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NO! That is no better than our current system; people will just stick in a single base with 100% protection and never do anything to anyone else because everyone else is too. And in the event that someone actually did split up protection to more than 2 bases or so, someone would look up their...

Jump height doesn't need to be reduced. What's needed is 'smart jumping', i.e. the AI being able to figure out how high it has to jump to traverse a given incline. (It also needs to recognize ramps as traversible without jumping.)

Given the way the map and the home-base system are currently set up, I'd rather keep the homebase locations in the diplomacy menu... For now the ability to locate each other's bases isn't a bad thing by any means; it's not like anyone can do serious damage, or that you can even hide a base...

Welp, never mind then; I didn't look :P

Yep. Once a system like this is in we won't really need faction homebases in the first place, although if stations in general get a large buff...

I'll be coming online later today, actually, but I'm starting to think we should look for a new server... Also, I've been working on a 'new' ship concept, and the Kelith's systems are being finished up; hopefully the concept will be finished by tomorrow. UPDATE: Actually, it turns out that the...

I've only ever seen this while docked to something else, where it has existed for a long time. Terribly annoying bug... But if it's happening when not docked, then by all means, report the bug. phab.starma.de is our current bug tracker.

Want to know why people don't talk about boarding strategies with ships much? Because it doesn't work. You have to either grapple on as an astronaut and cut your way in with a cutting torch, or make a hole in their capital ship with your capital ship and head in that hole.

Since we're moving into player and NPC interactions with ships, the next logical step is player, NPC, and ship interaction with the universe and with other factions. The first problem to tackle there, probably, is the current invulnerability of homebases. Many suggestions exist to deal with...

Yeah, if that development cycle actually works out it'll be a lot better for near-term player retention... Personally, though, I was really loving the 1-month development cycle. I dunno.

This is a strange workaround, not really a solution, and in practice actually using the war system would be a rare occurrence seeing as it would risk all of your resources. As I see it, to really fix the issues with invulnerable homebases, we need a lot of mechanical additions and modifications...

Next update fixes things like that one bug where your beams go through entities to hit docked entities behind whatever you were targeting. However, the update that is hitting later this month WILL have new content. Don't quote me on this, but... It's gonna be the cargo revamp, I'm willing to bet.

Nope. Transporting from a docked entity drops your shields too. I tried this, albeit not for the sake of an exploit.

Precisely. I even will take the 10 second down period like we have when someone drops your shields. Hell, maybe a little longer. It just shouldn't have to recharge the capacitors; as someone said earlier that punishes capacity-based shield setups.

Yup... Filled grav tubes (Blast doors, force fields...) as well as horizontal grav tubes are about as hard to beat as a transporter. Only difference is that you know exactly where to cut with grav tubes; not so with transporters.

Sensors take about half a second to cut through. Walls, on the other hand, are armored.

Boarders will not normally be using gravity... They can just fly up/down the tube if it is vertical. A horizontal tube, however, might pose problems.

Yeah, aside from balancing issues regarding shields, combat, and teleportation, I've honestly gotten more and more apathetic about this entire issue. As I see it, players without knowledge of logic and whatnot can just use transporters to get between decks; those of us who know a little more can...

+1. So much +1. (This would also help noobs not get stuck places if people leave their transporters at public access... :P)

My last name's Ivrar'kiim, not Scott. Besides, nobody ever said that anyway.