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Orbital bombardment, or weapons firing back from the planet into orbit, might have to go - but that's not a terrible thing in itself. You can still defend a planet with orbital space station weapon platforms on the space side, and on the ground side with ground turrets and mobile hover-tank...

I really don't know whether Schema himself is at fault here, if he reads the forums to any meaningful extent or relies completely on intermediaries. But the one thing that I definitely do know is that communication between him and us is essentially broken, and we can't expect him to listen to...

How would you handle having two factions homebased on the same planet if they go to war, then? If they can extend their homebase protection by claiming more hexes, one faction could box the other in and surround it with unkillable anti-astronaut turrets to make life hell for them. Whether a...

Having clear shared goals and clear communication is important. You don't all have to play the game in the same way, but make sure you're playing the same game. This is the main reason why my LvD faction, Nine Lives, fell apart - I'd brought in another player that I'd known for a while on...

A+ suggestion. This is a fundamentally better idea than anything else suggested to "fix planets", being an out-of-the-box approach that avoids so many problems that other ideas retained. I just hope Schine reads this and takes it seriously because it blows everything else out of the water.

Why not make a flak gun out of can/mis instead, since nobody uses shotguns? Mis/can is at least usable out of the box.

Oh, definitely. As things are right now it's very difficult to get even a basic level of interdiction, meaning that it's restricted to support ships and not viable on combat ships. The interdiction tree should start at level 0, it'd still have enough room to dedicate a support ship to it but...

I hope you're aware that the new power's e/s is different from the old power's e/s. 2 million old power is maybe equivalent to 500k new power, though it's not an exact conversion as some systems will be more or less power-efficient than they used to be, and the power-consumption balance is open...

I wasn't being negative at all...? Quite the opposite, actually.

We still have hope to expand and improve the community. It'll mean a lot of difficult work, but most of the people who are left are a solid core to start from.

Diagonal displays would be even better. Diagonal and slab decorative computers too!

What gets me is the assumption that a player can only be interested in either RP or PvP. That's ludicrous and flat-out wrong in my experience, there's plenty of PvP players that also are interested in roleplaying elements or aesthetics in general. And as it's been mentioned many times before, a...

Or, to put things in alternate but equivalent terms, factions could be divided into companies and countries which behave differently from each other and operate at different scales. Countries depend more on faction points and can claim territory (in fact, should benefit from doing so) and should...

Entity collisions are the bane of all servers and the most horrifying eldritch wickedness that threatens our existence. What can we do to optimize collision mechanics to reduce lag? One thought is to limit turrets, or moving docked entities in general, from attempting to move into space...

Heh, you should see some of my old writing projects - I tended to make Lovecraft look like YA fiction, especially in verse. I've tried to tone things down a bit but it's actually difficult. Anyway, welcome to the dumpster fire, at least it's warm here.

Do you have any experience with actually moderating forums or chatrooms?

95% of all the salt, frustration, and hard feelings in the Starmade community are due to information not being effectively communicated between the devs and the players/testers. If we want to make the game work, we have to actually sit down and discuss things like adults. If we have an issue or...

I'm building a little bit - mostly adding bits onto my homebase station on LvD, sometimes messing around with a new ship design or two that I inevitably get frustrated with and give up on. Not all that active, though, and when I am on the server I'm generally mining or just flying around...

It wouldn't need to be any larger at all than current docked hull, it'd only need to be a little further forward. Same mass, same shape, just moved so it's outside the bubble instead of attached as a docked entity.