Have you tried the fleet mechanics at all? Yes, they 'try' to line up, but they will not 'hold formation' unless you stand completely still for a while - and, for that matter, counteract the movement resulting from any fleet ships hitting you in the process - otherwise you dealign, they all try to move to compensate and become entangled by their own collision prevention code, and the entire process has to start again.
Oh yeah, they're laughably pathetic. Which is why I said to try. Still going to be better than trying to chain entities together and rely on collision checks to keep them in place, better for the server at least.
Put the main mass of shield generators under the base of the turrets. Have lots of shields. Thats about all you need. The bubble for shield power actually is, in my experience so far, larger than it needs to be. By the time you put enough shield generators down to reach a standard 10% recharge rate for a relatively normal amount of shields for a ship of it's size, the bubble is already WAY bigger than the ship is.Just curious about how the shield coverage works with turrets. If I understand correctly we can't place shields on the turret components, correct? I use a specific type of turret on some of my ship where the base rotates around the Z axis of the ship and the guns are mounted on pylons, like so:
How the fuck do I shield the turret? I might be wrong but I feel like the new system seriously advantages stubby compact blob turrets over those that have long barrels or extensions.... Why can't we put shields on turrets? It's essentially an extension of the ship and docked shields would have no advantage over the normal shield "bubbles" on the main ship.
Someone please clarify how it works, I really hope that I'm wrong...
Yeah, but you can have multiple generator banks to provide bubbles to cover more pretty easily though.
True, but the 1:1 power to shield recharged ratio means that multiple charger banks will consume a ton of power, power that's already hard to generate due to the ludicrous scaling in the required distance between generation and stabiliser blocks.
Yup, seems to me they've found a fairly decent way to stop people from trying to build 5km long ships. This is good.
Really? I thought 5km long needle ships were all the meta now if you want infinates powerz!!!!
Sorry, are you saying broken things shouldn't be fixed if people aren't currently abusing them? That's what it sounds like.
This is a good point and another reason why RHP is a bad system. We should still be using SHP.
And this is a good example of why the shield bubbles are a bad mechanic. I still don't know what purpose these are supposed to actually serve.Just curious about how the shield coverage works with turrets. If I understand correctly we can't place shields on the turret components, correct? I use a specific type of turret on some of my ship where the base rotates around the Z axis of the ship and the guns are mounted on pylons, like so:
How the fuck do I shield the turret? I might be wrong but I feel like the new system seriously advantages stubby compact blob turrets over those that have long barrels or extensions.... Why can't we put shields on turrets? It's essentially an extension of the ship and docked shields would have no advantage over the normal shield "bubbles" on the main ship.
Someone please clarify how it works, I really hope that I'm wrong...
Are you logging out while in the ship in build mode? This is a common loading bug, when the user drops out while in build mode. It usually takes a relog to fix. The other remedy I've found is adding a reactor block into the existing reactor, because this sometimes jumpstarts the bugged-out calculations, even after the entity has loaded in.
Yep... I actually use a similar turret design on my titan, and since bubble size is on diminishing returns that probably means that I'm fucked :/
The fact that they're still called stabilizers and they're "tweaking" it makes me worried.
The fact that we've only had 1 Schine member, Criss, who isn't even directly involved in balance, comment on this matter for a few short posts, is extremely concerning.
