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That is not necessarily bad though. Landing platforms are made for fighters and attack craft; larger ships are usually seen docked to the side of a catwalk or similar in SciFi for a reason. Maybe with rails, we can even put docking ports on extendable/retractable parts of the ship (pure...

Krougal hm I do think that jump drives should not be escape mechanisms (at all) though. Charging a jump drive requires careful calculations and stable system output (in my lore :p). If you get hit by a weapon with hostile intent, I don't see why you should be able to jump at all until you either...

Depends on the server. On EE, a sector that has 200 drones in it and nothing else can count itself lucky.

I like this. "Spooling up" the FTL should additionally be a delicate procedure that is disrupted by any sort of damage (even to the shields). Since you would only have to fire it shortly to initiate the automated charging sequence, it would also be less of a pain in the finger to charge up...

I don't killswitch my drones :p they are perfect where they are. If it is enemy territory, its a nice thank-you and ship recycling deterrent, if dumped in your own, you just upped your sector security vs lone battleship attacks (99% of random station attacks) significantly. I also enjoy dumping...

In the >5k mass ship class, drones begin to unfold their terrifying swarm behaviour (this law may just be exponential, e.g. a dedicated drone charon would wipe out all of EE) I guess if the first missile/beam after the shields are down doesn't hit a rack, or the heatseekers are not a good option...

Although only if missiles start to get some HP. Otherwise having 1/1 pulse/cannons all over the hull would be too easy. Also, pulses don't move with the ship, so your shield would be "lagging behind" (which makes for a nice trail effect on engines though).

Ye its basically the drone canister technique, which also works quite nice in the catapult version (with the hinge block and the overlapping trigger parts). TheGeek007 welcome to drone R&D! Best part is: all this time we have been doing science with limited methods. With the upcoming docking...

I kinda forgot them myself in the listing :P Although most likely they are already "in the pipeline" (the magical realm only cats and coders can ever grasp) and as such we'll get them soon enough with no way to further influence it.

Asking this almost everyone these days, but I am quite sure your take on this one will be much to my liking. Please order the following items in terms of "should be tackled before the others". (NOTE: This list does NOT exclusively represent stuff I want to see in the game ASAP. I just like to...

My turret naming system is pretty technical already. It will be perfectly suitable for the new docking system, because it contains all the information you need to know (systems and mass) - note that dimensions will not be important with the new docking. Examples: Cc-20 = cannon/cannon turret...

CyberTao since beams are hitscan, starmade might run into floating-point precision errors if the hitscan stretches out for too long. But still, it'd be most useful if EE used default block configs a little more in order to not butcher too many blueprints created elsewhere.

I like your more mathematical approach. Also, I forgot you are a java coder, which automatically gives you alot more insight on the technical side of things. Have plenty of thalanor points! PS: You don't like beer? -1 thalanor point.

I am going to shamelessly ask everyone the exact same question then :p Its like school. The result doesnt matter much, its the reasoning behind it that sheds some light on the applican'ts way of thinking. BTW, regarding the poll. This trend is as good as the questions being asked, no more no...

Your priority ordering is thoughtful. I would personally see fleet control before SP content and NPCs any day (last place hurts a little for drone friends), but I can see the solid reasoning behind your list. You do have your priorities right and you made the best effort to show this so far, so...

That effort definitely paid off. I do agree on the detail thing about the grey part though. If there was prominently visible fine detail on some parts of your ship while others serve as eyerest, then the scale of the charon would be more visible. With less sparse and finer greebling (down to...

Awesome. Maybe this works better on a grander scale when the ground is guaranteed not to be completely even with a long enough step, and the feet are designed with "hooks" that make it grab into any terrain cavities. All servers will hate it though.

Your idea is good and grants you thalanor points (can not be exchanged for real currency. Are revokable. Value not covered by gold). Please order the following items in terms of "should be tackled before the others". (NOTE: This list does NOT exclusively represent stuff I want to see in the...

It is a... well I am going to say it, doombrick on a doomstick. I think you can do better than to copy TS. Explore your own creativity, because you certainly have some. I recommend taking a few minor inspirations from your favorite SciFi and melding it with your own ideas to create something -...

Focus is going to be shifted away from hitting the core towards destroying the ship's system, which is a good thing. That will make this kind of obsolete.