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Currently on the new weapon systems, the ranges suck for combat on damage beams VS other weapons. Why? Let me give you an example. I have a turret design which i have made several different versions of, that use different weapon fill-outs on the inside. I compared an AMC-AMC-overdrive setup of...

There is a (rather significant, in my opinion) problem with this idea that you're proposing. This might seem to some like a bit of a nitpick, but I think it could be a really big problem. This will simply encourage players to avoid flying large ships deep inside systems. Which of course means...

To be fair, no, I have not seen very many calculations people have done, but I know that weapons overall do slightly less damage now than they did pre-v15, when AMCs reigned supreme with very long ranges and strengths. Back then, shields usually didn't last a super-long-time either. I like your...

The new thrust mechanic changes are just fine as long as we have an also-appropriate power taxation for increasingly bigger engine arrays. FTL is necessary too. Bigger ships should naturally be slower, so that fighters have a greater role. The big ships in turn will need those FTL mechanics...

I think their capacity is mostly fine right now, they're roughly close to how it was pre-v15 and I think they work well that way with the nerfed and drastically different weapon mechanics we have now. With weapons, I agree they should be exponential too, but I know that combat works best when...

Linear shield returns for blocks doesn't work. It only furthers the cause of giganticism. What some people tend to overlook is that ships scale exponentially in size the longer they are (95% of the time, deliberate needle-ships excused). What does this mean? Well, it means a 400-meter ship has...

hi fire :)

is this an arg

dramatic much?

thats why he wants no friction when accelerating. as in, as long as he is in that ship and hitting the gas pedal, space isn't resisting, and only attempts to slow down his craft when he stops using thrusters

Are you sure you don't mean "m" rather than "km"? Anyways, this sounds like an old bug from around a year ago where players would get teleported hundreds of meters away from their ship when they dismounted its core.

Indeed, we have lost around (i'd say) 90% of the playerbase we had last year when yogscast did a three-episode series on Starmade. Back then, our game's popularity exploded. Our old IRC chat system literally had over a thousand people in it on one night. We had so many help threads from newbie...

OH MY GOODNESS! Homeworld music in that video! So awesome!

On all NASS servers? He did not tell me this. As far as I know the only server this will be tested on is NASS Main (unless you want it tested on yours too, which we will be happy to do).

Indeed, and such a thing would also divide the community apart, with people sticking around only the places where their ships work well, and not going anywhere else. We need to find an appropriate level of universal ship compatibility for everyone.

Hello everyone! In recent weeks, we have seen the addition of a vast amount of new and fun content to the game, including new blocks, new weapon types, AI improvements, and (my personal favorite!) colored weapons. So what's this thread all about? These new things are all great, but many in the...

I like this idea, but in my opinion it would be more fun if instead of exploding, the blocks simply shot out weak projectiles in all directions kind of like sparks when they get hit, and those sparks would be able to lightly damage other blocks around them. So in summary in this system im...

Well we already have anti-AI countermeasures, and they are called dockable drones. Though, they don't force the enemy ai to only pick the drones to shoot at, it just adds more targets in a list for them to choose from to attack, and hence the goal of using decoy drones is to spam that target...

It's also nice to know we already have something remotely like this, in the form of mountable decoy drones on ships. I support this idea too. It sounds great :D

I do find your first idea to be particularly interesting, Lord Chicken. I think that would be a fun feature for shields in ship combat.