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Okey dokey, to help get the topic back on track and hopefully discussing the issue at hand rather than real world scenarios and why they should magically apply to a random online game or general real world wang waving, here are some simple excel formula for folks to use: Base thrust for a...

You are pretty out of line with that comment GRHayes. We don't just see the cardboard box, we open the damn thing, read the manual, then throw it away and start abusing the parts within in every way imaginable like mad scientists. We have the math, testing, etc behind us, and have known about...

So I've been on a binge lately and been picking at starmade. What I would REALLY like is if the HSQLDB database were exposed in a more friendly manner, possibly starting it in server mode so we can connect to it via command line or other tools from localhost without having to do some fiddly fun...

Definitely agree about the undock pop, needs to be toned down a fair bit. Honestly it would be great if we could have two different types of dockers, or a way to change docking mode. A contact dock, works as current and a magnetic dock, which works on distance. One allows precision, the other...

More control over the environment (galaxies, shops, general spawning, etc) would be awesome, hope that comes in soon. As much as I would love a hyperspace/fast travel method the biggest obstacle to that at the moment appears to be sector loading speed. Pretty much once you reach 1/4 sector size...

As long as I can clear a entity and get it onto another rail in under 5 seconds I'll be a happy chappy. So it really depends on how they implement the distance based system, or if it happens.

Well luckily even with docked thrusters there are limits, for example 300 is only ~10.7% better than 200. Here's a nice chart in case anyone wants to use it as reference.

Would be really nice if you could send a logic signal to either the ship core (generic reset for various non-essential timers), or a empty rail docker to reset the re-dock timer to zero. The reason this would be useful is because it allows faster automated movement/transfer between rail...

Docked thrusters allow pretty big gains in tmr on both small and large ships. They are especially effective on small ships. On one 300k mass ship we did the math on various configurations and managed to bump it from 85k thrust to over 125k with minor effort. That difference in thrust alone is...

Would be useful if the site had the ability to create groups/factions and invite players, or open themselves to applications. Upon joining the group the player gets the option to openly display faction in several areas, for example under the avatar or on their profile. Could be also useful for...

Not only weapons, it would be brilliant if all computers emitted a signal when activated! As for weapons specifically, it would be great if they emit a high on firing and a low when it goes into their recharge cycle. So for cannons/pulse/missile you'll get high/low For beams you'll get high (5x...

I said they were unfeasible not impossible. Completely different meanings there :)

Rail dockers emit a high/on signal when they dock. When a rail docker undocks it emits a low/off signal. If a activator is placed next to the docker it will receive the high/low and change state to match if it needs to. So a activator will turn on when it docks and off when it undocks, but...

As cool as a rotating rack would be (rotating torus carriers are my favorite type of space carrier) its kinda unfeasible in starmade right now due to lack of momentum inheritance on undocking. The magazine idea however works like a charm, and is one of the reasons I put together a undocking...

You could use a shipyard, personally I avoid anything to do with them currently though. Rail dockers emit a high on dock, low on undock.

I considered reverse-chain activation, but that requires a way to activate the last drone on the chain (propagation is about the same either way) :) Basic design principle behind this was just to literally slap it onto a simple rail dock and undock it to activate them.

Just some random drones I'm testing a universal docking adaptor (to hook them onto universal docking ports) and chain docking/activation with. I really like chain activation now, so much less trouble than drone launchers and other shenanigans.

So this is how I spent my morning...

They are still cleaning my parts off the side of that station :P

O.o got lumped in a short bracket