design

Introduction Welcome all to the Starmade Synthesis Thread. This thread is a series of topics aimed to encourage specialisation in design and to add strategic thinking and theory behind designs, hopefully leading to discussion and thought provocation. This will be more useful to those who play...

Basis - Dear StarMade Dock Community Members, I have come up with an idea to get creative juices flowing from everyone and to help inspire people to build creations which will vary from stations and ships to rooms and components. Each section of the competition will see a brief Storyline for...

"An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities (agents) operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviors as a collective." -Wikipedia I want to talk about what functional Astrotech repair implies for design theory in this game. Functional...

The Gmodism Industries Brings you: GHI Structural Blocks The Gmodism Heavy Industries have developed 'Structure, 7 Build-blocks Pack', a set of basic shapes with the purpose to design and shape constructions from ships to stations to THE UNIVERSE. Originally inspired from a StarMade official...

Yes, this is what it sounds like. The basic idea of a "salvage turret" is a docked entity that fires salvage beams at the nearest sources of minerals. A new option could be added into the Bobby AI as well. When you select the turret option a couple boxes show up to select either a normal turret...

This was the first time I ever tried to experiment with interior design. The outside of the ship doesnt look to good and I never finished it. But now I still want to put it up here so if someone wants to explore what is done... here you go. The idea was that it would be a big transportation and...

Some things that, as they are, either don't work or are somewhat difficult. 1:Repairing ships in the field 2:Placing lots of turrets on a design 3:Quickly replacing one kind of computer and module with another The suggested solution? The 'Imprint Computer' block. The Imprint Computer is an...

I wanted to title this treatment "The Best Defense" because it is based on what really works, not what should work from a perspective of min-maxing trying to plan for every eventuality. I went to a more technical description to prevent pointless bickering over semantics about whether...

O/ Hello peoples of the forum, I notice a lot of people are posting "I need inspiration for ______" esk forums, So I considered if people would like a forum dedicated to sharing interesting ship designs etc. This forum will primarily be interesting concept art, an occasional criss meme, And...

I would say (others may disagree) that building/designing is the core, the base of this entire game. The devs are to be commended on the building/designing controls they've created: they started from scratch, and achieved a functional result. I'm certain it wasn't easy, and took a huge amount...

d41d3d5717f74fa78c75c96580e33488 I-Beam Transport Mk1 (wip2) by Guard13007 on Sketchfab Been working on this design for a small simple transport. Currently can carry 84k volume and has a 3-module chain drive. 80k is in 8 of my 10k cargo pods, 4k is in the main vessel. I'm going to be adding...

Let's say that you want a smooth shell of advanced armor covering your ship. Problem is, advanced armor has a beveled look to it making your ship look like a tiled floor. Alright, you install a texture pack that fixes this. Wait, there's a problem. You have a ship that incorporated the...

Void Sectors in between stars so, in starmade, the current design in-game on star system design looks like this: (use imagination, the green lines represent system edges) as you can see, each star is in a uniform, grid like design. However, it would be better if it was like this: as you can...

Request: Add mechanic to prevent wholesale copying of entities, settable when spawning. Currently: PlayerA sells a ship to PlayerB. At any time PlayerB could create blueprint of the ship purchased from PlayerA, and duplicate, and sell to PlayerC, PlayerD, etc... This undercuts PlayerA's time &...

Hi guys, any suggestions on how I could make the back of my ship look less like a box? I added the two side compartments earlier and it seems to have helped, but I'm struggling to find any other ways to break up the outline.

Ok, I swear I'm going to do my best to be brief, but I was raised amongst a bunch of English nerds, so we'll see how well that goes. We have test sectors that can be reached through a command in the shipyard. At the moment, they're just an empty sector you can fly around in to make sure you...

Okay, so, I'm tired of all my PD turrets looking so ugly on my ships. I mean, seriously, I build a beautiful, sleek look ship, then I strap on the PD turrets and end up with a ship that looks like it has pimples! So I'm looking for some advice. How do you guys make PD turrets that don't look...

Anyone have some tips on how to make your ship look cooler. What are some of the things you guys have done to make your ships look sick. I attached a picture of the ship I'm currently working on. Its a battle carrier. How can I make it better. Also The fighter for it isn't very impressive but...

I've been making good progress on my latest ship. It's the first one I've gotten this close to completing. Aesthetically, it's inspired by some EVE Online ship I saw a picture of around here, mainly the basic shape of the bridge and the curved front armor piece... after that the similarities...

The Spear Class Destroyer is a pvp ship based on AMC and Permanent Missile Impact Artillery (APMI). Statistics : APMI : This system can launch a heat-seeking missile all the 0.5 second, for a total of ~10000 damage/missile The principal canons barrels for a total of 27000 dps Turret ...