there is no point in reducing the damage of light weapons against bigger targets.

bigger targets have more health, and can regenerate that faster.
(if you ignore shield mechanics)

got a preset for me?

dang
but the question is for real! why are post-processing filter so hard to add

now, for the patch:
why are you pushing the base hitsize of the existing syndicate bots lower, instead of nerfing all weapons dispersion by a factor of 2?

the later would have a good impact on weapon choice, since with max extensions it makes no difference if you shoot with a weak laser or an overpowered gauss, because neither one will ever miss, even without the usage of stabilizers.

the 10% damage bonus on the hauler is great.
with that, it will have effectively 4 firearms, compared to a regular mech with effective 4.4,
any plans to mirror that logic to the other existing industrial bots that currently have only 1 useless weapon slot?

example: Argano/Laird/Sequer/Termis/Gargoyle/Riveler/Symbiont/Lithus:

• 5% laser damge + 5% laser cycletime for each level in thelodica robot control

• 5% magnetic damge + 5% magnetic cycletime for each level in nuimqol robot control

• 10% missile cycletime for each level in thelodica robot control

scarab should get a massive locking range bonus from pelistal, RoF bonus from Thelodica and Missile range from nuimqol (magnetic accelerated missiles)

and for the syndicate combat mech:
1m hitsize reduction is effectively... nothing. 7m - 1m = 6m

a maxed out pilot has
7° dispersion on T4 gauss and T4 EM gun,
5.6° with T4 LCL and HCL laser,
5.6m explosion with shortrange, 6.3m explosion with longrange missiles

to benefit from the demob resist, you need to fit a LWF + several Armor plates, and you end up with 7-9m hitsize
result:
this bonus does next to nothing, aside from lowering masking modules accumulator cost by a minor degree

did someone work on gamma bases somewhere?

well, even factorios multiplayer now supports 400+ player

nah, that kickstarter goal there is only 5x the annual revenue of perpetuum of the steam-release year... AFAIK

well, i meant that regarding the disappointment of the majority of the backers of the listed games.

Dual Universe wants to combine "space engineers", "minecraft" and "mmo" into a single-shard server.
Especially the last one is something i want to see before i believe it, since Elite Dangerous was such a downer in that aspect.

EvE online works, because they have that huge server-farm and the dice-roll combat - and they could grow for ten years.

And you are looking forward to unleash the productive creativity of those voxel-construction games into an MMO on a single shard. -
- well, i am looking forwad to see the destructive creativity of players like Syndic or Styx beeng unleased on such a game.

beating dead horse phrases that come up all the time:

more player will make the market work -> proven wrong
higher rewards on beta will increase pvp activity -> proven wrong
its a sandbox game, the playerbase has to create the content -> proven misconception
more player will make the game mechanis work -> proven wrong

how the hell do you expect the game to work with more player, when BY DESIGN, two competing forces cannot even play next to each other. by design not even friendly forces can do stuff well together (aka missions as a group).

thats true.
the point is, to change PvE content, how its played to the same playstyle that you will get in PvP.

I wouldn't really look into "how EvE" does it, as that game has similar issues.

First change necessary - it has to make no difference if i shoot a hostile NPC or hostile Player.
- i need to be rewarded or punished equally for shooting a criminal/hostile entity
-- for that "criminal" or "hostile" must have a definition
--- for that you need to make player pledge to NPC factions or flag themselfs as "lawless"

a rather good example is the faction system in E:D, even though its not flawlessly implemented, and the stupid instanced gameworld.

the point is - this "inconvinience" is one of the factors that shall drive you to mine on beta, and gamma, where milk and honey flows for the minor price of higher risk.

we wouldn't have this discussion, if the DEVs didn't decide to remove the "grand" observer spawns from alpha (far weaker, assault and mech observers).
a single player could handle them most times, or just avoid them for a few seconds until it passed.
then they got replaced by these huge caravans with lots of bots, lots of industrial ewars, slowly creeping around and more anoying as anything.

at some point, they decided we need non-agressive npcs, like in a korean grinder mmo with barely dressed anime avatars.

now, they had to make this somehow attractive to do the stuff on beta...

indeed - we need more stuff on beta that is done within a single building, where the industrialist cannot ever lose it as he never needs to "set foot" on terrain for it.

have you never thought about how wrong it is that all of that is bound to ONE factor that you call "station ownership" ?