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    1. Asvarduil

      Coalition System Base - Type A (WIP)

      Pictured Below: The beginnings of a Coalition presence in a system. The Type A system base is an outpost with basic facilities for all Coalition personnel and allies. Pictured below are the Apartments, located in the Habitat Wing, and the Sickbay, located in the Industrial Wing. Esthar...
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      Item Console Commands

      So, I'm working on a mod for StarMade, which is in my signature. My research of the Command Line API has revealed some opportunities for commands that could make the game more easily moddable using existing techniques such as "Shadow"'s log-scraping/screen command setup. One thing I want...
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      Esthar Fleet Systems, Ready for Work!

      Pictured Below: Esthar Fleet Systems, hard at work building you new ships! Pictured left to right: Esthar Barge, the biggest ship, made for securely transporting people and cargo to their destination. Top is an Esthar Sentry, and bottom is an Esthar Pickman. Since the exodus from Earth...
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      MicroMade - Modded StarMade

      MicroMade - StarMade Like You've Never Played It GitHub Source for the Mod Backend is here A Modded Server Brought to you by Asvarduil, and Esthar Fleet Systems Project Status: Iteration 1 / Core Systems Development MicroMade is a modded StarMade server system being developed to address...
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      Coalition of Systems Navy

      Pictured Below: The strength of many worlds. Left to Right: Coalition Hoplite, a defensive fighter that uses inertia-enhancing missiles to halt foes in their tracks. Middle, the last thing any enemy of the Coalition wants to see, a Coalition Legionnaire. Right, the Coalition's eyes behind the...
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      Honorable Sword-Ships of the Valron Empire

      Pictured Below: Fear our blades! Left to right: a mighty Valron Estoc, a 20-mass defensive fighter that can drop Mjolnir shields in a couple of shots, and a formidable Valron Lirpa; while weaker it can literally fly circles around anything! The Valron Empire will be a faction on the upcoming...
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      Mjolnir Pirates

      Pictured Below: You're being raided. Left to right: Mjolnir Marauder, a mid-mass assault vessel, Mjolnir Skjoldr, a defensive superlight fighter, and lastly the Mjolnir Raider, the heaviest and most dangerous of the Mjolnir vessels. It can be boarded and has capacity to carry loot! I'm...
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      How to Overhaul Your Pirates

      The TL;DR Edition: By changing the pirate station content, and making pirate stations rarer, and ensuring that weak pirates with limited loot appear, we can have better PvE without any coding or design changes to the game as-is. The Suggestion So, I was screwing around with an idea for ship...
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      Clarity, Metrics, and Players - What is this game's design, anyway?

      Foreword: I'm being critical of StarMade. These critiques are because I care - I like the idea of this game, and want it and its developers to succeed. In this game's current state, I don't see this happening. If you can't stomach someone being critical, or expressing problems with this...
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      Makin' Blocks Better

      Foreword A lot of talk involves making mining smoother, or enhancing exploration. These are good goals. However, ships, stations, bases, whatever all take blocks. Right now, I have to be honest - the process of making blocks just isn't too good. It's time consuming, it's annoying...it gets...
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      How to add more interesting exploration...by using entity generation code!?

      As a long time player/tester/whatever of StarMade, one of my key complaints about the game has been a paradox: this game generates entire frickin' galaxies...yet, there's little to actually explore. All planets are notable because of mineral deposits, and, frankly, why bother? Asteroids have...
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      Craftable Tools

      This suggestion is a simpler one. Is there any way that we can use the various factories to make replacements of certain tools (e.g. Healing Beam, Pistol, Marker Beam, Sniper Rifle, Flashlight, Torch, etc.?) It would help make 'survival' scenarios a little more believable. While we're at it...
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      Asvarduil's Grand Ship Balance Thread

      If you don't like reading, turn away. There's a lot of text here. I like StarMade; I really do! That said, I've found that at present the game is just not very fun. Some of that can be solved by creating other systems to force interaction, but a good bit of the things stopping the game from...
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      Updated to latest client, can't find the Rails system blocks

      The title says it all. Is there a specific process I need to do to update my local database? (Bear in mind - I did not partake in Dev Builds that featured the Rails system.)
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      Territorial PvP - Sherlock + Homes

      The territorial PvP in StarMade is one of the factors of the game I enjoy by and far the most. Having to hunt faction-blocks on non-homeworlds to "shift" a system to my faction's control is a very interesting type of play - in a way a direct, but indirect form of PvP, which in my experience is...
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      How do I force the game to run as a 64-bit process?

      One thing I've been noticing lately is the "Increase memory" message quite a bit. One other thing I noticed: when I run StarMade in Windowed Mode, it's running as a 32-bit process. I bought and downloaded StarMade on Steam, and I run a Win7 x64 system, with both 32-bit and 64-bit Java on it...
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      Female Avatar: Stephanie (the counterpart to Steve)

      While Steve is an awesome character, who should be totally iconic, I can't help but think the game forces the player into a box. I think it would be a pleasant cosmetic choice, to be able to choose either Steve, our current male pilot...or Stephanie, his female counterpart. It wouldn't change...
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      Skin Request: Mega Man X

      So, I've seen the ODST skin on a player on the server I play on, so I'd like to get a Mega Man X skin. Either X or Zero is a good idea. X: Factory armor X: Advanced armor Zero: Factory armor
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      Esthar Fleet Technologies

      If you like ships that are functional and sleek, you've come to the right place. In this thread, I'm going to be posting screenshots/videos/download links to all Esthar Fleet Technologies creations. My designs are all based around form and function being in harmony - a good ship doesn't have...
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      Speaker/"Boombox" Block

      StarMade is a very atmospheric game, that I enjoy greatly. That said, I find the lack of music disturbing. To remedy this lack of aural stimulation in this space simulation, I suggest the legendary Boom Block. Boom Block HP: 50 Armor: 0% "Plays a sound that nearby astronauts can hear. Press...