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    1. War Dog

      Stabilize Cloaking/Jamming

      We all know the biggest problem with deploying cloaking/jamming ships is that it's completely at the mercy of server lag. When the server de-synchs, the c/j field continues to drain energy, but your own ship's energy isn't updated; so the field drops when you run out of energy (which tends to be...
    2. War Dog

      Administrative Ranks

      The current administrative system is incredibly flawed; you're either an admin, or you're not. Having someone become a admin means they also have access to every command a server owner does; including the ability to make others admins. I suggest we have a config file that creates "ranks" and...
    3. War Dog

      AI Viper Swarm Drones

      My last batch of swarm drones caused significant amounts of lag due to the amount of collisions, so I went back and reworked it. This new batch seems to have passed my standards. One of the servers I went to was interested in it, but the original drones were too much for his relatively new...
    4. War Dog

      Let's Talk Optimization.

      As good as the game will get, one of the biggest detriments to game experience is LAG. In this thread we players can attempt to come up with ideas that will reduce both the load on the server and the amount of space needed. A couple of suggestions in the previous thread I made about economic...
    5. War Dog

      Qweshchuns 4 Devs: Stealth Change

      All I know about the stealth change is that cloaking will cost 145 power per block and jamming only costs 5. I'm curious to know if there are any other changes, because if it's just this then I don't think people understand just how powerful the jammer is... Currently, jamming makes you...
    6. War Dog

      Attempt at Reworking the Economy

      Currently, the idea is that the relative ease of getting blocks to sell is balanced by the fact that you need to find shops to sell them to. That means spending all that time flying around looking for shops and then selling your stuff; finding more shops, selling your stuff, repeat ad nauseum...
    7. War Dog

      Dem Feels.

      I have a story. It starts in Sun-World server, a server I've started playing a bit whenever Illusive goes down. I putz around and make some cash. Buy a destroyer, putz around even for even more cash. Then run off when I get a decent recipe to go mine a planet for materials. It turns out, that...
    8. War Dog

      Quick Fixes for Economy Exploits

      So yeah, the current economy system is horribly broken. While the suggestions I'll give won't fix it, it'll help plug up some of the more exploitable usages. What server admins can do without Dev intervention: 1. Remove faction blocks from the cubatom list. 2. Reduce the price of Ice Planet...
    9. War Dog

      Increasing the amount of interaction between players.

      Space. It's really, really big and stuff. Space is supposed to be big, the issue is there's not enough of everything to fill the universe. Traveling is boring, yet it's what we spend most of the game doing. As a pirate, I spend a lot of time searching for targets. Considering canvassing a 25...
    10. War Dog

      We Need More Privateers.

      Illusive and many of the servers I frequent are becoming filled with happy, friendly people happily giving happy, friendly help to their happy, friendly friends. It sickens me. Conflict is the basis of much of the action that goes on in servers. I rather like action. So in order to mediate...
    11. War Dog

      Quick, Very Biased, Possibly Humorous/Insulting Overview of Factions on Illusive.

      Since a few others have posted about the whole "war" thingamajig and weighed their opinions about the various sides in it; I figured I might as well throw in my own 2 credits about how things are on the server it's taking place on. Then I remembered that no one cares about anything other than...
    12. War Dog

      Decorating is harder than it seems...

      Still working on making my ships less boxxy, it's a bigger head scratcher than I thought it would be. My inner munchkin flaring up every now and then does not make it easier. After 2 hours of thinking of where blocks go I ended up with this so far: http://imgur.com/iBiBNot And then I got...
    13. War Dog

      Hello.

      I am War Dog. In game name is War_Dog I shoot things. I make ships that don't look very nice but they fly and shoot things; that's good enough for me. I believe that it's better to give than to receive. So my ships always have lots of guns. I tend to fly solo because factions tend to...
    14. War Dog

      Swarm Drones.

      So I experimented a bit with the new docking system and with the new AI change; found a fun way to make pirates a bit tougher. But first: Two simple ships: http://i.imgur.com/gRSNMvF.png Completely unassuming ships that are fairly weak. Now, in these two sments I made it so every time they...
    15. War Dog

      Blueprints = Intellectual Property?

      Since I'm horrible at ship aesthetics, I've found a new hobby of taking abandoned wrecks back to SP and recreating them. The problem is, I've got some concerns about blueprint sharing. As much as I change the ship, the "credit" for making them remains the creator's. I have no interest in...
    16. War Dog

      Violations of Common Sense.

      In this thread we do things to ships that may be immoral or illegal depending on your point of view. (Get your mind out of the gutter, that's Mangaka territory eh?) I made a small corvette, but felt that it didn't have enough guns. SO I GAVE IT MORE GUNS http://oi43.tinypic.com/2afgyhh.jpg
    17. War Dog

      So the incoming AMC change...

      Doesn't it make shotgun arrays THE most effective design (Well, even more effective than it already is). I mean, stacked AMCs already lose to 1-block shotguns in terms of DPS and no matter how strong an AMC is, it can only break a single block per shot. Ah well, there's time for one last...
    18. War Dog

      Server Sustainability

      So after playing on a block-purchase BP server for awhile; I'm a bit disconcerted. Most recipes require planet blocks; recipes that require manufacturing items also use planet blocks since manufacturing items require planet blocks. The only way to acquire enough planet blocks to use in a...
    19. War Dog

      Buying blueprints with blocks changes.

      I want to make a couple of suggestions about this new feature. 1. Make hull universal. i.e. you can you other hull colors AND wedges/corners to buy a ship. Black and gray are the two most common hulls in the game, while other colors are pretty hard to come buy aside from going from shop to...
    20. War Dog

      Turret Control

      So I have my turrets set to "Selected target" and noticed some loser was spawncamping and went to drill some proper nettiquette into his head/core. It went a bit like this: Newbie: i am gettg kild by dis guy halp meh. Spawncamping loser: stfu nub u r teh suk Me: lolol i pwnz this luzer rofl...