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I agree that this would be a good first step and highly useful to ship builders who could them much more adequately future proof their builds. That said, programming something like this, even though it is technically much simpler than adding the whole of a crew and quarters update is not a...

That's a good idea. Basically a 'pirate' free fire zone if I catch your drift. Unfortunately it is leaving the boundaries of my knowledge space, so it would be best if you took that initiative to outline it for server hosts.

I'm not sure I understand the question. You are allowed to use any of the 'exploits' that are allowed in tournaments, except any that are proscribed by the server itself. Our main rule other than that is nothing should be done whose intent is 'solely' to lag the server. So while docked reactors...

Well, I suppose it is a ship building contest in a way, but the only judging of the ships will be trial by combat, as you succeed or fail. It may be hard to find worthy targets. If so, look for other Dread Pirates to challenge via chat, or simply call for any and all other challengers. Beware...

I really have no idea how various communities will react to this. I am however quite certain that they will react to it far more positively than they would to what they would no doubt otherwise perceive as random 'griefing'. Now you can point to this thread, show how you are adhering to sporting...

Dread pirates may not 'exceed' 50K, but there is no rule that says they 'must' build to that size. A Dread Pirate that plies their trade in a significantly smaller ship gains even more cred. Surely (Shirley) you AtraUnam, possess the skill to succeed in a smaller ship.

Yes, you can jump away in case of failure, but it is an ignominious retreat, a greater dishonor than simply loosing a fight. Indeed there is no dishonor to loosing. Running with your tail between your legs on the other hand is what prey does, not 'Dread Pirates'! Expect scorn to be rightfully...

Germaine to the intent of this thread is something I just posted, 'The 'Dread Pirate' Challenge'. This is an attempt to corral the worst of those whom some might see as griefers, while giving everyone a way to engage in some gentlemanly PvP fun. The post is a first draft and may be modified...

TL;DR 50K mass cruiser or smaller, must have a pirate skull and crossbones. No insults, be a gentleman. Ships obviously smaller than 50K mass are not fair game, nor are obvious miners. Those you challenge CAN bring ships that are bigger! * Many of us bemoan the lack of anything to actually do...

Yes, I realize that, and therein is the fun of the challenge. Create a smallish ship (I consider 50K to be on the small side), a ship that would frankly be easy to replace, and be the 'pirate' with that ship. Take all comers, defeat ships bigger than yourself and gain massive respect. Do it...

The solution is to finish the game. Right now we have a build and combat system more or less and virtually nothing of the game that those things are meant to be a part of. It is small wonder that things seem broken. They are not broken, they are simply not yet there. I cannot tell you what the...

Time crystals are fascinating, as is the concept that the passage of time and reality itself is simply the expanding wave-front boundary between possibility and the crystallisation of time. Sadly your article is virtually indecipherable, in large part due to the formatting that you apparently...

Generally speaking, unless you have a good reason for doing otherwise, most weapons should be with a 1/1/1 ratio, exactly the same number of blocks in the primary, secondary and tertiary systems. Yes, there are times when you might not want to do that, but that would take a much longer post and...

The reason I build ships is to master building, that has been "the game" for me. That's really been the only part of the game that actually worked. I want to get really good at systems implementation to the point where a ship I build is a match for any tournament or PvP play. Improving my skills...

For me graphics is 10% of a game's attraction, at most. There are LOADS of games out there with absolutely top notch graphics, yet the games I play most often and return to again and again over the years are virtually without exception either lackluster in their graphics or seriously retrograde...

People really need to learn to put anti-astronaut weapons in their core/faction room.

Personally, I want a build system that is NOT easy to master. I want a system that takes hundreds of hours of iterative building to get to the point where you can go up against seasoned PvP builders. For those just starting out who don't want their ships to be pushovers while they learn, there...

In my opinion, you should build the rooms you think are appropriate for the ship, bridge, crew quarters, whatever. You should furnish them appropriately. You can decorate them further according to your talent and desire. If once you have done that, you have extra space still, frankly that space...

I am hardly an authority, but I ran into issues using only 4 GB of ram just playing single player. Nowadays I use 8 as standard. For a multiplayer server, I am pretty sure 4 is way too low.

It is not at all difficult for a PvP player to build a ship with interiors, good lines, textures and even greebles, and still have their ship 99% as capable of PvP as the same ship without such niceties. This assumes of course that the PvP player has both some artistic sense and a desire to do...