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The planet doesn't just distort blocks, though. It visually warps everything on or near the planet, including things such as ships and weapons fire in the background. A system like you're suggesting wouldn't work with the kind of spherical worlds that Schema's done before.

Yeah, that doesn't sound overpowered in the slightest...

I'm not sure if cannons can actually get the "piercing" damage type any more, now that they have innate punch. Pretty sure pierce effect just buffs cannon damage to blocks. Beams use the piercing damage system. I'm not sure if that can go through empty space or not.

False. While spaced armor is very useful against missiles, it does NOT do anything to punchthrough.

What? It was when I was on.

Isn't it rather difficult to calculate the internal space of a ship that isn't a brick of some variety?

Docked modules are NOT the only problem with doing combat purely off points. Things like armor placement, system placement, interior layout (once we get crew), etc, are all very important, and doing combat off points damages the need for those kinds of skills. Plazmatic and Megacrafter127 have...

No, that... sounds pretty horrible in every sense of the word. It's incredibly insulting to engineers to simplify their designs down to "who's got the best scores" and turn a doom cube designed around SCORES rather than actual system quality into the ultimate defensive ship.

I wasn't aware the points system had any sort of capability to detect things like "armor placement" or "docked reactors" or even things as simple as how certain effects, weapons, and building techniques (spaced armor, etc) work and how they function in combat, or that it will ever be able to...

You could load the sector and just have the AI duke it out. Of course, points could be used for certain things. It'd be pretty unnecessary to load the sector in the event of a tiny pirate wandering into your massive border patrol fleet. But for actual combat between two large, PLAYERMADE...

Two dev blogs in one week? You've gone mad, Bench! Now, to read this... EDIT- This is the only issue I have with fleets, currently. There is almost certainly NO WAY that unloaded fleets are going to account for things like docked reactors and turret turn speed.

Most solo players still have a solo faction, don't they? Besides, if FP gain was inverted to territory +, players -/0 (as it should be), solo players would still be able to run drones, fleets, and NPCs. Those all cost resources. Like, a LOT of resources. That's almost a debuff instead. Yeah...

Attacking fleet crew want paid more because they're in constant danger? I just feel like defensive fleets need some kind of buff, since they're more resource intensive to maintain compared to an assault fleet.

I'd like the limiting factor of fleets to be faction points. Maybe have defensive fleets cost much less, to give the defenders an advantage.

1. There could be a way to make a more permanent connection, similar to the merge block system in Space Engineers. 2. Lag already existing is not a good reason to add even more lag. I'd prefer if the game moved to a non-docked system to replace docked reactors, also.

Exactly what I was going to say. Rome wasn't built in a day, after all.

Are we sure if the interior side of the plate doesn't load? I mean, it's an "exposed block," so it should load, right?

No thanks. There's a pretty equal ore distribution inside asteroids, so as long as there's some of the asteroid left, there's probably still ore left. Someone will end up picking it up, and then the asteroid will end up respawning.

My main problem with encouraging multi-entity ships is that the more entities you have, the more lag you have. If you can make modular ships work without increasing entity count, then sure, I'm all for it.

Why do you continue to try and meme some of the most anti-titan people in the community because they don't think your suggestion has any potential for new, interesting content