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If they're not firing at all, sounds like your storage container isn't slaved to the salvage computer. It doesn't fire because it has nowhere to put the blocks, since there is no pilot with an inventory on board.

Yeah, but you'd need some pretty hefty drones to really make any use of it, come to think of it. Most of my overheat scavenging is against pirates, and there's always another wave or three coming in while I'm eating the last one. I don't consider myself to be in the rhythm yet until I'm doing...

Long as its a navigational filter, I would see no harm in this. In fact, if its a filter option, you could filter out anything BUT overheating to make it easier to hunt down the dead ships to go scavenge.

Well, the problem there is that the people who do this by definition want to cause problems. If there was an open thread listing the badmin servers, then said trolls would start listing the good ones as well in order to water it down and make it useless. And even if they didn't, you get people...

And thats why you are playing a voxel game instead of Contra. Because the game has to be specifically built around building for you to have that kind of options. Which means if you don't like building, you don't want to play voxel games. If you don't like building, then this is an entire...

Yeah yeah, I must have missread it wrong long ago and it made sense that small fast fighters would shoot faster than lumbering giants. Should have known I was wrong when it meant a fighter was better at something than a cruiser. ;)

Eh, I had a station once that had "functioning" solar panels. I just built reactor lines into the support arms for the panels.

Yup, I just redesigned my salvage drones to be a 50 module cube (50 salvagers, 50 cannons), and they flew MUCH better than my old sit and spin happy fun play time rod salvager did. Random notes from my test: All drones apparently try to target the same block on the same asteroid. Still...

Its... a voxel game... Everybody knows what Minecraft is and how its played at this point. You see a voxel game, you know you're going to be building stuff with blocks. Its the definition of the entire genre. People who don't like building don't play voxel games in the first place. Its like...

Yup, interesting results. Guess I'll redesign mine.

My setup is a Master Inbox that pulls from my ship via the rail. My capsule refinery pulls from the Master Inbox, as do each of approximately 20 storage chests that auto-sort everything into specific places (there's a hull/armor box, there's a weapons box, a support systems box, a lighting...

Ah, well I learned something new today then. :) I always thought it was based on ship speed after the thruster update, not server default max.

Oh, and remember to not mix and match weapon types and speeds on your turrets. The AI is actually much better at leading shots than any player I've seen, but since it fires all of it's weapon computers at the same time, it can get confused by weapons with different travel times. For example, a...

Edit design without having to go to the holoship? Oh thank science! I've been making sure to build a transporter room next to the bridge just so I could beam into it without having to float a couple hundred meters down to the anchor point. This will make life so much easier (when I forget to...

Woo, the system works!

Oh yeah, you can never have enough PDTs (Point Defense Turrets, aka anti-missile turrets). Its also important to remember that if your turrets have more than one barrel that the AI fires them unfocused. So if you've got a huge turret with 50m between barrels, then its going to try and point...

Eh, it depends on how much you want the turret to do. You can make a surprisingly powerful compact turret. Thats my T cannon (I checked, its only 28m long, smaller than I thought it was). That is the smaller turret I use on my current cruiser (well, that one is attached to my station, but...

Its important to keep a good mix of turrets too. X/Pulse on your turrets will give you great damage output (at a great energy cost), but also gives them a huge reload time. Long enough that if the target survives the first shot, their shields are going to start coming back up before you get to...

Eh, you set a rail speed controller set to 0 to the rail blocks to turn them off and it stops making the collision checks. Its a little extra work, but it solves that issue nicely.

Not really. If I need to make 10 blocks, the resources required to make those ten blocks is the same if I make them 1 at a time, 5 at a time, or 10 at a time. If its 1 second per tick to make them, then 1 block at a time will take me 10 seconds to make 10 blocks. If its 2 seconds per tick, it...