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    1. EricBlank

      In the Universe Update; Dwarf Galaxies.

      So this is based on some real science, presumably, because I saw it on the science channel, right? Anyway, there is such a thing as as dwarf galaxies. Compared to the milky way, which contains billions of stars and has a spiral shape, these are pretty formless clusters of a few hundred thousand...
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      Give us some cheap decorative hull blocks

      One of the complaints i see and sometimes think about myself is that our choices for good looking hull blocks also happen to be heavy, expensive armored blocks. So the simplest suggestion is to give us some decorative, unarmored, lightweight and dirt cheap blocks that look good as smooth or...
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      Feature Rarity and "Unique" features in the Universe Update

      In my opinions, one of the things open world, sandbox space sims do badly, often, is making otherwise interesting things far too abundant to continue to be interesting, and i sincerely hope this doesnt continue to be the case for Starmade in the future. I say continue, because from day 1 i...
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      Game Launcher Immediately Hangs on First-Time Startup

      So I just bought myself a brand-new gaming laptop and figured, why not see how much Starmade it can handle? The laptop, first of all is a Dell, it came with windows 10 64bit pro and a free trial of McAfee security, it has sufficient RAM, CPU, graphics capabilities. So I've installed java RE 8...
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      Brainstorming Basic Creatures and Flora for the Future.

      schema recently stated theyre starting on the universe update, and last i heard, after that they wanted to start working on things like creatures and flora to populate that universe. So i thought, why dont we pitch in some ideas for very basic, super simple critters and plants that we feel...
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      Player/Faction Reputations

      So going forward schine has stated players will have a few different options for roleplaying and mission running, and my suggestion here is to give the game a way to track player activities more in depth, by giving them a reputation. There are three levels that need to be tracked, factions...
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      Artificial Planet (Station) Development

      So the next project i wanted to work on was a spherical artificial planet. But before i really get started, i wanted some advice, maybe some hurtles and solutions other players have had working on a similar project in the past. The plan was to have a hollow center where additional parts could...
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      Acid Model for Salvage Beams

      Something i thought would be a huge improvement to designing salvage/mining vessels is applying the acid damage model to salvage beams, so they harvest not just the block theyre pointed at but the blocks around it. Then we dont need to use a waffleboard pattern to make sure we're mining...
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      Discussion Regarding Balancing the Doom Laser

      So this was meant specifically to discuss the implementation of the beam:beam "doom laser." Mostly regarding how it should function and how it should be balanced. I havent heard a whole lot about the devs' current plans for it, though ive heard stuff like restricting its use on turrets...