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Congratulations on the new council, folks. I look forward to seeing Schine dust off the whips. Oh, and the other half of the thread; I get your gripes. Someone who doesn't know one part of the game very well may have a hard time communicating its more intricate issues. I think that is a...

Just downloaded both reshade and the beefier beams shader. After tinkering with the preset a bit, I've gotta say I like it a lot! It handles pretty darn well, thanks!

Sorry about that folks. I have removed the rather hearty disagreement but feel free to repost it Captain_Stripes when you get it in a condition that abides by forum regulations.

TL;DR: Just read them. Do it. Now. Okay, good. I'll add a few musings of my own that may occasionally apply. First, make use of 'empty' hull space to fit your interiors. I know having windows on your ship's exterior is considered sacrilege by some... But having all that 'air' in your crew...

I did some studies of this in very recent past and figured out that for the same effective HP barrier, using advanced takes less mass and much less space, while using hull takes fewer resources and the increased space used aids against projectile/explosion penetration. That said, both are viable...

Due to smaller profiles, better use of efficiency curves, and better options for re-positioning, a fight between fully player-piloted forces of equal mass will more often than not be in favor of those with smaller but more numerous craft. Though that isn't the point of this discussion...

There's recently been a rather interesting discussion in the chat about NPC factions that I though would better belong in a thread. Although the question has been asked and answered many times in different forms, it boiled down to this: How would you ensure that an NPC faction is always...

...Oh, you guys. Glad I'm among capable people. :rolleyes:

Ooh yes. There could be an escort vessel with a particular focus on point defense and other combat utilities.

I dunno, I kinda like to see the TG designs be relatively inefficient and sometimes even a bit silly. At least the lower end stuff. The TG and their immediate opponents are likely going to be the first combat experience that new players have. I think there needs to be a balance struck between...

Is that ASM's little project of badassery?

Your cannon/cannon/punch is a good all-rounder, and it becomes more useful when you pair it with an alpha damage anti-shield weapon. Tunk's got it right. Punch increases damage against all blocks and increases how much damage the armor HP pool takes, which both combine to make nice weapons to...

I was looking through some older screenshots lately (about the time we got shadows and the lighting overhaul) and noticed that I liked some colors better than what's currently in game. If I had to guess it is because the old colors were darker, more saturated, and had a more prominent metallic...

From testing I've seen that warheads tend to have a disproportionate amount of damage go to the victim's armor HP before any is applied to the block itself. Some test torps have managed to destroy a couple million AHP but only a small crater of advanced armor blocks.

A Starmade universe has a volume of about 170 billion suns. That's more than the number of stars we think are in the Milky Way.

If you folks continue to bicker at each other, you will find your stay on the forums cut short. There are much better places to state your distaste than the forums, and rules specify that flaming and harassment are to be punished. Please keep this in mind while browsing.

Good thinking with being able to close your transporters away from public access, I was about to have a panic attack about boarding as a cheap anti-shield mechanic for a second there.

I think the vanilla sector size is 2 kilometers, give or take some. Systems are groups of sectors in a 16x16x16 cube. Each block is a meter cubed. Hope that helps.