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That leads to the problem I originally cited to time and resource being wasted on intrinsically flawed ideas. Schine is good enough at programing to pull off a great game. What they do with voxel optimisation is something that nobody gives them enough credit for. Loading a a 5 million block...

If you do upkeep, it needs to be something that affects the player level, not the faction level, to prevent abuse (like crew salaries or fuel costs).

I noticed Acid damage eats spaghetti, does this mean we can get rid of integrity?

Can't speak for everyone, but for me it's not just about then vs now. A lot of negativity, comes from people who've played long enough to see exploits and imbalances at the drop of a hat. It comes from thousands of hours spent looking and discussing the system with other veteran players. A...

That would help with deliberate sabotage, but there is also the issue of officer fall-off. If an officer stops playing for a few days/weeks, then the FP burden of his assets would fall on everyone else. If you make officer fleets visible/controllable by a founder, then he could in theory...

This is very Alt exploitable. If I wanted to kill someone's HB, I'd enter their faction with an alt, build a ton of unarmed drones (1-to-a-fleet). Then I'd come in with my main account and blast them all until it drains the faction's FP, then go blow up the HB and steal all their resources...

So the new armor system feels like it achieves the inverse of we were promised. The supposed idea behind it was that layering armor could make armor viable on bigger ships, but instead, new penetration models make building cannons that can put a giant hole through 20 layers of adv armor even...

Another option instead of ellipsoid is capsule shields. Capsules are often used in 3d systems like hit detection because they can generally approximate 3d shapes with minimal waste. These will tend to contain ship shapes better because they won't excessively tapper at their extremities.

Yup, new alpha weapons not only overwhelm the new armor system but do so by such a massive margin that armor is in fact worse than it was before.

The most discussed change to propulsions model is removing cubic propulsion. Right now, you can accelerate much faster by strafing up and left and going forward than you can just going forward; so, I believe there are plans to average out acceleration when multiple vectors are at play.

can't build mode inside of docked entities. beams do 10x as much damage as cannons. missiles have small fixed damage radiuses without tertiary effects. missile turrets don't use up ammo. firing more missiles than you have capacity for crashes the game.

I disagree. Imperialism with super limited mobility suffers just as much as everyone else. You are picturing "Imperialism" like those old facebook games where you send armies of auto-calc prefab units to do your fighting hours after you log out, but that is not how StarMade works. StarMade is...

So, this is more of a comment on what is planed than what I found in this build so far: Please keep secondaries on support systems. The notes say you will try to pick the most common mode on support systems, but that shows a lack of experience with what players actually do. Salvage beams...

Imperialism style play actually benefits just as much from faster travel as exploration. Fast travel makes factions more likely to interact with each other, making them more likely to vie for strategically significant places. If your cruiser gets owned by a fighter, chances are you made a...

I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure once real mines are introduced, debi will have an even more trolly version to replace that thing posted before the weapons update even leaves dev build.

Warheads don't hurt bases with HB protection. As Eric pointed out, true HB protection would need a workaround if you used it at all.

End-points are not necessarily going to be accurate either since: doors, elevators, and turrets should likely not be included in a meaningful output of occupied ship spots. It would also cause extra endpoints anywhere a rail line turns such as you often see for hangers that are designed to...

The original s### post: circa 1921. FYI, "flashlight" is slang for photo.

While I agree with the jist of the suggestion, I think I've heard less exploitable and less complicated variants of it. The major problems I see with this idea are: These stations will not be the big fancy things you might expect. Much like current claim stations, people will build the...

The weapons update should not be more than a couple of days at this point... so we are told