KonaAI

Thanks for the link. I am aware that space works differently than in-atmosphere flight, but I do believe balancing should take priority over realism in this case because the way engines work currently restricts the creative freedom of ship makers by making small ships of any type completely obsolete. They already have fewer system upgrade slots, less hp generally, and less effectiveness overall due to the way volume works. Without speed to at least make them somewhat viable, there is no reason at all to even use them when in both real navies and sci-fi navies, smaller ships like corvettes and frigates are important parts of fleets. In Avorion, larger ships being faster just because of engine scaling not being adaptive based on overall mass makes small ships pretty much useless. Why use anything smaller than a dreadnought when that dreadnought can somehow outrun anything smaller just by game design? Besides, I don't think Avorion takes space physics into account much anyway. As you fly around, you gradually slow. This points to resistance/friction of some sort, but space has little to no resistance in the first place.

I would like to suggest a change to the way engines function and affect maximum velocity when placed on a ship. Currently, it seems that engines affect your maximum velocity by giving a larger max velocity the larger an engine block is, regardless of the size of the ship it's moving. Consequently, the actual mass of the ship doesn't seem to factor in at all, so a large ship with a single 10 x 10 x 10 engine would always seemingly be the same speed at max velocity of a tiny ship with the same size engine. This means it will almost always be better to build bigger ships since bigger ships will almost always be able to outrun smaller ships once they accelerate to max velocity. The biggest appeal to small ships is typically their speed and nimble nature - they can't generally stand up directly to large ships, but can avoid them or fight them indirectly by being faster and outrunning the larger ships. This means larger ships have a speed advantage over smaller ships which would otherwise rely on their speed to flee from or harass larger vessels. Larger ships can always outrun smaller ones, catching up to them and using their superior armor and firepower to rip them apart. This has fundamental issues regarding ship and general fleet designs, as large ships will always have an advantage over equally expensive numbers of smaller ships. My suggestion is to make max velocity gained from engines also take the ship's mass into account, with the calculations for max velocity being based on the mass of the engines themselves versus the ship's total mass. This would allow smaller ships to benefit from a lower mass and be generally faster at max velocity, but would still allow high mass ships to compete as long as they dedicated a proper relative amount of engines to their own ship (e.g. a ship with 25% of its mass made up of engines would always travel at X max velocity regardless of it having higher or lower overall mass).

Is it possible to prevent weapons from being added to randomly generated non-player ships? I managed to create a series of 4 weapons that consume no turret slots but use vastly more gunners per weapon. Upon inspection of ships in the area around my starting sector, most ships had these weapons scattered all over their hulls and some had omicron ratings of 1000+ only a few sectors away from the starting sector. I'd like to prevent them from being randomly generated on ships at all. Is this possible? I'll be looking into it if so.

Will do. Indeed, the very first mining station I create works, but the second one always causes the game to stop and disconnect. I'll try going back to v0.21.4 and see if it helps me too.

If this mod is still in active development, I would like to mention that I have encountered an issue when trying to create an Avorion mine. Whenever I use the command on a ship, the usual message appears stating I've paid for the mine, but then I get kicked stating that there was no response from the server.