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Granted, but we don't know how badly that is hard coded into the system now. I'm a professional programmer by trade myself (not games, I do application programming for a large company), and sometimes its just plain a case of "We'd love to do that, but it would require a rewrite of the entire...

Which is generally a cause for concern, at least to some degree. A company that built their own engine knows how that engine works from the ground up. They know what can be tweaked, what can't, what rules can be bent, and which ones can be outright broken. Not that you can't get that level of...

What I can say is that you seem to have very little to no understanding on the importance of game balance. You repeatedly complain about how Schine removes anything that they "didn't anticipate", when that is demonstrably false. What they remove is unexpected things that actively harm the game...

I don't do this because I feel when NPC crews become a thing, they're going to need access to the computers.

Agreed. I would LOVE to make prefab colonies. As in, build a "colony module" on a ship that can fly in, drop the module on a planetary surface, and have an instant base set up and ready to go. Can't easily do that right now because the main thing a ground base needs is factories, and can't...

Yeah, honestly I hate that. I would *MUCH* rather have it fire in the direction the output barrel is facing, not the computer. Makes it damned near impossible to make a good looking bridge/computer room.

Almost off topic, but generally speaking gaps in mining arrays are fine. The only way you would actually miss blocks with a single layered waffled array is if you were 100% perpendicular to it, and that will virtually never happen. A waffled array will pretty evenly eat blocks without it...

Well, a little history, stations used to be salvageable for their blocks. It was horribly unbalanced because of how EASY those stations are to take out if you know what you're doing. All you had to do was cut out their faction block and you'd be done, which left you with instant access to tens...

All of the abandoned/derelict stations that have turrets still use them. When we switched to rails, Schine didn't remove the old docking stuff, it simply removed them from shops/manufacturing recipes/creative mode so that they couldn't be used going forwards. I'd say its highly likely that the...

Just wanted to stop and make a public shout out to SgSkallagrim and SMBEdit. Its a little clunky to use (dude, I can make you a GUI), but dear god in heaven does it ever make building in Starmade *SO* much easier! Things like letting you move your core/move your station marker alone are...

Eh, all that old stuff is going to have to be manually retrofit. Just changing out the dockers won't fix the turrets on them, which have changed drastically in how they are built.

They've already made clear that the change they're looking at is a "We're just starting to think about this" kind of thing. It has no real coding behind it yet, and it isn't even on the developmental roadmap yet. It is at LEAST a year away, if not more. If/when it happens, there will surely be...

There's a pretty wide range there. My current generation of mining drones are 72 mass at a little over 600 blocks. Basically though, figure out what you want your drone to do, find the optimal size for that array, and build around that. For mining, I like a single array at 100 blocks. So, I...

Heh, Ultimate PvP, where the devs hunt you down and destroy your stuff via mechanics changes. There is nowhere to hide, you just have to take it, noob! ;)

Ever play Borderlands and hit the thrusters on the car? You pretty much need your shot lined up before you hit it because you're not going to be able to do much in the way of fine control after you light it up. Something like that.

Yeah, you'll just have to find the install folder. You can export blueprints in game, and then they should be in... I think this is the folder structure for the default steam installation: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starmade\blueprints\exported

No, the only difference in the Steam version is that you need Steam running to play it. I personally detest Steam and refuse to use it unless I have no other choice, so I prefer the stand alone version here. The launcher already keeps everything up to date (lot like Blizzard's launchers), so...

Its an Alpha. Everything changes, thats the nature of it being an alpha. If you can't accept that EVERYTHING YOU BUILD is going to be obsolete and worthless by the time the game officially launches, then maybe you just don't need to be playing an alpha game? Because I'll say it again...

Definitely makes for interesting possibilities for loading full drone racks.