Allowing only one active reactor doesn't pass the realism/logic test for me; it feels like a rules gimmick. Outside of something like a hybrid car, I can't think of any instance of a vehicle with multiple engines only using one at a time, or at least having the option to do so.
Star Trek has a similar concept in "Electro-Plasma" (for instance, EPS Relays, or 'Electroplasma System' Relays)For reference:
It seems thatis trying to describe some kind of alternate form of energy, and not some kind of Auxiliary Slot.
So here are some suggestions:
Quantum Ether
Trans-Mater Flux
Polaric Residue
Anti-Proton Flow
Dimensional Accelerant
Maybe this should have it's own thread?
Yes, except an EPS system doesn't have some kind of universal maximum amount of endpoints. Imagine the Enterprise-J-type's EPS network. :P
I refuse. :P Also, I pity the fool who'd attempt to build the Enterprise-J in StarMade on anything less than a supercomputer.
Yeah, but my point is... don't they hook new stuff into the Ent-D's and Voyager's EPS system sometimes? It doesn't seem like there's some kind of limit. If I were building a Star Trek game and I needed a limiting mechanic for adding active modules and devices to your starship, I'd probably call it LCARS Control Channels. A cloaking device would require like 10 separate control channels routed into it (and only the gods know how much power that'd draw from your warp core, too), whereas a phaser refrequencer to deal with Borg and other adapting enemies would only need one as it's just an enhancement to your weapons system.
Always a good sign. :P
Honestly, it won't take any more time to make this stuff work than checking ratios for weapons and the like.
Small ships will still be quick and easy.
Even without control, you still can undock them, let the AI to fire the nukes, and then recall them to rechage. Sounds very interesting, but not very useful in current proposal.
but here's the thing, you can just drop a bunch of cannon block and voilat a functioning cannon, no need to go into secondary effects unless you start optimizing. with rooms that are too small to work and the tech point flow whatever that is everything stops making sense and becomes totally arbitrary.
eh, until can't get into reasonable ship size this game has ZERO content but being a space miner. so going big is where the game begin and until you mine enough to get rich what's the gameplay? parking at asteroid and hold rmb? these system don't exist in a vacuum, building ship should enable to enjoy the complex universe, not being the challenge in itself. sure for competitive play some aspect of complexity are need, but what's in for new players? they get bashed on the head enough with a game that's pure grind for hours until one cheat oneself a million credit or exploit this or that AI weakness if they care enough to google the cloaking system.
That won't happen.
Huh? If you don't care much about optimization, you can just slap down a reactor, put down a cannon, maybe slap a stabilizer or two somewhere, and then it works. The only added bit is that you might have to link the two with conduits, but even that might be limited to chambers/chamber trees, and weapons might not need that.
You seem to be forgetting the most important thing here: The Dock will be integrated into the base game so you will - NOT - have to make ships for your self and can just get blueprints from someone else.
