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The range of what can be accomplished using Yolol will certainly expand as more devices are added, or new features added to old ones. Radiation detectors that can detect ships carrying active reactors or certain rare ores from potentially hundreds of kilometres away are a confirmed upcoming...

With line of sight (subject to a distance limit) to a device connected to an information network, it is possible to mess with or spy on variables with the Universal Tool, and you can bolt on your own Yolol chips that can change or spy on variables if you have a physical access to a cable or duct...

Free-form devices can be made, but they have been having persistence issues. They had a habit of despawning on me and spawning back in only unpredictably when I last tried working with them (though that was quite a while ago), and in the first Outpost Assault event, the defenders built a bunch...

1. There's only a few devices suitable for detecting objects right now, and they're all ray-based and detect only at a single point. Yolol's 200 millisecond refresh rate is another issue, so objects can only be tracked in a limited capacity. 2. There is currently no way to connect information...

Bringing strikecraft or masses of torpedoes are not mutually exclusive options. If spamming out a massive salvo of centrally directed torpedoes from a milcap or station is a viable tactic, you bring enough strikecraft or point defenses to adequately equip however many personnel you actually have...

The attackers have to deal with the exact same issues if the station fires torpedoes back. There is advance warning, everyone will know a fight is going to happen, so each side will get the opportunity to open fire at the same time. Although if there are no sufficiently effective anti-torpedo...

The ships in most ship shops are also made by players, the exception being the red ship shop found beside the ship design hangar on origin station (and its counterparts on other stations), which is stocked with developer-made ones. Before the implementation of the plate material system, the...

Worth noting that there's been a change to the damage model since that test: I don't know how much of a difference it actually made, though.

Some bits and pieces intended to support industry, such as lots and robot arms, exist, but the bulk of the planned features are not implemented yet. Projectors for holographic part or ship blueprints that can be built out in-world are in the pipeline, and there's eventually going to be a suite...

I appreciated being able to clear wrecks and bugged ships out of my ship list. Before you had to bother community managers for that. If you have a wreck that you're not going to recover, decommissioning it also allows other players to salvage it if they want (or I imagine it should, even inside...

Yep, other people though this would be a good feature too, and it's already planned.

Given that spaceships in space behave drastically different compared to aircraft in an atmosphere in real life, appealing to realism to say that spaceships in our scifi-themed MMO should behave like aircraft is a nonsense argument. Craft that have to escape Earth's atmosphere in order to...

AFAIK, going over the component limits by joining multiple constructs outside of the editor disables the ship's thrusters. I'm not sure whether that also applies to the limits the size of the editor area imposes on the physical dimensions of a ship, however.

Player stations will have the ability to have safezones, though there will be some way (details yet to be determined) to bring them down with an extended siege. No news of any special station-mounted weapons so far. Since they don't have to worry about structural stress from acceleration, they...

In this case it specifically concerns thrusters that are embedded in the craft's sides and have their fronts pointed inward somewhat, which allows them to be stacked in a row from front to back without further increasing the craft's profile and still contribute to forward thrust. It also makes...

The details of how you start creating a station are not known yet, but I think it will likely involve filling out a holographically projected blueprint with a construction tool, either ship- or hand-mounted. Stations will need to have players around to simulate them, if nobody is around, all...

To design good ships and see them used widely. I've enjoyed other vehicle-building games, but the unique aspects Starbase brings to the genre should make putting in the time to perfect a design feel that much more worthwhile.

It's definitely possible to make a much better mining ship than the Tugger for the price - I have one, actually, that I'm hoping to distribute to new testers after the next invite wave to get them out of the starting jobs faster. I can't say whether it will earn more credits than the starter...

After I designed a Vasama modification with the thrusters rearranged to provide much greater forward thrust, I developed a small mining ship based on the hull. I got one trip out of it. Then, a battery swap turned complicated, I had to do more disassembly than originally intended, and after...

I agree. Large ships that aren't very tall and wide will have limited rear surface area available for thrusters, but main thrusters don't actually need to be in the rear - although less efficient, they can also be mounted on the sides with the thrust angled outward a bit so you can stack lots of...