideas of a player that doesn't want to talk to them. It ain't fair, but it's also the way it has to be, unless you know a psychic they could hire. As to your bigger point, it...

Alright, I got here late and I haven't read every single word here, so... sorry? Also, I haven't got my drafting software handy, so Visual aids will have to wait til Monday at the earliest.(Don't count on it, though.) Anyway, I have some Long Rambling Musings (tm) about the heat areas, which...

All right, hear me out for one second- imagine a shop that allows you to buy blocks with raw resources. Straight across, no crafting chain required. As the game stands, would that detract from any part of the game other than building factory chains(which I will once again stress I personally...

2 questions, but the second one is sarcastic, so really just one: 1. Would getting rid of factories really be that bad? They really add very little to the core engagement, and are mostly tedious. Just because they are part of the game now doesn't mean they have to stay. I would like them to stay...

Stock response incoming: This is a bit ambiguous. Did you send in a bug report on this? are you on a server, or single player? Are you on a new world? How many entities are loaded right now? How big is your ship vs. max sector size? Are you doing something that worked well in the past? Have you...

Most of my ships start with the main power tree, then I use that as skeleton for everything else. This provides interesting shapes, but I do tend to sacrifice logical architecture on the interiors. My fleet submission contains four ships that were built this way, as well as a transport ship that...

Those are some pretty salvage modules. I mean, everything's nice, but those are gorgeous.

Listen, I think the OP should totally bring this up with their server admin soon so they don't have to wait on Schine, but since it's such a quick fix that appears to have a net positive effect, it wouldn't hurt to have it in the base game. If it actually were more than a line or so of code it...