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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.

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...

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...

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...

In order to encourage factions to branch out, and maybe for individuals who want to keep their ships safe without increasing faction spam, I propose making invincible stations where ships can be docked. Some stipulations though. 1. Turrets docked to the station will not be able to fire. 2...

The hp system is only an update away, and it brings with it the biggest incentive for people to board, ship capture. Currently capturing ships is easy, destroy the core, capture what's left, but after the HP update destroying the ship means destroying blocks. The ship you capture might not even...

It doesn't have to be a quantitative explanation, my specific questions are: How does it effect ships of greater mass? Does it impart a force on a per block basis? Is it like air resistance, where the force is greater at greater speeds? Based on playing, it feels like that is the case, does...

This could be a new block, or an alternate use for the scanner block. It would be a bock you place that scans intermittently and sends the player and or faction that placed it a scan report if it detects a ship. This probably can't work because of sector unloading, or it would slow down...

This would be a change to weapon mechanics, possibly more (salvagers etc.), where the DPS per block is increased to let's say 30. Then the total damage is multiplied times the percentage of the ship that is that weapon battery. So a ship with a 1000 DPs array that is 10% of the ship will do 100...

Like it or not this is an issue with any game that plays by the private server model, how do server owners pay for their expenses? What are the ethical concerns in server owners giving players, and children in particular, (I suspect children don't play much starmade, but there is always a...

I made a ship build and statistic planner spreadsheet for starmade recently. It's not comprehensive but it can still be useful. I posted it as a Google docs template, let me know if there are better ways to distribute it...

The wiki doesn't seem to have any formulas for calculating damage after adding effect modules to weapons so I thought it might not be common knowledge. So I calculated it for my ship building spreadsheet (WIP). Thought I'd share it here before my spreadsheet drops. DPA = Damage per activation...

New Mechanics 1. Turret turning uses mothership power. (IIRC this is already planned) 2. Turrets turn slower with mass. (I think this is planned too) 3. Turrets turn faster and turret turning drains more power in bigger turret docking areas. (I don't think they're planning on keeping the...

Starmade does a good job at allowing players to build what they want, but in some ways adding blocks to a space ship can seem a lot like just adding points to a characters rpg sheet. Except for power generation, weapons and docking the only systems which require a particular arrangement in order...