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I guess that's fair. It feels kind of thin but I suppose it is just an on the spot response and I understand it's getting near 5am for you, so it's not something to hold against you. It definitely seems like you're well aware of what's going on though, even if you don't have anything...

I guess the key takeaways here are that the community has almost no trust in Schine to directly communicate our feedback to you, with the general opinion around here settling on them being unreliable in accurately giving you our thoughts, so this face to face conversation is very important. It's...

Without critiquing too much because of how vague both of those suggestions are, both of those are in the right direction. But I'd STRONGLY suggest you also add incentives to group your systems closer together, so there is a reason to do something rather than a reason not to. It's far harder for...

That's not really the problem though, even if shields under fire penalty is global, you're only draining shield cap out of specific areas. You can actually test how this would work right now on the normal build if you have a mothership with no shields and dock a bunch of entities that have...

That's fair, but this sentence is piqued my interest; "~ Local shields: rewritten shield system to cover a radius rather than global to balance shield coverage between multiple docked entities" Local shielding actually improves how well docked hulls work by allowing you to individually split...

Agree, summer of 2013 to the winter of 2014 was when StarMade was most lively. Pretty much always able to find something to do even with how absolutely feature bare the game was then. Golden age was probably early-mid 2014 to early 2015, starting with the graphics and rail updates and ending...

Now you're on track, that's a big portion of it.

As an aside, shield bubbles don't stop spaced out ships at all. lol. It actually exacerbates some problems with docked hulls that have been mostly forgotten by the majority of the people around here

Noting that power has everything to do with a spaced out ship isn't mutually exclusive to the fact that it's difficult to hit. Again, you're not understanding. The most efficient power setup is very long, thin lines - is this ringing a bell yet? If you think the only reason a spaghetti ship...

Power has everything to do with it. Power working the way it does specifically encourages building ships like this. Please don't comment if you don't understand unless you're posing a question. You can add defenses to a spaced out ship. You're not losing anything, you're just not gaining a...

Armor was never worth anything.

Hard to do - it's not a simple problem and there isn't a simple fix. The best way to force players to do something you want is to give incentives to your path, not punish their path. Almost without fail there is always a way around obstacles, but encouraging someone to do something else properly...

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You can increase the density of a spread out ship immensely and it's still nearly as effective. How do you account for docked entities? Turrets? All sorts of problems with this idea.

"Simply just take their dimensions and work out what % of that is blocks, and thus the rest is empty space." A ship with large thin wings, long docking arms, etc receive the same penalty as they extend dimensions without adequately increasing block count.

Random penalties for ships that have details like docking arms, wings, what have you. No.

It really all comes down to DPS versus regen - without the ability to do more DPS than regen, even in a best case scenario you only have a few seconds of outage to do damage. At 50:1 you'd have to be facing a poorly designed ship that's either lacking full ion or seriously lacking in the regen...

10x is a solid estimate. The biggest disparity I've seen so far was a 5k mass spaghetti ship killing a 150k mass normal ship. That really is probably the biggest difference ratio wise I'd expect between a spaghetti ship and a decent normal ship. Like I said before, 2.5mil DPS in approximately...

Little late to this topic, but it's pretty good all around. It doesn't really prevent spaghetti ships but it definitely makes them more of a pain in the ass to build as well as a little less efficient. There's not really anything we can do realistically to equalize normal ships and spaced out...