My post had literally nothing to do with beams or cannons... The point is, that the centre of gravity mechanic can be exploited.
I talked about beams and cannons because they are an alternative now, and a good one at that. And its not as easily exploitable unless your missile barrel is directly in the middle of the mass. There is still a good chance your missile will hit something unless you can manage to line it up for the duration of the fight.
Put a few generators on the turret. I don't believe a drain will drain docked entities.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.
They can't use weapons if they don't have power
That's true but if you power drain + shield drain, their turrets won't be protected by its mothership's shield and will be easier to kill.
Honestly, i am a little bit surprised that this doesn't produce a bigger uproar.
Maybe have both colors customizable? [the trail color being set by a light linked to the slave?]
Not all missile systems have slaves. I would love to customize both... Honestly I wouldn't mind the color options just be in the weapons tab. I know schema wants to keep everything with block based solutions but it would be really nice to just choose a color/multiple colors without needing an extra block on the ship. It would also mean my missiles don't turn white after the color rod I slap onto my ship as an antenna just so I can have colored weapons inevitably gets shot off. Oh and there could even be more options then just the base colors we have through lights and crystals.
Good to know. That solves my desire of shooting asteroids. But that still dosn't solve the problem of clearing the aftermath of a battle with several hundreds of overheating wreckages without using admin commands or waiting for ever.
Not the nearest block. That might work if the server is under low load but at high load the explosions might overlap and it simply looks awful if an entire swarm of missiles all tries to attack the same block. Instead missiles should be fired evenly distributed over the enemy and if they miss their target they should first build up some distance before turning back and reattacking a new target (hitting the enemy in the backside). Furthermore missiles should not fly the shortest path to the target but get a starting vector in another direction (by firing in that direction). That way, missiles would fly a curve and be able to hit areas of the enemy not even in line of sight to the shooter and avoid friendlies.
Fantastic. That gives me the idea: What if not the ship had a HP-pool but every system itself, maybe even group wise.
