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I was once shooting a ship I just created for testing something. The trade guild accused me of shooting them, as if my ship belonged to them. They spawned an Isanth fleet to attack me. One of them even spawned inside one of my ships. Forget about pirates, those merchants are the real evil in the...

That's right, a sensor linked to a recharger still measures shields, not regen.

I'm totally against this. First, the blind spot argument is pretty bad. You can see through your ship by simply having a camera behind intransparent blocks. Then I don't see a need for yet ANOTHER nerf for big ships. As if flying them wasn't unfun enough. Furthermore, a freely controllable...

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That's a naive miscalculation, you missed out HP.

I'd avoid beams as first strike weapon due to their short range.

How big was the biggest ship you completed so far?

I have a big shipyard in single player and don't use it. Need to modify a turret dock? Bam, turret gone. I know that! :cool:

Or maybe a popup with a warning.

32 bit colors, multiple blocks per block space, microblocks, plus whatever crazy ideas people will come up with in the future. This community is far too creative to promise them unlimited IDs. ;)

Which is what I wanted to make clear. There were suggestions made, which would need more than 500k IDs.

That isn't how it works. Most of the 3 bytes is used for orientation, activation and HP. A fourth byte would multiply the available IDs by 256. This would be 256 * 2048 = 524.288 IDs then. Several new shapes, colors and slab versions would quickly use up thousands of additional IDs. So while...

Nor do I. ;) All I can tell you is that it isn't trivial. I suggest you make a suggestion thread and hope for the best.

Adding the possibility to place slave and effect modules in the turret base was suggested along with the current turret system, but linking groups across entities isn't possible and won't be without a major headache for schema.

They said they could increase block data from 3 to 4 bytes per block, but I don't believe in unlimited IDs, unless you come up with that link.

The offensive overdrive effect is good to pack a lot of punch in a small turret, but for such a big weapon it's far too power hungry, unless it's a pure alpha weapon. You can easily calculate the real damage value yourself: Each weapon module has a base consumption of 100 e/s. Your total block...

The following line in the blockBehaviourConfig.xml seems to be what you're looking for: <PowTotalThrust>0.87</PowTotalThrust>

A single storage block without any additional cargo space has room for 10 000 motherboard blocks, so you still need 10 000 activators to reliably test for emptiness.

That's right, but i think that we currently have to sacrifice more for thrust than for other things. Building ships with a thrust/mass ratio of 2.5 shouldn't be too easy, but not too hard either.

Apparently dying is worse than losing a small ship for some people. I guess most of them do afk fleet mining. I know that problem. However, I find it very helpful to read what I wrote in chat before sending it. By the time I'm done writing and reading I oftentimes calmed down enough to not...