Exactly what you wrote. And late game you can even bring the big guns in :p (well, big as in 10-12K mass)
Cookie, the main thing in space games is unrestricted movement (Homeworld, Haegemonia, Nexus, Sins of a Solar Empire, X, EVE, Elite etc.) so trying to restrict it would be pretty counterproductive.
I never tried to convince anyone of restrictions I mean exactly what you said, bait them, although there are no restrictions, there is a barrier in some sort of form, a barrier of usefulness if you go all the way around, it would just be a bit waste of time. I'm talking about splitting up the battlefield into 2 battlefields, this will also add the aspect or force placement, as you don't want to put full force on 1 flank and leave the other flank defenseless. I see we have the same opinion though :D
Not quite certain what your asking here. There are the mining stations, and as it is in a 3d space you could stage for an attack from really any angle. I'm guessing this is related to your second post which I talk about below.
Like other players have said, it's all based on what starmade's own internal mechanisms for determining the price of a ship. If starmade is set to buy with credits, a ship is a 1 click purchase
That could definitely be done, and I don't think it would be difficult. Though I think that would be something to do after release. What sort of system are you thinking? Would you just gain points for whatever actions, and once you reached certain amounts you gained a new rank? Or would it be more dynamic where you gained points for some actions and lost points for others, and get the potential to both increase and decrease in rank?
I think what your suggesting could be done using different maps. For example the map you see I'm likely to call tug_of_war. I have a second map (which no one has played yet) Called ring_of_fire that's basically 1 system with each base on opposite sides of the star, and the control points (mining stations) are in a circle like pattern around the star. I think it'd be nice to offer both types of gameplay. What do you think?
I like that thought. A shop would serve as a good staging point as you could buy ships and be closer to the enemy base while doing so. To attack quicker and act as a blocker to their advances. Though they would still be able to go around you or jump past. I think these would especially be interesting in maps like ring_of_fire that I talked about above where there could be two points like this.
I'd love to see StarD used for that. It's intended to load plugins that the server admin chooses, kinda like a forge for starmade servers(Ares being one of those plugins). It can be used to run a normal starmade server, or be modified to do other things. Though, like other server side wrappers, it's ability to influence stamade is limited to inputs of what it gets from the server logs, and the server commands themselves.
A shipyard. This could even allow a support ship class in the game that salvages wrecks and dumps their blocks into the shipyard to create free ship(s)
you know when you are playing a war game like call of duty, you move from cover to cover.
I appreciate the thought, but I don't tink such an environment would fit this type of game. Space is vast, and I don't think having lots of cover would make sense in a space based arena.
That could be interesting, I'll need to do some testing to see how well it works.
of course I don't mean lots of cover like in call of duty, that was to clarify what I mean.
