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Well, the core-thing I want to do is build and test, so I joined a faction that does that already

A place to practice space combat would be great, since most player will likely want to fight. Maybe some sort of station-arena can be made?

Well now, I did not expect this topic to be resurected :D Using battering rams to smash asteroids is something I never though about... Considering the damage system of Starbase, smashing asteroid should break them in smaller pieces, which could be usefull for mining if combined with tractor...

The only way I can see a cubic design work is for cargos, who need a large volume for a small construction cost

On the topic of burning stuff, all of this has given me an idea: How about a missil head that create a large fire ball? And by this, I don't mean a large explosion, but a ball of spreading flames that, if hiting in the right place, would spread into the inside of a ship and hurt its crew. This...

Another weakness which should not be forgotten is the ship’s thrusters. Wether it’s the main or the auxiliary maneuverability ones, even if we got the third person view or advanced sensors, we would still have to leave them exposed on the outside. So any cubic design with slow movements and bad...

After reading a bit of this thread :https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/emphasis-on-smaller-ships.42/ It appears that larger space ships are currently seen as a waste of time and ressources since they have appeared in recent media as big clumsy targets easily overpowered by groups of smaller...

Now that you mention it, I wonder how sais momentum is cancelled, since there are still some damage. I am assuming there is a transfer of energy into damage, which would then cancel the momentum. But in that case, how would it be transferred? Cause if it’s only on the very point of impact, then...

Well, that went fast! Based on all that’s been said up to now, it seems that dedicated ramming ships may be more useful than I initially thought. I can also see that efficiency of such tactics will be highly dependable on the way the physics of the game will work, as we only have vague...

Warp gates are nice… But, for variety's sake, how about some sort of warp canon like in Mass effect?

I'll be doing the very same thing I did in the last sandbox game I played: Mining!

Maybe we’ll get something simplified like the aime system in old sw movies... that’ll be neat

A way the ammunition issue can be solved is with laser weapons that are directly linked to a generator. But it’ll cost more fuel

I may have badly expressed myself. What I meant is that, based on the devs battle video and the lack of any zooming aiming features, aiming at an enemy ship that is not close by seems really hard. More weapons would then not mean more hits on enemy, but rather a suppressing fire with more...

One of the factors which may heavily influence wether to chose small or larger ships will be aiming. If we can only do it on eyesight, then the farther we shoot, the more weapons we will need to fire to increase our chance of hitting it, thus needing larger mor strongly armed ships.

Ah, battering rams... How should we make those, and how best could we use them? I am expecting them to lack usefulness in Starbase, but due to some influence (I am looking at you, BFGA!), I really want to make some in game. That why I am making this post, so that we can all talk about the joys...

Golden plated if I can! If not, then I’ll just make it with the shiniest metal there is!

As of now, I’ll go with a battle yacht with a mining laser battering ram. Why? Because I can. And we need to be creative! Let us break the shackles limiting our imagination!

Even if you go slower, it does not matter if you can go further

I'll be using this I think... Thanks for sharing this!