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It was originally meant to go on my titan but I'm doing a redesign, and it'd just collide with everything unfortunately. The ship will have a larger integrated turret instead :P

Can't believe I never posted an image of this thing here. Presenting the Harbinger turret: 176k mass, 600m long. It's a beast.

Lag. Lag is the final boss. By far the most expensive to defeat.

Yea. But more like acid trip entertaining, not good movie entertaining.

Making some good progress, got the entire front upper half of the ship framed out: I found the back section especially hard to make, since everything had to match up well. Turned out pretty good imo. Also, the section with the grey hull was an absolute b*tch to build: I'll start working on...

While I agree with you on the lack of new information, I don't think this is the intent of these blogs. Not everyone has been around for years like you have. In fact, most new players wouldn't know this information, so blogs like these are pretty useful for them.

Very small interior I made inside a combat/drone ship. In order: Entrance corridor, core room, transporter room. The floor is made out of glass btw, in case you didn't notice :P.

Ok, for some reason I feel like playing the game right now, so I'm actually getting stuff done. Unfortunately, after giving it some though I realized that there's so much outdated and bugged stuff on the current ship that it would almost be easier to rebuild it. So since I like to torture...

Yea, what I was mostly refering to in my other post is the grouping penalty for power. It was originally introduced to reduce laggy weapons, but now that the performance is better the penalty wasn't reduced. There's only so much effective damage that can be dished out by small amounst of cannon...

Unfortunately it'll probably stay that way until aiming or weapon scaling get improved... I've brought up the issue of weapon performance scaling incredibly poorly with ship size about a billion times with the devs (first time was well over a year ago). Was always told that the weapon's...

I haven't done this in practice, but couldn't you just blap a couple of them, jump out, wait for shields to recharge, jump back in, and repeat? The AI is retarded, so if you selectively engage the swarm or avoid it then it becomes useless. That or use a dedicated swarm missile ship. Swarm...

I dig the futuristic yet conservative terran style, very nice!

Reading this thread is just depressing...

There will be some changes to how the power works in-game, so I don't want to waste time making systems that I'll have to redo latter on.

I'm taking a break from the game right now so the completion time is up in the air at the moment. The biggest issue is that stuff breaks with every update, and with a ship this size it's hard to stay up to date and continue work at the same time... Don't expect me to do much until the power...

I'm still alive, just having some hard times irl... I might work on the ship a bit if motivation doesn't fail me.

Raisinbat I recall you saying that cloaked ships with docked weapons are the best when it comes to combat atm. I'm just curious to know why that's the case. Aren't docked entities included in the cloak's power calculations? (If not it's broken af). And wouldn't a ship equipped with a scanner...

No. Less system blocks would mean less calculations required to do a status update when a block is destroyed = less lag. From the power proposal post it looked like they'd like to change all the systems, not just power. I agree that if it's just power that gets changed the performance increase...

You make good points. However, the proposed power chsnge would actually help you if you're a server owner. Not in the form of gameplay but in the form of performance. As you already know bigger ships are more performance heavy, especially in combat (I'm talking about the server calculations...

Can't really comment on the exterior since there's no pictures. I'll just give general tips: For the interior, use different colors/blocks for the walls/floor/ceiling. Having different textures already makes a plain room look much better. You can also make patterns with various colors to make a...