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  1. cranky corvid

    What is this thing?

    According to the developers, it's a simple glass display case. The bright light effect on it is being cast by something else.
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    Flak Cannons

    The range finders have a maximum distance of 1 km, which is shorter than the maximum range of most weapons. Flak cannons are planned, but we don't know what mechanics they will use yet.
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    Ship Size limits?

    Ville clarified that it's actually 94216 parts, the previous information was erroneus. That was large enough to cause performance issues; they're probably going to have to cap ship sizes to values that are reasonable performance-wise at some point, but for now they're just going to work on...
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    Warfare and Anti-Piracy

    Forming convoys for protection makes sense when cargo needs hauling through dangerous territory. But I think one of the major issues for them - and one of the objectives for the attackers - is going to be individual freighters' engines getting shot out. When this happens, it forces the convoy...
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    How should respawning work in Starbase?

    If small craft are competitive compared to bigger ships (which I think is likely since small craft have access to the exact same weapons but benefit from a smaller target profile), then carriers will likely still have uses even if people can't respawn on them to grab fresh fighters. Minimizing...
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    Optimal station defences.

    Stations have no capability to evade fire and from what we know so far, the advantage they have in terms of being able to mount weaponry and defenses compared to ships is solely quantitive (from not having to worry about thrust-to-mass ratio), not qualitive. As such, whenever their offline...
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    Ship identification

    The devs are planning to implement a transponder system that identifies ships that are broadcasting a transponder signal by pulling their information from a central ship registry and marks them on the HUD. But it will be possible turn your transponder signal off, and the plan is that they can be...
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