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Also, how much sucking up is needed to get the ability to align with a faction? I've done it twice already, wondering how much more money I need to sink into this.

It takes 3 times to align.

It would seem that if you are mixed then some actions that aimed at either end of the economy systems have a better chance to fail.

Also I am Shomber Flunkendudle of The Revolutionary Democratic People's Republic of La Jartia, and my people look forward to an invitation to this grand alliance of Africa.

I ran into a school.  After rounding out my book collection by raiding it's well stocked library I realized that the expenditure of arrows and the handling of the bodies was going to take a long time.  Also very good chance of getting over run.

So I decided to handle the problem another way.


Grabbed the American flag as I walked away, going to sleep with that from now on.  Seeing as it's considered clothing.

I finally decided I should make and finish a ship.  I also was trying to figure out a way to use AI ships that are docked and some way that not having them redock would be acceptable.

I haven't tested AI ships with the explosive blocks.

I think this same idea could be used to make smart torpedoes as well.  My mines wouldn't even need to be changed much.  I also thought of doing Starwars like mines and arm them with weapons instead of making them suicide.

There is also the fact that it's in alpha and the economy is only there in a base form.  By that I mean: Admin commands are just one of many ways to get as much resources as you need.

Add on top of that the fact that right now the crafting system is best described as clunky and unwieldy.  It's not that hard to get a large amount of ore and parts.  It's just knowing what goes where and in what amount and when to get even something as simple as a grey hull block, and somethings can't even be made through the crafting system.

What I'm getting at: People need to stop being all high and mighty that people are "cheating" in an alpha.  Let alone in sandbox construction game.

Are hangars possible?

Yes  (It has three, one has two smaller docking ports).

F6 takes screen shots in game with out GUI, F5 takes them with.  They are saved in the folder that Starmade saves into.

What I have been working on the past few days: The Exodus 1
Currently protected by 3 of the planned 20 turrets, all of which are going to go through another redesign.

Starting at the bottom left and going right we start with the lava world park, followed by the First Bank of Exodus with lava moat.  Then we have the rear hangar under construction which will be the largest hangar space on the finished Exodus.  Next to the hangar is the rear apartment tower.  Back to the middle left is Exodus Hospital, also under construction, then the Town hall.  Finally we have the grass world park and the front apartment tower.

Planned are at least 2 more hangars, a comms tower, at least 3 more parks, to get the glass domes connected to everything, and to get the last of the turret batteries set up.  Then work on the actual workings of the ship with finishing up the under side with all it's power, shields, engines and main weapon.  Currently it has a small batch of engines, the two 4x5x5 power blocks and what shields I was able to hide under the stairs of the apartment blocks.  I'll be covering up the bottom with rock to give it that "took off with part of a planet" look.

Also, yes it's a ship and not a station, so it flies.

Does GoG save my purchases so I can re-download them or do they give me an installer and hope I don't lose it?

As long as you remember your account info and they exist as a service then the game is yours to download and instal as much as you want.