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Hey, excellent news! My friend found an overheated hulk floating in space...my ship hadn't despawned yet and he it! And then generously gave it back. That's funny...the damage doesn't look as bad from out here...maybe a couple scratches, nothing a little buffing can't take out. Well, OK...

Pirates literally didn't even attack until I crashed, they just sat there and let me shoot them until I went offline, and then they tore my ship up while I wasn't even there. Got killed before I could get back into the ship core and jump out. Sometimes Starmade just makes me angry.

Ship was completely destroyed by NPC pirates while my client was busy crashing. 65k mass ship including 11 million shield points, 25k beam modules and 55% ion, MIA. Remains could not be recovered. I might roll back to my last BP tomorrow, or I might start over from scratch. I never did figure...

Since we are posting for educational or parody purposes I can just post this here I think your wings are OK, it's just Starmade requires absurd, oversized guns that don't look right.

Have you tried clearing your client cache and restarting Starmade?

If you are very perceptive and can tear your eyes away from the butt area of the ship, you might notice that two of the new turrets are missing chunks out of their barrels. There was an incident with a badly-place symmetry and an "accidentally synced all the beams from three guns to one...

Like the X design, but your wings look wrong somehow to me. Either they are too long to be pylons, or they are too flimsy to support those giant spaceships on the ends, or something. Definitely a bolder design than I would attempt with my skills, though.

Failed turret lineup. Including the corvette which started life as a turret. And the winner is...a giant cube. Because Starmade. Threw some lipstick on this pig and hope nobody notices that half my ship is giant ugly cubes. Made of tiny cubes. Note that the turret is pointing -at- the ship; I...

The dragon consumes a world, devouring food for its precious children. It does not count the lives it has cost this day. I like pulse miners because they are only 9 deep, you can stick some on practically anything.

Cool, I'm building something similar to that, I've got a 1.7 TWR atm. It turns pretty slow compared to a fighter but it does turn. I'm also about 280 x 150 x 150 roughly, but I started my ship by plotting a 75-radius sphere so I'd have lots of internal room. I also have pictures! Dire Cruiser...

May I ask what the TWR for your titan is? Granted, a lot of titans have ridiculous dimensions like being 1+ kilometer long, and that really hurts their turn speed.

Sounds like another reason to bake ships when you're done building them and before you've started destroying them. Regardless, your client surely doesn't need to load chunks for a ship you aren't even flying that are occluded.

I've talked to people who can alpha 150 million shield damage on a ship they are currently flying. On a sensible titan, there is no power advantage because most of the firepower is from self-powered turrets. I will grant you, I don't think a titan can drop a good cruiser from full health to...

Last fight I saw like that, the titan disconnected partway through the fight and the hunter ships got to shoot at a sitting duck for about 5 minutes. That's not the kind of advantage I really had in mind. The math says the titan should be able to one-shot the first cruiser (which makes it now...

Thanks for pointing me to that dev blog! It was very informative. And it suggests to me that perhaps the direction Schine would want to go is towards "baking" a ship to optimize graphics and collision detection, where a completed ship has its surfaces "baked" into a more optimized form that then...

Pulse is, barring some rare and exotic niche uses, entirely useless. Against a shielded object, pulse is worse than useless because it's taking up space, mass, and energy that could be used for a useful weapon. If that was something people could do, they would already be doing it with warheads.

Will put this up here since I think it's probably a good idea, if a little off topic. For distant/low LOD, just treat each chunk as one vertice. You could pre-calculate the average color and possibly shape (solid, empty, wedge) of the chunk faces if you bake it when the ship is being built. So...

Observe the densely-packed urban sprawl, as well as the less-dense spire dwellings of the well-to-do. Mothers, cover your daughters' eyes. Fathers, hold onto your sons. It's... I think the urban sprawl under the giant cathedral says a lot more about this culture than the purple engine glow...

Nice work Zektor. Slow builds build faster than fast builds that get abandoned!

The idea is, if you can get close enough to do this, you deserve it. If the other guy can stay at range and pummel you with traditional weapons, your "uber gun" is going to be absolutely worthless. And if the other guy also has a shield breaker, he probably also has enough advanced armor to take...