Yeah I got drunk and nuked my entire discord and friend list on steam, you should add me back on discord. I mostly quit because of school.
ver reliance" on turrets then argues for realism trying to validate his point. real life ships use almost exclusively turrets and missiles. main guns are impractical. even most sci fi ships use huge amounts of turret dps and the "main guns" are generally rserved for gimmick weapons.
Batteries are not reactors, not by a far sight. They equate to capacitors in Starmade. You'll note that I explicitly acknowledge batteries in real turrets later. Capacitors on turrets do not make me "terribly wrong" about Reactors on turrets. I'm exactly right - reality doesn't support the feature.talks about
also youre terribly wrong about self powered turrets, many newer modular turrets can operate on self contained battery power...
but guess what, in real life "power" isnt really the big bottleneck for most weaponsfire, so from a realism viewpoint this is irrelevant.
why bother arguing realism in your fantasy game anyway? if you think self powered turrets are a bad idea because they break the game just say so. if you think the game would be more fun and skill based by forcing main guns on ships then say so. but your opinion of "the right balance" isnt objective or realistic.
you made literal comparisons to real life as part of your argument. saying it isnt so doesnt change it.
players arent "systematically exploiting lag through docked power dynamics." its an unfortunate side effect of their efforts to make their ships do more damage. the people who "exploit lag" do it in a number of other ways with a LOT less blocks.
again, you literally said those things. im not claiming you want the game to be realistic, i can see from your other posts you dont want realism at all... the point was that youre cherry picking realism for your argument when it doesnt apply.
I personally think I like the new system if you put it that way C:If this power proposal is anything like I think it is, it would actually make titanic dreadnoughts a lot more powerful than before, because getting rid of powercap blocks means you can stuff the empty space between reactors and stabilizers with that many more shieldcaps.
This is an old, unfinished dreadnought I was working on, compared side-by-side with a picture of the PoA from Halo:
It was a good 13-million-plus blocks. Nowhere near practical for actual combat. It had 1,230,000,000 power cap and like 60 million regen, 100+ million shield cap, a few million shield regen, etc.
Before the nerf, the 900,000-block punch-through cannon array would punch through many kilometers of solid armor. The nacelles were completely full of blocks. Now, if it had reactors in the middle and stabilizers at the ends, and everything in-between filled up with shielding, it would probably be near-invulnerable. Getting rid of powercap blocks and giving each weapon and device its own dedicated buffer gets rid of the need for millions of blocks in this design, allowing for more to be allocated to defense.
Ya know, for me personally, the one ship i was worried about was the Avelos, and now i dont see much of a problem.
Hmm, if we can get more space for the smaller ships, ie: my Starfury sized then that would be great, and I agree , I would like to see this in action.
Actually, wouldn't this make things like the nacelles serve a real purpose, separating the parts from the reactor in the bottom of the hull on Star Trek ships?
Current system punishes empty space by <3% efficiency.
How is a ship with 1% of it's mass in power generation going to function? Power generation needs to be spread further and further away but needs to stay the same % of mass for the ship to be functional; this wont work because the space between the ships grow faster than the space the reactor takes up = you're forced to have empty space on your ship.
