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Fighters aren't really practical, which is why the aircraft carrier completely replaced the Battleship in utility?

The Valkyrie series of fighter have been in my blueprints for a long time, initially developed for the old AMC-weapon system and kept refit throughout the various iterations of Starmade. Envisioned as a long distance one man fighter, the Valkyrie series all sport limited crew accommodations such...

The Valkyrie series of fighter have been in my blueprints for a long time, initially developed for the old AMC-weapon system and kept refit throughout the various iterations of Starmade. Envisioned as a long distance one man fighter, the Valkyrie series all sport limited crew accommodations such...

The Valkyrie series of fighter have been in my blueprints for a long time, initially developed for the old AMC-weapon system and kept refit throughout the various iterations of Starmade. Envisioned as a long distance one man fighter, the Valkyrie series all sport limited crew accommodations such...

Built to be as small as possible whilst still earning the title "Battlestar", the Ptolemy functions more akin to a destroyer then a battleship, using a considerable amount of turrets and missiles to deal with groups of smaller enemies, and forsakes heavy armour in favor of quick charging ion...

Still have a couple of tweaks I need to make before release, but I got a pretty cool shot in while I was mass spawning drones

Almost finished a new mini-Battlestar build. Just need to redo the pick up lines and test it out.

Sometimes music, sometimes podcasts or whatever. Nothing really fixed or consistent.

Could also work, though using glass or something could let the builder simulate a day/night cycle.

Something that may come in handy for some builds is a kind of glass that when sunlight shines through it acts like a planet atmosphere, possibly having different kinds for different types of atmosphere. Would really bring out colonies and the like.

New thruster plumes, which change colour and show up through ice.

Space shuttles aren't built to repel off attacks from military vessels.

I find it gets quicker the more I build, but I'm a pretty slow builder myself so I can definitely empathize here.

This. Once a group of smaller ships can consistently break the shields of a bigger ship it's pretty much over. Turrets break pretty easily once the shields go down, and at that point a larger ship can't realistically fight back, other then swarmers that are... unreliable at best.

Starmade is also a game, with a prominent competitive PVP element, and as such needs to balance for a variety of different play styles and the like. Something that's important for that to work is making sure one form of play or tactic doesn't completely dominate the others, for example not...

And not mounting realistic nuclear weapons.

Fighters are honestly fine as is. An equivalent block count of fighters will pretty much overwhelm a giant ship (I say equivalent, you don't need anywhere near as many as that, less then a 3rd block count will often do the trick), barring a ship specifically designed for holding off large groups...

Yes, but that's working in tandem with other weapon systems. Missiles tend to work better the later into an encounter you get. AI turrets all use the same scripting to pick their targets, simple matter is as you place more the likely hood of them picking the same target increases, especially...

There's pretty much no earthly reason to have that many PD turrets, since they'd usually end up targeting the same missiles. Missiles in general have been toned down a lot in the past few months, they barely carry any damage over when they take out shields and they're very poor against armour...

I could get behind this with some more limitations. Maybe introduce a "home system" and every invulnerable base has to be in that area?