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@russweis can you still buy that thing with credits? :D (or view more than half of it at once for that matter) On topic: I only use one layer of advanced armor for the external shell, plus alot of decorative plating (that doesn't cover 100% of the shell) on top of that. Instead (also with the...

Thats kind of what I would wish to know - where push pulses nerfed specifically, or momentum effects on other entities in general? The latter would make redoing all the science unavoidable (so much work :D)

Yes, I used push pulse to give the drones initial momentum away from the ship (out of the hangar). The momentum given was drastically weakened after the patch, so the drones barely leave the hangar where they have been literally "pushed out" before. It has never been an elegant method, but VERY...

Well, push pulses are off the list now xD No way in hell Ill ever get these to have enough power now without crashing the server drawing 100000 spherical effects :D Looks like I have to go beam now, too. Which also means that I have to transfer the ejection system to the ship, as the rack can...

Damnit, the patch changed something :D Drone ejection speed dropped by about 60% with push pulses. Well, they still get out, just very sloppily now... I must live with it, the work is too far already :D

I dunno, I personally don't save hull wherever I can. My drone rack now looks good standalone - worth the 50k of hull IMO. Same reasoning with my ships: they have more interior than absolutely necessary :) Since I swap drone racks back in the base, I can just throw them into a 'garbage...

a 13x13x13 cube as a drone does defeat the swarming purpose though. I still have the armored version of my drones, but Ill rather build on confusing the opposing AI units with numbers than piercing protection :) The bobby AI cant handle being outnumbered; a good job for drones. For getting...

Oh god, at least 24 more hours until I can starmade again (mobile). That animation makes my shipwright fingers twitch. Need to progress... :D drone ejection just looks far cooler from a finished hull

That settles it then, drones will just get normal hull - that about halves their price :) Until the HP system there does not seem to be much of a point to hardened hulls. I thought drones at least might profit some from them. Then again it probably is not too wise to waste 1,5k per block on...

Wait, how are your drones that affordable? my twin rack of 24 total is 17million :D but my drones are armored with hardened hull, makes them hella effective vs other drones. And I figured I will encounter a hostile drone swarm someday xD I guess I will have an "economy" rack with unarmored...

I was only able to achieve a 100% ejection rate while standing still and having no struts or obstacles in the rack hangar - it basically only gets more spacious the closer to the exit, not less. Unfortunately that meant no doors or concave decorations for me. The ship hull will have to make up...

On the subject of missile drones: I found they are far more useful than main ship missiles against non automated point defense. My ships now all have a proper shotgun flak, missiles inbound from the front are easily (to the point of invulnerability) taken care of. Drone swarms - they are far...

Yes! Same reason why you absolutely positively have to have an enormous blob of logic that sometimes transmits signals between docked units. After all, you want experimental weapon technologies to look and feel experimental :D

As I have seen some servers combine dimension restraints with maximum block counts so that the latter does not permit filling up the dimension cube. E.g. a ship is limited to 350x350x350, but can at maximum have 1 million blocks. A filled cube of 350x350x350 dimensions would have 42+ million blocks.

That is the way of the drone rack engineer. At least changing - testing - changing - testing is alot easier these days. When I first tried starmade, blueprints would only carry over like 25% of all docked units, and you had to fiddle with the ATTACHED_ folders for hours :D What speed can you...

that looks alot less hostile to the poor drones than my method :D Very smooth indeed. I guess I just have to make sure my old drones never survive, or they'll tell the ones on the replacement racks how the launch procedure actually takes place. "Wait, did you say push pulse? I thought we're...

One day, at one time, I just have to field my (hopefully finished by then) WIP destroyer against this. I just want to count the second until the core is surrounded by a sphere of air, overheating, and the alarm logic disfunctional before it sent a drone release signal :p

Holy heavens in the skies. Your ship is basically covered in corvettes.

The moving turrets actually :D Scary to look down their barrels from the perspective of a ship not much bigger than them.

Ye, the large deck guns are pretty frightening. Is their armament classified? Anyways, on the red diamond swarm thing: If I see it, I go full power to thrusters in the opposite direction and release drones. Maybe that way I can carry home half a chunk of semi intact blocks for salvage if I am...