Space Engineers

Space Engineers

Corruption PvE Combat
Xero Sep 11, 2019 @ 6:30am
Balance Discussion
Honestly these ships are ok as-is... but there are a few things that concern me that get a bit annoying.
I want to note I've talked about this with the mod Author (Meridius_IX) so this is purely for discussion.

Firstly the sniper drone, I get that it's a sniper, but it seems to be shooting from 3km+ away which is odd, because by default server settings you can't really see it unless it's antenna is on.

I think it's a great idea but the damage it puts out for such a small drone is a bit much for players, which means new players, and players that have been playing on the server for a couple days.

The hacker drone is another, that seems to engage far outside of the vanilla sync distance, and ignores safe zones entirely, which... is a bit much for me personally, safe zones cost players resources so they shouldn't be ignored no matter what difficulty you're on.

The sniper and hacker drones were the only ones I experienced really engaging outside of sync distance range, which, honestly should be more like 1km maximum, outside of turret ranges by default.

There was an instance where I was flying towards another player to help them, and something shot my ship and completely ignored shields and everything. That would have been fine, had there been anything left on my screen, so my guess is that the drone was outside of sync distance, and still somehow active.

There is some stuff planning i'm waiting on but I just felt like adding this here for future reference.

Despite the weird stuff, I enjoyed the trader spawning 10 or so ships at once to attack me, I needed a bit of combat for once. even if I was lagging like crazy.


Secondary thought:
Players do enjoy building in space due to it's relaxing feeling away from planets... So If possible I don't think they should just straight attack everyone, miners for example, will be in an asteroid and the miner drone with weapons will come after the player. Some players seem to enjoy the combat but others just want to relax.

Not sure how this can be setup where it doesn't just attack everyone.
Last edited by Xero; Sep 11, 2019 @ 6:34am