I can see an easy solution, in fact.
indeed. you still can't chase down a target with it and its low shield damage is still a problem. but this really makes up for it.
I am sorry, but where is the new bugtracker? Am I the only one who can't find the link to it?..
It isn't really forcing players to have interiors, but giving more options. Way I see it, if you want a ship with a lot of armor and decent HP, a ship with an interior will give you that because armor can be used for corridors and walls. Want a ship with a lot of HP and power, but with low defense and a huge weak point once that layer of armor comes off? Make a ship like traditional PvP type ships have been being made. In theory at least. How much of a significance the new system will have on design philosophies is yet to be seen with default values.
It fires like a gun, so it will only hit one block at a time. ATM it is far too weak to be used as an exploit.
There is no reason you can't already do this. In fact you have been doing this the entire time. Physically destroying blocks has and still cripples that system. With the way systems currently operate, this is only really effective against power and weapon systems.
If they player is doing this before they overheat, it will only weaken their ship further to place or remove blocks.
It has had this capability for a long time.
Its possible this is a visual bug. When I tested, it looked like shields were up despite my friend in the other ship telling me otherwise.
Because of the damage you did or because of how slow the ships moved? In both cases, making ships entirely out of advanced armor is not a good idea. What was once a 2/1 thrust to mass ratio bomber of mine is now 1/1. Not only will it be slowed down, but the smaller weapons will have a hard time doing significant damage to the armored ship.
yeah, i was playing around with it and figured no griefer would have the patiences to cut up vast swaths of a ship. so its ok in that sense, however i would give it bonus damage to cores since at the rate it damages things it takes like a year and half to simply force another player out of core, then you gotta fight um.
but now system blocks are out lifeline. where as before it would just be a minor nuisance, now a smart player could turn a hole in the hull into damage pulse tunnel and destroy a ship from the inside out
Don't be too excited about interiours, as TAB+F6 solves it all. Move through the walls like a ninja and cap the ship while useless inner turrets shoot into walls.
That's what I meant by an extreme game of "the floor is lava." Lava doesn't hurt players when they're out of gravity, though. If you're careful, you could use the torch to destroy any area triggers meant to put you in gravity before you walk into them.
Damage pulse was always this way, its normal dps is only a small portion of the other weapons to compensate for that but when you use Ion, it becomes equal to other weapons (that also use ion).
I can think of more ways to prevent people from entering my ship. But if you really want to board anyone, you should let a buddy of you power drain their ship to 0.
