gameplay

    1. D

      Making fighting pirates actually fun?

      The old past time of blowing up (or getting blown up by) pirates should, in theory, be one of the main things that you can do in this game, but I feel like there's a ton of problems that make gameplay rather inconsistent and unpredictable, as welll as some smaller hurdles that could be overcome...
    2. Blarg3437

      Performance Thread

      Hey everyone, I have been trying to get back into the game - but I have been experiencing a performance roadblock keeping me from really enjoying the building. For me its mostly freezing, but I know a few people I have tried to get into the game have had low FPS issues as well. What are some of...
    3. Code North

      Looking back on one year of playing starmade (including screenshots)

      One year of NOT playing starmade, lets see what changed. We now have Mod support. In the dev branch. That was used so a 3rd party can attempt to balance the basic gameloop. In the dev branch. Anything else? no? Ok moving on. How does the current playerbase look like? Well the playerbase did...
    4. V

      Character/astronaut Rotation

      As the title say, back in some years you had the possibility too rotate the astronaut every direction like you should be able too. As Space has no up/down etc. so my question is why did this get removed why can i only do ( UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-FORWARD-BACKWRDS) Are this Rotation feature coming...
    5. MacThule

      Stations 2.0 -BEFORE- Galaxy 2.0

      If Schine releases the new Galaxy 2.0 before doing work on stations, they could be ensuring that they spend the next 6 months chasing down gameplay issues that seem to be related to the galaxy but are actually rooted in problems with stations. This is because stations (including actual stations...
    6. Thinkin

      Faction Infastructure and Homebase Invulnerability: A solution to permanent turtling

      The purpose of this idea is to prevent players on servers from using homebases as a means of avoiding hostile interaction with other players while still allowing for new players to be able to have a means to protect themselves from having all their work being destroyed overnight while they are...
    7. T

      More Realistic Planet Shapes

      While I generally like the way planets look now compared to when I first played with the disc worlds, I still think they could use some updates. I've done some research on different shapes that better resemble planets and I know that there has been other posts on scaling planets similar to what...
    8. Dalmont

      Restricted Build Mode

      We all know that build mode is arguably one of the best features in StarMade; but what if we could turn it off completely? I propose a server configuration option that will enable admins to turn off build-mode on a per-player, per-sector, or per-server basis. Ideally it could also be restricted...
    9. R

      Recognized Creative mode Shift click!

      Hi, My idea would be with use of a Shift+Click in Creative mode. What would it do? -Clicking on an item in item menu would add that item in the hot bar. -Clicking on an item in hot bar would remove that item in hot bar. Benefits? - Faster items swapping. - Similarity with...
    10. Zero977

      Read by Schine A more Realistic Feel- Hear me out:

      Hello reader, I am Zero, I love to fight in PVP and PVE, I like to steal ships with my torch and take them over right under my enemies nose. (I really don't like to mine so I have to make a living somehow) I think in starmade's current state, it is very easy, and very hard to raid people...
    11. Krejzifik

      Graphics and gameplay suggestions

      Create option to choose shaders like in "The Forest"; Block reflection; Moving Stars in background; Some stars explosions in background; DOF (Depth of field); Penetration of light through glass; 3D Blocks like button; Some things from GLSL shaders mod (minecraft); The destruction of the ship by...
    12. A

      ship controling enhancement

      HI, I know this idea is planned in the futur but, I was wondering how cool it would be to be able to do a barrel roll or a loop with your ship by (for instance) double tapping W/A/S/D key on your keyboard or the left/right/Up/Down arrow keys. PvP and even PvE would be enhanced since missiles...
    13. Xielvanic

      cant load Entire titans

      Good afternoon! I'm in the process of building quite the ship. about 800m wide, 700m tall, and a bit over 2km long. I'm currently running this game on max settings. even going in advanced settings, and maxing everything out, it still doesn't load the entire ship, just so many blocks in every...
    14. MewKay15

      A few things that can make gameplay more enjoyable

      These things may have been brought up before and maybe being implemented soon anyway, I just wanted to go over a few things I would look forward to. These are just things that would change the gameplay. From what I really want to see in game to what may be nice to add. 1. Virtual Horizon I know...