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If we're going to be flawed (after all, every system has flaws), wouldn't it make more sense to be flawed towards the system that doesn't favor slapping antennas on things to make them dock easier?

The ship with the same mass as the death cube might have a slight power decrease, but you can just as easily fit large power set ups in a non-death cube as well. True, death cubes will probably remain the most efficient ships in the game for possibly the rest of its life span, but that doesn't...

Well, with faction points up-and-coming, it will be possible to take out a perma-shielded faction base if you kill enough of that faction's members. So, ground vehicles could be used to assault an enemy's home base, and would do the job much better than just astronauts.

I'm not sure I see why it would speed up after you built your first one, unless your first one happens to be a heavy asteroid miner. I mean, it'd still take the same amount of time to gather all the materials.

Interesting, but not really practical. They'd only work if the sails were pointed the correct direction, really, but it'd still be cool to see them. Maybe a later term thing when most of the core features are added.

So? People would probably go for shields instead of hull still anyway. Think about it. Would you rather have 495 regenerating hit points + 100 backup non-regenerating points, or 200 (standard) or 400 (hardened) health?

Well, piloting being easier or not would depend on whether or not the pilot has physical movements in a cockpit matched by the mech, or is simply controlling it like a standard vehicle.

The problem with that is, how do you determine what exactly is inside and outside the ship? I'd really like that, but I'm not sure it's possible. Also, Plex Doors stop incoming fire, so you can have a bunch of active ones covering your hangar door, allowing fighters in and out but not lasers.

Why not? Why shouldn't we have more incentive to build interiors? Vyor, you need to tone it down a bit. If you were a thermometer, you'd currently be leaking mercury on the floor from blowing your top off. You're insulting people and going into ALL CAPS RAGE. You aren't even explaining your...

First off, Malacodor is correct. You could just add a handful of antennas to your density based system to exploit the ever-loving hell out of it. Next, Mass would be better than density in all cases. Mass based would not encourage death cubes. With mass, you get a minor advantage for using a...

Small ships shouldn't be able to be picked off at a distance, in my personal opinion. The new turret inaccuracy is a good thing, it just need some work so you can actually hit things some of the time.

Well, if you were, say, flying past the mid section of a ship, you'd have turrets aimed at you from multiple sides, plus the possibility of other factors like being tailed by enemy fighters or being attacked from even more directions by other ships' turrets.

No, then beams and missiles are the only viable weapons against well maneuvering smaller ships at long ranges. Bullets still travel fast enough to be accurate against small ships at close range, and big ships are too big to be missed at long range, even by AI who don't lead.

Yeah, I was thinking that 50-200m ships (large enough to have an ok interior but nothing luxurious) would be a decent average, as opposed to 1800m titans everywhere.

Actually, they have more use now, because people have more reason to build salvagers and mine asteroids instead of just build blocking a planet for all the rock, ore, and greenery they'd ever need. That's what I've said multiple times. However, it would cost faction points and take time to be...

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Ok, with my proposed HP system, ships have a certain amount of health, and once that health reaches a critical number (10%?) the ship completely stops working. However, you can take a ship out earlier by, say, finding the bridge and killing all the crew and computers. I'm pretty sure this is...

The search bar can be buggy and unreliable, and you might not be thinking the same way the other author was. while you might think "Modifications to Lighting" someone else might think "Changes to Glowing Blocks". Also, it can be helpful to see if there's a post you might want to reboot...

I thought these were going to be generic image macros and I was pleasantly surprised.

Well, with the upcoming HP system, it'll take more damage to put an isanth down than just breaking the shields and the front glass. Stations won't be as easily salvageable, and you need money to get things from shops. Anyway, can you imagine how long it would take to build a battle ship from...