Starmade V3 - You cannot attach thrusters to planets. - Games

[QUOTE=ntzu;40602014]All of my building's/ship's power regen was slashed in half, yay! Now they can barely support their engines and shields.[/QUOTE] Yeah, the new energy regen system has greatly diminishing returns, so the more blocks you have, the less each new one gives. At this point shields are utterly useless and you just have to hope to build massive capacity bloc arrays.

To all you people building mega structures and ships, I have a challenge. The Enterprise J... Seems easy enough right? [IMG]http://coldnorth.com/owen/game/startrek/enterprise-j/enterprise-j.gif[/IMG] Good luck!

Did that weird thing ever show up in any of the episodes or movies

It's from tv series "Enterprise", from episode "Azati Prime". It's a starship from 26th century. [t]http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/enterprise-j-screen.jpg[/t]

It had maybe... 3 shots of it total, and it was kinda chillin in a nebula when something angry flew by and shot at it and then it just... disappeared. Disappeared really hard.

I don't remember too much of Enterprise except for T'pol's ass.

[QUOTE=ntzu;40602408]To all you people building mega structures and ships, I have a challenge. The Enterprise J... Seems easy enough right? [IMG]http://coldnorth.com/owen/game/startrek/enterprise-j/enterprise-j.gif[/IMG] Good luck![/QUOTE] At least a dozen people have made that already, nice try though. [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] Not in this thread, though (as far as I know). Back in the StarMade chat I saw like two people make one of those.

[QUOTE=ntzu;40602408]To all you people building mega structures and ships, I have a challenge. The Enterprise J... Seems easy enough right? [IMG]http://coldnorth.com/owen/game/startrek/enterprise-j/enterprise-j.gif[/IMG] Good luck![/QUOTE] Ugh, I hate the J. It looks like a giant retarded manta ray.

Well, it turns out all my titan class ships can no longer support even their thrusters in this new update. What the shit, man. I specifically put enough thrusters on that ship so that it reaches max speed in a second.

Well how the fuck does that work then?

Limited small-scale experimentation suggests that the newest changes makes the checkerboard pattern most efficient. Any grouping gives diminished effects.

And the overtly complicated power system just gets dumber and dumber. Shields were barely worth it before he made it crazy, let alone now.

[QUOTE=ReaperSWE;40605994]Limited small-scale experimentation suggests that the newest changes makes the checkerboard pattern most efficient. Any grouping gives diminished effects.[/QUOTE] Must've been very limited testing, because I did the 5x5x5 box test again and the checkerboard is still weak compared to volume-based gens. [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] I got about 8k regen from one 5x5x5 gen, volume-based. The checkerboard in a 5x5x5 is 7k.

My space station has gone from 3Million regen to 0.85Million.

wow, i lost over three fourths of my regen. i cant even power [B]one[/B] of my gun banks let alone my shields. how does this new generator system work?

[del]Icefraud[/del] schema at work people, massively diminishing returns. I'm afraid we'll all have to scrap our current ships with this update, and all shields all practically useless.

Some data on power regen [table="width: 300"] [tr][td]Count[/td][td]Singles[/td][td]Group, linear[/td][/tr] [tr][td]1[/td][td]125[/td][td]125[/td][/tr] [tr][td]2[/td][td]251[/td][td]208[/td][/tr] [tr][td]3[/td][td]377[/td][td]306[/td][/tr] [tr][td]4[/td][td]503[/td][td]416[/td][/tr] [tr][td]5[/td][td]629[/td][td]539[/td][/tr] [tr][td]6[/td][td]755[/td][td]673[/td][/tr] [tr][td]7[/td][td]880[/td][td]819[/td][/tr] [tr][td]8[/td][td]1006[/td][td]976[/td][/tr] [tr][td]9[/td][td]1132[/td][td]1144[/td][/tr] [tr][td]10[/td][td]1258[/td][td]1322[/td][/tr] [tr][td]11[/td][td]1384[/td][td]1511[/td][/tr] [tr][td]12[/td][td]1510[/td][td]1709[/td][/tr] [tr][td]13[/td][td]1635[/td][td]1916[/td][/tr] [tr][td]14[/td][td]1761[/td][td]2134[/td][/tr] [tr][td]15[/td][td]1887[/td][td]2360[/td][/tr] [tr][td]16[/td][td]2013[/td][td]2596[/td][/tr] [tr][td]17[/td][td]2139[/td][td]2840[/td][/tr] [tr][td]18[/td][td]2265[/td][td]3094[/td][/tr] [tr][td]19[/td][td]2391[/td][td]3356[/td][/tr] [tr][td]20[/td][td]2516[/td][td]3626[/td][/tr][/table]

Now not only is it confusing to people who know what they're doing, but the general end-user is completely lost. It's like he's playing an elaborate joke.

This is the last way large ships should've been nerfed, I was really enjoying the generator arms race.

How do you use new texture packs? I logged in last night for the first time in weeks and my station looked like blueberry ice cream. Whose brilliant idea was it to make gray look blue? [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] Hang on, [i]everything[/i] looks blue. [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] Nevermind, figured it out. Thank god. On a side note, holy fuck the new symmetry plane overlays are really obnoxious.

Better him do these extreme changes and experiments during alpha than when the game is more developed.

[QUOTE=Electrocuter;40607882]Better him do these extreme changes and experiments during alpha than when the game is more developed.[/QUOTE] Thought the entire point of the alpha was to experiment. I'm shocked of why people react so negative to the changes to the game. "Shields are brokens, thanks schema." "omg everything looks like icecream this sucks, great job schema" "this game is getting worse by every update" "woah cloaking doesnt even work what the fuck".

All Schema had to do was fix the balance between shields and antimatter cannons. Not this fuckery with the power generators again.

[QUOTE=PredGD;40607901]Thought the entire point of the alpha was to experiment. I'm shocked of why people react so negative to the changes to the game. "Shields are brokens, thanks schema." "omg everything looks like icecream this sucks, great job schema" "this game is getting worse by every update" "woah cloaking doesnt even work what the fuck".[/QUOTE] Starmade needs our bitching to guide it to being a great game

Ouch, my 200mil regen ship got cut down to 1.4mil. With this fuckery, I think I'm gonna take a break from Starmade for a bit, seeing as I really can't be bothered to rework a bunch of ships that will still be pretty much easily destroyable despite their epic size. Was fun while it lasted!

im glad i stuck with small ships!

[QUOTE=PredGD;40607901]Thought the entire point of the alpha was to experiment. I'm shocked of why people react so negative to the changes to the game. "Shields are brokens, thanks schema." "omg everything looks like icecream this sucks, great job schema" "this game is getting worse by every update" "woah cloaking doesnt even work what the fuck".[/QUOTE] All those changes have led to a much worse game though. Ideally, I'd like to think of this as the dark before the dawn, but I dunno.

Fuck, my ship is totally shit now. I can only fire my four AM cannons for about a second before the power runs out.

[QUOTE=blazingfly;40608007]All those changes have led to a much worse game though. Ideally, I'd like to think of this as the dark before the dawn, but I dunno.[/QUOTE] I do agree that the latest changes have gone downhill. However, it is in alpha state. He's experimenting, trying to discover new fun things or nice changes to the game. And as always, a lot of people think alpha = final product for some reason. So they flip out and rage because they think the game is ruined forever.

This is how reactor design will go now: Players will keep intricately designing reactors, up until they reach the plateau in returns. Upon this point, all intricate reactor design is effectively pointless, and it becomes a game of "who has the most 10x10x10 stacks of power generators".