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I find it interesting that RP players, who claim that the current power system encourages doom CUBES, also claim that the system requires ships to have at least one long dimension... Actual Translation: Other scifi sources already having a systems mechanic is not a requirement for Starmade to...

I've been noticing recently that I am randomly being logged out during normal forum use. I'll be going through recent posts on threads I'm following, go to rate one, and get hit with a "YOU MUST BE LOGGED IN TO PERFORM THIS ACTION" error, despite having logged in a mere 5 minutes ago. It seems...

If you give it a shitty range, then it's useless. Like pulse.

Uh, no. A cone of death definitely kills ships faster than any conventional weapon.

If you're doing less than one damage per tick, you do zero damage. It rounds down to zero. In which case this weapon would be completely worthless right up until the point where it tips over into doing 1 damage per tick, at which point it becomes COMPLETELY OVERPOWERED. Because it can kill...

Ok, but that's still overpowered... If I can damage every block on a ship at once, even if it's only 1 damage per second, I could completely vaporize all the systems in a ship in under two minutes.

Heatboxes are a stupid mechanic. Stop. Either it doesn't take on a new context with the "and..." cut off, or I am completely misunderstanding what you are saying here. "Outside of combat, aesthetics mean nothing. Outside of combat, systems mean nothing." Yes?

The proposed system does absolutely nothing to fix "lazy" ship design. Let's compare a lazy ship in the current game with a lazy ship with the reactor heat system. Seriously, what? So the current system has power. And draining the power of a ship negatively impacts performance. You can't...

A projection like that sounds incredibly overpowered. Wouldn't it hit every block in its path? Beam/Missile (and Cannon/Missile) just needs a much tighter spread and better damage per block than it currently has.

Optimization of ships in a game that has math requires using math! Incredible discovery. Nothing you have proposed fixes this, and it SHOULDN'T fix this, because what you are suggesting needs "fixed" is SYSTEM ENGINEERING. More... chaindrives? Who is putting more than 1 chaindrive in their...

Yep, no replicas. Same reason there's basically no Thryn ships on this except some tiny ones.

I would say that versus fighters, explosive is definitely worth it, because they have thin armor and are very thin in general. Explosive is much less likely to overpenetrate, a major concern with firing on small targets.

It was like that the whole time, I swear

To beam/cannon? Yes. It has double the range.

Now, granted, the faction I was in when the cargo update dropped was running entirely shield tanks with no armor when the cargo update dropped, but I certainly never noticed any change in power consumption between the two updates. My current faction runs a large number of ultraheavy armor tanks...

Meta weapons are usually for slightly larger turrets, although you could probably make it work if you used cannon/pulse. I don't see much of a reason for using metaguns vs fighters, though. They're unlikely to have more than even one layer of armor, which might not even be advanced armor. I see...

Why on Earth is audio, which is, realistically, a non essential aesthetic/immersion system, planned for implementation before CREW, which will likely be (and if it isn't, that's frankly a major fuckup) a core gameplay mechanic? To be completely honest, I'm not sure I believe you that crew was...

Put the weapons behind eachother. Sorry, private convo. Basically, rapid weapons on small ships would get bonus damage vs other small ships.

Oh, yeah, I agree, it's completely counterintuitive. I've had discussions with possible solutions to this problem with one of the devs, Lancake, in the past, but for the moment it is how it is.