ships

We have a big problem in the game: the player cannot get a ship for a specific task without using resources and crutches that are not related to the main functionality of the game. Because of this, many players get frustrated when they have to make their own boats in the editor, which most...

Over the past two days the company im apart of has lost three ships. They all vanished right infront of one of us. The one i saw dissapear looked blocky and then looked like it was going to load in its higher res textures before it just vanished. It was inside a company station safe zone as...

space drag, or space jelly or space porridge, whatever you want to call it, people both love and hate it. I personally dislike it, just putting this here The way I think it can work to satisfy everyone is to have an additional field in your FCU called "inertial stabilisation", This field would...

I got into a discussion recently about ship archetypes and balance around them in a different thread* (which I suggest you read before this one) and so at the request of @five I have made a separate thread to discuss. What do you think the dynamics of ship types will be as the game progresses...

I know that the game's in Alpha, but I just wanted to write up some suggestions for the ship builder that'd be crucial/really nice to have. First, I'll start by describing the issues I've had in particular. First, the right mouse button, this is used for both removing cables and such from your...

-- Summary -- Blueprints of ships can be stamped onto chips that can be used once to construct a ship at a ship design center or to introduce scarcity into the market. -- The Problem -- There are two problems that this proposed solution can solve: Ship manufacturers cannot easily sell their...

A very simple question indeed but one that we all surely have thought about... at least i did ahahah. Can I make a ship the size of a station with hundreds of crew menbers and enough weaponry to make a crater in a moon ? Its not a question about its effectiveness its a question about if its...

After a discussion on one of the alpha Discord channels, I have realized that there is a monster lurking around in the shadows of this game. This poll and discussion is aimed at bringing that monster to light so we can have a civil conversation about it and try to defeat it together. TL;DR Some...

To help players, both in and out of the CA, may those who have access update the ore section of the wiki to include pictures? Here is a link to the page: Materials Wiki Page. Also, there are plenty of other pages that need some love like the Spaceships Page which does not include many of the...

So last progress notes they posted some videos of how the public transportation works. Do those ships use rangefinders or something else? They seemed to be able to align themselves with the opposite landing pad, which is out of rangefinder range. Or at least the yellow beams were not turned on...

So since the Shipboard Weapons that the Developers have made are relatively small in comparison to the "large" ships we have been shown would Military Ship Design follow the Pre-Dreadnought design Philosophy of a lot of Medium Sized Turrets with a couple of Rail-Cannons or Plasma Cannons in them...

i identify myself as GETH, let us have an consens i've read some discussion in Discord about ship types, ppl arguing about the difference of an cruiser and a frigate. what if we create a type list where you can identify your ship, based on its capabilities? Types by @Burnside Scout...

Greetings everyone! The Machine has decided to share our full set of parts (AKA 'Lego' or 'The Constructor') with those willing to try their skills in ship design and modelling! Link to the set: https://yadi.sk/d/ghNfoNvXLa-PtQ Compatible 3D software (free / educational versions): - 3DS Max...

I already know that, last time i heard at least, the devs plan on making warp gates for ships to go through at some point. However, what if we were allowed to mount a warp drive onto a ship of our choosing and to either use it traverse around the system, or enter/escape combat. Disclaimer: a...

With the YOLOL and other devices in the game I would imagine it would be possible to link a number of batteries (each containing several powerful weapons such as rail cannons or plasma throwers) to a single turret manned by one player. As such you could have large ships with a comparatively...

Hey all, so this is a bit of an odd thread I decided to start. But I thought it would be a nice topic to think about: Are there any ships you can think of that will serve as your inspiration for ship construction? They can be from a simple piece of artwork, an actual ship you see or hear about...

Since Lauri linked the 3D models to Starbase's ship beams in the #game-faq channel on Discord, I've been eager to see what people's creations using those beams could look like with actual ship plating on them. Eventually, I noticed in one of their YouTube videos that there was a plate...

Hi, I was thinking about building in Starbase. I read about ship building/editing hangar here, so that mean, I can’t build ship anywhere I want. OK. But my other question is about modularity of ship building. When you are designing your ship, does it have to be in this grid like space? Like in...

I'm just interested to see what people want to make. Like Star Wars? Halo? Anime? Communism? IDK. I'm going to be working on towing/refueling ships with few weapons, at least in the beginning