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On one hand I can 100% see that such designs shouldn't be viable for the sake of the game. On the other hand I can't help but see stuff like this and other misfit builds that aesthetic minded players hate and seek to suppress as the dying gasps of what will soon be a lost age of innovation.

The experienced PvP players who have stuck it out this long and through numerous low points should be given an open ear by Schine. They may not be the most pleasant lot to work with but they know what they are talking about. Listen to your most engaged people. RPers and PvEers have the luxury of...

The Ananiel/Baal Berith is a dedicated warship optimized for delivering long range missile strikes in support of a task force. Much like my other designs, it is a speed oriented, soft skinned vessel which relies on it's shields and careful piloting to remain out of harms way. It's secondary...

When things were on a more rapid release schedule there was a lot more frequent problems for servers. You never knew if the new update would have potentially damaging side effects. The longer times between releases have brought more stability and afforded server operators more room to breathe...

Trinova Besieges Darksider Colony As of this piece being published, Trinova warships continue to besiege the dark affiliated faction Fighting Shells. Fighting Shells is a relatively new and underdeveloped faction that recently settled in the galaxy. Dominion Prime, a senior Dark faction did...

Being able to copyright and license blueprints would be cool, but there would need to be some heavy duty changes to fundamental aspects of the game to make that viable. I don't see it becoming a reality given the developer's current priorities.

The only way right now to get npcs to stay put is to make them sit down. I've been thinking of making a toutorial/playthrough video for LvD to show a solid start and highlight server features.

Many servers, including my own do give a leg up to new player in various ways such as our use of bars as a server currency with special vending machines handling the transactions. Every player starts with two, which can be used to purchase, among other things a pretty decent miner.Players also...

On LvD we're constantly trying to expand that aspect of play. We have custom NPC factions but, many players avoid them because even after extensive config changes they are still not an attractive alternative to doing the old pirate hunting bit or straight PvP. The main reasons are: 1. The...

I think there needs to competitive leagues with different rules and trained referees to enforce them. An RP-PvP league with really stringent rules might be just the thing. I'd suggest investigating sports leagues and how they set thier rules.

Everyone needs new enemies. The old ones are all bland or annoying lol.

Oh I see what your getting at. It would be easier to simply make rail pieces indestructible. After they take a certain amount of damage they would simply stop drawing or delivering power and weapons fire would go through them. They could still be removed in build mode but would keep their...

Before rails they used to have something similar to this.

I believe Schine already has plans to do this. I have deep misgivings about this decision though, as it favors the ship that can carry the biggest missile. Unless duel use turrets are possible by a special bobby setting or toggle within the systems menu, entity counts for ships are going to grow...

This would be a welcome addition to any server admin's toolbox. Being able to shape the play space by sector and system unlocks an immense number of possibilities which could only better the server experience.

NPC factions can be set elsewhere but I do think Schine should revise the starting locations of NPCs to prevent issues like that. Right now, the game suffers from it's vanilla settings for single player and servers and should be revised to provide new users the best possible baseline product...

From working with the NPC factions iv'e found the current behavior of AI fleets to be not only disappointing from a game-play perspective but also depending on the situation annoying and even damaging from the perspective of a server admin. In it's current form AI vessels just plunk away until...

Lol, who was it that wanted to do a pre rail update server? I actually could see something like that with certain servers running pre power 2.0.

Sounds about right.

For more mobility oriented builds it's quite effective to limit heavy armoring to select spaces in the ship housing the computers, logic drive, aux and other critical parts. A full shell is quite a bit of a burden to your ships's thrust to mass ratio without providing enough protection, even...