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Advanced Armor has 100 hp per block, and 75% armor. Meaning it only takes a total of 400 raw damage in one hit to break it. Thats what, a cannon array of roughly 250 barrels before any other modifications are made? Machine gun that with overdrive big enough to still destroy one block of armor...

I've played it quite a bit, thank you. Unless you're flying around with armor at least a half dozen layers thick, even advanced armor is useless. Anything that can take down shields numbering in the millions is going to have weapons that can vaporize advanced armor in a single hit as well. On...

As it should. Don't confuse me with the people that think a single fighter should ever take down a titan. Thats not what this is about. This is about saying a fighter even being allowed to damage a titan at all. One fighter with blades still isn't going to take one down, because it won't do...

Uh, who said anything about bypassing armor and insta-killing titans? If anything this would make armor actually important to anything bigger than a fighter.

If by "overpowered" you mean "Where a human pilot would ever consider one worth flying", then yes, you are correct. When the only thing human players ever "should" be flying by the game's design is a titan, and anything smaller is relegated to drone status or pirate ships, then something is...

You move down a layer. All the while the rest of you is taking a pounding from their turrets, and they're maneuvering to get out from under you. You, having decided to fly a giant sheet of death plywood are going to have horrible turning radius and aren't going to be able to easily maneuver to...

Sure you can. Have each one do a set amount of damage per block, and only blocks that make physical contact deal damage and only to the blocks they make contact to. You wanna make a huge plate? Great, it hits the outermost areas of the ship and stops, and you've got maybe 3-4 blocks doing...

War heads are large blast radius explosions, plasma blades are scalpels? If a warhead worked properly, its the explosive missile to a blade's cannon fire. One is good for brute force, one is good for surgical strikes.

For single player, I have a 100m long miner that can sit in front of alpha stations with a half dozen isanth waves shooting at it that can't scratch it. Turn on heatseekers via an inner ship remote to auto-fire, go make a sandwich. Single player is not challenging unless you are constantly...

Now really, if we want to use warheads as the gauge of effectiveness, then we aren't going to have any weapon systems at all left over. A bare naked astronaut with a cutting torch is more effective than a warhead. And come on, you know you want to build a Giga Drill Breaker ship:

Heck, I'm even seeing counter blade fighter builds for larger ships. Laser spiked hulls designed specifically to tear up anything coming in with their own blades. No more death cubes, we'd have... death sea urchins?

Something to spice up where battles get fought and bases built: What if some regions of space (entire system and/or smaller groups of sectors) had additional effects on ship/station systems? We see in science fiction things like nebula interfering with sensors all the time, what if we had some...

Ooh, or what about small fighters with plasma blade "wings" that slide across a larger ship's hull to lop off turrets? You know, the more I think about this, the more I like it for one big reason. It gives a downward pressure on ship size, something we don't really have right now. If small...

So, I dropped my station in a sector that had three shops spawn in adjacent sectors. "Bully!" I thought, "I'll easily be able to buy and sell my wares from this prime location!" So I whipped myself up some nice high profit margin items, and went to market. All three shops, which I had never...

What about if you used the decorative computers? We already have a laundry list of computers and charts that only serve a decorative purpose. Slave one of those to the remote and make it use their icon on the hotbar instead.

Man, just imagine a swarm of drone bees each with a little one block stinger. Hundreds of them swarming all over a titan. Too small and too fast for big anti-ship turrets to take out. Literally stings it to death.

What about warheads logically makes sense that they ignore shields? Missiles are explosives, beams are energy, cannon shot is physical, and shields stop all of that. What possible function of a warhead allows them to bypass shields that isn't covered by anything else? Don't try to apply real...

Still affected by shields, which makes it pretty worthless. Plus you have to keep triggering it or set up logic and area sensors to trigger it with, and you still end up with giant swaths of damage that look like missile strikes. If I wanted missile damage to the target ship, I'd just shoot...

Real life space is, to be blunt, boring. Literally all of the incredible pictures we get from Hubble for the various nebuli are false colored to show different gas mixtures. They're stunningly beautiful, but the human eye can't see it unaided. Realistic means a mostly featureless black void...

Silly as it might sound, I rather like the idea of small fighters having, for lack of a better phrase, laser swords for melee combat. The image of a small fighter with plasma blades running across it's belly that fly in close to larger ships and literally slide across their hulls tearing stuff...