This is so hard decision. One half of ppl wants to spawn huge ships. Other half of ppl wants to play smooth pvp without lags, freezes, crashing of game, porting kilometrs away.
This post is here after SWP build another huge CV with a lot of miniguns. As MDA was palying with the idea already i appriciate that some other group is inventive also. Why we dont use miniguns? Becouse it lags even more than expected. Miniguns hits instantly and if you ahve 21 on sv it just cuts through like knife through bread. And it keeps cutting seconds after you stoped firing, as game tries to catch with dealing 3 dmg thousand times. At first it seems you do nothing. You stop firing and then you see like blocks are slowly disappering as dmg is dealt. Nice, nasty, but sadly laggy.
Multiply this by number of SWP players and by maybe us using miniguns too. Add one more huge cube with miniguns.
Result is that once you enter area 3km around the place where this is going on. Game freezes. Windows reporting process stoped to work. Maybe your ship continues in flying, maybe not, who knows. What i do is i approach at low speed and freeze and wait. after minute game starts to work and im in battle, you have to move your mouse very carefuly becouse you have 10 frames per minute.
Another thing is that pvp is currently more about waiting for damage dealing system to bug. If ship is moving and game lags projectile can ignore some layers of armor, blocks. So our battle takes 3 hours of waiting unless bug occurs.
Do i want to spend my time like this? No thanks. So this is about making game smoother. If you dont belive it go and try yourself, when I was yeasterday away in deep space with Sanch and RemMak it was game i want to play, only 3 SVs worked quite fine, sometimes someone jumped few meters. But as soon as i approached The Cube game frozen, so i tried to turn around and run. Once i left 3km area i could have been playing again.
I tried to attack today, tried once and fly away, im here for fun not to suffer and read the book while waiting for game to move to another frame.
So this is why we keep requesting this. Will it work? Probably not becouse if you tell someone to build 100 devices ship he will do it thousand times and we are back when we started. But generaly it could work a bit.
Restrictions are confusing already, its anoying for larger factions to have only one CV on planet but you all can see how laggy starter planets are.
I would stick with more global restrictions. Not different for every playfield to keep it simply and readable.
Its sad. Best thing is us to be sane and dont build something which will very obviosly create lag. But thats not gonna happen. 10/10 would freeze the game with their monstrosities again.
