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100 cannon + 100 pulse can penetrate through 3 layers of advanced armor, 9 layers of standard armor and 21 system blocks (with 25 HP). It's only 16 system blocks with passive piercing effect, but that can be negated by using 66 cannon + 66 pulse + 66 piercing instead.

That makes sense, beams and lockon missiles don't require leading the target, which seems to be the root cause. Unfortunately the question is not "what to put on the turret?" but rather "how make my docked ship with cannon/cannon useful?". If I don't find a better way, I'll probably go with the...

It should be added that ships do rotate around their center of mass per default. Rotating around the core is a non-vanilla server setting.

How are you doing that?

Me too! Try Scrap Mechanic, there you can do rotations in steps of 1°, not as fast as in your animation, though, so building a bipedal mech that doesn't tumble over is tricky.

A sensor with all activators off triggers at >=0, which means always. If you want to know whether a storage with space for 1 million blocks is empty, you need 1 activator on and 999 999 activators off, and then add a NOT gate. But it's not greater than 0, it's greater or equal than 0.

The cores in my test ship were pretty close, but I guess at distances > 1.6 km the turret has to lead moving AI ships by more than 30°. The ship could hit the target, but doesn't shoot because it doesn't see it. I'm afraid I have to scrap that idea, but thank you for the reply.

I thought it would be a good idea to dock ships to basic rails on turrets, so they can be useful instead of idling in a hangar. The turret does the aiming and the ship just shoots parallel to the turret. This works at close ranges, but at greater distances the ship's rate of fire gets lower than...

Even if ships could be controlled from the homebase, stopping the overheating would still require the player being physically present. Warheads might be a problem, it's good you brought this up. The AI needs a "shoot warheads, even if neutral" option anyways, so this should be implemented...

Risk of death? What do you lose on death (aside from FP)? Whatever a player can drop when dying, they can simply leave it in the homebase. The only thing a player death does, is taking them out of combat, making them spend valuable lifetime to get back, so they can go on with actually playing...

What I mean is the HP per surface area. If you increase the surface area that is covered by a single block, then you also decrease the HP per square meter. The same damage makes bigger holes. Losing 10 blocks in a wedge slope leaves a hole as big as 14 blocks in a straight surface, for example...

But you also get less effective block HP per surface area. An octahedron made of advanced armor only has 577 EHP/m², while a cube has 1000 EHP/m².

Why does it need a drawback?

Thank you for your answers so far. I guess a turret in a socket causes way more collision checks than a free floating one.

Good idea. I'd say 100% effectiveness up to their current range and then a linear drop to 0% at cannon range.

I'd like to use one or more turrets like this one, but I fear they'd cause performance and lag problems due to collision calculations. Then again that's a problem with turrets in general, at least in greater numbers. So my question is: are spherical turrets in a hemispherical recess much worse...

It might not be the longest, but do you have balls like mine? Made this a while ago. The turret can freely rotate 360° in all directions, the actual firing arc is a little less than 180°. The individual parts of the outer ring move asynchronously due to GIF recording, and the GIF is too fast...

Those are all good points, consider me convinced.

I don't think standard armor is worth it. It has only 25% of the effective HP of advanced armor, but 60% of its mass.

I can also picture frustrated players sitting in their ships with drained shields and power and unable to move or shoot, waiting three hourse for a tiny drone to destroy the ship.