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Unbuilt Block Nerfing

This mod aims to address the issue of players using unbuilt blocks to attack bases and ships. The issue stems from the fact that a newly placed block that has not been welded still has the mass of the fully constructed block - as a result, players can use a variety of heavier blocks (heavy armor, refinery, artificial mass, etc) to attack other grids by flying at the target and placing the block infront of them, allowing the inherited velocity to launch the block into the target and dealing massive damage.



When a new grid is created in the world, this mod will check it for a few parameters (is it composed of unbuilt blocks, is it non-static). If the newly created grid meets these parameters, it is listed as 'Suspect' by the mod until a block on it is properly built. If that block/grid is recorded to have dealt damage to another grid while listed as 'Suspect' then the damage caused by that block/grid is negated. This means that unbuilt blocks thrown at targets should no longer cause damage. Regular collisions between ships, Player Made Weapons (PMWs), etc would still cause damage because they contain properly built blocks.



I ran this through a gauntlet of tests before releasing into the wild, but it has not been tested in a multiplayer environment at the time of launch. The damage system stuff is pretty straight-forward from a scripting perspective, so I'm hoping it should be fine. But if you run into any issues or strange behavior, please let me know in the comments.



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