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Just wanna point out that 400m is absoloutly gigantic for a salvager, even salvagers that can eat entire asteroids in seconds don't normally get that large.

This is very rough but generally for every 10 fold inrease in damage you only break 3 times as many blocks. This of course means alpha damage is simply a terrible idea in practice, as for damage per projectile (dpp) Panpiper is correct in his statement that you generally shouldn't go over 4000...

I see.

Holy crap CyberTao is still around!

Totally off topic but schine does eventually intend to cater to this kind of player, with factions each selling ships that a player can buy with credits earned by doing missions or selling salvage.

Thats when you start spacing plates of regular hull 20m apart.

To be fair the blast radius cap is many tens of millions when hitting adv armor, even using pierce. If your fighting a ship that big then its best to assume that blocks have effectively 0 defensive use.

Personally I actually use beams or cannons over missiles because missiles are the only weapon with a dedicated counter. Still, the AI setting must be pretty high on your server because missile/beam100% is usually near impossible for PD to shoot down, and far too fast to flee.

Except missile with 100% beam slave, but apparently I'm literally the only person who uses that for some reason.

Its very strong on heavy armor, 1 block thick armor would be basically unchanged but 10 block thick armor would be really strong.

Ok super performance simplified version of this system: Projectile hits, a ray is cast to the first non-armor space (we already know a single linecast is cheap) and the projectile must contend with the combined armor value of every armor block hit. So if armor blocks had 50% damage reduction it...

I have to admit that was the least thought out part of the proposal, Perhaps a better system would be somethign akin to the old missile explosions where first it takes the damage required to destroy the first blocks, then ditributes the remainder between the blocks at r1, then if theres still...

With this system both defensive and offensive effects could feasably be left as is however I would propose that they also include some spread increase/decrease. Perhaps punch could increase damage with no change to spread while Pierce would no longer increase damage but reduce spreading. Passive...

[[Introduction]] So when you get right down to it the main disparity between armor and shields is this; every shield block will always be working to protect you no matter what, armor blocks only work to protect you if they get hit. Even with all or nothing armor setups its extremely rare for...

Ok time to voice an actual opinion, armor is vastly superior... on paper. The difference is ease of use, shields just get placed and they work; with armor you have to place it correctly, then you have to keep it pointed at the enemy, then you have to keep damage distributed over as much armor as...

So rather than presenting an opinion I'll present some data. Armor: Armor provides far more defense per block than shields Armor does not require power to function The dedicated anti-armor effect (pierce) is rarely encountered Armor can weigh a lot. Shields: All shield blocks will always...

I see a bright future for drones with pre-charged alpha weapons under the new system.

Agreed. right now either you can perma cloak or you can't cloak at all.

I mean honestly most of the game breaking bugs that sane people will find to get addressed pretty quickly. Its one of the reasons some people advocate publicising powerful bugs in order to make schine fix them.