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Using real world resource names is a terrible idea. It limits what the devs can do and makes people mad when the resource doesn't match its real life counterpart enough.

But plasma is just really hot gas... I think buffs are a terrible idea. It's a pain to balance them and they only benefit established players, who already have a large advantage anyway.

It's not "naysayer," it's legitimate complaints against a suggestion. Making everything on rails is a terrible idea from a lag, ease of use, and unloaded sector production standpoint. Do you have any actual argument, or are you just going to bullshit?

RAM isn't the biggest problem. Big objects eat up a lot of CPU and GPU power as well, and that's a lot more expensive than RAM.

Well, last time an april fool's joke featured planets, it actually happened, so....

So you're saying that IRC and Arrowchat ARE missed?

Schema has REPEATEDLY STATED we will NEVER HAVE INSTANCED PLANETS. Stop suggesting them. It's understandable from new players. It is not excusable from someone who is a forum regular who has been here for years. You should already know this.

I would personally take smaller, but more reliably performing planets over big frame killers.

So it allows you to treat weapons systems on the main vessel as if they were docked AI weapons like many people currently do? This only works with low rate of fire weapons. Yes there is. Don't be dumb. Balance is the act of making sure as many systems are useful and viable choices as possible.

What? AI can already fire multiple hardmounted weapons together. The problem is player controlled vessels getting the ability to do this. AI bypasses of output penalties are balanced by the fact that AI is about as smart as a brick and takes serious penalties if the enemy is jamming. Logic...

One important thing to remember is that if we allow multiple hard mounted weapons to fire at the same time without needing AI or logic, this would require weapon rebalancing first, as we currently have a penalty for firing a weapon with multiple outputs, and this could be used to circumvent that.

I'm not sure how useful this would really be. The only constant drain systems you can't turn off are shields and mass enhancers. The amount of power added by turning those systems off really wouldn't help much with cloaking- maybe a few extra blocks, maximum, and cloaked ships don't usually have...

Well, last time we had something planet related for April Fool's, we switched from cookie planets to dodecahedron planets, so I would say the chances of this being real are pretty good.

Use the wiki and the italicized words to figure out the password. Make sure to use Schema's hint.

IIRC, this is what JoelBrisco did on the old Elwyn server to farm his parts. He would shoot a shop, kill the ships that arrived, and had newbie slave labor to salvage the wrecks. I would advise against doing this. Cores of turrets and other such things will escape to bloat up the database...

We're getting unloaded simulations of mining and combat in the future. Adding extra server load by having the sectors actually loaded is the wrong way to do this.

The devs won't fix things if it's just seen as a fringe problem. If everyone is using docked hulls, stacked turret reactors, and meta guns, schine is more likely to see it as a problem and work on solutions.