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Maybe just leave them as they are now as the passive effect.

I agree, but I'd also like to have more variety in the challenge of design freedom vs structural requirements. Antennas simply working on block-count doesn't really make sense to me. I would base antenna strength/efficiency on geometry, say X*Y*Z of the bounding box of just the largest...

Recalling a previous thread on this subject ( http://starmadedock.net/threads/make-ships-go-kaboom-instead-of-spawning.20670/) OK, so how about this: When the structure goes critical, the game does a simple random check for effect (Shutdown, Dereliction or Explosion) If Shutdown: The ship is...

I hold the opposite opinion from the OP. Shields have the primary effect of turning coherent energy streams into incoherent energy streams. Which should have the incidental effect of turning a traveler on such an energy stream into a sort of fizzy soup. For the game, I guess it depends on...

I'm thinking sensors might actually be more role-play interesting as an effect rather than a system Any sensor effect reduces the system damage to zero. Types of scans. Damage beam + Sensor= Sensor beam that displays information about the structure that it hits. Damage Pulse + Sensor= Active...

I will first say that transporters rock beyond description. It makes my little Trekkie heart beat faster. With the understanding that transporters are a work in progress... Finer access control might be useful. At the moment, we can allow incoming by Faction, or Public access. I think it...

I'm just going to throw this out there. I'm wondering what sort of systems proportions builders are using as guidelines. What "Sweet spots" have you found? I try to keep my thrust to mass ratio at or above 1 Shields: I've been using 1 charger to 4 capacitors. I think that may be too low...

OK. My name is GaeasSon and I have a problem. Every time I build a ship, I learn new skills. Then I rebuild. Then I learn more skills...

oooh! Can I shunt incoming transporter beams into my engines and use hostile boarding parties as fuel?

Ooh! What about call forwarding? Can I redirect incoming transporters into a neighboring star? Or an automated operator system? "Please hold, the integrity of your data stream is important to us. You are now [3rd] in line for materialization. One of our transporter technicians will be...

I disagree. The devs have overall, been incredibly responsive to this comunity. What they have that ALL of us mere groundlings lack is a picture of the larger development path. Area gates will be useful. Race gates are a direct offshoot from that, that will open new ways to use the...

OK, Bench.... Spill it. Without going into details. I already know I have a TON of refitting work ahead of me. (did you know I've made a LOT of ships (eyelid twitch)) Can you at least tell us what roleplay areas will probably be game-engine interactive? Bedrooms? Commissary? Med bay...

Here's a bizarre idea that might help... It's a very different way to achieve the intended effect. What if we could speed-load planets by making them easier to render in stages? We've already got spheres a LONG way off, and stand-in dodecahedrons a bit nearer. Then we approach to render...

What you COULD do there (...I suppose... with a bit of fudging) is to do the narrow sides of the ellipse as two partially covered circles, then do the broad front arc as a quarter circle hinged from near the back of the disk. Then sort of fill in the gaps with a berm of brown phaser-strip...

It's a great idea. I've tried it, and it works beautifully. The damnable hitch is that it models the behavior of a TNG phaser strip, not the little micro-turrets of the TOS and Movie eras. So the ships that have lots of circular cross-sections, don't use that kind of phaser. And the ships...

On further thought: There may be other ways to simplify and streamline systems by combining effects: (by "simplify" I mean keeping or increasing variety of effects with fewer types of blocks) Damage + Pull = Replaces Salvage (when directed at asteroids and derelicts) Ion + Pull = Shield Drain...

Maybe I'm thinking about it incorrectly. Maybe we could have a "nodamage" effect to convert AMC, Damage Pulse, damage beam and missiles into non-hostile utility systems.

Our weapons system is based on two different generations of game design. In the beginning there was the AMC and the salvage beam. They were elegant systems for a simpler age. Now we have a proliferation of weapons, subsystems, effects and all. Recently I felt inspired to build a Tug. I...