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I would love for factions like this to be in the game. I don't see why they couldn't be in multiplayer, too, but you probably shouldn't be able to join NPC factions in MP. This could be combined with the upcoming procedural creatures to make alien races, too.

Only problem I see is the lag that will come from constant bumping.

I am not for bubble shields. One, they're a massive performance hit. Two, they make turrets hard to hit and are actually a nerf to smaller ships, since they need to get right up close to do turret damage now, which makes them hilariously easy to kill. Third, you either need to use boxdim or...

You can actually make an AI faction using admin commands. Set the faction's ID to a negative number. -1 and -2 are already occupied by trade guild and pirates, I believe.

... I'm amazed. This is so fantastically cool.

There would definitely need to be moderation of that to make sure people don't, say, steal ships or make factions that are just system bricks. Perhaps you could set a faction difficulty level ("This faction is a level 5 out of 5. The smallest ship in it's fleet is 600m long and armed to the...

Chat isn't working for me, either. Thanks for the heads up.

Old thread, but...

Sitting is already in the game, I see no need for a dedicated chair block. However, we should be able to link the core or whatever to a block, and then when you sit on that block, you gain control of the ship. Simple as that. Pressing "R" to exit control of the ship still has you sitting in that...

It's a separate docked ship, so it has it's own power softcap. You can use it to bypass the ~1.2mil e/s regen softcap.

Look. You obviously don't understand how block grids work. You can't have them be part of the same entity and have it move separately too. To move on its own, it needs to be part of its block grid, and that requires it to be it's own entity. The best you can do is glue two grids together at a...

Systems are 16x16x16. That's what I'm saying. You can't even claim individual sectors. Just claimed systems shouldn't drop you out of FTL. You should need something additional beyond one faction module floating in the middle of nowhere. Some sort of interdiction system that can be mounted on...

Check your server config. There should be something about missile friendly fire. Two things though- Are you in single player, and are you in a faction? Because I'm pretty sure the whole "turrets shooting down their mothership's own missiles" thing was fixed, provided you have a faction. If it's...

There's a difference between "this is complicated to code" and "this would probably require rewriting massive amounts of existing code for relatively no reason." There IS a turret revamp coming. We know that. I'm just doubting it will involve rotating blocks while still being one entity.

How could you make the mothership and turrets a single entity, while still having moving parts? They can't be the same entity (and therefor share the same block grid) and have moving parts.

This is so awesome.

That's very odd, my missiles fire just fine, even with blocks in front of them.

DRONE HANGARS. That's all I have to say on the matter.

Procedural mobs are confirmed. I'm sure the random generator will make some horrifying looking things by accident at least some of the time.

Missile speed scales with top server speed, which is why I was extremely annoyed when my friend set our private server to max speed 1000 for "testing" and missiles were insanely fast. So, yeah, you'll probably want some passive overdrive. A tip for PD turrets- don't bother with anything beyond...