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@Archduke there is one active, large and competitive faction in CA, so you can just name it :P I believe that soon we'll get ship ownership mechanics, which allows keeping the design while sharing/selling just assembled ship. Should be enough for now, until we get some really fancy BP stuff.

With all the missing or broken mechanics, you just can't have big combat viable ship. IMO. By big I mean 600MV+, multi-crew, armed with turrets.

There is no way to prevent small ships from using big guns. You'll always get those ships built just big enough to carry a single big gun. Also big ships are usually to clumsy to aim with spinal weapons, so they'd have to be either small enough for turrets (so for fighters as well) or guided...

@JohannaFB what's the initial form of protection for stations? Automatic safe zone? If yes, then how big? I guess it's invulnerable (no station capturing)? Or maybe nothing?

Are there any plans to allow snapping them in place? I.e. make tractor beam able to snap objects, add component that enhance endo lifting capability or divide those big components into several pickable ones? Otherwise trading/looting them becomes impossible, as you can't place them beck.

Building is done by connecting pre-made parts. So no custom shapes. But unlike most other games, you can freely rotate any object. All angles are supported, not just 30 and 45. So you can create curves, or even spheres, if you don't mind a bit uneven surface. Moving parts are physical when in...

Dusty quite clearly said "video screens". Of course we have plenty of screens in game, used for buying/selling stuff, but none of them have the function to play any video. There are also no hints of any plans to add such functionality. Boltcrackers are scripted, cut and edited videos. Don't...

IMO wipe would be only reasonable when we get most of the systems that are necessary for working economy. So at least buy offers, components ah/buying ships with components rather than materials. And that probably won't happen before EA While hoarders indeed can play the market hard, wipe would...

It could auto-unmute anyone outside safe zones. Only there you need to react so quickly and can deal with music spammers in an appropriate way.

Nah. It's never too early to identify gameplay flaws and suggest solutions. I did the same with gun-brick meta. But it's better to start with simple tweaks before introducing new gameplay mechanics.

Before you start adding new mechanics (especially those intended to avoid combat, like warp and shields) first fix existing mechanics. And maybe new ones won't be needed at all. Turrets are laggy, which makes multi-crew ships bad by default. Turntables are too weak to carry decent armour, so...

ATM we run into problems of running out of one limit (usually pipes, cables and voxels) while almost never out of others (objects, weapons, bolts, attachment plates). And they often don't really represent which parts really affect FPS more. So I suggest giving each component an specific PCU...

As usual, you're good at identifying problems, but present terrible solutions(IMO) :P Making thrusters tiered, where some of them are objectively just better, will make the low-tier just obsolete. Nobody will use anything else than the best ones. Parts in SB are not tied to ship sizes or...

@Miha0.0 it was already discussed before here: https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/player-driven-currency-through-tagging.1324/#post-11215 In general it wouldn't add much more than confusion until game population grows to 5 digits number.

False. Starting jobs give credits too. But I agree it should stay. Just limited to dev stations.

I'd direct all those specific questions at OP. I'm merely stating why would it be nice to have them. I guess they'd be just spawned artificially, or be procedurally generated (like asteroid belt). Creating entire ecosystem for game proved to be not really worth it (Ultima online) Annoying...

Because there is limited number of players to hunt. Also having some intermediate stage between mining and fighting doesn't hurt either of then. It also gives some incentive to bring combat ship into the belt, which increases chance of meeting a worthy opponent, rather than only big slow prey...

So kind of like mining, but asteroids are trying to run away from you? Sounds tad crazy, but fun as well.

By NPC trading (that I want only on dev stations) I mean "adding or removing resources or money from the game world". AKA magic box that transmutes digital money into physical materials and vice versa. What you described is automated auction house for player stations, which is absolutely...

That's a lot of new stuff. Good work. One question: does that mean thrusters now need 45 degree radius cone open behind them? So all thrusters slapped on the sides or embedded into armour are now useless? In general I like the idea, but would be nice to have some visual indication for that.