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Nah, thats unlikely to work. Tag the council people instead!

This kind of attitude doesn't help the problem, it just sanctions it. "Yeah, griefing exists, but instead of trying to do anything about it, just run away and hide and hope they pick on somebody else instead of you." We need to address the issue head on, not ignore it and hope it happens to...

This. I play online because I enjoy talking to other players, helping to teach them how to play, showing off what I build and seeing what they build. To go back to the consent metaphor, its like saying "If you don't want to get raped, why did you leave the house?" For one, it implies that...

What if NPC citizens could access your shipyard? We already have a hidden pirate flag that lets pirates spawn ships from blueprints, we could simply add a not-so-hidden NPC flag to say "this blueprint is suitable for NPCs to spawn". Then just keep designs for those ships in the shipyard computer.

As do I, actually. One thing I wish I could make is a colony box. Basically a building with power, factories, etc all laid out and ready to go that I could take to a planet, drop off, and have an instant ground base. Just put a docking block on the planet and plug in. Hand those things out...

It has more to do with intent than it does with the method, the method simply enables the intent. Torches are useful tools when you just want to say sneak into a pirate base and cut out the faction block without hurting anything else so you can claim it. And it works well for it's intended...

And I just realized why my turrets always spawn in half a bloody sector away. It doesn't just avoid the bounding box of the ship, it avoids *ALL* bounding boxes. I keep building ships while either docked to my station or in a mammoth sized shipyard. The game seems to place everything so far...

Well the game is already set up to allow for chat window based commands, and this is one of the simplest ones you could possibly make. I don't particularly need it, but I don't see any reason not to do it. Shouldn't take 'em more than 10-15 minutes to add.

A nice trick for when you know you're going to be fighting pirates, put one of things you actually want in your inventory to fill it up. Like one block of each advanced armor, one of each computer, etc. That way those will be the only things you can pick up from loot clouds, and you won't have...

What you're describing is actually solid military tactics on their part. They were fighting smart, you were just being stubborn.

One thing that I actually find sort of telling about PvP is how many people cried over the ability to just jump away from combat if you weren't winning. Apparently nobody wanted the glory of the win, they just wanted the savagery of the kill. You forced the enemy to retreat, thats a victory in...

Yeah, right now building is the only thing Starmade has to offer. And don't get me wrong, building is fun and I'm getting quite good at it (if I do say so myself), but once you reach a certain point, there is nothing left for the game to offer. I mean, after you eat a few planets, you don't...

I generally don't bother with either on my early miners. I just build straight for size. Salvage modules, power, thrusters. My early stuff generally doesn't even have a hull on it. Build it big, build it cheap. If I run into pirates, I run back home to my faction home base and let the...

So I have a ship that I'm thinking I want to have launch a swarm of missile/beam torps to help punch through point defenses. Got a question though. I'm planning on it launching six missiles at a time in pairs. Do you think I would do better with 6 missiles of equal strength so that anything...

Even assuming perfect computing ability, this would still be a horrible idea. I don't think you truly understand how *BIG* a galaxy really is. Here, watch this: Pluto is on average about 6 light hours from the sun. At 33% light speed, that would be a trip of 24 hours just to get from the...

I actually have formal training in logic design. I have built complicated logic systems on a breadboard with actual wires. Trust me, not only is what OP saying perfectly doable, it mirrors real life quite well. What he just said is basically an EEPROM chip. I've been a fan of using the...

You are assuming that the small side is more skilled/knowledgeable than the larger side. For every counter there is a cross-counter. If one side is good enough to be able to special build a ship that punches above it's weight class, you must also assume that the other side is good enough to be...

Long as they don't hit the rave supply depot. Gotta have my purple alien world glowsticks!

You seem to think all wars are fair and evenly balanced. Usually if you are at war with someone, you don't decide to leave your big ships at home just because the other guy doesn't have them. You bring them out to steamroller over the guy. If one side has a battlecruiser and the other side...

Yup, make taking out someone's infrastructure a viable tactic beyond "I blew up his mining ship."