I wouldn't put attempts of using autoclickers to avoid this limitation of the human body out of the realm of the thinkable, especially when it comes to the starmade community.
Last I checked, StarMade has a utility built into it designed to prevent other applications from injecting input. While that does not mean there are not some ppl in this community that would know how to overcome that limit, it seems like an awful lot to worry about when you could literally just use a cannon/cannon instead. Even in the case of auto clickers and logic multi-plexing, capping it at the same recharge as a cannon/cannon should be good enough IMO.
The multi-output weapons (ranging from 10-30 outputs) I've tested so far do about 1/2 the damage as single output acid weapon for the number of blocks and do way less damage for the power cost. They still have their specific cases of usefulness, but they are no-longer ideal for raw damage or penitration.
I strain to see the sense in not maintaining powercost:damage delt v.s powercost:group configuration, particularly for the sake of AMT or salvage arrays. Punishing configuration seems counter intuitive given the purpose of the groups concerned. On the small ships I typically use, the power cost from the honey-comb layout v.s the same block count as a single unit pushes the reactor size needs up another tier.. so I have to scale back the beam strength in order to maintain the same area coverage... why does that make sense?
Hehe, I was just stating my findings, not my opinion on them. Like I said, there are still a few practical applications for multi-output weapons; so, maybe the game will find a balance out of it, but whether they will still be a viable option will be largely determined by how the unfinished aspects of the new weapons system will balance out.
What we need is a ship-mounted equivalent of the cutting Torch. Couple that with a ship-mounted grapple beam that alligns/pulls you towards the target (assuming your ship is of a lower mass than the target). Once you've cut a neat hole in your opponent's hull and boarded their ship, you can have all the melee you want
havent tried it yet but, does the tractor beam pull you towards objects if they have a greater mass?What we need is a ship-mounted equivalent of the cutting Torch. Couple that with a ship-mounted grapple beam that alligns/pulls you towards the target (assuming your ship is of a lower mass than the target). Once you've cut a neat hole in your opponent's hull and boarded their ship, you can have all the melee you want
Nope. I made a small tractor beam thingy and successfully stopped, pushed, and pulled a tg mining ship around.
does the size of the tractor beam, number of blocks, determine how much mass you can move?
Agreed
I'm not sure but I think so unless that's not been implimented yet. If it has I think the stronger the tractor beam is it'll be easier to move more mass while single block beams can move large ships but it would be slower and easier to escape.
I was thinking about that before. It would be pretty cool and it doesn't seem too hard to impliment. All that really needs to be added is a mechanic which makes an entity drift along the direction of the rail as if the entity was undocked and let the cannon push it after the rail's unlocked.
With the way the rails are now the new mechanic could cause a lot of lag but we'll have to see what the possible rail performance fixes can do.
The reason recoil was added was to try and balance an otherwise overpowered weapon. If there's an in-game work around, then the weapon remains overpowered.
I concur, atm recoil feels very jarring and breaks the immersion a bit.
