Well, RP is the thing that keeps this game alive. I rarely see anyone playing this game by it's set rules.
that's a bullshit excuse for the current state of affairs, the opposite actually: goes to show that the current set of rules need to get fixed
here's a controversial alternative: finish starmade with ship as it were, fixes to bobby ai and fleets. then go work for starmade 2. make us pay twice but release at least one finished game in our time frame!
You're wrong. I've played plenty of games before where things broke, or development was slow. That's pretty much every game ever, if you're given access to a game that's actively in development. I've never seen a prerelease game with such whiny, entitled players.
I don't know about the rest but MY main problem isn't simply the new system favoring certain forms; my problem is, that unlike with the previous system, this one hurts those who don't build "meta", e.g. actually care about their ships' looks, by limiting legitimate design options. Before structural integrity, stabilisers and only one active reactor group per ship allowed, people including me, were able to curve the systems, primarily the power lines and shields, around their interiors however they saw fit. You could make any hull with any interior layout functional, and you could build your hull and interior first, however you imagined it, without having to worry about where exactly you place the power generation and storage, the thrusters or the shields.
I've barely heard anyone cry about it breaking their designs. The players that don't want this are mostly the vets that understand the imbalance P2.0 brings to the game and are standing up against that.
No it wasn't.
Back in early 2015 we had another power update. It lowered the amount of power being generated by power modules. It also at the same time raised the power use of weapon modules. Result pretty much nothing designed up to that point could function anymore.
It will not make the game better. That to is an empty excuse to kill off all discussion and just command everyone to shut up and accept or walk away. What ever change comes because it will be better after the change. Schema for President and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
There will always be broken ship designs. As far as you can even speak of broken designs since all were build and work within the confines of the StarMade universe.
I said this from the moment a new power update was considered.. That all they would be doing is switching out one set of power issues for another set that will not only set them back development wise (by a lot). But ruin practically everything up to this point. Except that this new system will be the final nail in the player base simply because the devs have no real set plan or foresight with their constant changing of core mechanics.. Everything changes at whim with these people and has since the games inception, when what is really needed is to simply settle with a certain mechanic and then refine, refine, refine... Its the lack of faith in the devs abilities to plan and execute in which has destroyed this games once immense potential. Shame to have witnessed it all before i finally realized it was too late.. But i'm off to Empyrion where i have been for the last 6 months (who has achieved immense amounts of game play development) while these devs have achieved little to nothing of worth.
No one thought a power overhaul wasn't going to break their system designs. The problem comes from the fact that it breaks many HULL designs. A hull meaning the semi-decorative outer layer of a ship that all the systems and thicker armor are placed into to make it into a real ship. NO OTHER UPDATE has ever broken people's aesthetic designs. Up until 2.0 with its stabilizer distances, never before has an update made anyone's aesthetic choices into garbage. Yes, some shapes have and always will be slightly favorable due to simple geometry, but it never really mattered much in actual play.
No, it fucking wasn't. Schine didn't even think spaghetti ships were even a problem until most of the PvP community managed to convince them after weeks of trying to tell them this. And power 2.0? It doesn't even fix spaghetti! A completely different system, the structural integrity check, was used to fix it.
Old complaints- Newbs and noobs complaining that doomcubes are sooper op guiz!!!! I got killed by one once!!1!
Wrong, plain and simple. I've been here awhile, and the meta was NEVER restricted to a single shape. EVER. And we've been asking nicely for stabilizer removal for awhile now, and they just keep trying to rework it which made it even worse. So yes, a large number of people who enjoy the game and want it to succeed are getting angry and are going to vent their frustration until the problem is fixed or we get fed up and leave.
Keep adding blocks until you drop below 25% stability. You'll find out. IDK what it is in the current build.
The obvious flaw with this is that some people will build 2mil cap ships with guns and no interior. But so long as they have no advantage over people who actually put time into designing interiors, is that a bad thing?
You may think you're doing something to help with performance by putting a hardcap on ships, but you're actually making things worse. 1 50k mass ship causes a lot less lag than 5 10k mass ships. Non-linear systems in Starmade correlate directly with lag.
Oh, also, bigger doesn't always win. Bigger is generally worse even with pure linear systems just on a basis of how many targets and how many places a number of ships can be at one time.
