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Explosive can greatly decrease armor penetration but once it reaches systems its the second most efficient block killer after pierce; though unlike pierce it damages shields and doesn't overpen anywhere near as easily.

I don't understand why everyone says hull mounted weapons are better than turrets... its like no one knows how to build good turrets.

Jut try and build all your systems outside the 65.5km load area, its not like its going to tear a hole in space and fuck up the server or anything...

Just to clarify, I assume by dps you mean (damager.per.shot) rather than (damage.per.second) as even building the entire 680k ship out of power blocks would not be able to supply such an enourmous amount of constant power. (680,000 * 10 * 25) + 2,400,000 = 172,400,000 Unless you have some...

Personally I count a fighter as 1k mass or less and generally as a manned craft. Drones are sub 500 mass and obviously unmanned.

Depending on server speeds lock ons are nigh impossible to shoot down at close range, It'd be an interesting matchup. The marauders would be far more capable in general but my bombers only need to get lucky once.

Its a player controlled only fighter sporting a pair of logic fired 680k missile/pulse/pierce so if it hit it would indeed instantly vaporize anything of lesser mass. However currently it is a very poor shot against anything other than large targets hence the 'if' it hit. The update will be...

Assuming I actually hit I have 750mass fighter-bomber that could vaporize that thing in a single shot. Though its in line for an update so that may change for better or worse.

Some people use shops to store credits, such 'robbery' can occur when somebody sells a huge amount of junk items to the shop in order to 'steal' the owners credits. This can be solved by setting the buy/sell values appropriately to offer no credits in exchange for junk blocks.

More specifically the issue is with different projectile speeds, so cannon and cannon/cannon on the same turret is fine, but different amounts of cannon/beam can cause issues. Additionally AI can fire multiple computers at once so if you want a multi-barrel turret without wasting power just give...

Ok hearing some statements that turrets do not lead. Turrets DO lead with the following exceptions that may cause them not to lead. Dumbfire missiles to not lead Putting two different weapon types on a single turret may break leading for one or both of those weapons The AI accuracy is a linear...

Currently the core beam (which still works for logic activation) does not appear to work when an entity is docked to another one. As far as I know there is no reason why the core beam should/could not work on docked entities and personally I can imagine a few useful applications for such a feature.

I decide what I want out of a ship and design it to that end, the actual ship itself generally starts from a single component and grows from there with no kind of preplanning.

Damage = total blocks * 10 * cooldown time

I'd say missile/beam/pierce turrets with 100% beam slave are a must on stations. Its the only way to make sure people can't simply attack it from outside its engagement range.

It should be noted that last time this thread came around it was discovered that drones were FAR less likely to spazz out if they only had a single salvage output.

A randomizer block that has a 50% chance to change its state every time the input signal changes. A sensor block that can detect things like the percentage of power remaining on a ship. Back on topic I've used it to make a display that tells the bridge when the airlock is cycled.

No problem, this issue is also why beams suck so badly against armor, they have a native pierce that damages blocks behind the block they hit, but with armor they don't do that so the piercing damage is wasted.

the game will start doing this checks as soon as the box dims of the two objects intercept. a sphere turret 1m from its socket does the exact same checks as a regular turret on a flat surface. The only way you could avoid such checks would be to have turret on the very edge of the ship with no...

That is... not how early collision checks work...