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Yeah, we had the 0c cloaker and the 10x radar jammer. IIRC these designations can still be found on the textures.

Update! Have you ever started a ship project with the engines?

I am, honestly, not surprised NuclearFun has found a thread named "turret porn". Master of turrets, you! Especially the vertical launch missile ones, I have never built a forward-firing missile turret ever again after witnessing how they not only evade PD better but also look stunning when launched.

Yup, beam slaved damage pulses (to increase the radius to 30).

My impulse drive :D Note that due to using weapon effects instead of lights, the animation is NOT limited to the close neighbourhood of the ship, and since the pulses will "stay in place" when the ship moves, the engine leaves a pulse trail!

Yeah, that would be a little overkill in a game with a 1m^3 block resolution (and indeed even worse for the poor GPU). Just saying that there is no technical reason we can't have solid weapon effects that have the visual punch worthy of their damage.

It is actually less terrorful than that Ithirahad :D Example: pulse weapons (except that noone uses them because of their extremely poor range). Pulses (both damage and push) are detailed spheres; yet an arbitrary number of them can be rendered on the screen at once. Volumetric weapon effects...

Agree; I think to make starmade combat feel as epic as starmade building, we need 1) exactly this (better yet: make weapon effects volumetric instead of billboarded tic-tacs) and 2) weapon computers giving a logic output when being fired, so they can be linked to fancy door/light animations on...

It is when you see the wedging on that turret kep, that you realize how large this thing actually is. Do you have more or less finalized stats for it to share? My largest operational turret at the moment is just ~40x40 wide. I still like it, it makes a good long range sniper turret with two...

Ok now that is a solution I would not have thought of. At all. It's already better than fleet control would be (for the specific purpose of defensive antimissile ships). The ships do not move on their own, so they can't glitch away from you, and they will also jump with you naturally...

Awesome. The way I see it these could be differentiated from doors in two ways: - logic activation/deactivation only and/or - faction passthrough (modifyable with permission block) while active, anything else (including ALL weapons) never pass through If we separate hologram and forcefield...

That perfect coverage... We really need fleet control now. These would be the perfect candidate for tag-along ships. Have them stay close to the mothership without pursuing targets themselves and just provide more point defense vectors.

Tags are fine, but can only do so much being true/false flags. I do recommend to be able to set (either as the sole feature or additionally) slider positions for a roleplay<-->functional slider, and a multirole<-->specialized one (thanks kep). Check out my CC ships to see the implementaiton. I...

Assuming you have a 3x3x3 tube, this works everytime without fail, although you do need 9 trigger blocks per turn and you should cut back on wedges.

Update! I have significantly increased the capabilites of the display, and done away with the color flash (1 message = 1 color now). As a replacement looped as well as onetime animations are possible. The following gif features the very first actual "program" (a simple looping metasequence that...

And by the way congratulations on 600 posts in your shipyard (and the longest shipyard thread in the modern era)!

Weapon damage compared to shield damage scales too well, and weapon damage compared to armor damage is just ridiculous.

The following little tech demo is an indicator that I have finally started a large project, large enough to house this in my CIC at least. A fully functional 33x13 display! Right now, it only features two static messages (alert and systems online), but I plan for a huge amount of static messages...

When fully wedged (adv. buildmode can't spare you the pain of doing so) this will be a very nice design. Would fight.

Loadout I was referring to drone field usage experiments (e.g., rack mechanisms, undock and push/pull and the like), which may be significantly easier to accomplish with rails*. Of course drone design can always be researched at any moment :) I have my 7-cube drone ready to go, just waiting for...