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Can you tell us how things go with the doomcube bully?

It's artificial if the devs have to add it for it's own sake. There are many integral parts of our universe that aren't present in SM - they're unnecessary and/or undesirable in a game. I think that's why you're discussing it. I'm discussing it because it will make SM less interesting. It's...

We already have a "decay" mechanism: combat damage. A ship out of water will last (much) longer than one in water, no matter how gently used. Perhaps not the case for the engines (couldn't say - not my area of knowledge) but for the rest of it that's the case. Artificial decay would be a huge...

I meant: doesn't its effect get capped at some point, beyond which it doesn't increase? If so, that's open to exploitation.

Plus on average you'll have only half overlap, and you'll find (assuming there's collision) a collision halfway through and stop. That's 32^3. (I realise you've specifically stated "worst case" not average, but I don't think everyone is registering that) And as smd3 files structure a ship in...

Presumably it's not the actual calculation that's a problem, as single player has no issue? That leaves resulting network traffic as the culprit. Which physics are the problem? Collisions? Or just accelerations and position updates?

I'm simply saying that if it's the servers that are slowing down, rendering isn't the cause. Servers shouldn't be doing any rendering.

Yes, my point exactly. A location shouldn't be considered strategic because someone says it is, it should only be considered strategic and valuable because it actually is.

From the complaints I see here it's the server that slows down not the clients? The server isn't doing any rendering, so the net code is the likely culprit.

Topic seems to be drifting quite a bit... I'm not above OT discussion myself though: On Lukwan's experience point #12 (Exp for dominating strategic points. (Strategic points do not yet exist.) This focuses conflict.) I don't agree experence should be the reward. A "strategic point" should...

I think any non-critical limitations are a terrible thing to be introducing. To change player behaviour you should give them encouragement and reasons to WANT to behave in the way you'd like.

Doesn't mass only affect acceleration up to a certain limit, beyond which it doesn't change? That was my understanding (I'm ready to be corrected).

Sector rescources *should* be what makes war worthwhile (asteroids, planets), but it isn't there yet. As a workaround, one possibility would be making stations incredibly expensive to build, and also generate FP. Factions would fight over them then. Inverted FP is another workaround. As for...

Wow, I think that is honestly the coolest looking ship I have yet seen in SM! I'm a big fan of "organic" designs. Two thumbs up!

I enjoyed that link too, and read it all, but when I got to the end of the article I was surprised (that I was at the end): the author had spent a lot of effort analysing the negative traits of online gaming....but still hadn't offered a single specific solution. So it wasn't the constructive...

Love the chart. Destroyer seems to be in a funny spot? Should be between frigate and cruiser... EDIT: I'm thinking that the propulsion and weapons arrows (just the arrows, not the chart) should actually be vertical, instead of angled? Because a weapons platform has zero propulsion, and an...

Im not saying you're wrong at all, just that I don't understand the reasoning behind this statement. Why would bubble shields have this result? EDIT: Ah, I think I've figured it out - because fighters could fly through the shields and therefore ignore them? (Would have been a useful point to...

Apologies for going mildly OT, but I was wondering if the shields of your titan in question can handle a 136 million ion shot?

Hmm, why is that cruiser mining an asteroid? ;)

Fair enough, fair enough. Yes, Bench's system might be too old to be useful now (looks like 2014 though, not 2013). I can't personally think of something 50m long as a fighter though - a fighter should basically be the smallest armed ship a single person can fly around inside. (e.g. an X-wing)...