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Brainstorming things we could use faction points for, beyond just asteroid respawning and the like. These would be things we could spend points on to "buy" for the faction as a whole. They would either be single use exchanges, or they could be passive bonuses that would allow factions to...

Yeah, but given that nothing in the interface actually shows you distances in sectors, its a lot easier to just go by the km distances it does show you. I did think that the warp gate distance was farther than that though. Huh, my bad. Good to know before I started building that bridge over...

No, the engine isn't that detailed. All it sees is that an entity has mass, and calculates the center of that mass for determining what axis it should turn on. Turning is determined entirely by the size of the ship, and acceleration by it's mass to thrust ratio. How you actually build the...

I share your pain. I once made a 350m diameter saucer section for a trek ship that that happened with. Took me forever to iron it back out and it still wasn't perfect. Build helper's circle function is very useful for this, but its a bit of a pain in the ass to use for every single row. But...

Occasionally I get an issue where chunks fail to load, and the client will just sit there at the "Loading chunks around spawn" screen indefinitely. Now, while I've recently learned how to fix that from a post in Support (involves clearing your local cache), when it happens there is no choice...

Yeah, by default Jump Drives only move you about 16 km at a time, its very short range. Warp Gates can move you up to 1600 km at a time.

Oh it will have drills... I'm actually in the middle of revamping my design just to give it drills. Gonna have to recruit a crazy little guy as a faction member who's job is just to wail on the FIRE! button.

Nah, those are the medium ones. Each barrel is packing a half million damage lock-on torpedo. The studs are recessed point defense cannons, only one block taller than the hull. Got 8 of those medium torpedo launcher turrets ringing the front of the ship, restricted to a 45 degree firing arc...

So I've gotten underway building my new capital ship, and all good ships need some nose art. She's still not much more than a nose right now, but I can't think of any better dedication. Just who the hell do you think I am?!?

Well, that depends a lot on what kind of combat you mean. Minimum DPS to be effective against a single Isanth and minimum DPS to be effective against an alpha pirate station are vastly different, and it just gets worse against player ships. Rule of thumb though, you need your guns to be as big...

Forget the computers, IMO. They're usually exactly 10x the value of the modules, and exactly 10x the material costs. When I want money, I just run off warp gate modules to sell.

Crystal armor is basically transparent Advanced Armor.

Huh, well that would be good news if it got changed and I just never noticed!

Sadly, cannot be done. Factories cannot be connected to logic. You have to turn them on and off manually. You should see my storage room. There's gotta be nearly 50 crates in there, each with it's own display monitor with names.

Your main system is the Salvage, this is the beam that fires to harvest your blocks. The secondary system is the Cannon, these blocks don't fire, they just give a support effect to your main system. You need Cannon blocks linked to the Cannon computer which is linked into the Salvage computer in...

Primary Inbox Everything gets dumped here when I come in from outside. Ore, rock, pirate booty, everything. All of my storage containers are linked to it as well to automatically pull what they store from it. Capsule refinery is set to pull from it. Secondary Sorting Box Is set to pull...

No, you need cannon barrels too. The more even the module numbers are, the higher the efficiency, and the greater the effect. If you had 100 salvage modules and 1 slaved cannon, it would be 1% efficient and you wouldn't have any real detectable difference. For salvage/cannon, you only need...

Two big weaknesses of Starmade right now as I see them are resource gathering and turtling in a single base. For resource generation, the only methods of obtaining more are highly destructive. If you want to build big, the only thing you can really do is eat planets and mine out systems. Big...

Yeah, this thing is going to turn like a beached whale, so I'm putting all of the meaningful weapons into turrets. The backbone turrets are each firing a pair of 500k damage shots each. Figured doubling up on the individual missiles per turret would be better than a single mega torp that would...

So, I'm starting to arm my capital ship (mostly for decoration and station defense right now, as the ship hull alone is at most a quarter done). I've built the first of what I'm calling the backbone turrets. Not the biggest, not the most numerous, but a good middle ground that makes up the...