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oh do shut up, if you have nothing to actually add to 'blu-sky' thinking about possible systems, then you are just being a cleverer-than-you-dick. :/

I agree - lag-fest on undocking is a game breaker for docked-hull, atm > also it seems to stretch fundamental concepts of the game a bit to far, but each to their own :) The balance issue is not so much docked-hull per se, but (imo) disconnected and free-floating parts of ships...(including...

if Faction points are not correlating to 'strength of a Faction' in some way, what are they ? I am assuming we are talking about theoretical systems of points (if we are to have them) with potential different mechanics anyway - this is a suggested principle to scale them. i am not about...

well, I am open to ideas kulbolen > the principle I am promoting is that, if there are points gained from attacking factions (how is that calculated?) then attacking a 'much weaker' opponent incurs not just limited reward, but an actual cost. The idea is to make 'actions-have-consequences' > a...

RedAlert might have some points, IF Starmade makes the building aspect restrictive and dumb! Those other games are all so shiny-shiny, BUT they do not have all the core elements that make Starmade special. Logic building for one. Interesting block rules for another ( :/). A heart of Derp for a...

Some good ideas put forward here - having a decent meta for faction activity would be very good for multi-server games > it can be carefully considered and should be easily configurable, as it is not directly dependent on other game mechanics. I will keep repeating this specific idea...

some idea is needed > docked armor is clever and fun, but breaks the game > even if some 'ban' is made on docked armor, the solution needs to cover things like a 'super-carrier' whose surface is covered in docked drones, or even turrets , as these all function as ah hoc docked armor as well....

well the ball ship will be very hard to put a hull on at the necessary radius when only a single vector is relevant > if total relevant distance for stabilization was made up of X+Y+Z components, then i would be happier (and ball ships actually achievable and decently functional) yes it can be...

A quick thought: Fully integrate old 1.0 power to give 2 generation options: 1.0 'Reactors' would now generate just like 2.0 but the scale and rate of potential e/sec is modified by rules similar to XYZ (rather than just straight block count as in 2.0) 1.0 'Capacitors' would now function like...

maybe it wont be exactly the same as Jojomo's image, but very very nearly the same .... There is no point placing stabilizer in 50% or less ranges > unless you especially enjoy a ship full of stabilizer spam-cubes So there is just the basic 'I-shaped' / balls-on-stick approach...very dull...

well thanks for "telling us" Zyrr- for a minute there i was thinking that is an idea which occurs to many system-focused builders, who decide instead to follow a more civil, less game-breaky, and less ugly approach - Nebulon is right - many strands (as it were) to spaghetti... however i also...

If the player base is small, then focus on existing players and their experience, rather than theoretical new players. I don't really think additional ability to add mods will bring in new players atm anyway. I am not a professional, but the linked thread has a (self-proclaimed) professional...

Well, ok then Kulbolen - I would not enjoy flying something like that around for long - so i guess i revise my comments to "I myself" rather than the admittedly overstated "no player". Laggy builds with 'exploity docks' ect are/were explicitly banned in some places, or if not could be reported...

i know its old - but there were interesting ideas here worth remembering; Also was this ever suggested ? : Make power and maybe systems blocks 'multi-block' like hull (i know that would screw current graphics :/)

relevant issue raised there; Additionally; explicitly penalizing having all your systems exposed to space would also work against this sort of build. [finally (blue-sky), by using geometry based rules/ratios rather than just total dimensions, more compact forms and shapes are rewarded over...

yes they do indeed - and are equally as unpopular with many players [but thank you for the contribution - i must show my Mentor my Tug Nuts sometime..]

ok fair enough - anything goes in full pvp, especially if both sides are using something similar > presumably those players are not going to want to loose thier pasta anyway> but if this ship was routinely causing lag, or just random trouble for servers that do/did have admin warnings for lag...

i started by building systems - then completing them with hulls > i always always always start with the power, which defines basic shapes of ship. ... after getting familiar with the game i also refitted some older community posted ships, finding ways to improve power and systems, or other...

for sake of the archive, i shall link this contribution from FlyingDebris here as a concrete demonstration of a spaghetti ship and docked entity exploits: "Fair And Balanced" it is an extreme example that no player would enjoy for long and that would get deleted from a server quickly because...

come on, salvage turrets are too easy...rail and ship based drift/strip/blade minning is overall just as good anyway ... (anyway with AI the way its, do you really want to sit and watch for 15 mins while a turret consistently misses an asteroid, or aims through the same exactly empty space...