But we don't need 4 choices in hull strength ... perhaps if hp were a bit more it could be used because of it's texture.
Oh no they got nerfed.
i don't ever want to use the ugliest block in the game except for the advantage it had, which was low weight.
Only it doesn't make armor much better. In fact lower mass plus better protective capabilities of a single block would have been better, because then you could at least armor some critical locations. Armour HP is spread all over the ship and doesn't help in that regard.
...indeed Power (total reactor and stabilizer system) at 100% must be assumed in any build that has not got mechanics wrong (until damaged)
, with a mind on the systems first, one gets pulled very easily to obvious and repetitive long boxy designs/tall boxy designs (for most 'normal ships') - and then comes the meta shapes .....of course this can be argued for 1.0 i suppose also ...
Respectfully, I disagree.This is the fundamental flaw with your argument. You are discarding the "exceptions" that prove your design philosophy wrong.
Hull is unnecessary.
The way to build a ship in Power 2.0 is the same as before. Max efficiency on a per mass scale is not achievable with a hull because you end up with a higher surface area to volume ratio to achieve that max efficiency, so you discard the hull. While you're at it, you might as well spread your systems far and wide in strands as well. Now shots pass right through you without even touching your systems, and any shots that do connect do minimal damage because they can't hit more than a few blocks.
I refuse to let moderators censor me to benefit the ego of an inexperienced and inept RPer who continues to shill his flawed build method that has been proven to be untruthful.
If the moderators want to comment on arguments over systems, they should learn the systems properly. If not, fuck off. Carebear "everyone can build how they want to and decide whats most efficient in their minds teehee" shit is not welcome. We are discussing the actual balance, and there is a black and white here of what is most efficient and what is not.
Then there probably should have been other benefits for building them closer to a reactor besides a little more squat shape of a ship.
In a nutshell, yes, this is the current situation.
He (and others, myself included) are, just not by you in particular. I can PM evidence to you if you want.
Wrong. We already covered this. This is only true if you pretend hull is a requirement. Which it is not. You can build a ship that has both.
Correct, but only because you are currently not allowed to actually use your moderation powers yet as you are still in "training." By a moderator who would and has 100% given points for calling someone inexperienced and uninformed of how the systems of the game actually work.
This is so wrong it hurts. Not forcing 100% build efficiency does not mean there is no 100% optimal way to build a reactor. This is what I am talking about with moderators who don't know anything about the balance policing people who DO KNOW how the balance works, for the benefit of others who also don't know anything.
Thats a broad question that can't be answered in a single response and is best had as a conversation. It should also be noted that most of the people who understand how SM balances have learned it themselves rather than being told explicitly and that my opinions are from my own experience and are not necessarily representative of the whole of the pvp community.
"The balance" is a catchall term to describe the way all of the systems in the game are currently "balanced" against eachother. If you're asking what specifically everything that comprises the balance is, well, that's a little hard, but the overall gist of it is that the top of the food chain is a spaghetti ship. I highly suggest you look at a ship like "Fair And Balanced" to get a better idea of the meta. There are some other users who could explain the concept better, but essentially, if hull is unnecessary, nothing needs to be connected, and many systems benefit or have no downsides to being stretched out like this, you only gain effectiveness, as it's essentially the same as if you had 99% ion effect, because so much damage goes right through you without even touching. AI can't keep up with it, missiles go right through it, and players can't even hope to aim at it.
Pretty good post except for this point. Up until recently the meta was about minimizing your volume as much as possible by using as much clipped docked entities as possible to increase your ship's power without increasing your target profile and still looked relatively ship shaped, yes, until people realized you could also reduce your target profile by making your ship into hundreds or thousands of thin strands. This continues to be true into power 2.0. Dumbbells are more effective than a normal ship shape if you want to still be a continuous vessel, but they are not the peak of the meta.
