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D'oh. I am sorry. Yes, I did mean volume as opposed to length. I had/have no idea what the actual length would be for that volume of blocks. At a thousand meters/block 'length', this is definitely into the server breaking titan scale and can't be fast enough to actually chase a fleeing player...

You are a scholar and a gentleman Sir. A thousand thank yous.

I do not automatically think about defending fleets, because the one time I did use a defending 'drone' ship, in short order it took off to chase down some pirate it spotted never to be seen again. (In it's defense, I did find it a few months later, still patrolling my system, near to the hulk...

Wait a minute, are you saying that swarmers that you launch will target your own turrets? Or is it just your own turrets after they've been blown off your ship? I've never noticed swarmers targeting my own turrets before, at least while they were on my ship anyway. I suppose a useful test for...

The last project I attempted, spent maybe a day on it before moving on to other games about a year ago, was a Shadow vessel from Babylon 5. I am now drifting back to Starmade and remembering my earlier interest. At the time I was building pirates for the Freaks R'Us server, and thought that...

How far away is a judgement call. By spacing them further away, you give them a wider field of fire, less occlusion by the nearby base structure. However the further apart they are, the less they are able to support each other's fire, and the easier it is for an opponent to concentrate on taking...

Schine has felt it necessary to get the ship building/combat system largely functional and nailed down before delving into the more strategic elements. How to fight was more important to get functional before why to fight. I think we have reached or are soon to reach that point where the other...

Large ships have inertia in proportion to their mass, just as do fighters. Large ships have more mass and therefor more inertial than fighters, this is true, but it is in direct linear proportion to their mass, just like fighters. The end result is that the only reason fighters might be more...

I have no problem with a space game such as Starmade being unrealistic as long as it makes for a good game. What I think is slightly absurd is people looking at the atmospheric, ocean navy reality and trying to foist that into a space game in the name of 'realism'. Such is neither realistic, nor...

You tell me how many of those you have ever seen someone launch, and I'll tell you how many seconds they would last. ;-)

He's talking about space battles, in which there is no speed advantage for fighters. In a naval battle, ships are limited to a speed of roughly 30 miles an hour. Meanwhile fighter aircraft cruise around at close to sonic speeds, twenty times faster. Missiles can move two to three times faster...

I find that to be extremely odd. I have to wonder in that case as to the nature of the "swarm boats" that got entered. Here I was imagining all sorts of extremely esoteric solutions to the tournament quandary. Now I am thinking I should just enter my own imagining of how to build a "swarm boat"...

The station looks freaking fantastic to me. I think you are selling yourself short. If it's a homebase, it doesn't need turrets as it is invulnerable. It is nice though to have enough to scare away pirates who might harass you while you are working nearby. If it's not a homebase and you need...

Will there be any terrain features in the battle sector? These are IMO necessary to prevent domination by swarmers.

I have no experience with large ship PvP, so I've been building largely on guesswork. I would have thought however that a missile/beam/punch warhead with 400/400/400 modules would do enough damage (a little over a million) to bust through at least a few layers of armor at the point of contact...

Thank you MrFURB. Could I get you to edit the WIKI entry in the damage beam chart to clear this up? Weapon Systems - StarMade Wiki If you are correct, the WIKI is clearly wrong.

I do not understand what appears to be a large discrepancy in the damage output of a damage beam/cannon weapon and that of a cannon/cannon weapon. A 1/1 damage beam/cannon will (apparently, according to the wiki) do 1 damage per module, 2 in this case, fire once per second with a beam duration...

I've been away for most of the last year. Has a method been introduced or discovered that allows us to remotely activate effect systems such as Ion Defensive effect. Last I heard was the only way to activate such effects was to manually enter each such entity and turn it on manually, one entity...

Ghads, has this bug not been fixed yet? It's been a while, but yes, this bug has been experienced before. If I recall correctly, it's because your homebase is too close to a sector border and not near enough the center of the sector. I am not really the best one to tell you how to rectify the...

Thank you very much TBterra. My confusion is dispelled.