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I've been looking for a concise explanation/tutorial on how to make such docked power generators, pretty much since I first found the game, going on close to a year now I think. So far, no luck. I suspect those who know treat this information as a closely guarded trade secret so as to keep their...

I am by nature a little paranoid. I had figured out right from the get go how to build cloaked ships and even did my mining in a cloak ship, so prior to attacking a pirate station, I had had actually zero combat experience. I had absolutely no idea what to expect, how tough they would be or even...

I do not know if missiles are starting their blast effect 'below' the surface. If they are, I agree they should likely not. That said, I do not agree that "missiles are overpowered innately". What gives rise to that perception is that just about every server out there increases the maximum...

I find the "pummeling of pirates" to be quite a bit more enjoyable than mining, and if done with a ship good at salvaging, more profitable than mining as well. I hunt pirates with a ship that can completely digest most asteroids in 15-30 seconds.

Is there a detailed description anywhere as to how the explosive blast of missiles is calculated? Certainly there must be a point at which stacking more modules onto a missile system serves only to help taking down shields, as maximum damage effect is assured (all blocks in the outer radius of...

I've never built such a docked scanner myself. I just assumed it was possible because Drakkart appears to have done just that here: http://starmadedock.net/content/internal-scanner-powermodule.2101/

A 'hardcap' is when no matter what you do, you cannot go beyond the cap. That is definately not the case with power, as you can still gain an extra 25 Eps per extra power block added. Plus you can add docked power reactors as well. There is a 'softcap' of 1M 'bonus' power that can easily be...

I suspect you've buried a turret inside your cloaking/jamming ship, using a secondary internal ship dock on which to dock the turret. You've completely covered the turret and left only a very tiny aperture through which it can fire. By aligning the aperture correctly, you can get the turret AI...

Pity. I have a great concept (I think) for a 400 mass fighter, a 'seriously' wicked beast. Sadly I very much lack for inspiration beyond that one fighter, most of my thinking to date having gone for much larger concepts. Any builder here who is planning an ensemble and finds themselves short of...

Why do servers always up the speed as in; Max Speed 200 m/s ...thinking they are adding a desired "feature", when what they are doing in reality aught to read "game parameters have been broken so as to render missiles absolutely unstoppable super weapons"?

Admitedly I have only been playing a few months, and only on a few servers, but in all the servers I have been, a properly designed 50K mass ship is more than capable of farming pirates. (I am referring to fairly well beefed pirates beyond vanilla.) You still have to be a 'little' bit careful at...

Are there any plans to make Starmade VR compatible, with say the Oculus Rift or the new HTC Vive?

It's a couple of hours overtime, banked, every week till Christmas, and you're in. ;)

The first consumer edition of VR gaming will be hitting the shelves this coming Christmas with the HTC Vive. The Oculus VR system may actually only be released in 2016. Oculus is trying to get 1440P in front of your eyes without latency, a technical problem they are still wrestling with. They...

If you are content to play on a 1080P monitor, then you are correct, a top end card today will pretty much max out your graphics for the life of the card. However if you are wanting to use an adaptive sync monitor intending 90 FPS (Frames Per Second) at 1440P resolution (a benchmark for...

You might want to hold off for a couple of months. The rumor mill is aswarm right now with the details of the Radeon 390X which looks like it is designed to kick the Titan X in every butt direction, including price (rumored to be ~$700. US).

Yes, you can still buy "video cards" that are DX11 only, but they are not GeForce 900 series. The GeForce 960. 970 & 980 are all DX12 compatable, all of them, no exceptions.

The GeForce 960 is Direct X 12 compatible, you don't need to look for one, they all are. $100. for a GeForce 960 is an insanely good deal! You should snatch it up immediately, don't hesitate for a second lest the deal disappear and you wind up having to pay twice that. That said be certain you...

To be more precise, the firing aperture of the weapons are tiny. Who knows how much extra equipment hides behind the hull to enable those weapons to actually fire.

I want a lighting signal when my shields take damage, let alone go down! I am frequently under fire and utterly oblivious of the fact as I go about mining or whatever. (I'm flying a ship with high shield reinforcement relative to what pirates put out.)