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Which would make them completely pointless.

I imagine there could be some difficulty in getting the game engine to do that (similar to how moving the core would be more complicated then people imagine, and it would almost definitely exclude things like elevators and other moving parts of a ship. Essentially anything that moves will need...

Explosive it good for cannons that are already punching through a lot, so usually big cannons.

The Tetsudo is a hybrid between a heavy frigate and carrier, intended for multi-role use, particularly dealing with larger pirate fleets or assaulting stations. It features a roleplay friendly, if a little spartan, interior accommodating 22 crew members (more if bed sharing), complete with...

Dunno about races but custom, and procedural generated, NPC factions are planned. If the development timeline is anything to go by it's one of the next things.

Alternatively NPC ran ship yards could work, where you can see your ship being built.

Got the Drone launching facilities done on the Carrier Frigate I've been working on. Now I just need weapons/systems and a bit of neatening up the exterior and I'll be done. Might need to wait until the new battery system gets added though, not sure whether the soft cap will be enough to...

There's a a good amount of things bigger ships are better at. Tanking, either with layers of armour (good look doing anything with a non augmented power tank using drone against a few layers of advanced armour with the passives up), or with shield recharge (devout a few million to shield...

Nobody "hates" big ships. They dislike gigantism, there's a difference.

I really don't see what the point here is. You *could* call different weapon set ups "tiers" based on effectiveness/complexity, if you really wanted to. There wouldn't really be much point, beyond the Starmade communities innate need to classify everything, since it would more then likely just...

Pretty much the only thing that scales linearly is weapon size. Even then it's a bit deceptive, as it's only really shield damage that's linear. Penetration has some diminishing returns, and multiple outputs have a power penalty that can add up on larger weapons. Shielding, armour (well, sort...

The problem with modular building isn't just that "more ships = more lag". It's that having a fairly large entity nestled inside of a bigger entity means you have lots of fairly intensive collision calculations happening pretty much all the time. Especially in combat, where it has to share...

On the other hand, the game could be optimized to handle a variety of different ship sizes working in tandem, and designed in a way to encourage fleet diversification etc instead of making the game about who can bring the biggest ship. The explosive reactors are a part of that.

Here seems like as good a place as any, though drones are pretty straight forward now. There's probably some more advanced things I'm missing, but launch rails are pretty much as usable as any push beam set up and pick up points are simple to use. The only real thing about them is it's a good...

Just popping in as a reminder that your ships are good, and I'm looking forward to seeing your Basestar.

Meh, the official factions fleets are aesthetics first, function second tbh. They're there because they look interesting.

I was under the impression that beams were meant to pierce until they hit any block with an armour rating, so beams issues against armour is probably intentional. I could be wrong there though, haven't really messed around with it.

I don't really think this thread is a useful way of looking at the game. Starmades "survival" elements are always going to come down to "Do I have a good enough ship to survive what might come after me?". There's no real need for keeping track of depleting meters etc like the typical survival...

Systeming can be really tedious on bigger ships, so I can feel your pain there.

Continued a bit of work on my new mini Battlestar project, decided to completely redo the flight pods so the drones launch outwards instead of forwards, since it makes storing them a little less laggy. Also putting more drone storage on the bottom of the ship.