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Using the config files, would it be possible to say, add the behavior from warheads onto shield capacitors? Or are they only used to change values.

Was/Is this true?

The Frankensteinian stations might have their own charm. But yeah, station admins could build around the personal areas so that they aren't visible from the outside. Like a teenager's room. It's still less work than making individual, fully equipped station quarters.

Right now the most common faction in Starmade is the one man faction. The reason is obvious, you get your own invincible station and system free of charge (well the station costs like 5 million credits, but other than that), it's a pretty good deal, and I wouldn't want to change that. It's...

The simpler option is just to disable planet mining and at the same time increase the mining bonus multiplier. The main side effect is that smaller ships will get higher yields than before. Which is fine with me.

This is aa really good idea! It solves the problem of homebases being the only place to safely dock ships so it's gets harder and harder to project force, yet it's not completely invincible, you lose too many outposts and you don't get enough FP to make your bases invulnerable. It wouldn't be...

That would be an improvement. 1500 ping isn't fun. Lag jumping back 10 seconds for two minutes before getting timed out is substantially less seamless than just having to get out of your ship once in a while.

Anything that would counteract the planet eaters massive lagstorm

You're right, I was misremembering, adjusting aim using a machine gun would work with the cannon pulse, but cannon beam has double range and double speed, meaning that you couldn't use that at longer ranges (the whole reason to use cannon beam) and the double speed means that it's different...

I'm a little unclear on what the basic/standard/advanced factory dichotomy even brings to the table. The resources required to make the advanced factory are trivial to acquire, so there isn't any type of progression gating (and that sort of gating might be undesirable anyway). Maybe if advanced...

Yeah, I'm a little unsure of proper forum etiquette in these sorts of situations. It's one thing when you're asking a question, it's another when you're making a suggestion, right?

"Learning to play" is only good enough for short ranges and rapid fire cannons situations where you can afford to make reference shots and where the enemy ship is visible enough that it's possible to estimate visually the velocity of the opposing ship (speed and direction). Being told that...

I'm not sure of the proper name, but an indicator that shows where you should shoot to land a hit on another ship, assuming that the ship continues on it's current trajectory, based on the velocity of the projectile and the velocity of the enemy ship. (And possibly your own velocity, I'm not...

Or doing this for asteroids too, but making salvage beams unable to harvest planets because that's a lagfest anyway. (atmospheric interference?)

I'm sorry, I don't know what this means, what is properly designed and why do cube ships not live up to that? I wasn't aware that angles had any effect.

Easily designed, low effort cubes are superior to basically any other ship profile. Problem: The way the build mechanics of the game currently work means that ships that are cubeish are superior to any other, the first advantage they get is that they turn slightly faster than ships of larger...

Are role play ships less heavily penalized compared to system bricks? Is the turning penalty caused by empty space offset by greater missile resistance (since a missile can't destroy empty space). What are the biggest changes to the metagame?

The way respawning works right now, it's fairly easy to get spawn camped, especially if you make a station design mistake or are just starting out. This is a form of dead-lock and should be avoided. My solution is that people can set their respawn points, same as ever, but that they also have...

The protected neutral intermittently placed docking stations would be better. It gives neutrals cover and warring factions infrastructure to exert control over but not ownership of. I hope it catches on.

But one station is all that can ever really be docked to safely, so players have to make a backwards journey every time. They can't project force at all at this point. People need more flexible places to log out, or else the universe can be nothing more than insular. Maybe there's a better way...