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Nah, you're looking it wrong. It's pronounced "Cue-bat-oms," I think. Anyway, Cubatoms are still in the game, lorewise, according to Cal. Capsules are the basic minerals of the universe, and factories work by restructuring the atoms (or, cubatoms, since the world is cubed) into what you need.

I believe someone made a skin creator tool that builds skins out of mix and match parts. Can't remember who, but I definitely remember the thing. That could have a "randomize" button implemented, and then when hiring NPCs, they'd have a randomly generated skin. I believe it was Omni, and I...

This is so annoying. Being able to find them with a scanner would be fantastic.

It works like a second shield system. Those blocks cannot be damaged until they run out of the shared HP pool, at which point individual blocks can be destroyed.

I'm curious as to what server this could possibly be. EE? Ragnarok? Mushroom Fleet? Please elaborate.

Well each block gaining HP when touching just isn't possible without an increase in bytes per block.

If capacity is 10x the size, you need 10x less blocks to maintain your current shield count. You can replace all that dead space with missile modules and power capacitors and utterly destroy every enemy you see. I have no idea what you're trying to say here, but it's not going to counter that...

Missiles deal the same amount of damage to all blocks in their radius. No, jay's right. It'd essentially be shield v2.

Mobile, invincible homebases is a horrible idea. I agree with jayman38, increased production time for ship based factories (vibrations from engines slow it down or something) would be fine.

I have an idea for how it could work as well. alt+1, alt+2, alt+3, etc, would switch you to an additional hotbar, at which point you could use normal number keys to switch between them.

The problem with armor is that it doesn't scale. Even if you give hull a 99% armor rating and 256 HP, eventually, people will build weapons strong enough to one-shot it, and then we're right back to square one. Do you think the kinds of missile people regularly use, dealing a hundred thousand...

I think the fighter might have to be rigged to make it near impossible to lose. Like, A tiny pirate drone vs you in an improved Isanth. As for fighting human targets, a shooting range like in Bench's awesome Smuggler's Cove station would work fine.

There is a recycler in the code. Currently non-functional. Hopefully it is released soon.

Impossible to go past 256 HP per block, without adding more bytes per block and increasing performance costs greatly. I think my idea has been misunderstood- I'm not suggesting blocks get an HP increase when connected (though I suppose they could do that, just with the cap in mind), I'm...

It's not here yet, but trials just with human pilots are already showing that fleets are superior to singles. I mean, watch for yourself. This fleet annihilated any solo ship that came against them for a long time. It wasn't until the ENEMY ATTACKED IN GROUPS that they started taking loses.

Giving shields a 10x boost is not going to end one shot missiles from same-size ships. You'll just have people design their ships with more powerful missile systems. They'll scrap most of their shields (and hey, with 10x the power they won't need as many for protection from cannon/beam) and...

Yeah, because combat with ships where the entire surface is made of faction modules would be tons of fun.

I don't know what you're talking about with fights lasting 5 seconds. The fleet combat videos from right before the total reset of one larger server were 20+ minutes long. Singular ships themselves may die a bit faster than you expect in combat, but fleet combat is the way it's meant to go, not...

The graph button is your friend. And make sure you use starmadepedia.net as your wiki! It's the official and best updated wiki out there. This page will be helpful to your factory endeavors.

I think the best solution to make armor viable is to give connected armor blocks a combined HP pool that is repairable with healing beams.