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kiddan I want my doors entirely logic operated, which means faction members shouldn't open them manually either. That way, it can all be computer controlled (exclusively). Seato39 well damn xD

I like my trigger areas to cover doors so that you can't open them manually. It works, at least when there are shields left on the entity so you don't have to rely on blast door armor.

PD turret racks are an excellent idea. However, unlike drones and point defense (which profit from small units in huge numbers), actual battleship turrets (the damage inflicting ones) are better off in small numbers and large individual units instead.

I use red, green and blue rod lights with some space inbetween on a white hull background. Many different colors are possible this way with the way starmade adds light source colors together. Think "RGB- Display", with the only limitation being that only one color per message is possible (with...

Looks like you got one hell of a turkey to stuff there :O BTW that is the first inside-hull shot I see. All shield foam neatly cubified. Jeez, that space.

I second this. The entry barrier into EE at this point is "Chuck Norris". At the same time, it is the only server with a sufficient playerbase that isn't MF (oh god). Would be fun to get a chance to set up camp on EE at some point, but in the existing economy, rather not. :p

The blocks were split because sliders suck! In starmade, the properties of your ship are supposed to be 100% determined by the structure of your ship (blocks and logic links). That is now the case. The change made complete sense, so no.

From the Encyclopaedia of Space, Colonial Fleet Edition, Volume 57, Part IV, page 852: "A drone is a ship-entity with at minimum a faction module and an active Bobby AI module set to "Ship" and without a jump drive or interior designed to be deployed in large quantities. Drones may be fitted...

The state of your account will determine one simple thing in the future: whether you play the demo or the full game. Bad idea. Also, if a server decides to have "premium" stuff - much like with minecraft servers - the money will go to the server owners, not Schine GmbH, where you would want it...

Actually, EVEN just tracing the line between explosion and core, alot of improvement would be the result. Think of all the docked power generators that are technically sealed off - they would not be damaged until there is a hole in the main hull, at which point they are not really protected...

Where did you hear that? I suggested exactly that some time before. Would be neat if it were true and armored capitals become viable that way.

Maybe it would be possible to just pre-calculate a number of differently seeded block lists, and for each explosion choose one at random and iterate over the block list until the missile damage is used up. The algorithm adds blocks to the list in an inside-first-outside-last manner, so this...

Actually yes, it could work as a "plasma burn" stepwise algorithm indeed (as well as cannon explosive damage, although with a radius limiter here). Even missiles could have non-instantaneous destruction calculation (there is an update delay already anways).

Total EHP of blocks destroyed > missile damage is the criterion. There would no longer be a radius setting for missiles (optional part of the suggestion though). The efficiency of the algorithm can't be much worse than the current one if block neighbour retrieval can be done relatively fast...

Hi there, without alot of extra talk, I'd like to suggest a new algorithm for missile damage calculation. It assumes that the game engine supports a halfway efficient retrieval of a block's neighbours (both adjacent and diagonal neighbours). Simply put: the goal is to achieve explosion "holes"...

Has someone been able to conduct any science on drone effectiveness in the new patch yet? There are a couple of points that matter now. 1. Double shielding. Since drones will never have alot of shields (even when rather tanky for their size), this change will benefit the two main targets of a...

However, do note that in order to actually do the 6-7 blocks of punch damage, you require a rather large group now. As such, you don't have to rework all your weapons necessarily - it simply is no longer feasible to do as much cannon based block damage as before, which is a good thing. All in...

Nice to see my frigate become the "for scale" of drone R&D (although the newest revision is better) :D @kep epic, how did the battletest turn out? I will be waiting for rails, I have my drones designed but rack and carrier technology will probably change too much. But the new patch - dayum...

Thanks! :D Well, part of the reason why I have only finished one ship so far (a frigate) is that my (SCF) engineering standards accept only high tech. Results in a lot of scrapped builds, but one day, Ill combine all the finished modules to one kickass ship ;) R&D is more than weapons testing.