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[DarkWolfXV]

Making a ship with dimensions larger than 200m tends to cause problems. Especially if you pass 300. Double especially if someone else's ship gets near to ramming you. Triple especially if they're also flying a large ship.

Why so? Cant turn and you die? If you make a biiiiig ship, it usually has enough shields to not give a fuck about any damage from small/medium ships, and large ships are almost equally immobile as the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig ship, so the one with better stats wins. Also if you make BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG ship you will have LOOOOOOOOOOOOOTSAAAA turrets. Or biiiiiiiiiiiiiig turrets.

[Neonivek]

Honestly, in terms of size those classifications make no sense

To my knowledge there isn't even a need for size classifications in a world where there is nothing to distinguish the sizes except for size.

At least in naval and aeronautic classifications the sizes really did make a difference. You didn't make a carrier sized destroyer ship.

[Sirian]

Making a ship with dimensions larger than 200m tends to cause problems. Especially if you pass 300. Double especially if someone else's ship gets near to ramming you. Triple especially if they're also flying a large ship.

Why so? Cant turn and you die? If you make a biiiiig ship, it usually has enough shields to not give a fuck about any damage from small/medium ships, and large ships are almost equally immobile as the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig ship, so the one with better stats wins. Also if you make BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG ship you will have LOOOOOOOOOOOOOTSAAAA turrets. Or biiiiiiiiiiiiiig turrets.

No, he means that it will cause lag and assorted server issues.

[Neonivek]

it usually has enough shields to not give a fuck about any damage from small/medium ships

Shields have a cap so to speak.

I already have a weapon that can dent large ships and I have a small ship.

[LordSlowpoke]

it usually has enough shields to not give a fuck about any damage from small/medium ships

Shields have a cap so to speak.

I already have a weapon that can dent large ships and I have a small ship.

They do have a cap indeed. It's a ridiculously high one (more than 5M/s regen) and I've only seen it achieved once, in a previous version to boot, but it exists.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Honestly, in terms of size those classifications make no sense

To my knowledge there isn't even a need for size classifications in a world where there is nothing to distinguish the sizes except for size.

At least in naval and aeronautic classifications the sizes really did make a difference. You didn't make a carrier sized destroyer ship.

yea, actually the flexible class system is kinda nice!

[DarkWolfXV]

it usually has enough shields to not give a fuck about any damage from small/medium ships

Shields have a cap so to speak.

I already have a weapon that can dent large ships and I have a small ship.

If 5M/s is the cap, im quite sure no small ship will "dent" it, if someone ever reaches it. It also works both ways. If you attack a large ship, you MIGHT dent it (people with large ships have as much thrust as small ones and can run to regen shields etc.), but if a large ships attacks you, you will be DENTED to hell and back, plus there are turrets which for another large ships are mostly a mere annoyance, but for small ships they are another thing to dodge and are actually threatening because for really large ships a single turret will be about as powerful as the small ship or more. At one point large ships have AMC lasers so fast and quick that they are hard to outmaneuver even by medium ships. Maybe small ones up to 50 mass or something, but i dont know your definition of small. If you have a ship made from 400 AMC's, 25 power, 1 core, 50 thrusters, 24 shields, you will maybe dent something, but normally people leave at least some walking space and not design their ship for pure firepower.

Honestly, in terms of size those classifications make no sense

To my knowledge there isn't even a need for size classifications in a world where there is nothing to distinguish the sizes except for size.

At least in naval and aeronautic classifications the sizes really did make a difference. You didn't make a carrier sized destroyer ship.

yea, actually the flexible class system is kinda nice!

I also kinda like the flexible system but still prefer the Blitzwing system

[Neonivek]

If you have a ship made from 400 AMC's

No, I took advantage of a flaw in the way the game handles bonuses. I cannot destroy a faction module but I can shred the shields of large ship.

I call it Laser Busters.

[Blaze]

Yeah, weapon damage bonus scales too low at higher amounts. It's better to have 2 10-block AMCs than 1 20 block one as long as you can hit your target with both of them.

[Neonivek]

It is especially funny with those ships that have the 200 block antimatter cannons... Sure they will take down a ships shields pretty fast, but now they have to take down the armor one block at a time.

I do wish there was a way to tell the guns to do a spread shot against a ship.

[Blaze]

Hence we have missiles. They can't damage shields at all (Bug?) but they can erase large chunks of blocks if the shields are down. Since 400 damage is enough to destroy any block excluding faction blocks, you don't need that big a launcher.

[Neonivek]

I avoid missiles like the plague.

Dumbfire cannot hit squat, Heatseekers will hit anything including things you didn't want to, and homing has a glitch that renders it consistently incapable of being used.

Hence why I use a much more consistent weapon that I bolster in anyway I can.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

construction of the star fortress continues!

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the only question is: what to do with this space?

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how do you guys like it? any suggestion? I know I already got "add a giant salvage gun at the bottom", any more?

[BigD145]

Needs moar powah!

[LordSlowpoke]

...can I call dibs on the free space inside that tower? I want an apartment inside your starfortress. Maybe with a docking port attached, too.