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So, if the docks are planned to work like magnets now, does this mean in theory boarding an enemy ship can be a thing now if both ships had compatible docking points? I'm starting to feel the hype.

It's already cluttered as is. I for one like as many options as possible, as long as we have good item management which can always be improved. Item type stacks already made things a magnitude more manageable.

I think the main applications for rails I'll be using is for giant moving blast doors and inter-ship/station turbolifts, elevators, whatever you want to called them. I can see big guns that have a faux-recoil upon activation. The largest scale implementation I'm looking forward to if possible...

Really interesting thread OP. I have only a cursory knowledge of CompSci, but I always find the technical aspects really interesting. If 4 bytes will actually be faster for the game and get rid of one of the worst problems starmade has, I'm all for it.

Just a simple suggestion here, but one that would aid in refitting and creating ships a bit. A filter that turns all blocks aside from the user designated choice transparent. Combined with the remove filter this would allow easier refits of ships without stripping the entire thing down, and...

I forgot how many there are left, but if I recall right the problem isn't really that we don't have a lot left, but that if you just start adding block types that will take up lots of space, you quickly start to run out as you expand later and you are left with that situation. They just don't...

As much as I think they are well worth the IDs, just for the hulls (crystal and glass included) it's around 43 IDs. If you include grills, hazards, etc. it's that much more. +10 if you make a discrete stair block type, +43 or so if they're part of the hull family. So it's not just a few IDs, it...

I'd like a dev response on half slabs or if any other potential shapes are planned as well. Half slabs would be a humongous addition to building and quite frankly I think taking up the amount of IDs they would is more than justified with all of their applications.

I like the way the system is right now. As it stands if you happen to destroy a ship's recharger bank on a lucky shot, you can wipe out their ability to regenerate shields. If they were merged together again you could not do that anymore.

I see it the same way. I think maybe the community should think about rating things a bit more critically because as it stands there are so many 5 stars and un-rated ships that the ratings themselves became fairly useless outside of "this ship is ass" or "could be anything from acceptable to...

Seconding this. I also want to know what "personal attack" constitutes in the moderation team's interpretation. You guys should have a clear definition of that so a mod cannot abuse that power in their own judgement and must be held to the standard, and so the users are clear on what the line is...

Absolutely. O Neil Cylinders in some cases are illustrated with small satellite modules around them dedicated to agriculture. Pic related. Star Made tech seems to be a magnitude higher than the early space colonization O Neil Cylinders and such were meant for though, so I think they'd be on or...

Unless Schema goes back and optimizes for DX12, Starmade won't be able to take advantage of it. Unless you're just talking about making sure you have a card that supports one for other new games that will take advantage of it. In which case cards that support DX11.x are all going to be able to...

More aesthetic options are always cool, so I'm down with that. Also a shield overheat would be a great idea now that shields are twice as strong. This would be an indirect gain for small craft working together as well, giving them more time before the shields go up to inflict more damage, but...

I think in the long run of this game it will not matter, but at the moment Nvidia cards are better just because Schema probably makes the game on a machine with an Nvidia card. Just don't get a GTX970, it runs starmade well, but I had performance dips pretty high when it comes to massive objects...

While I think that would be awesome because I love small ships, I think something like this needs to be carefully considered. Rare modules in this case would become the standard for any kind of small ship in this fashion. I think that's kind of a bad way to make small ships actually useful...

Nice to see the best texture pack is back. I'm loving the forcefields, but for some reason the red ones have no animation. The texture itself is great, however I think it might be a little easier on the eyes if the variance between pulses are a bit more subtle. Every other change is awesome as...

The game itself has many features, beyond just ship build and beyond just PvP, etc. That said the game is whatever you want to do and whatever you don't want to do. They're both equally important parts of one whole. It's not primarily one thing, but it can be played primarily as one thing if...

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I think the thing is if we're going to have more propulsion methods they need to be significantly distinct from each other in some way in terms of mechanics or stats to justify putting them into the game. That's what I meant by "warp analog" since they're all basically that aside from the...