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The difference between RP and PvP designed ships is massively overstated. An RP ship with the same mass as a PvP ship will usually have much higher armor HP levels, and can take more large hits due to the interior acting like a massive amount of spaced armor. Greebling is actually beneficial in...

How does this power system move the game forward? Doomcubes are already dead. So "soft" "doomcubes" are anything that doesn't have a massive interior or isn't an armor tank? What a ridiculous idea. You're just calling ships that you don't like doomcubes to try and pretend you're not wrong...

I don't agree that it will be better. It will be more like minecraft tech mods, sure, but I and many others don't really want that, and we have concerns about the balance and gameplay of it even beyond personal opinions.

Yes. I have absolutely no idea what this post is attempting to convey.

Is it realistic for scifi battleships to not be entirely manned by AI? No. Would it be more fun? Yes. Doomcubes have not been a problem in possibly literal years at this point. Ship HP, armor changes, and missile changes have made doomcubes into an inferior choice in the modern meta.

That's essentially rope physics, just with very large segments that fade out over time.

Uh, no? A large turret would surely still need crew maintenance access to the gun barrels, power systems, mass enhancers, and any onboard shields it might have on top of a seat for a turret pilot. Hell, on a very large ship or station, some of the biggest guns might even have their own bunks and...

Ok, sure, but the space around the heatbox can still be mixmaxed. PvP players will still mixmax everything.

How about this for an idea? All systems groups slowly degrade in effectiveness and need NPCs to access them to maintain them. NPCs also need bunks, food, recreation, and medical services. This forces a need for interior, and that interior actually has a purpose, instead of "I guess I can fill...

No, the meta shape is not triangles either. You don't understand anything about PvP in this game, so stop trying to change it, and stop pretending like you do. RE: You don't understand anything about PvP in this game You are perfectly capable of fitting good visuals into a build that is also...

How? Explain. You have yet to explain at all how it does this. Really tired of people who just build RP ships talking about the PvP scene like they know anything about it beyond a few lines of chat they read in 2014 about cubes being OP. Let me make this absolutely clear, under no uncertain...

Sunk cost is only applicable when the system actually needs removed and replaced. I'm not really sure power needs to be scrapped and replaced with heat.

Yes, the devs HAVE done a lot of work balancing the systems in this game, so that makes me think- why are they throwing it all away for a system that probably isn't even necessary? As for that second part... Crew can accomplish what you people want without putting massive limitations on how...

Wrong. Adding rooms beyond whatever is absolutely necessary for your crew would be completely pointless and would, in fact, hurt the ship, because you COULD put the new interior filler block or just some rocks or something in there instead, and those would absorb some damage. You've just...

No, it will be less viable. There's 1, maybe 2 possible places to fit power into a shape like that with the heat system, and after that there's basically nowhere left to put the systems.

The old star damage system did the exact same thing of "destroy random blocks on the ship," it just didn't cause explosions that scaled in size.

Bending beams sounds like it would be more difficult to calculate. You'd need some sort of rope physics or something to beams, instead of them just being a sprite.

What? The entire reactor is out on the chandelier, not just the chambers. There's no loss in efficiency from long conduits there.

But you're just trading the wedge for the chandelier with this system...

A chandelier ship with an external shell would just be a bell ship, or a massive hollow wedge. It's the same end point- making the shape that's got the most variety of good looking possibilities (wedge shapes) and replaces them with chandeliers and bells.