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Yes, a single module each of cannon/cannon is still the standard for point defense. There are other things you can do, but they tend to be less effective than a single cannon/cannon. Doing those other things (like a cannon/missile for dumbfire saturation or cannon/beam for range are useful when...

The theory be damned ;), in practice docked power supplies do not deliver anywhere near that level of power. The best docked reactors I have ever seen generate in the vicinity of 1400 power per mass when actually being tested for power generated over two minutes into an empty battery. It takes...

Er... I've got a 2.5 million block ship that can maintain a jam, but there is absolutely no way you could get a ship that size to permacloak, let alone do so and still have any sort of serious weapon on it.

The Buccaneer. The only thing that 'might' prevent victory being a one shot kill to whomever fired first would be if the 16 point defense turrets managed to shoot down a few of the heavy warheads, despite them being fired concurrent with 40 decoy missiles. The Outlaw comes close to the same...

The thing that irks me the most ("irk" is far too tame a word for how I really feel about this), is that this nerfing of shield regen in combat is effectively concealed from players. I have spent the last year thinking that the listed amount of shield regeneration, 5.5 per module, was in fact...

It's very probably because your two swiveling guns each have a bobby AI and they are warring with one another over who controls their mutual base. I would suggest making each of those swiveling guns a regular turret, each with their own base and barrel. That way they won't be warring with one...

Do not try to fix the turret. Start over. Create a ship's core, label it 'base', and hit C to orient it to the galactic plane. Put a light block or something in front of it so you know which is the front. Check that it is in fact the front. Check again. Move a bit upwards and create another...

What if you had pulse weapon 'turrets' set to target 'any', as in neutrals as well? (The short range would prevent most people from ever being inconvenienced.) Sadly of course, that is not possible now, but it might be at least a stop gap way to program a counter to torpedoes, if getting AIs to...

Thank you. This is exactly what I need. Sadly the system is broken, I suspect because the range of gravity generators has changed (I surmise) since this demo was built. Also sadly, there is no explanation as to what the logic circuitry is doing, or even what it is there for. I probably will do...

I want to nestle my CNC/Bridge deep within the bowels of my ship where among other things I will have my ship core. However I also want to be able to quickly enter my ship's core from outside the ship and exit my ship from the core. Manually walking/floating that distance every time will rapidly...

Given that in combat, shield regeneration (apparently) is nerfed to 10% of what most people think they will be getting, it is almost worthless to have shield regenerators on a ship except for bringing shields back to full, 'outside' of combat. (The exception would be if you expect to spend many...

So social interaction, helping and being helped by other people to prosper in the game, are not reasons to be online?

That's a good idea. I might steal that. ;-)

As Edymnion suggests, the cannons are unnecessary. The only reason to marry cannons to salvage beams is so that you can have a single continuous beam salvage array instead of two of them that alternate. The single array with cannon will weigh exactly as much as two salvage arrays without...

I run swarmers (heat seekers) from a logic clock. Swarmers will acquire a target after launch. Missile/beams as far as I know have to be deliberately targeted (fired from a Bobby AI counts as targetting). If they are fired from a clock, they will dumb fire. I have always understood that all...

For turret or AI ship fire, I will typically have six or eight big, powerful, energy intensive missiles each with their own computer so as to minimize their energy cost. I will then have another couple of computers that each have ~20-30 two module missiles whose only real purpose is to be...

Buccaneer: 1000 mass, 1000,000 damage Wouldn't be hard to scale up. A dozen faction members flying small, disposable ships could easily ruin a titan's day.

I really don't understand this line of thinking. You are still carrying the weight of the capacitors, etc.. Why not just put the capacitors on the ship proper and have those shields present already without all the acrobatics?

All of my ships have had what I thought at the time were powerful shields with powerful regen (for their size), and the armament of the ship was more than capable of reducing it's own shields. My current fly around ship has 17 million shields with full ion effect and what I thought was 900K...

No, apparently I cannot. I was completely oblivious to this absolute nerf of shield regen and have been building ships on the assumption that the listed 5.5 shield points per second per module is the shield regen one actually got. (Shield regeneration 'outside' of combat is almost completely...