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Spotlights are already a planned feature. I don't know if shoulder/head lamps are a thing, though.

I certainly agree with this sentiment. When I want to design a new ship, I retreat to single player creative mode where I don't have to worry about resource limitations. Luckily, everyone I play with is on a shared chat program, so it's not quite so bad, but it's not multiplayer.

I like heavy hitting long-range cannon/beam turrets. Cannons can't be shot down, so I feel they're more reliable than missiles. I'll use cannon/cannon for medium range opponents (and missile defense.) I sometimes use beam/cannon for close range anti-fighter turrets. I do use missiles...

Rest space is very important. I've seen ships that are so busy that you lose the sense of shape, proportion, or purpose.

No, the number of asteroids remains the same. I don't know that the individual rocks within each group are spread out (never paid much attention,) but obviously the groups are farther apart.

I've sent him an email, I don't know much other than that it is an i5 processor. I believe he also stated he'd dedicated two cores to the server.

My friend created a new game on his server with the faction update, and it's been incredibly unstable since. We've barely managed a half hour of play when we weren't receiving constant messages that we were losing connection, and quite frequently everything draws to a standstill due to lag...

From Steam's Early Access FAQ: "When you buy an Early Access game, you should consider what the game is like to play right now. Look at the screenshots and videos to see what the game looks like in its current state. There are a lot of ways a game can go as it develops over time, so if you...

Better the eight to the rear than 40 or so. The black ship on the black background made it tricky - I had to look closer to see that you do have two tiers of elevation that can fire rearward.

I'm so going to sneak up behind that ship. :)

I suspect that the reason they went with jump drives, rather than boosting ship speed, is to govern server load better. If you're traveling through each sector in your path, and doing so very quickly, you are creating a lot of work for the server. A public server, trying to track that for...

I was going to add much the same thing. Capital ships are planned to use a separate travel method than regular ships - warp drives. If I recall correctly, their plan was that capital ships are really going to be more like "mobile stations" in that they cannot move with thrusters or jump...

I typically build ships with gray hull, although I'll highlight components with sensible colors (black gun barrels, hazard stripes around moving objects, etc.) A big part of my reasoning for this is that it reduces the resource cost for building the ship. It's a habit I got into partly due to...

They're welcome to find other ways to balance it, but the current mass basically breaks the ship by turning it into a floating brick.

I made a fairly basic mining drone - single beam, salv+can; I think it is either 15 or 20 salvage blocks. I ran into problems trying to use multiple beams. They're not particularly powerful, but they're small enough that I carry 14 on the miner I built for them. The server host upped the size...

They need to broaden the command to include entities other than rocks for mining, too. A friend was trying to salvage a station last week and I asked my drones to help out. They are more picky than a Friskies cat.

As long as you have the funding you need for the game, I shan't complain. Of course, you could add stretch goals and create Minecraft-sized worlds like I mentioned in another post... ;) You, too, could be in the Guinness Book of World Records!

Weapons do have tiers, and you kind of danced around it in your suggested solution. The basic tier is just the standard weapon. Second tier slaves a second weapon to the first, and the third tier slaves an effects computer. Fourth tier adds a color. Pew pew!

I posted similar sentiments to the OP this last summer. I look at any space game as a competitor to StarMade on the assumption that players only have so much time and money, so how many space games are they going to want to play at the same time? I know that my friends have expressed much more...

Ugh, I love rails, but cleaning up all the little docked entities when you want to scrap/salvage a ship is a pain. I envy your 100 turrets - I scaled back on turret/docked entities due to the collision problems that caused massive server lag whenever I neared a station or other ship. I know...