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What the hell... That is not how that works at all. Unless this was a super old thing that got patched out before I joined the game ages ago (before we even had a StarMade Dock)

The sound of silence. :P

If they didn't there may be no community. To be frank, with no internal information, it would look like the game is going nowhere and I and many others would have left long, long ago.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with prefab weapons. Just that the way they're typically implemented tends to miss a lot of potential the game might have for build diversity, strategy, and design choices. "missile launcher that can load rapid, long-range, or agile missiles" or "beam turret...

A little disappointing, honestly, as NPC crew, chairs, and the AI improvements are really the last defining ship-based features - that we know of, anyway - that need to go in (FTL revamps, capital ship functions, and other things are desired but the current systems are at least functional) but...

StarMade Development Direction I think people still have this in their heads. Yay, news! It's good to hear the status of the AI overhaul and the planet stuff. This would have made a nice "Mini-dev blog" - I'm sure that people are wondering what's going on following all the mentions of new...

Circumventing established mechanics by something like that is quite obviously an exploit. If they wanted to remove the diminishing returns on thrusters, they would've just done that. :P

A little offtopic, but: That was an exploit. Exploits get fixed without warning. Expect that. (That is the one practical reason not to use exploits, aside from server rules)

The textures are reminiscent of the old Beetlebear textures. (NEVER AGAAAAIN)

Missiles. Large missiles, and tons of missiles. Everywhere. Enjoy.

I doubt that small-ship guns would be made less powerful than they are now. That'd be counterproductive. When I say 'oversized', I mean attempting to mount a cruiser gun or something on a heavy fighter and expecting to be able to fire it more than once or twice without melting the ship.

It sounds to me as though the heat mechanics will be balanced so that small ships can still more or less fill up with systems without having to worry about heating up, unless they try to mount oversized systems for their tiny reactors. This would be both so that small ships wouldn't become super...

Ooh, pretty. :D

I heard of some ideas being knocked around for a heat system and other power changes a very long time ago. This was not a case of someone installing E:D and going "hey, this is cool" and then immediately suggesting it for addition.

With aux, there's probably some easy optimal pattern out there, and it's probably fairly straightforward. In fact, someone probably already found it. Just that we don't generally share those kinds of things with everyone when we find them. There isn't all that much choice in design with those...

A voxel game like Space Engineers with proper orbital mechanics would be nice. StarMade is the wrong game for that, though.

Yep. Setting multiple waypoints would make this significantly more manageable. Honestly, though, I think things would work fine without it, temporarily. People would just have to get out of the habit of expecting to set a waypoint at their destination and fly in a straight line until they get...

The oldest form of power generation known to man was burning wood and brush to create a fire. Then we moved to more advanced closed furnaces, then eventually steam engines, then liquid-fuelled internal combustion engines and coal-fired turbines, then nuclear reactors, and someday soon we'll...

Yeah, this is the kind of thing that I intended. Instead of just buffering yourself from everyone else by being incredibly far away (boring as hell) you could use the 'terrain' of the game world to your advantage.

...Well, it could go either way. It can become more enjoyable, or a lot more frustrating. Depends on what stars are where, where you're trying to go, and whether or not you understand the system :P Come to think of it, the phrase "thank your lucky stars" would have a whole new meaning!