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Ah, there's our disconnect then. :) But either way, you still have an anti-fighter defense, you just shifted it from turrets to drones. You aren't taking a lone titan into a fight completely incapable of taking out a fighter at all.

Well yeah, if the swarm couldn't do enough damage to drop the shields, then the turrets would never be exposed and could easily pick them off. And I do agree that heatseekers are ideal for drone swarms. My own ships carry them for just that reason. Just to clear up any miscommunication, when...

Which to me is the same as saying "Doesn't have point defense". If you're in a ship large enough that you can't maneuver it to target a fighter with a fixed weapon, I rather thought it was assumed you would have turrets capable of taking down smaller craft. To me, the idea of being in a...

That doesn't invalidate my point. You're never going to get a 100 mass fighter that can even dent the shields of a titan. You absolutely must have a larger ship to physically hold the blocks required for a weapon big enough to overcome the other guy's defenses. Or you must have an...

"Have a bigger gun than the other guy" has been basic military tactics since... the dawn of human warfare. Who has the bigger rock, the stronger bow, the bigger gun. There's a reason people fly big ships, and its not entirely about looking cooler. Bigger ships = bigger guns = better ability...

Here, I let Steam go into Online mode. As soon as Steam loaded, this popped up. See? Soon as it loads, advertisements. Oh, and you can also see I wasn't kidding about not using Steam for anything but big titles like Civ and Skyrim, those and Starmade are literally the only games on my list...

I've had the game since before it went on Steam, so yeah, I realize that.

And the tens of millions of resources stored in said base?

No, its one method through which the main issue being discussed is achieved. And as long as the game is free and people get starting supplies of any kind, its not one that can be easily patched away. Anyone who WANTS to abuse the system can and will. Thats why HBI is so important, it is a...

Why? Leave it the way it is. If anything, I'd be in favor for expanding HBI to the entire SECTOR the HB is in after seeing certain someones post about how they like to cut dockers off of ships so they can't use their HBI at all.

You don't even need that. You can have I believe its up to 6 alt names associated with your main account. You get a buddy in there, log in with one, have him hold your starter money and blocks. Log out, log in with the next one. Pool your cash and blocks, buy the blocks you need to spawn in...

No, these were griefers. They were all throw away accounts that were not on the server prior to the attack, and never logged in again after the attack. We all compared our individual enemies list for names, and checked against the server logs. They were brand new. And everybody got hit. If...

The game lags when you're trying to mine multiple plates at once, it lags when you're in a large ship, and it lags when you're near a planet. Bringing a large ship near a planet to mine multiple plates at once is pretty much a perfect storm.

And those things lag even the best servers to hell and back. Many servers ban them outright.

No, it is a statement of fact. A homebase being destroyed is like playing Hardcore mode in Diablo. You die and your character is deleted forever. Except even worse because now you don't even have the ability to restart on the server by yourself because you don't have the ship or the means to...

So apparently the best defense of Steam is "turn off everything", which brings up "Why do I ever want or need to have it if everything is disabled?" Which brings us back to "Its DRM, and you can't keep it in offline mode forever, it randomly switches back and forces you to update it". You all...

I'll just say this. The day 100% invincibility of faction homes goes away, for any reason, is the day I stop playing Starmade and never look back. I don't care what justifications someone comes up with, the ability to completely wipe someone off the map (and face it, that is what destroying a...

Okay, but in all seriousness, would it be possible to have a mechanic in place to stop a jump drive from activating if the output point is inside of a star? Or give a warning that makes you click again to get it to activate? I swear, forget pirates and other players, the biggest threat to my...

Which is frankly a pretty meaningless caveat. An astronaut with the default laser pistol can single handed destroy a titan that doesn't have "proper defenses" (like shields).

Hell, I still don't allow faction members. I strictly 1 man band it.