All of the good Season 3 Blood and Steel ships did this. Your new soft cap becomes thrust because thrust only draws power from the first dock in the chain.
If you put the power load onto a docked reactor, you could replace all of the power reactors in the turret with more weapon modules, making it deal ~30% more damage.
So, the devs literally say they considered docked reactors to be an exploit and go out of their way to fix the problem, so your first reaction is to ignore them and keep making docked reactors?
1) If I had wanted the turret to do 30% more damage, I would have made the weapons 30% bigger and designed around that. They do exactly the amount of damage I wanted them to do (you think they came out in nice round numbers by accident?).
If your ship is so small that 3 blocks and 0.25 mass greatly affect your ship design, it is statistically too small to be effective in combat unless you deploy them in the thousands.Im convinced these guys have never built anything small, lol
You don't need to be quite so accusatory. I have never actually built a ship. I don't play on any servers.
Sorry, just getting really tired of hearing about people pulling this kind of thing, which is going to ruin it for everyone who's not abusing the system.
I just don't want to put a lot of blocks on small drones with mass < 100! If one of AI blocks will be destroyed, it will kill all logic and just wreck this ship because it will do wrong!jijiji - just because you come crashing in here disrespecting the OP suggestion in order to shamelessly plug your own without actually understanding yourself what Edymnion is proposing, doesn't mean we haven't read the thread. You bashed his idea saying it would take around "50 blocks" to provide AI for a turret or small craft when it clearly would not as outlined, and is completely viable the way it was suggested... then you ask if *I* read the thread?
Yes, yes indeed. Yes, I read the whole thing and no matter how many times you repeat your opinions, I like the OP. Repetition does not make truth.
Your suggestion has good merit as well. Ideally I'd love to see a system of block-AI in place that could accomplish all the features you outline.
Is this not... Good? If your pilot takes a shot, it doesn't matter that it only his arm or something. It will really screw the ship. Just try to drill a hole through a computer mainframe somewhere that doesn't break it.
Then make fun AI creations just for that. Some people made a computer mainframe, in starmade. You can do the same with AI if you want.
Pls show me. It must have like sentience or solve the traveling salesman problem or something. Why would you need that? Besides, if it's something like you need to make it straffe or trench a target, I bet they could add an AI block just for that.
As I said, people have made mainframes in starmade. If the game can handle that many logic blocks, it sure can handle a fraction of that for the AI.
Ah, so the truth is that you want an AI that can only stop working after it's bobby module,[ hidden behind 5 (possibly 9) faction modules via docked-hull chicanery,] gets popped, and not, say, from getting it's RAM shot to shit (which would simply cause it to shoot anything hostile, instead of your preferred target type)
And that's a flaming load of horse-shit. A dozen logic clocks running on the same ship will produce lag, sure. because the logic blocks are actually changing their on/off state. 500 logic doors slaved to one activator will do the same shit for a slightly different reason.(sight/lighting calculations)
AI module->Shoot at missiles. 2 blocks.
I would be fine with seeing a proper AI-interface out of a single block as well, if it could allow the same degree of flexibility!! This will also increase server load!!1! Every entity will still have to be checked for AI actions, whether it arises from blocks or from background code!!!11!
Please do within the context of what Edymnion has actually suggest here, because from what you are saying, you still have not read through his whole post and actually understood what he is proposing, yet you continue to camp his thread and shout him down.
This I'd love to see. Enough shouting "guys I'm right, I know I'm right, believe me! It's bad! So Bad! My idea is most right!" Enough, already. Enough colors and exclamations.
Man! Cool down! I am posting here to help developers and Starmade, but not for insulting people.
Annotation: code and suggestion about manual AI configuration are raw yet! This code may be changed in future. This suggestion means that players can make their own code. A similar mechanics is now ingame, but without ability to use your own code! That's a problem.
Block controlled AI can to be handled by server. We are talking about heavy configuration.I would be fine with seeing a proper AI-interface out of a single block as well, if it could allow the same degree of flexibility!! This will also increase server load!!1! Every entity will still have to be checked for AI actions, whether it arises from blocks or from background code!!!11!
...so...
All arguments from expertise, loud text coloration and emphatic insistence aside, BOTH approaches would result in a similar server load to calculate AI and a non-block AI can easily cause killer server load as well (unless you incorrectly believe that poorly implemented non-block AI cannot).
A server load to calculate AI already exists, as well, which would be replaced by any new model, so we are not talking about load on top of current AI, we are looking at it replacing current AI in both cases. You've yet to demonstrate how your model is better except by saying very loudly that "you know" and we should just accept that you know best. Just because. There is no evidence and it flies directly in the face of what Edymnion specifically wrote about retaining the ability to implement a fully functioning replica of the current AI with a single block. You are literally just shouting
Code posted in previous post. Looks like here is error. Give me a second to fix it.Please do within the context of what
Show us, please, how a system where a player is able to add one Bobby AI block to give a bomber AI orders to "TARGET ALL" - exactly as proposed in the OP - somehow forces players to use 50o blocks to get that same bomber AI to work.
I can make a code for AI. But it's allowed only for developers. Edited: If you know any way to make code for this game, tell me and I will make it.
Can you make block analog of my current code for bomber?Yes, please
Seeing as how its a bomber, I'm assuming it has a big missile bomb, and at least some kind of secondary weapon. So, here's my take on it:
Bobby
Target:Ship - Mass - Activator On
"Aim at the ship" with "Mass 100%", aka aim at the single largest ship in sight. Or we could expand it to:
Bobby
Target:Station
Target:Ship - Mass - Activator On
There, 3 extra blocks under the thread topic way of doing it to have your bomber target the largest ship in sight. Or we can go for 4 extra blocks and it will now do bombing runs against stations and ignore ships until the station is destroyed, and will then turn on the ships, destroying them in order from largest to smallest.
What you mean is immersive not ehtical, and a simple optical menu redesign would help by this problem.
Ähhh... Sorry Guys but combat isnt that static that this AI controll system is. We need fast and comfortable ways to reajust AI even in combat.
