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Eve's system works quite well , with competing interdiction ships and warp drive stabilizers. It could be applied to Starmade. Just give ships a "jump drive strength" rating based on the number of jump drive blocks relative to mass , that would require a superior "interdiction strength" rating...

That's only necessary if you like to leave your ship unmanned and undocked. Pulses can be manually activated whenever the intrusion warning pops up.

Actually , the main balance consideration is how large pulse arrays are needed to kill boarders reliably. If you can kill them with a negligible fraction of your ship mass in pulse blocks , then the boarding mechanic may as well not be there. Because the core is the main target for boarding ...

So this is what arguments devolve into. Should vs shouldn't. Not much left to discuss , then.

The new HP system worsens gigantism. If you face a ship x% bigger than you , core drilling (after shields go down) would only take x% longer than a ship your size (assuming cubic ships , many people build theirs flat) but now that you have to destroy half of its modules , it'll take (x^3)%...

This is a misconception I have disproved long ago , as long as ships can match each other's speed they will always be able to face each other , no matter how slowly : http://oldsite.star-made.org/content/vector-analysis-tactical-situations-starmade Strafing really doesn't help when chasing or...

This is the kind of flawed thinking that prevents any progress in game balance. The number of active players in a faction cannot be expected to scale with the size of ships they'd have to kill , if they were to use small ships. Small ships have no shield regeneration and so even a large group...

Lag is mostly a symptom that people go for the biggest because it's best. People overthink this issue , there are 2 very simple options to encourage players to fly small and medium mass ships : 1) Get rid of effective invulnerability from shield regen in combat , so that several small ships...

I like the concept , but these should both be linked to 2 blocks and take as much volume as possible to perform better than standard power blocks. Big rings of reactors that destroy a bigger ring when hit. I prefer the concept of solar pannels however. Blocks on the outside of your ship that...

Another problem with those suggestions is their complexity , once you start adding extra balancing mechanics and workarounds for exploits. Simplicity can determine wether a suggestion has any hope of being implemented. I don't see the point of balancing ships based on power rather than mass...

That poll is invalid as it doesn't give any option to downvote individual bad ideas (or all of them) and so should be ignored. Fuel has been discussed before , the consensus was that it would add nothing of value to the game. As for non-essential performance boosting consumables , there's still...

This is in great part due to Starmade being stuck in limbo , design wise. It is mostly a ship-building simulation that draws casual or uncompetitive creative players , but has a few competitive features tacked on to give the more belligerent factions things to do. Both use the same mechanics to...

I hope their loot drops will be sought after. That way , hunting poachers to safeguard species would be a nice roleplay excuse to pick fights.

A fun tradition , but I'm concerned about the size of the tracks and how far planet gravity extends - it takes a flick up to throw your vehicle out of it , and fly off the track. It would take lots of checkpoints to counter that.

This could be quite simple to add. Have a skull block dropped when an astronaut or ship pilot dies , to be collected by his killer. They could adorn said killer's ship , lending credibility to spooky ship designs.

As I've been saying for a while , since the game wasn't designed around PvP from the start , there's not very much for competitive players to do (as the metagame of each update is quickly figured) which makes the game a lot more passive and empty than it should be.

People may not have paid attention to that part of the update - logic systems can now be triggered from the action bar. This means any unorthodox ship constructs like drone racks , disintegrator torpedoes or plexdoor webs can be easily activated in the middle of combat , without stopping your...

People will select the unfun option given the chance , for security or combat effectiveness. Game design in which the unfun option outcompetes the others is broken. Time spent charging the jump drive should result in exposure , it's completely pointless otherwise. How does it make the game...

...I didn't realize you could charge multiple jump drives. Even without shieldplates , that's ridiculously broken. Why allow several ? This begs to be abused as this thread shows.

None of this would be an issue if jump drives had a reasonable counter , like long range jump disruption pulses and automated jammers for stations. In the meantime , jump drive spooling would allow meaningful combat lasting more than 2 seconds. No charge while firing or being fired at with any...