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Honestly I'd say there is no meaningful average in total, as there isn't even a meaningful agreement on what constitutes a small/medium/large ship. Whats gigantic on one server could be a glorified shuttlecraft on another.

The pirates would need a MASSIVE rework for a server like this, I think. Without shields, pirates will chew through anything no matter how big due simply to the fact that they can spawn in unlimited numbers.

Ah, then yeah. No faction announcement of "Somebody is trying to jump into your system", just leave the "A friendly/neutral/hostile entity has entered your system" message after they get there like it is now.

I'd say yes so that automated defenses can be used. If they aren't faction aligned, turrets can't shoot them down.

Not true. A single suggesting for something that gets a lot of likes and quickly falls off the radar indicates a flash in the pan idea, a fad. An idea that keeps coming up over and over and over again by many different people indicate a far greater desire by the playerbase. I would put more...

That would be ideal, actually. Mechanic that lets stations/other ships stop a ship from jumping in right on top of them with a side benefit of making it impossible to jump into a star? Thats win win in my book. Would also mean that you COULD jump right on top of a station/ship if you really...

How about having the jump drive portal require a couple seconds to charge up once activated (like Moya's starburst), and in the mean time a portal entity spawns at the destination point. Portal exit has 1 hp, like missiles. If you destroy the exit portal with weapons fire, the portal is closed...

Currently the jump drive uses pretty much the Star Wars effect for the jump, in that the ship stretches out and vanishes at a point, then pretty much just re-appears at the destination point. I'd like to see it spiced up a little. My favorite alternative on the stretchy jump? A portal jump...

Heh, sorry dude, but screw that. If there's a hostile boarding my ship, they ain't gonna get the chance to go "Oh hey, there's a turret. I need to make complex battle plans to take it out". They're going to go "WTF just happened?" Fair fight? Homey don't play that. I'm vaporizing your ass...

Hey, just means you were using the Search function. People can complain about you not using Search, or necro'ing old threads. They don't get to complain about both. :)

For the record, there are a few good ways of doing this that don't require new blocks. For one, a locked turret (one that doesn't move) still has a 30 degree angle of fire, so you can build one into a wall at the end of a corridor and it will still snipe anyone coming down it. You can also...

Its been 50 years of Star Trek. We've had our ups, we've had our downs, but I'm here to pay tribute to the ship that started it all. Many have built her in the past, I'm sure many will build her in the future, but here's my take on the old girl, built one block at a time at 1:1 scale...

Woo! The system works! :D

Ooh, I missed where the limit was 25% of the mother's shields now instead of 50%. I heartily approve of that one!

I'll keep it brief. My drones have their docker fairly well offset from the camera due to how my rail launch and recovery is set up. Makes it very annoying to try and jiggle back and forth trying to hit the sweet spot for magnetic docking to make it latch onto the pickup point when I'm having...

Agreed. The current design mechanic for the auxiliary power actively punishes you for large single arrays, so we're stuck with multiple smaller arrays that have to be manually toggled. Thats cumbersome and annoying, frankly. We either need to get rid of the self destruct mechanic, or we need...

Well, technically lock in signifies the start of beta. Alpha is a development stage where new features are still being added. Beta is the stage where everything is in the game and tweaks and proper final testing are done. Release is, well, release. Things CAN change dramatically during a beta...

I could get behind this. Shields have to go down to transport anyway.

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