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I really don't think completely banning griefing and social engineering is the answer. It is a never ending battle and really limits and makes confusing PvP interaction when the rules are set up in such a way you can't reliably code them in to the game logic. The game is already built to limit...

I like this. Its a very hands on type of system that requires player interaction and still has good counterplay. Put it on a completely unpowered tripod for some basic lens zoom, or allow powering it to enable enhanced dialing zoom functions. Put a button on there so the operator can send a...

1: Should be part of the basic UI. It is very difficult for a new player to stay in the safe zone and be broke if it costs them extra to know whether or not they are in the safe zone. 2: See no issue with this. Lots of interesting applications, no real balance issues. 3: Should be a basic...

"Overall health" isn't really a useful indicator in a game like this one. How would you calculate it? Amount of armor destroyed? a completely disabled ship is still gonna have most of its armor. Components destroyed? You'd have to know how many components of each type are on the ship, which...

Weapon mass seems like the best tradeoff to me. You should be able to slap a ton of guns on a relatively small frame, but the tradeoff in maneuverability for doing so should be the primary consideration if you're strapping tons of armament on a small and therefore lightly armored ship.

You say this like its a bad thing.

Or just, y'know, shoot the torpedo. Or do your things. I mean sure.

Easy.

You can already do this with missiles. All you have to do is bolt a bunch of explosives together, or bolt them to a thing, and wire them to a single controller. The core of every missile is just an explosive waiting to be switched on and explode. Hell you could use missiles do do controlled...

I'd also like to mention that if history is any indicator, player's aren't generally likely to form speculative markets due to a lack of legal oversight. EVE tried to set of an "official" public market once and players just plain didn't use it as it immediately became complaetely used for every...

Imagine trying to run a commodities market at the speed of YOLOL. Enjoy waiting hours for a price index lol

It is being discussed as a means of punishing player behavior by systemic rather than player driven means. Systemic means don't require economic balancing. You can't have a system designed to police certain behaviors if that system is capable of going bankrupt. Nobody has to buy or build...

The idea that this is common enough to justify an entire ingame moon and several custom ingame systems is silly. What you're describing is so excessively rare that it doesn't justify the effort, and is generally handled via account suspensions in the rare cases it comes up. In any case where an...

The campaign is absolutely what separates a pvp mmo from other competitive forms of gaming. Its also why pvp mmos don't work as esports. Boredom itself does in fact account for the originator of campaigns in these systems. Basically, any organization fat and docile enough to get bored with...

There is a HUGE difference between players within the means of an economy enforcing regulations and players with unlimited coffers and a special dev-only prison system enforcing regulations. In theory any faction could attempt to establish such a prison system. In practice it's impossible for...

I want to bolt a flag to my forehead. I'm a robot. I want to be a patriotic robot.

The idea of developers policing "insurance Fraud" "griefing" and "super annoying piracy" with ingame jail sentances bothers the hell out of me. This is administrative overreach. Either actions are against the EULA and worth a ban or they're not. GTFO with this grey area bullshit. If you don't...

This is not how your post was structured. You may want to be more clear in the future.

I'm not seeing a use case for powered plating compared to thrusters here. Even if we grant you that the design of all of the electrical engineering in the game changes just to accommodate them (which seems.... an unlikely design given the rest of the game) powered plates have the same vision...

Who cares if its realistic or not. Call it a personal gravity generator and nothing about the game changes. This is not a simulator. Its a simplified engineering sandbox where robots have sit animations and mine asteroids with hand axes lol. We know people can run with boots on because we've...