There's plenty of bad stuff in space that can cause damage. At the least, I'd expect the paint to flake or wear off, revealing grey hull material underneath, and yellowing or fading from constant extreme sun exposure.
There need to be projects that require a lot more fleet marks and expertise. I'm in a large fleet, and when a new project gets put up these things are filled up literally within seconds. It's absurd.
AFAIK, the minigun is arguably better because it does maybe 60% the damage of the energy whip, but spread out over three targets. Good for groups, weak against individual enemies or bosses.
I concur. The first time I got mine, I lost a whole lot of stuff be austerity deleted those emails thinking the items would just be dumped into my inventory.
I wasn't aware that it was inherently derisive, just a funny nickname. I call my own KDF toons kinks. Also, why is your avatar just a shot of a female character's TRIBBLE and midriff? You're giving off a very bad first impression here.
Your first point is perfectly valid. Your second, unfortunately, is not; had you checked and thought about it, you'd have noticed that consoles for a single damage type have a larger bonus then general ones, which I did.
Guys, the flaw with the "firing while cloaking won't be overpowered, my enemies just need to play better" argument is that, well... It's inherently fallacious and untrue. Besides that, science, which is best built for decloaking, is the least played career.
If you're upset over the conversion to zen, you really have no idea wha you're talking about. The exchange rate is such that the change is 100% efficient; the value in USD is exactly the same. You will not be losing a thing.
Not talking about moderation - which is pretty reasonable and not all that uncommon in other places - will not somehow lead to worse circumstances. In fact, they aren't even getting worse period - this would seem to be an established base rule. In any case, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope.
That's a bit of a shame, but I did kinda laugh at the idea of blowing up such a tiny image to an entire starbase. Oh, that reminds me somehow, will we be able to dock at starbases by flying into a hangar, like we can with Earth Stardock?