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The consequences for being a dick is that it turns people against you and you tend to get your shit kicked in. See: Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the Islamic State, etc etc. We don't need the game to force punishment on dickish players. That's the job of other players. Well, for starters, a...

Your response is a problem ignoring the solution. The proposed universe changes make territory important and make attacking random factions for the hell of it a potentially dangerous drain on your resources. What happens in the current game doesn't matter because we aren't talking about...

I'm not sure what servers you've been playing on, but my personal experience for PvP is almost entirely just factions fighting similar strength factions. The most common battles are when an enemy enters your territory and you scramble to intercept them. This is a completely pointless battle that...

You must be pretty strong from all those goalposts you move. PvE servers are rare because Starmade has a consecutive player count of 75. The fact that we have any servers is incredible.

Why would you leave the safety of spawn if scanning would show you there's someone within range who could intercept you? This is what I am talking about when I say this is a personal problem. Do not ruin PvP because of your own personal failings. But yes, you generally can dodge missiles with...

Have you read, like... Any of my posts? Just curious. I have constantly been saying we need to limit the amount of NPC automation to function as a softcap on the maximum size of any empire. This means an extremely skilled and dedicated micromanager can get his "one man empire" larger, but there...

Sorry, YOU would run. You underestimate how much spite motivates some people. He says, before saying... What do you think free PvP means? I don't think you understand.

Still waiting on your magic solution for this. Or for you to comment on all the things I told you a faction could do when they lose a war besides run away from the server.

How about the fact that when this game has been the MOST populous was during periods of massive conflict? 2013 was a time of constant warfare between massive factions, and was also the time with the most players. Once those wars ended, those players migrated away for the most part, and we're...

I have said it before and I will say it again- allowing players to lock up another player is both extremely annoying, boring, and unfun for the person who is captured. At most you will just end up with them permanently logging out from the server. Keep it for NPC crew only if you're going to add...

Fixed that for ya bud. You'd think someone who builds so many combat ships wouldn't make such a ridiculous strawman, but here we are. Uh, sorry, but if your goal in multiplayer isn't "be good at X," whether that's in ships sold or credits earned through trading or players killed or systems...

Really? You're going to equate logic games to massive empire vs empire warfare? You're going to equate "lol im bored any1 want 2 fite???" to galactic conquest? Come on, you and I both know they're not the same things.

Right, because the loser can't surrender before total destruction, or slink away to the edge of the galactic rim to regain their strength with the safety of distance between them, or take refuge in an allied or neutral faction's territory as a government in exile, or any number of things...

Riiiiiiiiight. Or they just go back to having their own lower scale conflicts or minding their own business like they did before banding together. Not good enough to justify the cost of a massive invasion that would take resources away from your forever war over the core systems does not mean...

Oh yeah, the small factions get picked off one by one by a bigger faction because... Alliances don't exist in your hypothetical, apparently? Why would all the other factions on the server just sit by and let this big faction slowly wipe them out, or even let them get to the point where they...

"I know what you wrote and I can't argue against it, so instead I'm going to attack this strawman" Right, so here's you're scenario. >large faction claims all the best territory right when the server starts >oh wait they don't have enough members to actually maintain the fleets to hold this...

Do none of you people know how to read? I am not talking about smaller factions being annexed by a larger one. I am talking about solo players setting up in the already established territory of an empire.

Hahahah, what? Did you even read? You pay taxes for the privilege of living in protected territory and having access to higher quality mines than you'd ever get running solo. If you want your own territory your either need to find some lower quality systems on the outer arms that the big...