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Wrong kind of wide area of effect damage, and small ships' nukes cannot penetrate armor any more efficiently than cannon/pulse - if anything, small ships with cannon/pulse are vastly superior to small ships with missile/pulse.

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Blocks or mass? Because we've had a lot of success with ships in the 2k-5k mass range.

Power cost and production speed are totally irrelevant issues when the solution to those is to just add more reactor blocks, then log off for a week while it does its thing. Power cost and production speed do not make a shipyard a bigger target for enemies to attack than any other object.

It would need to be high enough at maximum potential for people to really, really want to train their shipyard efficiency, I feel.

Yeah, pretty much. Perhaps to help out with the balancing, it should be impossible to get Efficiency Bonuses on homebase shipyards...?

Takes significant extra time and resources to do so.

Hm, yeah. I'd be in favor of that.

From The Depths has progressive difficulty in its campaign mode factions, and they don't do it with magic like Proposed Methods 1 and 2 Instead, they rely on players to submit ship/aircraft/whatever designs that roughly match the expected tech level and visual appearance of each faction, with...

To go with the upcoming NPC factions, crews, etc. (and, hopefully, supply lines and passive resource generation), I propose a system by which to encourage players and factions to think VERY carefully about their planned resource usage, and discourage them from making drastic changes to their...

As a faction leader that almost exclusively uses DPS-based weapons for everything to ridiculous effect... I'd like to just say that your belief that alpha weapons are superior is horribly misplaced and at minimum very incorrect. Also, it's possible to engineer an "instant stop" device to deal...

Cubes are impossible to effectively armor. Every flat surface facing the enemy is an invitation to having your hull ripped wide open by missiles, cannons, whatever. Good looking shapes come with the benefit of being possible to protect the ship extremely well. As for "advanced tech", there are...

Having a very heavy in-server presence tends to help. A lot.

Y'know, that could be an interesting idea. "Hey, I know you're our enemies, but if you pay us enough we'll still sell you this 'amazing, absolutely necessary technology' that we can jam"

A 7000 block ship costs around 5mil credits unless it's made of nothing but power reactors, basic hulls, and thrusters.

Jumpdrive Computer: 12,000 credits Jumpdrive Module: 1,200 credits Total cost: 13,200 credits Entire Ship: Hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of credits Jumpdrive: Capable of preventing violent destruction of a ship Realistically, any faction that's capable of getting their hands...

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