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Criss, schema, that was a Master Builder speaking. One of the longest present prominent builders on Starmade. Coincidentally, the only Master Builder who actually also valued performance on his designs. NuclearFun the red beam is there to prevent an "island meta", a.k.a building unconnected...

The giant battles we had in CR, when in a chivalrous fashion we agreed on date and mass limit with the other faction. A gentlemen's war, so to speak, before there even was stuff to fight for (before systems could be claimed) Those were the days - could have used a little less flaming on forums...

Gotta say the end result is nice, and strangely, it works. Not sure how resilient in an actual fight, but hey... this already exceeded my expectations about power 2.0

A good faction needs a goal. Something to work towards and something to drive them forward. Whether to destroy everyone else on the server, or to be the most beloved by everyone else on the server, needs a goal and a leader who can motivate the members while not ruling with an iron hand (e.g...

nah, you get wiggle room with integrity if you have big enough chunks.

It's not as much of a turd twister as it looks, the main problem is how badly the structural integrity and the stabiliser-reactor relations are done. If those could be somewhat rectified, this would actually be an interesting system to work with.

Except that's false, because mass is no longer your only very limited resource, that's why you have to specialise. Because your chamber capacity won't be enough for everything, you have to choose. And while chambers truly do not take nearly as much space as a conventional good ratio jump drive...

that reactor core tho O.O

Now that's the thing that might actually change with the new power/chamber system, because that doesn't allow you to have a permajammer ship with capped Ion, Punch and Pierce def systems, a dozen self-powered turrets, a docked hull with its own defense effects, a scanner that can decloak/de-jam...

This whole concept with the power/system reworks was ironically aimed to stop people from filling their ships completely with systems. However, it was also made to counter the spaghetti meta. Structural itegrity was there to combat spaghetti ships while the power beam between reactor and stabs...

You understand it correctly. Also, you understand it means that small ships that don't have the boxdims to build densely packed cubic systems, are inherently stuck with low structural integrity making them vulnerable.

Structural integrity. Do that, and watch as the moment your shields drop and the first shield block gets destroyed, so does your ship and the server due to all the chain reaction explosions inside your ship's unstable shield caps.

That is hands-down the most hilarious post I've read on Starmade Dock in at least a year.

Here's the real thing I don't really understand. Up until now, Schema preferred dinamically scaling systems that only depended on how you build them. The whole reason behind the weapon update was to make it simple yet effective, no sliders or unnecessary BS, the range and behavior of the system...

Apparently. People tend to associate time and effort with quality, which is USUALLY the case but NOT always. Boyhood was filmed for 12 (or more) years and managed to become a movie about... nothing important, really. Incohesive, boring, average. But it was praised by critics because OMG IT TOOK...

Ratchet Hundreda Sometimes it takes even AAA dev studios to make a game and the end result might even suck. There's a symbol of prolonged development in the gaming world and that is called Duke Nukem Forever, which took 12 years and flopped on release. Prey (2006) took 11 years to complete by a...

And remember, NPCs are immovable objects, they can stop a 1:1 Resurgence Star Destroyer in its tracks.

New metaships in power 2.0 will resemble some adult toys. Large balls (let's call them clusters) of systems (reactor+chambers->thruster->shield gen->shield cap->stabs->guns) connected by a narrow shaft only wide enough to cover the Red Beam of Bullshit, connecting the reactor to the stabiliser...

I kinda do understand some of it, cloaking and ESPECIALLY jamming was too easy, but countering it was harder. A single block and 50 energy/mass/sec for negating player missile locks, making visual tracking harder, and making most unguided AI weapons miss by far, sounds a bit unfair, especially...

Sorry, but I'm a practical guy, I can only work with what there is right now, not with what there should or will be. And right now, fleet AI is a nice, large, steaming pile of fine Black Angus bullshit. Of course, when that changes I'll take it into account, but right now, even moving an AI...