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Yup, the main advantage of overdrive for me is on turrets. Slap overdrive in there, and suddenly a relatively small turret (that is pulling all that crazy power usage from the mother ship) is spitting out damage far beyond what it's size would indicate it's capable of. No real point in...

Its still a binary flag that indicates "Hey, something is shooting at me!" Long as something is shooting at me, logic block is in the on state. When things stop shooting at me, it goes to off. That way, something shoots at me, my turrets deploy and return fire. When its destroyed or has...

*newbie logs in, 5 minutes later* "What the hell? I just exploded for no reason?!?" "*sigh* What are your coordinates? I'll come neuter the alpha station that just shot you from 3 sectors away."

And there are still effects you can't get from rails as easily as you can plex. For example, I'm building a big Trek style ship and the back has a hemispherical shuttlebay door. I want the door to split down the middle and then rotate open, but the rail system needed to do that and store the...

Heck, a while back I had an idea for a logic system that I had to get out of bed to write down so I wouldn't forget it. It was basically the design for a Star Trek style transporter. Really just amounted to a gravity lift with a series of tubes that were lined with ice crystals and varat...

Of course, when we get right down to it, the whole thing is nothing but a popularity contest and means about as much as who got crowned Prom Queen in high school.

There is also the fact that each additional array you attach to the same computer increases the overall energy needed to activate it. I think its 10% additional energy per additional array. So if you had 1 array that required 1k energy to activate, it would be just 1k energy. Two of those...

Either way is win win, far as I'm concerned. I'd get to keep my base pretty and not clearly bristling with weapons all the time, and either the random smegheads that take a pot shot get the surprise of their starmade lives when said base suddenly transforms into full death blossom mode, or they...

Well anyone stopping to assess the target beforehand usually isn't the "Lulz, lets shoot it!" type to start with (usually).

Working on a station at the moment, and just got done installing a rail based elevator. Got me wanting to have retractable turrets on the station like I plan on putting in my capitol ship, but there's a slight problem with that. Turrets on a station are for defending the station when I'm not...

Just FYI, the proper term for this is a Dyson Ring, while a complete 360 degree shell is a Dyson Sphere.

Been tasked with designing and building a new spawn station for the server. Built a sheath around a shop, and made an animated topper for it, but still trying to figure out what the rest of the station is going to look like.

For future reference, all board drama will now be answered with totally unrelated quote discussions until said drama has been abandoned.

I can keep doing this all day. Actually... no I can't, I'm running dangerously short on Lumpy Space Princess quotes from YouTube without resorting to a compilation video, and I can't link to specific timeframes from here. Gonna have to find some other way to derail the drama train!

I honestly don't see why the default is to put the unmovable screen on top of the main control panel in the first place.

I'll see you one better than that. A few days ago I was looking at a cloud and caught myself figuring out the best way to eat it with salvage beams. "Start over there where it's thinnest, then loop around to... what he hell am I doing?"

No, thats just the lazy game's way of making a boss, by simply upping it's numbers. I've played many a game with boss fights that required skill and ability to beat that didn't rely on simply giving them a gajillion hitpoints and firing off OHKO's. But boss fights are for games with...