since it is for some people maybe important here an update regarding the new Blueprint Class formula coming with Alpha 6.6.
As already said we found out that prior 6.6 you could build structures with more pyramids than cubes but with a smaller Blueprint Class. However pyramids are a lot more performance hungry than cubes.
This is why the formula was changed to punish more of these special pyramid buildings now.
TL;DR:
PvP structures aka lag causer ships got nerfed. “Real” triangles are being used now. See this post:
Oh no… So they did not make it so that it rewards those who mesh blocks, it just makes it even MORE necessary to use pyramids, in order to reach the even harder to hit class 1 mark now? Unless I am missing something, this just looks like it lowers the triangle threshold. That ship class 3 to class 5, made out of solid blocks, will now go from class 4 to class 7. Is this really considered a fix by Eleon?
Guys the big point here is that this is not at all what it was billed as in order to fix classes. It just makes classes SMALLER. Unless they just wildly gave pyramids greater triangle counts, or somehow updated the triangle count to ONLY include rendered triangles(and didnt tell anyone), we will just have SMALLER PYRAMID SHIPS. In fact it just got harder to make ships WITHOUT pyramids
So what will happen to all of our ships spawned in the server and all our bps that would break in the new formula? is this now going to have to be an overhaul of everything my faction owns midseason and have everything we have grounded/unusable? That is a bit much to deal with imo, and pretty unfair to the community in general. There are already people leaving the server to go elsewhere, this isnt going to help that.
There is probably stuff they haven’t told us there is no ways they spent weeks making the formula only reduce polygon count per class, which would take a few minutes…
ya well, we also said to ourselves, “there is no way the devs don’t know that the inside of our ships are exploding before the outsides every time we pvp”. Just saying…
Almost everything I own is now class 4+, and some bases in the class 8 range, a few things even higher currently spawned in on the server, with supplies. I imagine there are several others with similar issues and that will an… unreasoable amount of time, considering within a month or so the server wipes anyway and have to recycle everything again.
You just nerfed all ships even more, my ship has no pyramid blocks, but normal standard ones, and went from class 3 to 7, with 220 devices, light count 3, and 92886 triangles.
Good work! now we need to make class 1 cv’s to fit within class 3 limit.
class 3 CVs are now CLASS 9 -11 !!!
class 3 SVs are now class 5 - 6
IMHO:
NO WAY can the server class limit (3) remain the same as now with this EGS change, at least for the rest of this season, and needs careful review for next season.
Changing SV / HV class limit to 1? again also no way
That’s awesome, that mega block has been retired. Size class 1 for now on!