Classing Ships for Fleets
There are some older ship class guides out there, but the game has changed a lot since then. Also, I'm not sure that mass is the best basis for classifying warships, since mass is no indicator of...
View ArticleDev Blog : February 13th 2016
​ We're back with another Dev Blog. It's been a little while since we had one but it's now the right time to have one. Firstly the big question, no there's no new build release for this weekend. Why?...
View ArticleSimple solution for a horrible problem
So we all know how much lag is created when reactors or turrets undock during a fight via destruction. This is currently a massive issue for servers, clients, and pvp itself. However hardly anyone has...
View ArticleSimple and balanced Mobile Shipyards
We've had shipyards for some time on Starmade, but it'd be nice if people could say, build ships on the spot as needed, live nomadically, To start off: Yes, I know there have been other posts about...
View ArticleReshade
Greetings everyone! I've been off for a few days finding out how to put more oomph into Starmade. Turns out there's a little openGL compatiable shader injection thing called 'reshade'. Anyway, this is...
View ArticleWords of Advice (WOA!)
Words Of Advice​From The Starmade Community, For The Starmade Community​Greetings spaceladies and stellarmen! The basic premise behind this thread is for the veterans amongst us to share groundbreaking...
View ArticleMercenary NPC faction
With the fleet update approaching and changes to NPCs coming, I thought it would be a good idea to have mercenaries. The mercenary faction would have several heavily armed stations dotted around the...
View ArticleConsumables for purposes other than a hunger mechanic.
it has been a popular suggestion to add consumables to starmade for a long while. It has also always been popular to counter it, as being a reason to artificially add in an unwanted and wasteful...
View ArticleSimplify Docked Entities; Rail Docker as Pseudo-Ship Core
Simply put, ship cores are ugly aesthetically and often a waste of valuable space on rail entities. What this suggestion entails is when you create a docked entity via advanced build mode, make it so...
View ArticleWhat do u think about SM direction
All this stuff with fleets that will be able to mine and fight for you. Possible food for crew. Will Starmade be first person RTS?
View ArticleInheriting from Docked Objects
Hey, so I know that the newest update made it so that you can inherit thrust from docked entities, but can you inherit power and jump drives? Also, you prob. can't, but if you dock a ton of ships to a...
View ArticleTrekkertech Inc. It's good to be back!
Hello and welcome to Trekkertech Inc! Here at Trekkertech Inc, we try to produce a wide range of ship designs that combine practicality, technology, and robustness. Although, we also like to throw it...
View ArticleReimagined Battlestar Galactica Series Shipyard
Overview: I've got some big ambitions to build as many Battlestars as I can. Galactica, Columbia, Pegasus, Valkyrie, Atlantia, etc. Not just the ones named, but the classes too. The Mercury Class, the...
View ArticleAngel Works Shipwright
New Computer, new universe, new shipyard. Cap'n is back in business and as anounced I totally start over with a new shipyard Angel Works Shipwright - The new star in the sky Current ships: Valkyrie MK3...
View ArticleTrident Industries public shipyard (Rebooted with extra lulz)
Welcome to the new Trident Industries Shipyard thread! Welcome to Trident Industries, the home of the Quantum Light Corvettes and many other high-quality vessels. We are a shipbuilding alliance with a...
View ArticleLarge counters loose time/sync
I've been toying with a 64 stage counter (6 FLIPs and 6 NOTs). A button outputs to the first FLIP and to a NOT (the NOT outputs to all of the ANDs in the next stage to eliminate those pesky junk...
View ArticleA rant about factions
The faction forums is in shambles, because of the factions who use it. I am not pointing fingers at particular one factions, I am talking to every single faction who uses the forums, in case I have not...
View ArticleCriss' Thread
Hello! Aside from managing social media I work on a lot of the in-game assets that will be present in the StarMade universe. A few others and I will use this thread to show off the work being done on...
View ArticleMagnetic Grapple
While talking in the https://starmadedock.net/threads/drill-block.22490/#post-256578 topic. The idea for a system that would allow a ship dock to a hostile ship to allow a boarding party get on the...
View ArticleSolution for round planet
Round planets have been a problem since day 1 of starmade. The dodecahedrons are horribly improvised and impractical, And the discs were unrealistic. My solution would be to render round planets as...
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